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THE GIOltlQUS PALM. OR. TALMAQE SPEAKS OF THE TYPf. OF CHRIST'S TRIUMPH. the Kntry Into Jerusalem A Irfunon fur Arbor Day Tlmtik (lud for tun Tires. The Gospel 41 r Hlf HMcrlflco. BROOKLYN, April la Thin lny In rceog nlced an I'nlm Sunday tiiruiiKlimit the world, and that fact gave direction to Dr. Talmnge's Hcrmoti. Anions tin liymn lung was the hymn Clad Id rnlmont puro and white. Victor palms In overy hand. Text, John xll, 13, "Thpy took branches of palm trees and went forth to meet him." How wns that possible? How could palm branches bo cant In the way of Christ as ho approached Jerusalem? There are icArccly any palm trees In Central Pales tine. Kven the one that was carefully guarded for many years at Jericho htm gono. I went over tho very road by which Christ approached Jerusalem, and theru aro plenty of olive trees and 11k trees, but do palm trees that I could see. You must remombcr that tho climate has changed. Iho palm tree likes water, but by the cut ting down of tho forests, which are leafy prayers for rain, tho laud has become un friendly to tho palm tree. Jericho once itbod in seven miles of palm grove. Oli vet was crowned with palms. The Dead tea has on its banks tho trunks of palm trees that Moated down from some oldtlmo palm grovo nntl are preserved from decay by tho salt which they received from the Dead sea. BI'AltK THE TUBES. Let woodmen spare tho trees of America, If they would not ruinously change tho cli mate and bring to the soil barrenness in iteod of fertility. Thanks to God and the legislatures for Arbor Day, which plants trees, trying to atone for tho ruthlessucss which has destroyed them. Yes, my text Is In harmony with the condition of that country on the morning of Palm Sunday. About three million people have como to Jerusalem to attend the religious festivl ties. Great news! Jesus will enter Jeru salem today. The sky Is red with the morning, and the people arc Hocking out to the foot of Olivet, and up and on over the southern shoulder of tho mountain, and tho procession coming out from tho city meets tho procession escorting Christ, a ho comes toward tho city. There Is a turn in tho rood, where Jerusalem sud denly bursts upon the vision. ' Wo had ridden that day all the way from Jericho, and had visited tho ruins of tho house of Mary and Martha and Lazarus, and were somewhat weary of sight seeing, when there suddenly arose before our vis Ion Jerusalem, tho religious capital of all Christian ages. That was tho point of ob lervation where my text comes In. Alex ander rode Hucephalus, Duko Kilo rode his famous Marchegay, Sir Henry Lawrence rode tho high mettled Conrad, Wellington rode bis proud Copenhagen, but tho con queror of earth and heaven rides a colt, one that had been tied nt the roadside. It was unbroken, and I have no doubt frac tious at tho vociferation of the populace. An extemporized saddle made out of the garments of the people was .put on the beast. While some people griped the bridle of the colt, others reverently waited upon Christ at the mounting. The two processions of people now be como one those who came out of tho city and those who came over the hill. The orientals are more demonstrative than we of tho western world, their voices louder, their gesticulations more violent and the lymbols by which they express their emo tions more significant. The people who (eft Phocea, in the far cast, wishing to mako impressive that they would never return, took a red hot ball of Iron and threw it into tho sea, and said they would oevcr return to Phocea until that ball rose, and floated on the surface. Uo nut sur prised, therefore, at tho demonstration in tho text. TIIK VISTA OF PALMS. As the colt with Its rider descends the llopo of Olivet, the palm trees lining the road aro called upon to render their contri bution to the sceuo of welcome and rejoic ing. The branches of these trees are high up, and some must needs climb tho trees and tear off the leaves and throw them Sown, and others make of these leaves an emerald pavement for the colt to tread on. Long befon that morning the palm tree bad been typical of triumph. Herodotus and Strabo had thus described it. Layard finds the palm leaf cut in the walls of Nineveh, with the same significance. In the Greek athletic games the victors car ried palms. I am very glad that our Lord, who live' days after had thorns upon his brow, for a little while at least had palms itrewn tinder his feet. Oh, the glorious pal ml Amarasinga, the Hindoo scholar, calls it "the king among tho grasses." Lin naeus calls it "the prince of vegetation." Among all the trees that ever cast a lhadow or yielded fruit or lifted thelraru toward heavn, It has no equal for mulii tudlnous uses. Do you want llowersf One palm tree will put forth a hanging garden of them, one cluster counted by a scientist containing 207,000 blooms. Do you want food? It is the chief diet of whole nations. One palm in "Jhill will yield ninety gallons of honey. In Polynesia It Is tho chief food of the inhabitants. In India there nre mul titudes of people dependent upon it for sus tenance. Do you want cablo to hold ships or cords to hold wild beasts? It is wound into ropes unbreakable. Do you want articles of house furniture? It is twisted into units rind woven into baskets and shaped into drinking cups and swung into hammocks. Do you want medicine? Its nut is the chief preventive of disease and the chief cure for vast populations. Do you want houses? Its wood furnishes the wall for the homes, and its lonvs thatch them. Do you need a supplf for Mie pantry? It yields sugar and starch and oil and sago and milk and talt and wax and vinegar and candles. OIVK 118 MOIIK 1'AI.M T1IKE8. Oh, the palm! It has a variety of endow ments, such as uo other growth that ever rooted tho earth or kissed the heaveus. To the willow, Ood says, "Stand by the water courses and weep." To the cedar he says, "Gather tho hurricanes Into your bosom." To tho flg tree he says, "Hear fruit and put It within reach of all tho people." But to the palm treo he says, "Ho garden and torchouso and wardrobe and ropewalk and chandlery and bread nnd banquet nnd manufactory, and then bo typo of what I meant when I Inspired David, my servant, to say, 'The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree,' " Oh, Lord God, give us more palm trees men nnd women made for nothing but to be useful; dispositions all abloom; branches of Influence laden with fruit; people good (or everything, as the palm treo. If kind words aro wanted they are ready to utter them. If helpful deeds are needed they are ready to perform them. If plans of usefulness are to be laid out they are ready to project them. If enterprises are to be forwarded they are ready to lift them. People who say "Yea! Yesl" when they are asked for iuiiIhImiic by wonl or deed, Instead of "Nol Nol" Most of the mysteries that bother others do not bother me, because I adjourn them, but the mystery that really I sit hers me Is why God made so many people who amount to nothing so far as the world's betterment is concerned. They stand In the way, They object. They discuss hindrances, They suggest Hsslhllltles of failure. Over the road of life, Instead of pulling In the traces, they are lying back In the breeching. They are the everlast ing No. They are bramble trees, they art willows, always mourning; or wild cherry trees, yielding only the bitter; or crab np pie trees, producing only tho sour, while Uod would have us all flourish like the palm tree. Planted In the lllblo that tree alwnys means usefulness. Hut how little any of us or all of us ac complish In that direction. We tako twen ty or thirty years to get fully ready for Christian work, nnd In the nfterpart of life wo take ten or twenty years for the gradual closing of active work, and that leaves only so little time between opening and stopping work that all we accomplish Is so little an angel of God needs to oxeit himself to see it all. TIIK UOSl'EL Or USEFULNESS. Nearly everything I see around, beneath and above in the natural world suggests useful service. If there Is nothing in the Uible that Inspires you to usefulness, go out nnd study the world around you this springtime, and learn the great lesson of useulness. "What art thou doing up there, little stnr? Why not shut thine eyes and sleep, for who cares for thy shill ing?" "No," snlth the star, "I will not idecp. 1 guide tho sailor ou the sea. I cheer the traveler among the mountains. 1 help tip tho dew with light. Through the window of the poor man's cabin I cast a beam of hope, and the child ou her moth er's lap asks In glee whither I como and what 1 do and whence I go. To gleam and glitter, God set me here. Awnyl I havo no time to sleep." The snowllake conies straggling down. "Frail, llckle wanderer, why comest thou here?" "I am no idle wanderer," responds tho snowflake. "High up In tho air I was born, the child of the rain nnd tho cold, nnd nt the divine behest I come, nnd I am no straggler, for God tells me where to put my crystal heel. To help cover tho roots tho grain and grass, to cleanse, the air, to make sportsmen more hnppy and the Ingle lire more bright, l come. Though so light I am that you toss me from your mufller nud crush me under your foot, I am doing my best to fulfill what I was made for. Clothed in white I come on a heavenly mission, and, when my work is done ami God shall call, In morning vapor 1 shall go back, drawn by the 'ilery courses of the tun." "What doest thou, Inslgnillcaut grass blade under my feet?" "L am doing. n work," snys the grass blade, "as best I can. I help to make up the soft beauty of Held and lawn. I am satisfied, If, with millions of others no bigger than I, wo can give pasture to flocks and herds. I am wonder fully made. He who feeds tho ravens give uie substance from the sod and breath from the air, and he who clothes the lilies of tho Held rewnrds me with this, coat of green." LESSONS OF THE CLOUDS. "For what, lonely cloud, goest thou across the heavens?" Through tho bright air a voice drops from afar, saying: "Up and down this sapphire floor I pace to teach men that "kc lllL' they are passing away. I gather up the waters from lake and sea, and then, when the thunders toll, I refresh the earth, making tho dry grnuivd to laugh with harvests of wheat and fields of corn. I catch the frown of the storm and the hues of the rainbow. At evening tide on the western slopes I will pitch my tent, and over me shall dash tho salTrou, and the purple, and the fire of'the sunset. A pillar of cloud like me led the chosen across the desert, and surrounded by such us 1 the Judge of Heaven and Earth will at last descend, for 'Behold ho comcth with clouds!' " Oh, my friends, if everything in tho inan imate world be useful, let us Immortal men anil women be useful, and in that respect be like the palm tree. Hut I must not be tempted by what David says of that green shaft of Palestine, that living and glorious pillar in the eastern gardens, ns seen in olden times th. palm tree; 1 must not be tempted by what the Old Testament says of it, to lessen my emphasis of what John, the evangelist, says of it in my text. Notice that it was a beautiful and lawful robbery of the palm tree that helped make up Christ's triumph ou the road to Jeru salem that Palm Sunday. The long, broad, green leaves that were strewn under the feet of tho colt and in the way of Christ were torn off from the trees. What a pity, some one might say, that those stately and graceful trees should be despoiled. The sap oozed out at the places where the branches broko. The glory of tho palm tree was appropriately sacrificed for the Saviour's triumphal procession. So it al ways was, so it always will be In this world uo worthy triumph of any sort without the tearing down of something else. Brooklyn bridge, the glory of our conti nent, must have two architects prostrated, tho one slain by his toils and the other fcr a lifetime invalided. Tho greatest pictures of the world had, in their richest coloring, the blood of tho artists who made them. The mightiest oratorios that ever rolled through the churches had, In their pathos, the Bighs and groans of the composers, who wore their lives out in writing the harmony, American Independence was triumphant, but it moved ou over the life less forms of tens of thousands of men who fell at Hunker Hill nud Yorktown and tho battles between which were the hemor rhages of the nation. THE KINGDOM OK OOD ADVANCES. The kingdom of God advances In all the earth, but It must be over the lives of mis sionaries who die of malaria in the junglcn or Christian workers who preach and pray and toll and die In the service. The Saviour triumphs in all directions but lcauty and strength must be torn down from the palm tiees of Christian heroism and consecration and thrown In his pathway, To what better use could those palm trees on the southern shoulder of Mount Olivet ami clear down Into the Valley of Gethsemnno put their branches than to surrender them for the making of Christ's journey toward Jerusalem the more pic turesque, the more memorable and tho more triumphant? And to what better use could wo put our lives than Into tho sacri flee for Christ and his cause and the hap piness of our fellow creatures? Shall wo not bo willing to bo torn down that right eousness shall have triumphant way? Christ wns torn down for us. Can we not afford to be torn down for him? If Christ could suffer so much for us, can we not auller a little for Christ? If lie can afford on Palm Sunday to travel to Jerusalem to enrry a cross, can we not afford a few leaves from our brunches to make emerald his way? Tho process is going ou every moment in all directions. What makes that father have such hard work to llnd the hymn to CAPITAL CITY COURIER, day? lie puts on his spectacles and hold the Iwok close up, nud then holds It far oil', nnd Is not quite sure whether the number of the hymn Is IM) or I HO, and the lingers with which he turns the leaves nre very clumsy, lie stoops a good deal, although once he was straight as an arrow, and his eyes were keen as a hawk's, and the hand he offered to his bride on the marriage day was of goodly shniio and as God made It, I will tell you wiiat Is tho matter. Forty years ago he resolved his family should have no need and his children should Iw well educated and suffer none of tho disad vantages of Inck of schooling from which ho had suffered for a lifetime, nnd that the wolf of hunger should never put Its paw on his doorslll, and for forty or llfty years ho hits been tearing off from the palm tree of his physical strength and manly form branches to throw In the path way of his household. It has cost him muscle nnd brain and health nnd eyesight, nnd there have been twisted off more years from his life than any mini In the crowd on the famous Palm Sunday twisted off branches from tho palm trees ou the road from Hethpage to Jerusalem. THE t'AIIKWOHN MOTIIEII. What makes that mother look so much older than she really Is? You say she ought not yet to havo one gray Hue In her hair. The truth Is the family was not nl ways ns well off as now. The married pair had n hard struggle at the start. Kxamlne the tips of tho forefinger and thumb of her right hand, and they will tell you the story of the needle that was plied day in and day out, Yea, look nt both her hands, and they will tell tho story of the time when she did her own work, her own mending and scrubbing and washing. Yea, look Into the face and read tho story of scarlet fevers and croups and midnight wntchiugs, when none but God and herself In that house were awake, and then the burials and the loneliness afterward, which was more exhausting than tho pre ceding watching bad been, and uo one now to put to bed. How fair she onco was, and ns graceful as the palm tree, but all the branches of her strength and beauty were long ago torn off nnd thrown Into tho path way of her household. AlasI that sous and daughters, them selves so straight and graceful and edu cated, should over forget that they are walking today over tho fallen strength of an Industrious and honored parentage. A little nshntned.'are you, at their ttngrnni mntlcul utterance? It wns through their sacrifices that you learned nccuracy of speech. Do you loso patience with them because they are a llttlo querulous and complaining? I guess you have forgotten how queru lous and complaining you were when you were getting over that whooping cough or that Intermittent fever. A llttlo nnuoyed, arcyou..becausoher hearing is poor and you have to tell her something twice? She was not always hard of hearing. Wheu you were two yenrs old your first cnll for n drink at midnight woke her from a sound sleep as quick as any oue will waken at the trumpet call of tho resurrection. MATEIINAL FIDELITY. Oh, my young lady, what Is-that under the sole of your line shoes? It is a palm leaf which was torn off tho treo of maternal fidelity. Young merchant, young lawyer, young journalist, young mechanic, with good salary and fine clothes nnd refined surroundings, have you forgotten what a time your fattier hod that winter, after tho summer's crops had failed through droughts or Hoods or locust, and how he wore his old coat too long and made his old hat do, that he might keep you at school or college? What Is that, my young man. under your fine boot todny, the boot that so well Ills your foot, such u I toot as your father could never afford to wear? It must bo a leaf from tho palm tree of your father's self sacrifices. Do not be ashamed of him when ho como to town, nud because his manners aro a llttlo old fashioned try to smuggle him in and smug gle him out, but call In your best friends and take him to tho house of God and In troduce him to your pastor and say, "This is my father." If he had kept for him' self the advantages which he gave you he would bo ns well educated and as well gotten up as you. When In tho English parliament a member wns making a great speech' that was unanswerable a lord de risively cried out, "I remember you when you blackened my father's boots!" "Yes," replied the man, "and did I not do It well?" Never be ashamed of your early surroundings. Yes, yes, nil tho green leaves we wnlk over wero torn off some palm tree. FOIIOET THE UNPLEASANT THINGS. I have cultivated the habit of forgetting tho unpleasant tilings of life, nnd I chiefly remember the smooth things, nnd as far as I remember now my Ufa has for the most part moved on over a road soft with green leaves. They were torn off two palm trees that stood at tho start of the road. The prayers, the Christian example, the good advice, tho hard work of my father and mother. How they tolled! Their fingers were knotted with hnrd work. Their foreheads wero wrinkled with many cares. Their backs stooped from carrying our burdens, They long ago went into slumber among their kindred and friends on the banks of the Hnritan, but tho influences they threw in the way of their children nre yet green as leaves tho moment they aro plucked from n palm tree, and wo feel them on our brow nnd under our feet, and they will strew nil the way until we lie down In the same slumber. Self sacrifice! What a thrilling worth Glad am I that our world has so many specimens of it. The sailor boy on shipboard was derided because he would not light or gamble, and they called him a coward. Hut when a child fell over board and uo one else was ready to help, the derided sailor leaped Into tho sea, and, though the waves were rough, the sailor, swimming with one arm, carried tho child on the other arm till rescued and rescuer were lifted Into safety, and the cry of cow mil ceased and nil huzzaed at tho scene of daring and self sacrifice. A WIDOW'S IIEItOISM. When recently Captain Hiirton, tho great author, died, ho left a scientific book In manuscript, which ho expected would bo his wife's fortune. He often told her so. Ho said, "This will make you independent nnd affluent after I am gone." Ho sudden ly died, nnd it wns expected that tho wife would publish the Ixxik. Oue publisher told her ho could himself make out of it $100,000. Hut It was a book which, though written with pure scientific design, she felt would do Immeasurable damage to public morals. With the two large volumes, which had cost her husband the work of years, she sat down on the floor before the lire nud said to herself, "There Is a fortune for me in this book, and although my husband wrote it with the right motive nnd scien tific people might lie helped by It, to the vast majority of people It would Ihj harm ful, and I know It would damage ('. world," Then she took apart the manu script sheet after sheet and put it into th' Are, until the Inst line wns consumed. Uravot She flung her livelihood, her SATURDAY, APRIL i6, home, her chief worldly resources under the best moral nd religious Interest cf the world. How much aro wo willing to sacrifice foi others? Christ Is again ou the march, not from Ihthpago to Jerusalem, hut for tho conquest, or the world. Ho will surely take It, but who will furnish the palm branches for tho triumphant way? Sell sacrlllco Is the wonl, There Is more money paid to destroy tho world than to save. It. There are tuoro buildings put tip to ruin the race than churches to ovnugello It, There Is more depraved literature to blast men than goo.l literature to elevate them. Oh, for a power to descend upon us nil like that which whelmed Charles (I, Kin ney with mercy, when, kneeling in his law office, anda before he entered Upon hlsapos tollocaree'rof evangellallon, he said: " The Holy Ghost descended on me In n manner that seemed to go through me, body anil soul. I could feel tlui impression like, nwnvc of electricity going through and through mo. Indeed It seemed torouui In waves ami waves of liquid love. It seemed like the breath of (hxl. I can recollect distinctly that It seemed to fan me like Iniinciue wings. I wept aloud with Joy and lovti. These waves came over mo nud over mo oue after another, and until, I recollect, I cried out, 'I shall die if these, wnves con tinue to pass over me.' I said, 'Iord, 1 cannot bear any more.'" Anil when a gentleman came Into tho ofltco nnd said, "Mr. Finney, you aro In pain?" ho replied, "No, but so happy that 1 cannot live." THE tlLOIIIOUS FUTUIIK. My hearers, the time will como when UK)ii the whole church of (lod will descend such nn avalanche of blessing, nnd then the bringing of tho world to God will bo a matter of a few years, perhaps a few days or a few hours. Hide ou, O Christ! for tho evangel l.at Ion of nil nations. Thou Christ who didst ride on the unbroken colt down tho sides of Olivet, ou the white horse of eternal victory ride through all nations, and mny we, by our prayers, and our self sacrifices, nnd our contributions, and our consecrations, throw palm branches in the way. I clap my hands at the coming vlo tory. I feol this morning ns did the Israelites when, on their march to Caiman, they came not under the shadow of one palm tree, but of seventy palm trees, standing in nn oasis among a dozen gushing foun tains, or as tho Hook puts it, "Twelve wells of water and threescore nnd ten palm trees." Surely there aro more than sev enty such great and glorious souls present today. Indeed, It is n mighty grovo of palm trees, and I feel something of the raptures which I shall feel when, our Inst battle fought, nnd our last burden carried, and our last tear wept, wo shall becomo one of tho multitudes St. John dcscrlles "clothed In white robes and palms In their hands." Hail thou bright, thou swift advancing, thou evcrlusting Palm Sundayof tho skies! Victors over sin and sorrow nnd death and woe, from the hills and valleys of the heavenly Palestine, they havo plucked the long, broad, green leaves and all tho ran somed some in gates of pearl, and some on battlements of amethyst, nnd some on streets of gold, nud some ou sens of sap phire, they shall stand in numbers like the stars, In splendor like tho morn, waving their palms! Ten nnd Temperance. Toast or bread and tea have much to an swer for in the next world, If not In this. Two-thirds of the drunkenness among women Is duo to the excessive use of strong tea. I was, told yesterday that the Increase of drunkenness among young servant girls In Now York was alarming, and in each case I found that thoglrls were In tho habit of keeping n teapot over tho fire most of tho, time. This creates a form of stomach trouble that produces a "hankering or gnawing," the brniu is excited and liquor is taken to relievo this pain, nud in a short time seems almost necessary. Do not for a moment think that I would not use either tea or bread, for I should with a liberal supply of nutritious food. Hut not alone to take the place of good food, for they are inferior In food value. In Inrgo cities the tea drinker is, as a rule, a woman, nnd It seems to do for her what tobacco does for a man produces a strong deslro for nlcohol. This is a question for our temperance people to think over, It lias always been my opinion that if the community would spend n little more time studying fixsl principles, and teaching the same to the intemperate class, saloons would soon closo for want of support. That ten and coffee excite and stimulate tho nervous system there Is not a doubt; but many persons who would Im shocked at a glass of whisky and soda before rising in tho morning see no disgrace in strong ten, and still by it they are excited and flustered In their manner. Tea, In some, possesses uo drawback; but such are the exceptions which prove tho rule. Table Talk. Tint Secret IlMllot In the Coming- Kindlon. Tho fact that all tho so called "doubt ful" states, whose vote Is decisive in the election this year, are to cast their ballots In absolute secrecy, free from all espionage nnd Intimidation, is one of momentous Im portance. The first and Inevitable effect will be to lessen enormously the part whlcji-monoy will piny in the contest. 4Jvery 8tatt,iti which money has hereto fore been usenjit freely has adopted the new system. If vo's be liought in those states hereafter he purchaser cannot fol low tho men wt,l'ii they have liought to the polls to sen W V"!' keep their bad bar gain. The resul' Wtd be the same in those states as It hit 'ri)Vi everywhere else under similar condit;'.jA-nniuely, very few votes will In hougH This is a novel phase of a presidential canvass nnd election which both (lolitlcal parties will do well to take Into considera tion In selecting their campaign managers for this year. If money Is uo longer to be tho controlling factor In the election, will it bo either expedient or wise to put a pro fessional corriiptioulst in charge of the campaign of either pnrty? On the con trary, will It not bo the highest (Killtlcal wisdom to put men of character in charge of all the committees, national, state, (lis trlct and other? Century. Hatty Milieu. Said n woman tho other day, toying with the dainty klu bootees for baby feet, as she stood at a siioe counter; "I never see these but I think of a pair of little shoes which nre a family possession with us. They wero made for an uncle ot my mother, who was a baby seventy years ago. Save for the size there is nothing babyish nbout them, for they are a facsimile in miniature of the stout calf shoo which men of that day wore, even to the leather lacings. I feel a thrill of sympathy for the tender little feet they covered so long ago, for they must have been cruel protectors to the soft flush, but at that time, in that place It waa In New Jersey nothing else wns obtaina ble, nud mother has heard her grandmother tell how she sewed up pieces of felt iucrudo shoo shape wheu these strong boots chafed the baby feet. What a contrast to theso shapely llttlo lhlugl"-ller Point of View 1 ... M.. V...I. ri'l. ...... 1892 THE liASTEIt SUN. Hn hnd alwnys thought she was the sweetest girl In the world, And ho told her so on Ash Wednesday, It seemed a queer day to select, hulas Im knelt III the pew just back of her mid heard everybody call themselves "miserable sinners" ho felt that they were doing one woman n wrong, for she wns an angel, As they walked home front church to gether he carried u large heart and small prayer book, and somehow or other he never did know just how ho got up tho courage to do It, hut hn asked her to bo his wife. He told her how much ho loved her and ho got her to confess that sha did cam for him a little bit. After this his heart felt so light that tho prayer liook seemed the heavy pari, for lie had a decided In clination to throw it away nud hug hor then nnd there right In the street. Hut better sense prevailing, ho waited until ho got Into the house. Unlike most other lovo stories, there was uo cruel parent In this, and tho wedding wns set for Juno. "Hut," said pretty Nell, "overy year slnco 1 wns n llttlo bit of a thing I havo gotten up to see the sun dance ou F.nsler morning, and I havo alwnys la-en just a few minutes too Into. Now, 1 charge you If you lovo mo that you either sit up nil night or havo yourself awakened by a messenger Iwy, or do anything that will result In your send ing sumobody to wnko mo up; because you know, dearest, It will bo perfectly lovely for us to see tho sun datico together." The promise was made when tho engagement ring wns put ou. It wns sealed with a kiss, nud tho dearest fellow In tho world nnd tho sweetest girl In the world gloated over tho Idea of the charming lime they would have early on Faster morning seeing the sun danco for very joy, ns their eyes and hearts would. Now, if the sweetest girl had n fault, which may bo doubted, It was that she knew when other creatures, mere meu, looked nt her with admiration, nnd her bright eyes would flash back n sort of "Thank you," If tho dearest fellow In the world hnd n weakness, which may be doubted, It was that ho called this ml I to nes flirting, and that ho objected to It to such a degree that ho actually became jealous. It was unreasonable In him, hut still It wns true. On Good Friday, when Nelly and ho wero eating hot cross buns nnd drinking coffee, ho put down his cup with great llcrconess nud snld, "Nell, I will not permit you to mako eyes at that dark haired man In the corner," Noll profM-rly enough answered that she didn't even see there was a man In tho corner. Now, this wasn't quite true. Then tho dearest fellow said that he had at least al ways thought Nelly was truthful (and this wns In a very sorrowful tone), nud Nell got up from the table, nud with what she thought was great dignity, nnd which was merely ugly temper, announced she wouldn't eat n mouthful with tho man who thought sha would toll a story, and out she went. Hy tho time sha got homo sho wished she was dead. Hy tho next morning she wished she had never been Isirn. And when she went to church, nud tho dearest fellow In tho world was saying his prayers on tho NELL OOT UP FIIOM THE TAM.K. other side of the aisle and never enmo near her, she wished thnt her father and mother had never been bom nnd that Adam nnd Kvo had never lieeii created. That night she went to her pretty little room, took off her engagement ring, looked nt It for n long time nnd remembered what sho wild wheu sho put it on that tho diamond wns symbolic of earthly love nud the snpphlro of heavenly; and yet this was the way It was ending. It went Into Its little box, wns tied up and uddressed to be sent the next morning to Its original owner. Then Nelly cried awhile, nud then she made ar rangements with a friendly maid to Iw awakened early enough In tho morning to go to see the Fnster sun dance. She wns up in time, put on a dark dress, and never tell It to nnyliody u new yel low garter for good luck, and out to tha park walking on the east side did poor Nelly go. Sho dragged her hat woM over her face so uoljody would see her, nud when she was bum pis I Into she was too downcast to do anything more than raise her eyes ami say "Certainly" to the apol ogy offered. Of course It was the dearest fellow iu the world who had been so rude. Ho hnd come out ns a sort of good by to see tho sun dance too. He said to her, "There Is no reason why we shouldn't bo friends." And she answered, "Certainly not!" Hut when he looked Into those eyes It was love, not friendship, ho saw there, and stooping down he kissed the tears away and started to nK)logl.e for his wrongdoing, but sho called out quickly, "look, dearest, look; the sun is dancing!" And so it was, and the eyes of these two true lovers saw It, nnd then they heard coming up from a little church near the old, old Faster snug Christ hath risen, death is no mora and Nell knew ns she rested her head against the shoulder of her own true love that the Faster morn of her happiness had come. After all she, the sweetest girl In the world, nud he, the dearest fellow in the world, nre willing to declare, no matter what unbelievers may say, thnt If you go to look for it with faith in your heart the sun does dance ou Faster morning. That this whole story is true Is vouched tor by me, ami so 1 sign it Isabel a. Mallon, Kaiter Droit In 1830. 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