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INTERNATIONAL PRESS ASSOCIATION. ,
CHAPTER V.
HE installation of
> the adopted stable-
was thus happily -
' pily effected , and
the wheels of life
fboy to run
smoothly In the
Doctor's house.
Jean-Marie did his
horse and carriage
duty in the morn-
H ing ; sometimes
V helped in the housework ; sometimes
Bwalked abroad with theDoctor drink
M * wisdom from the fountain-head ; and
H -was introduced at night to the sciences
& and the dead tongues. He retained his
singular placidity of mind and man-
B ner ; ho was rarely in fault ; but he
B made only a very partial progress . in
p P ills studies , and remained much of a
stranger in the family.
F The Doctor was a pattern of regu-
i Jaiity. All forenoon he worked on his
* sreat book , the "Comparative Pharma
copoeia , or Historical Dictionary of all
Medicines , " which as yet consisted
-principally of slips of paper and pins.
When finished , it was to fill many
personable volumes and to combine antiquarian -
tiquarian interest with professional
utility. But the Doctor was studious
-of literary graces and the picturesque ;
4in anecdote , a touch of manners , a
moral qualification , or a sounding epi
thet was sure to be preferred before
• a piece of science ; a little more , and
he would have written the "Compara
IH tive Pharmacopoeia" in verse ! The
article "Mummia , " for instance , was
* .already complete , though the remain
der of the work had not progressed be
yond the letter A. It was exceedingly
• copious and entertaining , written with
• quaintness and color , exact , erudite , a
L literary article ; but it would hardly
) .have afforded guidance to a practicing
physician of to-day. The feminine
good sense of his wife bad led her to
point this out with uncompromising
sincerity ; for the Dictionary was duly
.read aloud to her , betwixt sleep and
"waking , as it proceeded toward an infinitely -
. finitely distant completion ; and the
'Doctor was a little sore on the subject
of mummies , and sometimes resented
an allusion with asperity. ,
k After the midday meal and a proper
BL jieriod of digestion , he walked , some-
Ht times alone , sometimes accompanied
H 'by Jean-Marie ; for madam would 'have '
\ .preferred any hardship rather than
* nvalk.
B She was , as I have said , a very busy
k -person , continually occupied about ma- _
B terial comforts , and ready to drop
m Bleep over a novel the instant she was
BT Bsengaged. This was the less objec-
- enable , as she never snored ser grew
m -distempered in complexion when she
W .slept. On the contrary , she looked the
I very picture of luxurious and appetiz-
k ing ease , and woke without a start to
P 'the perfect possession of her faculties.
I a am afraid she was greatly an animal ,
B "but she was a very nice animal to have.
l about. In this way she had little to
B \ dp with Jean-Marie ; but the sympathy
W /which had been established between
L -them on the first night remained un-
W broken ; they held occasional conver-
W nations , mostly on household matters ;
L o the extreme disappointment of the
Doctor , they occasionally sallied off to-
B gether to that temple of debasing suB -
B * perstition , the village church ; madam
W and he , both in their Sunday's best ,
Bdrove twice a month to Fontainebleau
B and returned laden with purchases ;
B.and in short , although the Doctor still
B continued to regard them as irrccon-
K cilably antipathetic , their relation was
W -as intimate , friendly , and confidential
1 as their natures suffered.
B ' I fear , however , that in her heart of
B hearts , madam kindly despised and
L pitied the boy. She had no admiration
B for his class of virtues ; she liked a
B smart , polite , forward , roguish sort of
F boy , cap in hand , light of foot , meeting
B "the eye ; she liked volubility , charm , a
L little vice the promise of a second
B. Doctor Desprez. And it was her inde-
B feasible belief that Jean-Marie was dull.
m "Poor dear boy , " she had' said once ,
B "how sad , it is that he should be so
B -stupid ! " She bad never repeated that
r remark , for the Doctor had raged like
I a wild bull , denouncing the brutal
B bluntness of her mind , bemoaning his
B own fate to be so unequally mated with
fc an ass , and , what touched Anastasie
P \ more nearly , menacing the table china
' uy the fury of his gesticulations. But
f she adhered silently to her opinion ;
B and when Jean-Marie was sitting ,
B stolid , blank , but not unhappy , over
L / ' -Unfinished tasks , she would snatch
B ier opportunity in the Doctor's absence ,
[ ? s o over to him , put her arms about his
J heck , lay her cheek to his , and communicate -
' municate her sympathy with his dis
tress. "Do not mind , " she would say ;
"I , too , am not at all clever , and I
caq assure you that it makes no differ
ence in life. "
! The Doctor ' s view was naturally dif-
* ferent. That gentleman never wearied
of the sound of his own voice , which
was , to say the truth , agreeable enough
to hear. He now had a listener , who
i > was not so cynically indifferent as An-
V-astasic , and who sometimes put him
on his nettle by the most relevant ob
jections. Besides , was he not educat
ing the boy ? And education , philoso
phers are agreed , is the most philosoph
ical of duties. What can be more
fccavenly to poor manTtind than to have
one's hobby grow Into a dut7 to the
\
State ? Then , indeed , do the ways of
life become ways of pleasantness. Nev
er had the Doctor seen reason to be
more content with his endowments.
Philosophy flowed smoothly from his
lips. He was so agile a dialectician
that lie could trace his nonsense , when
challenged , back to some root in
sense , and prove it to be a sort of flower
upon his system. He slipped out of an
timonies like a fish , and left his disci-
pie marveling at the rabbi's depth.
Moreover , deep down In bis heart the
Doctor was disappointed with the ill-
success of his more formal education.
A boy , chosen by so acute an observer
for his aptitude , and guided along the
path of learning by so philosophic an
instructor , was bound , by the nature
of the universe , to make a more obvious
and lasting advance. Now Jean-Marie
was slow in all things , impenetrable in
others ; and his power of forgetting
was fully on a level with his power to
learn. Therefore the Doctor cherished
his peripatetic lectures , to which the
boy attended , which he generally appeared -
peared to enjoy , and by which he often
profited.
Many and many were the talks they
had together ; and health and niodera-
<
tion proved the subject of the Doctor's
divagations. To these he lovingly re
turned.
"I lead you , " he would say , "by the
green pastures. My system , my beliefs ,
my medicines , are resumed in one
phrase to avoid excess. Blessed nature -
ture , healthy , temperate nature , abhors
and exterminates excess. Human law ,
in this matter , imitates at a great dis
tance her provisions ; and we must
strive to supplement the efforts of the
law. Yes , boy , we must be a law to
ourselves and for our neighbors lex
armata armed , emphatic , tyrannous
law. If you see a crapulous human
ruin snuffing , dash him from his box !
The judge , though in a way an admission - ]
sion of disease , is less offensive to me ;
than either the doctor or the priest.
Above all the doctor the doctor and \
the purulent trash and garbage of his
pharmacopoeia ! Pure air from the ;
neighborhood of a pinetum for the
sake of the turpentine unadulterated i
wine , and the reflections of an unso- <
pbisticated spirit in the presence of
"the works of nature these , my boy , are
the best medical appliances and the
best religious comforts. Devote your
self to these. Hark ! there are bells of
Bourron ( the wind is in the north , it
will be fair ) . How clear and airy is the
sound ! The nerves are harmonized
and quieted ; the mind attuned to si
lence ; and observe how easily and reg
ularly beats the heart ! Your unen
lightened doctor would see nothing in
these sensations ; and yet you yourself
perceive they are a part of health.
Did you remember your cinchona this
morning ? Good. Cinchona also is a
work of nature ; it is , after all , only
the bark of a tree which we might
gather for ourselves if we live in the
locality. What a world , is this !
Though a professed atheist , I delight to
bear my testimony to the world. Look
at the gratuitous remedies > and pleas
ures that surround our path ! The river
runs by the garden end , our bath , our
fishpond , our natural system of drain
age. There is a well in the court which
sends up sparkling water from the
earth's very heart , clean , cool , and ,
with a little wine , most wholesome.
The district is notorious for salubrity ;
rheumatism is the only prevalent com
plaint , and I myself have never had a
touch of it. I tell you and my opinion
is based upon the coldest , clearest proc
esses of reason if I , if you , desired to
leave this home of pleasures , it would
be the duty , it would be the privilege ,
of our best friend to prevent us with a
pistol bullet. "
CHAPTER VI.
beautiful June
day they sat upon
the hill outside
the village. The
riverblue as heav
en , shone hero and
there among
the foliage. The
indefatigable birds
turned and flickered -
- _ ered about Gretz
Church tower. A
healthy wind blew from over the for
est , and . the sound of innumerable thou
sands of tree-tops and innumcrablemil-
lions on millions of green leaves was
abroad in the air , and fllled the ear with
something between whispered speech
and singing. It seemed as if every blade
of grass must hide a clgale ; and the
fields rang merrily with their music ,
jingling far and near as with the
sleigh-bells of the fairy queen. From
their station on the slope the < * ye em
braced a large space of poplared plain
upon the one hand , the waving hilltops
of the forest on the other , and Gretz
itself in the middle , a handful of roofs.
Under the bestriding arch of the blue
heavens , the place seemed dwindled tea
a toy. It seemed incredible that people
dwelt , and could find room to turn or
air to breathe , in such a corner of the
world. The thought came home to the
boy , perhaps for the first time , and he
gave it words.
"How small it looks ! " he sighed.
"Ay , " replied the - Doctor , "small
enough now. Yet it was once a walled
city ; thriving , full of furred burgesses
and men in armor , humming with af
fairs with tall spires , for aught that
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I know , and portly towers along the
battlements. A thousand chimneys
ceased smoking at the curfew-bell.
There were gibbets at the gate as
thick as scarecrows. In time of war , -
the assault swarmed against it with
ladders , the arrows fell like leaves , the
defenders sallied hotly over the draw
bridge , each side uttered its cry as they
plied their weapons. Do you know that
the walls extended as far as the Com-
manderie ? Tradition so reports. Alas ,
what a long way off is all this confu
sion nothing left of it but my quiet
words spoken in your ear and the
town itself shrunk to the hamlet un
derneath us ? By-and-by camo. the
English wars you shall hear more of
the English , a stupid people , who some
times blundered into good and Gretz
was taken , sacked , and burned. It , is
the history of many towns ; but Gretz
. never rose again ; it was never rebuilt ;
tfts ruins were a quarry to serve the
growth of rivals ; and the stones of
Greta ( are now erect along the streets
of , Nemours. It gratifies me that our
old house was the first to rise after
the 1 calamity ; when the town had come
to \ an end , it inaugurated the hamlet. "
"I , too , am glad cf that , " said Jean-
Marie. ; •
"It should be the temple of humbler
virtues , " responded the Doctor with a
savory , gusto. "Perhaps one of the rea
sons why I love my little hamlet as
I do , is that wo have a limilar history ,
she , and I. Have I told you that I was
once , rich ? "
"I do not think so , " answered Jean-
Marie. ; "I do not think I should have
forgotten. : I am sorry you should have
lost your fortune. "
"Sorry ? " cried the Doctor. "Why , I
find I have scarce begun your educa
tion after all. Listen to me ! Would
you rather live in the old Gretz or in
the new , free from the alarms of war ,
with the green country at the door ,
without noise , passports , the exactions
of the soldiery , or the jangle of the
curfew-bell to send us off to bed by
sundown j ? "
"I suppose. I should prefer the new , "
replied ; the boy.
"Precisely , " returned the Doctor ; "so
do i I. And , in the same way , I prefer
my present moderate fortune to my
former wealth. Golden mediocrity !
cried ( the adorable ancients ; and I sub
scribe i to their enthusiasm. Have I not
good ; wine , good food , good air , the
fields and the forest for my walk , a
house , an admirable wife , a boy whom
I protest I cherish like a son ? Now ,
if I were still rich , I should indubi
tably make my residence in Paris you
know Paris Paris and Paradise are
not convertible terms. This pleasant
noise of the wind streaming among
leaves changed into the grinding Babel
of the street , the stupid glare of plaster
substituted for this quiet pattern of
greens and grays , the nerves shattered ,
the digestion falsified picture the fall !
Already you perceive the consequences ;
the mind is stimulated , the heart steps
to a different measure , and the man
is himself no longer. I have passion
ately studied myself the true business
of philosophy. I know my character
as the musician knows the ventages of
his flute. Should I return to Paris , I
should ruin myself gambling ; nay , I
go further I should break the heart of
my Anastasie with infidelities. "
This was too much for Jean-Marie.
That a place should so transform the
most excellent of men transcended his
belief. Paris , he protested , was even
an agreeable place of residence. "Nor
when T lived in that city did I feel
much difference , " he pleaded.
"What ! " cried the Doctor. "Did you
not steal when you were there ? "
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DUTCH JOHN'S QUEER REPORT
,
His Description ot the Accident TVa
Certainly Unique.
After having bis trunk smashed and
some of his men killed by a collision
with a wild train , says the Railroad
Telegrapher , a German section fore
man sent in the following unique report
to the division superintendent :
"Ve bemakin run mit der thruck
und sum spikes down to Fairvell cross-
in und we ask dot man vat make der
nise mit der little clicker up in der
'ouse vere der vires run in vat times
der drain cums , und he says she cums
purty soon , John , but you have time to
get der thruck down to der crossin und
as we t'inks dat he bees talkin der
druth ve makes der thruck gone purty
quick , but up der thrack cumss der
big puffer like der deffull , und vile ve
talked about vat ve do der thruck goes
up over der head of der puffer und der
spikes und men go plunk in der ditch.
Vone of der 'Tallian men lose his two
legs und he be not sthrong enough ter
valk ve put 'im in mit der luggage in
der car vere he dies sune. Mike Doole
go up mit de air und comes not down
yet , und ve not find him easy , but dere
bees noding for him to hit up dere ve
dinks he cums down purty sune all
right. Der growbars und nine shovels
cum down so ve vaits here till Mike
Doole cums down too. Yours , John
Schneider. "
Carry Toilet Cases.
Women who ride the bicycle in Eng
land sally forth in the summer time up
on their longer excursions equipped for
the fray with the sun. They do not
carry parasols , but they carry complete
toilet casesrin which there is a variety
of powders and other things that are
calculated to preserve the complexion.
A tiny brush , a comb that soqthes when
it caresses , a puff , a tooth-brush , a
manicure set , a little mirror , in fact ,
nearly every feminine appliance , on a
diminutive scale , has its place.
A Doubtful Evasion.
Old Gent Waiter , I have found a
hair in my ice cream. Waiter Im
possible , sir ; that ice cream was made
with the best shaved ice. New York
World.
TALMAGE'S . SERMON.
"CONTRARY WINDS" THE SUB
JECT LAST SUNDAY.
From the FolloivSnsr ' Test , "Tho Wind
• Was Cootriirj" ' XtiZlt , 1.1:24 The
Voice of Christianity the Only Alter-
nutlvo lu iUUfortune. '
S I well know by
experlence on Lake
Galilee , one hour
all may bo talin
and the next hour
the winds and
#
waves will be so
boisterous that * you
are in doubt as to
whether you will
land on the shore
or on the bottom of
the deep. The disciples in the text
were caught in such a stress -weather
and the sails bent and the ship plunged
for "the wind was contrary. " There
is in one of the European straits a
place , where , whichever way you sail
the winds are opposing. There are
"
people who all their life seem sailing
in the teeth of the wind. All things
seem against them. It may be said of
their condition as of that of the dis
ciples In my text : "the wind was con
'
trary. " •
A great multitude of people are un
der seeming disadvantage , arid I will
today , in the swarthiest Anglo-Saxon
that I can manage , treat their cases ;
not a3 a nurse counts out eight or ten
drops of a prescription , and stirs tbcm
in a half-glass of water , but as when
a man has by a mistake taken a large
amount of strychnine , or Paris green ,
or belladonna , and the patient is walk
ed rapidly round the room , and shaken
up , until he gets wide awake. Many of
you have taken a large draught of the
poison of discouragement , and I come
out by the order of the Divine Physi
cian to rouse you out of that lethargy.
First , many pee ' ple are under the dis
advantage of an unfortunate name
given them by parents who thought
they were doing a good thing. .Some
times at the baptism of children , while
I have held up one hand in prayer , 1
have held up the other hand in amaze
ment that parents should have weight
ed the babe with such a dissonant and
repulsive nomenclature. I have not so
much wondered that some children
should cry out at the christening , font
as that others with such smiling face
should take a title that will be the bur
den of their lifetime. It is outrageous
to afflict children with an undesirable
name because it happened to be pos
sessed by a parent or a rich uncle from
whom favors are expected , or some
prominent man of the day who may
end his life in disgrace. It is no ex
cuse , because they are Scripture names ,
to call a child Jehoikim , or Tiglath-
Pileser. I baptized one by the name
Bathsheba ! Why , under all the cir
cumambient heaven , any parent should
want to give to a child the name of that
loose creature of Scripture times I can
not imagine. I have often felt tX the
baptismal altar , when names were an
nounced to me , like saying , as did the
Rev. Dr. Richards , of Morristown , N.
J. , when a child was handed nim for
baptism and the name given : "Hadn't
you better call it something else ? "
Impose not upon that babe a name
suggestive of flippancy or meanness.
There is no excuse for such assault and
battery on the cradle when our lan
guage is opulent with names musical
and suggestive in meaning , a-uch as
John , meaning "the gracious gift of
God ; " or Henry , meaning "the chief
of a household ; " or Alfred , meaning
"good counsellor ; " or Joshua , meaning
"God , our salvation ; " or Ambrose ,
meaning "immortal ; " or Andrew ,
meaning "manly ; " or Esther , meaning
"star ; " or Abigail , meaning "my fath
er's joy ; " or Anna , meaning "grace ; "
or Victoria , meaning "victory ; " or Ros
alie , meaning "beautiful as a rose ; " or
Margaret , meaning "a pearl ; " or Ida ,
meaning "godlike ; " or Clara , meaning
"illustrious ; " or Amelia , meaning
"busy ; " or Bertha , meaning "beauti
ful , " and hundreds of other name just
as good , that are a help rather than a
hindrance.
But sometimes the great hindrance
in life in not in the given name , but in
the family name. While legislatures
are willing to lift such incubus , there
are families that keep a name which
mortgages all the
generations with a
great disadvantage. You say : "I won
der if he is any relation to So-and-so , "
mentioning some family celebrated for
crime or deception. ' It is a wonder to
me that in all such famlies some sp'rit-
ed young man does not rise , saying to
his brothers and "
sisters
: "If j-ou want
to keep this nuisance or seandalization
of a name , I will keep it no longer than
until the quickest course
of law I can
slough off this gangrene. " The city
directory has hundreds of names the
mere pronunciation of which has been
a life-long obstacle. If you have started
life under a name which either through
ridiculous orthography or vicious sug
gestion has been an encumbrance
, re
solve that the next generation shall not
be so weighted. It is not bemeaning
to change a name. Saul of Tarsus be
came Paul the Apostle. Hadassah ,
"the myrtle , " became Esther , " the
star. " We have in
America , and I sup
pose it is so in all countries , names
which ought to be abolished , and can
be , and will be abolished for the reason
that they are a libel and a slander. But
if for any reason you are submerged
either by a given name or by a family
name that you must bear , God will help
you to overcome the outrage by a life
consecrated to the good and usetul.
You may erase the curse from the
name. If it once stood for meanness ,
you can make it stand for generosity.
If once 'it stood for pride , you can
maka it stand for humility. If it once
t
stod for fraud , you can make it stand
for honesty. If once it stood for wlck-
cdnesB , you can make It stand for pur
ity. There have been niultitutdes ot in
stances where men and women lnvc
magnificently conquered the disasters
of the name inflicted- upon them.
Again , many people labor untlar the
mlsfortuno of incomplete physical
equipment. Wc arc by our Creator so
economically built that wo cannot af
ford the obliteration of any physical
faculty. We want our two eyes , our
two ears , our two hands , our two feet ,
our eight fingers and two thumbs. Yet
what multitudes of people Slave but
one eye , or but one foot ! The ordinary
casualties of life have been quadrupled ,
quintupled , sextupled , aye , centupled ,
in our time by the Civil War , and at
the North and South a great multitude
are fighting the battle of life with half ,
or less than half the needed physical
armaments. I do not wonder at the
pathos of a soldier during the war , who ,
when told that he must have his hand
amputated , said : "Doctor , can't you
save it ? " and when told that it was im
possible , said , with tears rolling down
his cheeks : "Well , then , good-bye , old
hand ; I hate to part with you. You
have done me a good service for many
years , but it seems you must go. Good
bye. "
A celebrated surgeon told me of a
scene in the Clinical Department of one
of the New York hospitals , when a
poor man with a wounded log was
brought In before the students to be
operated on. The surgeon was point
ing out this and that to the students ,
and handling the wounded leg , and was
about to proceed to amputation , when
the poor man leaped from the table
and hobbled to the. door , and said ,
"Gentlemen , I am sorry to disappoint
you , but by the help of God I will die
with my leg on. " What a terrific loss
is the loss of our physical faculties !
9 * *
Put to full use all the faculties that
remain , and charge on all opposing cir
cumstances with the determination of
John of Bohemia , who was totally
blind , and yet at a battle cried out , "I
pray and beseech you to lead me so
far into the fight that I may strike one
good blow with this sword of mine. "
Do not think so much of what faculties
you have lost as of what faculties re
main. You have enough left to make
yourself felt in three worlds , while you
help the earth , and balk hell , and win
heaven. Arise from your discourage
ments , O men and women of depleted
or crippled physical faculties and see
what , by the special help of God you
can accomnlish !
The skilled horsemen stood around
Bucephalus , unable to mount or man
age him , so wild was the steed. But
Alexander noticed that the sight of his
own shadow seemed to disturb the
horse. So Alexander clutched him by
the bridle , and turned his head away
from the shadow , and toward the sun ,
and the horse's agitation was gone , and
Alexander mounted him and rode off ,
to the astonishment of all who stood
by. And what you people need is to
have your sight turned away rrom the
shadows of your earthly lot over
which you have so long pondered , and
your head turned toward the sun the
glorious sun of Gospel consolation , and
Christian hope , and spiritual triumph.
* *
Now , suppose a man finds himself in
mid-life without education , what is he
to do ? Do the best he can. The most
effective layman in a former pastoral
charge that I ever heard speak on re
ligious themes could , within five min
utes of exhortation , break all the laws
of English grammar , and if he left any
law unfractured he would complete the
work of lingual devastation in the
prayer with which he followed it. But
I would rather have him pray for me ,
if I were sick or in trouble , than any
Christian man I know of , and in that
church all the people preferred him in
exhortation and prayer to all others.
Why ? Because he was so thoroughly
pious and had such power with God he
was irresistible ; and as he went on in
his prayer sinners repented and saints
shouted for joy , and the bereaved seem
ed to get back their dead in celestial
companionship. And when he had
stopped praying , and as soon as I could
wipe out of my eyes enough tears to see
the closing hymn , I ended the meeting ,
fearful that some long-winded prayer-
meeting bore would pull us down from
the seventh heaven.
Not a word have I to say against ac
curacy of speech , or fine elocution , or
high mental culture. Get all these you
can. But I do say to those who were
brought up in the day of poor cchool-
houses and ignorant schoolmasters , and
no opportunity : You may have so
much of good in your soul and so much
of heaven in your everyday life that
you will be mightier for good than any
who went through the curriculum of
Harvard , or Yale , or Oxford , yet never
graduated in the school of Christ. When
you get up to the gate of heaven no
one will ask you whether you can parse
the first chapter of Genesis , but wheth
er you have learned the fear uf the
Lord , which is the beginning of wis
dom ; nor whether you know how to
square the circle , but whether you have
lived a square life in a round world.
Mount Zion is higher than Mount Par
nassus.
But what other multitudes there are
under other disadvantages ! Here is a
Christian woman whose husband thinks
religion a sham , and while the wife
prays the children one way the hus
band swears them another. Or here is
a Christian man who is tryins to do
his best for God and the Church , and
his wife holds him back and says on
the way home from prayer-meeting ,
where he gave testimony for Christ :
"What a fool you made of yourself !
I hope hereafter you will keep still. "
And when he would be benevolent and
give fifty dollars , she criticises him for
not giving fifty cents. I must do jus-
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tico and publicly thank God that I
never proposed at homo to give any
thing for any cause of humanity or religion - s
ligion but the other partner In the do
mestic firm approved it. And when It
seemed beyond my ability and faith in
God wa3 necessary , she had three-
fourths the faith. But I know men
who , when they contribute to charlta-
' ble objects nrc afraid that the wife
shall find it out. What a withering
curse such woman must be to .v good
man !
Then there are others under the
great disadvantage of poverty. Who
ought i to get things cheapest ? You say
these who have little means. But they
pay more. You buy coal by the ton ,
they buy it by the bucket. You buy
flour by the barrel , they buy it by the
pound. You get apparel cheap , because
you ; pay cash. They pay dear because
they have to get trusted. And the
Bible was right when It said : "the de
struction of the poor is their poverty. "
Then there are those who made a
mistake in early life , and that over
shadows all their days. "Do you not
know that that man was once in pris
on , " is whispered. Or , "Do you know
that that man once attempted auicide ? "
Or , "Do you know that that man once
absconded ? " Or , "Do you know that
that man was once discharged for dis
honesty ? " Perhaps there was only one
wrong deed In the man's life , and that
one act haunts the subsequent half cen
tury of his existence.
Others have unfortunate predomi
nance of some mental faculty , and
their rashness throws them into wild
enterprises , or their trepidation makes
them decline great opportunity , or
there is a vein of melancholy in their
disposition that defeats them , or they
have an endowment of ovcr-mlrth that
causes the impression of insincerity.
Others have a mighty obstacle in.
their personal appearance , for whiclL
they are not responsible. They forget
that God fashioned their features , and
their complexion , and their stature , he
size of their nose , and mouth , and
hands , and feet , and gave them their
gait and their general appearance ; and
they forget that much of the world's
best work and the Church's best work
has been done by homely people ; and
that Paul the Apostle is said to have
been hump-backed , and his eye-sight
weakened by ophthalmia , while many
of the finest in appearance have passed
their time in studying killing attitudes ,
and in displaying the richness of ward
robes not one ribbon , or vest , or ruck.
or elove. or button , or shoe-strme of
which they have had brains to earn for
themselves.
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In the way of practical relief for all
disadvantages and all woes , the only
voice that is worth listening to on this
subject is the voice of Christianity ,
which is the voice of Almighty God. *
Whether I have mentioned the par
ticular disadvantage under which you
labor or not , I distinctly declare , in the
name of God , that there is a way out
and a way up for all of you. You can
not be any worse off than that Chiis-
tian young woman who was in the
Pemberton mills when they fell some
years ago , and from under the fallen
timbers she was heard singing : " 1 am
going home to die no more. "
Take good courage from that Bible ,
all of whose promises are for those in
bad predicament. There are better days
for you , either on earth or in heaven.
I put my hand under your chin , and
lift your face into the light of the com
ing dawn. Have God on your aide , and
then you have for reserve troop3 all the
armies of heaven , the smallest company
of which is thousand
twenty chariots. i
and the smallest brigade one hundred
and forty-four thousand , the lightnings
of heaven their drawn sword.
An ancient warrior saw an overpow
ering host come down upon his small
company of armed men , and mounting
his horse he threw a handful of sand
in the air , crying , "Let their faces be
covered with confusion ! " And both
armies heard his voice , and history
says it seemed as though the dust
thrown in the air had become so many
angels of supernatural deliverance , and
the wealc overcame the mighty , and the
immense host fell back , and the small
number marched on. Have faith in
God , and though all the allied forces of
discouragement seem to come against
you in battle array , and their laugh of
definance and contempt resounds
through all the valleys and mountains ,
you might by faith in God , and impor
tunate prayer , pick up a handful of the-
very dust of your humiliation , and
throw it into the air , and it shall lie-
come angels of victory over ail he-
armies of earth and hell. The voices ,
of your adversaries , human and Satan
ic , shall be covered with confusion , ,
while you shall be not only conqueror. ,
but more than conqueror , through that
grace which has so often made the
fallen helmet of an overthrown antag
onist the footstool of a Christhin vic
tory.
Deep Diving to Kecoter Trcasore.
The greatest diving feat ever at
tempted wa that of the raising of
treasure that sank with the steamer
near Seal R6cks , New South Wales.
News has been received that every box
of sovereigns that went to the bottom
has been saved by the men who work
ed under the sea at a depth of twenty-
seven fathoms. The names of the div
ers are Briggs and May. At times they
were subject to a pressure of seventy
to seventy-five pounds to the square
inch , causing them great suffering.
The Catterthun was wrecked in Au
gust , 18S5 , while on the voyage from
Sydney to Hong Kong. Fifty-four ol
her crew and passengers lost their
lives , including brave Captain Shan
non. The vessel's cargo consisted ol
produce and 10,000 in sovereigns. -
San Francisco Examiner.