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unto him SOME SUMMER MORNING. Borne morning when the wind lias Bet his bugles ail a-blowlmj. Z shall have gono away, perhaps, without the flowers knowing That I. who knew their every want thrice happy In the tending Had gone to the fair gardens, where the sum mer has no ending. Some morning when the sea his crept up to the low, salt marshes. And all the stars have faded from the heaven's sapphire arches, When through the eastern gates, at last, the tardy night is going X shall have gone away, perhaps, without the birds a-knowlng And love shall have no power to hold me with caresses tender. For I thail pass the sunrise gold, the moon's white, silent splendor. Beyond the sunset and the dawn, where never word was spoken. Where, since creation's natal morn, the still ness slept unbroken. Oh, little rills that I have known, through tanpled grasses straying. When I am gone, sing as of old. when all the world was Maying! Oh, clover blooms 1 love you so at every priiigtime's coming. Spread out your blossoms to the dew, and set the bees a-humming! I know not of the gates of pearl, on golden hinges turning. The glory bright, more than the light of count less suns a-burnlng. These things await me. I would be no slow, re luctant comer. And God will call me early on some morning in the summer. -Jeannette La Flamboy. In Chicago Interior. IT CHANGED TWO LIVES. A Pathotio Incide nt of Gen. Bragg Retreat. The ISth of December, 1SG3, was a sad day to the confederate army, com manded by Gen. Bragg, in winter quar ters around Dalton, for on that day thirteen men who at one time be longed to that army had been sen tenced to be shot. Some had been caught by our cav alry fighting against the army they had once belonged to, some had en listed as teamsters in the federal army, and some were to be shot for insubordination. Among the number was gallant little Charley Hudson, a beardless youth, but as brave a soldier as ever went to the front. Wherever the bullets flew thickest Charley was to be found, and in the charge on some battery he always led; so it was often 6aid that he bore a charmed life. Ills father, who lived at a small sta tion on the railroad, along which we had retreated after the battle of Mis sionary ridge, was a very old man. lie was a great union man, with no sym pathy for the southern cause. The subject of Charley's joining the confederate army had often been dis cussed. The old gentleman at first strongly opposed it, but finally, see ing1 that his son was determined to go. he gave his consent with one proviso: If Gen. Brtfj's army retreated beyond their home he was to return. To this Chariey acceded, never for a moment dreaming' that such a thing would happen. But the army did leave his home behind, and, true to the vow he had made to his father, he returned home. He found that everything had been destroyed and his people destitute; so to help them to live he enlisted in the federal army as a teamster, as he thought in that capacity he would not have to fight his old comrades. That act changed my whole life, and caused thorns to grow where I ex pected the sweetest roses. I was de 'ailed to command one of the squads assigned to inflict the awful penalty upon our former comrades-in-arms oa that fatal ISth f December. We were ordered to be at the plaee of exe cution promptly at twelve o'clock. The whole army had been ordered out to witness the shooting1 of these men, so. after placing my 1 eLa.il in front of No. 4, I turned it over to the sergeant and joined the group of of ficers who were standing in the rear of the squads discussing the painful duty each had to perform. Hearing my name called, I turned and was called one side by a brother officer, who said: "Do you know, lieu tenant, whom yoa are to execute today?-' "Xo," I replied: all I can tell yi that I was assigned to No. 4. Can you , tell?- I asked. "Yes." he answered. "Xa 4 is poor Charley Ilodsou." L felt my legs giving way and I should have fallen had he not caught me. Instantly I recovered; then, for the first time in many years, tears same to my eyes and rolled down my cheek. It was appalling1 to give the com mand that would end the life of my comrade and best friend, for I had learned to love the boy as a brother; he was so kind, so gentle and so brave.. Capt. C , of the Tennessee regiment, came up to me and asked what the bad news was. I told him and, like the gallant fellow that he was, he offered to exchange places, though he knew it might cost him his commission. We had no time to think, for at that moment we heard the strains of the dead march and look ing up saw the condemned men ap proaching. We ran hurriedly to our details, told the sergeants of the change, and then exchanged p'aces. In front of each squad stood a stake and a cofQn, and as the line ap proached each roan was halted before a coffin. Just before they were to be bound and blindfolded 1 heard a voice say: "Kiss Eugenia and my father forme, lieutenant, and tell them that the last throb of this ?.eart was an echo of my love for then "Great God!" I exclaimed aloud. "I didn't know it was you, Paul." The next moment my mind had gone back to a little more than a year be fore, when our army had been in Ten nessee end Kentucky. Oa that campaign I had met and loved the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. She was perfect in every way. A cultured min I, tender heart, a loving disposition, and a form as ' perfect as, vas Qver driven to woman. r r unto whrn honor is due, uanently cure.and piles prevent who She bad soft, dreamy black eyes, and, when excited, they wre brighter than the dewdrop on the rose. I visited her home often and was al ways welcomed with a sunny smile; but time passed rapidly and soon orders c:ima for us to prepare to march the very thing I dreaded. j I left camp and went to pay my last visit to her with a heavy heart. Sitting in the shadow of a large ar- ' bor vitas tree, with her hands in mine, : I told her of my love. It was needless, i though, for me to have spoken one ' word of that love, for she knew it long before. ! For a moment she hesitated, and ' I then told her of our orders to move and possibly this would be our last ! meeting until the strife was over. j That seemed to decide it, for, look- j ingupintrmy face, she said: "It is useless to tell you of my love for you, j for you must know that It is as true , and pure as ever a woman gave to man." Reaching up to a branch of the tree under which we were sitting, she pulled a tiny tprig and gave it to me, j saying: "That tree is green as long as God permits it to live. It is green for- j over, and so shall my love for you be. ! Only be as true to me as I shall be to ; you, tnd when this cruel war is over I hasten back tome and then there shall be no more parting. My prayers shall be for vu and my darling brother; ; for, next to you, I love him. Should j you ever meet him again and he should i in any way ueid assistance, be food to him for the lovo I give you. Take this j sprig to remind you, if need be, of my i love. I shall wear one like it every k day until you return." I could not speak, but folded her to my heart and gave the first golden kiss ( of love. While young Hammond belonged to ; the same army as myself I had never j seen him, except once, until tne aay ot the execution, when he sent the last loving message to his sister my in tended bride. When I saw him standing before me it was too late, for in a moment the command: "Heady, aim, fire!" was given and Faul Hammond lay dead be fore me, by my command. Who can picture my utter despair at that moment? As I saw the fire flash from the muzzle of those muskets I bade farewell to all hope of happiness in this life. Some weeks after the execution I re ceived a letter and I instantly recog nized Eugenia's writing. Enclosed was a clipping from a Dal ton newspaper, with my name and her brother's marked, and a long account of the affair. There was also a notice of the death of her old father caused by the shock of his son's death. She wrote just a few lines; I shall never forget them: "May God forgive you as I do. This gulf can never be bridged not even by an idolatrous love." I never wrote to her, for I felt it was useless. So time passed, and in the summer of 1ST9 I went to the Green Brier white sulphur springs. The first evening- there 1 saw a magnificently-dressed woman whirling in the waltz that somehow attracted my attention. Nearer and nearer she came and at last our eyes met. Instantly she sank to the floor, and j jst as quickly was &he surrounded by her friends. I saw pinned to her left breast by a t-eautiful diamond heart a piece of ar bor vitae. and I reeognixed Eugenia, cay lost love. 1 left the place that night and have never seen her since. I sometimes hear of her through friends, and never has a December passed since the war that I did not get a sprig of arbor vitae the emblem of oor love. I still have her letters in a little casket, and sometimes when I am vexed with the cares of this life I read them over and over. In one of them I meet the lines: "I have another life I long to meet. Without which life, this iiXe is Incomplete. Oh : sweeter self, like me, art thou astray. Trying with ail thy mind to find the way 1 ijtrivm- vita all thy might to find the breast On which alone can veaxy beart find Testy" The mystery of Eugenia's tainting Is told here for the first time. Should she read this, let her know that the love of 1S94 is just as strong as that of l&Gi Through the influence of strong friends Charley Hudson was pardoned while at the stake, and he is to-day a leading citizen of our state. What might have been had I not changed my number? Robert O. Doug las, in Illustrated American. XapoWm mm a Marksman, Although Napoleon was a great gen eral, beyond dispute, it appears front some recently published recollection of two of his favorites that he was a very poor marksman. Yet he was fond of hunting, and something had to be done to cater to his vanity. It seems that whenever a stag was brought to bay, it was usual to leave the animal to be killed by the emperor. On one such occasion he could not be found, and the master of the hounds did the business. Suddenly, Napoleon was seen approaching, and the stag was hurriedly propped up on his legs with tree boughs. The gun was handed to the emperor, and he fired at the stag, whereupon the master of the hounds slightly disturbed the boughs, and the stag fell to the ground. Napoleon was completely deceived, and observed, complacently: "After all, I am not so bad a shot as they try to make out." Golden Days. A Realistic Incident. Once upon a time a fairy prince wan dered upon the shore of the sounding sea. Suddenly he encountered a beaute ous maid, to whom he had never been introluccd. "Fair one," he exclaimed, "will you be mine?" She threvt herself violently upon his neck. "Cert," she rejoined. They were accordingly married by a Dakota justice of the peace" nnd lived happily until the end of the week. Detroit Tribune -rrinTpaiioirTttra icKrDeaaac5e SUGAR LEGISLATION. How Republican Laws Have Bobbed the Teople. I "There has been so much republican mlsrep- ! resentation of the new sugar schedule and so i much effort to confuse the public mind that it 11 uu WUUUITIUUI Mime uir UJ pi ncu .J uuu that the sugar schedule of the tariff reform bill is a distinct and emphatic triumph for tariff reform. The best way to explain the sugar tariff Is to tell the story of sugar legislation. There are three stapes of sugar legislation the republican stage before the McKinley bill, the stage of the McKinley bill and the present new stage or the democratic tariff reform bill. The sugar tariff before the McKinley bill was a so-called revenue tariff on all sugat coming into the United States. It was a graduated scale of duties, rising with the quality or grade of the sugar. The average duty was about 2Vt cents per pound. These duties, while chiefly for revenue, acted as a very high protection to the Louisi ana sugar growers, but that was popularly supposed to be their only protective feature. There was no announcement in the bill that there was any protection for the sugar re liners. There was. however, hidden la that schedule of grialuated duties a practical pro tection for the refiner. How much it amounted to was not generally known. It was not publio property. It was probably one-half cent a pound. But the protection was there. It vras a part of the protective system of the repub lican party to protect refiners und sugar farm ers. So much for the first stage of the sugar tariff. "Now comes the McKinley bill. The repub lican party, when it went into power after 1SS, found the government in the possession of a very lare revenue. It had a hundred millions of doUars a year surplus. The republicans saw that that was a temptation to the people and to their enemy, the democratic party, to cut down the protective tariff, because, as the government hud more money than it wanted, it was perfectly natural that it should cut down the taxes, and first of all the protective tariff taxes. To remove that temptation and protect protection the republicans iLtn In power niadn up their minds to wipe out the surplus first by largely increasing the expenditures of the government by raising the expenditures to the billion-dollar figure: but that they did not think enough, so they also cut down the In come of the government by cutting off the revenue part ol the tariff cfti sugar t&e.(W0.OX a year. They wanted to destroy the surplus and create a deficit, and they actually turned a surplus of tfluu.OOO.UUO into a deficit ot Tu.IjOO.UOO so as to remove the temptation of the people to cut down protective taxes. "But they did not want to injure the protec tive feature of the sugar schedule. They did not want to take off the protection to the re liners. Mark, however, that the situation in the relining business had changed. We did not make much objection to thU protective duty in the old time, partly because most people knew nothing about it, und partly because at that time relining was free and the competition .iong refiners was very keen and kept prices down. But before the McKinley bill wew into operation that had been changed. The compe titioa had ceased, and the sugar trust had risen up and made refining a practical monop oly. The McKinley people wanted to give the trust a big protective duty on sugar, but they did not want the government to get any rev enue out of the sugar, and the consequence wad that the McKinley bill arranged that all raw sugar coming into the country should come in tree, but no refined sugar or sugar that could compete with that produced by the trust could come in free. -McKinwy gave the trust the advantage of free raw material, then highly protected the trust's product. He gave the free sugar to the trusts und the protected sugar to the people. Ke tlued was taxed one-half a cent a pound und one-tenth of ajcent extra if It came from Ger many or .France, on the theory that those coun tries paid bounties to their sugargrowers. But while this arrangement provided well for the trust, the removal of the duties on raw sugars took away thi; protection of Louisiana sugar growers. This led to that extraordinary feat ure of the McKinley bill creating a bounty of two tents a pound on all sutar raised by the farmers of Louisiana, Nebraska, California und Vermont. It was the nit bounty ever created in America, and it will doubtless be the 1-st. So that was the situation In the Mc Kinley bill. Tne Mciiiniey b:ll made the sugar tax a pure protective tax for the first time in the history ot the country and created a boun ty system. Sugar wiis now cpenly protected, 'i hi re was a straight-out duty of a half cent per pound on refined sugar. "Now, how did the republicans represent this action to the people? They went befure the country witn the cry of Iee sugar when they had only mudo free the raw material of the trust, and when they had given a protection of hall u cent or six-tenths per pound, which the people had to pay. They sougut to carry the election of itv- on the theory oi free sugar when lor tne first time in the history of this country they had made sugr an openly-protected arti cle, and that for me beueut of the sugar trust clone. The reason the people were deceived was their unwillingness to feeucve that a great party would deliberately deceive them by such a statement, but that is what the republican parly did. They were aided in their uecepuoa by the lower price &ugar. As two and one jinif cent revenue duty had been taken off sugar, of course the maruet price of sugar was lower, notwithstanding the Loct tuut tne peo jie were taxed half n cent by .McKinley for the benent of the trust. "Now we come to the third stage of this bill which we have just passed. The tariff reform ers of congress want absolute lrcc sugar, and they will get it if tne peopie vote for tariff re form this lalL liut they lound the sugar trust intrencheu in the senate. Now what was it in trenched .-iin.iv it was intrenched behind its old friends, the solid republican party, the friends wno had first protected, and, therefore, practically created it. and a few protectionists Mho call themselves democrats, but who by no tests tnat now prevail are democrats. -xut did tne tariff rciornier fail? Were they uefeaied? sot at ail; by no means do leated. T he tleinocrats were not able to get free sugar this time, but they got a great deal more man the protectionist majority wanted twgive. They uid not ueslroy the sugar trust, but they hold tne baltleneld themseives. and the essential uillcrence between the McKinley sugar tariff and the new sugar tariff is Just this: The McKimey tariff gives the sugar trust half a cent protection, 'mat half a cent protection of the idcliulcy bill has been re duced to about thrce-eihs of a cent by the new bill. The protective duly of tne McKin ley bill has been rt faced one-third in our bilL That is hat w e got by lighting We did not get the whole of our demand any more than we 4'ot tree iron ore or free cool, but we reduced iron ore from sevenly-liva to forty, coal from seventy-live to forty, and Y?e reuueed sugar from Ulty to thirty. "The protectionists also included in the new bill a revenue duty of 4ti per cent, on raw sugar ou the avowed ground that the government needed the mouiy in addition to the proceeds of the income lax, but really to restore to our sugar farmers half of the protection that was cut oil by the democratic repeal of the McKin ley bounties. When the secretary of the treas ury said at the last moment that this revenue duty was absolutely necessary the inoulhs of tariff reformers were closed, but either some other revenue must be found or expenditures must be cut down, for the tariff reformers will not be content until sugar is made wholly free. The protection of the trusts is now arrived at in this way: It is 40 per cent of the average dif ference between raw and refined sugars abroad, or the cost of manufacture, which is 45 or 47 cents a hundred pounds, and the one-eighth cent differential. I called it 3) cents, it may be 1 or 2 cents more. That Is the story of sugar. It is a fact that sugar has not advanced sinco the new tariff went into effect. ' It reached an extremely low point last spring and curly this summer and is a cent higher now than the lowest point, and UUUumaa 4 1UU3IU1.14UIC fnJI HUM Ol lUilfc UU I vance was due to the anticipation of the reve- j nue feature of the new schedule, though not : all of it by any means. And it is another fact that su.T-r is selling at less now than it was a year ago under the McKinley bill." Franklin MacVeagh's Speech at Jerseyville. I1L It is to b hoped that the labor vote will not lose sight of the fact that the republican press fa urging a gen eral cut in wages. Chicago Herald. tf r.; '"7 Trr:: wish to M'KINLEY'S BRASS. Tlie Ohio Napoleon Charge Democrat! with Republican Methods. Gov. McKinley, in his address at Ban gor, recited the old story of the depres sion of business, which occurred while his tariff law was in force and began to give way as soon as it was repealed. He attributed the depression to the democrats, because they were in power, but not to his bill, because it was in force. Well, the democrats are still in power, but the McKinley bill is no longer in force, and times are im proving1. But Gov. McKinley says the new tariff bill was "tradd through," and that this ought to condemn it. Indeed! Well, let us apply this a little further. How did the McKinley bill get through? Was there no trading about that? The trading began before the Fifty first congress was elected. In the dark da3s of the campaign of 1SSS, the trusts and combinations interested in protection, the rich manufacturing corporations that had been the chief beneficiaries of protection according to the admission of high republican authority, were advised that the day of fat-frying had arrived. They heard the agonizing appeal: "Help cash us, or we sink'." They put up the money to buy a presidency and a house of representatives, with the understand ing that the taxing power of the gov ernment was to be turned over to them to do with as they pleased. More trades, however, were needed. The gentlemen up in Vermont, who make maple sugar out of some sort of combination of vegetable juices and chemicals, concluded that they would like to be paid by the government for conducting their business. They had an advocate in the senate, and they got what they wanted, though Mr. Blaine would not believe it when he first heard of it- The bill was in this way traded through. This instance, however, and many similar ones that might be named was a trifle compared to the trade made over the Sherman law. The silver mine senators held the balance of pow er on the republican side. They noti fied their fellow-republicans in the senate that the Sherman law, provid ing for the purchase of an amount of silver substantially equal to the Amer ican product, was the very least that they would accept as their share of the booty. These men were not in the senate for their health, or with any view of promoting the public good. They were there for promoting their own interests, and they let it be known that the McKinley bill could not pass unless silver was taken care of.and they had their wiiL The Sherman bill, in connection with other repub lican legislation, brought on the panic All the republicans, except the free silver men, said so in the spring and earlj- summer of 1S'J3, when they were anxious for the repeal of the silver purchase clause. In other words Gov. McKinley traded his bill through, and brought on the panic That is too plain for argument, and yet he has the hardihood to attribute the panic to the democrats, and to say that the new tariff law is to be condemned because it was "traded through." At all events, it was not put through by a trade which brought on a panic. Louisville-Courier Journal. OPINIONS AND POINTERS. The croakers can't stop the re turn of good times. Kven the croak ers will be singing jubilee songs soon. Atlanta Journal. It is a significant fact that the so-called "protected"' industries of our country are the ones which pay the poorest wages. Albany Argus. While democrats are being de nounced by republican claquers be cause wheat dropped to fifty cents, why is the same party not given credit because corn went up to sixty cents? Detroit Free Press. It will be interesting to discover which vicious combination the repub licans prefer personified in a presiden tial candidate Reed czarism btrongly infused with McKinley protectionism, or McKinley protectionism strongly infused with Reed czarism. Chicago Herald. The republican papers will exult for a week or so now over "the victory in Maine." Tom Reed would have ex ulted more if McKinley had not been imported by Joe Manley to make that ante-election speech which will entitle him to claim a share in the results. Chicago Times. The wholesale crockery and glass dealers announce that their business has greatly increased since the pas sage of the tariff law. The tax on china, porcelain, earthenware and stoneware has been very high, and its reduction has stimulated trade. Re tail dealers and householders are fill ing up their depleted stocks. N. Y World. The building trade everywhere ought to realize great benefits from free lumber. The senate bill removes the duties on logs, hewn and sawed tim ber, squared timber, sawed boards and plank, clapboards, hubs, laths, shin gles and staves in short, substan tially everything in the McKinley wood schedule except furniture, the duty upon which is reduced to 25 per cent. The value of the imports of these articles now placed on the free list was 510,000,000 in 1S93, and 51,143,000 was paid in duties. Uoston Herald. A republican organ which has long insisted that the foreigner pa3-s the tariff tax says that "we have gen erously relieved our foreign friends from paying any taxes for permission to sell their products in the Amerisan market. The taxes they have hitherto paid will be collected from the people who eat sugar," etc This is certainly interesting; the more so as since this information appeared in our contem porary that authority has explained that "on articles (like sugar) which we produce, but not iu sufficient quantity to supplr onr full demand. tne importer and lis boss, the foreign manufacturer, pa; a large part or all of the duty." Louisville Courier Journal j:" v ''77 Tl vtr' " T z 5" a" the money RELIGIOUS MATTERS. THE GIFT OF SLEEP. "So He irivethHis beloved sleep." Ps. cxxvli :t. He sees when their footsteps falter, when their heart grows weak and faint; Be marks when their strength is falling, and listens to each complaint; Ee bids them rest for a season, for the path way has grown too s'.eep; And folded in fair green pastures. He giveth His loved ones sleep. Like weary and wornout children, that sigh for the daylight's close. He knows that they oft are longing for home and its sweet repose: So He calls them in from their labors ere the shadows around them creep. And silently watching o'er them. He giveth His loved ones sleep. He giveth it. oh. so gently 1 as a mother lrlli hush to rest The babe that she softly pillows so tenderly on her breast; Forgotten are now the trials and sorrow that made them weep: For with many a soothing promise He giveth His loved ones sleep. He giveth itl Friends the dearest can never this boon bestow; But He touches the drooping eyelids, and placid the features grow: Their foes may gather about them, and storms may round them sweep. But, guarding them safe from danger. He giveth His loved ones sleep. All dread of the distant future, all fears that oppress to-day. Like mists, that clear in the sunlight, have noiselessly passed away; Xor call nor clamor can arouse them from slumbers so pure and deep. For only His voice can reach them Who giveth His loved ones sleep. IVeep not that their tolls are over, weep not that their race is run: God grant we may rest as calmly when our work, like theirs, is done! Till then we would yield with gladness our treuures to Him to keep. An 4 rejoice In the sweet assurance. He giveth His loved ones sleep. Golden Honrs. A SUBLIME CONCEPTION. The Disrlovnrv of the Itelng anil Character of an Ktrrnal, Holy and Uraciooa iod- The story of creation is sublime. 1 Glimpses of ancient monarchies fur nish dissolvinc views of vast human j power. Single characters, like Joses j and Paul, which approach the htman idea of nobleness, make wonderful por ) traits. Matchless poetry, in which a more than earthly light shines, speaks j here to mind and heart. Hut not j creation in all its sublimity, not an ! cient empires in their grandeur and in their tragic fall, not human characters brilliant on the high places of power, not charming passages of prose or poetry, not triumphant songs, though nations sing in rapture, constitute the crowning glory of this liible of our fathers. The ditinguish ing glory of our Bible, which spans like a rainbow both Testaments, is the disclosure of the being and character of an eternal, holy and gracious God. This conception is the most sublime, the most thrilling, the most ennobling, that occupies the thoughts of men. Ry the aid of the sacred pages mind is per mitted to contemplate God, who made the world, before whom angels veil their faces, to whom darkness and light are the same, who from everlast ing to everlasting is God, from whose presence the wings of the morning are vain to help us flee, who dwells in the high and holy place, and also within the humble heart of man. Clouds and darkness to human ej-es are about Him; but through the rifts in the veil some beams of light dart to tell us how bright the glory which we are not suf fered yet to see face to face. Tliat glory is softened and brought near us in the New Testament. Maj esty, tenderness, nobility, beneficence, unspeakable love, are revealed in Jesus of Nazareth majesty, when Jesus walked the wild waves and bade the fury of winds and sea be still; tender ness, when, foreseeing disaster for the city of David, though forty years dis tant. He wept over Jerusalem; nobili ty, when at the cost of reproach and misunderstanding. He befriended peni tent outcasts; beneficence, when He walked earth's weary ways, leading men's thoughts to God by miracles of power and words of wisdom; Divine love and mercy so clear that even our dim eyes are startled by the vision, when ire behold Him on the cross pray ing for His bitter foes. Little by little this brilliancy comes out in the unfolding history. It shines like starlight over patriarchal tents, over Israel's moving host on the way to Canaan, and over the dark years of Israel's struggle and sin. It shines as the moonlight when the prophet's glowing words show the greater salva tion to be provided for mankind, and display Divine purposes so beneficent that Israel's broken covenant and tem poral ruin shall not make void the promises. It shines with the bright ness of the dawn, when Christ, from glory come, stands forth the Light of the World. And this revelation of God and the revelation of man's nature and need and hope and dest iny grow radi ant together; for this God. in all His majesty and gentleness, is our own God; and it is He, in whose image we were made, who offers to be our guide and our portion forever. Some of these rays from the throne of God shine in upon our infancy. Some are giving us light in youth and man's estate. Some will conquer the falling shadows of life's evening, and shows where to tread withont fear in the valley of death. They were given to attract our love, to guard against our despair, to illumine our path to Heaven, to give us, even here, some noble conception of God's majesty and goodness, and some real acquaintance with His ways, thus preparing us for our Heavenly home, for the cloudless revelation ox God is the brightness of Heaven. Rev. T. E. liartlett, in N. Y. Examine. THT SAME AS CRIME. Bome Grave Charge Which Suggest Them selves from a Verse of 8rriptare. I was a 6tranger. and ye took me rot in; naked and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Watt., 25:43. No actual crime is charged. No malicious murder is indicated. Noth ing is said about having destroyed with torch or sword. "You didn't break into my house and steal my bread. Yc i didn't poison my food or r-" -j kill me by violence. You didn't burn my house over my head, or rob me of my clothing, but you did just as bad. You tried to kill me by neglect. You are not the thief who wounded me, and, robbed me, and stripped me of my rai ment, and departed, leaving1 me half dead, but you are the priest and the Levite, who saw me dying in my blood, but had no com passion upon me, and passed cold ly by on the other side. You gave me no word of cheer, and made no sacrifices in my behalf, and it is not through anything that you have done that I am still alive. You thought it was going to cost you too much to be a friend to the friendless. You thought I was a poor man, without friends or influence, so you drew your robes close ly about you, and got as faraway from me as you could. Had you known ma to be a prince of great power and riches, how quickly you would have run to pick me up. Depart from me, ye small souled and vile in heart. I know j-ou not. I gave you a chance to manifest your true nature, and what manner of spirit was king in your heart, and you have done it- There is no mansion in Heaven for you. Go to the place prepared for the devil and his angels." The man who rejects Christ in spirit shuts the kingdom of God entirely out of his heart. Ram's Horn. TO BE FILLED BY GOD. Sunken riacru In Onr Nature To Evened Out by the Omnipotent. If you take a coin and compare it with the die from which it has been struck, you will find that wherever in the die there is an elevation, in the coin there is a sunken place; and con versely. So there are not only resem blances in man to the Divine nature, which bear upon them the manifest marks of his destiny, but there are cor respondences, wants on our side, met by gifts upon His; hollow emptiness in us filled, when we are brought into contact with Him. by the abundance of His outstanding supplies and gifts. So the poorest, narrowest, meanest life has in it a depth, of desire, an ardor, and sometimes a pain and a madness of yearning and. longing which nothing but God can fill. Though we often misunderstand the voice, and so make ourselves mis erable by vain efforts, our "heart and our flesh," in every fiber of our being, '"cry out for the living Goth" And what we all want is some one Pearl of great price into which all the dispersed preciousness and fragmentary bril liances that dazzle the eyes shall be gathered. We want a person, a liv ing person, a present person, a suffi cient person, who shall satisfy our hearts, our whole hearts, and that at one and the same time, or else we shall never be at rest. lioston Watchman. A Letlrable Power. There is a vast difference between being "open-minded" and "open mouthed." An open mind is ready to take in any good thing; but an open mouth often lets out things, good and bad, that were better kept in. The suggestion "Don't be a clam" is sup posed to apply to persons who shut themselves up against new things that are worth receiving; but when even a clam gets to that state in which it is unable to keep closed, there are unmis takable signs of decay in the clam. The power to shut one's mind against evil communications, and to shut one's mouth against too free speech, is an important and a desirable power; and when we lose that power we are lack ing in true vitality. S. S. Times. SAGE SAYINGS. Soma nrlght Iilt of Tnrtta Taken fronr the Kam'i Horn. lie is a blank cartridge fired at. A God. The devil gets an army when he gets' a child. No one can neglect the poor and be true to Christ. God's place for a Christian is where he is needed most. Dust on the Uible generally means that its owner is asleep. Whenever the Bible is read prayerful- ly it is read earefully. Those who lead children ought to keep very close to Christ. The only sins God can blot out are, the ones we bring to Him. How quick some people backslide' when their income is doubled. Nothing frightens the devil more than hearing a good man pray. Wherever you find peace you will find it to be the result of trust. A poor man's all weighs as much with God as a rich man's millions. Only God can tell how far the devil is driven back when a child is saved. The man who loves his neighbor as himself, is doing all he can to help Goct to own the earth. It is a dangerous day for a Christian: when he begins to think that he has; more religion than his pastor. , Many a man talks too much in church who tries to make a boy do a man's work. It will be found that some of the best known people in Heaven filled very ob scure places while on earth. The devil will consent to your keep ing nine of the commandments if you are willing to break the tenth. Be a faithful Christian yourself, and you will make it that much easier for somebody else to be one. Before the devil can get a man to steal he has to first persuade him that he has a good motive for doing it. One reason why more mountains are not being moved bv faith, is that sa few people are willing to begin with molehills. No matter what a man may say in church, you know what kind of reli gion he has when you know what kind of company he keeps. v The size of the sea never troubles a. fish until he gets into a net. So, some men are never troubled by conscience until they get caught in the meshes of the law. The hope of immortality will never desert the breasts of men so long as the warm lips of surviving lore kiss the cold lips of the dead, They tin who tell us love caa die." ' Machinery of theTest "masuf actu're In the world. Xheir