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Jo . rstru As A .N 1) SURGEOY , Irv e over Montalive,' Store, Miler hours from 10 1 4, 12. A. )t.. and trona 2 to,i, r. It. Special attention given to di4•ases of the Eye and -t t. urry & NIORREL, k E.fahl Wool .1547:1 WHOLES ALE DItUGGISTS DItr(.(VISTS I'Al ENT MEDICINES, LAKE STREET, . ELMIRA, N. 1 '2%, 7e. lIIIIMIiEI When sparrows in the brightening sun blithe of Summer halt And sure to prosper—over bold With tilted stores of croct+ gold— When lilacs halt with morning rain Tapped laughing at my witqloq pane, And soft wie coming warinth and good breezes shoOk the leafy wood: They, ere the first delight eras spent, , Adorn' the sunny slope 1 wbnt, . Until the tiarrrewlng path across, SottshalOws. flickered on the mesi Of beechen buds that burstlthelr sheath, 'And twlning ; tendrlls, whilnbetteath, Where I+lBlo roots made NOtiOWS meet, Oren' htutillng primrose at my font. "There all the riddles of a life 'Which vexes me with aimless strife ,Tile brokenthoughts, that not with pain `,Nor'patlence e'er wilt meet again, Were had aside, nay, seemed to drop As, vhien loud jarring voices stop The "Waies of siledre rise, and spread,. And uteetin circles overhead. rai f feb.l7q IiF.AD Though Autumn ho . urs wilt nom° azain, And I aftes branches drip with rain On sodden moss, yet having .ern, • I )ieep my faith :each Spring-tide 4reeti --- When drooping lifo pu:s olf its giqotu, Anil Mimed roots bear scented-bloom— WWI tt:nder prophecy makes mirn :Sly howl to tabor and to endure. ' - Journal. NO EXCELLENCE WITHOUT LABOR You who are just entering upon the real stage of action, whose minds are full of --, wild beautiful visions of what you will accomplish, and who, in imagination, hear your praises . sounded by the 'great arid noble of Hearth, must remember .that case is not life's crown ;". but work is. the ' magic key that .unlvekl.; the stores of wisdom to the student; work:';..is the • scepter that sways the world. = Maim must work to ftiltill the grand - aim for, which he was created : - he -must have a fixed purpose, a goal • to be reached, one. to which he can press forward diligently and prayerfully. A gainrou must remeinbef that" near the sweetest,ruse sharp thorns - milst grow." FiM - r.a . rtnes the cross, and it must he born oftcm for many years ~,„ over path where shaap stones Irene. ; trate the tender feet at every step befirre the crown is placed on i the aching brow. — . . All great 111 . 011 have bad someispe cific end 41 view to ni..quire in Pile., Cyrus was a zl„lst illustrious example of temperance through the whole course of his life. Hail he not refus ed the wine cup, think you his.name • would 'have been rrorded on .tl7-.:!: pages - - of history: " The wise and, suceessfulprince ?" Fate plar.es.Yo"i' destiny in your hands -arid says : Carve it as you would have it," and may the future find your lives wreath .ed' with noble &Os. The wile weirld is full of affections that are summon ed up like clouds around the devious pathway of the drunkard. The red, wine bright Ons and sparkles; alluring . in the goblet, v• bin anon "there. steals the wopnwood dregs of sorrow min • gled,with bitter regret. • . July 27,16 ~ s • Jan. 1, 1875 TOWANDA. PA I= ••ThOzi shun, iih FhiliJ, i 11.2 ihchaiiiiiil rip: 'Though how its I I ...a tight like joy appears, El , Tog It will by fantioil by iiizhi, , . Anil ,::illy iiiis.,l With li:o,o,a:a team." .• ‘ It yarely happens to the historian to he fide to record goodness :yid greatness alike emanating manifest ,lv in the chn i•act er . of a single help! , The character of tzocratAs wawa fiflUal .ly !rri-At and + , (.»fl. lie was rond 'of labor, lore hijonie; with patience. and acqiiired that serenity of . mind and firmness of countemuna• which the mos; alarming. dangers could never destroy, or the twist soilili:li (:alainities alter. I i yoicr deeds are node awl- your motives pure. Your reward will he sure to cOinc, lhowTh it may he after' many days (ii wueoo4. ,I ILA ,so sure as injustiee and evil mark your course. will your punklimen% mime. Mark this, and strive to make your lies holy and grand. _ 11 :u1 Alexander had no :din ( ' n view, think von lie would ever have worn the crown of martial glory, th.t , acknowl ed,:ed conipteror or the world ? If Demosthenes had not suffered anddiy unwearied effotts overcome -great obstacles, wotild he have been 'found the greatest orator in the ToNcanila, flyl7-73 1876 45. c., .Cc P,oefet. =I A SPRING MORNING MS How life might grow I ,memed to guess; Life knowhy no uneasy strr.bs 01 Martial laze:lse; strong In growth, Yet over ireifeet, atrong in truth Which swayed each hour that took Its blight An added;omplre of light, Tfiat neithes . clond nor mist might stay, Slow , itri,ghtenitig to the peilect day.. algrellattrans'. . , world.' llowevc -7 r, we may not all hay:e a ;pillar of light in_, Hie heavens by whi - ch our step-; may he directed up ward and °onward : as did Constan tine :,yet we see things in the paty trials of every-day lift.% in the form of crosses bearing the. inscription - Ity thi'corn4A." For tl/at was Washington created ? God nver , created anything for naught. ' It is in ,opposition, to the -,rent economy on nature that man should be a mere bubble on the great tide of life, to dandle awhile , on the sualigit, and be destroyed by the adver4e waves. Ilow many accom plish no good and achive nothing to their honor that shall live - after they have reurne 1 to dust ? Wash inf*ton was a fatherless boy, unedu. cated and unbefriended. Whatever eminenee•he acquired in any depart ment, Of life was achieved . over (ib stielea by means of labor which few livotild surpass. :ltd. to which many would surrender. His path to fame was not atl 0 wery out% He was the artificer of his own fame and for tune. . . . Towerincr in greatness above all' his companions. he arose calmly and Trafidly to the occupancy of the highestylaeo in the gift and hearts of the American people, until their - United voices proclaimed him. the 44 F a th er , t. t' he (Yeientry," Washing ton will be the blietne of 'the . and pen so long as virtue and. pat riotism shall fie, revered on earth. His name still lii•es and burn-s in the heart and glows upon the tongile of every true patriot, and shall, never cease to be heard while air •has an echo and man a tongue. • Life is pot _always a suMrner-day to which . eomes no , dark night or lowering cloud. •tio! life must 'hate - ~ --,... .- • . 1 • . . •. . ' .- - ..- ~. .•.- .. ,• ' . . ', .• - . - • ' _ ' . ~ , 1 .. .. . ..' . • ' . . . ' . ... - . . • 'r .' ._ .. -. . •. ... , - , . 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Must be borne: then try to bear with" Christain fortitude, If it be a sorrow; "how 'to it meekly, thanking God he has given your strength to endure to the end. If . cherished schemes hate . to be stand oned, not rebeljor you know not into what snare you might have been led had not one wiser than youlnter fered. " Life is beauty" to us. And to catch the ‘• sunshine Of heaven; to illuminte our pathway; to lure the_ harmonies of nature to oug ears; to gatheethetreaSures of all earthly love to our hearts: to win the ;gold, silver and precions_stones ; io make a monument to our names; to secure place, power distinction--are not Thescthe great'secretsprin,gs ofaction? That weshould hate a certain thought to. our own happiness, is 'unquestion ably right ;. but that SELF should be the centre of .our efforts was never intended. Where lay the secret of Napoleon's-success? From his child hood the freedom of his country was the cherished desire . of his heart: With this to simulate him, he shook .Europe to its centre,.and made its - proudest monarchs -bow to his way. Though his brilliant career ended in" darkness, it presents him to us as -one of God's noblest creatioz---a, gentle and 'at the same time a heroic 'man. A Itho' we may not approve tse notions that prompt some of his ac tions, we admire the untiring energy, with which he carried . out his designs. To it thinking mind, what a field for reflection is . presented when it medi tates the great and s,ublime problem of living! To live Well and happy, we must live . seriously and purely, for our Sets arc fatal shadows that ever cling around. If they_ spring, from a heart.that is as a fountain of Lure waters, never discolored: by im pure thoughts and sinful motives, they take - the form of angels, gentle and loving; but if selfishness has -been the commanding tenet, - and if deeds have. been done that would . briny the blush of shame to the hon est heart. then the fatal shadows take the form of avenging spirits, work ing like an accusing conscience. Is it not stronffe, then, that we cannot understand life more truly? The right, the rational way, seems $6- plain! It :a true, that even to the best, the most consistent, the hour', Of darknees will conl'—the trial', the temptation, the. sufferino - ; but to them their is a - faith to meet c all these; the.-" how in the cloud" . as always visible to their eyes. • God's way's are mysteriou, and* eyes . hliurle,l by error and ,the flesh cannot always see that the chasten hand is that of clemency. Yet in all the yicissititudes of life, in all its sorrows and Alisappointments, we must bear in mind that Godt s. knows It is folly to fill up the costly mo-. merits of the Present with vain re grets for the past, or idle - fears for the future. t‘ Let us live in deeds and i,Ol in years." for thire' is 'cer tainly a time coming when, . accord in!r to our actions; we - will be com manded or condemned; ES not be Ant gather ih“ ripe. golfl ear, have fir,t been bnwen , And wwerea tl furro w with leari 11 i• ro , t 11,,t ;IS we take It, nnrtival , e.,r1.1 of our, litla will yi.:lla;we make it A -lierre,t. ur t !mill, or of llowt.r,.— On,the back :leaf 'of an old En hlish .which has been transmi Lea from sire to. son . throligh many generations, and appears as the prop erty of Robert Bolton: B. D., and preneher of God's Word . t Brkpugh ton Northamptonshire; is - , 'nsci:ibed tlifp. following ancient 'rem ,erance• pledge :—".Frdni this daye for arde to the elute of my life, I will n ver pledge any healthe or drink a taro .e 41ass, cup, bowls, or any (Abe drinhin! , instrument, whomsoever it come ; tiot to my own must 'gracious Kin ! , e, nor any of the greatest mon arch or tyrant upon earth ; .nor my dearest ftientl, nor all the goulde in the World; shall ever enforse Me. Not Angel from heaven (Who I know will not attempt it) shall persuade, not Satan, Nvith'alrhis subtletiek, nor all the powere of bell iteslf shall betray ie,• By this very shine (for slum it is, and not . little one) I doe plain Iv find that 'have mote offended an( ishonored ink• glorious Maker, an most merciful Saviour, than by al other sinne that, I am subject mitoe and for this - very shine it is my Go hath often been strange untoc me, I nd for that cause and miccithef re slH have hthus vowel, and I heart- I,* TllV.! , ona Father in heaven o His great goodness and infinite incr ey in .leSus Christ to assist me in the and he so favoriable unto ine for what is past. Amen. E. BOLTON." Broughton. April 10th, 1037. Gon Lo VBS.: BEAUTY.--- . 1 do not think we fully realize, any of us,_ how much worship there is in the Mere act of creating beauty ; not only the beauty of loving looki and ficeds, 'but the beauty of form color proportion: God loves beauty. Every star that shines, every flower. that blooms, every dew drop .that .distens in the sun, proves this; and I believe that every ?woman WllO strives tO wake her own home and jler own Ilife beautiful, serves God in this as,truly as she serves.him on benited i knees or in the holy services of the sanctuary. And in just So far she fails in making that home and that life as beautiful as she can, in just so far does she fail of deer duty to God and man. . tut: tsE of • ,DeMar mon, in the New York Medical Jour nal, says : "For the last ten years the use of spirits has, 1. Imposed upon the nation a' di rect expense of $6,000,000,000. 2. Has caused an indirect expense of $7,000,000,000. 3. Has destroyed 34:0,000 lives. 4. Has sent 100,000 children toile poor house. • 5. Has committed at 1ea5t,.•15,000 - peopl6lo prisons and workhorses. . 6. Has determined •at, least 1,000 suicides. . • 7. Has made 200,000_widows and 1,000,000 orphans. _ TOWANDA, B' !FORD COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, ,APRIL 11, 1878. -~.i:--- ■ BOYS AND THEIR Mi RS. I am sure you would ha , e liked the two things that he did xt,— things which be was accustom to do every morning or his life. First, he went to the bureau an took up a picture that stood there upon an easel•frame,—the portrait of his mother. " Good-Morning, my *dear mother" he said gaily, and kissed the picture several times, tenderly and reverenly just as, a few years later, he' might do that of some other woman whom he hoped to make' his wife. , 'lndeed, Royal Lowrie was very much in love with' his beautiful mother,- 7 in lave . with her as I like to see a bay in lov , with:his mother,—so that no woman was fairer, or clearer, or mare worthy •of. knightly service than she. ' • , 0, my dear boys—for it is you especially for. whom r am writing this story,—no . matter how big you get, or how busy you become, or how' -umnly, you .fancy you are o'rowing,• don'trever get too big, - or toobusy;"or . too Manly, to be in love With your Mother 1 She who. loves . you as no other woman ever can; she who. would gladly die a thousand deaths for you-0 never, so long- as you live, turn her out of the first place in your heart. Never 'so long as you live let there ben time when, in the slightest, attention even—the quick oiler of an arm or the stooping to save a step—you will prefer another to her. • . I don't mean to moralize tol you or preach to you very 'muell' in- this , story, but I can't help saying this. For I know too well hoW surely will .come a time when you will thank me for it. You do not , think very much,about it now,as you . go 'about the house with 'hearts .singing and feet that keep time to the home-music. And when the day comes for you to' go out from the home life, you will run lightly down the steps null ride away scarcely turning for a last look at the loving another who stands there in - the doreway, with eyes-that Ifill so fast they can scarcely follow you as you go. And when you'coMe back at Christmas, or . Easter, or 'at midsummer, though you may notice perhaps that some little change haS taken place in your absenee,—the dear moth .r-face has 'grown thinner. the step slower, or, maybe, the grey hairs have become more frequent— yet still you will laugh and turn , ; Away and forget; until sometime— late,. I trust, but surely sooner or, later,—there will come a change which you will not _laugh an'ay or forget. Sometime, *hen you -are far ' away, perhaps at school, or colhige, or in a distant city—while you study or sport or carouse—there will come tidings and a summons., least expect-. ed, that wilt kill the laugh upon your lips in an instant artdStrike your . joy dead And then, you have hurried home again end, standing 'or.ce more by the hearth that can never again be as it once has been, _you fkgin to realize as you cannot at first, how very different everything is and hoW empty and. desolate home and the world and life itself is, with ,that . • presence that , has made it all ,so beautiful gone out of it forever; when you stand, later still, beside that Sacred mound in the churchygid-and weep such hot tears as buys and men do weep over their mothers' graves, —Own it is, that every little care. and thoughtfulness and attention that-you have paid her, and all the larger sacrifices you have made fur her.se will come back to you like minister ing spirits, and brimg pin a comfort and a consolation that you cannot now understand; just as the•remem brance of - every sorrow . you have caused her will be very bitter. - .And if these words I am saying will only Make . you think of this non , and if the thought shall make you in any way more careful and qonsider fkt.e and affectionate , now, to the m`other whom- I am sure you love verY much, I shall be glad indeed that have said them ; and some time y i will be glad too, 'however dull and rosy you may, think them now.: , .• And as fo your Mother's picture, boys (for I wa it to say it word about that, too), never go away . from her withriut it. Keep it by you always; not in your trunk or drawer, but.on your bureau, or wall, or shelf, -Where you can sec it constantly and where it can see you. You will lead triter lives for it, believe. me. For it is in the privacy of our own •chambers, } perhaps,. that 'We think our meanest thoughts and do our meanest ads; and you will hardly - care to think or act unworthily with those - eyes following:you about' the -room. . ' • And the other of the two things that Royal did this morning? Well-q with the thought of his earthly par ent sobering and purifying his heart he knelt down beside - his bed and poured out hiS soul'to his Heavenly Father. A. 'simple, honest, straight forward prayer whose words I would not repeat here since they were meant for God's ear alone. Only I hope that in this second thing also, every boy who reads this 'will think Royal . Lowrie worthy of imitation.—From " A Genera! .11,isurulersiandingi" • 1,9 Chas. R. Talbot,: .in April WIDE AWAKE. , . , EARLY RISING. There is another class of superstiti ons born down to us from the crbbed times of our Puritan ancestry which 1 fancy we shall also somewhat shame faedly. own. They Were the daily maxims which formed a part of -the teaching in every genuine New Eng land homei and their permanence as a part of •our mental constitution is an encouraging circumstance .to edu caterS who sometimes are inclined to think that line upon line and precept upon precept fail - to make their im pression upon the wayward mind of yhutli. To remove this fear, we stand as living monuments, boldly avowing, first, that we, find it con stantly difficult to convince ourselves —though our reaSon4ells us that we tire' absurd—that it is not a Moral duty 'to rise before, or at least-with' the sun. Day by'dtiy, as we descend to our -eight-o'clock or nine-o'clock breakfast, we are conscious of a cer tain sense of moral. torpitude which we. know to be unreasonable:- It- is REGARDI r EBI3 9E DENUNCIATION FROM ANT QUARTER. . in the effort to shake - 'oir thle..sense, which is only, the remnant of an old superstitution, that I write. The, gen eral axioms :on the subject of early. rising, which helped o,,lntike the New England Primer and the Farmees Almanac a never-failing source ',of supposed improvement,. and• whieh, .sTre -, . afterward re:enunciated by F nklin, do not apply' to the pres . ent ay, nor,. to city life. What -is gaine even for useful work by rising at sixia d then being obliged totake. a nap in t ke middle of the.day ?"Why not do.uP 6 tr.sleening all at once,. \ and have a elear Sweep for work ?: If, again, one e o ld carefully take up and cover the e hers of his fire at nine r. Nt., and sle• ) the sleep of the righteous till six, 11 Might possibly rise, at six, or even fly ,tho Ugh why, even in that case,. any . aim person should,* insist on doing . vitt hour's' .work before eating, and ca such-ac tion virtue, I could never and stand. Circhmstances alter rules iin n .11 as cases, which is, what we of Pu 'taw stock find it , hard to • tunierstand. \I Myself know two young woinen'or\ New England birth and training who, though they go into Much evening Society, and are frequently awake at midnight or after, each week during the New York winter, yet persisted in beieg punctual every' r moraine , at the half-past-seven breakfast of fatnily. True, they 'have no appetites ; true, they take long -naps in Om afternoon ; irue they break • down every year in March; : yet they gal lantly. return to the assault every autumn, and would feel ashamed and guilty if .they (Atli otherwise. .So strong is the force of superstition! . In he future tnoreperft:et'days it will I)onsidered a sin to wake any one from sleep except in.caSesbflife and death, aid our graddchildrtli may perhaps be free from the inherit ed weakness of believing, because the flowers and the chickens and the Was wake when the sun does •that therefore a human being . should do so°. By what logic do we select the one action as suitable for'onr imita tion ?—//6-pot.'s• . .Ifoatine 'Fur 'Mardi. . .. • . ItAIN IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTILI ay.-71t was an age, of conspiracies, and the only wonder is, when we con sider the causes, that they were not multiplied a hundredfold. The prin cipal Italian cities were prostrate un der a foreign yoke, and, Venice only. remained as a city of refuge for po litical exiles. Italy, everywhere over run by a-foreign soldiery, whose sti-, pend was pall by sack and pillage, One horde , o r invaders only.expelled by another, preseuted.the melancholy spectacle of entire diStriets., ready to. blvm like Eden, reduced by fire and sWordito the condition of -a desert, • withoUt houseor inhabitant, or any living thing. Every conceivable out rage was committed;- churches Were sacked, cities destroyed; f over two hundred thorsand persons .. killed in . war; lire and sword folloWed by fam ine and pestilence, in which perished unnumbered thousands more:' Blood cancellediblood. What the battle field Tailct. , to absorb was: reserved for the scaffold. In s the midst of this carnial of .death, -enome was given over to sack and pillage. Its streets and public squares, encumbered with corpses, and -breeding disease, con tagion, and death, became the scene of a wild Saturnalia of shatheful ex- ccss. Drunken soldiers, disguised, as. bishops and cardinals., paraded the principal thoroughfares in mock re ligious procession, or -trailed their priestly vestments in immodest, la civious dances as they rioted in their bacchanalian orgies, while episcopal mitres, metamorphesed into fools' caps by swaggering dragoons, excited the laughter of pimps and the divi sion of courtisans. It is disheartening to reflect that these abominations were committed. for the most part by professing Chris thins. While the Council of Trent was discussing the d6ctrines of orig inal sin, predestination.and the seven sacraments, Spat` ish Catholics and German Protestarit4 were vying with each other In outraging every law, both human and divine, while the yoke of the Sultan of Turkey was in yoked as preferable to that of the "Sultan of Christianity," and . , both to the Spanish cleApot, who dreamed of , universal espire.—Barper's 3fuly . azine. To GlRLS.—Never marry a m n who has only his love for you to,. recommend -him. It is very lia:inn turg, but it .lOv's not make the man. If lie is not otherwise what ha should be, you will_ never be happy. The most perfect man who did not love you should never be your, husband. But though marriage without love is terrible, love only will not do. ,If the man is dishonerable -to ether men, or mean, or given to any Vice,. the-tiMe will come when you ~will either loathe hitior sink !to his lOvel. It is hard to remember, amidst'` kiss es and praises, that there 'is anything else in the world to be done or thought of but lovemaking ; but the daoits of life are many, and the husband inept be a guide to be trusted—a compan ion, a friend as Well as a lover. Many - a.girl has married - a man whom she knew to be anything but good, " be cause he loved her sp.?. Anti - the flame has died out on theAearthstotie of home before long,' and beside it she has been sitting with; one that she could neveh hope would lead- iher 'heavenward—or who, it she fol owed him as a - wife should, Would Wile her steps to perdition. Marriage. is a solemn thing—u choice for life; be careful in. choosing.— Belgra v ia. "IT'S WICKET; ToSnwr.Anx."—Two, Germans, fresh from , Cincinnati, vis ited NcwTork; and one, well acquaint- . ed with the city, invited his friend to Belmonico's, where a diner for two and a bottle of wine were ordered. The place and fare were praised mitil the bill of 01 was presented: This they considered- an extortion.. They paid, however, and. while walking down Broadway the excited German began to swear at the stipposo ex tortion. -.His friend then - said, "Do not swhear Yacob. It is wicked to shWear. God has punished dot man Delmbnico." . " How?" ,"1 haven-line pocket-full wit spoons."— . • Pdadelphia Herald. apitkiD, CALL IN THE 111011NEM ra:: IM 4Ow; Rimed, you know dist I love Tool '. 'rod know that my promise Is true ; And Etidit)t there is nothing more pleasant' Than leading the Gorman IN ith you.. But listen, I've something to whisper. Di surd "HS no perilous warping.' 'lit yout - feam ail to rest, 'tis a simple requesti-7 Please, lottaid, don't call to the morning. Sow, lto41(1, don't Wrinkle your forehead. Mal Open youreyes like . s goose ; Pont try to look rneftil or horrid ; My love It wilthe of no use. One can't arrange putt, braid, and ringlet. With only a halt minute's warning. And when tfeahabltee one really can'tsay One longs for a call In the morning. • t Ilesides, mamma thinks ills silly, And surely dcar mamma must know, YAW she's been lender of fashion .• These thirty odd seasons og so. Don't talk of slin tltcity, dearest: What's beauty without some adorning? One took; like a fright.siter dancing altnight. So, Donald, don't call Ip.tho mosang, CONSIDER RIK EASTER CONCERT EXEituisr DY UOWI.AND T. OAKS It will add to tho'interest of this Exer to tco have made of evergreen or flowers a hung up in conspicuous splaces the o " Isis Mercies." • - Cum -- -: geItIPTUEE—Joni L. 14:5 ; 1 f or._.. .1 t: ' 1 KE ME, "Itlast,cr Anthem." READIN(I\ Cor. ay. 1-21 PRAYER-P%lBl to Tell the Story." i, page 40. ,Srsomo :—" I Lt. Gospel Hymns. No. LITTLE ONES L, Ist Scholar Jeans, when he left the say, And for sinners came to dte, In his mercy passed nut by I,.ltttc ones like me. 2nd Scholar: - "And Jesus called - a little child .um Him, amtsat him in the midst of them.— Matt. viii 2 ' . 3rd Scholar Mothetra then as mothers ought, 'ln plat•is where he taught, Vat° him little children brought, Little ones•like me. ' I 4th Scholar. s• - - "Then their was hi:o'loA unto Him lit tle childt4n that He vhnuld put ilia hand upon them and pray;'—Matt. xix. • sth Sehollar. DM the-Saclor tay_them No is kindly %Mild them stay. SatTered none to tutu su-sy— onos like Inc. Gth Sc4olar. "Jesus - said, • Suffer little Children and forbid them net to come unto me ; for of is the Kingdom of lleavou.' xix: 14. 7th Schohtr When notO Jerusalem(' • 3teekirrldlng*Josns came, Children hafted WI blessed name— Little ones like me, Sth Schohir ,f "Ant they that went before and they that filowed, criek, saying : hosanna ; Blessed is he that cornett! in the name of the Lord.' Mark. xi. 9. 9th Scholitr In the glorious heaven above, Through the graolon4 S3ll it lt3 love, Children 1)11,3 and gtory prove— Little ones Ilke Inc. • oth Scholar. "Take heed that ye despise not one of liese little ones for I say unto - you. That n heaven their a4gels do always behold he face of my Father which is in heaVen." Matt. krill. 10. th Scholar. • 'Te l ag for theca Ufr, he gave, To redeem them from the grave, Jestfi tiled tr, , 10 hell to save - tittle ones like lee. , 2,3, 4,5, 0, '7, 8,9, 10 and 11 in con cert. Children then should love hinfnow, Strive his holy will to .do, Pi s ayto him and praise him too— Tilt tle ones like me. Slp - GiNci—" Only an . Armor Bearer." `Gospel-Hymns, No. 1. Page 28. I==! BY TitnEF: Bort Ist Boy. I For thti naughty things they 40, Troubles . rraelt naafi, awl worry_ hearts and big ones too. Then tell .10suq, That's tho best thlug we can do. 2nd Boy Jesus knows when we are tempted, Jesus sees us when we fall, .Terns died and we're exempted, He W:11 , sorry fur ns all. He'll forgive us If upon Ills name we call. 3rd Boy s . . • Let us tell him all our trouble, ' ~, ~ Tell him we are sorry to.i, . lie wo ill dus kiminens double, 1 help us to be kind-and true, . o And forgive uq, ' , Ag.', oh .., yes - , and love us too. Ist, 2nd . nd :30 boy in concert. Th/n tell Jesus, well tell Jesus, ' All our wants and all our WOO!, NOpe 11 . 111. Jesus can rearre us, Wone, bid Jesus lOveSns so, , • '-4 And to JO , {Us Every one Is free to go. . , Sixcaxr.:--Wbat a Friend We Have in -.lesus."-Page 39. Gospel Ilynnw, No. 2. By Foun larnx GIRLS Ist Girl We Inca to sing together, Our hearts and Y 01 4 .01 one, To.pralse our heavenly Father And Jesus Ills dear Son: 2nd Girl We love to pray torther.' To Jesus on nil Throne, And ask „that He will ever, AecePt us as llisown. 3rd Girl iove to read together. The word of axing truth, .Whog• light laishining ever, , To guide our early youth. 4th ,Girt ' Nre love to be together, l'pon the Sabbath day, And strive to help each otbe;:) Along the heaYenly way. SUPERINTENDENT.,-- . In "Considming Him" we would say He was obedient One Clam in Concert. "But he made 'himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant and Was made in the likeness of men." - hill - "And Ding found in fashion as a roan lie humbrid himself and bee's= obedient unto death, even. the death iif.the cross." —Phil. tip i• REerrATiett—By s Schelar. TILE OLD, OLD STORY ito whom the Father premised many ages past s Had come to save poor elanera; . !Yes, pa had Come at last! Tway hhi "delight" to do It, ITO seek and save the lost,, A)thougli Ile knew beforehand— :Snow—alt that It would Cost. llvett a llte most holy; Ithreyery thought WWI love And every action showed it., :To man, and God above. StIPERI24ENDEST.—Ho was meek and lowly. I • • - By 2nd Class in Concert. "Take my yoko upon you and learn of rne for I aro meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest unto, your souls. Matt: ix. 29. .f Mite path In llfa was lowly; • He-was a working- Pan; Who knows the poor man's trials '1 So well as Jeans can? • I Siricaxa-k" I Need Thee Every IIonr." Gospel Hymns and Sacred Songs: P. 5 SUPEITIN'TENDENT.—IIe was wounded 3d!Claimt of Five."Waolam Ist Sehoiar.* '" But he was wounded for 'our, trans. ? gressionS, ho was bruised for our iniqui ties, the l ehastisement of our peace was upou him ; and with . his stripes we are healed.'y Ira.Bß :5. aid" Scholar Thy works, not mine, 0 Christ; Speak gladness to thltheart, They tellme all Is done, They hid my fears th,part. 3rd Schiilar. Thy wounds, not Mine, 0 Christ, , , I Can heat my bruised soul, Thy stripes, not nilm• contain, The balm that tnal;el.ll whole. th geholar. N\ . - Thy cress. not mine, 0 Christ, ... Jlas borne the awful load, 0 sins that none In heaven . , 0 earth could bear but God. Thy rl liteousness, 0 Clitist,. Alone ' n cover me, . ' So rlghteXmess avails,. ' Saie that NV lifil iSin thee. * one • , t Ity. 1 . . .• 1 . • SOolar. ' Thy righteonanens Can clot h e and bei .1 Wrap it round mg son : In thin are and diu SlNGlNG—Select , Piece SUPERINTENDE.NT—iie was smitte 4th Class Three Scholars Ist Scholar. ' 1 "Surely he bath borne our griefs ain carried 'our sorrows, yet we did esteem him,•stricken,:.smitten of God and afflict cd."—lsa ha' : 4. '2lld Scliolar Great Redeemer thou halt died. Thou who wrought the work sublime, Aug the works hare echoed wide, Tie the farthest Ito - and, of time; Is fittishe4'..flnislred long, Is thy great Redemptiowlttan, And we blest; thco.ln our song, Lord of angels, Son of Man. Ord Scholar. • Wonderful thy nainekt; can, Counsellor to Thee we Mighty God, the Lord o all, Father everlasting; Thou rrluie id Peace, steadfast throne, , Strong In judgment stands for age. F.Yeiy land Thy right shall own, , Thy scepter shall obey. SlNGl*L—"Precious Nanie." Gospel llyups acid Sacred Songs. °Page 69. 2 verses.— • SUPERIXTENDENT.—IIe was crucified 3rd Class. 3 Scholars st S.cliolar ."And they crucified Him, and parted His garments, casting lots that it might be fultille'd which was spoken by the Pro. bet. • . , "They pa‘rted my garnientii among hem and upon my vesture did they .east ots."--Matt: 2nd Scholar S:(4! hoW th9,lnultitude en•nrds and mtaves draw nigh See how they mite wlth.h3ffets rude. That head divine of awful maJeaty, lyd Scholar liow hound with crnel cords • Chrtxt*to the scourge is given. And ruitlans Itft their hand unawed,' Againsttht Lord of earth, of 'heaven SrPERINTENDtiNT.—IIe was merciful and faithful. . ' 6th Clag,s, Three Scholars, Ast Scholar "Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren that he_miAt be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining; to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the 'people, tend Scholar. "For in that lie Himsolf hatli_suffervd, being tempted, he is able . to succor them that are tempted."—lleb. ii. 17-18. 3d Scholar. • • Through= allthe weary toll of II! • Through all the battles, all the strife, Through all the hours with trouble (taught, • • There's comfort, blessing In the thought . • That Joins knows. When trouldes (lune w cannot see Why ilfe should full of suffering be Aid tears come onee agsln. again, "rls comfort to the sufferer then, That.JesUS know+. When In temptation through Coil's loVe, Thou: strength he gives ii from above, We feel our love for him still live., We confiner sfo—What Joy It gives, That Jesus knows. All our sorrows„ doubts and tears.; All our longings, hopea'and fears, Alt that we do whlch,leads to shame, - • All that we do for lily bleat Daum Our. de Atli knows. Woll pray to blvi who always hears,' , IWell trust wlkh him -In the coining year a,. Well trust our future to his care, ' • -He'll show us what we have to bear, ' For desos knOws. Ana when rur.w•eary feet have passed. . !An of this earthly road at last, Nt?'ll take bls hand and softly pray, ,Lurd, lead us lutrue by the blest way, That Jesus knows. „. SUPERINTENDENT -11C In holy, harmless and undefiled. 7tli Clash Five Selioliirs Ist Scholar . . " Wherefore he is able also to Saire them to the. uttermost that come 'linto'God by hini,seeitig he ever . liveth i til - Make inter cession for them." 2nd. Scholar. - "For such air: high' airiest became us. who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than thk vii. 20-2fi. :h1 Scholar. , O the fulness of. the blessing, The infinitude of power.. • . lie laahle, lie is wiling. . • • Every day and every hour. tveiy Tionnent he is waiting, ' As before the . throfie he stands, `- To bestow on men salvation, :. Perch-wed with his wilting hand TO the uttermost lie saveth, All that come to Clod by And In heaven tie ever Ilveth, ". • Thus to Intercede for them.' blessed vcont!,i,biO vilest even Need not slat lit sin and woe: If they conic to God by JCBIIS, 6401101 M wchionio Holt bestow Tone uttermost he saveth, . From thelowest depths of vln, ' Front the deepes_tdegradatlom - ' All that coine to God IT blm, Conte, 0 come; and let Hia save you, For this.very end he died, 0 "refuge not - such a Savior . ' * * Thum Is holm In none besble. 4th Sc6blar None beside.., , ..welkh . well the luessago— ..lteavon„Ad'earlh affords no more, - Than this kind Almighty Savior, Who steads knocking at the door.. open, and. He'll gladly enter, Deigning with the; to abide, Moulding theelo tits great pleasure, Aeting ever as illy gable.. sth Scholar. Slight his message, and creation Can no saddersight afford, • Poor frail'inan by sin pairatelL. Scorning bis t iorglv lug Lord. Slighting love all love transcending Slighting offered mercy's voice, Ilastbig to the world of spirits To abide-the lasting choice. MI Save; 0 save us, dear Redeemer, ' • From sueh dire, such dreadful end We.lvotti Rave no other Saviour, • All ourauipnion thee depend. • All our Vileness, sin and . Thy alt-searching eye (loth view, To the uttermost, v.r save us,. - t) create Our hearts anew. • .1„1110 cliist I Oire --- ,"—Gospe Hymns No, 1. , Page :36: • SureutxrE:iptsT---:lfe is iniglity, :&h Class, hi Concert. " Who is . this that cometh from Edom with clycil:garnients from 13ozrali? This that is glorions'in his apparel, marveling in the greatness of his strength. I that' speak in righteousness, mighty to &lie." , —lsia lxiii. 1. St:PERINTENDENT: , —" H! is risen." 9th Class—Two scholarg st Scholar "lie is. not here but is risen ; remernhert how. he spake unto you when he was yet at Galileo . :7 7 —Luke xxiv. 6: :hid. Scholz r Words of Mightier Import nelte'r Sounded on the ll:stetting ear. . eis risen, and forver ' • . - .. .. lee the shado7s of de , palr.. . Woun ed; mocked. theloved had laid him, . In.th tomb whero'none had.slept, Evil ham shad fondly slain hitn, Faithful earls lialrivelted and wept. Day and nigh tl Filled the hea\ Rut, the [bird days', Saw the'opeping o Earth break forth In jr ful singing, I\ \ libfyour Waves rejalee. ft . sea, Birds through trackless ttAkv .. winging, . swell the-anthem glad asiti\f