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II ! IVRY SHOULD TSB SPIRIT OF MORTAL BB PROUD ?
[The following verses written by a Scotch
Clergynian, William Knox; who died in
1825, aged 56, have often been quoted and
widely treasured. They were tin especial
favorite with the late President Lincoln,
who used to recite them to .his intimate
friends.]
Oh! why should the spirtt ofmortal be proud?
Like a swift meteor, or ,a fast flying cloud,
A flash of lightning, a break,of the wave,
Ho passeth from life to his rest in. he grave
The leaves of the oak and willow shallfade ,
Bo scattered around and together be ;
And the young and ,the old, and the low
and the high,
Shall moulder to dust, together shall lie.
• The infant and another, attended and loved;
• The mother that infant's *affection who
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proved ;
The husband, that mother and infant who
blessed,
test.
• The hand of the lking the sceptre ,bath
--- b - o - rne ; ,
The brow of the priest that the:mitre.hath
The eye of the sage and thelleart of the
brave.
Are hidden and:lost in the depths ef- the
grave.
The peasant, 11
reap ;
The Marini - lan who cli
up the steep ;
The beggar, who wandered in search ()ibis
Have faded away like •
the grass,we
So the multitude goes,
_like the flowers or
the weed,
That withers away to let others succeed ; ;
So the multitude comes, even those .we
To repeat every tale that has , often !been
:told.
For we are the same our fathers have been;
We see the same sights our father have
seen;
We drink the same stream, and view the
same sun,
And run the o.me course• otti fathers ,hove
The thoughts•we are thinking • our fathers
would think
From the death we are shrinking our fa-
FM& ther;s•would shrink;
To the life we are clinging they also would
cling;
But it speeds from i us all, like, a bird.oa the
wing.
They loved, but the story we cannot un
fold;
They scorned, but:the heart of the haughty
is cold ;
They grieved, but,no wail from their slurn
her will come;
They joyed; but the tongue of their glad
ness is • dumb ;
They die, aye! they died; we things that
are now,
That walk on the turf that lies over their
brow,
And make in the Swellings a transient a
bode,
Meet the things that they met on their pil
grimage road.
Yes! hope and despondency, pleasure and
pain,
We mingle together in sunshine and rain ;
And the smile and the tear, and the song
and the dirge,
Still follow each :other, like surge upon
- 'Tis the wink of an eye; 'tis the drauglt of
a breath,
From the blossom of health to the paleness
of death,
From the gilded saloon to the bier and the
shroud;
.Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be
proud.
gtl isrtilautous grading.
ANININERISARiY SERMDN,
PREACHED IN TRINITY REFORMED CHURCH,
SUNDAY EVENING, JULY 7TH
BY REV. EL H. W. BIB3HHAN.
"I am not ashamed of thogospel of Christ:
for it is the power of God unto salvation to er
cry one that betieveth." BOlri. 1: 16.
Three years of ministerial labor in your
midst have !gone, and this evening we
stand, as it were, upon the threshold of
the fourth. And as we retrospect the
past three years it is with no little degree
.of confidence to declare that thegospel was
preached to you without adulteration.—
Not a single doctrinal statement has been
made we would not make again. If we
have regrets in regard to any doctrinal
statement it is, that we did t►ot declare
the same with greater deliberation, great
er earnestness and greater emphasis,
Ths gospel preached you is as old ns
the history of the fall of Adam and Eve,
It is the (same which God, out of love,
first published in Eden. The truths pre
sented for your acceptance are as titer-
nal as God himself. Only as God could
Jesus say : "I am the truth."
At no time had we misgivings that the
gospel we preached was, perhaps, after all
not the gospel, and the doctrinal state
ments made, perhaps, after all not cor
rect. No ; not for a moment did we
ever doubt. To doubt would be sinful.
' During the three years of labor among
you we have not been in search of the
truth. They were not years, during
which we were tossed to and fro hoping
to find a resting-place for our souls.—
We have the truth. Our foundation is
laid, and as this foundation is a solid, e
ternal Rock so we have remained unsha
ken, unwavering in our heart-felt convic
tions and in our theological position. It
is the foundation of the Apostles and the
Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the
chief corner 'stone. Why should we be
shaken? There is no reason. "For oth
er foundation can no man lay than that
is laid, which is JESUS CHRIST." As we
enter upon the fourth year, as pastor and
people, I am more !determined than ever
to preach to you the good, old Gospel: to
publish to a dying and perishing world
salvation by Jesus Christ. Yes, as much
as in me is, "I am ready to preach the
.gospel ; for it is the power of God unto
salvation to every one that believeth."—
And prominent will I make the doctrine
of justification by faith. If the bold and
emphatic declaration of "the great cardin
al doctrine of justification by faith alone,
th ro u - gh - thel MI% tatibir - Of
faction, righteousness and holiness, in op
position to the idea of all merit on the
part-of the believer himself," is an hereti
cal sentiment then I wish to die with it
on my lips, if it so please God. For, ,if
we cannot stand by that, then that which
we have received as the word of God is a
most wonderful myth, and the hope of
the civilized world "a doting dream."—
But the word of God is no myth, and
-the-hope-of-the-christianized-race - no dot
ing dream.
The sinner_ destitute of the glorious ar-
o sow an
th hi~g a 1&
ray o rig u eousness an o mess, e orm-.
ed in every part of his constitution, sub
'ect to a world of miser a creature of
ignorance, of vanity, of poverty and cor
ruption, isatgain through the sovereign
grace and mercy ,of God received into
Divine favor, by nnion,with Christ through
faith. "God so loved the world that He
gave His only begotten Son, that whoso
ever believeth in hiin should not perish
but have everlasting life, Jo. 3 : 16. Who
would be ashamed of this gospel?
I. We remark, in the first place, we
are not ashamed of this gospel because,
It is not of human origin. Man could
not originate such a scheme as the Gos
pel for the benefit of a sinful, guilty race.
Such .excellencies as are found in the
Gospel could only emanate from the bo
som of the Eternal Wisdom—the Mighty
God, the Everlasting King. The way
proposed by the, Gospel to save sinful
man never could have entered into the
mind of man. The very idea was foolish
ness to the intellectual Greek, and most
offensive to the proud and haughty Jew
many years ago, even as it is foolishness
and -a stumbling block to many in the
19th century.
It is true, the mind of man is natural
ly endued with some knowledge of a Su
preme Being who is to be feared, whose
justice is to be satisfied for offence given
to His most high majesty, and whose
wrath is to be appeased in order to regain
his favor. It is true, man always had a
sense of religion ; he always had ambi
tion to invent and to contrive ways and
schemes to obtain true religious comfort
—happiness. But man always failed.—
There never was a race that did not set
up shrines to worship a god. The most
benighted, most groveling and most de
graded of the race never thought of be
ing without a god.and some mode of wor
ship. But no man, no family, no school
of men, no nation in any age of the world
has invented anything for the world by
which to elevate man into his original
state of felicity lost through sin. No
scheme of religion was ever devised by
which the soul could again -be transform
ed into the image or likeness of God.—
Men dreamed of immortality, but had
nothing definite and positive to give on
the subject. The effort or endeavor on
the part.of man to worship God, to be
benefited and enjoy true happiness, both
for time and eternity has ever been the
figment of sin-bewildered brains. Paul
speaking of such says",: "Professing them
selves to be wise,
,they became fools"
"vain in their imaginations."
The gospel is not of man. No man
men lay claim to it as their invention.—
It is not of human origin. It is Divne
God is the author of it. The Infiir
Mind proposed and presented it to ti
world lying in ruins and sunk into de,
radation.
To be ashamed of the Gospel is to
ashamed of Christ, of His lowly birth,
His poverty, of His ordinances. of
followers who adhere to Him by- fail
worshiping the Father in spirit and
truth. Just as people become ashann
of the Gospel they become conceited, -
sumptous, proud, puffed up, without
ural affection, truce breakers, false au
sers, despisers of those that are good,
tors, heady, high minded, lovers of ph.
ure more than lovers of God, having
form of godliness, but denying the pom
thereof.
`Jesus! and shall it over be,
A mortal man ashamed of thee?
Ashamed of Thee, whom angels praise
'Whose glory shines through endless days:
"Ashamed of Jesus ! Just as soon
Let midnight he ashamed of noon :
'Tis midnight with my soul till he,
Bright Morning Star ! bid darkness flee."
"Ashamed of Jesus! that dear friend,
On whom my hopes of heav'n depend,
No ; when I blush—be this my shame
That I.no more revere his name."
11. We arc not ashamed, in the see
• W - •. t • • VO TO 4 1 #1 1 ; VI; #C: >#o l ;
and place because, It is of suck wonderful
import for the race. Nothing is of great
er significance. •Of so ,much moment
was it regarded among the celestial host
that when the eternal and only begotten
Son of God appeared, as a poor child in
the flesh, in the obscure town Bethlehem-
Ephratah, a corps of them left the region
of glory to sing the sublimest chorus ever
heard in the earth : "Glory to God in the
highest, and on earth peace, good-will to
wards men,"
. Lu. 2 : 14.
The manger-cradle became the great
centre around which both human and
heavenly beings revolved, acknowledging
the heaven-born fact, salvation by and
through the Seed of the woman,
by the
profoundest acts of worship of which ra
tional beings are capable. It was regard
ed of great importin the very. beginmg
Elizabeth, Mary and Zacheriahs, through
an irresistable inspiration sang psalms of
joy and gladness. The shepherds on the
plains of Bethlehem by direction from
the shinino• b courts of heaven, and the
wise men from the East, through the
bright, heaven-appointed, guiding star
were led to the shrine of the infant King
and Savior to adore and worship
What an acknowledgment of the import
of the Gospel ! What is the incarnation of
the Son of God-? It is the gospel unwrit
ten. The great mystery of salvation not
yet unfolded and fully accomplished.
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Moses - was fOr are to . r
the Germans. Calvin for the French. La
timer for the English. Zwinglius for the
Swiss,-Knox-for-the Seots.—Washington
for the Americans. Yes, these are great
historic men. Men of blessed memory, for
their nations. But the Gospel, the on
of God in the flesh, doing and suffering
for the human family is of universal im
port. He is not Jesus the Christ for one
race, or nation, or age, but for the whole
of-mankind. The great Luminary, in
the midst of a world of sin and darkness
toward which the eye of faith was:turned
by lie people cif - God, prospectively, for
4000 years, and toward which the eye of
faith by the people - of God has '
ed, retrospectively, for more than 1800
years. The Lord Jesus is . the link to
bind man back to his God and Maker.—
This is the import of.the Gospel.
111. We are nut ashamed, in the
third place, of.the Gospel because, In it
is revealed that which, it is necessary to
know to live and to die happy. For us
the Gospel-record is not a dead letter. It
is an instrument of writing differing from
every other. That which God, as the E
ternal Spirit declared in Eden to our
first parents—that which He published
by Patriarchs and Prophets,-that which
He was pleased to represent by rites
and ceremonies and finally fully accom
plished by His only begotten Son in the
flesh, He carefully and correctly record
ed for our benefit. Men wrote as they
were directed by the Holy Ghost. The
Apostles had the mind of Clrist. "The
spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep
things of God.
Now we have received, not the spirit
of the world, but the spirit which is of
God ; that we might know the things
that are freely given to us of God.—
Which things also we speak, not in the
words which man's wisdom teacheth, but
which the Holy Ghost teacheth," I. Cor.
2: 10-13. "All Scripture is given by
inspiration of God, and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for
instruction in righteousness," II Tim. 3 :
16. The words are spirit and life. The
Gospel is the great theological text-book
for us all, intended to be such especially
for the Church. For all who can read
or spell. It is God's directory. Such by
the most emphatic command: "Search
the Scriptures," "Prove all things ; hold
fast to that which is good." It is not a
sealed volume, because sacred. Not
committed solely to the clergy, but to the
whole Church. Yes, by, it God our
Mighty Savior still' preaches to a perish
ing world : incites men to come to Him
as a loving Father; dedlares directly to
every one who will peruse its sacred pag
es what He requires of men, what they
shall believe and what they shall do.—
We are not ashamed of the Gospel as a
written record, but glory iu it, because
it is "as free as• the light of the sun, or
the vital air, to all mankind."
The same doctrine which the Son of
God revealed to Adam and Eve in Para
dise
the traditions of men and the uninspired
pages of history alongside ofit ! We accept
no traditions, no commandments of men,
no 'decisions of councils, composed of fel
lable men as of equal authority with the
scriptures, as the rule of, our faith and
practice. Whatever comes in conflict
with the teachings of the word of God we
ignore.
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- But is not the combined wisdom .of a
synod or council superior to the mere win
dow of a single individual.. Yes ; this we
accede readily. But the combined wis
dom of a synod or council is not equal by
any means to the wisdom of God, and no
declaration of the most learned Synod or
Council can make plainer how the sinner
is saved, and saved only, than God made
it plain.in the Gospel. He tells us that
"the way of salvation" is "through faith
in Jesus Christ." And if for this decla
ration a man were cast into dungeon to
rot, or burned at the stake, it would still
remain the same unalterable truth. Just
as the world kept on moving, though Ga'.-
ileo was cast into prison for asserting it,
so - it will remain ferver true that by grace
we are saved through faith—that by faith
only we are united to Christ Jesus as Sa
vior, though the most learned of the earth
would pronounce against it.
IV._ We are not ashamed, in the fourth
place, of the Gospel , because, "it is the pow-
T' of God unto salvation to every one that be-
Tiv — ariliteriTiii:idering of -. lre
would be, it is God's power. Not merely
strength in the Gospel,but an effective pow
which Men sunk into the mire of sin and
death are lifted up ; by which they are
brought from filth and degradation to
stand before God, clothed in the righte
ousness of Christ Jesus. Wonderful pow
er !Ylt opens the eyes of
soul. It illuminates•the darkened under
standing. It quickens the soul into new
ife. It turns the stony heart into a heart
of flesh. It transforms the vile, prnfligatf
foul-hearted sinner into an humlAe, pray-:
ing and praising child of God. It is a
o ver _ eater than sin eater than death
greater than hell. It brings hundreds,
tens of thousands from the kingtlom of
darkness into the kingdom of light. It
begets hope of eternal' life in the soul. 'it
makes God's service a pleasure. It bears
us up under the most trying circumstan
ceS, as adopted children of God. Yes, it
is God's power. Not however in the sense
of inexorable impulse, depriving men of
their freedom, but still God's power to
every one of the race. Notice the condi
tion. It is God's power to every one that
believeth. Faith, oh note it 1 faith is "the
apprehending and appropriating organ."
Paul says not : to every one who is eh
cumsised, or baptized, or obeys the law,
but, to every one that.believeth."
We are not ashamed of this Gospel.—
No, it is God's power— the seed of life.—
There is nothing like it iu all the world.
"It is quick and powerful, and sharper
than any two-edged sword, piercinn , even
to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit,
and of the joints and marrow, and is a
discerner of the thoughts and intents of
the heart," Heb. 4: 12. This Gospel we
will continue to preach. Nothing else.- , -
It is God's power. nave is no power in
any other kind of preaching. Men may
preach to you moral excellences, or the
punctual discharge of relative duties, or
the diligent use of ordinances, or philoso
phical dogmas of theology, but that is not
preaching the Gospel, not one of them, or
all combined constitute the christian foun
dation, hence there is no power in the
preaching of them. God did not. ordain
them as His power. They are lawful
and scriptural in their place, anda proper"
use of them a benefit. But the whole Gos
pel is God's power. The Rock is Christ.
Christ is the all and in all for the sinner.
The Gospel is salvation by Christ. God's
power to every one that believeth. "The
salvation of Christ is applied by faith,
without which God will neither justify
nor save any man, because it is the ap
pointed means of his people's union with
Jesus Christ."
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ant ready to preach grOospel to you.—
For lam not ashamed iof the Gospel : for
it is God's power unto salvation to every one
that believeth."
RACE FOR A WIDOW.-A correspondent
writes to the Mankato (Minn.) Union of
a widow who resides in a certain town in
Winona county who had been wooing two
young stripplings, the one ten and the
other eleven years her junior. Both the
lads happened to meet the lady at the same
time, and both were on the errand of de
ciding upon the day for celebrating the
nuptals, as each had the encouragment
to believe himself the favored suitor. The
widow herself was undetermined, and a
scene of tears gave a momentary relief to
the heart-throbbings of the two young
lovers. Finally she chose the younger of
the two, and they parted for the night.—
In the morning the discarded lover be
thought himself of his photograph and
ring, still in the possession of the lady.—
He went to the lady to obtain them and
:ain sought favor in her eyes. She yield
f, and promised if he should get, his li
cense first she would marry hire. He left
on the afternoon train for Winona to pro
cure the license, and noticed his rival on
board, who was on the same errand, but
evidently knew nothing of the new bar
gain. ;As soon asthe train arrived the
lover who held the latest promise rushed
for the clerk's office and obtained his li
cense, and just as he was retiring the ri
val entered and applied for a license to
marry the same woman. Our hero who
had obtained the license was . bound to
press his advantage, and instead of wait
ing for the morning train, which would
bear his arrival home, ho footed it home
through the mud the same night, and se.
cured his prize the next morning by wars
rying her.
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Do the best you can.
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ROHL 0
What holy raptures cluster round
That cherished littre word!
What sacred music in the sound!
Our very souls are stired.
Home is the place where kindred minds
Hold converse pure and sweet :
Affection binds, with silken thread,
The hearts of those who meet.
Here pei.fect peace and happiness
On fairest pinion poise ;
For, oh! we have full sympathy
In all our woes and joys.
Home is the pilgrim's guiding-star,
The seaman's heavenly light !
To every one, in every clime,
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A Pisgah of delight.
My home ! my home so very dear
a Thou halcyon-spot of rest—
Pd linger at - thy chtistal fount,
And be supremely blest. -4"
Thou boundiess sea of heavenly bliss
- Unfathomed here below;
The depth of life and light and love,
Eternity will show.
[Published by Request
• ---- School-Rouses.—
As the season has arrived when School
Directors erect school houses,l think that
it is of the utmost importance to call their
attention to the o owing facts : The
school house and grounds do just as much
in the education of youth as do other agen
cies. The comfort of the house has much
to do with success or failure in attaining
-a-high-degree-in-culture
the house—whether it sten& in a - basin
or on an elevation, overlooking a great
slope of country—is a. consideration not
to be overlooked when a site is selected.
A. farmer of ong experience—every
thing
else being equal—knows more of
agriculture than he who has seldom or
•• • .- - i itrm7-A-meehanie-Imow •
more about machinery—everything else
being-equal—than--a-clerk-who-never--was
in a machine shop. Merchants know the
• price and the quality of goods better than
farmers do. An expert artizan, painting
for years, can detect errors on a picture,
in the distribution of colors on a house,
far better than he who has been entirely
devoted to dealing in cattle. An engi
neer, who has studied the power of steam,
and for years used its forces, is a better
judge of a good engine, or of a defective ;
one, than the merchant who has traveled
thousands of miles byrail,never inquiring
into the causes that move the driving
wheel. An old practitioner knows more
about disease, the causes of them,the rem
edies, how and when to apply them, than
do lawyers, ministers, farmers, painters,
pedagogues, engineers, mechincs, Ed
ucators, teachers, and men who have
.sought a kinewledge of the different kinds
of instruments used in training the heart,
the head, and the hand, who have by
• reading good authors, studied the excel
lencies and the blunders of others, • who
have become habitual observers of the en
tire catalogue of school instruments, rea
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son wouldteach us, yea common sense
would declare, are the men who should be
consulted when a school house is to be
moved, or a new one built.
Where the interest of the rising gener
ation, where the interest of the nation are
respected, where self-esteem has not made
"a man wise in his own conceit," there
men deficient in a knowledge of the wants
and remedies of education, will consult
'members of the profession. Churches,
depots, machine-shops, jails, court-houses,
pig-pens, Gams, and almost anything, ex
cept school-houses, receive a respectable
length of time and deliberation to arrive
at good plans. These are all of far less
importance than the peoples' colleges.
One or two acres a g round pleasantly
located (if they do cost a trifle more than
custom has paid for them formerly)should
belong to every country and village school
house. Space permitting we could prove
it.
Next a house should be erected with its
sides much longer than the ends, many
large windows in the sides, none in the
ends, ceilings high to give sufficient vol
ume of pure atmosphere, cellar under the
whole house for wood and coal, and for
play house ; heateis in the cellar, patent
school desks, and everything in that line,
sufficient to accommodate all pupils;
book cas ia: ; )r the library and mineral
ogical specrffens, and black-boards all a
round the school-room.
For further information we refer you
to the Pennsylvania School Architect, by
Dr. Burrows ; it is in the hands of Sec
retaries of every School Board in Penn
sylvania. School Economy, by J. P. Wick
ersham, Superintendent of Common
Schools, at Harrisburg, Pa.
You cannot make the school property
too pleasant. Don't build any more of
those desolate prisons, on those desert like
spots. Don't thus express to children that
they are your inferiors, on an equality
with brutes that have no idea of beauty
and comfort. Don't make them wishthat
their school-house were as pretty and .as
pleasantly located as an adjacent barn.—
Look before you leap, for great may be
your injuries. Now AND MEN.
If some of our nice young men could be
purchased at their value as estimated by
the public, and sold at their own estimate
of themselves, the net profit of the trans
action would pay the National debt twice
over.
Two Irishmen once saw a red headed
wood pecker picking away at an old stump.
.Iklarther, Jemy !' exclaimed one of his
compatriots, 'just look at your bur-red;
he has hammered his head till irs all
blaydiu
TEARS. —What would we do, we mourn
ers and sufferers in this great battle-field
of the world, weredt not for tears? . They
are the messengers which come from the
unknown Comforter, to keen our hearts
from breaking, to save the soul from mad
ness and despair, to clear away the'clouds
that hung above us, and let the radience
of God's promise in to show us that Ho
has not forsaken us !
"I pitied her so," said some one who
had beheld a mourner. "She wept as
though her heart would break I"
"She wept to save her heart from break
ing," I said. "Every tear was a blessing,
sent from Heaven direct—a surer comfort
than a thousand, offered sympathies." •
Once I was in a temple of music, and
a grand organ, stirred by a master hand,
was sending forth floods of rare melody.
Just before me there was an old man, with
withered cheeks and silver hair, and with
marks of a hard existence traced in indel
ible lines upon his aged fface. And as I
looked I saw the tears falling, and I knew
that, could the gifted artist have seen them
he would have deemed them the highest
tribute to his genius - that could have been
offered.
All the noisy bursts of applause that
followed would have sank into nothing
ness before the simple, touching offering
of that old man's tears.
To-day I watched a crowd of children
at`plarbefore my
peculiar to themselves, they wran
gled over a baking of mud pies : "You
id I" "I ?" "You
shall !" And then , with a great uproar,
the affair ended.
I looked closer, and lo I the bevy of dis
putants had quitted the field, and there
was left just one little fat dumpling of a
buyTin - his:first - bootsTand-he-was sitting
among the bones of contention—the mud
pies-and tears were trickling like rain o
ver his dirty face, leaving little pale than
: -le-there-to-mark-their-course.
In those tears laid the end of all the
trouble.
"„It is an al
ril shower," I said to in
self; bnd for a momen urne I away,
wishing that all our griefs might thus eas
ry - dissolve themselves.
When I looked again, I saw a pair of
tiny legs making their way down the
street, and I caught a glimpseof a sunny
face, from which those tears had washed
every trace of sorrow.
Oh ye team ! Tears of sorrow that save
the soul !Tears of pity that glorify the
eyes that shed them'! Team of joy that
holds the gates of Heaven ajar, and let us
for a brief season feel its perfectness! Ye
.are among the best of God's gifts to us,
who live and toil, mourn anu suffer, with
in this vineyard.
When they come, whether as a sweet
relief to breaking hearts, whether as a
tribute to a deserving genius, or a happy
ending of a mud-pie battle, they are bless
ings Heaven-born ; and we have all of us
drawn nearer to the Eternal, and beheld
more of its comforts through mists of bit
ter team than through years of smiles and
sunshine.
Notes on Health.
The Norwalk Gazette says : A friend
of ours who suffered horrible pains from
neugralgia, hearing of a noted physician
in Germany who invariably cured that
disease, crossed the ocean, and visited
Germany for treatment. He was 'perma
nently cured after a short sojourn, and
the doctor freely gave him the simple
remedy used, which was nothing but a
poultice and tea made from the common
field thistle. The leaves pounded and
used on the parts afflicted as a poultice,
while a small quantity of the leaves are
boiled down to the proportion of a quart
to a pint, and taken in doses of a small
wineglassful three times a day. In thou
sands of cases it has never been a fbilure."
An exchange gives the following rem
edy for Nasal Catarrh : "Make a weak
brine, and snuff it up the nostrils, and let
it run down in the throat ; also yet the
head with the same. If persisted in a
sufficient length of time, it will effectual
ly cure nasal catarrh. It is said by a
physician that the various mixtures sold
as "Catarrh Remedies, "
" in many cases,
are only salt disguised so as not to be
known. Wetting the head with salt and
water will stop the hair falling out."
If we would establish the habit of drik
ing water freely. in the morning, soon af
ter rising, commencing with small . quan
tities, increasing gradually as we learn to
relish it, until the chief portion taken
during the day is before breakfast, it will
promote the health to a much greater
extent than it ordinarily does, eradicat
ing disease from the system, and become
a most decided luxury in time. Especi
ally is it recommended fur constipation
or costiveness.
A medical man who has examined the
subject, declares that one-1i lf the children
and one-quarter the adults who have ta
ken I.ow'or malignant fevers, have been
brought down by eating veal. There is
enough poison in every pound of one week
old veal, to kill a child fbur years of age.
Wdls' Science of Health says that few
persons can, after retiring, bieath deeply
and slowly and count one hundred, three
numbers to the breath, without going to
sleep.
A negro witness, on a horse trial in
New Jersey court, was asked to explain
the difference between a box , jtall and a
common stall. Straightening himself up,
he pointed to the square enclosure in which
the judge was seated, and said, "Dat ar's
what I call a box stall dere whar dat old
hors is sittire 17 It took a good many raps
ofthe judge's gavel to restore order in that
court.
Whoeve,r has hold of One link in the
chain of trufh,has hold of an endless clue.
Work is the weapon of honor.
$2,00 PER YEAR
Rti t and Nantor.
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trni, ere is really a delightful refreshing
sight on this earth, it is a newly married
ir k.. .sliding home with his first, washboard.
r A Troy Dutchman, in tryino• b to reach
the ferry boat, fell into the water. His
first exclaination on being hauled out was,
`Mine Gott, let's have a bridge !'
6 4O-0-
ypt vedder vill it be to-day?' asked a
.Q • avan of his neighbor. don't
know; vat you tink? '1 tink it will be
's-elder as you tink."Vell, I tink so too.'
L
We see a patent "sparker" noticed.—
A. man who can't do his own sparking
without the help of machinery ought to
be gobbled up by a widow irith nine small
children. r
\te
r e A l . fashionable lady droPped one of her
eyebrows in the church pew, -mod dread=
fully frightened a:young Atunpnext to her,
w o thought it was his mimistache.
A Dutch justice gives the following
oath to a witness : 'You do awfully swore
dat you vill tell do trute, de whole - trute
and nodings but de trute the best vat you
can't.
Josh Billing says in his `Letter :"Rats
originallyttunefromNotway;and - tiobar
would have cared if they had originally
staid there.' A lady freind remarks that
they_still Rhow theirgnaw-away origin.•
Our friends-whose eyesight was not
good, was recommended to try glasses.—
He says he went and took fimr at 'the near
est drinking saloons, and the result was
-so-much-improved-that-he-could--see
eslile.
An old Scotch lady had an evening
• ere-a-young-rnan-ww-present
who was about to 'leave for an appoint
ment in China. As he was exceedingly
extravagant in his conversation about
• • ;az , , , "• •• • enive wag
leaving, 'Tak' good care o' yourself when
ye areawa', for, mind ye, they eat pup
pies in China.'
A few days ago a couple of Boston run
ners entered a restaurant in Portland and
ordered dinner. One was pleased to or
der a plate of baked beans. When ho
came to settle he asked the price, and was
informed that forty cents would be satis
factory. The runner vas astounded, and
exclaimed, "Isn't that a h—l of a price
for beans ?" The man of grub got mad,
and said that was the price, and that it
must be paid. The runner re-uttered the
same pious exclamation of astonishment
several times, and paid the bill. On go
ing out of the door he turned and yelled
it again, but the bean man was riknt.—
The next day the restaurant keeper re
ceived a dispach and paid the telegraph
boy forty cents. Judge, if you can, of
his utter disgust when upon opening it he
read, "Isn't that a h—l of a price for
beans ?"
THE VALLEY OF DEATu.—The Valley
of Death, a spot almost as terrible as the
prophet's valley of dry bones, lies just
north of the old Mormon road to Califor
nia—a region thirty miles long by thirty
broad, and surrounded, except at two
points. by inaccessible mountains. It is
totally devoid of water and vegetation,
and the shadow of a bird or wild beast
never darkens its white glaring sands.
The Kansas Pacific Railroad engineers
discovered it, and also some papers which
show the fate of the lost Montgomery
train, which came South from Salt Lake
in 1850; guided by a mormon. When
near death's valley, some came.to the con
clusion that the Mormons knew nothing a
bout the country, so they appointed a
leader and broke off' from the party. The
leader traveled due west three days, and
then descended into the broad valley,
whose treacherous mirage promised water.
Around the valley they wandered, and
one by one the men died. The children,
crying for water, died at their mother's
breasts, and with swollen tongues and
burning vitals the mothers soon followed
After a week's wandering a dozen survi
vors found some water. It lasted but a
short time, when all perrished but two,
who escaped out of the valley and follow
ed the' trail of their former companions.
Even now the wagons stand, and the shriv
eled skeletons lie side by side.
THE "BEST CURE."—Exercise can kill
as well as cure. To be 'taking advanta
geously, it should be done with judgment.
Sometimes a particular part of the - body
needs exercise, but the whole body is too
weak to give it; in such a case only the
part needing it should have it. But there
is no rule which is applicable to all—nev
er go against the instincts. Many per
sons have hurried themselves into the
grave by endeavoring to "keep pp" when
they ought to be abed ; and they do "keep
up," too, for so long a time that when they.
do take their beds, their strength is so
completely exhausted, that the systeny,
has no power to rise, and they fall into a
typhoid condition, and all is lost. When
anything serious is the matter with do
mestic animals, they court quietude and-„
perfect rest. Sometimes we feel indiqpo* .
ed to exercise from sheer hiziness ;. in ill
loose conditions of the bowls, debility t ain
instinctive desire to sit doWn and stay.
there is universal ; in most of such cases
quietude is a cure. But there is one safe
rule for all under all circumstances ; if
every step you take is with an eilbrt, do
not take another ; go to bed ; if you feel
Cie better for a walk, then walk on ; but
stop short of great fatigue.
The road of ambition is too narrow-for
friendship.