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II' . i liILL I'tmi. only nn aiul 2 t. .iMLv.t hi,., linn MtE. on rxxlui ' . i i-w i.-.ii' mm. it I !.:iv V .'.CCC?r ANV SUBSTITUTE. H ic.':." J:-:ui. JiA.jUMtrt"4ii'tifrfViVi 11 'C & ''i;AD NWSES CURED II i-1 ... li.puntlj. Our IKVlHIBtB TCBB fci't--"' w ' n' "1""' h"'P -U fain, m JL- "' ' -l"'.liic No r4n. IV'd.T i 'i rd hnI t V. UImoi l'o HIUI Jir'u!--'!. V .. tJT llhutrttod bwk pjfgg THE BIQ MELON PATCH. . . That ui UnM, to arty print, 1 4taaV d mott to scratch . Frum aarly morn o lata at nlcbt la dad'a bl( melon pa(ca. Tba patch It locked tan acres ton by serea acres wide. An' erery hill a mountain top, with valleys dose beside. An' then the hoe 1 tied to use weighed all nv twenty pound. An' strained the sockets u my arms at every stroke an' bound : The soil, tho' light. It seemed to hug the dusty earth like lead. An' erery hill 1 hed to make choked up my soul with dread. An' every year in early spring I dreaded most to scratch With heavy hoe an' achln' hand In dad's big melon patch. Tew see the river lay close by, an' sparkled In the sun, Jes' tantallxln' uv my soul with every gleam It spun; An' every ripple, all day long, Jes beckoned me aside. An' showed me where a fish lay hid be neath the stiver tide. Aa' when all this wus hauntln' me, bow could a feller scratch With stlddy stroke an' right good will In dad's ol' melon patch T But when the autumn sun shone warm, an' J dow lay on the grass, j An' we hed shocked the Meld uv corn, an' housed the garden sass, An' when the nuts begun to turn, an' cockle ; burrs to catch, I hed no dread to spend an hour In dad's big melon patbhl j Fur tlicro would glisten In the sun them feller, long an' green, I With meller. Juicy, red Insldea, fit fur a i king or queen; I An w'en a-st raddle uv the fonce, with mel- i ons a hull batch. I soon forgot my sufferln's In dad's bl meloa patch. j An' so It Is with every soul, the hull great ! human batch, ! We hev our mole-hill mountains here In life's big melon patch. We murmur an' we magnify, an' dread to do a job. An' look out on the river, yearnln' fur Its lazy throh. We fain would throw away the hoe an' laze beside the stream, An' let the melons plant themnolves, an' fish an' Idly dream. But whin at la it success hez come we gob ble down our catch. An' soon furglt tnn trials we've hed In life's big melon paten. -Joe Cone, In N. Y. Herald. LD EGYPT By J. L. Harbour. MY BROTIIEU Jeff, my father and I wera planting corn one morn ing, wben I was a boy of IS nnd Jeff was a yenr older. We ought to have been at work in another port of our farm, but father had allowed us to work In the field by the roadside that morn ing because a circus train was to pass on it way to Hebron, a town three miles distant. Jeff and I had been to one circus that summer, and father could not spare us from the farm to go to this one, so we bad to get all the Batittfaction we could from seeing It pass by. We tried to console ourselves by say ing that we didn't think that it was "very much of a circus anyhow." Sam Walling had told Jeff that his uncle .Tim had Rtcn the circus over in Kil bttrn the week before, nnd he had said that it "didn't compare" with the cir cus we hud seen earlier in the season. It ! true t lint Sam had tried to mod ify this statement when ho found that Jelf and I could not go to the circus, j He then told us that hi.s uncle had said j that the clown was tho bpst and fun- j niest clown he ever saw, and that the j trapeze men "brat the Dutch." but we ; held Sam flrruly to his original state ment ni:t) insisted that the circus was "no good nt nil." Just as if tlioro ever had beet' or ever would be a circus that was "no good" to two boys of 15 nnd 10 years! Trejently Jpft gave his boo a lling and fuid. eagerly: "It's coming, Jack!" 1 looked toward a big hill over which the rood ran. and wiw the advance wagona of the circus, which we counted i eagerly as they cnttie over the hill. "There's only 3 of them." Enid Jeff, "and tln-re wero ?A in tho circus we went to in May. It can't be much of a i show," I The wagons, covered with dirty can vas, went by in a shabby procession. In tho rar came three dtist-coTpred ele phants and ten or twelve disaolutc looking enmels. One. the largest of the lot, lin.ped slowly behind tho oth ers, a picture of weariness nnd de jection. A rough-looking man kept prodding the poor beast with a cruel- looking gcad, while he loudly com- I inanded it to "Git out of this!" j The camel would bellow pitifully ut every prod, but did not move any fast-1 er. It could not. Indeed, it came to a standstill when it was directly in front of us. and fell heavily to the ground, with a prolonged bellow of pain nnd I despair. As the man began to beat it, father interfered. I "Ths poor beast is sick." sr. id father; "let it lie here in the bhnde nnd rest awhile. It is fairly panting for j breath." ; A inau on horseback cume riding back. "What's the matter here?" he uhlvid. J "Old Egypt is played out, r.cd It's my opiniou thut lie's played out for good, lie's been kick for a month, and he'll never be nty better." j "I guess you're right," said the man, 1 jumping oil his Lone and looking at : the camel's outstretched neck and closed eyes, "lie's done for, so you may j as well leave him and attend to the others; they're wtraggling." The men coolly walked away, leaving poor old ' Egypt to his fate. j "Fetch some water," said futlier. "We must do what we can for the poor ben it." lie drank eagerly the water we gave him, and it revived hhn a little. We brought him grass and he ate It greed- -He Isn't very pretty. It he?" said "Did you amr see camel tba wat" 1 sake. , "Tra Ian prettier enea tha aid Egypt." replied Jeff. -Look ml his fcidtt- It was easy to do this, aa the hair wu worn off in spots aa big aa a dinner Elate. One eye waa closed permanent r, and three-fourths of hia tall was missing. He was frightfully bony, and hia bones cracked with every move he mode. We got him on hia feet after a little while and drove him into our pas ture. The cowa eyed him curiously for a few minutea, and then took to flight, bawling wildly, their tails in the air. An old . steer, being more courageous, came near, when Egypt, to our surprise, gave the steer a kick that nearly felled hint to the ground. "And he winked his good eye when he did it," said Jeff, "lie did. hon estly!" Egypt then lay down in a ahady, grassy spot while Jeff and I speculated what we should do with him if he did not die. We talked the matter over at the dinner table. "He's not going back to those cltcua men unless they come for him," said fa ther. "I saw enough of their treatment of him." The end of it all was that Jeff and 1 became the proud possessors of old Egypt, for father was too kind-hearted to send the poer beast astray. "Tie's welcome to all the grass he wants." aid father. "There's plenty of it in the meadow, and plenty of hay when Ihe grass is gone. Jeff and Jack can have him in partnership." The news of our wonderful posses sion soon went abroad, and all the boy we knew in the town came out to out farm in company with a pood many boys we had never heard of. All were most friendly and cordinl, however. They brought us gifts of gum. pepper mint drops, marbles and other things desiring nothing In return but a ride on old Egypt Father forbade this, and said that the prcKcnoe of the entire boy population of Ilebron Interfered too much with the work Jeff and I had to do on the farm. So the boya were Invited to return, to town, which they did niter various dis paraging remarks in regard to old Kgyp, Jeff and myself. Fonr weeks passed, nnd it wns won derful hew Egypt "picked up." He still was, ami ever would be, hairless In large cpots. One eye remained closed; he grew not in tail or in fat; but, as Jeff said, there was a marked change in hi mannr. Indeed, he became positively frisky at times, and would chase the cows around in the pasture as If enjoying their terror. He and the steer had evi dently made a treaty of peaces for they were the best of friends after the first week. Of course old Egypt was an- abject of wonder to all travelers over the coun try road, nnd Jeff and I felt that hocon ferred quite a distinction on our farm. "You haven't got any camel." was a taunt Jeff was constantly flinging at the other farmers' hoys, to which they would reply: "We don't want any old camel, un less he could be a better-looking one than you've got an old hnirlese, bob tailed, one-eyed rnck-a-boneu! What good is he?" "Jack nnd I have lots of fun riding or him." we answered, nndi this wns true. A light blow on Egypt's knee would cause him to kneel. Then Jeff nnd 1 would mount his back nnd ride around the pasture in great glee. Ease, kind treatment nnd unlimited food had made such a cliongo in old Egypt that he was quite strong enough to trot around with Jeff and me on his back. Our grown sister, Lucy, and her girl friends often mounted for the novelty of a ride on a c.Ttnel. It was great fun getting on his back, and more getting off. The girls would shout and .shriek nnd cling to his hump the moment he started, declaring that they would fall off, they "jnst would," but they did not. We lived near a sjnnll BchoolhouRe. The teacher, whose name was Nancy Shumwuy, was n very worthy, amiable, woman, though somewhat occentric. She dressed in a remarkably juvenile manner for a Inuy somewnat oiuer than my mother. She wore her hair In long, stiff enrlB almost to her waist, and there were always pink or blue ribbons fluttering about her girlish gowns. Sho laughed a great deal nnd affected a girlish manner. Jeff nnd I were rather abashed to be called "Jefllo, dear," and "Jaclty, boy," w hen Jeff was secretly planning the purchase of a razor and I had escorted a certain Mary Jane Snodgrnen home from singing school three or fouf times. It c as also unpleasant to have Miss Nancy offer to pay U3 in kisses every time wo did anything for her; but she was really a kind-hearted, good wom an, nnd an excellent teacher for the fall term of our school, which was attended by little children only. When Miss Nrncy first saw old Egypt flic rushed up to him In her girlish way: "Why, you dcaro'.d benuty, you! I've heard of you, ami we're going to be jol ly goofi friends, aren't we, old fellow?" Egypt received this friendly advance most ungraciously. He showed all his yellow leeth, winked his good eye furi ously and guve n kick that must hnvo weil-uigh dislocated his leg. "Naughty, nuughty camel!" said Miss Nancy. Whereupon Egypt tried to bite her.- He evidently disliked MissKhum way from that time forth; but this did not keep her from insisting upon hav ing a ride on his back. "How charming it would be If I could have him carry me to and from the schoolhouso! 1 should fel as if 1 were almost an Inhubitaut of the orient. It has always seemed to tue that there must be something so so poetic and dreamlike In having a camel for one's steed." T forgot to mention that Miss Nancy was singularly sentimental. "I'll tell rou what we'll do, my Jeffle evnd Jaeky boys," said igm Bhurnwsy on eVj. "Well caparison him wttk all acrte at fantastic trappings; aa they do ta Lis native land, and then 111 take my ride, and 111 feel like a real oriental prince." .'. .'' The next Saturday Miss Nancy car ried out this plan. We "rigged Egypt up," as Jeff put It, aa no camel in or out of his native land had ever been "rigged up" before. It was all done un der the enthusiastic direction of Miss Nancy. 8he brought forth a red crape shawl, a large, plaid, double woolen shawl, a box of old artificial flowers, another of carefully preserved ribbons of every hue, two or three silk sashes and scarfs, a black lace shawl, several yards of green silk fringe a foot in width, and some peacock feathers. Jeff and I did the "rigging up," and when it was done Egypt was, perhaps, as picturesque a camel aa ever walked the earth. "Now I must be In harmony with Egypt's oriental appearance," said Miss Naney. ' So she draped herself in a white sheet, wound a blue shawl around her head and over her shoulders, and clasped a yellow girdle about her waist "Don't we look as if we were Just from the orient?" she asked, as we made Egypt kneel for her to mount. As he rose to his feet he said: "How romantic!" and laughed gleefully. It may have been that his gorgeous trappings aroused In old Egypt some remembrance of racing tournaments in his youth, or of some mad dash acrosi a moonlit desert with a dusky rldet urging him on with whip and cry; or it may have been In a spirit of reveng that he gave three or four terrific bel lows, n mud toss or two of his flower-nnd-ribbon-bedecked head, and started off at a rate of speed w-e had never seen him exhibit before. Miss Nar.cy began to shriek, her blue shawl fell off. her curled hair tossed about wildly Indeed some of the curli fell off. Across the pasture old Egypt sped. Miss Nancy clinging to his hump. Of course, Jeff and I laughed. So did Sister Lucy, nnd there was a twinkle In mother's eyes, anxious as she felt for the safety of Miss Nancy. "He'r running away I" said mother in alarm. "Get on one of the horses and ride tfter Mm. Jeff! Dear me, the pas ture bars are down! He's out In the road and Is going toward nebron! Ride after him quick. Jeff!" Nick, our fastest horse, wns In his stall. Jeff throw a bridle on him and jamped nmride his back; and aa be dashed out of the barn-yard Jeff called baek roguishly: "now romantic!" "now dreadful! "Particularly it Egypt carries poor Miss Nancy into Hebron looking like that"!" But he did not. Nick was in his prime, and fleeter than Egypt. Jell overtook the camel when he hod gone less than mile. "Egypt! E-g-y-p-tl Ho there, you Egypt!" Jeff called out. and caught Egypt's rein. The camel's mad gallop changed to a trot and then to a walk, and soon he stopped. "And then he not only winked but he grinned at me honor bright, he did!" declared Jeff, afterward. "And the rage and tags we'd 'caparisoned' him with were strung all along the roadside, nnd w e didn't find but five of Miss Nnncy'8 curls!" Miss Nancy descended from Egypt in a state of great indignation when .Toff led tho camel into our barn-yard. "He is a treacherous and dangeroin beast. and he'll never get meon his back npnln," said she, and walked into tin" house trailing her orientnl robes be hind her. Poor old Evpt! That was hH last race. Perhaps he oc r-Nrriet! lpinself.' He was listless and would i.i t ' at tin next day. Three days later, when J t IT and I took a visiting cousin Ci.t to the pasture, we found old Egypt lying at full length under his fnvorite tree. Thre was a suggestion of tears In Jeffs oico as he exclaimed: "Why, he he's dead!" Youth's Companion. LONDON'S SMALL PARISHES. One, Thnt St. Mnry Monntliaw, Con Hitn of Ony Six Iloimes. A bouse mentioned ns standing In tlx different pnrii.hes in the city of Ion don affords a singular instance of the involved state of municipal affairs in that crowded square ruled over by the city corporation. In that .small area there are over GO parishes, noneof them, as may well be supposed, of nny great dimensions, but some of an almost in conceivably small size. The parish of St. Mary Mouuthaw, for instance, which consists of six houses, and U the smallest parish in tho city, may we!! be ranked ns a prime curiosity. T':is odd parish stands at the corner of Qneen Victoria and Friday streets, and has riot possessed a church since the great fire of London, 10GC, when it was burned down, with many more, never to be rebuilt. What we may well call the "stjrname" of the parish either Is derived from some forgotten bene factor, whose namo was attached to it, just as we find a neighboring parish enlled "St. Margaret Moses" and an ther "St. Tenet Fink," or from some geographical peculiarity which accounts for the names of "All llallown, Honey !anc," and "St. Marv, Old Fish stree't blil." The need of these rather cumbrous identifications is obvious, when it is wld thnt there were six or seven par ishes of St Mary In tho city, together with other saints equally well repre sented. St. Mary Mounthnw was orig inally somewhat larger than now, but was reduced H Its somewhat tiny di mensions when the clearances of house property were made for the construc tion of Queen Victoria street, some 30 years since. London News. I'Bsettleil. "Ah, Mr. Mock, I hear you have got into your new bouse. Are you all set tled yet?" All except the rent." Hlustrated mcrlcftt TT2 EUSDAY SCHOOL. Laeaei la lateraatlemal Series far De eaahev S3. lSDeJ-Hevlew vCfcrlet- ' amaa LeeMB Hrkrews t 1-0. Arranged from Peloubet's Select Notes. GOLDEN TEXT. Return to me and I will return to rou. salth the Lord of How. MsL lit. GOLDEN TEXT. For unto you ta born (hie dar In tbe city of David a Saviour, which Is Christ the Ird. Luke ML THE KINGDOM OF J I'D AH. Note 1. That there were 10 kings and one queen. SO in all, and all of one dynasty, that of David; while in Israel there were 10 kings, but of nine differ ent dynasties, implying a different con dition and character of the people. Note 2. The kingdom ofJudab lasted, according to the Revised Chronology, 350 years, while the kingdom of Israel existed only 215 years. The reasons for this can be seen by comparing the story cf Israel with that of Judah. Turn to tbe Review of the Third Quarter. Note 3. Tbe bad kings, and the evils they wrought in morals and religion, introducing idolatry, and its license and crimes, corruption, selfishness, oppres sion and luxury. Some of these rulers were Rehobnam. Jehoram, Athaliah, Ahaz, Manasseh. nnd the last four kings. Note 4. What God did to keep the nation from growing worse and going tc their own ruin. There were propheta. wTitten Scriptures, warnings, pros perity, adversity, five great revivals of religion, leaser punishments and dan gers, rewards of obedience, the fate of the northern kingdom. Note 5. Study the work of the prophets their mission, their names and the place in the history where tbey prophesied; how they were treated, their character, their visions of hope, their WTitten works. Note 6. How in spite of all this they lushed on to their owu ruin, slowly at first, then more rapidly nt last, ns in the rapids above Niagara, then over the precipice to destruction. Note 7, That after all there was a remnant left, a good seed, the lining stump of the beautiful tree. The re vivals and the prophets accomplished this work that all tbe time to the end there was a small but real people of God, faithful and true, sometimes hid den like the 7,000 trne worshipers In Elijah's time, sometimes more In evi dence, but always existing. They car ried the truth iitto captivity. They were the mtflrti" of the return. The new shoot sprang up from the old stump because ef this spiritual life tbe remnant preserved. Note 8. There eame a "too late" for the great body of the nation. Read Trov. 1:24-33 as a commentary on their fate. PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS. The character of a people decides its destiny. "It may be well for us to listen to nesiod, who maintains not, with Plato, that punishment is a suffering that fol lows wrong doing, but that it is a twin birth with wrong doing, springing from the same soil and the same root." Plutarch. God pnnishes as a las resort when o titer methods fall, and would rather not punish, but it Is necessary, FROM DOUBT TO CONFIDENCE. Experience of a Pastor and Profeaaoi f Theolesy "My Jeana, na Then Wilt." Dr. Thomas H. Skinner, before he be came professor of pastoral theology in Union Theological seminary, was pas tor of a Presbyterian church in the city of New York. He was a learned, logical and eloquent preacher, and in his congregation were to be seen law yers, doctors and college graduates. Once the superintendent of the Sunday school Attached to his tkv.rch persuad ed 13 r. Skinner to address the scholars, "My dear children," bei?an the pas tor, "as the time is limited, I will give you only a synopsis of the address 1 had prepared. You may not, my dear children, know the mesultig of synop sis; It is equivalent to epitome." Then, having uttered this lucid definition, ha proceeded to talk in words that few ol the teachers and none of the scholars understood. The professor was a learned theolo gian and n devoted Christian, but he was not exempted from attacks ol doubt tl at threatened to uproot even his belief In the existence of Ood. Once he waa overheard In his study pound ing the study-desk with his clenched hand as lie ejaculated: "There Is n God! God Is! I know it!" Toward the close of his life, how ever, he journevod into tho land where not u wave of trouble rolls. A week or two before his death there was a meeting of clergymen at bis home, who were deeply affected to hear the aged professor recite, with singular emphasis, tbe hymn: "My Jesus, as Thou Wilt!" It was his swan song. Youth's Companion. rteaaennhle I nrenaon. Thnt the faculty of reasoning was given to man Is good evidenco that God expects him to be reasonable. P.ut It is not evidence that man is expected to depend exclusively on his reason It is given to man to npprchend those things which his reason ennnot com prehend, but which he feels to bo true and trustworthy. It Is In his most unreasoning moments of faitli and trust thnt man often shows himself most reasonable. S. S. Times. Ham's Horn Wrinkles. Wise men watch their own heart fools watch other men's actions. It Is sometimes better to climb over a mountain than to remove it. No man ever stumbles ever an ob ject in his rear. The heart that beats with sympathy for others Is never a dead beat. Love it its own recompense, and it al ways pays good wages. ' When we get so selfliti that we want theearth, we are not likely to give much thought to the world t) some. TQ-SUTDAY SCZCSL, . - . teaata la 'iatotmaUlMal Series tes . Jajaaary X, lttlS) carta, the Trae r Llsrat-Jftfca ld-14. 1 r. ' Arras fea from Pt!oube's Select Notes.' GOLDEN TEXT. In Him was Mfe; an Ihe life was the light of men.-John 1:4. THB SECTION Include the whole pro logue, John la-is. - . EXPLANATORY NOTES. I. His Eternal Exiatence with Ood and aa Cod Before He Came Into This World. Vs. 1. . X. "fn the beginning waa the Word:" With evident allusion lo tbe first word of Genesis, tbe primal beginning of things. But the Word then already was. He waa also the ef ficient principle, the beginning of the beginning. Prof. M. R. Vincent, "And the Word wns with God:" Tbe Greek preposition here translated with origi nally denotes motion towards, and ! hence with as the result of the motion. Not merely as being beside, but as a living union and communion; implying the active notion ot intercourse. "And the Word was God:" This statement annihilates two errors that might arise: (1) That the Word, being with God. might be inferior. No; He was God, none greater than he. (2) Tbatlf equal to God, there might be two Gods. No; He Is not. one of two Gods. He is Cod himself, the One Eternal God. II. His Previous Works. V. 3. "All things were made by nim:", Through Him, Creation waa His work. Tils de partment. In Genesis, in describing the creation, theexpresslon "And God Said" is used eight tlmees. "And without Him:" Apart from Him. "Was not anything:" No, not ona (not even one): stronger than "nothing." "That was made:" Came into being. AH creation was a revelation of God. III. The Nature of nis Work to Give Life and Light. Vs. 4, 5. 4. "In Him was life:" lie was the well-spring from which every form of life physic al, intellectual, moral. spiritual, eternal flows. Cambridge Bible. "And the life wns the light of men:" Life comes first, then light. According to Scrip ture and according to the lastest sci ence, some energy, some living force first set the patlcles of matter into mo tion, and the first result wns light. IV. The nerald of nis Coming. Vs. 6-9. 8. "A man sent from God:" As on envoy with a special commission. Hence He was a prophet. 7. "The same came for a witness,' rather, a witnessing, for teetlmony "to bear," In order that he might benr "wit ness of the Light," because, the light being spiritual, and men's eyes closed, or Intent on seeing wortdy things, they would not notice the light which shone in the humble Jesus. "That all men through Ilim might believe" in the light, first by nis witness, nnd then by seeing for themselves. V. Tnrpose of nis Work. To Make Men the Children and Heirs of Godj Vs. 10-13. 10. "He," tho Word, the Light. "Was in the world:" In all the post ages, in every manifestation of God, in the history of tbe chosen na- Hon, hut especially when Ha appeared as the ma,n in Christ Jesus, tbe Saviour of the world. This is one reason why the world ought to receive nim, for Ho was among men teaching, inviting and helping them. "And tbe world was made by nim:"- This is a second rea son, for the world of people were Ilis creatures, made in his image, made to be like Him in character and destiny, and under the deepest obligations to nim. "And (yet) the world knew Hfm not:" Did not recognize Ilim as heir Creator, Saviour and King. 11. "ne came unto His own:" His own possessions, nis Inheritance, His peculiar people, the Jews, whom He had created, whom ne hud chosen from the rest of the world, whom He had trained and cared for ns His peculiar people, nnd who were nis brethren ac cording to tho flesh. "His own (even these) received Ilim not:" The Greek word, according to Do Wette, means "to receive into the house." 13. "But ns many ns received Him:" Accepted nim as their Saviour nnd King, acknowledged His claims, and yielded obedience to Ilis teachings. "To them gave He power (B. V., the right):" The original word combines the two Ideas, both tho right and the power. "To become the sons (better, with R. V., children) of God:" God adopts us as children (Rom. 8:10, IT), and makes us children by Impnrting to us Ilis own life (John 3:3,5). "Even to them thnt believe on Ills name:" This shows how everyone may become a child of God. nnd guards, against a mistaken security, ns of those who might wrongly imagine that because' they were children of Abraham, there fore they were children of God. VI. His Coming Into tho World. The Incarnation. V. 14. "And the Word:' Wh.li all the powers and qualifications described above. "Was made:" He camo. See Luke 1:20-38; Matt. 1:18-25. "li'lesh:" Human nature in and accord ing to its corporal manifestation. "And dwelt among us:" "Tabernacled" among us, dwelt as in a tent, us the Divine Presence dwelt in the tabernnclo in the wilderness. "And we beheld:" We, John nud many other people. Those who were most intimate with Him, who imbibed most of His spirit, aw most clearly His glory. "Ills glory Is tho outshining of those qualities which form the excellency and splendor of Ills true nature, as the glory of tbe sun is radiance, the outshining of the very nature nnd henrt of tho sun. Kllta and Ttilatlea. "Whot the gods seiid" is often a bribe from tbe devil. This Is a world of change, not chance. The greatest miracle is tbe trans formation of a sinner into a snint. The arm that is swift to strike, may he strong to suceor. Man's rage cannot alter God'a pur pose. We are mad hy our enemies, and marred by ourselves. i I Yau eannot overcome, In the bate j-lthout, until yen have the peace of w4thln.--Rarn'iJIprn. ,' j 0 list ait S20! 30. tllCi ffort 1 m i Cut lated. a, PA. lvss 0, a OB a li ne i it a M r 1 r VmsWi.
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