two FPJEXDS.
A Patlietio Story tlie Siege cf
Paris.
One clear morning1 ii January thai
terrible January du-ing the siege,
when famine was knocking at the vry
gates of Paris XL Xlrissot, a clook
maker by trade, but rendered an idler
by force of circurnstaiees, was stroll
in g slowly along the otter boulevard.
As with bowed bead d hands thrutit
deep in his pockets h walked on c n
grossed in Ida own 6d thoughts, he
suddenly stopped be for a man whom
he recognized as an okiriend. It was
M. Sauvage, whose aquaintance he
had made on the river ink.
On each Sunday befoe the war Mor
issot used to set out J dawn with a
bamboo cane in his hat and a tin box
strapped on his back, e went by the
Argenteull railroad as fr as Colotnb-s,
and then walked to theleof XIarante.
Scarcely arrived at th: dreamy place
he would begin to Csh, id would stay
there till nightfall.
On each Sunday he :d to meet u
stout, jovial fellow, XL iuvage, of tins
Hue Notre Dame cle Lotte, who was
also an enthusiastic fibrman. Tiny
ofter passed a half datogether, sit
ting side by side, theiiines in their
hands and their feet dating over tti
current, and a f riendshsoon sprang
up between them.
On some dnys they Mid not ex
change a word with onunother, but
they grew into that rfoct under
standing which exists tween per
sons who have similar tfcs and who
experience similar cinoui
The two friends shchands cor
diallv, but both f-It a tirof sadness
at meetir.fr under such fray circum
stauces. XL Sauvage sigi and mur
mured: "What a condition of tirsP
Xlorissot gloomily repli
"And what fine vceathe
The3r began to walk sidv side and
Xlorissot continued:
"And our hiking;? Cowjsant it is
to think of it:
XI. Sauvage demanded:
'When bhail we everble to go
ugu.in?"
They entered a little cand drank
t.igether an absinthe and i resumed
their promenade along thjulevard.
Xlorissot stopped sudden
"AnoUier glass?"
XL Sauvage assented:
"At your pleasure," aney went
into another cafe. Whiey came
out XL Sauvage exclaimed.
"Supposing we go?"
"Where?"
-Why, fishing, to be sun
'P.ut where?"
T" our old place. Thonch ad
vancel posts are near Cibes. I
know CoL Dumouliu anq.m sure
that he will let us pass."
Morissot trembled with ipatioa.
"Good!" he cried. "I ark you,"
and they parted to get theijks and
lines.
An hour later they were side
by side on the highway, and Reached
tt.e villa in which the colhad es
tablished Ids headquarters, smiled
at their request and goouredly
granted them a pass.
liy eievi-u o'clock they hated th
outer picket and Colombes, foull
themselves at the border k stud
vineyard that sloped down trds ts
Seine.
Ho fore them lay the appary &i
and deserted village of Ante1
The heights of Orgemont aaan
dominated the landscape, d '
broad plain that extends afar
Nanterre was a picture of dijla
with its leafless trees ar.
stretches of bare earth.
XL .Sauvage pointed toward t i
niit tf the hills, and murmured:
"The Prussians are there."
"Eh? Supposing we should ,
th.-m?"
XL Sauvage replied with tbn.1!
isian joviality which never oci
t :
"We would offer them a fried
Rut still intimidated by the ori
silence thev hesitated to venture J
1.1:11.
the fild. At length XL Sauvai
cided:
"Come! Come!" And stooping
they crept through the vineyard,
iug from bush to bush, straininf
eves and ears to detect the sk,
suspicion of pursuit.
A stretch of bare ground remai
be crossed. After a long hesi
they summoned their courage, an
nine at lull sneea atuiaueu. iuc
kicli aacl coneeJed themselves t
the dry reeds. warus, a n&oc 01 0100a rusmng irom j
MorLot listened with his -ear Lis breast,
irround for sounds of pursuit, 1 The German gave a hew order,
t l orwi n this assivrhereupon bis men marched awav. I
".x.:. ..'.Zu linr, t fUhbut returned presently with cords and !
Uefore them the abandoned stones, mey attacnea to me
Marante thut out the view of tfeet of tbeticrpses.
.li-f The little restaurai Two soldirirs -took Morissot by the
closed, ami appeared to have behead and feet and bore him to -the
aerted for rears. river, and tto others followed with
XL Sauvasre caught the first gufiauvage. The bodies, poised for an in
Morissot the second, and from tatant, were liirown into the stream
time thev pcilled in their lines id, describing a curve as they fell,
fish wiggling on the hook. plunged feet luremost into the current.
Tbe sun pjured its warm rayi Z7he water foamed and boiled and
them, and, attsorbed in their pthen became calm, while a few little
which had ben so long denied xaves reached as far as the shore. The
they soon became oblivious totLeurface was slightly stained with blood,
roundins. ' Ti e officer, stiil serene and unruffled.
Suddenly & dull sound seemtuetly remarked:
burr t from the earth. The can a "Now it is the turn of the fishes."
was being resmaed. Thtn, turning toward the house, he
Xlorissot turwd his head, an&otic&l the basket of fish on the grass,
to the left he perceived the 3e pieked it up, xamiaed it, smiled
eilhouetta of Mount Valarien, uid rri?d:
w. rnfj its brow a tuft of si "VVlkelm."
01 name bdc
from tLv? fortress, shortly tuccpeav.)
-u-,n . second jet 01 name E.ncii iuier wearing wnrus npron ran
third intonation. Tnen otnen g ti ic.,a to iiim. eoamancsd:
lowed, and at regular interval "Frithosc for me while they are stiil
mountaia sent forth its death-det-jve- t'hry will be delicious."
breath and exhaled its milky va Tbnhe resumed his ppe. From
which, riiii.g slowly in the calm atlaupatut. translated by Arthur A.
pherc. hung like a cloud aixwe it. olsouir Doston Hudget
XL SauTag-e shrugged his shouldc
"They are beginning again, n 1 iien.-at (to actor) "Would j-on
iloriieoi. who was anxiously wUalige brother professional with, a i
lng his float, was suddenly seized KGe to I orae food? I used to be in
tbe anger of a peaceful man w he buVgS myself contortionist." j
calm Is disturbed, and grumbled: ctor (gi quarter) "Well, hcreyoff t
"Isn't it BtnpuJ to kill one ancVe, ex-tofcni, "Kate Field's Wa2- j
like that?"
M. Saurage replied:
"They are worse than
themselves."
Arid llorissot, who had just pulled in
another fish, declared:
"And to think that this sort of thing
will continue as long as there are gov
ernments." XI. Sauvage stopped him.
"The republic would not have de
clared war " but XL Morissot inter
rupted him, saying:
"With kings you have external war;
with republicsyou have internal wars."
And then they began a tranquil dis
cussion and solution of the great po
litical problems with the limited reason
of peaceful, quiet men who agree upon
the one point that they will never en
joy true liberty.
Wean while the thunder of Xlount
Valarien continued ineessant'y, at
each discharge demolishing o many
French homes and lives, rudely dis
pelling so many happy dreams, so
many anticipated pleasures, and open
ing in the hearts of women and moth
ers in this and other countries wounds
which will never heaL
"Siimli ii 1 i f " 1 cl n ifA AT S
auvage.
"Say rather such is death,
lightly
replied Xlorissot.
Suddenly they trembled with fear,
realizing that some one marched be
hind them, and, turning their heads,
they saw four German soldiers cover
ing them with their muskets.
Their lines blipped from their hands
and fell into the river; and within a
few moments they were seized, bound,
thrown into a boat and carried to the
island.
llehind the house which they thought
deserted they found a 6quad of German
soldiers.
A bearded giant sitting astride a
chair and smoking a huge pipe with
porcelain bowl asked of them, in ex
cellent French:
"Well, gentlemen, have you had good
luck?"
By way of reply one of the soldiers
deposited at the officer's feet the
basketful of fish which he had taken
care to brine with him.
The Prussian smiled.
"Ah! that's not bad. Cut another
thing first. Listen:
"To me you are two spies sent to
watch me. I take you, and I shall
shoot you. You pretend to be fishing
in order to observe me the better. You
have fallen into my hands so much
the worse for you. Such is war.
"I!ut as you passed the advance posts
you surely have the pass word with
which to return. Teil it to me and I
will release you."
The two friends, pale and trembling,
their hands agitated by a slight, nerv
ous trembling, remained silent
The oflicer continued:
"X'o one will ever know it. You will
return in peace. The secret will dis
appear with j'ou. To refuse is immedi
ate death. Choose."
The two friends made no reply.
The Irussian calmly said while point
ing towards the river:
"Think that in five minutes you will
be at the bottom of that 6tream. In
five minutes. You have families?"
The two friends stood rigidly erect
and made no reply. The German gave
a few orde-s in his own language, and
then moved his chair in order not to be
x xavqt t.li prisoners. Twelve men
with loaded muskets then placed them
selves at a distance of twenty feet.
The oflicer continued:
"I will civs you one minute not a
second more."
lie arose and brusquely approached
the two Frenchmen. Taking Xlorissot
by the arm he led Lim a short distance
away and said in a low voice:
"Quick, the pass word. Your com
rade will never know."
Xlorissot made no reply.
The Prussian then took Sauvage
aside and made the same proposal to
him.
XI. Sauvage made no reply.
They again found themselves side by
side.
The officer gave a command, and the
j soldiers raised their arms.
By charce, Xlorissot's glance fell upon
the basket of fish lying on the ground
a few paces away. The shining scales
of the still livinf
ig fish sparkled in the
sunlight. In spite of himself his eyes
filled with tears and he stammered:
"Good-by, XL Sauvage."
XI. Sauvage responded:
"Good-br, XI. Xlorissot"
Thej- shook hands. The oflicer cried:
"Fire!"
Tne twelve reports rang out like one.
XL Sauvage fell like a block. Xlorissot,
.
Jen across iiu, uomuwa, lace up-
iiiiuer wearing wnr&e
attu call, and the 1'ruEtian, throw- )
icton.
DEFICIT.
Protection and
Kxtrm vnpance
the Cause.
The deficit now existing in the United
States treasury is the direct result of.
republican legislation and republican
administration, not of one republican
administration, but as the legitimate
result of the application of false eco-
I nomic theories applied year after year
, in more and more extreme form and of
j false ideas of the purpose and office of
' government.
J IJut even yet protection and paternal
. ism has not borne its worst fruits.
! About two more republican adminis
; trations, without a democratic interval
for repairs and reform, would have
! been required to undermine and de
j stroy all the principles upon which the
government of this republic was origi
nal' founded, and to bankrupt the na
tion and bring about revolution.
The ways and means committee of
the house of representatives is supposed
to frame laws and devise methods for
raising revenue to defray the public ex
penses of the nation, and theappropria
: tions committee supervises the nation
al expenditures, and both committees
' are supposed to give careful attention
to the necessities of the government
and to conform the revenues and the
appropriations thereto; but in the last
republican congress the needs of the
government did not enter into the cal
culations or control the legislation
planned and directed by either commit
i tee.
The ways and means committee, pre
: sided over by Mr. XIcKinley, framed a
bill bearing the name of its chairman,
i which wa? cunningly devised to oper
ate in restraint of trade by prohibit
ing, so far as possible, all foreign im
portations, and securing the control of
American markets to domestic trusts
and monopolies organized to force
down the prices of the farmer's raw
products in his hands, and increase the
prices of food products to the consumer,
and rob and tax for their own private
gains the masses of the people upon all
articles of manufacture which by aid
of a prohibitive ttirilT these trusts were
enabled absolutely to control.
The first step in the development of
the protective, or trade prohibitive,
idea was based u-pon the constitutional
right of the government to levy a tariff
for revenues. If such a tariff afforded
incidental protection to home manu
facturers it could not be successfully
attacked as unconstitutional, because
its chit-f object was to raise revenue for
the support of the government.
But gradually the trade monopolists
grew bolder, and their political tools
advanced and extended the doctrine of
protection, pure and simple, intrench
ing it behind the revenue idea, but ap-
plying it in a msnnerto work restraint
of trade and foster monopoly. Every
"protected" industry demanded more,
and so long as any importations what
1 ever were possible under any tariff
j schedule, this fact was urged as a
. reason for increasing the tariff tax to a
rate which should work absolute pro
hibition of imports. And as, under this
doctrine, all articles which could not be
1 grown or manufactured in this coun
try were placed on the free list and not
; taxed at ail, the tendency was constant
; ly to decrease the amount of revenue
, while increasing the t-ibute that the
! people were compelled to pay to pri
j vate monopolies for all necessaries of
life except those not produced at home
in sufiieient quantities; and even upon
j sugar, though freed from tariff taxa
i tion, they were compelled to pay a tax
! in the form of a bounty to the home
' producer.
The crowning infamy in the develop
ment of this system was the XIcKinley
bill, which, coupled with the extrava
gant appropriations of the Keed con
gress, is directly responsible for the
present dangerous condition of the
United States treasury.
The XIcKinley bill is framed to pre
rent the accumulation of revenue, by
prohibiting importations, and thus to
work restraint of trade. The people
will remember that it is the XIcKinley
law, now in force, which fails by ten
million dollars every month to provide
the treasury with sufficient means to
meet the obligations that were created
at the same time by a republican con
gress; while the people, because of this
same XIcKinley law, are forced to pay
millions into the coffers of trusts and
monopolies, which sums, if paid into
the national treasury instead, would
11 it constantly to overflowing and
soon extinguish the national debt.
At the common law, a contract in re
straint of trade is void, as leing
i : i - t
. , . , - , , , .
'-1 o -
VT I.ar&
"is this condition of things, made
almost impregnable by long success.
wlth the present democratic ad
ministration has to deaL It requires
courage and hard lighting to bring
about reform, and it demands tbe exer
cise of patience on the part of the peo
ple. Great reforms are accomplished
gradually, and so it will be with tariff
reform. We must patiently but per
sistently and steadily undo the wrongs
that have been done to the people, in
the name of specious, but false and
vicious principles and doctrines. Kan-
THE TREASURY
j .sas City Times.
Caune cf the Deficit.
Republican tariff legislation injured
1 arade and reduced revenues. Kepublic
j an extravagance wiped out the surplus
I and substituted a deficit. Republican
I bullion buying made tbe mass of idle
I bullion a menace to the silver market
j and to the stability of the currency.
1 Hcne the panic. Secreiaxy Carlisle
iells the senate committee on finance
ivnat the republican panic has done for
the treasury. Esnenditures tro ol
un
der republican laws, and revenues fall
off as a consequence of other rcpublie
ac laws. Ilced and XIcKinley tried to
make tariff reform an impossibility.
They cid not succeed, but they have
made a mess of the fiscal affairs of the
government. St. Louis Republic
Secretary Carlisle, finding that
congress is not disposed to help him in
maintaining the necessary gold reserve,
has concluded to help himself. This is
a very sane and satisfactory determina
tion. Philadelphia Record.
MEANS.
Democratic
Legislation mn
tho Sutw
Ouestion.
The days of taxed sugar and a sub
sidized sugar trust are numbered. The
day of an untaxed breasfast table for
the poor man is at hand.
Thoujrh the republican and assistant
republican obstructionists have man
aged to involve the house in an un
seemly tangle, there is no obscurity in
the measure which was passed the oth
er day in committee of the whole by a
vote of 1G1 to 35. The bounty is abol
ished outright, and all sugar, raw and
refined, is to be free. Such is the meas
ure which a democratic congress will
undoubtedly give to the country.
How could a democratic congress do
less? In a democratic tariff formed on
the theory that all tariffs are evil,
there is no place for a tax on an article
which appears first in the list of plain
necessities of every household. In a
scheme for the honest and economical
administration of government there is
no money to be taken from a depleted
treasury to enrich a robber trust, to
burden the poor wi?h an insidious and
widel3 disseminated tax in the interest
of a coterie of millionaires that is XIc
Kinleyism: it has no place in demo
cratic legislation.
The sacrifice of revenue due to the
abandonment of the tax on sugar will
be very large, but from its total are to
be subtracted the millions heretofore
paid in bounties. The difference will
still be large, but were it fourfold
what it is the neces,it3- for the repeal
would be no less urgent. Indeed, the
virtue 6f the new legislation is proved
by the character of tho.--e who oppose
it. It is the plutocracy of both parties
that recoils from the proposition to lift
this burden from the common people,
because at length tUs plutocrats, demo
cratic as well as republican, realize
that the deficit thus created must be
made good by a tax upon their own
superfluities. Free iupar is hateful to
the heartless and unpatriotic rich be
cause it means taxed incomes. It
means the unmasking of hidden wealth
which has never paid its own share to
taxation, but compelled poverty to
bear the unequal burden. No man
whose income is not far in excess of
four thousand dollars will feel a
feather's weight of the new burden.
How mans wage earners of America
derive that sum Irom their labors? How
many merchants, how many profession
al meu? Count them and you will
have the number of those whose taxes
the poor man has been paying, but
will shortly pay no more. Chicago
Times.
THE PENSION FRAUDS.
An
Inevitable Outcome of Ituinous Re
publican Method.
Following close upon the discovery of
extensive pension frauds in West Vir
ginia, Iowa, Nebraska and lialtimore
comes the announcement that a single
Ucffalo pension agent has fraudulently
secured for pensioners at least one mil
lion dollars and that "this is only the
beginning of the unearthing of the most
gJgantic frauds ever perpetrated in the
pension department."
These frauds are the natural, legiti
mate, inevitable outcome of the Tanner-
llaum methods of '"busting the sur
plus." The profligacy of congress in
the matter of pension legislation has
almost justified pension agents and
others in holding that any scheme for
looting the treasury is justifiable pro
vided it is in the name of the "old sol
dier;" and successive pension commis
sioners have winked at "rulings" that
have made petty retail frauds seem al
most respectable by comparison.
Commissioner Lochren will deserve
well of his country if he will not only
stop the wholesale frauds perpetrate d
through "rulings," but check the minor
but still monstrous frauds that are the
work of dishonest agents and perjured
pension-grabbers. No one desires to
deprive the deserving veteran, disabled
iu the line of duty, of his country's
bounty. IJut the bounty-jumpers, de
serters, cheats and frauds must be
stricken
covered,
sion roll
from the roll as fast as dis
Only in this way can the pen
be maintained as "a roll of
honor." XT. Y. World.
POINTS AND OPINIONS.
Republican assertions concerning
the bond issue are not at ail consistent
with the facts. The first Cleveland ad
ministration turned over to the Harri
son administration an overflowing
treasury. The Fifty-first congress did
the rest, N. Y. World.
Gov. XIcKinley has been arraigned
for not doing his duty in the nip tier of
supervising the expenditures of public
institutions in his state, the result be
ing a burdensome deficit. The gov
ernor's idea seems to be that the high
est function of American citizenship is
to pay taxes. Detroit Free Press.
The proceeds cf these bonds will
only tide over the present and most
j pressing needs of the government, and
i an incomparably larger sum will be
needed to meet the growing deficit,
J provide a 6afe gold reserve for the
enormous issue ol treasury notes out
standing and furnish available work
ing capital. N. Y. Herald.
A republican cont tn-yorery ha
made the discovery that the democrats
propose to repeal the XIcKinley bill
simply because it was passed by the re
publican party. If our contemporary
believes that, he would be, if a demo
cratic member of congress, just 6uch a
narrow and shallow partisan as to vote
for the XIcKinley bill'i repeal solely on
the ground that it was passed by repub
licans. Louisville Couricr-JournaL
Sometimes the devil fish, in order
to escape attack or observation, dark-
j ens the water about him b the emis- i
i sion of an inky cloud in which he hidj?
, - v ' v . . v ivuua LJ
; be what he is not Ly assuming the
j color of the sand upon which ho
! sprawls himself. The republicans in
j the house of representatives are fight
1 ing the Wilson bill with devil-fish tac
tics. They sometimes darken counsel
try words without knowledge or bear
ing; and, again, refuse to answer when
their names are called, hiding in the
fog of their own argument and honinc
J to defeat their opponents by iuac tion.
Philadelphia Record.
WHAT IT
FOR SUNDAY READING.
HATH NOT FORSAKEN US.
Our God hath not forsaken us,
Nay. and He never will!
Thouph evl; hath o'ertaken us,
He works His counsels still.
Our God hath not forsaken us:
Thouch dark the nizut may ba,
The morning xhall awaken us.
Its Llessea light to see.
Our God hatn not forsaken ns;
Though thunders loudly peal,
Thouph earti. Quakes rude have shaken US
Until the ciountains reel.
Our God hath not forsaken us!
Still cloth He meet our need.
He who thus far hath taken us
Safe to the end will lead.
Kojt. M. OSord, in X. Y. Observer.
PEACE IN THE HEART.
Power of the Soul to Ite I ntroubled In the
Midrt of Trouble.
At no time since the close of the civil
war have so many lives been so tossed
by tumultuous cares. At no time has
peace seemed so remote, so impossible.
At no time have so many houi s of sleep
been lost, and so many hearts been
heavy, not only, not chiefly, with pres
ent distress, but with forebodings of
impending calamitt'. And probably
never before did so many bear a living
testimony to the power of the soul to
le untroubled in the midst of trouble;
never before, probably, was there wit
nessed in so many live the fulfillment
of the prophet's assurance; Thou wilt
keep him in perfect peace whiM? mind
is stayed on Thee. What is the secret
of their peace?
Peace is a gift. He who pursues it
loses it. He who battles for it defeats
his desire by his endeavor. "The
peace of God kep your hearts and
minds" is the Apostle's prayer. When
we stir up our hearts and minds to
find or keep that peace, we reverse the
right relation. It is God's peace, sent
to find us. provided to keep us. Like a
river, rising among the distant moun
tains, fed by the clouds, environing
tlie city and guarding it from danger,
God's peace flows down from Him to
us. and keeps the mind that is staj-ed
on Him.
Not trust but consecration is the
secret of peace: or, rather, the trust
that is the child of consecration. No
man has a right to trust that God will
keep him from all trouble. God keeps
His child in trouble, arid this is a bet
ter keeping. He who imagines that
the universe centers about himself is
strangely egotistical; but the supreme
egotist is the man who imagines that
God administers the universe for his
particular benefit, and who fancies
that this egotism is piety. The secret
of peace is not in imagining that God
will do all that we desire, but
in making all our desires find
their fulfillment in what God does.
He only has God's peace who begins all
his prayers with "Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done," and ends them all
with "Thine be the kingdom and the
power and the glory." Such an one
carries no burdens, for all his burdens
are God's, and he and God can carry
them with ease. Such an one knows
no fears for the future. The future is
as sure to God as is the past, and God's
assurance makes God's child calm. If
God gives him wealth, he takes the
trust and administers it for God. If
God takes away wealth, and calls him
to walk dowD into bankruptcy, he goes,
glad to show how God's child endures
misfortune. If God lays him on a bed
of sickness, he reflects that God needs
invalids. If death summons him. he
hears the voice as that of One Who
would wake him from life's troubled
dream, and rises to greet the eternal
sunshine.
I have no cares. O blessed Win,
For all my cares are Thine:
I live In triumph. Lord, for Thou
Hast made Thy triumph mine.
Outlook.
SELF-DETRACTION.
This Spirit Incompatible with Gennine
II amble-SXiudednets.
Continual self-depreciation is no sign
of humility. It is. rather, a self-conscious
condition incompatible with
genuine humble-mindedness. It is one
thing to know how far short one falls
of his own ideals, and another thing to
set a low estimate on all the soul
powers with which God has endowed
one whom He would have to serve
Uim. Says Amiel: T hold my own
personality, my own aptitudes, my own
aspirations, too cheap. I am forever
making light of myself in the name of
all that is beautiful and admirable. In
a word, I bear within me a perpetual
self-detractor, and this is what takes
all tlie spring out of my life.
One may not be finely en
dowed as the world rates such
things but one who is" not willing to
concede powers to himself, is not likely
to fulfil the end of his own being. Says
Ruskin: "Every action, down to the
drawing of a line or utterance of a syl
lable, is capable of a peculiar dignity
in the manner of it. and capable of a
still higher dignity in the motive of it;
for there is no action so slight nor so
mean but it may be done to a great
purpose, and ennobled therefor; nor is
any purpose so great but that slight
actions may help it, and may be so
done as to help it much, most especi
ally that chief of all purposes, the
pleasing of God. He is more likely to
be humble-minded who sets a right es
timate upon this "chief of purposes"
than he who busies himself with
thoughts of his own worthlessness.
S. S. Times.
FAITH IN GOD.
The Divine Influence That Works in the
Jlelievcr'K Heart.
It is a vast thing to believe in God
with all of wide reach that the term
implies. Such a belief is a sort of per
ennial Pentecost and steady Holy Ghost
to a man. It makes the great future
seem easy. It makes the great future
seem certain. It puts tension into
thought, nerve into expectancy and
plan, muscle into action, and brings
down to to-day the echo of the voice of
the Lord when He said: "Arise, get
the down to the host, for I have deliv
ered it into thin hand." Here, too.
we gain our utaying power. It
is never tiresome waiting for re
sults when we know that results are
on the way. If the heart is made
sick by hope deferredi, t is only
because with the postponement there
comes a diminution of hope. Certainly
in the issue is the only sure source of
patience letween times. Until the ves
sel begins to drag its anchor, it is all
the same whether the tide seems to be
coming in or going out. We can work
for far-away effects with the same ex
hilaration as for immediate effects if
we can fully feel the strength and con
tinuity of the thread upon which our
own present efforts are being strung.
We are able to send a telegram with
the same confidence to London as to
Albany by having the same assurance
in the former case as in the latter of the
continuity of the telegraphic wire.
Watchman.
MAN'S PART.
If" in the Protnitses and AimnuwM of
Our Heavenly Father.
The great question of this life is not
what God is, but what man is. The
question I would bring home to j-on is
not whether God is love, but are you?
Are you in such relations with God that
He can speak of love to you? We have
settled into the conviction that God
must fulfill all the promises He has
made us, and that it makes no great
difference what we are or what we do.
I tell 3-ou, my friends, that is wrong.
The question of eternity turns upon
man himself, in just what manner he
is giving himself to God. It is absurd,
foolish, groundless, to think that man
rriaj- do just what he wants and still re
tain Kis reliance upon God. 'A man may
fall upon his knees and xray for the re
moval of the mountain, but until
eternity shall wear away that moun
tain will stand upon its firm founda
tion. The man may move his house up
to the mountain. It is something mov
able. Hut what becomes of prayer?
Where is faith? Why, that is not
faith. That is impudence. That is
the kind of a man the Ilible would call
a fool. XIan should rather be standing
upon his feet fighting the battle of
life with an earnest, consecrated, hon
est heart. He should be seeking a
nearer companionship with God. God
has said "if" ah! there is a contin
gency in what He says, always. He
imposes a condition upon us. It al-waj-s
means that something rests upon
our shoulders. We can not sit down
with idle hands and leave it all to
Him. God has said: "If a man love
Xle I will live with him." There is a
condition. We must love Him lefore
He will come to our fireside; lefore He
will live in our families. The most
serious words God ever spoke were
when He stopped and said: "This is
all I can da What can you do?" Christ
comes to the door and knocks "if any
now hear my voice and open the door I
will come in and sup with him, and he
with me." He comes to the door and
knocks. There He stops. Then the
burden rests on our shoulders. We are
to open. We are to do some of this
work. That is what He has laid upon
us. How has it come to pass that the
impression has gone abroad that He is
going to batter in our doors and enter
of Himself? Eternities shall come and
go before He breaks in at our doors.
Christ stands still, and in so doing He
honors the manliness of those before
Him --XIcKenzie (Ps xxv.,14. )
GEMS OF THOUGHT.
A gloomy heart is one that keeps
God out.
No man ever yet conquered success
by surrendering to temptation. Young
Xlen's Era.
If the life of Christ be not vour pat
tern, the death of Christ will never be
your pardon. Rest Islander.
The more treasure we have laid up
in Heaven the more power it will give
us for good on earth Ram's Horn.
True goodness is like the glow
worm in this, that it shines most when
no eyes, except those of Heaven, are
upon it. Hare.
No iron chain, or outward force of
any kind, can ever compel the soul of
man to believe or to disbelieve.
Thomas Carlyle.
"Grace" is the first word and the
last of Paul's epistles. The salutation
and the benediction. It is the begin
ning and the end of true life. United
Presbyterian.
Such help as we can give each
other in this world is a debt to each
other, and the man who perceives a
superiority or a capacity in a subordi
nate, and neither confesses nor assists
it, is not merely the withholder of '
kindness, but the committee of injury
Ruskin.
What had the life of Jesus been to
us, if we had only the records of His
sermons without the record of His go
ing about doing good? I think the
every-day life of Jesus touches the hu
man heart more than the great truths
which He uttered. Bishop Simpson.
Our creed is not what we have?
thought, but what our Lord has told
us. The true creed must come down,
from above, and not out from within.
Xlake your creed simply and broadly
out of the revelation of God, and you
may keep it to the end. Phillip
1$ rooks.
O What 5s it to know Christ? To b
like Him. To know Him is not to have
correct opinions about Him, but to be
in sympathy, in fellowship, in nnity
with Him. One does not know a poet
by Wing able to give the date of hi
birth and death, his parentage, and sv
list of his great works. He knows the
poet only as he understands the poet's
inner life; and he understands that life
only as he shares it- Lyman Abbott,
in Outlook.
We suppose, says the Interior, the
name "golden" was given to the "rule,"
because gold is the most malleable and
compliant of all metals, one which
adapts itself to any form or any color,
and is leautiful wherever it is. The
steel rule is true, strong and reliable,
but thcScriptures nowhere recommend
it. A rule that is used to measure
people must have adaptability in it.
The Lord never applies the steel rule.
He knoweth our frame. He remaDber
eta that we are dut