K s My Fellow Laijorer.i
jn By H. RIDER HAGGARD. &
B > CHAPTER IV.
> fl S nf li J sl the conclusion that
* B n/n * ne sooner we did
H [ jX/y so the better ; more
> B jA / especially as the
P Va/ introduction of a
K L\ new factor into our
* T } relationship was to
B V m y u naccustomed
r j .mind in a certain sense improper and
> B irksome , although by no means un-
V pleasant. Also it wasted time acd
* B 'tended to direct our attention from tis
> B vast undertaking to which we were
> B pledged. Accordingly , within a very
* flt few days of the occurrence already de-
HVn scribed , I visited a register , and hav-
T > ing , as it seemed to me , paid several
B unucccssary fees , provided myself with
Hp a license. On my way back I walked
T ' down Fleet street , thinking amiably
> B -of getting married and Dr. Johnson ,
* B and intending to take the omnibus at
K 'Charing Cross. As I went I happened
> B to look up , and my eye fell upon a not -
t B .ticc to the effect that a certain well-
> B known life assurance company had its
Ky • offices within the building opposite.
V Then it was that the idea first oc-
Bf curred to me that I ought to insure
K' my life , so that , should anything happen -
pen to me , Fanny might have somc-
> B thing to keep her from poverty. As
K * it was , she would have absolutely
fl nothing. All that I had , and that my
* flL wife had brought with her , was strictly
1 settled upon the boy John in such a
K way that I could not even give my
H subsequent wife a life interest in it ,
B or a part of it. I stopped there in the
H street , and having given the matter
J P a few moments' consideration , came
* fl to the conclusion that it was my duty
Bv to provide for Fanny to small extent
> B say two thousand pounds.
L Upon this decision. I crossed the
K road-way , and , entering the office ,
B\ some inquiries from a clerk. As it
B happened , the doctor attached to the
Bp company was at that moment in at-
* B # tendance and disengaged , so thinking
Kf that I could not do better than get a
p disagreeable business over at once , 1
• B sent ud mv card and asked to see mm.
JB \ The messenger returned presently ,
B | with a request that I would "step up , "
EH ? which I accordingly did , to find myself ,
* B to my astonishment , in the presence
> B of an old fellow-student of my own ,
B with whom I had in former days been
> B tolerably intimate , but whom I had
Ra not seen for years. We greeted each
a
BP\ other cordially enough , and after a few
k \ minutes' talk I told him the business I
* B had in hand , and he began his medical
HK examination with the series of stock
B questions which doctors always put
* E- upon these occasions.
Pjp • The only point upon which he dwelt
*
Kjp at all was insanity , and he was so
flF persistent upon this matter that I per-
Bf ceived he had heard some of the
B [ rumors about me being mentally deB -
B § ranged , which my friends and relations
fl ? had so materially assisted to spread.
fl However , I got through that part of
B $ the business , and then I undid my
4 shirt , and he proceeded with the phy-
B sical examination. First he applied
Bw the stethescope to my heart , and
Bfl quickly removed it , evidently satisfied.
BT Then he placed it over my right lung
W\ and listened. While he did so , I saw
jVli his face change , and a thrill of fear
6 * shot through me as it suddenly came to
fl niy mind that I had experienced some
B ? > trouble there of late , of which I had
Bit , taken no notice , and which had , in-
B j deed , quite passed out of my mind.
B ; Next he tried the other lung , and
| placed the stethoscope on the table.
KL "What is the matter ? " I asked , keep-
fl& ing as calm a face as I could , for I
WjB could tell from his look that there was
Hfv something very wrong.
BF "Come , Gosden , you are a medical
Bf man yourself , and a clever one , and
W\- there is no need for me to tell you
WjP about it. "
WL "Upon my word , " I answered , "I
Rv know nothing of what you mean. I
IIB liave not bothered about my own
Jf N health for years ; but , now I think of it ,
| J [ I have had some local trouble on the
B t chest , last winter especially. What is
R s it ? It is better to know the worst. "
IB "Our rule here , " he answered dryly ,
fc "is not to make any communication to
WM the person examined ; but , as we are
flh brother practitioners , I suppose I may
Wm " dispense with it , and tell you at once
iJ | ihat I cannot recommend your life to
board to be insured
Bp the upon any
terms. That is what is the matter with
iB yon , old fellow , " and he went on , in
ly terms too technical for me to write
B down here , to describe the symptoms of
B one of the most deadliest , and yet
R most uncertain , forms of lung disease ,
\ in short to pass sententrjf death up-
B | on me.
B I do not think I am a coward , and 1
$ i hope I took it well. The bitter irony
B \ of the whole thing lay in the fact that
W while I was in active practice , I had
I made this form of disease a special
t . study , and used to flatter myself that
I could stop it , or at any rate stave it
off indefinitely , if only I could get at it
in time. I might have stopped my
own , if I had known about it. Ah !
who shall heal the physician ?
"Well , there you are , Gosden , " went
E • on my friend ; "you know as " much
about it as I do ; you may live three
years , and you may live thirty , but
i the odds are against you lasting five.
I You know what an uncertain thing it
is. There is only one thing certain
L .about it , and that is , that it will kill
F you socner or later. I speak plainly
I because we are both accustomed to face
' ' ' • j < " < iArtwb > * i y < 'uv ' # " " " ' " " : - "
ttesc sort of fact3. Perhaps you had
better take another opinion. "
! I shook ray bead. Now that my at
tention had been called to it , no
opinions could help me. He was per-
i \ fectly right , I might go very shortly ,
or I might live till well on into mid
dle life. As the event has proved , I
have lived , but I am not far from the
end of my tether now.
"Are you of opinion , " I asked , "that
my form of disease is likely to prove !
hereditary ? "
, I knew wihat his answer would he ,
but I put the question as a forlorn hope.
"Of course. I should consider that
It ; would certainly be hereditary ; and , ,
what is more , it Is extremely probable :
that ] your wife would contract it also.
But why do ask ? You
; you are not go
ing to get married again , are you ? "
"I am engaged to be married. "
"Well , " he replied , "of course it is
f an awkward thing to talk to a man
about ' , but if you take my advice , you
will be a little more honorable than
most people are under the circum
stances , and break the match off. "
"I am quite of your opinion , " I said , ,
"and now I v/ill bid you good-day. "
"Well , good-bye , Gosden. I don't
think it will be of any use my making ;
a report to the board unless you wish
it. Don't worry yourself , old fellow , ,
and keep your chest warm , and you
may see fifty yet ! "
In another minute I was in Fleet :
street again , and 'felt vaguely astonish
ed that it should look just J.he same i
as it did a quarter of an hour before. .
Most of us have experienced this sensa
tion when some radical change of cir •
cumstance has suddenly fallen upon
U3. It seems curious that the great
hurrying world should be so dead to i
our individuality and heedless of our
most vital hopes. A quarter of an
hour before , I was a man with a pros •
pect of a long and useful , perhaps a
most eminent career. Also I was just ;
going to be married to a congenial
wife. Now I was , as I then thought ,
doomed to an early grave , and as for
the wife , the idea had to be abandoned.
I was in honor bound to abandon it :
for her sake , and for the sake of pos
sible children.
Well , I walked to Charing Cress ,
and took the omnibus as I had intend
ed. I remember that there was a fat
woman in it , who insisted upon carry •
ing a still fatter pug dog , and quar
reled with the conductor seriously in
consequence. All this took place in the
month of December , and by the time i
I srnt. home it wns lipffinnir. - tn nvnw
darc. ! I went straight into the study :
Fanny was there , and the lamp was
lightsd. When I entered she flung
down her pen , and jumping up , came
forward and kissed oe ; and , as she
did so , I thought what a splendid look
ing woman she had grown into/with her
intellectual face and shapely form , and
somehow the reflection sent a sharp
pang through me. Now that I knew
that I must lose her , it seemed to me
that I loved her almost as I had loved
my dead wife , and indeed I have often
noticed that we never know how much
we value a thing till we are callD'i up
on to resign it. Certainly I noticed it
now.
,
"Well , dear , " she said , "have joi ;
got it ? Why , what is the matter/ with
you ? " . . ' • >
"Sit down , Fanny , " I answered , "and
I will tell you , only you must try tcfi
bear it as well as you can. " •
She seated herself in her calm ; de-j
termined way , although I could see that
she was anxious , and I began at the '
beginning , and went straight through ,
my story without skipping a word. As
soon as she understood its drift Her
• face set like a stone , and she heard
me to the end without interruption Qr
movement.
"Well , Geoffrey , " she said , in a low
voice when at last I "
, had done , "ami , ,
'
what is to be the end of it all ? "
v
"This : that our marriage cannot' ,
come off and death ! " '
"Why cannot our marriagecdme ,
off ? " * f
<
"I have told you why , dear. A man
afflicted as I am has no right to sen'd , .
his affliction down to future genera- ;
tions. People are fond of calling'thef
inevitable result of such conduct * th'd
decree of Providence , but it * " is the
cause of most of the misery of the
world , and as medical men know jivell
enough , a wicked and selfish thing .o'
do. " V '
"The world does not seem to think
so. One sees such marriages everv
day. " j ' *
"Yes , because the world is blind , and
mad , and bad. " \ '
"I don't agree with you , Geoffrey , "
she answered , with passion. "Our lives
are our own , posterity must look after
itself. We have a right to make the
best of our lives , such as they are ,
without consulting the interests of
those who may never exist. If they
do exist , then they must take their
chance , and bear their burdens as we
bear ours. All this talk about the fu
ture and posterity is nonsense. What
will posterity care for us that we
should care for it ? We cannot affect
it one way or the other ; it is hopeless
to expect to turn Nature out of her
path. We are nothing but feathers
blown vbout by the wind , and all we
can do is to go down where the wind
blows us , and when we fall , 'we fall
as softly as we may. "
I looked up in astonishment. I had
no idea that Fanny held views as
merciless , and , opposed to all pure
altruism as they were , in a sense , un
answerable. Indeed , I had heard her
express notions directly contrary , and
at the moment was totally at a loss
to account for the change. Of course ,
however , the explanation was easy
enough. Theory had come into con
flict with interest , and , as is often the
case , even in the most highly developed
people , it was so much the worse for
the theory.
"I am sorry to hear you speak so ,
dear , " I said. "I hoped and thought
that you would have supported mo in
a very painful resolution. The blow
is hard enough to bear , even with
your help ; without , it is almost uni
endurable. "
She rose from her chair , and then for
the first time I realized the depth of
her emotion. Her beautiful eyes
flashed , her bosom heaved , and she
slowly crushed the paper she held in
her hand to shield her face from the
fire , into a shapeless mos3 , and then
threw It down.
"You have no heart , " she said. "Do
you suppose it is nothing to me , who
was going to marry you within a week ,
to lose my husband and to be obliged
to fall back again into this half life ,
this very twilight of a life ? Oh ! Geof
frey , think again , " and she stretched
out her arms toward me , and looked
at me , and spoke in accents of im
passioned tenderness. "Think , " she
went on , "can you not give up your
scruples for me ? Am I not worth
straining a point in your conscience ?
There is nothing in the wojld , Geof
frey , that a man can profit by in exchange -
change for his love. Soon this dis
ease will take a hold of you , and then
you v/ill grow weak , and miserable ,
and incapable of enjoyment. Live now
while you can , and leave the consequences -
quences to Providence , or rather to
the workings of those unchanging
rules which we call Providence. Look
at me : I am beautiful , and I love you ,
and ray intellect is almost as great as
your own. Don't throw me away for
a theory , Geoffrey. " ;
All the time that she was speaking
she drew slowly nearer to me , her
arms outstretched and her great eyes
glowing and changing in the shaded
light. And now the arms closed
round me , and she lay upon my heart
and gazed into my face , till I thought
that I should be overcome. But , thank
Heaven ! somehow for conscience' sake
I found the resolution to hold to what
I knew to be right. I think it was the
recollection of my dear wife that came
over me at that moment , and induced
a sudden feeling of revulsion to the
beautiful woman who lay in my arms ,
and who did not scruple to resort to
such means to turn me from my duty ,
H $ l it not been for the thought , I am
sure that being but a man , and therefore - ;
fore weak , I should have yielded and
then there would have been no possibility - i
bility of further retreat. As it were , I
with a desjperate effort , wrenched myself - :
self free from her. I
"It is of no use , Fanny , " I cried , in I t
despair. "I will not do it ? I think
that it would be wicked for a man in
my condition to get married. This dis
tresses me beyond measure ; but if I
yielded to you I should be doing a
shameful thing. Forgive me , Fanny ,
it is not my fault , I did not know. It
is hard enough , " I added , with a na
tural burst of indignation , "to be sud
denly doomed to a terrible death with
out having to go through this agony , "
and with a sudden motion I flung the
wedding license into the fire.
She watched it burn , and then sunk
back in the chair , covered her face in
her hands and said no more. In this
position she remained for nearly half
an hour. Then she rose , and with astern
'
stern , cold face that it almost frighten-
el me to look upon , returned to her
work , which was now once more the
chief bond between us ; nor was the
? subject of our engagement alluded to
'again for many months. Nobody had
known of it , and nobody knew that it
had come to an end. And so it died
'aW went the way of dead things into
w.hat seems to be forgetfulness , but is
in * truth the gate-way into those new
and ' • endless halls of perpetuated life
on whose walls evil and unhappy rec
ords of the past , blazoned in letters
of fire , are the lamps to light us down
from misery to misery.
( to be continued. )
\i CICILIAN LOVE CHARMS.
Some of the Most Curious anil Topala * I
Ones. |
The love charms of Sicily are many
and curious. One , very popular and
considered very powerful , is to put in
to an eggshell a few drops of the blood
of the longing lover , says Macmillan.
The shell is exposed to the sun for three
days and to the dew for three nights.
It is then placed on hot ashes until
calcined , when the whole is reduced
to a fine powder and administered se
cretly in a cup of coffee or a glass of
wine to the object of affection. Anoth
er charm is for the witch to undress
at midnight and tie her clothes up in
a bundle , which she places on her
head ; then , kneeling in the center of
her room , she pronounces an incanta
tion , at the end of which she shakes
'her ' head. If the bundle falls in front
of her it is a good sign ; should it fall
behind her the charm will not avail.
Yet another is worked in the follow
ing manner : Pieces of green , red and
while ribbon are purchased in three
different shops , the name of the per
son to be charmed being repeated , men
tally , each time. The shop-keeper must
be paid with the left hand , the ribbon
being received in the right. When all
the pieces aie bought they are taken
j
to a witch , who sets out to find the
person to be charmed. On finding him
or her the witch mutters to herself , ,
"With these ribbons I bind you to such
a one. " Then she returns the ribbons
to the purchaser , who ties them be
neath his or her left knee and wears
them at church.
Too lo slbIc.
Knicker "We had to discharge enr
pastor because he mispronounced a
word. " Eocker "For such a trifle ? "
Knicker "Yes. He said the near dc- ;
parted had gone to "the undiscovered j '
country from whose burn no traveler
returns. ' " Judge.
The Bashi Bazouks seem to be mere
ly a scmewhat idealized set of ruffians.
TALMAGE'S SEBMON.
MAGNETISM i OF" CHRIST LAST
SUNDAY'S SUBJECT.
from ' the Following TYxt : "Kts iTumo
bhuiL Me CiiilodVoailorfnl" IhhIuIi ,
Chapter IX , Vormi 0 Au Utiusii.il
View of the Savior.
prophet lived in
J a dark time. For
MHE three thou
sand years the
world had been get-
t&ffi jffi ting worse. King-
% rrj&wij ] doms had aris-
n5 > 3pK | | en and perished. As
j | | Pthe captain of a
' 7vV % vessel in distress
'V w i sees relief coming
across the water , so
the prophet , amid the stormy times in
which he lived , put the telescope of
prophecy , to his eye , and saw , seven
hundred and fifty years ahead , one
Jesus advancing to the rescue. I want
to . show that when Isaiah called Christ
the Wonderful , he spoke wisely.
In most houses there is a picture of
Christ. Sometimes it represents him
with face effeminate ; sometimes with a
face despotic. I have seen West's
grand 1 sketch of the rejection of Christ ;
I ] have seen the face of Christ as cut
on ' an emerald , said to be by command
of ' Tiberius Caesar : * and yet I am con
vinced that I shall never know how
Jesus looked until , on that sweet Sab
bath ' morning , I shall wash the last
sleep from my eyes in the cool river of
heaven. ' I take up this book of divine
photographs I , and I look at Luke's
3ketch = , at Mark's sketch , at John's
sketch : , and at Paul's sketch , and I say.
with ' Isaiah , "Wonderful ! "
I think that you are all interested in
the I story of Christ. You feel that he
is i the only one who can help you. You
have I unbounded admiration for the
commander i who helped his passengers
ashore ; while he himself perished , but
have I you no admiration for him who
rescued i our souls , himself falling back
into i the waters from which he had
saved us ?
Christ was wonderful in the mag
netism of his person.
After the battle of Antietam , when
a general rode along the line3.alth.ough
the soldiers were lying down exhausted ,
they rose with great enthusiasm and
huzzaed. As Napoleon returned from
his captivity , his first step on the wharf
shook all the kingdoms , aud two hun
dred and fifty thousand men joined his
standard. It took three thousand
troops to watch him in his exile. So
there have been men of wonderful mag
netism of person. But hear me while
I tell you of a poor young man who
came up from Nazareth to produce a
thrill such as has never been excited
by any other. Napoleon had around
him the memories of Austerlitz and Je
na , and Badajos ; but here was a man
who had fought no battles ; who wore
no epaulettes ; who brandished no
sword. He is no titled man of the
schools , for he never went to school.
He had probably never seen a prince ,
or shaken hands with a nobleman. The
only extraordinary person we know of
as being in his company was his own
mother , and she was so poor that in
the most delicate and solemn hour that
ever comes to a woman's soul she was
obliged to lie down amid camel drivers
grooming the beasts of burden.
I imagine Christ one day standing in
the streets of Jerusalem. A man de
scended from high lineage is standing
beside him , and says , "My father was
a merchant prince ; he had a castle on
the beach at Galilee. Who was your
father ? " Christ answers , "Joseph , the
carpenter. " A man from Athens is
standing there unrolling his parchment
of graduation , and says to Christ ,
"Where did you go to school ? " Christ ,
irswpjR. "I never sraduated. " Aha !
the idea of such an unheralded young
man attempting to command the at
tention of the world ! As well some
little fishing village on Long Island
shore attempt to arraign New York.
Yet no sooner does he set his foot in
the towns or cities of Judea than every
thing is in commotion. The people
go out. on a picnic , taking only food
enough for the day , yet are so fascinat
ed with Christ that , at the risk of starv
ing , they follow him out into the wil
derness. A nobleman falls down flat
before him , and says , "My daughter is
dead. " A beggar tries to rub the dim
ness from his eyes and says , "Lord , that
my eyes may be opened. " A poor , sick ,
panting woman pressing through the
crowd , says , "I must touch the hem of
his garment. " Children , who love
their mother better than any one else ,
struggle to get into his arms , and to
kiss his cheek , and to run their fingers
through his hair , and for all time put
ting Jesus so in love with the little ones
that there is hardly a nursery in Chris
tendom from which he does not take
one , saying , "I must have them ; I will
fill heaven with these ; for every cedar
that I plant in heaven I will have fifty
white lilies. In the hour when I was
a poor man in Judea they were not
nshnmed of me. and now that I havn I
come to a throne I do not despise
them. Hold it not back , oh. weeping
mother ; lay it on my warm heart. Of
such is the kingdom of heaven. "
What is this coming down the road7
A triumphal procession. He is seated ,
not in a chariot , but on an ass ; and
yet the people take off their coats and
throw them in the way. Oh , what a
time Jesus made among the children ,
among the beggars , among the fishermen -
men , among the philosophers ! You
may boast of self-control , but if you
had seen him you would have put your
arms around his neck and said , "Thou
art altogether lovely. "
Jesus was wonderful in the opposites
and seeming antagonisms of his nature.
You want things logical and consistent ,
and you aay , "How could Christ be God I
and man at the same time ? " John l
says Christ waa the Creator : "AH I
things were made by him. and without t
him was not anything made. " Matthew
says that he was omnipresent : "Where >
two or three are met together in ray
name , there am I in the midst of them. "
Christ declares his own eternity : . "I
am Alpha and Omega. " How can he J
be a Hon , under hia foot crushing king
doms , and yet a lamb licking the hand 1
that slays him ? At what point do the 1
throne and the manger touch ? If
Christ was God , why flee into Egypt ?
Why not stand his ground ? Why , in
stead of bearing a cross , not lift up his 1
right hand and crush his assassins ?
Why stand and be , spat upon ? Why
sleep on the mountain , when he owned 1
the palaces of eternity ? Why catch i
fish for his breakfast on the beach in i
the chill morning , when all the pome
granates are his , and all the vineyards i
his , and all the cattle his , and all the >
partridges his ? Why walk when weary ,
and his feet stone bruised , when he s
might have taken the splendors of the !
sunset for his equipage , and moved I
with horses and chariots of fire ? Why
beg a drink from the wayside , when out :
of the crystal chalices of eternity he !
poured the Euphrates , the Mississippi ,
and the Amazon , and dipping his band [
In the fountains of heaven , and shak -
ing that hand over the world , from the
tips of his fingers dripping the great :
lake ? and the oceans ? Why let the i
Roman regiment put him to death ,
when he might have ridden down the i
sky followed by all the cavalry of I
heaven , mounted on white horses of ;
eternal victory ?
You can not understand. Who can ?
You try to confound me. I am con
founded before you speak. Paul said
it was unsearchable. He went climb
ing up from argument to argument ,
and from antithesis to antithesis , and
from glory to glory , and then sank :
down in exhaustion as he saw far above :
him other heights of divinity unsealed ,
and exclaimed , "that in all things he 1
might have the pre-eminence. "
Again : Christ was wonderful in his !
teaching. The people had been used to i
formalities and technicalities ; Christ
upset all their notions as to how
preaching ought to be done. There was
this peculiarity about his preaching , the
people knew what he meant. His il
lustrations were taken from the hen
calling her chickens together ; from
salt , from candles , from fishing tackle ,
from the hard creditor collaring a debt
or. How few pulpits of this day would
have allowed him entrance ? He would
have been called undignified and fami
liar in his style of preaching. And yet
the people went to hear him. Those
old Jewish rabbis might have preached
on the sides of Olivet fifty years and
never got an audience. The philoso
phers sneered at his ministrations and
said , "This will never do ! " The law
yers caricatured , but the common people
ple heard him gladly. Suppose you
that there were any sleepy people In his
audiences ? Suppose you that any
woman who ever mixed bread wa3 ig
norant of what he meant when he com
pared the kingdom of heaven with leav
en or yeast ? Suppose you that the
sunburned fishermen , with the fish-
scales upon their hands , were listless
when he spoke of the kingdom of heav
en as a net ? We spend three years in
college studying ancient mythology ,
and three years in the theological sem
inary learning how to make a sermon ,
and then we go out to save
the world ; and if we can
not do it according to Claude's
"Sermonizing , " or Blair's "Rhetoric , "
or Kames' "Criticism , " we will let the
I
world go to perdition. If we save
nothing else , we will save Claude and
Blair. We see a wreck in sight. We
must go out and save the crew and
nassenRers. We wait until we set nn
our fine cap and coat , and find our shin
ing oars , and then we push out meth
odically and scientifically , while some
plain shoresman , in rough fishing
smack , and with broken oar lock , goes
out and gets the crew and passengers
and brings them ashore in safety. We
throw down our delicate oars and say
"What a ridiculous thing to save men
in that way ! You ought to have done
it scientifically and beautifully. " "Ah ! "
says the shoresman , "if these suffer
ers had waited until you got out your
fine boat , they would have gone to the
bottom. "
The work of a religious teacher Is to
save men ; and though every law of
grammar should be snapped in the un
dertaking , and there be nothing but
awkwardness and blundering in the
mode , all hail to the man who saves a
soul.
soul.Christ
Christ , in his preaching , was plain ,
earnest and wonderfully sympathetic
We cannot dragoon men into heaven.
We cannot drive them in with the butt-
end of a catechism. Wc waste our time
in trying to catch flies with acids in
stead of the sweet honeycomb of the
Gospel. We try to make crab-apples do
the work of pomegranates.
Again : Jesus was wonderful in his
sorrows. The sun smote him. and the
cold chilled him. the rain nelted him
thirst parched him , and hunger ex
hausted him. Shall I compare his sorrow
row to the sea ? No ; for that is some
times hushed into a calm. Shall I corn-
par it with the night ? No ; for that
sometimes gleams with Orion , or kin
dles with Aurora. If one thorn should
be thrust through your temple you
would faint. But here is a whole'crown
made from the Rhamnus of Spina
Christi small , sharp , stinging thorns.
The mob makes a cross. They put
down the long beam and on it they fas
ten a shorter beam. Got him at last.
Those hands.that have been doing kind
nesses and wiping away tears hear
the hammer driving the spikes through
them. Those feet , that have been go
ing about on ministrations of mercy
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battered against the cross. Then tboy j
lift It up. Look ! look ! look ! Who will. I *
help him no-rr ? Cctct. men of Jems- r
alem ye whoso dead ho brought to' J
life ; ye whose sick he healed ; who will' ' j
help him ? Who will seize the weapons !
of the soldiers ? None to help ! Having j
carried such a cross for us , shall we refuse -
fuse to take our cross for him ?
Shall Jesus bear the cross alone ,
And all the world go free ?
No ; there's a cross for everyone ,
And there's a cross for me. 5
You know the process of Ingrafting.j
You bore a hole In a tree , and put In *
the branch of another tree. This tree
of the cross was hard and rough , but
into the holes where the nails went
there have been grafted branches of the j
Tree of Life that now bear fruit for j
all nations. The original tree was blt-
ter , but the branches ingrafted were
sweet , and now all the nations pluck
the fruit and live for ever. •
Again : Christ was wonderful In his
victories.
First over the forces of nature. The
sea Is a crystal sepulchre. It swallowed
the Central America , the President ,
and the Spanish Armada as easily as '
any fly that ever floated on It. The Inland - '
land lakes are fully as terrible In their
wrath. Galilee , when aroused In a ,
storm is overwhelming , and yet that
sea crouched In his presence and licked
his feet. He knew all the waves and i
winds. When he beckoned they came. '
When he frowned , they fled. Th * e1SeI
of his foot made no Indentation on the
solidified water. Medical science has
wrought great changes in rheumatic
limbs and diseased blood , but when tho'
muscles are entirely withered no hu-I
man power can restore them , and when.
a limb is once dead , it is dead. But1
here is a paralytic his hand lifeless. !
Christ says to him , "Stretch forti Ujy'
hand ! " and he stretches it forth. I
In the Eye Infirmary , how many dts-
eases of that delicate organ have been
cured ! But Jesus says to one born
blind , "Be open ! " and the light of
heaven rushes through gates that have
never before been opened. The frost
or an axe may kill a tree , but Jesus
smites one dead with a word.
Chemistry can do many wonderful
things , but what chemist , at a wedding ,
when the refreshments gave out , could
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What human voice could command I
a school of fish ? Yet here is a voice fl
that marshals the scaly tribes , until I
in the pace where they had let down I
the net and pulled it up with no fish I
in it , they let it down again , and the B
disciples lay hold and begin to pull. ( B
when , by reason of the multitude of fl
fish , the net brake. fl
Nature is his servant. The flowers fl
he twisted them into his sermons ; the fl
winds they were his lullaby when he fl
slept in the boat ; the rain it hungfl
glittering on the thick foliage of the fl
parables ; the star of Bethlehem it fl
sang a Christmas carol over his birth ; fl
the rocks they beat a dirge at his fl
death. fl
Behold his victory over the grave ! B
The hinges of the family vault become fl
very rusty because they are never fl
opened except to take another in. There fl
is a knob on the outside of the sepulfl
care , but none on the inside. Here fl
comes the Conqueror of Death. He entfl
ers that realm and says , "Daughter of fl
Jairus , sit up ; " and she sat up. To fl
Lazarus , "Come forth ; " and he came B
forth. To the widow's son he said , "Get B
up from that bier , " and he goes home fl
with his mother. Then Jesus snatched |
up the keys of death , and hung them fl
to his girdle , and cried until all the H
grave-yards of the earth heard him. H
" 0 Death ! I will be thy plague ! O H
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It is a beautiful moment when two * B
persons who have pledged each . M
other , heart and hand , stand in church , M
and have the banns of marriage pro- M
claimed. Father and mother , brothers M
and sisters stand around the altar. The M
minister of Jesus gives the counsel ; the M
ring is set , earth and heaven witness M
it ; the organ sounds , and amid many M
congratulations they start out on the J m
path of life together. Oh that this M
might be your marriage day ! Stand up , M
immortal soul. The Beloved comes to M
get his betrothed. Jesus stretches forth B
his hand and says , "I will love thee M
with an everlasting love. " and you B
respond , "My Beloved is mine , and I B
am his. " I put your hand in his , henceforth - B
forth be one. No trouble shall part you B
no time cool your love. Side by side B
on earth side by side in heaven ! Now B
let the blossoms of heavenly gardens B
fill the house with their redolence , and B
all the organs of God peal forth the B
wedding march of eternity. Hark ! B
"The voice of my beloved ! Behold , he B
cometh leaping upon the mountains , B
skipping upon the hills. " B
A Gam Game In Ohio , M
The latest advertising "fake" to M
strike this city , says the Ashtabula , JJ
Ohio , News , is the chewing gum game. IB
The makers of this gum put a coupon B
.ejirinsr one letter of thf aluhabet in * B
each 5-cent package of the gum , and B
advertise that a3 soon as any one gets B
the letters that make certain words |
they will give him a present of a watch , fl
bicycle or something of that kind. L. | |
H. Smith , the teamster for Messrs. M
Richards Bros. , wholesale grocers , is |
the first lucky purchaser of this kind of fl
gum so far , for he has succeeded in acfl
quiring the letters that make the words B
that entitled him to any $100 bicycle l fl
in the market. He has more than flB
enough of the letter "s" to win the bifl
cycle , and if he had one "k" would be fl
entitled to ? 200 worth of diamonds. So B
intense is the interest manifested by B
some of the gum chewers that one of B
the trolley car conductors Is said to have H
offered § 25 for the letter "w , " which. B
he needs to complete the words necesfl *
sary to win a prize. Th w's , d's and H
e's seen : to be the scarce letters. j fl
