good oli times when you knelt at your | enedthe arm of the mechanic, or seatterad
mother’s knee and said your evening prayer, | the briefs of the lawyer, or interrupted the
and those other days of sickness when she | sales of the merchant. They bolt their store
watched all nicht and gava you the medi- | doors against it and fight it back with
cines at just the right time and turned the | trowels and with ‘yard sticks and cry,
TAL.MAGE'S SERMON.| pillow when it was hot, and with hand long $4 wav with your ralizion from our store,
ago turned to dust soothed your pains, and | our office, our factory!”
with that voice you will never hear again | They do mot. understand that religion in
unless vou join her in the better country | this workaday world will help you to do
told ycu never mind—you would be bette
¢No, sir.” meet her again, and trusted that he
The Colonel paused to think over the | might have permission to call upon her.
news. His Trichinopoly was tbree- | In spite of Mrs: Marshall's protestations,
quarters e; so he hurled the stump | the little Colonel departed, polite and
into the aarkness and watched it turn | smiling, promising to call on the fol-
# | over and over on the gravel, emitting a | lowing day, and leaving Charles, sulky
shower of sparks like a squib. Then he | and scowling and ill-used, to continue
carefully lit another cigar, and, with a | the promenade with what grace he
DISCONTENT. ¢
The landsman through a stormy street,
And shades of night, was going;
The ground was paved with shifting sleet
The wintry wind was blowing,
“Heaven pity grant, and help,” said he, 3
To those who live upon the sea!” Ei
BEAUTY OF RELIGION.
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REV. DR.
aren.
The Foolish ‘Excuses Made By Persons
? rt : ' ; anything you ought to do. It canlaya i
The sailor clinched a trembling mast, “ | deep sigh—fax he loved his ease—said: | might. for Keeping Out of Churches. by and by, and by that dying couch, whers | keel, it tu ain L apa th
Mid mountains round him flowing, +sCall me at 8 to-morrow, Wilks. Good | Colonel Turner was as good as hi: EE she talked so slowly, catching her breath | can work a pulley, it can pave a street, it :
i Vile trou. tho darknoms, thick sad fast | night.” word... He called on Ms. Marshal th rE Dower] | SEs wreTburt f oi ome Sie: jrogey
fo The wintry winds were blowing; - *Good night, sir.” next day, and on several following days, | TEXT: “Aad they all with one consent nd 400 pry enouzh for ial priate ley on a his ria to thes
RE “Heaven save the landsman, now.” he said, | Next morning Colonel Turner put his | until at last Charles wrathfully dis- began to make excuse.”—Luke xiv., 18. enough for you. the chemist as his laboratory, to the mason their s
bt “With chimneys toppling round his head!” | poor little plan into action. -Soon after | covered that youth was being distanced Wola the invitations tc a levee are sant out 3a 1 make a bette! pes by the wounds a. 2p SA the carpenter as ae egg she
a . : i e regrets come in. Ons man apologi d the geal roes of the Son of God ne, e cC as his marbles, ° :
: But when the world grew mild once more, breakfast, therefore, he appeared on the | by middle Age, and that he was being {po ,, 0 00tondancs on ons er approacies you this morning with torn brow | grandfather as his staff. 3 sor els
This tar, despondent growing, | parade with his patent leather boots and | routed on his own ground by the unclé | on another ground. The most of the regrats and lacerated hands and whipped back cry- No time to be religious here! You bave : of then
& Said, “If I could but walk the aliore, .% | gold-rimmed eyeglass flashing in the | whose airs and graces he despised. are founded on prior engagements, So in | ing: ‘Come unto Me all ve who are weary i no time not to be religious. You might as tom pri
4 Though all the winds were blowing ~~ | morning sun, and took up his position | One evening when he called on Mrs. | TF text a great banquet was spread, the iu- | and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” | well have no clerks in your store, no books : is th:
gl! © owing! hich a hall bavi bl vitations were circulated, and now the re- Other persons apologize for not entering in your library, no compass on your ship, 2 at
i The lardemar thought, “Though storms | OF 2 eat whic commaaded, but not too | Marshall, atter having been unable tosee | oot 0 nein. The one gives an agiicultu- | the Christian life because of the incorrigi- | no rifls in the battle, no hat for your egg sh
thors ba ostentatiously, the main entrance to the | her all day, he was told that she was at | ral reason, the other a stock dealer's reason, | bility of their temper. Now, we admit it is | bead, no coat for your back, no shoes for bolical
I would that I could sail the sea!” Porpoise. He had not long to wait. He | home, but engaged. the other a domestic reason—all poor rea~ | harder for some peoole to become Christians | your reet. Batter travel on toward eternity
A 3 ! soon became aware that his nephew was The pretty maid seemed very un. | $0DS. The agricultural reason being that | than for others, but the grace of God never | bare headed aud bare footed, and houseless >
—Will Carleton, in Harper's Bazar, |: : p2 . pretty ma y- 3 the ruan had bought a farm and wanted to | came to a mountata that it could not climb, } zal homeless, ani friendless, than ga Th
in the hall of the Porpoise, giving or- | willing to admit him, but under the in- | gegit. Could he not see it the next day? | OF t0 an abyss that it could not fathom, or throuzh life without religion. ere
y ders to the porter; aud so he rose and [fluence of five shillings she decided ta ! The stcck dealer's reason being that he had | t0.a bondage that it could not break. Tue | Did religion make Raleigh any less of a mission
The Colonel's Romance. strolled gently toward the pier, rightly | risk it and to show him upstairs. As he bought five yoke of oxep, and he wanted to | Wildest horse that ever trod Arabian sands | statesman, or Havelocz any less of a sol- to the f
judging that Charles would not turn to | expected, he found Mrs. Marshall and and Prova Them. He nad no business to has gen bioken 10 hit 20d fant Tas mad gier, or Gringell anv lass 3 Rois i at, or 1817; E
> . : x . J em i en - any less of a painte|
] O cne who saw | the left and go toward the outskirts .of | his uncle quite content with their own Besides Pht om li J shelving has been co Je the mill- | best sourity in ry Ali it. is the 2980;
Colonel Alured | the town, at any rate, so early in the | company. He accepted their greetings | of oxen can command his own time. Be- wheel and the factery band, setting a thou- | sweetest note in every song, itis the bright-
Turnerstepping | day. In a few moments the Colonel | very stifily, and refused to be seated, for sides that he might have yoked two of then | 32nd shuttles all a-buzz and a-clatter, and | est gem in every coronst. No time to bs ro.
isuptily qd t 1 short around 1 rot 4 ni a 2 1 £ hionesd ’ together and driven them on the way to | the wildest, the haugltiest, the most un- | ligions! Why, you will have to take time Separa
jauntily down | turned short around aud retraced his | tragedy and a low, soft-cushioneéd arm- | ghe banquet, for locomotion wi ? | governable mun ever createiby the gracs | to be sick, to be troubled, to: die. Our letters tc
3 : quet, of as no
; St. James street | steps, and then uncle and nephew met | chair are incogruous things. So he re- | as rapid then as now. The man who of God may his Sundued and sent ous on | world is only the wharf from which we ara using th
on a summer | face to face. . mained standing, and steadfastly ignore? | gave the domestic reason said he | ministry © induess, as God sends an | to embark for heayen. No time to secures th
morning could «Hullo, uncle!” his uncle ne ye ad got married. He ought to have | August thunderstorm to water the wild | the friendship of Christ. No time to buy a Sither I
he CE esl What a “Y did hi .__ yn | taken his wife with him. The fact was they flowers down in the grass. | lamp aud trim it for that walk throu h the than it
: : » S at are you do- ou did not expect me this evening,” | did not want to go. “And they all with cone | Good resolution, reformatory effort, will | darkness waich otherwise will be illumined :
that the little | ing down here?” he began. consent began to make excuse,” So now | Rot effect the change. Iv takes a mightier | only by tha whiteness of the tombstones. Ty de
gentleman was| Oh, I'm—Well, I'm staying here,| ¢No, Charles,” said the widow, God spreads a great banquet; it is the gospel | arm. and a mightier hand to bend evil | No time to eltucate tho eye for Teavenly containe
er good taony you bows : “You never wil 1s you wets coming feast, and the tabie reacues across the hem- habits than the hand that bant the bow of | solendors, or the band for choral harps, or waif,
ispheres, and the invitations go out and mul- Ulyssss, and it takes a stronger lasso than
J . t the ear for everlasting songs, or the soul for \ : making
terms with him- «I gee. Like me, I suppose; taking {18} but you are always welcome. titudes come and sit down and drink out of | ever heid the buffalo on the prairie. A man bouor, glory and immortality. One would i 8
self. And, in- |g whiff of sea air in the middle of the «¢] was,” ‘returned Charles, «suntil ¢ | the chalices of God’s love, while other mul- | 2000T gO forth with any human weapons | think we had tims for nothing else. Compan
: Z - o 1 iw : : S13 | titudes decline coming—ti ‘vine this | and contend successfully against these | Other persons arologizs for not enterin: fare, hot
7 % \ Ze — Set, th 2 Soa%0n Aud yet | haven tseen much of Jeek id bas RO i His voice failed apology and the hE pg that frig ame Titans armed with uptorn mountains. But | the Christien life born it is time ere Saosin)
L at a you in town, have I? 1m, and he paused. “And they all with one consent began to | YOu have known men into waose spirit the | yet. That is very like those persons who words fr
thing that makes life worth living. He +¢Why—er—no—not much,” hestam- «But now, Charles? You are just as | make excuse.” I propose this morning, so | influence of the gospel of Christ came until | send their regrets and say: “I will come in > Fair,” a
was just fifty; his liver and his digestion | mered. = ¢¢The fact is—come and have a welcome as ever you were, and always | far as God may help me, to examine the | their disposition was entirely caauged. So | perhaps ap 1lor 12 o'clock. [ will mot be B-. trip io ]
were in good condition; he had a charm- | grink,” he blurted out with the sudden will be.” apologies which men make for not eatering i was with two merchants in Rew ore, there at the opening of the banquet, but L 1 “ROE
ine ot of rooiny in Piecadilly overlook. BE, : | He shook his’ head” sadl «Not the Christian life. : hey wera very antagonistic. ney had | will be there at the close.” Not yet! Nos vea Ir
: g 2 y: satisfaction of one inspired. e shoo 18 ead’ sadly. ol as Apology the first; I am not sara there is done =ll they could te injure each other. yet! «without
ing the Green Park; his soldier servant The Colonel was a moderate man, but | ever I was. Things have changed, and | anything valuable in ths Christian re- They were 1n the same line of business. Ona Now, I do not give any doleful view of first pets
( was absolutely irreproachable. he knew that wine warms the Beart of | you with them.” hgion. It is pleaded that there are so many of the merchants was converted to God. | this life. “hers is Nothing in my nature, be 0 the
On this morning, the Colonel on turn- | hoy even more than of man, and he was «I do not understand you, Charles.” impositions in this day —so many things Having oe one ie Sa I i pg Hn ot = Y gre? hi 3 lothe W
J] bis lette blong y : ’ A A “ 3 I 5 that seem to be real are sham. A gilded ch him how to bear himself toward | ward a doletul view of human Life. _: nave words w
ing over his letters came upon an oblong | anxious to obtain his nephew's confi- Iam afraid you will not; but there | outside may have a hollow inside. There is | that business antagonist, and he was im- | not much sympathy with Addison's descrip- ing expe
& pink envelope adorned with a gilt mono- | dence. The result was exactly what the must be an understanding between us.” | so much quackery in physics, in ethics, in pressed with the fact that it was his duty | tion ot the “Vision of Mirza,” where he rep- Jicst, 7vs
ie. gram, and addressed in a nervous femi- | Colonel expected. They had not re.) ‘‘Please explain yourself.” polis That men cols fo She habi; of ins a A au Ri ia ot ie ie sending
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nine hand. As no presentiment warned | turned to the parade long before Charles, ¢I will,” replied Charles, rejoicing in Rr BA ya his opponent had, to recommen | him to go | covered with clouds, and the race coming Veal 2
him of the terrible consequences about | after nervously touching on indifferent his own eloquence, and beginning to en | ligion. to that store, | I suppose thatis about the | on, the most of them falling down through (number
to spring from that innocent looking | gubjects, suddenly turned to his uncle | joy his sufferings, for at twenty it is| But, my friends, I think religion has made | hardest thing the min could do, but being | the first span, and allof them falling down * ith ff
! note, he smiled, for he recognized his | with the story of his first serious | occasionally pleasurable anguish to place | pretty good record in the world. How Diotoughly cohysrid » 5 91 he Tesolves Haron ga Yhe lost shan. It yd bd dismal Flower &
! sister-in-law’s hand writing, and guessed i ’s finer feeli (alls | 1280Y Wounds it has salved: how many pil. | do that very Shing, aud Dong A a I Doe ve OG I De This c
{ D 8, and guessed | passion. one’s finer feelings on the rack, especialls | lars of fire it has lifted in the midnight | certain kind of goods which he had not he | the Spanish proverb which says, °The sky OST POF
Sas fis was maldag some Jeujigral ap- “Uncle, I want to get married.” before an audience that takes matters wilderness: how many simoon struck Sa. |53i%, Xo goto such ant in 8 Sore end 1s good, Ziad the sare: is fond wEhat Lien ties (sam
4 peal to his knowledge of the werld. He ie seriously and does not jeer at the martyr. | barasit hath turned into the gardens of the | TOU il ges it, er awhile merchant {is bad is Detween tis enrth anc the Ska : bir
: opened the pink envelope with the handle 5 Tos Colonel Sunsulted the lighted end dom 3 A fon Be I was BAF. o | ord; bow it hath stilled ne borood wal | No. 2 found these customers coming so |. But while wa Caristiay p opleare bognd tully anc
%: : poly, as was his custom. PN, s YS | What rosy light it hath sent streaming sent, and he found also that merchant No. 1 | to take a cheerful view of life wa must also th y
l i of a fork, as was his wont, and read an | «¢Where is she playing?” said he, after with you. You were always glad to see | through the rift of the storm cloud wrack; had ‘been brought to God, and he sougat the | confess that life is a great uncertainty, and PUP
: impassioned summons to call on the |, pause. me, and never said you were nos at | What pools of cool water it hath gathered | Sie religion. Now thay are good friends | that man who says, “I can’t become a flower se
g writer that afternoon (doubly under- «Playing? She doesn't play.” home.” for thirsty Hagar and Ishmael; what manna | 80d good neighbors, the grace of God en- | Coristian because thers is time enough yet,” lo make
lived), and remained his very affection- 0 ng P y. “wy ¢ a whiter than coriander seed it hata dropped tirely coanging, their disposition. is ranning a risk infinite. You do not pers frompti,
LE hy, y Resting here, I suppose,” went on ery true. all around the camp of hardly bestead pil- u,” says some one, *L hava a rough, | haps realizs the fact that this descending a 8e
I SE my ene the Col the Colonel, who was a patron of the ¢‘And now?” griug; what promises it hath sent out like jagged. Jmpetucns ngrures and religion oat grade of sin gals steeper and Sheoper, aud or
; ut half-past fo . . < ‘ » oly w i o anything for me. o you know tha t you are gathering up a rush and veloc-
? Pp ur the Colonel, hav- | drama, and knew something of its Am I any less glad to see you? y Watoners 10 keep ihe lamps burning Martin aon and Rotors Newton and | ity 4h actor ios it not answer to z SAN om,
fi . 3 3 3 : : around death beds! I oki }
ing enjoyed his after luncheon cigar and | vernacular. «Am I with you as often as I wast | ¢hat lowers into eds Dough “he da aned Richard Baxter were impetuous, all con- | the brakes. Oh, my friends, be not amon ih the resu
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a doze, strolled, a rotund and trimly «I don’t know what you mean, uncle; | Do I see you as often as I did?” of resurrection morn, suming natures, yet the grace of God turned | those who give their whols life to the worl 8corr Si
groomed figure, toward his sister-in-law’s | she’s a lady.” «[ really don’t know,” said the widow, Besides that, this religion has made so | them into dhe Soaies usefulness? Oa and then g ve their corpse to God. It ;
house, “They all are,” murmured the Colonel | looking with a puzzled air at her ve. 1REnY heroes: 16 pronght Summersield, the es Sedo pi ip bose Jos yok iy A ron y
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Oh, Alured,” she exclaimed, as s00n | confidentially.to a distant fishing smacic. | bement admirer; ¢‘but if you do not | his silver trumpet. rs i Diab erad about the mote in thai nsighbor’s eye | salves aud serve the world and then make ’
as she had ascertained that the servant «She's a little older than I am,” went | Whose fault is it but your own?” year of the Lord, until it seemed as it all | than about the beam like ship timber in | God at lat the present of a coffin. Iv does. : 1
uite shut the door, am in suc i «My fault?’ cri i . | our American cities wo the king. | their own eye hava ben entirely onan not seem rizht that we rua our saip 1ro > a
bad quite shut the d #1 h | on Charles stiffly. y fault?” cried Charles, with asar A uld take the king. | theirown oy bs ve hae oii iyo nged § it saat we Hp from yf
distress| That wretched boy of mine!” | "..0r course,” said the Colonel to the | douic smile, in which he endeavored to dom of heaven by violence. Iv sent e- | iY, MS EINES orciicable for the life that | and. it ey ie by mail;
Weil, well, Selina,’ said the Colonel, | smack. blend sarcasm, lofty pity and blighted | nent of naked Er con. now is as well as for the life which is to | rocks giveto Gol the shivered timbers, It Th
¢swhat has be done? Don't give way.” . | hopes—¢‘my fault? It is yours, madam, | dard of civilization and Christian It | come?” is a great thing for a man on his dying pil. rs ol
«On, but how dreadful it is! Only 5 Charles As i to the raots of bis fair and his,” turning suddenly on his uncle, made John Milton aE poets, Fphast Peter, with nature tempestuous as the sea low to repent—better than never at all—but Jeane
think, Alured, he's gcing to be mar- air. ¢“This is not a subject for chaff, who had been sitting all through the | 22200g painters, Christopher Wran among | that he onca tried to walk, at one loo of how much better, how much more generous, :
Tied.” he said indignantly; ‘‘when a fellow’s |. h ; re or hi architects, Thorwaldsen among sculptors, | Christ went out and wept bitterly. Rica it would have ben if he had repented fifty I
SOWhatl” said the Colonel, taking hig | 27 0117 1a love he's uel), L's awrully nr Ta rn i en keke Lae fig ida ey THE Dover
L , taking o shair. 1 commanders; an give new e jagged steep, an ocks of Christian 2 > .
gold-rimmed eyeglass out of his eye in phi know. ois > 4 Colonel Turner was horribly annoyed | ings to the imaginavion, and better bal- | gracas may find pasturaga in fields of bram- | Here is a delusion. People think, ‘I can The
magisterial fashion. “The young tog! y dear boy,” said the philosophic at Li% nie pho ws Alias: Io detest ance to the judgment, and more determina- | ble androck. Though your disposition may | £9 OF in sin and worldliness, but after awhile
Wh Li% bot twenty.one vail? 8° | uncle, laying his hand upon hisnephew's | * P proceedings. He detest- | tion to the will, and greater usefulness | be all a-bristle with fratfulness, though you |} will repent, and then it will be as though
x i EnLy one 3s he rome shoulder, *‘take my advice: Have as ed 3 ae aad was disgusted Jo. find DL he lize, and grander gouiy > the soul, | havea Swaps a-gleam wih Quios Hignt 1hsd coms Sk igs yoy art Fiat i 2
: oi 2 . Tes such a lamentable want o 00 e 1n Al 1 ear 1ke oul’ | nings, ougn your avarica bs lige at o 2 :
Oh, I'm sure he's been caught by one of many love affairs as you like, but don’t hic brother's von. He — ol a little Christian religion. the horse-leech, crying, ‘‘Givel” though crastination. It you give your soul to God,
those designing actresses who are always think of marrying until you are thirty.” the cd of Lis vba a Nothing in religion! Why, them, all | damnable imourities have wrappad you in | Some other time than this, you will enter
I a oi w “Ah, thatis all very fine for you,” nearer the edge of his chair, screwed | those Christians were deceived when in their | all consuming fire, God can drive that devil heaven with only half tas capacity for en-
re ¢ Ty young men. replied Charles, somewhat moliified; his eyeglass more firmly into his eye, and | dying moment they thought they saw the | out of your son', and over the chaos and the oyment and knowledge you might bave
# ‘‘And where is this precious scape— |... 7: 1 ' | began: ‘‘Really, Charles—" castles of the blessed; and your child, that | darkness He can say, * Let there bs ligat.” ad. Therewill bs heights of blessadness
grace of yours?” ut 1ve near y ten beastly years to Ceill he came.” went on theslover with unutterable agony you put away into | Converting grace has lifted the drunkard | You might have attained, you will never
i scAt Bognor. He went there fora few wait till then. heedi I ’ a * the grave—you will nover see him ‘again, | from the ditch and snatched the knife from reach; thrones.ofglory on which you might
bh dees nr Madi “for; very excellent years,” sald the topeeding, 1 wassll in 2 0 you, oor hear his sweet voic., nor feel the throb | the hand of the assassin and the falss keys have veen seated, bub whica you will never
ays last ncnth, and has stayed there |, 0 contentiously; ‘mind do | loved you as man never loved woman be- | Of his young heart? There is nothing in re- | from the burglar, and in the pestiferous climb. We wil never ges over pro-
ever since. I wondered what was the hep” 3 ad you do |i re and you knew itl” ligioni Sickness will come upon you. Roll | lanes of the city met the daughter of sin | crastination. neither in tims nor in eter-
attraction, and now I know. It’s very not waste them. : Oars said the widow, who Was and turn on your pillow. No relief. The | under the dim lamplizht and scattered her nity. We have startz1 on a march from
hard.” For a short time there were silence hs » . medicine may be bitter the night may be | sorrow and her guilt with the words, “Thy which thera is no retreat. The shad-
“It i ” ted the Colonel and a feeling of constraint between the beginning to get angry, for she thought gsr, the pain may be sharp. No relief. sins are forgiven—3o and sin no more.” For [ows of eternity gather on our rath
s,” assented the Colone ruefully, two. and tien Charl id suddenly. i the young man had been drinking, ‘will rist never comes to the sick room. Let | scarletsin a scarlet atonement. way. How insignificans is time compared
for he saw that this wmeant a journey to | "7 © So sald su a y, 1n you kindly leave off this nonsense, and ihe vain stab, Let the fever burn. Curse | Other persons apologize for not entering ih i vast Steratind I was thinking of
Bognor for him, and the desertion of a tone of suppressed emotion: Uncle | {coli . : hi and die. There is nothing in religion! |-the Christion life because of the inconsisten- this while coming down over the Alleghany
y Yond tits b> at “ADA 50 Lc’ . Alured, there she is. I want you to behave like a rational being? : I think | Afterawhile death will come. You will | ciesot those who profess religion. Thersare | Mountains at nooy, by that wonderful place
i nL onal 178 Hest. nd 50 he'r going [iv per, and she has cften asked me | ¥° had better defer conversation until hear the pawing of the pale horse on the | thousanas of poor farmers. They do not | Waich you have all heard descr ibed as tha
to be married? : a you have got over your present state.” reshold. The spirit will be breakinz away | know she nature of soil nor the proper rota- Horsehoe—a depiassion in the side of the
i +50 hie ays.” to introduce you. Come along. Ste or ol rer bak on Bite. 1 ? To from the body, and it will take flizht— | tion of crops. Their corn is shorter in the mountain wh>rz tne train almost {turns backs
a er 1s dhe? The Colonel looked, and saw a tall, a e turned her back on him in the | whither, whither? There is no God, no |staik and smaller in the ear. Taey have ten | 282i upon itsait. and you see how appro- |
J i : trim waisted figure coming along. tae] Bo stately fashion. ministering angelsto conduct, no Christ, no | less bushels to the acre than their neighbors, priate is the description of the Horseshoe—
I don’t know; except that hecde- 1-0 oot o This springy. step. H Charles rushed forward and almost | Béaven. mo home. Nothing in religion! | But who declines being a farmer becauss | and thinking on this very theme and prepar-
clares she is the most beautiful woman |i gat springy step. © | throw himself on the ground at her feet b, you are not willing to adopt | there are so many poor farmers. nz this very sermon it sesmed to me as if
30 the world. and that be loves her. 1 felt that the crisis had arrived, so he | ,, Mrs. M 111 Gooraisnz? You k - | such a dismal theory. And yet| Thereare thousands ot incompetent mer- the great covrrser of eternity speeding along
tx think sh ’ colder tha hol Ts threw away his Trichinopoly and braced rs. arsha eorgiana! You know | the world is full of skeptics. Aud let me | chants. They buy at the wronz time. Thay had just strack ths mountain with one hoot
ink she must be older than he 1s. himself for the fray As his nephew's | —YOU must have seen that Ilove you, | 6ay there is no class of people for | get cheated in the sale of their goods, Every and gone into illimitable space. So short is
«That, my dear Selina, goes without | .. > pa and that I hoped to make you wy wife!” whom I have a warmer sympathy than for | bale of goods is to them disaster. They fail time, so insignificant is earth, compared with “ Myse
saying. Boys of twenty never have first love swept gracefully toward them, | "yo gear boy,” said the widow, & skeptics, We do not know how to treat | after a woile and go out of business, ~ Bug | the vass etermity’ bottles o
i mer i 3 the Colonel saw that she was by no y oy, A + 80 | them, We deride them, we caricature | who declines to be a merchant because This morning voices roll down the sky, ts.
% : Damo! & woman uncer |. .,nsas youthful as the trimness of her taken aback that she hardly knew waat | them, We, instead of taking them by the | there are so many incompetent merchants? and ail the worlds of Light ars ready fo fet py vid
thirty. She is older than he is and Bute mivht ap! to say, *‘you surely never thought of soit hand of Christian love, clutch them | There are thousands of poor lawyers. Taey | J01¢@ at your disenthrallment. Rush not an
cleverer. And where is the young rascal | “=, Zhe 1Impiy, ; | anything so toolish. Why, Caarles,’’ — | With the iron pincersof ecclesiasticism. Ob, | cannot draw a declaration that will stand | 10to the presence of the King ragged with sleep on
quartered?” : > Charles introduced his uaocle to his y h g 1d 'h 1 Ty li — | if you knew how those men had fallen away | the test. ‘I'aey cannot recover just dam- sin when you may have this robe of right- parila h
«Here is his letter, Alured. You had love with an air of proprietorship which | 20¢ sae cou not help smiling spite of | from Christianity and become skeptics you | ages. They cannot help a defenaent escape eousness. Dash nov your foot to pieces free fro
e is his letter, Alured. ouhad | 4 70t but have been gratifying to the earnest pleading of his face—*¢¢surely | would not be so rough on them. Some | from theiniustics of his persecutors. They |agaiuss the throne of a. crucified Christ. either gic
better take it. Heaven knows there is | 0)" oop d the Colonel raised his | YOU cau never have thought in that way | Were brought up in homes where religion | are the worst evidence againstany case in Y'nrow not your crown of life off the battle. My wife
vothing private in it.” oth o em, an ¢ Colonel raise his Yt me. a woman old enough to be your” was overdone, The most wretcied day in | which they are retained. But who declines ments, All the scribes of God are this mo-
the Colonel had got his marching hat with his most gallant air. But the ’ i 5 y thie week was Sunday. Religion wasdriven | to be a lawyer because there ara so many | Mens ready with volumes of living lizht to H 0
f 8 “DING | 1.dy was far fron: content with so formal —here she glanced toward the Colonel, | into them with a triphazimer. They had a | incompetent lawyers? Yet thera ave tens | Fecord the news of your soul emanc ipated. more the
3 gedesy so be Fa » go, but with a | | recognition, for she held out both her and slipped her hand into his—t‘to be sarrelt of prayer meetings. They were | of thousands o® people who decline being re- rc cr
E eavy heart, for London in the season = Co) Ye ar aunt.” , stu and choked with catechisms. They | ligious because thera are so many unworthy :
i was. the breath of life to him. while hands, and said: ¢‘Colonel Turner— FO fos lated wildly zt th : alr told by their parents that they were | Christians. Now, I say it is illogical. Poor Transfosion of Blood Not New. taking B
Bog: dal ick h 2 J Alured—don’t you remember me?’ aries glared wildly a e pair, an the worst children that ever lived because | lawyers are nothinz agaiast jurisprudencs, Transfusion of blood as practiced in 807g thi
3 gonor and a lovesick nephew 1n Jun “Georgina?” ejaculated the Colonel then, with all the tragedy oozing out of | they liked to ride down hill better than to | poor physicians are nothinz against medi- : > a cold. W
were by no means to his liking. > « back that for th iv si ' | him, rushed incontinently from the room. read “Pilgrim’s Progress.” They never | cine, poor farmersare nothing against agri- surgery 1s by no means a recent develop- saparilla
He was asimple, straightforward soul, | °C taken aback that "or the ony tie Of | ““mhree days later the Colonel again en- heard their parents talk of religion tut with | culture, and mean, contemptible professors | ment 30 Science, Medical yeords show blood an
with a great affection for his late eon) he dropped his geld rimmed eye- tered Ris ister inaw's dining-reom i ne of thei mouths drawn down 0; 3 religion ars nothing againsc our glorious | it to have been known to the Egyptiane, the be
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brother's widow and her only son, and | 87% : and was receivéd with effusion. Others ‘went into skepticism throuzh mal- [di Syrians and Persians. The Pittsburg BARNES,
never thought of hesitating or delayin g| ‘Yes, Georgina—or Mrs. Marshall,” | «0p, Alured!” cried she, ‘*how can I treatment on the part, of some who rt a Songun es an £ isis Tis Dispatch regards it as even posible that Hood’
when his services were needed on their she replied, smiling at the Colonel's as- | (pany you? I know you have routed Jette d religion. There is a man Who says, | seen lights that kindled over decayed vege. | the ancients were more successful than sist diges
behalf; but for all that, he felt very like | tonishment. “Did you not expect to | ;hijs woman, for Charles appeared here raver, I all tation wligate Fam are ii jasc ians the puvsicians of recent periods. - Iu the
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e, schoolboy whose holidays are drawing see me?” in a furious state last Tuesday, and has religious circles, but he cheated me out of Tl [honip 030 oF Seventeenth Century so many attempts
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to acloss. He told the incomparable | ‘Indeed, no!” gasped Colonel Turner; | joy gone yachting with a man he hates. | join and I don’t want any of that re-| your why to heaven you will want a boser | Were made in France, accompanied by :
Wilks while dressing for dinner that | ‘‘most unexpected pleasure.” How did you manage it?” hgicn a oh ; . +... |ligatthan the will-o'-the-wisps which dnac | £0 many failures and tatalities, that the gi
they must start for Bognor the first ¢Why, you wicked boy ,” said she, «There was but one way, Selina.” by a SE A open UR the robten OUSTAORT Of ned Chuistisns Parliament of Paris declared against its | he
thing the following morning, and then turning to Charles, ¢‘didn’t you tell me ¢¢And that wasf’— —why or how. How can God be oue beinz | neighbor's garden i hs or legality. The experiments continued, i
resigned all responsibility. By the time | that your uncle had been on the point of | «To marry her myself.” in tnjve persons? ‘They cannot understand | palm for our wounds. however, calf’s blood being substituted a
+ : 1 comine down ever so many times, and a“ yo 3 it. Neither can I. How can God be a com- Sickness will come, and we will bs pushed | for the human. The results were n i
his master returned from theclub to bed, 3 any ’ Oh, Alured!” cried the mother, sink- lete sovereign and yet man a fres agent? | out toward the Red Sea which He this : oy of i <
i Wilks had made every preparation, had | Was only preventsd by his engagements ing into a chair, ‘‘what a sacrifice! And | They cannot understand it. Neither can L | world from the nex, and not OS encouraging, the physicians not being & «
i chosen the train and hotei, and arranged | it London?” : . for me! How can Irepay you?” They _ cannot understand why a holy God | sistency of Christians but the rod of faith | 27Are that the blood of animals injected #1 *
for the forwarding of all the letters. Charles fell in by her side with a very The Colonel smiled, pernaps a little Jets gig the world, Neither can L | will wave back the waters as a commander | into the veins of another belonging to a
Personally conducted by Wilks, Colo- sulky expression of countenaace, and the sadly. ‘Surely I am in debt to you.” | is os an at. in Fheeisns Boss. as i Judes will coms | different species acted as a poison. For tk
3 !] nel Turner arrived at the hotel selected | three walked on together. It was «And you who were so faithful to your less all her days—she I Mh. aA mnities, Shtynied 200 years the experiments were discon: ° +E 4
1 for him in time for a late lunch, and | wonderful whata number of reminiscences | fst Jove! On, Aluced, could you not genarian. Here isa Christian mother train- | of earthquaksr, and suns will fly before the | tinued, and then one day, some years bl
then sirolled out slong the Ciel ontor Irs. Marshall and the Colonel had in | yep ofp” ? ? 108 her hidren for God and Tor neaven: feet of God like sparks from the anvil, and | ago, the story of the death of a young H
# road to concoct a method of approaching | Commo. They talked about persons |” «(3elina,” said the Colonel, ‘do not | seemingly to That be To 100 ras ball binge like pan- | medical student nzmed Romain le Goff, bP W A
i the enemy, while Wilks went out to re- | Who Charles had never heard, und of | gjstress yourself oa my account. Tae | ¢aR{™r and dies.” The skeptic says, “I can’t | then we will stop and iy es while trying to save the life of a friend Tinsrs
conioitre. things that happened before he was |j3qc 1 am going to marry is my first and sxplaiy that.” Neither can |, mean Christian; thers was a cowardly { With his own blood, created a great sen- Bre
After dinner he established himself on | bora, and irritated him extremely by ly Tove pr S a a fee io Hiensitves Christian; there was a; lppars Christian.” | sation. A street in Paris, named after
i # deck-chair in the veranda, and, rev- taking itas a matter of course that the trod that blistering way. I know whaat it is Sartre SLE tayeelr Sn Se le Goff, commemorates his brave act.
i erently lighting a Trichinopoly, abol- | Deginning of all things worth mention- Catchingr Turtle. tohave a hundred nights poured into one | est thou ‘alone shall bear it.” Why, my By this time the medical men had
i 3 jshed ~ all thoughts of his nephew, and | ing did not coincide with his appearanca | A curious mode of catching turtle is hour, Jopste fre men in fais audios oo brother, the inconsistency of Christians so | learned tiat to be successful the blood
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: gave himself up to a lazy contemplation | 1 this world. At last his temper got | practiced In ‘the West Inflies. It con. | could get back to the old religion of their Be a an argumem er must neither be allowed to coagulate,
¢ of the effect of the moonlight on the the betier of him. He halted, rated his | sists in attaching a ring and a line tojthe | tathers. Buch men are not to be carica- | drive you to Him. “Thebes place fora skill- | 2OT IT suffered to enter tbe veins with
g sea. But he was little more than half | hat stiffly, and held out his hand to say | tail of & species of sucker fish known as tured, i helped and not Sarough thesis ful doctor is a neighborhood where they ase | ite Doctor Roussel, of Geneva, invent-
& way through with his first cigar when “Good-by,” but the dignity of his at— | the remora. The live fish is then thrown ea 5, but through their hearts. When | all poor doctors: the best place for an enter- | ed an apparatus which overcame both
b y g g ; 1c 3 these men really do come into the kingdom | prising merchant to open his stors is ina | di i
i Wilks marched up, saluted, and came to titude was rather spoiled by the fact overboard, and immediately makes for | of God, they will be worth far more to the | place where the bargain makers do not un- the above ifficulties. Since that time
§ attention. The Colonel was a little short that neither of his companions noticed | the first turtle he cat spy, to which he | cause of Christ than those who never ex- | derstand their business, and the best place the experiments have been continued
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: ! of breath, especially after dinner, so his intention, so that he had to follow | attaches himself very firmly by means of Anije oo evidences of Christianity, for you who want to become the illustrious with remarkable success. Many lives
on h 1 dded his head and said: | them hat in hand. a sucking apparatus arranged at the top | 3 A I ert | and complete Christians—the best place for | have been undoubtedly saved by it. A
: i e merely nodde 1s head and sald: hn king ap! > all once a skeptic; Christmas Evans once | you is to come right down among us who 4 ~ y 16. n
0 1 “Well?” | The Colonel at once saw how matters of his head. Ounce attached to the a skeptic, but when they did lay hold of the | are so incompetent and so Inzonsistent some- old employe of the Theatre Francais in
; (Mr. Charles is at the Porpoise, sir.” | stood, and promptly took advantage of | turtle, so firm is his grip that the fisher- gospel conariot, how they made it speed | times. : Paris, named Dupnitch, has given up
«Anybody with him?” the position. He apologized for absorb- | man on drawing the line brings home whos ! : ; Otber persons apologize for not becoming | his blood several times to those in need
+No, sir.” j ing so much of Mrs. Marshalls valuable | boch turtle and the sncker.—New York Jt tueretors } stand this moralig, fefore a of it, for which he has been awarded a
Didn't see you, did he?” | time, told her how charmed he was to | Dispatch. into skepticism I throw out no scoff, I | ang or tripped the pen of the author, or magnificent gold medal by the Frencu
vather implead you by the memory cf those | thickened tie tongue of the grator, or weak- | Government,