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17 - . THRLEHI GISTER,
is published in the Borough of Allentown, Lehigh
County, Pa,, every nudely
BY A.IIGESTUS L. RIJHE,
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TAKE NOTICE.
Pont let yourselves be deceived, bought
or caught by fictitious prices, that are pub
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as low as our nest neighbors, and in fact as
low as any commission house in Allentown.
We
,do not deem it necessary to publish
prices, in order to inform the public that we
sell at lower rates than others all we ask,
is,that such who purchase Iron, Hardware,
ikc. should give us a call, and they will
find that "Sac - gre:i Hardti-are Store" sells
as low if not lower than any house in town
J. SAE6EI2,
Iron 4 Hardware Storr,:ffeatorrn
January II
NEW ARRIVAL OF
Hardware. .
The undersigned have just returned from
CIZa Philadelphia with a large as
sortment of liardwarr, %"_
ler!, and Saddlery, with Coaelt-trinangs
and Sharilinding4, all of which will be sold
tat reduced prices at the Store of
November 11.
1110 N.—A good lot of Hammered and
Rolled Iron' Sleet iron, American and Eng
lish Band Iron, Hoop Iron. Cast and Slienr
Steel, square, fiat and round. just received
with Anvils and Vices, and for sale cheap
at the Store of • & .1. SAEGER.
MASS.-4 loxes Glass of all sizes.
I'4 Sale by O. & J. SAEGER.
WHITE LEAD.-1 ton of White Lead
—.4110. received, Pure and Extra, and for sale
by O.& J. SAEGER.
NAILS.2OO Kegs of die 'best
Brads and Spikes, just received, and for
sale by 0. & J. SAFiGER.
COACH-TRININIINGS.—A good assort
anent of Coach-'Trimmings just received, and
tier sale by
OE-FINDINGS.—A largenssorunent
of Shoe-Findings, just received and for sale
by •.• CO. &J. SAEGER.
TO BUILDERS.—A. large assort
of Hinges, Screws, Nails, Bolts with lii
rat Knob Locks, Germtin Locks and Latc
'es, &c., just received and for sale by
LOOKING-GLASSES.—A splendid lnt
'of Looking" Glass Elates, and Frames of all
sizes for sale by 0. & J. SAEGER,
OILS & VARNISH.—OiIs of all kinds,
boiled and raw, Turpentine, Newark Var.
I nish of all kinds, Glue, &c.,—will he sold
'cheap by 0. &. J. SAEGER.
PLANES.—A full assortment of Planes
'of John Bell's best make, also a large assort
ment of Carpenter's Tools, for sale cheap
by 0. - & J. SAEGER.--
HOUSE ItEEPEUS.—A good supply
kif articles for House keepers, such as ena
meled Boilers, oral and round, !laws, &c.,
for sale by 0. S. J. SAEGER.
Nov. H.
86.veyors Compass.
A perfectly new iind complete six inch
heedle Compass and Chain made by E. Dra
per in Philadelphia, will be sold cheap by
The
,undersigned. The compass is warren
led to be perfect.. Apply at Lochman and
Brothers' Cheap Variety Store.
C. L. LOCHMAN.
Dec. 7.
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litzu%acom
- ,Is hereby given. that the undersigned has
been appointed Executor, of the Estate of
9eorge . hick, dec d.. late of Upper Milford
township, Lehigh county. Therefore all
persons who are indebted to said estate, will
Please to make settlement, between now and
the first 4ay of March next, and also all p6'.-
sons having claims nakost said estate, will
please to preseht them within said specified
time
,t 11 :1 •
FREDERICK bIO MEND, zi.cecutor. •
Besiding.at Sally Ann rtirnace, Berks county
Jan. IS. 1-6 w
A FAMILY N
Niimm=mummicim
THE FRANKLIN FIRE I
COMPANY of Philadelphia.
OFFICE, No. 1631 CHESNUT STREET,
near Fifth street. '
Chatles N. Bancker, Geo. W. Richards,
Thomas Hart, Mord. D. Lewis,
Tobias Wagner, Adoip. E Bode,
Samuel Grant, David S. Brown,
Jacob R. Smith, Morris Patterson.
CONTINUE to make Insurance, permanent
and limited, on every description of property, to
town and ci'mnity, at rates as low as are consis
tent with Aecurity,
The Company have reserved a large Conlin.
aent Fund, which with their Capital and Premi.
tuns, safely invested, afford ample protection to
the assured.
The assets of the company, on January Ist,
1848, as published agreeably to an Act of As•
Semi)lv, were as follows, viz:
Mortgages, $890,558 65
Real Estate, 108,358 90
Temporary Loans, 125,459 00
Stocks, 51,563 25
Cash, &c., 46,158 S 7
Since their incorporation, a period of eighteen
years, they have paid upwards of one million,
lam hundred thousand dollars, losses by file, there
by atfortlinz evidence of the advantages of insu
rance, as well as the ability and disposition to
meet with promptness, all liabilities.
CHARLES N. BANCKER, President
CHARLES G. 13ANCKER, Scc'y.
The Subscribers are the appointed Agents of
the above mentioned Institution, and ate now
prepared to make insurances on every descrip
tion of property, at the lowcst rates:
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0. & J. SAEGER.
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0. & J. SAEGER
U. & J. SAEGER.
Directors :
AUGUS'IITS L. 111 THE, Allentown
C. F. BLECK, Bethlehem
Allemown, June 13, 1848
- New Milteller & Dressmaker
Ldp CoopCrSburg.
Miss Susan Schaffer,
Takes pleasure to inform Iler old custom
ers, and the public in general, that she still
continues the AliHiner and Manilla-making
bnsiucss in all its various branches. in the
villatre of Coopersburg, Lehigh county. She
hm; latch• returned front Philadelphia, wil t
a beautiful assortment of the new--
most fashionable style of
;-- •r , LADIES BONNETS
-7A•i . tk such ns Silk, Sill Velvet,
Satin, Plush, &c., of all col
t
ors, styles and prices, a large
variety of Ribbons, French
and American Artificials, Caps of all hinds,
comprising ,mournin_ and others, made in
the neatest style, all at which will be dispos
ed of at the very lowust terms.
Cloaks, Drchsrs, and Mantillas,
will be made in the latest fakhionable styles
and in the neatest and most expeditous man
mer. She has also made arrangements to
receive the monthly Fashions from Phila
delphia, hOth in the Dress-making as well
as Millinery branch of the business.
Repairing and shaping of old bonnets and
dresses will be done at the shortest titmice,
and in the most foshionable style.
Miss Schafer returns her sincere thanks
forthe liberal patronage heretofore extended
to her and trusts her moderate charges will
in her many • new cu.stoiners,•and a con
tinuance of the old ones.
Dec. 21. T -2m
Great National Exhibition,
IT FRANKLIN HALL,
N0..50 North :_';ixth Street,
Philadelphia.
For a short time only :—SHERMANI &
TOUSEVS PANORAMA OF NIEXICO
—THE GREATEST PALITING 1N
THE WORLD, covering 191100 feet of
canvass ! It. shows in the most perfect man
ner the towns, cities, mountains, rivel.-s:,-mn
cites, plantations, domestic animals, grain
tielils of MeNico, habits of the Mexicans,
char:inter Mid "eilwry of the country, togeth
er with a u or;vmomits of the army under
T,, 1„, % W A, lw:rcht:s, encampments,
ti iins of pack mules,
tr,i :61 tia om ~.e , •nory and incidents
„I i h t . ! Imo Corpus Christi to
ii.,• formin7 the most
tia,w.iior and riled ve exhibition ever in
the city. The Sketches were taken. from
'lame by taw id Gen. Taylor's officers, and
• are correct as life. It was visited by over
100,000 persons in New York, (having
I been exhibited there for several months in
succession,) among whom were the clergy,
judges, and the most fashionable people of
' the city.
'rickets 2 cents; Childreri half-price.
Doors open every night, until further notice,
at 61 o'clock. Panorama .commences mov
ing at 71 precisely. An Expanatory Lec
ture is given at each exhibition. Afternoon
Exhibitions at o'clock.
Cut this aavertisetnent out and put it in
your pocket. Remember the place, Frank
lin Hall, No. 50 North sixth Street, near
arch.
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• Jalit IP'll/MTAVG,
Neatly cxecut.d at 1.6 :411.:lisie?" (Mike;
ALLENTOWN, LEHIGH COUNTY, PA., FEBRUARY 1, 1849.
We are growing old—how the thought will rise,
When a glance is backward cast
On some long remembered spot that lies
In the silence of the past;
It may be the shrine of our earthly vows,
Or the tomb of our early tears;
But it seems like a far-off isle to us,
In the stormy sea of years.
Oh! wide and wild hre the waves that part
Our steps from its greenness now,
And we miss the joy of many a heart,
And the light of many a brow;
For deep o'er many a stately bark
Have.the whelming billows rolled,
That steered with us from that early mark,
Oh! friends, we are growing old !
Old in the dimness and the dnst
Of our daily toils and cares;
Old in the wrecks of love and trust
Which our burthened memory bears ;
Each form may wear, to the passing gaze,
• The bloom of life's freshness yet,
And beams may brighten Our latter days,
ity hich the morning never met.
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But oh! the changes we have seen
. In the far and winding war—
The graves in our paths that have grown green,
And the locks that have grown gray!
The winters still on our own may Spare
The sable or the gold;
But we sawsnows upon brig ti
And, frie! re are growing, old !
We have 'a ned the world's cold wisdom now,
We hate earned to pause and fear,
But where a the living. founts, whose lbw
Was a joy of heart to hear
We have won the wealth of many a clime,
And the lore of many a page.
But where is the hope that saw in Time'
But its boundless heritage 7
ECM
Will it come again when the violet wakes,
And the woods-their youth renew
We have stood in the lightof sunny brakes,
Where the bloom was deep and Hue;
And our souls might joy in the spring-time then,
But the joy was faint and cold,
For it ne'er coula give us the youth again
Of hearts that are grOwing old.
ko
It was so terribly cold. It snowed * , and
the evening began to be dark ; it was also
the last evening in the year—New Year's
Eve. On this cold, dark evening, a - poor
little girl went into the street with bare head
and naked feet. It is true, she had shoes
on when she went from • home, but of what
use were they ? They were very large shoes;
.her mother had last worn them ; they were
too large ; and the little one lost them in
hurrying over the street, as two carriages
passed quickly by. One shoe was not to be
found, and the other a boy ran away with;
saying he could use it for a cradle when he
hadAildren himself. The little girl now
went on her small naked feet, which were
red and blue with coldshe carried a num
ber of matches in her old apron, and held
the bundle in her hand. No one had bought
of her the whole day ; no one had given her
a farthing. Poor anal* ! She was hungry
and benumbed with cold,and looked so down
cast ! >The snow-flakes fell on her yellow
hair, which curled so prettily around her
neck, but she did not.heed,that. .
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octicA
We Are Growing Old
The Character of a Happy Life
=I
llow happy is he born and taught, .
That severeth not another's will ;
Whose agnor is his honest thought,
And simple truth his utmost skill
Whme passions not his matters arc,
Whose soul is still prepared for death,
United unto the worldly care
Of public . lame, or private breath;
Who envies none that chance loth raise,
Or vice; who never understood
How deepest wounds ate given by praise;
Nor rules of state, but rules of good;
Who hath his life from rumors freed,
Whose conscience is his strong retreat;
Whose state can neither flatterers feel;
Nor ruin make oppressors great;
Who God doth late and early pray,
More of his grace than gifts to lend;
And entertains the harmless day
With a religious book or friend ;
This man is freed from servile bands
Of hope to rise, or fear to fall ;
Lord of himself, though not of lands;
And having nothing,yet bath all.
Oclections.
The Little Match-Girl.
A New Year Story
The lights shone out frclia all the windows,
and there was such ,a delicious• smell of roast
beef in the street—it was a New Year's Eve.
and she thought of that ! She sat doirn in.a
corner; betweet) two houses—the'one stood
a little more forward in the s
other_,-,and_drew_aFt_har_l i • • I
warm herself, but she was still colder, and
she durst not go home ; she had not sold
any matches or got a single farthing! Her
father would beat her—and it was also cold
at. home ; they had only the roof directly
over them, and there the wind whistled in,
although straw and rag's were stuffed in the
largest crevices.
Her little hands were almost benumbed
with cold. Ah ! a little match might do some
good, durst she only draw one out of the bun
dle, strike it on the wall, and warm her fin
gers. She drew one out—ritch! , --how it
burnt ! It was a warm, clear flame like that
of a candle, when 'she held her hand around
it—if was a strange light! The little girl
thought she sat by a large iron stove with
brass balls on the top, the fire burned so
nicely and warmed so well ! Nay, what was
that! The link: girl stretched out her feet
to warm them too; when the flame went
I out, the stove vanished and she sat with a
stump of the burnt match in her hand.—
Another was struck—it burnt, it shone ; and
‘t here the light fell on the wall it became
transparent as crape. She looked directly
into the room where the roasted goose,stufred
with apples and prunes, steamed so charm
ingly on the table, which was laid out and
covered with a shining white cloth and fine
porcelain service. What was still more
splendid, the goose swing, off' the dish and
waddled along the floor with knife and fork
in its back ; it came directly up to the poor
girl. Here the match wept out, and theme
was off d-wall-to-be-
ii'~ia~r—
.
She struck another match. Then she sat
under the most charming Chrismas-tree—it
was still larger and more ornamental than
that she had seen through the glass door at
the rich mercbions. the last Christmas ; a
thousand candles burnt on the green branch
es ; and motley pictures, like those which
ornament the shop windows, looked down.
at her. The little girl lifted up both her
hands-then the match was extinguished—
the many Chi istmas candles rose higher and
higher; she saw that they were bright stars
—one of them fell, and made a fiery stripe
in the sky. " Now one dies," said the poor
girl, fur old grand-mother, who alone had
been keno her, but who was now dead, had
told her that when a star falls, a soul goes
up to God !
She again struck a•match against the wall;
it shone all around, and her old grand-mother
stood in the lustre ! so shining, so mild and
blissful. " Grand-mother !" exclaimed the
little girl, " oh, take me with you ! I know
you will be gone away whet the natch goes
out—like the warm stove, th lel' ions roast
goose, and the delightful Ch stmas-tree !"
and she struck in haste the remainder of all
her matches that were in her bundle—she
would not lose sight of her grand-mother,
anti the matches shone with such brilliance•
that it was clearer than in broad daylight.—
Grand-mother had never before looked so
pretty, so great; she lifted the poor little girl .
up in her a nue, and they flew so high, in
splendor and joy ; there was no c o ld, no
hunger, no anxiety—thry were with God!
But the little , rirl sat:* in the corner by the
house in the cold morning hour, with red
cheeks, and with a smile round her mouth
— 7 dead—frozen to death, the last ereningof
the old year.
New . Year's morning rose over the little
corpse, as it sat with its matches, - of which
it bundle was burnt. She had been trying
to warm herself,said they. 13in no one h new
what beautiful things she had seen—in what
gladness and splendor she had entered with
her old grand-mother into the New Year's
joys.
The Midnight Assassin.
I was on my way to P—, in the fall of
IS—; it was towards the cold 'evenin 7 .4' in
the first fall month, when toy horse stopped
suddenly: before a respectable house about
four miles from N—.
There was something strange and remark
able in this action of my horse, nor would
he move a step in spite of all my exertions
to move him on.
. I determined, to gratify this whim, and
at the same time a strange presentment
which came over me, a kind of supernatural
indescribable, feeling seemed to urge me to
enter. Having knocked and regitested to
te conducted to the lady or gentleman of
the house, I was ushered into a neat sitting
room, where sat a beautiful girl of about
twenty years of age. She rose at my en
trance, and seemed a little surprised at the
appeatance of a perfect stranger. •
In a few words I related to her the strange
conduct of toy horse, nail his stubborn• oppo
sition to my mind. „I ant not," I observed.
..superstitious, nor inclined on the side of the
metaphysicaldocuines of those who support
them; hut the strange, unaccount feel
ing that crept over me in attempti*pass
your house;, induced me to solicit lodgings
for the night."
"We are not," ahe replied, guard
ed, 'tis true; but in this part of the country
it . te. have little to fear from robbers, fcir we
bai?e never heard of any being near.us; we
are surrounded by good neighbors, and I
flatter myself we are at peace with them.
But this evening, in consequence of my
father's absence, I felt unusually lonesome,
and if • • • • luring_an the sup". ti
tious, I reason as you have, and say I con
sent to your staying; for similar feeling-8
had been mine ere you arrived; from what
cause I cannot iuta•t;ine.''
The evening passed delightfully away ;
my young hostess was intelligent and love
ly ; the, hours flew so quickly, that on look
ing at my watch, I was surprised to find that
it was eleven o'clock. This was the signal
for retiring; and by twelve every inmate of
the house was probably asleep save myself.
I .could not sleep—straire visions floated
across my brain, and I lay twisting on my
bed, in all the agony of sleepless suspense.
The clock struck . one : its last vibrating
sound had scarcely died, when the opening
of a shutter, and the raising of a sash in one
of thti•lower apartments, convinced the some
one was entering the house. A noise fol
lowed as if a person jumping from the win
dow-sill to the floor, and then followed the
light and almost noiseless step of one as
cending the stairway.
1 slept in the room adjoining the one oc
cupied by . the lady ; mine was next to the
staircase ; the step came along the gallery,
slow and cautious. I had seized my pistol
and slipped on part of my cltAhes, determined
to watch or listen to the movements seemingly
mysterious or suspicious ; the sound of the
steps stopped at my doorthen followed one
as if applying the ear to the'keyhole, and a
low breathing convinced the the villians
was listening. [ stood motionless, the pis
tol firmly grasped. Not a muscle moved,
-not—n—nerve—was—slackened T-for—l—felt—as
if fleaven had selected me out as the instru
ment to effect its purpose.
The person now passed slowly on; ind I
as cautiously approached the door of my
bed-chamber.
I now went-by instinct, or rather by the
conveyance of sound; fortis soon as I heard
his hand grasp the latch of one door mine
seized on the other—a deep silence followed
this movement ; it seemed as &he heard the
sound, and waited the repetition ; it came not
—all was still ; he might have considered it
the echo of hi% own noise. I heard the door
open softly—l also opened mine, and the
very moment I stepped into the entry, I
caught a glimpse of a tall man entering the
lighted ohamber of the lady.
I softly stepped along the entry, and ap
proached the chamber, through the half
opened door I glanced my eyes into the
room. -No object was visible save the cur
tained bed, wittrib whose sheets lay the in
tended victim to a midnight assassin, and he,
gracious heaven !—a ?Mgr() !
For at that moment a tall, fierce-looking
black approached the bed ; and never were
Othello and Desdemona more naturally rep
resented ; at least that particular scene of the
immortal bard's conception.
I was now all suspense ; my heart swell
ed into my throat almost to suffixation. my
eyes to cracking, as 1--made a bound into the
room.
The black villian had ruthlessly dragged
part of the covering off the bed, when the
sound of my foot caused him to turn. He
started, and.thus confronted, we stood gaz
ing on each other a few seconds; his_eyes
shot lire—fury was depicted in his Counte
nance.. lie made a spring towards me,
and the next moment lay a corpse on the
floor!
The noise of the pistol aroused the fair
sleeper ; she storied in the bed, and seemed
an angel of the white clouds emerginr , from
her downy bed to soar up to the skies.
The first thing that presented itself to her
view was myself standing near her, with a
pistol in my hand.
"Oh, do not murder me l—take . all—you
cannot, will not kill me, sir !"
The servants now rushed in—all was ex
plained.
The wretch turned but to be a vagabond;
supposed to be a runaway slave from Vir
ginia.. I had the providential opportunity
of rescuing one from the worst of fates, who,
in after years, called me husbatal, - und relat
ed to our children her miraculous escape
from the bohl attack of a midnight assassin.
Spirit of the Times.
The Dear Mother in !leaven.
A man once lived with his wife and child
happy and contented, for they folied each
other and God had given theta everything
good and necessary. In the morning the
man went out to work and the child contin
ued with her mother, at hoMe and played,
and the mother told her pretty stories such
as she liked to hear; and caressed her ten
derly ; or else she went with her into the
garden and the child gathered and ate the
sweet strawberries and the finely flavored
raspberries. And when the fitther came
home at night they were all Three happy be
cause they were together. In this way they
lived for some tune, till at last the mother
became feeble and ill and had to go to bed.
Then the father wen; sorrowfully to work
oti >
in the mOrning E ttn was more' sorrowful at
evening when he i that the su ff erer greW
no better.:. But t child remained with her
mother,. and wh she_ was told that she
might go alone to the garden she had no
wish to go, but would hide her face on her
mother's bed and weep. At last the moth-
NUMBER 17.
er felt that she must die, and called the child
to I anLsaid • ••1 tiall-soon:go-awa—
yfrom you, for our dear Father in Heaven is
calling me to himself, but if you . are good
and kind I will come sometimes to see yott,..
my darling, and if it is God's will, take you
where I am in Heaven." Soon after the
mother died and was buried in the garden,
and the father was very unhappy, and shed
tears. 'rhe child was unhappy too, and
would like to have gone to heaven With her
mother, but as she hoped her mother would
come to see her, or to take her to herself,
she was soon consoled again. But the fath
er was sorry for .the child because - she would
have to be alone while he went• away to
work and so he married another wife to be
the mother of the child. But she was a bad
woman and did not love the child and did
not speak to her, nor even look kindly at
her. She took no care of the child nor did
she wash her clothes nor mend them, and
when she went to bed at night the new
moodier did not arrange her little bed for her.
This made the child unhappy, and very of
ten she went into the garden and sat down
on her mother's grave and said : , •Ah, dear
mother in Heaven, come and.take me away."
But when the bad woman' saw the child sit=
ling on the grave, she was angry and drove .
her away, for "she. could not bear that the
child should think of the departed one, and
she saw plainly that she had no love for
her second mother. And when she saw the
child eating strawberries and, raspberries as
she had been accustomed to do when her
own mother was living,.she beat her severe-
Lly v -feeshe-would-not-let-the-child have the
berries but wanted to eat them all herself.
At last she became so bad to the child that
she would not let her go into the garden at
all, and when she went there herself she
fastened the child up in a dark room. Then
the child would break into loud lamentations
and weep. for she was afraid in the dark,
ness. ••Oh mother in Heaven,—she Said
when she was shut up here,—••Oh come
and take me away."—Then a bright light
came into the dark chamber and the mother
in white robes, beaUtiful and loving, just as
she had been in life, only much more beau
tiful, took her child on her knee, kissed her
and caressed her and told her stories justv
she had • used to do. But now they were
stories in in Heaven about the eternal gar
dens of paradise where imperishable flow
ers bloom and flourish, where heavenly
sweet fruit ripen, Where the angel-children
play joyous plays and dunce the celestial
dances, and sing their hymns before the
throne of God our Father. The child wad
happy to hear this, and became still and
quiet, and finally went to sleeep. When the
bad woman came from the garden and went
into the chamber to fetch the child, she
found .her all pale and asleep in one corner
and woke her up with hard and- unkind
words.
At evening the child told her father how
her mother in heaven had been too see her
and what she had said to her. At this the
father was thoughtful, and though he told
the child that it was only a dream, it made
him heavy-hearted, for he had loved his first
wife much more than the second an' knew
that the latter was not a good •mother to his
child. But as he did not know how bad she
was, he was. silent and said nothing about
it. After that; whenever - the child was shut
up in the dark chamber she was calm and
quiet for she did not stay long in tile dark. ,
ness. Hex mother in Heaven came to see
her with a soft, clear light and comforted her
and told her about [leaven and the Angels:
Then the child grew more and more full of
longing for the -,
.heavenly delights and beg- ,
ged her mother at every visit to take her
with her, .but the mother always said it was
not time yet and she must wait. And as
the child grew palerand more silent and of
ten looked out of the window toward •Heay.-
en with folded hands, the bad woman was
more unkind and hard to her and fastened
her up oftener in the dark chamber. Once
when she had shut her up there and went
to bring her out again from the darkness the
child looked much paler than usual, and
when slit! called her, did not stir., Then
she saw 'that she was dead. The mother
in [leaven had been with her and rocked
her to sleep and promised her that she shouk c
wake up in'heaven. And there theschild
has a robe of light like the angel-children,.
with whom she plays in the gardens ofGod,
and they teach her to sing heavenly hymns.
Ismin.ury or. IhNottiiscE.,-How . many,
men, rich in physical energy, stand with
folded and idle hands, because they are poor
in knowledge ! Tell such a man what he. •
should do, and he is ready •and willing to
act. He stands still because he cannot see
his way.. He is uncertain, because he can.;
not make out which of two plans he should
choose. He is negligent, only because he
is ignorant of what he ought to do, or of
how it may best be done: Or if, in his phy-.
sical impatience, such a man rushes-forward,
he fails to reach his aim, because ha is de;..
ficient in the materials for successfulaction,
How often do we see the - energy of one man.
ill or wrongly directed because he knows
too little of what he engages in, *hile, un
der the guidance of
,knowledge, is obseryed .
toibe a sure stride hindrance. •