IN THE VflXEY, To-day when tho mm wo lighting my house on the plnn-clad hill The breast of a bird tM ruftUd M il perched on my window Mill. And leaf (M chased dy thn kitten ou the hreer.o-ewept garden walk, Anl thn dainty head Of n dahlia red Was stirred on It slender stalk. Oh, happy thn bird at thn rose tree, unbend. Ing the threatening storm ! Ami happy thn bltthn Inaf chaser, rejoicing in sunshine warm t They Ink not thought (or tlm morrow - they know no cam to-day : And thn thousand tiling That thn futiim brings Are a hlitnk to such its they. lint (, bv thn housnhcld Ingle, can Interpret thn looming clouds. For thn wind. ' i-hoos" through thn key- hole, and a shadow thn lions' eu- shrouds : And I know I mint int my mountain and go ilnwn to th v iln below, For my house Is chill On thn windy Mil. Wheu thn nuliliiiu tempest blow. My mind If fomvnr drawing an lintru- tlvn psrallcl Twixt temportl things that perish nnd eternal things (lint dwull Whnn billows and waves surround inn an I waters my aonl o'nrflow, I descend in hope Kiom thn mountain top To thn sheltering vain In-low. I Ko down to thn Tillny of Kllcucr, whom thn worldly am never Hint ; ' I know there I "liaim nnd lu-sling" tlmro for eyes that with tears am w-t : And I find In Itsswnnt seclusion i-titlo solace lor all my ram. For that vullny purn With Id shelter sur Is the beautiful Vain ol I'rnvnr. Chambers's Journal. The Doctor's Confession. 1IY THOMAS wlNTHIloP Ht,U. E were aittina around tho fire in the reading- room of tho club, when DuffViiu, whose only oc?u pHtion in life is extracting good htoriea from oilier men (thanks to n provident and de- censed uncle), nuked the Doctor for a story. None of us hud ever heard the Doctor tell n story, mi we mentally concluded that Duflcriti had made a mistake. It was quit,' surprising to the rebt of ns, too. for DulTVrm v.iii the most careful hihI couscieutioiis ex tractor of stories, remiiiiscenceu, nnd personal experiences in the club. Tho Colonel raised h's tine gray eyebrows rather inquiringly, tho Professor coughed hlightly. nnd I must confess that 1 frowned distinct' 1 t ..--. plato. It wall ipiite a critical statu of affair. , I The doctor was gazing blankly into the fire, lie was the jollicat listeucr in tho wvrld, uud young in npilo of hia aixty years. Hut he was quite a neophyte nt story-telling, nud he looked aim ply ridiculous, half-lout us he was in the !i.ii(i,.ic H-ut uud ilurk Hhndowa of the great club-cliuir. We held our breiitli, hihI, for our, I nut Hiiro I trembled with apprehension. Thu Doctor peered around from either nrin of his chuir uud glulicod curefullv at the room. "I observe." said he with a calinneM Hint restored our conlidenee'to a alight extent, "that you are. all large men :iuve myself. Therefore I will make a confession rather than tell a story. I would uot dare to touch upou the Mibject if there were another moderate sized .until preaent, for ho might be nulicieiitly larger thuu myself. Ves ; it is a confession. for ull I know, 1 onco committed an act that might have put mo behind prison burs for a good long period. "You none of you know the extent to which a amitll utau suffers from his physical inferiority. I ll wager thst Napoleon envied Murat'a immense hi.e, iu spite of tho fact that the lat ter was merely uue of the Ktnperor's humblest tools. It is tho sumo with all of iu. We nil know that we have three or four times the bruin power that ; oil big men have hem, don't .boot, gentleiiicu but there is no use in concealing, or ai least iu denying tho fact that we small men envy you large ouch iu the posMksion of "what tho I'rofensor would cull your kinetic energyyour muss multiplied by tho square if your velocity. As l" have grown, I will not suy old but older, for 1 still consider myself standing on tho threshold of life, I have begun to up pieciute the compensations of uuture, an. I 1 now can look at a lurge man, n he lumbers up Hie street, or flop iuto a chuir iike an overgrown bag of malt, with a feeling akin to pity. Jiut in my youth, or rather in iuy mewling infancy (say when waa about twenty, live yeurs of ue) my disparity iu size caused me the keenest mortilieiitioii. This iiiortitieutiou would result in a tit of uiurer when nome welbmeaililig smull mull would refer to the story of David and (iolinth and point with pride to the fact that small men usu ally yd there just the same'. I have never IiikI any respect for this David. TltHt business of usiug a shing-shot was us unfair a it would be to put a Hotchkiss gnu iu tin pitcher's box iu a ball game. It makes my blood boil to think that David did Uot go out uud thrush him with his bare lluiicklea, for lam quite satisfied that Uloliath in truded to light fair aud Jpiare. 'Mar quis of (jiieeubury' rules, ust like any other mau who ia nut a gcttleitiau. 11 n i "Well, when I was about twenty five I liail, by diot of bard word uJ good Inck in baring hung out my shingle in particularly unhealthy neighborhood, arrived at condition when I might indulge my pocket-book in what I may rail the enti-fattnning process to a certain extent. Iu other word. I could afford to take an after noon and a five-dollar hill off for a pleasure-jaunt ouce in a while. In deed, I had begun to readpoema aliont domestic bliss and occasional love Btorica. Hut liefora I could permit myaelf to think of marrying I de termined to net, once for all, thor oughly even with the absurd race of lug men. I hail a scheme wiiieu i nnd worked out vry thoroughly. I was going to completely hnmilia'c aome great In utn of a man, and I waa going to do it without the aid of a weapon nf nny description. I provided myaelf with a pair of shears "Weapons?" auggeated tho Colonel. "Not at all," answered the Doctor: "instrument of torture. I flipped them into the pocket of my overcoat and rode down to the I'.owery in a Third avenue car. I waa in a com- . i , - i 'im. ., IllUeeill lUOOtl. J UQ lllui nnn i ii i, Ii... ....... ;n, ;. . ,.;., f a downfall of snow. Yon know what ! auch a niizht -means oil the Bowery. All the animal apiriU of those animals down there are at tho boiling point of exhilaration. When I waa quite well dowr. tho Bowery 1 leu the car ami began searching in the aalooua for my mau. It did not take me long to find him. He had just cleaned out a saloou (driven the inhabitants of the place out, I mean, and pnmmeled the bar keeper until tho latter waa willing to buy him off at any price) when I en tered. I treated bin. I treated him again. I became hia confidant -hia fast friend. I let him know that I htd money and that my main object iu life was to see that he had a royal time of it that evening. In thia way I suc ceeded in luring him to a hotel that I had previously selected and where I had engaged a room for the night. Onco in the room I proceeded to make things as comfortable as possible for him and incidentally for myself, for bv this time he was beginning to get pugnacious again. 1 accomplished this by keeping the table between us uud a bottle of champagne on it, which I begged him not to spill. He hud as much respect for a bottle of champagne as though he had been better born, aud I succeeded. He was atill quite sober when I nuked him if he knew anything about poisons. " 'Saw,' he answered, after a few moments of contemplation, as though he were, wondering why in the world I should ask such a question as that. 'Saw ; nnthin"cept rat poison. Wb.v'f " 'Oh,' I answered, aa delicately as possible, 'merely because I am a doc tor uud kuow a great deal about tln'in. You seo I have inude aspeeiul stud,' of them.' " 'Well, Doc' he asked in a few no meutp, 'what has that got to do vith it? ( limine i"i ) ju KMun, l iion. iUil'u tout ing out tho champagne, 'that' there is a certain violent poison which diet not act on the stomach aa long as the person w ho has swallowed it remfins perfectly still, but which is ubsolut'.y fatal if that person makes u single vio lent motion for instuncc, such a mo tion as rising from a chair, or striking another person, or even uttering too ornate an oath?' " 'What are yer driving at, growled my burly guest. " 'Simply this,' I answered, 'thut I would advise you to remain as still ns you possiiily can, for I have given you a doso of that poisou in one of these glasses of champagne iu the last one iu fact.' " "But," interrupted the Colonel, "von had agreed, as it were, w ith your self that you would uot line a weapon. Niw poison, in my opiuiuu, would be a weapon." "Wait a moment," snid the Doctor. "Well, the wretch was themsot fright ened man I have even seen in my life, lie sat iu his chuir, perfectly rigid. I almost believe ho was afraid to talk for it time. But the suspense wai too freitt. " 'Yer ain't goiu' t kill a feller what's doiu' yer no harm, are yer?' he asked ho plaintively that I ulmost laughed iu his face, " 'No,' I answered, 'keep perfectly still, aud when it thoroughly pleases me I w ill give you a simple emetic that will save your lifs. Be careful ; do uot move or it will be beyoud my power to do so.' "'What'd yer do it fur?' he asked, breathlessly. " 'Because,' I answered, 'I wanted a lock of your hair. I hav a particular fondness for hair of the color of yours, and I urn goiug to have jiifit about half of all that you have, iuclii ling half of your mustucke, which, I ivill admit, ia a perfectly splendid one.f With thia 1 approached him, at tho same time drawing from my pocket my puir of shears. " 'All right, go ahead, Doo.'ho suid, trembling from head to foot; 'but, us yer love yer fellow-man what has got cr wife and family ter support, dou't w iggle me er that poison will work.' "I do not think I ever collected a loug-staudiug bill from a rich but for getful patient with oue-'ualf tho satis faction that 1 enjoyed m clipping off half the hair aud half the mustache of that man who but a few momenta be fore had been threatening to gouge out my eyes. I laughed, I aaug. I duueed a jig, aud then rolling the hair up in a wad I ahowed it in tuy pocket. I finished off the remainder of the chiticnague. Then I aalked to the window and threw it open. Wa were in a room on tho third , floor, and the window opeued on a fife escape that reached aliuj to the trround. 1 lifted one leg over the Bill quite non chalantly." "But I any, my dear Doctor," inter rupted the Colonel again, "yon were uot playing fair. You were in reality using a weapon, aud a mighty danger on one. The poor fellow had no show at all." "Wait a moment," replied the Doe tor. "You wish me to be too abrupt. But, to continue, when the fello-ar ttaw me do thia he uttered a howl of terror. " 'Yer ain't n-goin' tcr leave ine, Doe; yer ain't a-goin' ter leave me here ter dye. are yer?" " 'You are in no danger,' I an swered, 'flood-evening. " 'But the poison?1 he asked. " 'You have taken no poison.' I re plied. 'While you have been with me this evening you have swallowed noth ing more ho rm fill thau champagne!' At first he did not seem to compre hend, but iu a moment he bounded from hrs chair with an oath and imide for me. 1 departed." "Bui, my dear Doctor," asked the 1'rofessor, "how did you manage to make your escape from him?" "Well," answered the Doctor, dry Iv. "I took advantage of one of the -. - comiHoisatums of nature. A small man can skip down a l.re- ipe much more onicklv than a larue man. Besides, I had a' start. Iu fact. I w as bowling awov i't a cub that I had previously engage. I. before he was half way down. "But." I asked, "have you never been troubled by him since? Has he never hunted you up?" "I have reason to believe be has not." answered the Doctor. "In fact, if he had, I am afraid I would not bo here to-night to tell the story." I frank Leslie's Weekly. Saw al.WinK Mummy. In the Cornhill Magazine a writer thus records a visit to an I'.gyptian domicile situated upon the Nile: "We went into the but after some hesita tion (the dragomau whispered there were 'ladies' there), and found a vig orous old man telling his Mussulman bead cross-legged on a mud bench, and on the floor bent over the fire the oldest looking human being I eversaw alive. Mummies I lntvo seen, and wondered uot that they were dead. but in what part of her withered, des slotted frame that old woman found space to keep the stern vital energies thut lined her grim, carved face I call scareelv uues. She looked no more living ihuu seaweed does, dried and stretched mi paper. "Her arms, her limbs 'thrusl almost into the tire) wero so shrunk that the long leathern flesh ami flaccid muscles huiift round them like (hinging shreds on sticks. Bound her lieck were beads of w ood, and round her wrists leath ern bracelets (though, to be sure, I cannot feel certain they wefl-e not folds of skin), and on her lace lurked not only lines but gullie tlieyi seemed so deep for Hue occasional a ml passages. I fallen. Bui led glunce of e I could not Cold llliques' come, and sent for mill- sml dates and tilled our pockets. le showed us hia long spear tbnt Viinig against the wall, uud toM me with a proud g sture that ue had often killed his man, but more oTteu w ith a sword, nnd taking me by the shoulder, showed me llercely how he used to do it. He was ninety years old, aud had never been farther from home than Assouan, and then only once. All his solis sat and stood around us, aud in the background against the mud granary white teeth glimmered, and the broad, black faces of the women shone. 1 asked him what present he would like, and he asked for a little rit- and a little cof fee. All the time he clutched uud lingered his Moslem rosary, which, when I admired it, he wanted me to accept. The sou came back with us to the dahbeah aud carried oft' the cotl'cu and rice iu envelopes, to winch I added a handful of cigarettes aud a couple of oranges, with particular in junctions that one wa to m ivea to the old gentleman." A King's Own Story. Picking up from the sidewalk the other morniug what Hppearud to be a gold ring, with empty claws allowing the removal of a atone, the finder took it to a jeweler iu Kleveuth street for inspection. He exumitied it for a few minutes under a magnifying glass aud said : "Yes, this is a gold ring of fourteen carats. The stone it cout-tined was a three-carat diamond. it was worn a number of years ou a sleuder womau's third finger. Then it changed hands aud was enlarged by the insertion of a piece of gold of inferior alloy, nud may have been worn ou the third finger of a stout woiuuii or the little finger of a man. The diamond waa removed by a clumsy hand, probably by a thief, who either accidentally dropped the riug or threw it away where you fouud it. 1 never saw the ring before, but plainly read lt-t history by the same process of observation, analysis aud deduction that an Indian unconscious ly employs in detecting the testimony of a forest trail." Philadelphia Bee old. The Insane Cannot lie Hypnotized. Dr. H. CJ. McCarry, the uew super intendent of the Kansas State Iusaue Asylum, has instituted a aeries of hyp notic experiments on the patients. As sisted by Dr. flint, who is skilled in hypnotism, he made experiment ou twenty patients, taken at random, of whom only two ebowed any symptom of auceptibility, aud these were ouly alight. Dr. flint claims that iusaue people cannot be hypnotized, nnd that the hypuotio power can in uo way af fect mcurables. Only those who are slightly affected cau oe brought under I its iutttieuee. Detroit free Press. REV. DR. TALMAGE. tiik imooKiiYN nivwrvs sua- IY HKItMO. Subject: "The Mchtnlng of the TTT! " II' uuikflh n pnt'i to thin tiftrr Him. '-Job xll., 82. If for thn nnxt thousand ynara ministers of rnllKioo should prnanh from this Klble, then will yet hn tnxta unnxpoundnd and unx plaln'wl and iinnpprncintnit. What little hat lmn aa'd concnrnlnv this adapter iu Job from which my 1xt ia taknn Iwara on the controversy an to what waa really the lvla than dnserilmd aa disturbing thn ana. What ernntnrn it waa I know not. Homnstv it was a whale. Home say It waa a cronoille. Mv own opinion Is it was a n wonstnr now ex tlnf. Mo emnlurn now floittinu In Mediter ranean or Atlantic waters corresponds to JoV dnneriptlon. What most intnrmta mn Is that aa It movnd on throinth thn ilnnp It Inft ths water flash tuc an I mnplnndnnt. In thn words of tha t'xt. "tin maknth a path to shlnn afw him. ' Whs! was that illumined path? It was phoaphorHneniinn. You find it to thn wakn of a ship iu thn nlKht. epw-lally aftnr roiiuh wnnthnr. riiosphnrssennnn la the liKhliiiiiic f Dm sa. That this flgura of psi'li roirnet iii dnacrlbinu Its appnar ani'n I am enrtnlwl by an Incident. After crosslink thn A: Initio thn first tlmn and wrillttK from Hitsln. Hwilxnrland.toao Amnr lean msKnr.inn an annoiint of my voyan. In which nothliiK morn fascinated mn than thn phosphor'isi'nncn In ths ship's wakn, I eallnd It thn MulilnlnK nf thn ev Kntiirnintr to my liotnl. I found a book of John Kuskln. and thn tlrst SMitennn my nyns fnll upon was his ilns'-rlption of phusphorMtenann, in which he rnllnd it 'thn IlKhtiiimr of thn .-u." Down to thn poitonVn I hantnnnd lo irnt thn iniiiiiuTipt. and with icmit labor and iiidio nxpnitsii Kot ponsina of the matra Kinn nrtbdn and put iiotation marks around that onn snntnncn, although it waa al orig in! with mn as with Jmin Kunklu. I sup pcisnthitt ulun-tnnths of you liviim ao nuar t h snanoast have w.ttchnd thia marine ap pnanincn called phosphori-seemm, and I bopo l hut t hn ot hnr onn-tnnt h may soma day be ao happv as to witnnss it. It is thn wavns of the diainoudnil ; it ia thn InltormM'eoce of the billow t : thn wavns of thn ana crimsoned aa was thn dnep aft r thn sna tlbt of Lnpauto ; thn wiv.st ot the na on nrn. 'I'lmrn arn times when from horizon to horlr.on tlm nntlrn ocean nms InnoutlaK ration with this struiurn sp'.nmlor aa It ehaiiKsi evnry iimmnnt to tamer or Dior ilaK.lihK color on a'l aides of you. You sit lookluu over tbetaffrntl of thn yaoht or ocean stauinr, watehlng and waiting to sin what nw thin thntiod of Itnauty will do with thn Atlautle. It is thn ocean in tran nVurutlou ; it is thn marine world eaatintf its earmi'tits of ulorv in the pathway of the Almlxhty as lit walks the deep ; it ta an in verted firmament with all its star gone down with it. No picturn can present it, for pliotoiraphr'a camnra cannot liesuocess lullv trained to est oil it. and twfornittha hand of thn painter drops its pencil, over swnd and powerless. This phosiihorems-iicn is thn appeuranne of mvnud i.c the animal kiugdom rlslnif, falUmr, playin flashini;, livinir, drinit. Tliesn luminous anlmaieu'., (,)r nearly 100 years havn been tho study of nuralists and Mm fiun-iiiatlon and solnuiiilaatioii oi i who havn brain enough to ininu. now, uuu, who puts Hi His llilile nothlnit trivial or us les. calls thn attention ot Job, thn Krnatest feinntist of his day. to this phosphorescence, and ss the leviathau of tlm dnnp swnnps past points nut tlm fact that "he umketn a path 10 sniiiB au-r huh, Is that true of us now. and will it b true ofuswlmn wn havn tconnr Will there be ubseueut liKht or darkness? Will there be . i..i .-f ii.mni or irood uheer? fan an v one betwnnn now and thn next 100 years say C' is truthfully thn tt says oi tun inviu.-,, n. iemikti r,h table, aud chin. lb rash In the same . nud worship in the Mtmn church, we nm in motion and nrs In tuauy rnspnets moving on, and we are not where we were ten years ago, nor where we will be ten years hence. Moving on ! Look nt the family record, or the almanac, or Into thn mirror, and sen if uny one ot you Is where you wre. All in motion. Other feet may trip nnd stumble and halt, but the feet of uot one moment for thn Inst sixty cen (urine has tripped or stumbled or halted. Moving ou! Society moving ou ! Thn world moving on ! lleaveu moving ou ! Thn uni verse moving on ! Time moving on ! later ally moving on I Therefore it Is aluur.l t think that wn ourselves can stop, as we jtiist move with ail thn rent. Are we like the crna turn of tlin text, making our path to shine after usn? It may be a peculiar question, out my text slights it. Whut Intliieu ;e will wn leave In this world after we have ;one through it? "Nous,"' uu swer hundreds of voiees i "wn are not one of the Immortals. Fifty years after we are out uf thn world it will bu as though we never in habited it." Vouarewroug in saying that, i pass down through this audienen and up through these galleries, and I am looking for tome one whom I cannot llud. 1 uiu looking for one who will have no ld fblenen In thia world 100 years from now. lint I have found the man who has the least influence, aud 1 inquire iuto his history, and I find that by a yea or a no he decided some one's eternity. In time of temptation be gave an affirmative or a negative to some tompta tlou whieli another, hearing of, was Induoed lo docide In the same way. Clear on the other side of the next million years may be tbn tlrst yon hear of the long reaching iutlunuco of that yes or no, but bear of it you will. Will that father make a path to shine after blm? Will that mother make a path lo shine after ber? You will be walking alung those streets or along that country road IKK) years Irom no in the character of your deseendauts. They will be affected by your courage or your cow ardice, your purity or your depravity, your holiness or your siu. You will make the path to shine utter you or blacken after you. Why should they point out to us on some mountain two rivulets, one of which passes down Into thn rivers whieh pour out intothe 'acitlo Oceau, and the other rivulet flowing down iuto thu rivers whieh pas out Into the Atlantic Oeonu? Every man, every woman, stands nt a point where words uttered, or deeds done, or prayers offered, decide oppo site destinies aud opposite eternities. We ee a mau planting a tree, nnd treading sod on either side of it, und watering It In dry weather, and taking a great care in Its cul ture, and he never plucks any fruits from Its bough. Ilut his children will. We are all planting trees that will yield fruit hundreds of years after wears dead orchards Of gol den fruit or groves of deadly upas. 1 am so fusniusted with the phosphor escence iu the track of a ship that I have sometimes watched for a long wtilla and have en nothing ou the face of the deep but blauknnss. The mouth of watery ohasir.s that looked like guping Jaws of h 'II. Sot a spark as big as a flreflv i not a white soroll of tnrf ; not a taper to illumluate the mighty sepulobnrs ot dead ships : darkness 8000 feet deep, and more thousands ot feet long and wide. That is the kind of wake that a bad man leaves behind hliu as he plow through the ocean of this life toward the vaster ooeaa ot the great future. Now, suppose a man seated la a oorner grocery or business offlne among olerks gives himself to Jolly skepticism. He laughs at the Hlbie, makes sport of the nilraolesyl speaks ot perdition lit Jokes and laughs ai revivals as a frolic, and at the passage ot luneral prooeaslou, which always soleninuos sensible people, says, "Bon, let's takefa drink." There is iu that group a youag man who Is making a great struggle against temptation and prays night and morning and reads nis uinie and isasklug Uod for bain day by day. But that guffaw agafosl Obria- Manlty makna blm loss M arip of aanrad things, and havivna ao Hahbatn anl ounrno and morals and ona from bad to worse, till he falls nndnr dtal pat ions, dies In a laaar bona and is bnrled la ths pnttnr a nnm. Aaothnr vonnc man who heard that Jolly knntinlsm made up his mind that "it makes on tllfnrenoe what we do or aay, for ws will all some out at Isst at the right plane," and lmg-an as a consnqunnne to purloin. Home money that name into his hands for others b applied to his own uses. tninKinR per haps he would mskn It straight some other time, and all would be woll even It be did not make It stralirht. Me ends in the peni tentiary. .That aeoffnr who ottered the Jokes aaiast Christianity never realised what bad work he was dotnjr, and he panned on through life and out of It ami Into a future that t am not now gning to depict. I do not propose wit h a snsm.hliht to show thn breakers of the awful coast on whlohthat ship is wrenked. for my business now is to watcn the sea arter tne Keel nas nioweu it. Noph'tplioreecence in tne wane ot thai snip, but b Und It two souls struiritling In the wave two youmt men destroyed by reckless sm. an unlllumlnnd onau hnnnath all sides of them, itlaokotss of dark- skept nnd nesa. Yoo .now what a gloriously (tool man hn Nnwton was thn most of his life. rn his conversion hn was a vnry tailor, and on board the shin Har rtlllnd loildnlity and vice into the a younj man -principles which iln blm. Afterward thn two met, and tried to undo his bad work, but In The young man became worse and d died a proflliratn. horrifying those d by him In his last momnnts. look out whst hat Inrlunnnn yon you may nf be able to atop It. It mo,uire very great fores to ruin Why was It that many years ago a d noarlv destroyed Now Orleans? flev. i but be wleke wieh I mind i froye Newti vsin. worse who si Belt Mart, does other Tat A era? thsrlv the bai h had burrown I Into the banks of until the ground was saturated aud i weakened until the flood hunt. Ind here man who starts oat In the determination that tv will i suffering but he will try to nl , and never asn dlHCOuragnment ill try to cheer It. and never meet body but he will try to do him Ittlng his strength from Ood. he cn home with high purpose of doing od he can possibly do la one day. r standing behind thn counter, or t the business offlne with a pen be r, or making a bargain with a fnU r. or out in thn tlnld discussing nnzt neighbor the wisest rotation of or in the shoemaker's shop pound eatber, thern Is somnthlug in his i bis nhrasnologv and In his man Ilut II fo wl never lev late but he Ith a irood. starts fi all the Whet talking hind hi low trs with hi the cro Ing sol face, an ner, that demonlstrntes tho graee of Ood in his heart. He oan talk on religion without awkwai-dlv dragging It In bv thn ears. He loves Ood and lovr tbn souls of all whom he meets aid Is InternsteJ in their preauut aud eternal 'asttny. For fl y or sixty years he lives that life, end the gets through with it and goes into heaven to dnsnr entered. I am i met hia not goto ransomed soul. Hut I am not going n the port Iuto which that ship has goiug to describe the Pilot who lUtsidn at the "lightship." I am tci ssy anything about thn crowds who met hi in on the eyrstnlline p whiah hn gone on step of es. Vft Ood iu His words to Job i look at the path of foam in the at ship, and 1 tell you it Is all th splendors of kludneas done, with Illumined tesr that wero y. and a-dash with congratuln lear nut to tbn horizou In all di besparklluK. Hashing, billowing f-nen of a Christian life. "He th to shlnn after him." ' correct ono of thn mean no .t some tlmn takes possession of that Is as to thn brevity of bu- of frlen wharves chrysopi oallls ne wake ot a -gleam aud roll! wiped a tlous, an -Hons phosK01 UMtketh And hi tlons wli all of us, mau life, man. clel tteth yeai gios ! It get ready soon to inn t bury somn vnry usnful r lav. lit his thirtieth or for : "What a waste ot ener dly worth while for him to 1st Ian work, for he had so Ilut thn fact ia that 1 may . or woman who do-a any eorams" v uowa one ot tue ring w aaimu. iu. start one good word, one kind ant. one cheerful smile, on a mission that will last until the world IsKsomea a bonfire, and out of that blaze it will pass Into the heavens, never to halt as lon at Ood lives. There were in theseventeenthocntury men nud womeu whose names you never heard of who are to-day Inllucnrdng achools, col leges, churches, Nations. You cau no morn measure thn gracious results ot their life time than you could measure the length and breadth and depth of thn pnosphoresnen -e last night following the ship ot thn While Htar line 1300 miles out at sea. How the courage and consecration ot otbors inspire us to follow, as a general in tun American army, ocol amid the flying bullets, inspired a trembling soldier, who said atterward. "( was nearly scared to death, but I aaw thn old man's white mustache over his shoulder and went on." Ave, wn am nil following somebody, either iu right or wrong direc tions. A few days ago I stood beside the gar- lauded easknt of a gospel minister, aud iu my rnmarks hsd occasion to recall a snowy night in a farmhouse when I was a boy and an evangelist spending a night at my father's house, wuo said something so tender and beautiful and impressslve that it led me into the kingdom ot Ood aud decided my destiny ror this world and the next, lou will, be fore twenty-four hours go by, meet some man or woman with a big pack of care and trou ble, and you may aay something to nun or her thst will endure until this world shall have been so far lost In the past tbat nothing but the stretch of augellu memory will be able to reallxe thai It ever existed at all. I am not talkiug of remarkable men nnd women, but of what ordinary folk oan do. I am uot speaking ol the phosphorescence In the track ! a Newfoundland dsn lug smack. Ood makes thunderbolts out of sparks, and out of the small words and deeds of a small life Hecnn launch a power that will flash aud burn aud thunder through the eternities. How do you like this prolongation of your earthly lite by deathless iuflunnoe? Many a babe tbat died at six months of age by the anxiety created In the parent's heart to meet that ohil 1 iu realm seraphic Is living yet in tne transformed heart ana nrn ol those parents and will live on forever in the his tory of tbat family. It this be the opportu nity ot ordinary souls, what is the oppor tunity of those who bav especial Intellectual or social or monetary equlpmeut Hav you any arithmetic capable of esti mating the intlueuoe of our. good and gra cious friend who a few day ago went up to rest George W. Childs. ot I'MUvlelpula? From a newspaper that was printed for thirty years without one word of defama tion or scurrility or scandal, and puttlug a chief emphasis on virtue and charity and clean Intelligence, he reaped a fortune for himself and tbeu distributed a vast amouut of It among thn poor and struggling putting his Invalid and aged reporters on peusious, until bis name stands everywhere for large beartedness and sympathy and help and highest style of Christ lau gentle man. la an era which had In the ohair ot Its Journalisms Horace Oreoley, and a Henry J. jiaymond, and a James Gordon Bennett, and fu Ernst us Brooks, and a George William iurtis, and an Irenaeus Prime, none oftbem will be longer remembered thau George W. Child. Maying away from the unveiling ot the monument be had roars! at large ex pense In our Greenwood In memory of Pro fessor Proctor, the astronomer, lest 1 should ay something In praise ot the man who had paid for the mouument. By all acknowl edged a representative ot the highest Amen oau Journalism. If you would oaloulate his influenoe for good, von must oouut how many sheets ot El newspapers have bauu published In the last quarter of a oentury, aud how mauy people have read them, and lb effect not onl upon tho readers, but upon all whom ther shall Influence for all time, while ynw add lo all that the work of thn churches hn helped build and of the institutions of mercy hn helped found. Better give up before yon start the measuring of the phoxphomsennae In the wake of that ship of thn Celestial line. Who can tell the noet mortem Influence ot a Havonarola. a Wlnknlrled. a Oiitenberc, a Marlborough, a Delator, a Tonasaint, a Boli var, a Clarkson, a Bnbert Hat ken. a Harle Page, who bad 135 Habbath scholars, eigb four of whom became Christians, and at them rnlnlstnrs of the go pel. With gratitude and penitnnce and worsb t mention th grandest life that waa n lived. That ship of livht waa launched fro. thn heaven nearly t00 year ago, annt! host chanting, and from the celesta wharves the ship sprsng Into the roughs sna that ever tossed. Its billows wre mad up Of the wrath ot men and devils, Herodl and sanhedrlnlo persecutions stirring th dnnp with red wrath, and all thn hurrln.m nf won smote it until on thn rocks of Oolgo tha that life stru-k with a resound of agony that appalled the earth nnd thn hnavnn. But In the wakeot that life what a phospho rescence of smiles on the cheeks of soala ardonod, and lives reformed, and Nations redonmnd. The millennium Itself Is only one roll of that Iradiatel wave of gladness and benediction. In th sublimnst of all senses It may 1st said of Him, "Hemasnth a path toshine afrnr Hlin." Ilut I cannot look upon that luminosity that follows ships without realising how fond the Lord Is of life. That flm of thn denp Is life, myriads of crnatnms all a-swim an 1 a- fday and a-romp In parks of marine bs-tuty aid out and part-rrnl an J rosnatnd and hlowtomnd bv Omiilpotnue. What Mimosa of those creatures called by the naturalists vrustseenns" and "copopoiK" not mom than one out of hundreds of billions of which treeversnen by human eye Oo1 cm-itad ahem for thn same mason that Hn crentna flower In places where uo biimnu foot ever makes them tremble, and no human nostril ever inhales their redolence, and no human eye ever sens their charm. In thn botanical world they prove that On I loves flowers, as in the marine world the phosphori prove that Hn loves life, and Ue loves life In play.llfe iu brilliancy of gladness, life In exuberance. And so I am led to believe that Hn loves our life If we fulfill our rr.laslon as fully as thn phosphor! fiilllll theirs. The Hon of Ood cam "that wn might havn life and have it more abundantly." Ilut I am glad to tell you that our Ood is not the Ood sometimes de scribed as a bnrsh critic at the bead ot thn uuivnran, or an Inlluite scold, or a Ood that loves funerals better than weddings, or a Ood that prefers tears to lau ghtnr, an om nipotent Nero, a ferocious Nana Hahlh, but the loveliest Binc in thn universe, loving flowers and llfn and play, wlmthnr of phos phor! In the wakn of thn Majestic or of the human race kJeplngn holiday. But mark you that thn phosphnroscnnoA has a glow that the night monopolizes, and I ask you not only want kind of influence you nm goiug to leave In thn world as you pass through It. but what light am you going to throw across thn world's night of sin and sorrow? People who are s-iillug on smooth sea and at noou do not need muoii sympathy, but what arn you going to do for people in the night of misfortune? Will you drop on them shadow, or will you kindle for them phosphorescence? At this moment tbm nrn mom people cry ing than laughing, more people ou the round world this inomeut hungry than well fad, mum household bcrclt th.tn hones un broken. What are you going to do about It? "Well," savs yonder soul. "I would like to do something toward illumining the great oceau of human wretehnduess, but I cannot do inueh." Can you do ns mii"h ns one of tlm plios p'uorl iu the ml Idle of the Atlantic O n tu, matures smaller than the point of a sletrp pin? Oh, ye.'' you suy. Than do thut. Shinnf Htitiid before tbn looking gl.tss aud experiment !o sen if you enuaot get that scowl off your forehead, that poivish look out of vour lip. H.tvest least one brixht ribbon in your Issnuet. F.mhroidur at least one white'eor J somewhere In tha midnight of your apptml. i not uv loug-ir 1; iper-soiis-- fuimrsl. Hhir ' " ssysomnt , a out oc.le thec-rld. .ew uropi of ipo a. Once in a iweet ge for a sour I member that hemy and that optimism la Cut 1st mini?. Throw some light on tb night ocean. If you can not lie t lantern twinging in the rigging, be one of the tiny phosphor! back of the keel. Hhine I "Let your light ao shine before meu that other seeing your good works may glorify your Father which is In heaven." Make one person happy every dav, and do that for twenty years, and you will have made 7:100 happy. You know a man who has lost all his property by an unfortunate In vestment or by putting bis name ou the bank of a friend's note. After you have taken a brief nap, which every man and woman is entitled to ou a Kuoday afternoon, go and cheer up that man. You can. if God helps you. say something that will do him good after both of you have been dead a thousand years. Hhine! You know of a family with a bad toy who has ruu away from home. Oo be fore night and tell that father and mother thn parable of the prodigal soo, aud that some ot tho Illustrious and useful men now In church and state had a silly passage in their lives and ran uwny from home. Hhine I You know of a family that has lost a child, aud tbn silence of the nursery glooms the whole house from cellar to garret. Oo be fore night and tell them how much that child has happily escaped, siuce the most prosper ous llle on earth is a struggle. Hhine ! You kuow ot some invalid who la dying for lack of an appetite. Hhe cannot get well because sb cannot eat. Broil a chicken and take it to her before night and cheat her poor appetltn iuto keen relish. Shine! You know ot some one who likes you. and you like hi in. nnd he ought to be a Christian. Oo tell blm what religion has done for you, aud ask him If you csn pray for him. Hhine I Oh, for a disposition so oharged with sweetness and light tbat we oannot help but shine 1 ltetnember It you oannot be a Jeviathan lashing the ocean Into fury you can do one oi tue pnospnon, uomg your part toward making a path ot phosphorescence. Then I will tell you what impression you will leave as vou pass through this life and after you are gout. I will tell you to your face and uot leave It for the minister who of ficiates at your obsequies. The failure in all euloglum of the departed I tbat they cannot .bear It. All bear It ex cept the one most Interested. This, in sab staaee, Is what I or some one else will say of you on such aa occasion : "We gather for offices of respect to this departed one. It ia Impossible to tell how tnuuy tears he wiped away, how many burdens be lifted, or bow many souls he waa, under Ood, Instrumen tal iu saving. Hia influence will never cease. We are all better for having known blm. "That pillow of flower on the casket wa presented by his Sabbath-school clans, all of whom be brought to Christ, That uross of flowers at the bead was presented by the orphan asylum which he befriended. Those three single flowers one wa sent by a poor woman tor whom he bought a ton of coal, and one wa by a waif of the street whom he rescued through the midnight mission, and the other was from a prison cell which he bad often visited to encourage repentance In a young man who had doue wrong. "Those three loose flowers mean quite a much as the garlands now breathing their aroma through this saddened home crowded with sympalbbsnrs. 'Blessed are the dead who die iu the Lord. They rest from their labors, and their work do follow them.' " Or If It should be the mora solemn burial at sea, let It be after the sun has gone down, and the captain has read the appropriate liturgy, aud the ship' bell has tolled, and you are let down from the stera of the vessel into the resplendent phosphorescent at th wake of tbeshlp. Then let some one say, in thu words of my text, "He maknth a path to shine ufler him." Virginia City, above the sea. Net., is CiOO feet Jj.,".. ... ... ' ,. - '...-. hes f yz. - .. t
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