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ma table...and al/ things tom prib•
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VOLUME 31
LOVE UNEXPRESSED
The sweetest notes among the human heart
strings
Arc dull with rust;
The sweetest chords adjusted by the angels
Aro clogged with dust;
We pipe and pipe again our dreary music
Upon the sell-same strains,
While sounds of crime and fear and desolation
Come back in sad refrains.
E=ll
On through the world we go, an army march
With listening cars,
Each longing, sighing-for the heavenly music
Ho never hears ;
Each longing, sighing for a word of comlort—
A word of tender praise—
A word of love to cheer the endless journey
Of earth's hard, busy days.
They love us, and we know it ; this suffices
For reason's share;
Why should they pause? But still our hearts
are aching
With the gnawing pain
Of hungry love that longs to hear the music,
And longs and longs in vain.
We love them, and they know it; if we falter,
With fingers numb,
Among the unused strings of love's expression,
The notes are dumb.
We shrink within ourselves in voiceless sorrow
Leaving the words unsaid,
And,side by side with those we love the dearest
In silence on we tread.
Thus on we tread, and thus each heart in si
lence
Its fate fulfills—
Waiting and hoping for the heavenly music
Beyond the distant hills.
The only difference of the love in heaven
Fenn love unearth below
Is; lime we lovii and know not how to tell It,
And there we shall know.
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Within the mountain lodges we sat
At night, and watched the slanted snow
Blown headlong over hill and moor,
And heard, from dell and tarn below,
The loosened torrents thundering slow.
It. B. LITTLE,
GMO. P. LITTLE,
E. 1-, M.A.K.EaLES
'Twas such a night as drowns the stars,
And blots the moon from out the sky ;
We could not see our favorite larch,
Yet heard it rave incessantly,
As the white whirlwind drifted by.
Sad thoughts were near; we might not bar
Their stern intrusion from the door ;
Till you rose meekly, lamp in band,
And, trom an inner chamber, bore
A book renowned by sea and shore.
And, as you flung it open, lo!
Between the pictured leaflet lay—
Embalmed by proce , ...a of Time—
A gift of mine, a fuchsia spray,
I gathered one glad holiday.
Then, suddenly the chamber changed;
And we forgot the snow and wind?
Once more we paced a garden path,
With even test and even mind--
That red spray in your hair confined
The cistus trembled by the porch,
The shadow round the dial moved ;
I knew this, though I marked them not,
For I had spoken. unreprovcd,
And, dreamlike, knew that I was loved.
Sweet wife! when falls a darker night,
May some pure flowers of memory,
Hid in the volume of the soul,
Bring back, o'er life's tormented sea,
As dear a peace to you and me.
A STRANGE WOMAN.
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BY THE AUTHOR OF GRANDMOTHER
31EREDITEL"
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She was always a strange woman So
said the gossips of Lucy Dan tforth.—
Ten years had passed since George Dant
forth had minted sweet Lucy Masou,and
had made the promise, often made and
often broken, `•to love and cherish her
until death do us part." It had been a
pretty scene, that village wedding—the
little church decked with green for the
Christmas ftsiival, the proud bridegroom
and happy bride, merry bells chiming,
and all breathing of peace and love. Ten
years, and December had come again.—
Old Mother Earth was wrapped in her
wedding sheet ; but the Frost King, not
a whit grieved, bad been latish with its
diamonds, bedecking palace and hovel
alike.
It was Chrismas Eve ; a cold, glisten
ing sort 9f night ; the snow lying deep
on the sidewalks, and the erauneh,
crannch of many hundred feet sounded
pleasantly in the library of Mr. Dant
forth's pleasant home. Within, a cosy,
home-like scene enough. The grate,heaped
up with a livid heap,-diffused a pleasant
heat throughout the ioom ; the drop
light on the table cosily drawn near the
fire ; while beside it the master of the
house luxuriated in an easy chait with a
half smoked cigar. Mrs. Danttorth sat
opposite, pale and tired. The two seem
ed to have little to say to each other ; he
had contented himself with the evening
paper, while she sat gazing dreamily into
the fire. Sad and weary her face looked.
Were there wierd figures in the coals that
suggested mad thoughts to her bruin ?
"Tell me, George," she asked, raising
her eyes to her husband's face, "could
you have foreseen all my ill health,would
you have married me ?" There was a
pleading . wistfulluess in the tone.
"Certainly not. Why,.,what a ques
tion ! You don't suppogi a man would
deliberately pat hiiirlitatil in a noose and
take a wife to nurse all his days ?"
"He would not ?"
Perhaps the cold, keen sound of the
short reply roused him,for Mr. Dan tforth
looked up from his paper to see his wife
sitting cold, pale and still looking ; a
sort of, stillness that comes to one wo
has received a sudden shook. 'He looked
at her a moment, then raper pettishly
said
"What is the matter now ?"
"Nothing,"
"Nothing ? What do you look so for ?"
"Do I look strangely ? lam tired, and
going to bed."
POETRY.
TIIE FOCIISIA
STORY TELLER
MONTROSE, PA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1874.
"Now you are angry. That is always
the way. You ask a question you have
no business to ask ; then, because I tell
you tht truth, you must get angry !" and
Mr. Dantforth assumed a very aggrieved
look.
"[ am nut angry. George,"
"What's the matter, then r
"Oh, I'm tired
It was almost a cry, but did not dis
turb Mr. Dantforth, who had moodily
returned to his paper. his wile stood a
moment looking at him—a hungry, wea
ry look in her eyes.
"Good night, George I"
"Good night 1 I'll ho up presently to
fix the children's stockings."
Fven then he might have partly heal
ed the wounds caused by his harsh words,
but he only settled himself more com
fortably in his chair, and was soon ab
sorbed in his paper.
Whatever may he said of the strength
of the se-., where a woman lot es, and is
wounded, she is weak and helpless us a
babe. To her, love is lilt., tat man, an
episode in his life. Mrs. Dantforth was
deeply wounded, but site made no sign.
Yet the weight upon her heart seemed un
bearable, and a great lump in her throat
choking her as she forced herself to bid
lux husband good night. She went quick
ly enoughk3, her nursery, looked at each
little sleeper, smoothed a pillow here.
tucked in a coverlet there, too miserable
even to kiss her babes. Nora, the warm
hearted Irish nurse, stood watching tier.
"Sure, Mrs. Dantforth, a;'re not feel
ing well at all. The day's been too much
for ye, I'm afraid." Poor Mrs, Dantforth
could not bear i3yllll4OlY, so hurried to
her room. "Purr dear ! pair lady ! I'm
sure there is something out !" muttered
Nora behmd the close! door.
In Mrs. Dantforth's room were gaping
stockings hung around the fireplace.—
Filling them was Mr. Dan tfontr's special
pleasure. A. few pretty gifts were ranged
on the mantle piece, and then Mrs. Dant
forth lay down, not to rest, but ti have
those harsh words wearily rang their
changes in her heart ; to ilave circum
stance after circumstance array itself in
confirmation of the truth, the words forc
ed upon her ; that her husbanJ,al, indeed
he ever loved her, was tired vt! her. Fool.
ishly she had asked, and .unwlttingly lie
had answered, and now she was reaping
the fruits. Wearily site thought over the
ten years suddenly grown so long; weari
ly saw her life barren of the love that
had made it beautiful.
SleeP does not cute readily to burden
ed souls ; but she feigned it well enough
when her husband, having read and di
gested his paper and cigar, came up with
boxes and bundles. What a pleasant
work it was. filling each little stocking
till its mouth gaped and ran over with
good things!
"How Cltristmassy it all looks!" said
lie, as, with beam lug face, he surveyed his
work. "Lucy ! Pity she is nut awake,
to see how nicety I've done it !" he said,
as his wife made do sign of hearing him.
"One o'clock ! bless me ! he exclaimed, as
a neighboring clock chimed forth the
hour. The streets were getting silent,
an d h e b e took himself to bed in a delight
ful stat?. of complacency.
"Christmas gift! merry elms:nts.
mamma! Christmas' gift papa!" shout
ed merry voices, as bright little faces
peeped over the bedside. ":Santa's been
down'. orraill for Santa!" and the whole
troop scampered off to the fireplace.
Only a little while before had Mrs.
Dantforth, from sheer exhaustion, fell
asleep. Wakened by the chilibien's shouts
she tried to enter into their joys; but s h e
could not force herself to give her hus
band a merry Christmas greeting.
The little people were in high glee over
tin it toys. hut breakfast was a dull meal.
So pale and quiet was the mother,that, as
breakfast was over, her eldest sue, Char
ley, twined his arms around his mother's
neck, asking, 'Mamma, are you sick ?'
'No, darling, not sick:
'What's the matter, then ? You look
so queer, don't she papa
The mother buryed her face in the
boy's brown curls,as she whispered, 'Nev
er mind, now ; you will only worry papa.'
For a moment the child y looked in his
motherle. face ; then, as sonic children do,
growing suddenly wise beyond his years,
kissed hia mother, whispering, love
you mamma!'
'God bless you, my darling r said the
mother,as she doubly returned the child's
caresses,
Mr. Dantforth hail been apparently in
the depths of his cuiTvii, but finishiag it,
he presently jump-d up with a Christ
mas.like bustle.
'Have you a headche, Lucy 1”
'No, my bead does not ache.'
'Are you going to Berince ?'
'No, I don't feel equal to it.'
'Very well • have the children . ready.
and I'll take themi out in the sleigh t see
the sights.'
'And mamma ton!, lisped little Beth'.
•Mamma sin't well, and it is too cold
for her,' said Mr. Danttoi th ;
and, with
out waiting for more pulley, he was gone.
'lie might have left the refusal to me,'
thought Lucy. 'He is always so ready to
find an excuse for my not going out.'
She had only a wish to he alone, so
hurried the preparations for the children's
ride.
'Come on, children. Papa will be back
in a few minutes ; see, John is at the
door with the sleigh now. Let nurse
wrap you up, Bella, and Henry, too.—
Here, Charley, mamma will help you to
put on your coat.'
As the mother buttoned up the little
coat, Charley said
'Mamma, why don't you go too ? Don't
papa want you ?'
'Hush, Charley! Go, and have a nice
time, and come home hungry for dinner.
There is papa now.'
What a merry crowd they were, all
tucked duly in the sleigh ! At the last
moment, the servant threw au elegant
robe over them all, and handed Mr. Dant
north a handsome pair of driving gloves.
"A bappf Christmas from Mrs. Dant
t qui," he said, formall.
"Ah, John ! from Mrs. Dantfurth, did
yon say ?'
Slipping his bands into his glove, ho
gayly bowed and smiled, kissed his gloved
hand to his wife, who was still standing
in the doorway. A sad smile answered
Devoted to the Interests of our Town and Oonnty.
him as Mrs. Dantforth bowed and closed
the door. how much pleasure she had
anticipated in the surprise the gift should
give her husband and now how utterly
empty it all was, and how more than
weary she felt.
Him long she had Out brooding over
her sorrows she cared not, when the p, t.
ter of little feet, and the sound of bells
as the sleigh rolled off, told her that her
little people had returned front 'seeing
the sights.'
•NfAsnat, mamma, please let us in
it's so cold
She opened the door, and lei; in the
I ttl e red - no& d troop.
'0 mamma, what a nice time we had !
we've got more candy and things
and, oh, such fun as we had ! And Miss
Sarah laughed, mid said such funny
things, and papa laughed, and, oh, we
had such a good time'—
'Miss Sarah who, Charley ?'
'Mali Thumb IfoyM, and papa's gone
home with her now,' lisped little B , •lla.
'No, mamma ; we just met 'Miss Sa
rah in one of the stores, getting thinge
for the tree to night, and papa lust ask
ed her to get in, and she dic, and now
he has gone to take her home.' said Char
ley.
'And papa's going to the party. Mith
Thom listed him' broke in Della. 'Are
you going too, mamma ?'
•\o, and papa won't either, I guess ;
it's only for young folks, mamma. There
comes papa tow.'
Mr. Dantforth came in, bringing a
blast of cold air '•with him.
'Phut rug was splendid, Lucy, and so
are the gloves, and just what I wanted. I
declare, yesterday 1 forgot all about get
ting you anything. Never mind, I'll re
member it next time. Have the children
been telling you what a nice time they
have had ? Met Milli Tharah
ILn•te.
She says Bella there is a beauty, and just
like the Datitfornth. Believe she is, too
—dark eyes, like mine. etc. Your hus
band is quite a tine looking man, is he
not. Mrs. Dautforth ?' he said jestingly.
'Very V
'Whew! how ceremonious ! Here Bella
tell your mamma to cheer up and laugh,
everybody ought to laugh Christmas,' as
lie saw poor Lucy looked more like cry
ing.
"Come Mr. Dan(forth, dinner is wait
ing ; I had it early so the servants might
Christmas was a happy day for all
tip- little ones, for Mr. Dautforth was an
indulgent father.
'What a good day it has been,' said lit
le Bella to her nurse, when being taken
to bed.
After the childern had retired, Mr.
llaiitforth, having made up his mind be
fore, politely said to his wife :
'By the way, Lucy, Miss Hoyt asked
me over there this evening few young
people only. I believe they want me to
play Santa Clans. I won't he gone very
lap•. Have you any objections ?'
Of course Mrs. Dantiorth soukl have
no objections, so her lord left, with
the assurance, 'I won't be late, but if I
am von need not sit up.'
What a lonely Christmas evening it
was for the sad-hearted wife. She made
a feint of reading, but the book soon fell
from her bards, and she lay back weari
ly in her chair. It seemed as it her
strength was giving way. How nervous
and foolish, she thought. I'll go up and
stay with the children. How long the
stairway seemed, and how heavy her
limbs ; every step hurt her. All day she
was getting weaker, and, now the strain
to keep up was over, she felt utterly
weak.
'•You may go, Nora, my good girl, and
I will stay with the children,' Phe said
opening the nursery door.
•Sure, Mrs. Dantforth, I don't like to
have ye ! Its not yourself that's looking
well at all;
'I don't feel well, Nora, but Mr. Dant
forth promised to come in sally. You
must go and enjoy your Christmas.'
Lucy sat a long while with her little
ones. She grew chill and cold. Alin I
getting morbid ? I feel as if this were
my last Christmas. Poor dari:ng , , who
care for you next Christians ?' ariil
she took little Barry from his crape and
hugged him close in her arms, but the
child seemed to penetrate her very Totals.
To and fro she rocked for hours.
Mr. Dantforth had been the centre of
a gay group all the evening, and had long
since forgotten his promise of early go
ing home. Did a fragment of conversa
tion between Mrs. Hoyt and a lady guest
reach him.
'ls Mr. Dantforth a married man ?'
questioned a lady of Mrs. Hoyt.
'Yes, poor man ! but his wife is such a
strange sort of woman.'
'AI; What is the matter with her ?'
'Really, I don't think any one knows;
but she is always low spirited or sick,and
never goes out, and people do say she
can't bear to have her husband go into
company either, he is such a brilliant
man, too.'
'Poor thing
Mrs. Hoyt raised her eyes In well-bred
surprise.
say poor thing, because I have no
ticed that these popular married men
generally have strange wives in the eves
of other women. Doubtless she is sick
and luiraly, and the smiles and wit her
husband waste in society, would be much
netter expended at home. I was an in
valid for years, and I think if I had had
Mr. Dantforth for a husband,l might
have been a strange woman too.'
Here Mr. Dantforth approached. 'I
regret, Mrs. Hoyt,i mnst make my adieus
My wife is qu.te unwell, and I promised
to return early.'
Mrs. Hoyt, as she expressed regret at
his early departure,
raised her eves with
a glance at her friend, which meant,
•Didn't I tell you so ? Poor man I'
Does the approach of death always chill
the atmosphere? What was it that struck
a chill to Mr. Dantforth's heart as be en.
tered his home ? The stillness was op
pressive ; lie hurried from one lighted
room to another, calling, 'Lucy, Lucy !'
but all was still.
'She must be in the nursery. Wonder
it the children are sick ? he said, uneasi
ly. He opened the' door exclaiming,
'Lucy, who is'—Mr, Dantfurth hurried
forward to raise the prostrate form of las
wife and to lift the still sleeping term of
little Harry from the folds of her dress.
It was hut the work of a moment to call
assistance, and then Mr. Dantforth bent
over his wife, culling her by every endear
ing name. Love is potent, and ere long
her eyes opened with a half =miens
look. us she whispered:
'Oh. lather' he does not love me I Take
me home ; I am lonely ! You love me,
fin her, don't you ? It was the beginning
of the agony, and the end came by the
New Year.'
Doctor Bendy, Jars. Dantforth's pas
tor, had been with her constantly before
she died, and great pity welled up in his
heart for the broken-hearted wife ; but
he was a Cannons man, and only replied
to 31es. Bentl-y's questions by 'Yes, it is
sad ! but she is only beginning the year
in heaven.'
'And her husband, how does be take
it ?'
He is piet—resigned, I think.'
'Resigned ! Yes, I suppose he is, and
will be rying, Sarah Hoyt before th.•
second year is out. Bah ! it makes me
angry :'
There dear don't he vehement.'
'But it make. me angry. You remem
ber Mr. Rogers whom we saw last sum•
mer ? lle asked about Mrs. Dantforth,
and spoke of her some time ; finally 1
arid, 'People say Mrs. Dantforth is a
strange sort of woman.' 'A strange sort
of woman ! Impossible I' he exclaimed.
'Why. she was brightness itself.' After
lie had walked away I heard him say;
'Lucy strange ! Impossible I Poor Lucy,
she has not been happy.' I warrant he
was an old lover ; pity she had not taken
him.'
'There, there, dear, all is over now..L-
Can't you go over to Mr. Duntforth's ?
the children use very forlorn, especially
Ctntrley, who is almost broken-hearted.
The, take her home to-night.
Home! Yes, the evening train to B—
took Mr. Dantforth. who was bearing
Lucy to her childhood's home, where they
had never known her as a strange sort of
woman.
MISCELLANEOUS READING. -
.40.ILEBODY'S SERVANT GIRL
She stood there leaning wearily
Against the Window frame,
Her face was patient, sad and sweet,
Her gqments coarse and plain ;
"Who is she, pray ?" I asked a friend,
The red lips gave a curl,—
'Really' I do not know her name ;
She's somebody's servant girl."
Again I saw her on the street
With burden trudge along,
Her lace was sweet and patient still,
Amid the jostling throng ;
Slowly and cheerfully she moved,
Guarding with watchful.care
A market basket much too large
For her slight hands to bear.
A man, I thought a gentleman,
Went pushing rudely by,
Sweeping the basket from her hands,
But turning not an eye,
For there was no necessity,
Amid that busy whirl,
For him to be a gentleman—
To "some one's servant girl."
Alt, well it is that God above
Looks in upon the heart,
And never judg e s any ohe
By just.the'tiuter part ;
For it tlti soul be pure and good,
Ile will not mind the root,
Nor qution what the garments were
In which the form wal dressed.
And nrtny a man and woman fair,
By fortune reared and fed,
Who will not mingle here below
With those who earn their bread,
When they have passed away from life.
Beyond the gates of pearl,
Will meet before their Father's throne
With many a servant girl.
TIIA YESGIVING SERMON.
[The following discourse was preached at SI.
Paul's Church, Moran,Re, by Rev. George R.
Kul:Juno, the rector, on Thursday, Nov. 20th,
The Law of National Preservation.
Dent. 8, 18. "Thou shalt remember the Lord
thy God."
History is a revelation of Divineprov•
Israelhish history, and indeed
all history, proclaims the supremacy of
God. —a truth which nations, like indi
viduals, are prone to forget, making nec
essary the crash and ruin of political sys
tems fur the purpose of manifesting na
tional dependence upon God.
For political prosperity and glory man's
sagacious statesmanship receives all the
credit. The boast of the nation is "Hy
power, the miyht of my hand has gotten
me this wealth." "Is nob this great Ba
bylon which I have unilt ?"
Greatness, without God, is ephemeral.
It is impossible to rule God out of our,
national affairs. Written upon the re
cords of the past is the mysterious hand
writing of the Almighty. Man is only
the instrument which effects; oftentimes
in the most blundering manner, the Di
vine decrees. God's purposes make pro
gress in spite of human opposition. Na-
Lions serve their turn to accomplish His
will. putteth down one and setteth
up another. He mirth supreme. "be the
people never so unquiet. He is the God
of all the kingdoms of the earth,—the
blessed and only Potentate, the Sing of
kings, and Lord of lords."
It was the great truth of God's govern
ment that Moses labored earnestly to im
press upon the wayward Israelites. Now
while encamped iu sight of their promis
ed land, after nearly a half-century of
wandering—a panoramic view of fair
Canton's fruitful fields stretched out be
fore them—Ali§ "man of God" gathers
'them together to review the providential
and Ili:dative dealings of God.
He boldly reminds them of their rebel
lions, ritid.of the just judgments which be
fell them in consequence. He reiterates
the condition upon which their posses
sion of Canaan has been promised—fidel
ity to their covenant relations with God,
"Thou shalt remember the Lord thy
God." This was the condition of their
national life uud prosperity. To forget
it would be to forfeit this inheritance.—
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"And it shall be if thou do at all forget
the Lord thy God and walk after other
gods, and serve them and worship thern.
I testify again it you this day that ye shall
sorely perish."
This warning, so , opportunely and
faithfully given was unheeded. In pos
session of their promisiql laud, Israel be
came ungrateful, and, except in nominal
manner, failed to remember tno -Lord,
who,by hts outstretched arm,had deliver.
ed them from Egyptian servitude. They
became, and have since continued,the
vtc
tims'ofa false security. Neither the Taber
nacle at Shiloh,nor the Temple on Zion's
Mount furnished a Palladium in their
sins. The trump of invading armies re
sounded at different times, in the sacred
precincts. Successively the forces of Phi
listia, of Assyria, of Chaldea of the
proud Boman Empire were marshalled
by God for the destruction of faithless
Judea. To-day "the dispersed of
are in every land—a scorn or bye-word
throughout Christendom: Their land is
in possession of the false prophet. Their
grand temple, famous wherever the Bible
has gone, leas not one stone standing up
on another. Their ancient capital "bean-,
tiful for situation" is completely stripped
of all its former glory and beauty. Pro
phecy ,has been literally fulfilled. The
Jews are now "without a King and with
out a prince, and without o sacrifice, and
without an image, (or monument) and
without an ephod" just as Hosea predict
ed. They are scattered among all nations
—"ensamples" of the tremendous evils
in store for the people who forget the
Lord their God.
Think not that Israel's ingratitude and
forgetfulness of God were peculiar to
them. These wera their characteristics
not as Jews but as men. Their conduct
was thoroughly human. Hence, their
punishment, in the lung ages since, may
serve to warn us.
On this national Festival where by
command of our rulers, as well as by the
appointment of our Church, we throw
open our places of worship to return
thanks to the great Giver of all good
things, for national peace and plenty and
prosperity,it becomes us to inquire wheth
er this acknowledgement of Divine Prov
idence is real or only heartlssly formal.
Are we, us a nation, sensible of our de
pendence upon God ? Do we see and
adore His shaping Hand in our national
History? Is our act in coming into these
Courts of the Lord's House this morn•
ing to celebrate His Sovereignty, sincere,
or is it simply compliance with a nation
al custom.
Sincere Thanksgiving requires a review
of the causes fnr gratitude, it is remem
brance of mercy and blessings. It also
requires the introspection.—au examina
tion of the recipient's heart,—how what
is given is received and employed.
1. For what have we, as a nation, to
be thankful?
1. For a goodly heritage. What Cana
an was to Israel, this favored country is
to us; "a go)d land wherein thou shalt eat
without scarceness—a land where stones
are iron and out of whose hills thou
criayest dig brass" It is a good land in its
geographical position, in its marvelous
resources, and in its peculiar privilents.
(1.) Our portion as a nation is secured
by isolation. The other great nations of
the world are in such close proximity to
each other, that they are in constant fear
of war, jealous each of the other, forced
to sustain large standing armies or seek
protective alliances. The United States
stand alone. Their position is almost im
pregnable. On the east the Atlantic
Ocean serves as a bulwark of defence ;
on the west the Pacific furnishes like de
fence; on the south we are in a large
part separated by a great gulf from info.
rior different nationalities, whose present
quarrels prevent their uniting aganiust us;
on the north there is nothing but "bar
ren soil and numerical weakness."
PY Our resources are enormous
roportionate to population our agri
cultural products are greater than those
of any other nation. Out Country not
vet, as a nation, one hundred years old,
has already become the granary of the
world. Our mineral wealth is-intalculit
ble. Our tuanulacturing and mercantile
interests are literally vast and varied.
(3.) Our privileges are peculiarly great.
This is a government of thz people—a
federated Republic. We are free from
the tyrannies of the old World. We- are
not only a free but an educated nation.
Our Public School system enables the
poorest to gain instruction for their child
ren. We may be proud or our record in
literature. We have already an illustri
ous roll of thinkers, whose works have
produced, not only here, but among the
cultivated of other civilized countries.
deep, beneficial and permanent impres
sions and results. The news of the world
is scattered broad cast among us. It has
been asserted that in no country,are there
so many newspapers published ; and,
while some have abused •this craving of
the populace for intelligence, the energy
and enterprise of our press is the admira
tion of the world.
Liberty of conscience and freedom of
speech are here enjoyed as no where else.
rue, they have been greatly abused and
in some minds liberty is a synonym for
license; but these are no mean blessings.
'They stand among the best gifts of God.
To appreciate them, in their real value,
we have but to compare our present con-.
ditiun with our past or even with many
of the nations now ccintemporay with us.
2. Not only have we a goodly heritage
but a history in which the providences
of God, have been clearly manifested.—
God, the Almighty overruled the attempt
made by the Puritan Colonists to repeat
on this side the Atlantic the great error
of Calvin's life. They sought to found a
human Theocracy, if I may make use of
such a contradictory phrase; and their
failure is cause for our gratitude. Differ
as we may in our . estimate of Puritan
character there are few, if any, of their
descendants who would have in force
again their "blue laws," few, if any, who
do not rejoice that religious intolerance
has been long since a-thing of the past in
our national experience.
God, the Almighty, raised up that ho
ble army of revolutionary heroes who re
sisted royal tyranny and - laid • deep' and
strong the foundations of.this -great•Re
publio,—noble men : w . hojeopardize4 02teir
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lives for our freedom; whose example for
the purest patriotism, not a few for gen
uine piety, is sacred in all our hearts.
God, the Almighty, empowered our
armies to drive buck the foreign invader.
God, the Almighty, brought to an
end our late fractricidal struggle and blot
ted from our escutcheon that fool blot of
slavery—so long the disgrace of our nation.
In these prominent events, as in many
of less importance, we may trace the
guiding Hand . of God, gradually fitting
this country for her high position in the
family of nations.
H. Great has been our blessings.—
Let us now seek to discover whether
our gratitude and our devotion to God
has grown with our national growth.
Grunting freely and cheerfully all that
is really great and good in our Institu
tions, we must not blind• our eyes to our
national faults. We must not begome
BO proud Of oar Country as to imagine
that there are no dangers against which
we must vigilantly guard. Our pride
must not become arrogance. Our great
est danger lies in this direction. , " Nebu
chadnezzar's assumption of power and
glory is fast gaining a firm hold of the
national heart.
Already thdre has grown. up in -our
midst a large secular parti,,,who' are the
most Atheistical of politicians. These
scout the idea of an overruling Provi
dence. They would tear ont of our stat
ute books, everything of a religious char
acter. They are determined to shut the
Bible out of our Public schools, to make
"the Lord's Day," a day for pleasure and
dissination. to refuse municipaland state
aid to religious institutions, to do away
with all government chaplaincies; in
short, to banish God from the nation.
There also prevails, alas, too generally,
a hero worship—an exaltation of our
leading men amounting almost to nation.:
al idolatry.
All this has lessened our national sen
sibility of God's sovereignty. The unre
buked utterances of our political leaders
are such as to make us, as a people, for- .
get alltogether the working of Divine
providence. Our politicians act without
any fear of God, consequently political
corruption prevails everywhere through• ,
out the length and breadth of the coun
try.
Our legislators have made themselves
notorious for their unblushing advoca=
lion of "the Almighty Dollur"—asreater
powei in our politics than any principles
of God. One can hardly read a newspa
per without a feeling of shame that such
a large number of our representatives are
now ready to NI their official actions to
the highest bidder. Does not all this ex
hibit to us our national breach .of the
Mosaic command, "Thou shalt remember
the Lord thy God ?"
'What is our Thanksgiving Day worth
if we allow such a state of things to ex
ist? What will be the future of this
country, if we continue to ignore God in
our politics? If we are really grateful
we will arrive manfully to put down our
political corruptions.
Every voter is responsible, not to his
party, but to his God. A voter criminates
himself by casting hie ballot to support
those known by him to be Godless and
corrupt seekers of official plunder. It is
high limo to change our political dogma,
"party not principle" to its reverse "prin
ciple not party," meaning by principle,
high. moral fitness. If we cannot have
rulers with the love of God in 'their
hearts, let ns at least have men restrained
by the fear of the Lord which is "the be-
ginning of wisdom." Whatever our par
ty views are, let us act independently,like
chriatian Freemen—sensible of our res
ponsibility to God. Let men of integrity
of wisdom, and of worth be honored
with our summons to offices of trrist..—
With God's help let us christianize our
politics ; and by remembering the Lord
our God, exult our national character and
position.. "Righteousness exalteth a na
tion but sin is a reproach to any people."
'We are living in a period of political
agitation. In the old world we bear the
mutterings of the angry populace; and
see thrones, of ancient establishment,
tottering by the upheaval of public opin
ion. In our country there is wide-spread
dissatisfaction on account of increasing
political corruption. Cries for reform
are heard on all sides. Shall we, as
christnin men,, fail to respond?. Shall
we not rather hear, in this deman of the
people for righteous rnlere, a Divine ad
monition and .acknowledge that this
voice of the people is the voice of God, ?
"Thou shalt remember the Lord thy God.
Lord have mercy upon us and incline our
hearts to keep this law" of national pre
servation. -Help us to do away with every
political bend which impiously interpo
lates this law to change it from "Thou
shalt" to "Thou shalt not." • •
The theory that the splitting of the
trunks of trees by lightning hi the result
of the sudden evaporation of the liquids
contained within them, has received
much confirmation from experiments
made by Osborn Reynolds; who succeeded
in splitting small sticks of wood by pass. ,
ing the electric spark through them t ufter
they had been- impregnated with water,
Ho also burst small glass tubes, which
were filled with water, although the saute
tribes, when empty, allowed the electric
spark to jump through them without in
the least disturbing them. The most
striking experiment made by - him was
upon a tube three-eighths of au inch ex
terior and one eighth interior, " dianiseter,
which could stand a pressure of at least
200 atmospheres to the square inch ; this
tube was fourteen inches long and. bent
at a right angle. A • very large electric
flash being sent through the tube it was
split by the first discharge - And' the lsieees
thrown to the distance of several feet.--
The inner surface of the tithe was.in fact,
completely pulverized, - as though it had
been struck by is hammer. Reynolds es
timates that the pressure must have been
more than 1,000 atmospheres.
The largest vineyard in the Southern
States is near Fayetteville, N. 0. It
contains 100 acres on which there are
7,000 vines. These vines are chiefly the
scuppernong, but also include the flowers
catawba and other varieties. It is sup
posed that the yield from these vines this
year, will be fully 40,000 gallons of wine.
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