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VOLUME •XXXVI. - :::,,
Acic . uzs'tite rapid stream of seventy years,
The t•tentler bridge of Litman life is thrown:
The pai , t, and future from Its mOulderlng piers
Uri de,ent moment Is its frail iceystcme.
Front "Aust itini art" the arch begins to rise:
"To (lust — the fashion of Its form descends:
"Shalt thou return," the higher curse Unpile!.
in which the first to the last lowness bends.
St«et t by youth's magic light 11111“11 that arch.
How lately does each Irar4Olt Amu. appear!
But air how 'changed when on the onward march
tnr weary toutatept‘ bring the yl.ston nrar
'Twat , tabled that beneath the rainbow's foot
A treasure lay, the dimmer to bewitch:
And tunny wasted in the vain pursuit:'
The golden 'year,‘ Oat would. have load , . Ihe in
' rich.
I mo ~chrrc n mei' of, many rotors lead.•,
V , The heart expecti , rich wealth of joy to Mid;
f ltut In the distance Ow bright hope recede....
Awl leaves a cold gray wart.• of care-hchind.
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miniltstream upon ItO boann take,
Th' Inverted shadow of a bridge on high.
And thnz% the arch to ate and water waken
1 Une perreet circle to thy gazer's eye.
with life: the 'things that do apt r.
Any 11 , ellug'Andows on linte'?paiSing
Cast by the soitshioe of a Itigt er sphere,
From vieWles,s` things that eh:'lngeTessly abide,
The f+.!:11 1., tilt' the half of life noels
The' Ideal in make a perfeet.wlinh! ;
The pbere.n( igense is Incomplete.' and plead.,
Fur closer itiihnt wlth the sphere
All thing:, of nst are bridges that conduct
'To things of faith,' 'which give them tritest
worth:
And Christ's own prattles do us lustri o d.
That heaven Is Ott the counterpart of earth..
The pier that nests upon this chore's the-sante
As that which stand, ujwyn the furtln4 bank :
Ana fitness for our duties here will friptie
A fitness for the joys of higher rank.
Clark were life without heaven's ,tio to show
The likeues< of the other world In this:
And hare and ixic,r Ivinvld be our lot below
Without the shadow of a world of bits%
Then let it pas'Ang wer life's fragile arch.
Itegard It as tinteatis and ttot:an end: .
As but the path l of falth on which ne march
To where all glorie, of our being
4kccllaqcort.
Esther Earle's Experiment.
there is al [ -woman in black who
passe.4 down. the street nearly every
morning; a pale, thin woman. with a
troubled, anxious thee, Her dress
and shawl are rusty and threadbare,
but she has abtnit her no lark of neat
ness. no•traee 'of slovenliness. S.zome
tianes she leads a little boy by the
hand—a little Iboy, who, though not
as ruddy as the other little boys in
our street, is all dithples and wonder
in!! Smiles, for it is evident‘that he
doe, not get Out often, and ,the fresh
air and sunshine are, to him wonder
ful new things full of pleasant mys
tery. ; Ilk mother does not seem to
know any of the neighbors. I saw
her smile only 'once. and that smile
was a, revelation. It brought back
to -her face all the girlish beauty of
long ago then the smile faded, -and
the woman was again the pale worn
Esther Earle--=, longer - the gleeful,
buoyant Esthet Lee I • had known
five years ago.
It was -Bessie Evergreen who had
caused the smile. Bessie: who prideS .
-herself On, her housekeeping, was
coming from market. with thicken's'
feet anti' spikes 'of cellery protruding
front her basket in the most approved
way. when -Esther Earl and little Ed
win eaine'along; B e s s ie l o ok e d l aug h_
ingly down.at the boy. and the boy
looked, slyly up at Bez;Sie. And then
Ilessie.searehol in her basket for the
largest red-vheeked apple, and-thrust
it into the Boy'S unreluctant
It was a very little thing--a very
little thing; but it brightened little
Edwin's day. and gave his mother
new strenth. for it madether think
that the world was not ali as harsh
and hitter and 'scornful as she had
,
learn - 4A to believe.
Tem .rich. 1„.;1
:wig ,-7 I
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. I think she sews for some. clothing
establishment, for when. i. , passeS
i:lie usually carries' on hey arm a coat
or vest: The other day, as a police
Mall was rather roughly dragging
along au intOxiCated ' l and rather un
innio,cable nian, I saw Esther hasti
ly dr o p her work On -8 doorstep and
run across the street. To the police
man's amazement .She: wiped the
drunkard's cut face with her hand
kerchief, replaced his battered hat,
. a nd loosened the cravat that threat
ened to cause appople:iy, -
'• it might pcksibN have been hint!
It tni!'rht .have beeiiii ini! - '' she mur
mured, as she resign .d her work and
went her way, .
In the summer - of . 1869. Esther and
her uncle. John . 1 . ,ee. - were domiciled
at cape
,May for the season: John
Lee was very wealthy :; he was the
proprietor of a dozen productive
farms in Chester county. and besides
petroleum had been lately
a struck" oit 'a scrubby lot of hiS• up
near Wellesboro..
John Lee W:1 ; :'; a plain-speaking,
farmer-like man, , with "no nonsense
about him." He had a_fair : mount ]
of common-sense, and an undoubted'
talent for agricultural
,operations.
Esther was au orphan, and .his; only
living relatiVe. j He loved her in his
matter-of-fact way, which, neverthe
less, was a tine and lasting. way. He
was not in the habit of frequating
fashionable resorts; lie hated "airs"
and fashion ; but this year his purse
was more plethOric than usual ; lie
felt that Esther would be the better
for a change of air and a glimpse of
a new mode of life. Besides, be had
another reason which he' hardly ac-
knowledg,ed.even to him Self. He was
growing old, and Esther was on the
verge of womanhood. It was time,
he thought, that she }should ha. — ve
stronger and More secure protection
than he could give her. :Being his
heiress, she must; marry money, and
among the crowds at, Cape May she
Would prObably ;Meet more "likely
young fellows" than :at home in the
seluded fartuhou4e at Chester. Thus,
half consciously,; short-sighted John
I Jet- argued.
.Esther had natural good ttiAte and
a early blaiwhe for her expenditure,
—two things to be envied. Her face
was pretty—Very like the face of
Guido's Beatrice;Cenici, but without
the expression which makes that face
:beautiful; her eyes and lips were
Smiling and saucy, and she was as
graceful as a kitten. This** John
Leg's satire as'he saw her, in white,
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TEE BRIDGE OP LIPS.
BY Mi‘ITIUCE EAGA
with coquettish kncits and ends of
cherry-colored ribon, driving her lit
'tie. pony carriage along the bench.
The driving of that pony carriage,
which, in 180, .some -ladies called'
"fast"—though, indeed, the Pony waS
one of the slowest, of his species— .
broupt 'Either to grief, for one
morning after a sti:pria had thrown; UP
hillocks of sand on the beach, her
little chariot capsized on the very
verge of the ocean. The pony came
to a standstill, and Esther was gently
tossed into the paternal embrace Of a
White-bearded wave!
One of the numerous young .men
who generally happened to be oti the
bench when' she took': her drive,
,in
stantly rushed foriraid and helped
her to regain her feet. The wave had
rolled out with her wid-britninc;cl
hat and its ribbons of cerise, but
Esther looked very lOvely with her
hair powdered . With .salty pearls, and
the half-frightened, half-laughing es.-
pression in her brown 'eyes.
" The, prettiest girl in the world—
`by Jove !" thought Edwin Earle, as
she thanked him. • !
. ,
'For her ixtrtyslie, instantly made a
hero of the tall; handsome man who
stood before her, and when he had
returned from the neaaest hotel with
a borrowed shawl, she allowed • him
to drive her home. . ,
"He won't do," cogitated John.
Lee: "he's only a bookeeper off on
a holiday. I , don't object to that,
though, but that' deep flush on his
cheek comes froth brandy, not health.
I know
,all about him; he is always
hanging around the 1.);,r, and he was,
more than ' half-seas over' the other
night. But," and John fllled his pipe,
" I can trust Esther. She's not a fool.
I'll not interfere till I see some cause."
. .
Short-sighted ; easy-going, John
Lee! Weeks passed: :Hops sailing
parties, drives, pleasant readings in- .
d4ors on rainy days, made' a bright
dream for 'Esther, for !Edwin Earle
WAS usually near her. , ,•, ,
• Uncle," said Estber, as : on one of
the last "hop nights " !she went out
inithetwilight on the deserted piazza
aiii stood before him; a. lovely pie
tal e, framed in soft lackand rustling
sil -.—" Uncle, I, have ptomised to be
Ec win Earle's wife !"
' What!" cried John -Lee as if
thUnderstruck.
." Yes," she answered; blushing;
"l4t asked me to-day, and—and he
wil!
come to see you to-night."
olin Lee groaned.
11..!yoti crazy, Esther? In a few
rs that man will be 'a Contirined
_in filet, he is Veryy - intemperate "
know it, Iliac John," she said,
rely ; "but he loves me. He will
!nothing stand between him and
He will become temperate for
fry
n. •
let
-IYott are leaning -on a broken
(1. Esther, if you trust to that.
est, it is but a great risk—too
(.; ' t - for you to run. I do -not be
vi in -these sudden refoimations.
.
nl't you wait and try him a year or
ol? No? Weli, you are of
,age;
Clinnot legally control . you.. But
in-; you are abut to: try a terri
'.
v langerous experiment."
" have no fear ofits -result. un
- -a
:love works wonders."
Aove!" 'John Lee paused, and
thenl i waxed angry. "Give , me good
prinCiples, and mutual esteem, and
—what is the.use of talking ? Look
here Esther Lee, if you marry that
mank-ou shall never call ii vent of
my money t'our's! You know I nev
er break my word"
E=S!IZEMEM!
proudly.
JUlm Lee saw that his last speech
was a false move. but be could .not !
reinc4 it now.
Ither Lee became Esther Earle.
For several months Edwin Earle
maii4 some efforts to keep the prom
ise of athendment, but by degreeS he
gre . n more 'reckless. After a time
the firm which employed him was
foreetl to dispense of his services.
He had become worse than useless.
l'evcrty and shame were Esther
Earle's marriage portion.
Esther worked patiently and lov
inglV, never losing hope. Through
dream, days and nights she minister
ed to, this man, who managed to ob
tain the' liquid in. spite of
all her efforts, who passed from
drunken stupor into cruel bursts of
fury.l Uncle John never wrote to
I nd she never wrote to him. She
refuSed his advice, and chosen
~I w n lot. She would suffer in si-
God had not forsaken her—
tad her child.
her, .1
had
her o,
lenee
she It
.
uneyal procession has just pass
window. Three days ago Ed :
:arle died of .delirium lremeus.
A
ed th,
will
ife, in her threadlx►re
DE
and the little boy,! are the only
mciurners. I eateha glimpse of her
fake. She seems teri ytvs older, and
by that look of frozen lui,guish you
can tL.II that she mourns for him as
deep& as if he had ! been .the truest
of huSbands and the! truest of Men.
. I hear that John Lee has offered
to take her hoMe, and make the little
boy his heir. • May she find rest and
peaet, for if her experiment failed, it
failedi not for want of a womans
boun 'Hess faith and love. !
'L. FORNEY IN EUROPE.
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LTlte ()laming Is a portlou of Otle of Col. John
W. For key's letters to The Pres*. It Is, like alt
his correspondence, remarkably well expn.ssed and
highly Interesting.) ; 2. -
BERLIN, July 30.—Berlin is about
the distance Iromi l'aris that Phila
delphia is from Chicago—say 800
miles—and you reach it from ctthe
Frencih capital as rapidly and almost
as comfortably as you travel between
the to chief cities of Pennsylvania
and ..linois. The ride from Cologne,
403 English miles, was by express. I
left that Catholic centre at ,6:30 A. m.,
and gt here before 8 in the evening.
Therei was (lust enough in all con
science, but the Carriages,_ or cars,
were c l i omfortable, the fare reasonable,
the attendants silent and Courteous,
and the weather superb. Twenty live
(1011arri acid between Paris and
Berlin, is the price for these accont
modations, and if you "take a Sleciti
er," which I did not, you pay about
double the rate charged for that lux
ury: in the United States. The Ger
man fruit - Ways are better than the
French, hat even they lack the supe
rior personal accomModatiOnS on all
American trains. There are no wa
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TOIYAN4 BRADFORD COUNTY, PA . , IiTURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1875.
ing of baggage, and -their .absenee l
leads to many painful embarrass
ments to travelers, and especially to
strangers. The het is, the American
railroads, at home have so spoiled our
people, that even the critiettl. Ameri
can, who is always re:hiy to fall in
love. with . European habits at first
sight, is glad to expreSs his gr4te
fill preference for our. railway 'usu.
ries.
I wish I had ' 4 ufe to describe the
other, impsessiong of this rapid:jaunt
through the three:eOnntries,—Franee,
'Belgium and Germany—So close to
each other and yet so different. You
are hardly over the line of one before
you realize the' contrast in language,
dress, and arehitture in theta'
The French houses and roads shine
in their ghastly white, and the French
people prove their industry and
rift;• but how much- superior are
their Flemish neighbors, especially
those of the country watered by the
river Meuse. Au aggregate popula
tion Of 7,000,000 sliarms L over thiS
'Kingdom, among endlessi fields of
grain, clover, potatoes, hops, vines
interspered with coal, iron, limestone,
marble•• rivers abounding in. delicious
fish anal forests with game. • The banks
of `the Meuse between Namur and
Liege are a 'gorgeous picture of vitri ;
ed.seenery. Indeed, the whole ride ,
in Begium • was through an almost
Continual town. You hie never out-.
side of human habitations,.. work,
shopti,foundries ' fainories, villas
thriving fields, and a • happy peOple.
The architecture has lost the French
whiteness, and there are a vigor and
Variety in the work alikenfnutn and
nature that tell their . own story.
This one valley is a vast granary and
faCtory Combined, and. you can easily
realize,why the i great potters long for
the possession of this beautiful coun
try, and why, left along in its isola
tion, it grows 'So strong and so lOVely.
Lying ; right between France and
Germany, both preparing for n new
conflict, however it may be denied,
Belgium may again become the thea 7
tre of a quarrel not of her own mak
ing, and to gratify a stranger's ambi
tion may be torn into - fragments Sim-
ply because of her geographical posi
tion. When will the • trade .of the
mankiller be ended.?
And from Belgium you may pass
into drermapy 'with instant notice of
the fact. herd is' the black eagle,
the military guard, the 'Penton lan
guage? the signs of Germany, and all
the marks and memorials of authority
and vigilance. As we flew along be
tween Cologne and Berlin 1 saw
much to impress this fact upon my
mind. A long, leyel country with-
Out tunnels, mid a""Tew hills, yet what
a flash of forte in man mid 'fruitful
ness in nature! The elements of
ag
gression lie all around you. The
small fields, full-cropped even after
the late raiiio, the gardens and or. 1
chards of vegetables and fruit, every
field and garden with its men and
woinen workers; the lordly stations,
the vast iron, coal and granite beds,
the red-bricked Arouses, gleaming
crimson against the, z green landscape,
were not inore,persuasive of German
power than the collossal ironworks of
Krupp,-,covering four hundred and
fifty acres, 'with its eight - thousand
employes and one hundred and nine
ty-five steam-engines. Along this
flat prairie, that nearest Berlin be
ing aloire apparently sterile, you read
chapters full of warning, and - which
may be read with curious and profit
able emotion by the great powers.
A few days ago I saW new fOrts ris
ing rOund Paris, and I did not 'need
ask why; and if I had Witited!for the
solution, I should have !found it in
the no less manifest preparations of
the Germans. What adds jto the
strength - of this chapter' is the fact
that both sides are eager and intent
for the crash : Germany in the belief
that she cannot be entirely safe until
her neighbor meets a third Sedan and
Waterloo, and France that her prey-'
ligr demands a giant effort for the
restoration of -Alsace and Lorraine,
and far the vindication or the fame
she won under the first and lost under
the third Napoleon. However faulty
the logic of both, it - becomes the
philosopher to. accept the fact that
each side', believes its own argument.
No third party can arbitrate between
such foes. France is spoiling for a
fight, and, Germany is quietly putting
on her ganntlets. Both profit by the
events of ISW and '7l, but it remains
to be - seen which has gained the most
experience. Nations are like'indi
viditalsthey rarely learn thet value
of good example until it is tdo late.
Franeeipy precipitate a fight with
Germany 'a Ocond or third time, and
if so she may . be crushed ; .but ' even
as a victor will Germany Lclast
ing gaincy:! It is a dark outlook,
and we may thank our star 4 that the
bloody wave of this impending con=
filet cannot redden our shores.
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ORE BIGEIIOI I
A cynical bachelor is reapensible
for the following direetionSi hew to
tell the married :
•If you see a lady and gentleman
disagree upon trifling oecaSiOns, or
correcting each other in - coMpany,.
you may be assured that they have
tied•the matrimonial noose.
If •you see a silent pair in a' ar or
stage lolling carelessly, one at each
window, without seeming ,to !know
that they have a companion, the sign
,is infallible. ' • -
. If you see a lady drop a glove,
and a gentleman by the side of.her
kindly telling her to pick it upi, you
need not hesitate in '.formingl your
. ! .
opinion; or—
If you meet a couple in the fields,
the gentleman twenty yards
vance of the laxly, who, .perhaps,! is
getting over a -style with difileulty,
or picking he way through a, nimbly
patch; or—
If you see a lady Whose beauty and
aecomPlishment,s attract the atten
tion of every gentleman in the room
but one, you can have no difficulty
in determining their •relationship to
each other—the one -is her husband.
If Ou 'see a gentleman partieular
ly conrteons, obliging, and good na
tured; relaxing into smiles, saying
.sharp things, and toying with every
pretty woman in the room excepting
one, to whOM he appears particularly
cold and formal, and is unreasonably
crosa—mho that "one -la:. nobody
can be at a loss to disooier.
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,If you see, an old couple jarring,
checking, and thiMiting each, other,
•difreringluVpinfon • belbre the opini
ion'is,expressed;:eternally. anticipatJ.
ing and breaking . the _thread of .each.
other's discourse,. yet-. using, kind
words like honey bubbles floating. on
vinegar, which are soon Overwhelmed
by, a preponderance of the 1101, they
are, to all intent , man'and wife; it
is imposifble 0 be mistaken.:
. The rules 4bove quoted ,are laid
down as infallible in just interpreta
tiOl=theY may be resorted to with
confidence; they are based upon-Int
erring principles,- and deduced from
everyday experience.
MURDER Ot OKEra)BEN INDIA.
There is, perhaps, no form of crime
more common; in; -India than child
murder. The practice prevailed when,
first the province of Bengal -passed
into the hands of the British, and it
flourishes with seare.e abated vigor at
the present day. Open at random
the "Decisions of-the Nizamut Ad-.
awlut"—the Supreme Comiskf-Crim
inal Judicature—and at .ef—inter-_
.vats will be found such cases as these:
In Cuttack a woman draws a child
aside, takes the silver bracelets from,
her arms, and flings the little victim
into a tank, on' the surihee of . which
the body.is found floating a few days
afterwards. In ,Behar a man stran
gles a boy nine years old, for the.
- sake of his silVer bracelets and gold
earrings, and throws the corpse into
a. sugar plantation. .At., Moosheda
bad; Ohameo robs a child aged five,
and drops her into a deep and rapid
part of the river. -At Benares a fel
low entices a boy - twelve years old
into his house,- and there cuts his
throat in order to get possession of
his silver bracelets, while a friend
looks on and mildly expoStulates, but
'neither sericrhsty interferes nor gives
information to the police. Another
takes a neighbor's son into the fields,
under pretence of helping him to fly
his kite, and there strangles him with
his waistcloth, and strips him of the,
trashy
. trinkets with - which he was
adorned. Yet another conducts a
boy, aged nine, to Withess a religious
procession,Jmt passing near a ditch'
suddenly throws him down, partially''
strangles.him, tears - the silver orna- ;
milts from his arms and feet, and
flings hint - into the diteh, which is
fortunately dry, and where he is found
before life is quite - extinct; By the
promise Of It - melon Leela inveigles
Debee Pee,. seven years of age, from
his father's house, brains him with a
hoe, and buries his turban and trink
ets in a field, leaving the body where
it had fallen, and where it was found
by the anxious father. This murder.
er. like' the, others, on being charged
with - the crime, at once confessed his
guilt, but pleaded as an extenuating
circumstance that he was prompted
by -an evil spirit. A woman holds a
'little girl under water until she is
droWned, the temptation being a
ail
ver collar of the weight of two rupees.
Two women .one evening asked a
child eight; years old to come to
tnem on the morrow for some fruit,
and, when she eagerly arrived, the
one holds her while the other passes
a rope round her heck" and pulls t
till the breath has fled,. The body
was speedily found in the midst of
some tall graSs near the house, and'
the spoils consisted of a silver collar
weighing four roupees. 'A woman of
Tipperah was engaged' in cooking.
her food, when, according to her own
account, a child not above six years
old came toddling up to -her. Sud
denly a ; thick darkness lenveloped .
her, and a voice sounded in her ears
bidding her strangle her little visitor.
Thereupon she seized •the child , by
the throat and the: darkness passed
away. So she dug a hole in the floor
of her house and laid the body there
in, after, taking off the' few valueless
ornaments. A girl, aged' nine, herself
recently betrothed, drowns her play
fellow in a shallowwatereouvse, while
•a bOy fourteen years old leads in Play
a Youthful companion to the edge of
a tank,'smashes his skull with a flint,
posiksses himself of the'scanty orna
ments; and then lays the crime at the
door of a . neighbor. ; Similar cases
might be quoted to any extent, and
they all' aesemble one another in sim
plicity. No ; sooner is the child miss
ed than it is traced to the company
of its murderer ' who straightway re
lates the whole transaction and points
but where the 'ornaments have be'Cn
buried. These usually consist of very
thin silver bracelets and anklets,
with possibly small gold rings on
the fingers and tiny pearls set as ears
rings, the value ranging from two to
'ten -rupees.' The trinkets, and some
times the body, are buried a few
inches beneath the surface, either in
the dry soil of a neighboring field,
usually the murderer's own- plot - of
ground, or in'his hut, where its pres
ence must inevitably lle discovered
as soon , as decomposition sets .in.
Bodies exposed in the open fields or
carelessly thrown into . the,-nearest
.jungle are quickly rendered unrecog
nizable by • beasts and birds
of- prey, nor does the scanty clothing
affoid trustworthy means of recogni
tion.—Pall Hall Gazelle. •
One of our church societies has
been long wrestling' with the ques
tion; "Who is thy neighbor ? " 'Some
of the members incline to, the belief
that, in ; the scriptural , injunction,
"Ltive thy neighbor," ell mankind is
.meant others contend that they only
are our neighbors who are friendly
to us ;.'while. - yet- others, of-illiberal
and contracted views, maintain that
one is to have no neighbors; outside
'the pale of. one's . own church. •
Let - them settle, it as they may, the
neighbor will be a neighbor still. We
have one of the: right royal sort in
our mind's eye.'
• .11e' keeps his i chickens up when we
make 'garden; lie lends us good
books, and borrows outs ; . returns
what he borrows—andnever asks for
those he loans comes over often and
Chats, without telling us his grievan
ces and trouble -or seeking to learn
ours; gives no' advice,and • asks for
none; careac.:;not whether; we have
family prayers' of•domestie broils;
if. „he thinks our. baby, 'doesn't look
like us, he takeia.nO pains to mark
the pornii . of; difference; on general
matters he expresses his own views
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boldly, 'and ; doer not think us a blast
ed fool. f we do . not _coincide With
them; 'Tani on us we are
sick,, and talirlo us ordark,
'dismal holes 'in ' the . ground;• or 4911.
us of, a number; Of persons he
,baS
known who exhibited the same syrup
torus as unrs and finally -died.aftee a'
terrible= and protracted • illness.;
when we die,:he to the
funeral arringeinents, 'see that no
sedon47l4andieeffin is palmed'. off on
us, and tenderly ,support our aPpar
ently grief-stricken widow 'when the
falliug clods - send back to her. ears
the rattling notes of freedOrai;
final
ly, that he will assist- her to get an
other and a . better husband. •
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heaven bles s our neighbor! There ,
are few like biol.'. 'More's the 'pity.'
STRIKING THE BULL'S EYE.
The steamship „City of Chester, a.
few days' ago, earried_ out a company
of AMerican marksnien to eontest,at
Creedmore, Ireland; for 'the champi
onship of the world. At :this de
parture Of what.in sporting parlance
is called the "American Team,"much
enthusiasm was 'excited. We hope
our side.will heat. Would it not be
wise for us who stay 'at home, and
who have other 'targets to shoot at
and other' catridgcs, to load, to be
studying ho* to.be skillful' and
more in our departments ? We want more
spiritual workmen. We have enough
ammunition and '.enough rifles, .but
we are very apt ;to miss, our aim.
The American team just, now depart
ed for Ireland, had been practicing
long while at a thOuSand yards range.
Missing the . target, they felt cha-'
grined; but we go on year after year
in our • Christian' work, feeling but
little disturbance thinigh we make a
very poor Score. '• If a man shoot at
a flock of ra hundred pigeons and
does not bring 'down onhe would ,
hang up his gun over the antlers in
the hall and say nothing for mortifi
'
cation. but how many ministers on
the Sabbath aim at a flock of five
hundred souls, and think it nothing
'mortifying if they& not strike anyt
We all need to study skillfulness in
taking aim. While the American
team arc contending with the rifle
men from Belginin, Australia, New
Zealand and Great !Britain_ for. the
Mastery, let • is be improving our fa
cility as spiritual marksmen. "They
do itto obtain a eorruptable crown,
but we . incorruptable ." •They
shoot balls of the right calibre; but
some ministers shoot cannon shot
weighing nearly half a ton, while
others use rifle balls, and some bird
shot. But it is.not always the.cali
bre that does the work. A spiritual
mustard shot that hits a man is bet
ter than a theologicaFrifle shell'which
goes whizzing away in the air, ex 4
ploding in empty space, and not even
frighteniing a chicken.—f hristion ni t
11 - ork. •
FUN, FACT, AND FACETIE.
A matter of coarse—a river bed.
Griatwttorlrims—dancers on the green
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COLOthiE is called the seenthriental city.
A atA.t: who is always in a stew gener.
ally goes to pot.
PERU will pity off her debt with guano,
seentlor cent.
CAIMICINO up bricks for masons is a hod
way of getting a living.
lluco was about the only Victor that
the American Team met abroad.
TUE extra sleep gained by the use of a
mosquito canopy is net gain.
A. NE* definition of an old maid is—
a woman who has becinl made for a long
time.
• You can't- speak in a balloon without
having high ivords bUt it is death to fall
out.
A Western editor returned a tailors
bill endorsed, "Declined; handwriting
il
legible."
•
. A Saratoga lx•lle writes home : "It is
horrid hem—not a man in town worth
over4l:i, 000. "
SrE...tkiNti of his late barber, a Mont
street man with a tender face said, "He
ctit me and I cut him."
!YUEI tried to set up the scientific name
of f , the potato bug in Delaware the, Other
day, and it pied the whole form.
toiwist 'was asked' in what parPof
BWitzerland he felt the heat most, teplle,d,
"When I ,was.going to Berne."
A whine frOm the East—the claret is
still flowing in the Turkish provinees,but
the Porte is very nearly exhausted.
TOY-RE are forty-two churches in Troy.
N. Y., and yet there are more cock tights
there on Sunday than in any other 'city in
the State.
A Saratoga philosopher says a single
woman as a general thing, can be told
from a wife,
and yet he has known many
a girl to be taken for a wife.
WitnN freedom froin her mountain
height unfurled her standard to the, air,
her skirts,. pinned back so very tight,
make her appeAr exceeding spare.
A Kansas girl says nothing makes her
so mad as to have a graSshopper'Oawl up
and down her 'back just as her lover has
come to the proposing- point. ,
Mr. Benjamin Ginning sometime since
presented the - poor of t,1143 city of Liver
pool with .V4O, upon ,which some wag
wrote, "A good B. Ginning."
" I thought editors were intellectual be
ings," remarked a Missouri hotel keeper,
but—but"—and he stood back and
surveyed the pile of bones *bleb one of
the late excursion yirtYr had left behind
them.
Traces old wonit;upinl a lame man con-
stitute a debating society at Dubuqlle.
The three old women live together, and
their chickens scratched up the lame
man's garden.. The debate is held across
the line fence.
TILE man whose wife gave. away his
last bottle of cocktail to a sick beggar has
since been heard ttO mildly express eth
opinion that chqrity should be gin at
home.'
Ttu compositor who substituted an
"in" • for " w iu speaking of a lady
troubled with " swelling of the feet," ac
complished the worst typogiaphical feat
on record.
Tltti Philadelphia man who was. arrest
ed in Delaware fur horse Stealing, wrote
home to his friends that lie:was tempora
rily detained there by a heavy prey ure of
stocks.
I xtr.vint place much reliance on a man
whuis always tolling what he would haie
.done' had he been there. have noticed
that somehoW this kind. of people never
get there. .
SrEmatio of crooked whisky, a West
ern rural editor significantly remarks,that
it "ought to he put down." lie has
doubtless been putting it 'down. as often
as opportunity offered. : ,
TuE. Boston editor said he wrote as
plain as could be, "The sacred heavens
around him, shine," when the blasted
printer went and made it, " The scared
twee= round him shine '
• Tim way to right yourself is to be care
ful-. Dot AO wrong" others... With what
mason
V you meet, it sh".ll_ be. lansured
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- A ytoung lady of Harrisburg, Miss
- 31innil IL Walters, spoke' in one of
the
pryer meetings of the Oakville
(Cumberland. county) M. E. camp
ineetirt . which ended Friday ; relat
ing to remarkable cure, which, she.
attributes directly to the interposition
of Christ.. „.The occurrence, related.
by the 'lady in detail. in a private
conversation, is to the effect that over
tiro years ago she vasafflicted with
a spinal disease so- serious that she
could s areely move a finger, and she
.was co fined to a couch purposely
suited or the disease. ', Nearly two
year ago slie became cOnvinced.that
she - needed - closer - consecration to
Christ in other words, she desired
the . bi ssings ' of. 'sanetifica' tion, so
prominent in the Method* belief.—
She 0140' earnestly Without avail.
SOmetlyng seenied to tell_ her that
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was re( liked; and it was revealed - to
her tha she Would be 'healed. -
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teen . in'Unths passedand no . result-,
On the 26th of January . she once
more resolved to pray more earnestly
e l:
for the nifillment of the revelation.--
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While j raying the promise came to
her, wh tSoeyer thou Wilt, ask and it
shall .b given. She,prayed first for
heart purity, and next for ;bodily
health. 1 The`words came, '""Rise up
and iralc," and to - hir .great' relief
she foupd herself in ; apparent health.
The doctor next morning fourid • her .
restored without need of medical at
tendance. Her statement *a:4 Corrob
orated I,y font : other persons acquain
ted with _the ciriumstarrees,',llio re
joice withher over her restoration to,
health, which she unwaveringly :be
lieves to haVe resulted from - the
stretchitg forth of Christ's hand - in
reward for her great faith.—Altoona
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EFFFAT OF LIGHT.
.
bore,. the metaphysician4inui
f the effect of light on body
Dr. - 31';
:Teaks - ii:
and min
." A to Ipole confined in'_ darkness
would nc ver . beemne frog; and an
lacing deprived 'of' Heaven's
free light will only grow into a shape
s idiot, instead of a beautiful .and
reasonable being., Hence,in the deep
Clark gorges and ravines of the SlilfiS
Vglosia where the (Urea sunshine
7 •
never reaches, the hideouS prevalence
of idiocy! startles the traveler. It is
a strange a melancholy idiocy. Many
.
citizens :ire incapable of
,any•articu
late spee4h ; some.are deaf, - some are
blind, smite labor under, all the Pri
vations, And 'all are misshapen in al-
Most eveiy part of the body.' I lie-
lieVe therb is in all places a marked
ditlereneci,in the healthiness of hous
es accordl4 to their aspect in re
gard to ate sun and those deci
dedly healthiest, other things be
ing equali in which all the roome are
during some park of the day, are, ful
ly exposed to the direct light.: - 'EPi
demics aitack inhabitants on the
shady sidp of the street, and totally
exempt those on the other side; and
even in epidemics, snch as agne,,the
morbid billuence is often thus partial
in its labdrs."
A STORY ABOUT KING DAVID.
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The following extract. is froM an
an interesting article on the Talmud
in the ConnhillMagazine • ' _
• " There
. 1 is a touching passage in .
the book
. f Psalms—all the more af
fecting ifo4 its mysterious wording-:
a passage which few sincere Chris- .
tians can read without tears, in *eh -
DaNid, irh):• has evidently been lately
suffering from serious 'distress, prays
to he sayo from the lion's mouth,
'for,' say he, Thou luasrheard me
from the Warns of the unicorns.' No*
here the difficulty, of course, flen in
the unexi*eteit introduction of the
unicorn. Adam Clarke satisfies him
self with Baying that he alludes to
the Gentiles. Not so Rab Hanish
in the Miami' Tehillim, who thus
explaihs tlie passage literally without
recourse o allegorical exegesis.
When Payid was feeding sheep .he
found . onel day a - unicorn sleeping in
the desert. ' ' lie took him for a high
hill, and ascending paStured his flock.
The bcast,iafter • awhile, awoke,rrOse;
and Davidl l rising with him, touched
the heavens with his hand. Then Said
the son of iJessie ! in this unexpected
emergencyl, •• If the Lord will heliime
down from! this unicorn, I will build
him a houle of a hrindred cubits, !the
size of thil animal's horn'
,Some-S ,
he measured its .width, others its
length.. Plenary agreement on any
subject inithis' world seems impcissi
ble, What occurred ? a' lion came.
The unicoFn crouched in fear, and
David desdended, Then he 'became
anxious abbnt he lion, andjt wash on
this occasion or soon after it that the
affecting Hues above alluded to were
composed.
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In a former fetter we underteck toile=
scribe the (linage City of •AMerica, the
sea-side watring pkve on Martha's Vine
yard, but - th 9 half was not told.
.Sinde
my last written the great Methodist catap r
meeting has 'been . in session., , There are
propably nor on the ground thirty thous
and persons.! The first . was held on thiS
ground in Itill:i. They arc mill-• holding
their fortieth annual meeting. Several
grand Iltrat4 palaces arrive and depart'
eery day, loilded with thousands of ,tfaii
sengers frond New York, Newport, PrOvii
Renee, floston, New. ,Ileilford and other
cities. ' The l se mammoth steamers are
elegant and lifted up With splendor be , 1
yond my win-to describe. The Bristol,
the Providen!e; atet the Plymouth R'ck
arc the 11144 beautiful. Their saletins
and .state minis are. rich enough fcir a
monarch: t., •,,' ..
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. The Island of Muriba's Vineyard . n.;
stitutes the county of " Dukes," . .. iii : lie
State of Mataehusetts, Its
n e9tuity , r. at.
is Edgartow, situated on. the north-4st
end of the Island. It is an old town, :Ind
one of the tiritto tit out ship' for. iVli,*
ing. • The Inifildings look old, but somifoQ
the inhabitants ire wealthy. AbOut t . i-o
miles from Oak Bluffs iii• a beautiful har- 1
bar, where the water sets back into they
land,- and anarly surround& • by higk
Pills, forming a safe place for ; vesseli of
all sixes to anchor in a storm.. ThetOl
. vn;
his for two hundred years hid thaeupita:,
Woes name of Holmes' Me.
.1t - is . ow,
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'Vineyard Haven. counted over fifty
sail in tbislia door. . I •
. : Weed's Hotels another harbor, on the
side of the malt( land, Where pasSengeris
by the Old.COlony
p ailroad take boats
for this Islarldand !Nantucket... Among.
the many beaatiful! gems of Islands in
the waters! are:the
F attytuuk, Penikese,
NeshaWana,!,Peskanese' and Naushon.
The latter is'!-oWned !,by, Capt. Forbes, Of
BoSten. It ls several miles
! long , and a
mile wide. Captain has arine resi
deneezhere; with plenty of :deer and other
game, and llvefi 'hero manarch - of , all.ho
surveys. Ile cannot leae his farm with
1 . 1r •
out sailing across the water. These Is
lands abound objects of interest and
beauty' evea3)wbere.. The water, are fill
ed with' thelinest 'fish which .supply New
York and otberl Markets: hile the Is
land of 31artba7S ! Vineyard has such cities
as Vineyard Hagen, ):11; Bluffs and Ed
gartolin, the 'ectretne point of - the Island,
Gay Head, is: rough and ! rocky, inhabited
by scattering: native llndians—degenerate
sons of noblesir i es. They are lazy, thrift
less, 'wortlilet;rd
man ant his family
gay Head/ h,c',..-11-hou l
on a high poiiit of tar
the otliersof its lkind
of•the Vnited : States.
• - There is bete ttulithited amount of
fine clay, whieh looks like Castile
It is used as ainitnerq paint and for many
other purpose's. steaTers take excursion-'
fists to this pOintl where they can see this
part of the world as the Creator Wit it.
The land is brio6n atUl rocky.- and : rises
• •
high above the sea. flie Water is Oiler;
•
ally routill, and: as
Promontory and look
ocean, {Se inviluntari
"Lo on a iiairirm no,ek or Will • •
tvi - ohnhothololl m.as I stand. -
•
We look in vai i nueross this vast : expanse'
of water to cOch. glimpse Queen,Vie 7
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toria's possessi,ons. or even old Ireland.
We can do abf!mt as as the Scotch
highlander, wlio when he. was asked - if he
could see America, said : " Oh, farther
than that : I, can see the mune.•',.. This is
a- good place tO build a light-house. but
what else could be successfully l done here
•
I fail to discover--unlcss it is to Write 1,0 7
•
- Nearly at thci opposite end of the island
a new town had been laid out—on Paper,
and, the stake have . been set on the
ground—and one hotelerected r -which cost
one hundred thousand rlollars—Mattakes
ett Lodge. The new town is called Kata
nut, aftor the fair daughter of Kitig Nat
takesett. probiddy very soon: be
a large city.' 4 itt.-4 1 -t two hundred and
fifty years to bttild one house,' how long
will it take to- build a Icily Katama is
about three • miles from Edgartown,
the countyj-seat,and isa level plain. The
wind. blOwiso hard here that a person
should carry an 'anchor with him. A rail
roadlias bleu built, and cars arc-running
regular trips - witti crowds of passengers
between Oak lilnits and Katama. Think
of a train .of loaded ears stopping in a
city where thereiWas only one house. The
terminus of the. road.--t to wide ocean be
yond. •
What do passengers ( l onia here for? • A
clam bake. Shall I describe a clambake
The place nntst bel l by the sea
_shore. A
kind of pavethent, , of large cobble stone,
several square yards in xtient, is prepar
ed in the open air. A wood fire is made
ou this pavement till the stones are very
hot. And while :the fire is heating the
stones, men are, filling baskets with clams
fresh from the .ittid. The fire is removed
—some sea-weed is c overed over the
atones; on this , ; mayl be' placed thirty
bushels or more' oflelatna, which are eery--
ere& with sail-ebith and more wet sea
weed. It is left. iiVenty Iminutes, when it
is ready for the table. n the same bake
they_ frequently bake . sweet potatoes,
green corf4 etc,. The anus are brought
on. the table in the sltel in large dishes.
Every one helps himselfi l by putting his
hand in the dish land opening the shell
with his fingers, and Often eating the
cla i m in the sante is an institu
tion of this country, and patronized by.
everybody. I attended a bake yesterday,
where about a thonsand'nersons were fed.
It is a suinptuous!, repast. I must leave•
the remairider of the d(4n East"i story
for my nest letter, I, • A, C.
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(For.tbe
TEIPERAI!OE. ,
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Much has been Lid and written to ad
vance the cause of Temperance; much of
the time of mir Legislatwe is taken up in
the making of lawa.which
so
exrected to
help this matter; aH do in a measure;
i
but through negligence inenforcin — thetn
they do not answe the pWrpose fo' which
they were made, :end w find . Int f
riper
alien instead of I Tempe nee on Ale in
crease. '"
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Much of the Wm . I t 3 .11a. been laid at the
door - of the rum=. We cannPt see
how any person Shonld willing to sell
the vile stuff wheal lie -e:iinot help seeing
the consequenceS; and it is strange that
persons should -entisent Ito gii-e him an
"elegant- living,7 Vilett big him make '3
..profft of two to" three hundred per cent.
in the deal, when at the same time they
will banter With tbe grocer for one-fourth
per cent. oft' on sugar, or the , same on any
of the neeeSsaries of. life Then perhaps
before going to the placel that . should be
home, they stop ,1t; the hotel and pay out
to treat the crewfl. eneugh to provide
bread Stir their fawillY- foti a week. •-
,
I
Why is this? Is .00 the blame with the
rtim-seller? - has he Imanaged to persuade
them that ho is giving them the worth of
their‘money 2 . Not by any means. How
then? Wo anSwer,lfirst, by parents keep
ing liquor in the IhouSel and using the
same in the familytko +Rd thereby ac
quiring the taste - ot ,it which proves its
,ruin, and in manyi ,• - ises the child, 'node
grown to mannook ••liarges it back to the
Parents, ilovr will lit; be in the day :of
judgment? ..Secondj by I the making of
Wines for
_family
fainily Miel I whio is as tlano '''' vi,
- " 1--!' • ' '
qus'as in the first ease. Setter never. see
a'grape, currant 'o'r f deity, than to put
tfiem to such a b 4.4 useJ, Eternity will
only reveal the anichint"oft misery, wretch
edness' ' I
and: crime which are chargablndi,
redly to this - s'ollree'. Third, do pill do
all you can to. mid 9 home pleasant and
agreeable? Do' y ou thr iz tugh love and
kindness, gaud the :iffeeti ns of your chil
dren ? or do you excuse 3rourself by say-
Ing,- have so many business cares, and
society, has so much claim upon me, that
I haw very little tinie to spend with my
Would-1t not better to spend
something for extraa to make home more
attractive, and give . more time to ibly
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=ME
EDE
ME
M!EM
N (MEER 14.
rnorant. One white
pare • charge
. nf the
l e. 'This TOC:ated
wed kept ep like
by the govenimck
' - e :Amid um* this
upon the 'old : blue
iy-repeat—.
- yOnrself, even though nen suffers
somewhat. Know where your children
spend 'their evenings' and the compan
they keep. , .
We say the lack ,of th se and othe
things of eqdal importance, I which all ;pal
rents can supply, drives thelphild into the
street for company and edneation—whick
company leads to the dra,m-shOPI th
doors of i 'which are the very , gates of per
4ltion, and tlie edwition of the m'es
loathsome, wicked and filthy characti
that can , be imagined. Ifere the dram .
seller comes in for a share of the blame b •
keeping a place for the congregating o'
bad company, and helping- en the gist
which has once been.formed, and:formini„
a taste in those who Veere free from it 9)e
fore.'
.May we_ pot conclude that when all
kinds of liquors and ' wines' are
. Ivanished
from our, households, and hoin9';nadc su
pleasant that will love to. stay
there in; preference 'to going into the
street and dvam-shop ; that nine-tenths Of
title salooin; and dramiShopS will go out of
1 • •
,or starve onO - , 1
GEoitn F. D.i 134)t: x
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NOTES Old THEINTEHNiiTIONAL
LESSONS.
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The first section of ;this tenth chapter 1
..
treats of, false shepherds. and the true I
Shepherd, The first were represented in 1
.
tluit.day by thelliarisees. They.fulfilled '1
the prophetic declarations of the' Old; Tcs- I
i
tament. I (Compare Jer, xxiii.-.; 1-2; 'Eijk.,'
xxxiv: I-10! 'Lech. xi: 4, - 4). The preceti- '
I
ing ehaptei shows bowthorotag„hly, they
played their roleJlx: `.3,i). • This gave Je
sus the oceaSion'to present hiniself as the
. 1 ., i
trice, r e, the ' , eod Shepherd. Strctly speak-
ing., this passage is not - a .parable. • ~ The 1
word tianshited " para ble " - in the 6th i
• 1 ,
VIFIC (paraMi(l) is ill the word used by i
si
the,Synoptists' (paraboe), which Dwain! a I
1. i •
parable. iSt. John limier uses this latter I
wen), but, instead employs piri6iniirt fottr,
,
times. This- difference in phraseology
.-
1. i --,
has a meaning. I 1 And accordingly Nve find - 1
1 • 1- ,
that St. .Telni never follows thee: l / 4 „act ty pc 1
Of the Parable, though:, preseriing. its es-'
sena in the relation !of add'resses and
1
acts (x: 1-4-1:1;-xvi 1-6; xii:24-; xvi:2l;xiii: ' I
•
4-12). The word he uses - in t h is chapter 1
1 .
means literally a by-word, an out of the
1
way discourse, an extended simile.- Per: .1
haps the nearest equivalent iM English is 1
an i allegory: • It denotes a flowing para- 1
belie discourse.. With ithis explanation.
1 1' • 1
we will use for convenience the word- Of i
1 Ti , • r
our.translation and calliit a pa.rable. - l t
This
_discourse (1-11 vs.) consists of 1
two parts :1 (1). The Parable of the Door - 1
(1-10); and (2) The Paijable. 'of the-Good-',;
Shepherd i'll-18)-
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I I The Parable of th Door." Verily,l ,
Il''' ' -- •
verily, - . etc. (v. 1). ihis repetition 01'1
the partiel for the sake .• of emphasis k`
pecidiar to'St. John. Iris a solemn fin•m- '
'
ula, drawing particular" attention- to *ha t •
.follows. Th ' e sheepfipltlS in- the-
East-are
usually'
1 • • " Iluv, flat build,inr , s f erected on
1 i•
~ t he 1 slielterrd side of tare valleys, and,
:when the nights are cold, the flocks are
!shut up iii them, but inF'Ordinaryweather
they are nferely kept "Within -.the yard.
-
They arc -tic t
Icifended by a' hle stone wall :
crowned byi sharp thormi, which the wolf
will, rarely at ienipt to.se4le. The ieePard
and paiither,however, irlien'press u ll with
hunger, Will overleap dui thorny hedge. -
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Thieves also soMetimes sealethe wall and .
i .
carry off a Dart of the lock; , Along the
rear s of the iimclosure waS'a covered space
• 1
. (or shed) to, protect the flocks from
- Storm, .-
_
and the only e n trance wa s san arched door •
. 1 1
in the front t wat]. This door was guarded,
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at night by a porter, vvho was alway-s
armed, and, Who was sometimes the shep
herd himself, or, in the case of the larger -
muttial -folds, one of the shepherds by
turns, and sometimes a Servant specially
set apart fo• thiS duty. 'lThe. porter ad,- .
mitted no one tothe sheepfold except the
shepherd, who•came in the early morning
to lead ont his; flock. • If any one else .
gained entrance,: it was by climbing up '
the wall, and proclaimed him tobela thief"'
and ,robber:! The door, I Therefore, was
the right and appointed mode of entrance
to the fold. 'The shepherd, when'. lie-en-
I tered the fold in .the morning, called out' ..
his flock, and then, placing himself before '
theta, led- the way to the pastille. lie ,
always went before; never behind the
flock. All lEneir his 'Voice :it was the
source of his power over them and the
means of control. No other voice would
',the flock heed'alid obey than the voice of '
, its o w n shepherd. 'llut!while all knew
his voice, only the , favorite. sheep were l .:
Called by mine. They Were-emphatically I
4`hiS,Own slieep.” ''', • ~1.
A 'part of this allegory' must have-been
Clealle the Pharisees; ;The fold'evident
ly represented the church of God—the
sheep, - his faithful people"; the children of ,
believing Abraham—the;shopherds, • the
appointed ministry 'of the :church.-- But
further thanthis they'couldnotgii. • Their'
Moral blindness prevented- thenifrom 'un-!
lerstanding the chief point •of the dis- -
, course. Who Was .meant by .the doorl)
They suppoSed it :was Moses (ix : -29).
Hence when the-nets-,visiOned maittleclar
'ed that lie luitLfound another door,. they
cast him oat, of the church. It was impi
ety, treason to God. But, into this "spirit
ual blindnesS Christ sends a ray of light.
"I am the door !" 1 1 All' (sheep and shop- '
herds). must -enter- the church through .
him. lie is ithe Only pOSsible :entrance
4 421.11", that ever ;came before me are
thiei'es and robberS." Ile was the door
from the first. Abel entered -the kiiigdon ,
Of Heaven througli him, as shown by his -
sacriflecof alamb 4 ,..se 'did Abraham, for .
he Efa iy, his day and was glad. "Before .
me'.'' must therefore mean "instead of
nio'-i-i, e., all wht came Claiming author
ity ever the Conscience as ! SPiritualiLords:
But the true sheep ? the genuine spiritual '
people 'of God, did not heaior o , them.
In every age Ifromj Abel d ..
own p. there
-were some' to recognize and, enter the
door. At the floci the sheep were reduc
ed to eight, and' at; the tithe of •Christ's
coming there and'
nottuany mord:', Still,
as represented 1* S. inicon' and Anna, they
: all waited for the , consolation of Israel.
And there were always some few. faithful ,
teachers or Shepherds left -among the
faithless. All priests and scribes were:
not tlrves and rehbers.. if`.By me, if any .
than, nter in Jhe shall be saved." ',To be
lieve on him is to''enter ins through hini.-..
All who thus enter are - 'saved—at once
and friver;-saved; the moment they be
lieve. "And shall go in'. and out and
':find'pasture.7: - They shall . , go into the
'Old and find:rest 'and safety; they. shall
go out and,flad the pasturage of knowl
edge, I holineSs, peace and joy: , "The
thief cometh not, but for to : steal,'. and: to
kill, and to destroy," ,Thi',4 describes al-.
legorieally the design of all false teachers.
It ought to have reve s aleritthe Pharisees
unto thernselifes. Pver;against these self
righteous destroyers of the tlock, Christ
places', himself : !'I am come that: they
May have life, and, that they may have
abundance." Here is a change of figure—
introduced asa trnesition to the next par,
able. ; Christ rsAlie doer 4hrough which
God's people enter the kingdom of 'Way:.
en. ,But'theri they - are, spiritually dead,
arid cannot enter the door 'until thcy'are
quickened. Ilenee he says : " I„ . ani, come
that they may have life." Mere is'a fore
sliadoWing of verses 1:5-18: By -Ilaying
clOwn ,his life,- ented, life -for his
sheep.; But beyond
sc
this 7 l he- provids
them nmple nourishment or this newly
bestowed spiritual life. 'tie came that
they might have; abundance of feodt
green lastitrer, living watirs. Compare
i:l6. . , e.
IL- he Parable.of the Gpod SlMPherd:
v. : 11,. The good 'Shephend is: the ideal,
perfect Shepherd,' predicted by Isaiah xl:
it, and Ezekiel xxxiv : 11-Ifli Ho stands-op- •
P4Sed tp the hireling onhe • one hand,
and to , the well on the .ot er. He' does
not forake, (the Pharisees , nor destroy
(the Devil). He' dies to 'Ye the flock
~
from destruction (Matt. x : 28). - IS hi
our Shepherd 4 If not, we, shall . be, tles
,
troYed, If het r is, reuil and 'rejoice u,
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