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ST. JOHN'S EVE. Qmm, draw the chairs around the hearth, tny lad, What! its bot 10 o'clock, and all ia nright I If I had kept that strength that once I had. They had bwn ranged there with the morning's light. J oat am a fear, just once, poor souls! they're let "T cross the old home threshold, and to ait Beside the fire, and here we don't forget; I aay. they're ready ere the lamps are Pat the old graudsires elbow-scat the first. In the warm corner that he called his ow u; Ami nejt the rocker, where thy mother nursed Her first-born, proud as on a inoiiari-h'n throne; And then the little stool that she would draw Clone uy to nie a we sat laughing there. And I would make an if I scarcely saw Th! firelight dancing on her sunny hair. Cp there at Eno-gat the tall grass waven. And the red roses glitter in the sun. The three tall crones mark the three green graves. Where they lie quiet, life's hot battle done; Old man, and matron, ami mivi'M.-l maid r"or many a weary year of laUr gone. But they will rise, for all so deeply laid. And seek us on the eve of good St. John. Pour out three rtips of the ol 1 eider. bi.y, I'm the three sweetest apples on the plate: Bring (lowers, to give the hoard a look of joy. And then go j' t while sit hereand wait; I shall not greet them at the open dour. I isliall not see them lift t iii- heavy latch. "Nor hear their footsteps mi the oaken lloor. Though eves and ears are straining as j 1 watch. And yet, 1 think, an they one in at last. That 1 shall know Ih-iu near ine once again. And all the gladness of the de.tr 'lead past Will heat onee more in dulling heart and lira in: While use and weariness, like robe out worn, Will drop from off me, and young, brave Ami true With wrongs forgiven and sweet hope relxirii. I and my loved our lost live will renew. What, the old man is doting, is he lad? Perhaps so: yet he'll have his willful way. And give our rites the honor that they had. Ere nli was cold and scornful, as to- - ,;,v! See how the west is prilling. Set the hairs. And go; all round us mini be slili ntid dumb. The saints an- gracious, when mm trusts a nd glares; Sly darling, oh. my darling, wilt thou CoilleV Household Words. ATHIEFIN TIIE MGIIT Tin-re was a biig' l- i ty at the Cha teau do Kerdttll. near Valine. The Marquis do Kerlnll and his young wife ha I ju-l returned from a txwr of ihe world on their yacht, during which they had paid !!ying visit.-, to Africa, America and Ooeauioa. and tJjej had celelit-aled t!i"ir home eom Sns; Ivy githeriiig together all their (friends and relatives at their beautiful country bouse. Among t!te guest was old Dr. Corna bnc, an illustrious member of the Aoinl my of Metaphysical Sciences, so orig inal, so abs"i)t-!tiliided. so venerable in lita blonde peruke mid his costume of the fashion of ls.'si. Thou there was iMmt. Ie I.artigues. an old school friend of th Marquise, a brilliant and iforjuettish I'arisienue. And there was 5!isk Hawthorne, an Knglish maiden Sdy with youthful propensities. And there were tnauy others, all of whom found plenty of amusement to their feearl's content at Kerdall. Outside of the O rdinary pleasures of life there were, some unusual attrac tion a. In the first place the host aud Siontess. hail seen and experienced so much that was novel and startling that thejr conversation was always fa-u-ln-alin& Then the phiius of the castle sroast'mited a veritable nmsenm. Ieing stocked willi rare ami curious objects from two continents. Aud, finally, a TanMia.riTie had been created In one cor Jer of the park and stocked with vari ous animals, which M. I)e Kerdall had rickeil up during the voyage and $roi)ghf buck to France for purposes f acclimatization. There were gazelles, mnlelopes, Thibet goats, Nile ibises, rose Mainiiigoes. opossums, bcaver.s anil an -Ai.itic ape of the mandrill species, as wiild as a la nib. but as mischievous as all his kind. An iron lattice c.:ge had feseo built for him close to the cmir.erva ory. AS will lie seen, the c:,.ii ui de KcT--rlall was a veritable K.ioii. but th's fact sssJUl not prevent little Mine. Ite Lartiguos from dreading the Isolated position of Jx place among the wide cxpirisi' of j mor,6tt ;iud fields. j i -.should be afraid to live here till' ttiho y e.w round," she said. '".Vfr.urf of what, my dour?" asked tfbfM.synui.se. , "Tnt, of roblsTs; they; would fairly IWVid lirr-;. ".ain'daf.! lu this mansion filled to the swbtis uitlv gnosis and serviinta! Ev trjlmilv jiss-kcil nt the young woman nt vM lir. Cornabuc told horrible aSUW icsJitS Mine. Pr I.artigues, ashnnied mt 3tt jOiinicrlcal fears;, was the first t XtugJi. find when the retiring hour she inouulfd to her aloeping irJwnt tut t:h secoud flmir stippllcd Willi a uoodly stock of heroism. Within M tiort 'ilii all the occuimnts of the sJaaitc:in .ere '.u the Iniifl of dreamt- xUotv kit'j Mine. De I-nrl'mites mt-tit ' he knew not. She aa awak.-ned by a rattling- at her window, which she had left half opened on account of the heat. What was her terror when, in the feeble tarlight, she aaw a form climb ing noiselessly through the window. She tried to scream, but her throat was parched with fright and she could not utter a soiyid. The man had entered the ihamls-r. Then the pr woman hastily buried her head beneath the bed clothing. Half dead with fear, she could hear her niH-tiirnal visitor going aud ituuinj; across the carjset with muttled steps. It seemed Us though he must have re moved his shoes iu order to tread softly. liathed w ith cold jierspiration and her teeth chattering, she awaited the mor tal blow from the invader. Hut it did not iHittie. After alsuit a quarter of an hour she timidly peered out. She could si-e and hear nothing. Slightly reassured, she r.i-overed the use of her voice and started a serii-s of shrieks, so sharp, piercing and ti-rrible that in an instant the entire chateau was turned into her chamber with lights in their hands. M. aud Mine. lie Kerdall at the head. "What is it? What's the matter?" they cried. She recounted tier horrible vision. They would not believe her; she had been dreaming. Who could have climb ed into this chamber, so high alsive the ground, without a ladder? "Iiid joii see him plainly V" asked the Marquis, with a touch of suspicion in his Voice. "As plainly as I see you, and it even Seemed " Sdp. hesitated. "What?" "It seemed as though I could recog nize lr. t'ornabiic In his blonde wig and redingote." i:erlHnlylaiigiii-l. What; Mr. t'orna biic! A loan of age and character sciil iug windows at midnight; It was cer tain now that Mine. I.artigues had been dreaming. They t;-i'-d to dissipate her fear, au,d she was just about to per suade herself that she had been the vic tim of an hallucination when sue hap pened to cast her eyes uoli the bureau, where she had left ImT jewels. They were gom '. It had truly been a robber; T;,'- laughing suddenly ceased, and they looked at one another in you" er uption. All at once another cry was heard, a piercing shriek coming through the .stillness of the night. It appeared to emanate from Miss Hawthorne's cham ber. Tin-re was a rtisli for her apart ment, and the Knglish lady was found standing in the middle of the room, wit li frightened eyes. "There! t'i"re:" sin- cried, pointing to the window. "A man! He has escaped, but I I'ecngllix.ed him." "Who was it '!" "Ir. Comaliuc!" The doctor again! This time nobody laughed, t'lit-nabuc was looked for among the persons who had been at tracted by the excitement, but he was not there. He was the only occupant of the chateau who was missing. "Come, let us go to the d ctor's room." said the Marquis, knitting his brows. , "He will doubtless solve the mystery for. us." i All fallowed Kerdall -the men half dressed, the women in their white night robes, all carrying candles a weird procession. ! r I oii the entrance of the crowd the doctor hurriiilly wrapped himself iu the bedclothes, his wrinkled counten ance alone being visible over the top. and this convulsed by anger into a comical grimace. The candle light was reflected from his bnld pate, which shone like ivory. "Is this some ill-timed joke?" he stormed. "What Is going on? Is tli" chateau on tlre? I heard a terrible out cry, and was about to Inquire into it." "You must come and join us. doctor," said Kerdall. "And how shall I do it?" cried the Itoetor. furiously. "Some rascal has run off with my clothing, and in ex change he has left me this." and he savagely hurled a white object Into the middle of the room. "My corsets!" murmured Miss Haw thorne, modestly lowering her eyes. "Ami this?" continued the Iioctor, wildly brandishing another article. "My hat!" cried Mine, de Ijirtlgnes. "This raillery pusses all bounds," howled the lo-tor, w Insse shining head, with one final grimace, ducked beneath the Is'd clothing, like the clow n goinj. through a trap Vor in the marionette theater. They knew not what to think. The mystery was growing more complicat ed. It certainly looked as though a rob ber had entered the chateau- perhaps a w hole band of burglars and assassins. Mute. lie Ijirtigues imagined a troop of brigands armed to the teeth. "I-ct us hope they have no gutis," said the Marquis, to raise the hopes of his guests. There was no echo to the pleasantry. Suddenly a strange sound was heard coining from the ground floor. It was certainly the piano 'In the reception ttiic'i, but it whs surely being played by g ilOin lingers, and so furiously that it so. e;, d a, though the keys must be broite-i, "Ti ls ut much!" cried the Mar quis, running toward the staircase, with all the crowd, excepting Ir. Cornubuc. close behind him. They hastily penetrated the salon. It was empty. The mysterious visitor whs gone, tint lie could not be far away. The crash of china and glass announced his presence in the dining-room. Everybody rushed thither, and the Marquis, who was In the lead, dimly kaw n form escaping through the win dow Into the garden. "This time tvp'TP got him!" he cried. The men a pissed guns and knives from a hunting rack In the vestibule and started across (ae garden and park In pursuit of the fugitive, w hile the wom en lrrioa-l"d themselves Is the aatoJ and anxiously Awaited the rejult of thsj chase. It a as aboTTf an boor later. Id the un certain light which precedes the rising of the sun, that a servant discovered the mysterious stranger enscon-ed among the branches of a large oak. At his call the Marquis and his guests hastened to the spot. "Come down!" commanded M. He Kerdall, but the bandit only settled himself deeper among the foliage and made no resoiise. "Come down, or I will shoot!" And. as there was no reply, he lifted his gun and already had his finger uisin the trigger when the domestic hurried ly pulled his arm, aud said: "Io not fire, monsieur. It Is Ir. Corn abuc.'" And, sure enough, the blonde w ig and !ong rislingote ouhl now Is si-cu among the leaves. Hut at this moment the first ray of sunlight gleamed lu from the east and the oak was illuminated. The Marquis suddenly broke into a tit of explosive laughter, and, as his guests gazed up Into the tr-e. they could uot keep from following his example. "The ape!"' i:cryt ii'ug was explained. The ani mal had esc;iH-d from bis cage the pre vious evening and had managed to ffist an entrance into the chateau. Animated by his Instinct of Imitation, he had first attired himself in the doc tor's off... ts and then wandered over tin- house at his own free will. He was put back into his prison after some little trouble, and at daybreak r ! s -party enjoy ed hearty laugh at the ad ventures of the ll'ghl. Hut I r. Corii'tbi'.c did not appear at. the tabic He left the chat-mi at an ( arly hour, furious and without taking leave. Since tills episode he has never set toot at K'Mlall. mid lie has m-ier lost . feeling of deep antipathy to Mine. lie I.artirues mid Miss Hawthorne. "How could they have mixed me up with a monkey?" he wants to know. Argonaut. Unngcrous slici'p. The dangers of luoun'a n dimt-jtig are in g.-tn ial pretty well uuderstoisl. and so can U- guarded ".nis!. Cuit Sir W. Martiii Conway, in Si rililn-r's Mag- iiailie. narrates a .1 iii-.'ii:i ad . en; it;- - of a realiy no, .1 sort . (ill the Way to Mud Iike we had .1 strange mlvi-tTturo, of which I was for tunate etoillgil to sei U!c It photograph. e w ere a pproai-hlng t be Ipgin- I sln-ep pasture a.s tin- day wutos. TJie slo-op. seventeen hundred in number, saw us from the surrounding slopes, ."nd urged by a longing for salt, rushi-d down itlsiii us f rom ail sides, with one united "I'iia!" 'ti a wild, converging na lallef.e. We beat olT the leadi is. Icq :h-y coiii. I not retreat, for those Is-hind pr.s.-d them forward. Finding that Carrel was tiie waiter morsel, the n hoi" tloi k surgi-d upon him. .They lifted him off his f'-et, carried him forward, cast him to the ground and poun d over him. Fortunately the ground was ti.-ii. When the shepherd saw what had hap M iicd he whistled shrilly thrice, where upon the shi-'p dispersed in terror, flee ing up the mountainside in all direc tions till no I ivi remained together. cry I'ol te. t The Saxons are a very jiolite people, so over-polite that they not Infrequent ly bring down ridicule upon themselves. It Used to be told III Dresden that .1 stranger in the city was one day cross ing the gnat bridge that sins the l.lbe. and asked a native to lie direct ed to a certain chiitou which he wish ed to find. "Kciliy. my dear sir," said the Ires ib iier. bowing low. "I grieve greatly to say it. but I cannot tell you." The sT; inger passed on. a little sur prised at this voluble answer to a sim ple question, lie had proceeded but a few rods, when he heard hurried foot-sti-iw Is'hind him. and. turning, saw the same man rutin'tig to catch up with him. In a moment his ; ursuer was by his side, his breath nearly gone, but enough left to say: "My dear sir. you asked uie how you could fiud the cnunll. and It pained tne to have to say that I did not know, .lust now I met iny brother and linked lihn. but I grieve to say that he did not know, either." llirsi li s Hoodoo. I'ar .ti Hirsch, shortly Is fore bis (bath, sold his very beautiful estate at St. Jean, because it was too damp to Ik healthy. lie purchased another through an agent ami s'artcd to erect a magnificent chateau iiMin It. After he iiad expended ab.t C'),(Xhi on the new projierty. which he Intended to en dow as a i-tiililren's hospital after his death, he was Informed that It was even damper than St. Jean. He went lu per son to see, and Muling the resirt true, and that, the property was of t.u use whatever for his benevolent purpose, added to the thought that he hat! Is'en swindled, causeu him to fly Into a vio lent rage, which was the direct cause of his death. Thrifty Old Age. Iti-sides doing the butter making, cooking, washing, mid housework of her family, an hO-year old woman of Whltneyvilie, Me., walks a mile or two daily to pick bluelM-rries, for which she gets about eight cents a quart. ftlve n Isiy a piece of work to do, and he spends half of the time in Inventing some contrivance to make his work easier. You will rim across a man oftener whose Isianllng house suits him, than one who Is sulied with his homu. TALM AGE'S SERMON. THE PREACHER DRAWS A LES SON FROM MUSIC. He Take "The Chant of the BtatV for the Subject of a Sermon of Great Beaaty and l'ower-A Perfect Filial Harmour. Oar WaahiOKton Pulpit. The tun steal resources of s!l nations eiu drawn upon by Ir. Tahuage ill bis seri'iou of last Sunday to illustrate a most practical truth. His subject was "The Chant of the Stars," and the text Job xxiviii., -(. "Who laid the corner stoue thereof, when the morning stars sang to gether?" W e have all s-en the ceremony at the laving ot the corner stone of church, asy lum or Mas.mii- temple. Into the hollow of the stone were placed scrolls of history mid i in una lit documents, to Ih- suggest ive if. I'm or 'Jtm years after, the build ing should ! ili-st roy id by tire or tora down. W e remember the silver trowel or iron hummer th.il smote the square piece of granite into saie-tity. We remember some venerable man who presided w M ill ing the trowel or hammer. We remem ber also the music a the choir stisxl on Ihe seattenI stones and timls-r of the building about to lie constructed. The haves of tin- uotoltok fluttered in the wind ami were turned our with a great rustling, and we reuieliils'r how the bass, baritone, tenor, contralto and soprano v ii i s commingled. They lonl for many days Imi-ii rehearsing the sjieeial program that it might be worili.1 of the corner s'oiie lav ing. l.ajinir the Corner t-Ctnc, la my te! tin- iM-t of I 7. calls us to a grander eereiitoay 'In- hiving of a f ein- bition of this great temple of a world. The corner Mom- was a block of i'ght an 1 the tr-ivn', u:. of celestial crystal. All jiisillt lllld oil tile ellitia MklC'll! s of cl.uids s'oo.l ihe iiii.o li -1 I or, -NTs unrolling their librettos o overturn, ninl oilier worlds ! . 1 1 q -i J shining cv tubals while tic cere a.iu.y went on. and od, the Architect, by stroke of light after stroke of light, de.lii Mieii thi great i athcdral of a world, with mountains for pi:!ars. ami sky for frescoi d ceiling, and flow rim: fields for n lloor, ami suun-e and niiihiight aurora for upholster;. "Wlei hod the cor; r -tone thereof, win n the morning stars sang together?" The fact is that the whole universe was a complete eadeiiee. an unbroken dithy ramb, a in n i. 1 1 port I olio. The great Siieet of ililllielicil V had heelt Spread UUl. It lid Wlllti-u on it were the stars, the siua.'hr of I ! i lii thetu sust-i'ne d li ed I he s! aeeato p: iii'.ns. the larger of . The metis, i.s mark gi s. the vt hole lieav- ens iiiut with all souads. mtoiiations. lllod Ilia! iolis, t:e ;cice between tile worlds a uit:sie;il interval, j i-i-iulding of ste.'fir light a ipiaver, the thunder a bas clef, the llilid ailiollg trees l treble clef. That is the way lod tuadc ail things n jicrfect h.-iiinoiiy. lint one dav a harp string snapped in the great on lu stra. line day a voice sounded out of tlllie. llneihlV .'I discord, bar-h and terrific, giat.-d upon the gl -nous tiutiphon. It was sin that ma-t-the ilissoiciiiec. and t'.iat harsh discord has been solllldil'g through tin lituries. All the work of Christians a id philan thropists and n formers of i,U ages is to stop thar diseord and get all thiugs back into the is-rfect harmony which was heard at the laying of the corner stone, wlu-ti the morning stars sang together, ltefore I get through, if I nut divinely helpi-d, I will make it plain that sin is ilisisjrd ami righteousness harmony. That in general things are out of tunc i as plain as to a musician's ear is the unhap py clash of clarinet slid bassoon in an archest, a! rendering. Out of Time. The world's health out of tune; weak lungs ml the utiiiosphcre in collision, disordered eye and noonday light in quar rel, rheumatic limb .iiul damp weather in striistgle, neuralgias and pneumonias and consumption and epilepsies in flocks sweep upon neighborhoods and cities. Where yon find one person with sound throat and keen eyesight and alert ear and easy respiration nml regular pulsa tion and supple limb and prime digestion and steady nerves, you lind a hundred who have to be very careful because this ir that or the other physical function i disordcred. The human intellect out of tune: tin judgment wrongly swerved, or the mem ory leaky, or tiie will wink, or the tem per inflammable, the well balanced mimi exceptional. Domestic life out of tune: only her" and there a conjugal outbreak of incompati bility of teuii-r through the divorce courts, or a filial outbreak alsnit a fath er's will through the Surrogate's Court, or a case of wife beating or husband (siis ouiiig through the i rimimil courts, but thousands of families with June oiitsul" and January within. Society out of I line; labor and capital their hands on each other's throat; spirit of caste keeping those down in the Social si-ale who are struggling to get up and pulling those who are tqi in anxiety lest they have tu come down. No wonder the old pianoforte of society is all out f tune, when hypocrisy and lying and subterfuge and double dealing and sycophancy mid charlatanism and revenge have for . K stl years been banging away lit the keys and Kliimpiiiig Ihe pedals. On all sides there is a shipwreck of harmonies. Nations in discord without realizing it. So wrong is the feeling of nation for nation that symlsds chosen are fierce and di-strinlive. lu this country, where our skies arc full of robins and doves and inorniii(t larks, we have our national symbol, the fierce and filthy cagb, us cruel a bird as can be found iu nil the ornithological cntilnues. lu (ireat HrilBiu, where they have lambs and fal low deer, their symbol In the merciless lion. In Itussiii. where from between her Iroeii north aud blooming south nil kindly beasts dwell, limy chose the grow I ing bear. And in thu world's heraldry n favorite figure is the dragon, the fabled wingisl serpent, fens-ious and dreadful. And so fond is the world of contention that We climb out through the heaven and baptize one of the other planets with the spirit of battle and en II it Mars, after the god of war. And we give to tht eigth sign of the wwlise. the name of the scorpion, a creature which is chiefly cele brated for Its deadly sting. Hut, after nil, these sj-iiiIhiIs are expressive of the wnj nation feel toward 'Mtion. Discord wide as the continent Mid bridging the ,aens. I suppose yon hnvt noticed how witritl ly in love dry goods stores are with tithe: dry ifuods stores, ami how highly jrxe crryiwu think of the sugars of the gro cery nwo on th same street. Aud in w hat a eutottiatic way slkipaihic an I homeo pathic doctors axak of each other, and how ministers will sometimes put tniu isters on that beautiful cooking instru ment which the Knglish call a spit an iron roller with spikes on it ami turned by a crank before a hot fire, and then if the minister Is-iug roasted cries out against it the men who are turning him say: "Hush, uiy brother! We are turn ing this spit for the glory of Co si and the good of your soul, and yuu must be quiet while we t lostr the service w ith: "'Hhut be tne tie that binds Our hearts in Christian love." - The earth is diauietered and circwni-f.-reiiced with discord, and the music that was rendered at the laying of the world's corner stone, when the morning star sauii togetlu-r, is not heard now. And though here and tln-re, from this and .that part uf society, and from this aud that part of the earth, there come- up a thrilling soio of kivc, or a warble of wor ship, or a sweet duet of patiei.ee, they are drowned out by a disi-ord that shakes the earth. The four of Hacll. Hut if ill I his w orld things iu general are out ot I une to our frad car. how much more so to beings angelic anil de itie! It takes a skilled artist to fully ap preciate dtsagrevuo in of sound. Many have no capacity to detect a defect ot musical liis-ulioii. ninl. though there were in une bar as many offenses against harmony us could crowd iu betwis-u tic lower F of the bass iind'the higher tl of tin- soprano, it w.,uld give them no dis comtoii. while on the forehead of the i!ioatcd artist beads of perspiration would s'l.n I out as a result of the har row tug dc sonanec. While an nui:i;i-ur vva- is rforming on a pi iuo and hud just struck tin wrong chord. John Sebastian I'.a ii. tiie immortal composer, entered the r sun. and the amateur rose in embarrass ment, and liacii rushed pasi the host, who stepped forward lo greet h:m. lind. i toiv the kcvbo.ii-d had stepped vibrating, pit Ins ndlo.t hand up -u the keys and I ged Die painful ilih.irnioliv into glo rious cmb ace. Then lho li turned and gave salutation to the host. I. ul tip- worst i, all discord is mora! dis.-ord. if society a'.iii tin- world are pa in ! ally discordant lo imperfi-ct man, A t ut Innst I hey be to II perfect tiod! I'oople try to define what sin is. It seelio: to me that sin is getting out of harmony with liisi, it disagreement with his holi ness, with his purity; with his love, with his commands, our will clashing with his vviil. the liniie dashing ag.iin.-t tin- iiduille. the frail against the puissant, tin crcati-d ngai.'isl the creator. I f a thousand musi cians, with flute and comet a-pistoii and trumpet and violoncello, the hautlsiy an I trombone imd nil the wind and stringed instruments that ever gathered in a Has seidoif jubilee, should resolve that they would play mit of lime and -put .-one ir I to the no li and make the place wild w ith shrieking mid grating and rasping sounds, they could led make such a pandemonium that which rage in a sinful sou) when !od listens to the piny of its thoughts, passions and emotion -discord, lifelong disi-ord. tiiaihieiiitig discord. The world pa.vs more for discord than it docs fo" I'litiw'iiuiice. High prices have been plod loi iiiiiMi, line man ga v e Jv--"i to hear the Swedish Sollgstnss jn .eW York, and alioier $H'S to lo-ar )n r in Hostloit. iiinl u in.' her nii to hear In-r in Providence. Fabulous prices have been paid for sweet sounds, Uut far more has been paid for discord. The Crimean war com Jfl.Tim.KHi.isto, and the American civil war S!i.."SI.ismi.ihi, and the war debt ,,f pr-.itessed Christian nations are .llsiut SI , m n s.isi . M s i. The world pays for this nd ticket, which admits it to the saturnalia of broken bones and death agonies ninl ihtstroyi d cities and plowed graves and crushed hearts, nuy amount of money sittau asks. Iisnrd! Iliseord! Will lie I'nt in 1 line. Hut I have t tell you thnt the song that the morning stars sang together at the laving of the world's corner stone is to resound again. Mozart's great it over ture was comiHised one night when he was severul times overpowered with sh-ep, and artists say they can tell the places iu the music where he was falling asleep and the places where he awak ened. So the overture of the morning stars siikeli of in my text has been asleep, but it will awaken and Is- more grandly remb red by the' evening stars of the world's existence than by the morn ing stars, and the vespers will be sweet er than the matins. The work of all icsid men and women and of all gisid churches and nil reform associations help to bring the race buck to the original harmony. The rebellious heart to be HltUlled. social life to be attuned, commercial ethics lo be attuned, intcriiiitioiialily to lie attuned, hemispheres to be attuned. In olden times Ihe choristers had a tun ing fork with two prongs, and they would strike it on the bin k of pew or music rack and put it to the ear and then start the tune, aud all the otiier voices would join. In modern orchestra the lender has a complete instrument rightly attuned, and he sounds that, and ill! the oilier ht formers nun the keys of llieir intrutiients to inuke tin-in correspond and draw the how ou r the string nnd listen and sound it over again until all the keys are screw ed to concert pitch and the discords melt into one great symphony, and the curtain hoists, and the baton taps and audiences are raptured with Schumann's "I'ariidise and the l'eri," or ltossini's "Stabat Mi ler," or Hitch's "Magnificat" in It. Now, our world can never Is- attuned by an imperfect instrument. Fven a Cremona would not do. 'Heaven has or dained ihe only instrument, and It is made out of the wood of the cross, and the voices that accompany it are imported voices, can I. it rices of the first Christmas night, when heaven serenaded the earth with "(ilory to til iu tin- highest, and on earth peace, gisid will to men." Lest we start too far off and get lost in gen eralities, we had better licgin with our selves, get our own hearts and lives in harmony with the eternal Christ. Oh, for his Almighty Spirit lo nltiine us, to chord our will with his will, lo modulate our life with his life, and bring us into unison with nil that is pure and self sacri ficing and heavenly! The strings of out nature are all broken uiui twisted, and the bow Is so sbu k it cannot evoke any thing UicUiltiinus. The Instrument made for heaven to play on has been roughly twanged and struck by Influences world ly and demoniac. ( master hand of Christ, restore this split and fractured and despoiled and unstrung nature until first it "hall wail nut for our sin and then thrill with divine pardon! The whole world must also be ullntied by the same power. 1 was in the Kair- j br.nks weighing wale uiantifaetoiy of i Yeriuont. Six hundred bands, aud they ' have nrveV had a strike. Complete har- Diony between labor ma cspnsi, uw ojss ratives of scores of years iu their beauti f ii hemes near by the mansions of the uisnufactariTs. invention and Christiaa behavior nude the great euter- ' pr:e. So all the worm over moor anu ' ...:..Oul u-ltl lu l.i-,,ii,'hf in-.t euollonv. You may have heard whst is tailed the "Anvil Chorus." compos. si by erdi, a tune pis. veil by hammers, gn at and small, now with mighty stroke, and now with heavy siroke. bating a great iron auvil. That i what the world has gut to come to anvil chorus, yardsthk chorus, shut tle chorus, trowel chorus, crowbar chorus, pickax choius, gold mine chorus, rail track chorus, locomotive (horns. It cau be done, aud it w ill Is- done. S ull social life will be attuned by the gospel harp. There will be as many classes in sis'iety ii now. but the classes will not le regu lated by birth or wealth or accident, but by the scale of virtue and benevolence, aud people w ill be assigned to their places as g.sid. or very good, or most excellent. So also commercial life wiil be attuned, and there will be twelve iu every dozen, and sivlis'ii ounces in every pound, and apples at the bottom of the barrel will le as sound as those on the top. and silk gisids will not lie cotton, and sellers will not have to charge honest people more than the right price because others will led pay, ami gis.ds will come to you cor resKiiiding with the sample by which you purclnisisl tin in, and coffee w ill not be hicoricd. and sugar wiil not be sanded, inn! milk will not be chalked, and adulter atioii of food will be a stale prison of fense aye. all things shall l" attuned! Flections in Fnghiiid and the Foiled States will no more Is' a grand carnival of domination tnl scurrility, but the ele vatioti of righteous men ill a righteous vv a v. Now, if gin is discord, am! righteousness is harmoiiv. let us get out of tiie one aud enter the other. After our dreadful civil war was over, iu the summer of I'sii'.t. a treat national peace jubilee was held in llostou, and as an elder of my church had 1 11 honored by the sehs tioli of s ollle of his music io b r-'iidcnsl on that occasion I aeeoiiipiiiiieil him to the jubilee. Forty thousand pisiple s:, and stood iu the gn-at coliseum ens-ted tor that purpose Thousands of wind and stringed instru ments. Twelve thousand trained voices. The imistcrpici i-s of all ages rendered, h uir aftir hour and day after day-Handel's "Judas Maci-iihaens." Sjsdir's "Fast Judgment." I'M-etliiiVeu's "Mount of lives," Haydn's "Creation," Mendels sohn's "Flijali," Meverhcyer's "Corona tion March." rolling on and up in surges that billowed against the heavens. The mighty cadence within were ac companied on the outside by the ringing of the bells of the city ninl camion mi the commons, discharge! by electricity, in exact time vvith music, thundering their awful burs of a harmony that astounded ail nations. Sometimes I bowed my head and wept, sometimes I stood up hi the etichanlment, and sometimes the fleet w as so oV el iHiw ei big I fell J could not endure it. cspm-mlly when all the voices were in fnll chorus, and a.11 the batons were in full wave, and all the orchestra in (ull triumph, nml a h-uiidn-d anvils under mighty hammers were in full clang, and all the towers of the city rolb-d in their majestic sweetness, and the whole building quaked with the atooin of thirty minion. I'arepa IJosu, with a voice that wiil never again be equaled on earth un til the irehangelic voice proclaims that time shall be no longer, rose nimve ull other sounds iu her rendering of our national air, "The Star Spangled Hau lier." It was Ps much for a mortal, ipiite enough for an immortal, to hear, and 'while some fainted one womanly spirit, released under its power, sped away to be with (bid. (t I-ord, our I hid, quickly usher in the whole world's peace jubilee, and all isl ands of the sea join the five continents, ami nil the voices and all the musical in struments of all tuitions combine, and nil the organs that ever sounded requie.n of sorrow, sound only a grand march of joy. and all the bells that tolled for burial ring for resurrection, and all the cannon that ever hurhsl death across the nutiot s sound forth eternal victory, and over all the acclaim of esrth and minstrelsy of hen veil there will be heard one voice sweeter and mightier than any human or angelic Voice, a voice once fnll of tears, but now full of triumph, the voice of Christ, saying. "I am alpha and omega, the beginning Htl the end, the first ami the Inst." Then, at the laying of the top stone of the world's history, the same voices shall be heard as when, at the laying of the world's corner stone, 'The morning stars sang together." Mtiort Neriiioos. The Csiiiittiou Man. fu the common light with fate, the common man is al ways great. HetiH's have an ambition and a hope. Heroism consists largely In doing duty. Whether In war for tin; country or In missionary work for the f cross, thosie who follow closc'lo duty form n huig white line of men of w hom the world Is not worthy.-Itcv. A. J. rainier, Methodist, New Castle, Pa. Satisfaction. We may siruggli! through the long, weary years for the applause of men, otii what do we find it In the end? A lucre bubble. The ibflre for real litipphn Ktlll remains, and l he only hope of 'obtaining It come from the vision of a future home. With the eyes of divine faith we can see the ladder w hich buds to lien veil. Near-in-ss to tJisl, the possession of hlui alone, Is what satisfies the heart of tun Ii.- Hev. W. F. Waterson, Catholic, Philadelphia, I'a. Church Work. There Is nn tqqsir ttniify to-tlity for enlarging tin Influ ence of the chun-li. believe much could la iiciiuiillshcd If In every church there could Is- orgniiljced a men's sisdal league for the niicblug out nfler men and developing the s'sdal side of men, and as a result men will recipro cate iiml will show a giititcr Interest in the church.- Key. . I.udibii, Luth eran, Lincoln, Neb. Labor and Christbuilly. Kniployer nnd employe are equal In 'bid's sight. ChrlstliiuHy gave humanity th broth erhood of iiihii, tlitui bringing master nml workman doner.. It lias promoliil liiany Institutions and efforts for flinch (oniting' the condition of workmen. The religion of Christ give, rlmructor -to the wage Hirner, making him lnuimt, sober, Industrious, truthful, steady, chain nnd consclentloiui. Hev. Oconto iMiiicnn, l'nubyterUn, llarrlsburg, I'a. J. "X i ' o(, rt-.j'. j-ip.i.i'.