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
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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.
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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
