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1 .ixuttr , -'iaimr, k?k ; ',. ..-?. ,; i.feifh ,-iwr' 1 1 ) WHITHER OR WHENCE? Oh! cherished TDjeiT, di h . i '1 he shadow bed of lbe I timu It.ver, Willi what fclrmiii-. trslit Mule iu thy aw eel eye tiruQ, Am what woud.uus sruil on thy lip a-ijiiii er, Wht unseen hand it thy frail barque' prow Il guiding til swiftly aduwn the stream? Ab! wake at nr bidding, we pray thee, Arouse from thy languor of sleep aud ilrraiu! We fain would stay the, would elafp tlijr bund. (Too passing sweet is thnt tender smile), But du! Thou wavest farewell to land. And floatcst f.Trt ln-r away the while; Farther aay as the night come ou, Farther and farther with break of day Already thjr . raft from our sight lias gone, lias slipped (r. in its moorings mi ! saiiid away. The mi ii I : i; h t wni tbee, but all in vain. The wild bird rail thee, but pu reply, '' Thou (halt wake to their niusie liu more again, Kor bask in th sunlight; sweet friend, good by ! A Tiiuu of an rtliRht blinds our sight. We feel Its glory an here nf atand, I-'ur di the voyage ia toward the liarht, Kor tbee the shores of the unknown land. --Tanusylvania Grit. TIIE KEEPER OF CRACUE'S CUT. IVtxter, the new liavpector of th Kvansburg ami Sauk Center Railroad, was not the only person who had been astonished at the firm tight of the keep - er of Crrtgle's bridge and the rock cut beyond, "L. C'. Dolby, Hc-lion 27." he b:td read in his little book with the thumbed Ili'Je cover, Slid he had el- i(v'leil .) jo-.- a grlir.le-henrdel maa with a until) i. red fao and a Htubliy black pipe, for Hrag' wan known to ! one of t!ii worst aTtiou on the line, li.t ki'i'jMT n reiuircd lo walk the mile f r-ii n the end of ihe lonx bridge Rinl t'uroi'Ii Uie cut twice a day, win ter and MiiiiiniiT. un 1 It often required a cool liivnl mill a vlgorui body 10 iVkI'1 the tramp freights fhnt thun dered k-fk and fursli wlih aimiiiK d'M rejard for lime ciirU and runu.UK nib's. The new Inspector had ome down from Y.i4'-i, walking the whole length of section i;7. lie had fuua 1 cverythluz tn the bcMt of order, not a boll loone tior a Kplke cum' and he felt, after I lie man ner of new Inspectors like compliment ing l!ie vigilance of the keeper. "In I.. (1. Ilolby In V" lie asked when lie reached the keeper's" hon.se on the hill. "Ves. sir, will you walk In?" asked the roy-cheeked girl who came to the door. He !epp.-il i:it, tlie neatest of little Hit litis? roniiiH. '1 here went flower III (he windittK tind a cheery lire on the hearth in if. nt of which a la.y tabby cat ja vvio-,1 a .io! huinnred grei-tiiic. "My name U !',aier, Ilie new Inspec tor, ami I wished io s.-e I.. '. I !by, the kf-per of L'T," be said. Tic g-i-l fiih.-d slightly. He oh nerved tlial hep hair wa-i cut fshort like a boy' and that le r chin was lirm and aharp. "I am the keeper," (she answered; "my name U I.etlie 0. Iolby, and I've had the place since father w.n injured lat wiiiier." "TIi.u'h riglit. and as Rood nn a man she Is too!" came a gruff voice from the . other room. Kettle Hushed a'siin. 'It's father," he whispered; "won't you Htep In and nee him? He'a very glad to have visitor-." Ilaxter bad Hot yet recovered from hln HitrprUe al finding that tlie Mini, blue-eyed (jirl w!to Htoud before him wan really keeper of t.'rasie's cut, and he allowed himself to be led into the other room. Tin-re, at :i b's. bright window, at a man in a ro k'.tu chair. His face was of the chalky whiteness that cumin from being always Indoors, ami bin lap was spread with a plaid comforter. lie looked prematurely old and worn. "How are you?" he asked. "I'd tfet up. only " and he motioned to hi crippled legs with a faint miille. 'That' all right," responded Baiter, sympathetically; "keep your aeal." And Baxter, silting there, heard Let tie explain the condition of section 27, and make her reports, as promptly and very much more chnrly than any of the keepers he bail ever met. She spoke In a frank, almost boyish way, mil ale understood Iter work as well aH Baxter himaclf did. Her father at watching her quietly, adding a word here and there, l're.vntly the clock In the fur ther room struck 'I. and I.ettle started lo her feel. "It'H time for me to make the rounds of t'ie Hcctioii," she mild, and a moment later Baxler saw her lithe form, wrap pi I in i sln'.u, dark dyak,, disappear over 1 in brow of the hill toward the Hacks, An he looked back he found Dolby watching li i in intensely. When he caught his i-ye the cripple leaned for ward and lunched Baxter' knee. "There Isn't a pluckier girl between St, I'aul and Montana buttes," be aaid; "even If I do nay it, who shouldn't." "I don't ace how Mie can manage the new Inn," replied Baxter. "Tluit'H what l nay," exclaimed Dol by; "It'it wonderful," and hi pinched face lighted up with a amlle that wan beautiful In nee. "It would go hard with all of n If It waan't for 1'ttlf." N "How did n girl hnppen to bo appoint ed to audi a place, any way V "Hlm'a dccrved It," Dolby anawered. energetically; "she deferred It. They ain't many people that know all the (new t-xeep' tJifl Ntiperlntendeut lm knnwa, unit he Hay Lltla can I keep er iui long a she want to. "Course joii reiiienrber the big Mix- r,;ird We had hift winter 1 lie one that mowed iti liven-burg, and Bioektoii. a bd ollitn llle and k.lb d all I lie cattle on the Bod Hii' Bottom rai.cii. Well, ii lru''k Ihe t 'nigie eoiiulry, loo. t'jimej lip over the hill from back of tin- house i-ariy iu Ihe iiiotu.i:g, and long before o'eloi k tin re wasn't a fence Io be been ill tlie country. I.ettie's mother s :id I l-tti r net j.o d.wu Io Ihe cut. Sin- was altald I might gel lost. But I'd belli at CillCies oO" an' on for niore'n eight yea is, and I thought I'd hci-u ihe worst ihe weal her eon Id do. So 1 vvenl down tlie hill, and before I gol ten rods from Ihe hou-e Ihe ulioW had wiped il out, and all I could m-e were ihe whirling drills and the path for a iloxeti feet ahead of me. 'And when 1 reached ihe cut Ibere wam't any "-t there. Il wax tilled to the lop w itii ."iioiv. I wondered w hut the lim ited Wind (low u for ( ragie's would do. It was pretty hliiiip and cold w lieu 1 readied the track Ibis nlde of Ihe bridge, and I bad to get down on my ban Is and Liie and i-ruwl along from lie to tie Jutd like a Irfiby. I waiiUj-oi.t in thohe iLiyo, too, only the wind aud Ihe Know were no terrible that I couldn't vtaml. And fin-t thing I knew I bad tomi1 the bare knoll at the bridge approach, and there l wa bang Ing over the edge of the embankment like a lt to a rafter. Hippi-d before I knew It. " 'You're done for, IMhy.' 1 wild to myailf when I wiw how little held me from falling Into 1he charm. It nil Bull feet to Ihe bottom, and jag;ed rock all the way down. But 1 had gTit, If I do My It, mid I bunt there for grim death, with the wind kicking aud beating me about like a dead limb. I knew well enough there would le no one to help rue, atid thai I couldn't help mynelf: lull "till I hung there. A man doi Mi't like lo In- dashed to pieces on a bilge of rooks unless il becomes al-o-Illtely tieceshiiry. "Pretty sis.u I heard the limited annealing down H.e cut. I knew lhai Jim Crokhy, ihe engineer, was Ilouuder- j lug In tle miow. I said lo myself that if Jim eucceedisd in rooting tJiroiigh I with hi engine I might be wivisl. but I knew well enough that he wouldn't mccecd. It would lake four engine and two rotary plows to drUc a tunnel ! through audi a blizzard. And there she squealed and shrieked for hour, il I seemed to me. while my IdiikIs and I arnifi grew as numb us dub. "And I.ettle what was Mie doing nil thin time? When the enow covered Ihe wiwmIsIiciI and began to creep up on (he wlndowH she was frightened. 'I'm afraid that father'!! ln-ver get back." she told her mother, who's always been fidgety and nervous like, began to walk up and down an, I wring her haiul", not knowing what to do. Tw elve o'clock came, and then 1. I.eilie siart ed up and said; 'Mother, I'm going out to eee if I can't lind fa l her,' and in spile of all iier molher could do she bundled into her cloak and hood and opened I he door. "The snow was up to her wa:t, but (he wind hud mostly gone (low ' -i the cut .lliuiiile Crosby "h engii. ., callln' and Kcreeciiur for mercy, and I.ettle, when she looked over the cllif couldn't i'p the train at nil -only a big black bole where the smoke from the stack had moiled Ihe snow. Bui 1, el lie wasn't strong enough to gel dow.i the tracks, for Ihe path was di I full, a, a slim girl like her eou.uii i venture in without losing her life. She knew well enough that I wan down Ihe Ncctlon Homew!'"re- perhaps out ou the bridge. But Mu didn't give up-not I.eilie. There wasn't a man nround the place to help -only iu the train, and the train wan at the bottom of the cut burled In the snow. She thought that If only Hhe could get word to Jim Cros by he'd help her, for she knew liim well. So nhe mu and go! a coil of rope and j tied one end of II to that stubby oak there you can see it at the edge of Ihe hill - and then Mie look hold of it ami slid Into the cul. That look grit -there aren't many men who would have risk ed It -let alone girls, of course ihe snow got Into her eyes and nose, and the rocky ledges cul and bruiMcd her, but Bhe never stopped until she was at the bottom. Jlmmie Crosby mild he aw something floundering In Ihe kiiow out side of the cab and then Homebody called: " 'Jim, oh, Jim.' "It wag Ix-ttle. They dragged her Into the cab, and an noon as 8 lie could talk Mie told Jim that I win loet in the blizzard. "We'll save him,' said Jim, and the fireman agreed to help, and ao did a dozen other men who had come down from the train. And Jim, beln' a good climber, went up tlie rope hand over hand aud helped a dozen or more men to follow him. By this time it had stop ped snow ing, and tlie nun ahone bright In the west. They wallowed down through the drift to the bridge, Bettle following, They tried to leave her at home, bul she wouldn't May. 'If fath er's In danger,' Mie said, 'I'm going' to help lind him.' "1 heard 'em when they reached the hare knoll IhUi side of the bridge, I had crooked one leg around a sleeper and I still linnR there over Ihe chasm. I don't believe I could have let go. I Kilos I wan frozen there. I tried to shout and let them know where to lind me, but I couldn't get my mouth open. It waa clean Buffering, that. Kor here win help within reach and I couldn't make a sound. But Ii'HIe knew th path I uaually look and Brat thing I knew he wn on her kneea at the end of the bridge pry ing: " 'Here he la; oh, fathnr, father.' "After that I don't reniemlier much. Jim aald they carried me to the houae and laid m on the bml, but I didn't get back to my right eiuea for two or three day". "I altnoat forgot to tell you that on of "he men who helped me was p.rad- ley. trie Bllpet lltellilellt. Wbell he K.-IVT I.eilie and heard of what she had done he ju.-t took off hi hat, ihln way, and held it tielore him. 'You're ihe bravest girl I've ever met,' he said." Dolby paused as if he like-J to remem ber this part of the story. "The passenger, oh, I h"j- capci by I.ettii 'n rope and wen- dnvi-u uto C:a gle's. And thai night when the sup-r-intendctit was talking about who shall be keeper of section -7 Leltie t'poke up. timid like: " Mr. Bradley, let me watch It; I can do ii almofl as well as father." "the superintendent looked at her for a moment, and then he wild: " T believe you can, Kettle." "F rom lliat day to this L. 0. Dolby has been keeper of 21. I've never re covered -my legs aud my back-but the doctor still gives me hope. And 1 couldn't get along without I.ettle " But the old man'a voice broke. Bax ter, shaking hand with him ileni!y, went out toward Cragle'g, where he lent a glowing report of the excellent condition of wction 27, L. C. Dolby, keeper. fkH-enlrlo Geoeeoaty. Nicholas Ixingworth, one of the wealthiest citirena of Cincinnati a few year ago, wa noted for bia eccentric charitle. Tbe whom others refused to help found a friend la him. "De cent pallors will alwaya find plenly to help them," he would say, "but no one cares for the 'dertra spoor.' Kv eryhody condemn tbeia, so I niUMt turn to and help them." Mr. Iiiw-orth was plain and care les In hi drew-, ofrea kk!ug more like a beggar than a millionaire. In deed, It afforded him do little amuse ment to be taken for a mendicant, he several tinu-a was in the course of hi life. due cold winter evening a poor mnri culled at the boue very thinly clad, and Mr. I.ongworth Improved the op Kirtunity Io ugg't to her husband tbr' he Miould give away a certain "1 . Time" overcoat which she had gr . tired of heeing hi in wear. I la readily assented, and Mrs. Botigworth, uiuili plcHoil that the objectionable garment was out of the way, placed u tine broadcloth one upon ihe rack, where be would i-anliy (liid it in the morning. But Mr. Iaingworth went off to busl ncsss .without it, and came home at noon, greatly to his wife's chagrin, wearing a new coat of the "Hard Time" variety. At another time Mr. Longwortli was a-eted by a lb-nerving lieggar at the cut rame to IiIn warehouse. " hat do you need most?" Mr. Long won h akcd. "A pair of Mioes," was the reply. "Ah, yes, I fcce," said tlie millionaire, with a quick glance at the inan'sj feet, lie kicked off his right shoe -his shoe strings were aehloiii tied and said, "Try that on, my man. How does it til?" "Illlgant, yer honor." "Then try Hint one, too," wild Mr. I.ongworth, an lie kicked off the other Mine. "How will they do?" "Illlgant, yer honor! llllgant! May many a bicKKing " "Well, well, go now," said the mer chant, "that'll do;" and then, calling a ' , he sent hi in to the house to ask y. I.ongworth for another pair of -s. The Isiy soon returned. "Mr. Longwortli Kays there Isn't a pair of Mioea left In tlie house," said the lad, "you've give 'em all away." "All right," laughed Mr. longwortli. "Bun down to Mr. Hart's and ask him to send me up a pair of shoes, the kind I always buy; and mind, here's a two dollar Mil, but don't you give inore'u a dollar and a half for them." Revival of n Old I'asblon. The fashion of wearing long chain) of gild about the neck Is attractive. The chains should lie strong enough to hold the watch tucked into the bell, and oficti n liny gold purse, aud bunch of gold plated keys that are better ear lied by the mistress than by the maid. These chains are Biippwsl to be for use, and arc nee n with tailor-made shop ping cos'turnes. Parisians are carrying, while shop ping, dainty bags of brocaded silk with, gold clasps and ornaments or bags of fancy leather bound with gold or sil ver. This is a coquettish revival of an old fashion and does not necessarily suggest a Miopplng trip by, a subur banite. The small bags of white leath er, with clasp, chain and monogram of gold, are particularly attractive, and the extreme Is a bag ten times larger than a pume, of line gold mesh. Its price is not one of Its attract ion.s, but In I'arls there are always patrons of the expensive fada Introduced by the Jewel er. HI Winning Unit. Mra. Klrtkind-And why do you think, Mr. Dunley, that tho world Is liettcr now and more beautiful than It wa thliiy-flve years ago? Mr. Dunley (who la after her sweet daughter) Becausebecause you wuru not In it then. I'apa Kirtland's objoi-tlons to tho young man have lieeu overridden. Cleveland Leader. Most Ancient Copper Mine. The most ancient copper mines In tho world nre those of the Hinal peninsula, near the Uulf of Kuez. THey were abandoned 3,000 years ago, having been worked for somo hundreds of years. The process used In tho pro duction of the oro ia said to be similar In principle to that ued at the present time. Ton Yocinab Examining officerHow old are foul Recruit Sltttoen. "You are too young." "Well can't yoo put me In th Infantry rTXM Slftlnga. SOAR LIKE A SEIlAPIf. i WHICH IS EVIFT, ASPIRING, RA. DIANT AND BUOYANT. Urv. Iisr. Taluiaure I'reaclira Upon an I l lt.rt theme, but He Make It Ptacl cil uod I .clul-Hir Kuatle of J'in.OiiM - Ii vine Veloc ty. Onr Whiiirton t'lilpit. In 1 1t is discourse Dr. Tuliiiii;e takea a meet esvalii il tliertie and makes it practical and useful to Ihe last degree. The sub-jo'-t in "Wings of Seraphim," and ths bit is Isaiah vi., 2, "Willi twain he con nil his face, and with twain he cov ered his feet, aud with twain he did fly." In a hospital of leprony good King I'zsah hud died, and ihe whole land wus sloiiu'.ved with solemnity, and theological ii nd prophetic Isaiah was thinking about religion things, as one ia apt to do in time of great national bereavement, and. forgetting the presence of his wife ami 1 v, u sons, who made up his family, he has a l ream, uol I ke ihe dreurus of ordinary character, which generally come from in diFestioii. but a vision most instructive and under tlie touch of the hand of the Almighty. Ti e place, the ancient temple: building grand, awful, majel!c. Within that tem ple a throne hicher and grander Ihnn that occupied iiy any czar or sultan or emperor. n that throne th eternal Christ. In brief. nirtinidiii that throne, the brirht cM e( ifiiiM, not the chembiui, but higher than lhy, the most exquisite and radiant of the harnly inhabitants -the aera phim. They are called burners because they look like fire. Lips of fire, eyes of fire, feet of fire. In addition to the f'a-tnri-s and the limbs, which suggest a bu In ii II being, there are pinions, which sug gest the lit heist, the swiftest, the most buoyant and the most aapiring of all ua intellitent creation, a bird. Kach seraph had six wini-s. each two of the winna for a different purpose. Isaiah's dream quiv ers and C,,hea with fhene pinions. Now folded, now apread, now beaten in loco motion. "With twain he covered his feet, with twain he covered his face, and with twain he did fly." Clm-rle1 Crlrrlty. The probability Is that these wings were nol nil used at once. The nrsph standing there m ar the throne, overwhelmed at the insieuiHranc of tlie paths his feet had trodden ns compared w ith the pathe trod den by the feet of (Jod, and with tlie lame ness of his locomotion, amounting almost to decrepitude as compared with the di vine velocity, with feathery veil of an gelic modesty hides the feet. "With twain he did cover the feet." Smtuling there, overpowered by the overmatching splendors of li'M'a glory arid unable longer with the eyes to look upon them and wishing those eyes shaded from the insufferable glory, the pinions Rather over the countenance. "With twain he did cover Ihe face." Then, as (Jod tells this seraph to go to the farthest outposts of immensity on message of lifcht and love end joy and get back before the first an them, it does not lake the seraph a great wtiile to spread himself upon the nir with iiniuisgiaed celerity, one stroke of the wiugeipiiil to BUM) leagues of air. "With t hIii he did fly." The most practical and useful Ic-wm for you mid me when we see the seraph spreading his wings over the feet is the lesson of humility nt Imperfection. The brightest angels of ( Jod are so far beneath liod that he charges them with folly. The seraph so far beneath (Jod, and we so far beneath the seraph in service, we ought to be plunged in humility, utter and com plete. Our feet, how laggard they have been ill the divine servicel Our feet, how many missteps they have taken! Our feet, in how many paths of worldliness and folly they have walked! Neither dod nor seraph intended lo put any dishonor upon that which is one of tlie masterpieces of Almighty liod -tlie human foot. Physiologist and anatomist are overwhelmed nt the wonders of its or ganization. "The Bridgewater Treatise," written by Sir Charles Bell, on the wis dom and goodness of find as illustrated in the human hand, was a result of ihe $10, IKiO htsjuenthei In the Inst will and testa ment of the Karl of Bridgewater for the encouragement of Christian literature. The world could afford to forgive his ec centricities, though he had two dogs neut ed at his table and though he put x dogs alone iu an equipage drawn by four horses and attended by two footmen. With his large bequest inducing Sir Charles Bell to write mo valuable a book ou the wisdom of Cod in the structure of the human hand, the world could afford to forgive his oddities. And the world could now afford to have mini her Marl of Bridgewater, however idiosyncratic, if ho would indue? some other Sir Charles Bell lo write a book on the wisdom and goodness of liod in Ihe construction of the human foot. The articulation of Its hones, the lubrication of iis joints, the gracefulness of its lines, the ingenuity of lis cartilages, the delicacy of its veins, the rapidity of ils muscular con traction .the sensitiveness of ils nerves. ApoNtrophe to the Koot, I sound the praises of the human foot. Willi that we halt or climb or march. It Is Ihe foundation of the physical fabric, il is the base of a !od poised column. With it the warrior braei s himself for bat tle. With it the orator plant himself for eiilogiuin. With it the toiler reaches his work. Willi it the outraged stamps his indignation. Its loss an lirepn ruble dis aster. Its health an invaluable equip ment. If you want to know its value, ask the man whose foot paralysis hath shriv- led, or machinery hath crushed, or sur geon's knife hath amputated. The Bible honors it. Mspecial care, "Lest thou dh thy fool against a stone," "He will tot suffer thy foot lo lie moved, I'hy fuel shall not stumble." lCspccial clmr;e, "Keep thy foot when thou goest to 11)p house of (Sod." Kspeciid peril, "Th lir feet shall slide in due time." Connected with the world's dissolution, "He shall set one foot on Ihe sea and the other the earth." dive me the history of your foot, and I ill give you the history of your lifetiue. Tell me up what steps it hath gone, ihvu what declivities and In what roads sua In w hat direclioiis, and I will know in ire about you than I waot to know. Notu of its could endure the-scrutiny. Our feet not always in pnthf (!od, sometimes in paths of worldliness. Our feet a divine nnd glorious machinery for usefulness and work, so often making missteps, ao often going In (he wrong direction, (lod know ing every step, the patriarch saying, "Thou- set test a print on the heels of my feet." (iritne of the band, crimes of tho tongue, orimes of the eye, crimes of the ear nol um than crimes of the foot. Oh, we want the wings of Imm h.ty to cover the fc-i ! night v.e not to go into self ab- I lo ga-,.,ii l.c!. .re Die all tear.-ioi ml s.-ru-tihiifiiig. all trying rye ,f di. i"; 'J i. r iiphs 'lo. How much more v.eV "With twain he coicred ihe feet." Al! this talk about ihe dii'tiliy of hu man nature is braggadocio and s.n. Our liitture started Hi ihe hand of (lod n c;il. bill it lias been panis-rizcd. There i w ell in Belgium which or,, e had very pure water, and il was stonily iiii.soimiI with . stone sod brick, but that well af'cruard , became the center of the bailie of Water loo. At the opeuing of the battle 1i:e sol diers, with iheir saliers. compelled the gardener, William von K'ysoni. io draw w ater out of the well for them, and il w as very pure water. Hut the battle raged, and "S dead and half dead were thing into the well for quick and easy burial, so that the well of refreshment became the w ell of death, and long after people looked down into the well, and they saw the bleached skulls, but no waler. So the human soul was a well of good, but the nrmie of sin have fought around it and fought across it and been slain, and it has be.-orne a well of skeletons. Dead hope, dead resolutions, dead opportunities, dead ambitions. An abandoned well unless Christ shall reopen and purify and till it as the well of Belgium never was I n dean. nncieuu. Kellc Vandal.. Another sersphie poet lire in the text, "With twain he covered the face." That rnesns reverence (Jodward. Never so much irreverence abroad in the world as to-day. You see it in ihe defaced statu ary, in the cutting out of figures from line paintinr. in the chipping of monuments for a memento, in the fact that military guard must stand at the graves of Lincoln nnd darfield, and that old shade Irees must be cut down for firewood, though fifty deorse I'. Morrises beg the woodmen to spare the tree, and that calls a corpse a cadaver, and that speaks of death as go ing over to the majority and substitutes for the reverend terms father and mother "the old insa" and "the old woman," aud finds nothing Impressive in the rains of Btslbec or tlie columns of Kaniac, and sees no difference In the Sabbath from other (lays except it allows more disipa tion, and reads the Bible in what is called higher criticism, making it not the word of dod, but a good book with some fine things in it. Irreverence never so much abroad. How many take ihe name of disl in vain, how many trivial things said about the Almighty! Not willing to have dod in the world, they roll up an idea of seutimen'.ality and humanitarianism and Impudence and Imbecility and call it dod. No wings of reverence over the face, no taking off of shoes on holy ground. You can tell from the way they talk they could have made a Is-tter world than this, and that the (rod of ihe Bible shocks every sense of propriety. They talk of the love of dod In a way that shows you ihey be lieve it does not make any difference how bad a man is here he will come in at Ihe shining gate. They lalk of the love of (5od iu a way which shown you they think It is a general jail delivery for all the abandoned and the scoundrelly of the uni verse. No punishment hereafter for any wrong done here. The Bible gives two descriptions of dod, and they nre just opposite, and they nre both true. In one place the Bible says dod is love. In another place the Bible snys dod is a consuming lire. The ex planation is plain as plain can be. dod through Christ is love, dod out of Christ Is fire. To win the one and to escape the other we have only to throw ourselves, bisly. mind and soul, into Christ's keeping. "No." says irreverence, "1 want no atone ment ; 1 want no pardon; 1 want no in tervention. I will go up and face dod, and 1 will ask him what he wants to do with me." So the finite confronts the In finite, so a tack hammer tries to break a thunderbolt, so the brent li of human nos trils defies the everlasting dod, while the hierarehs of heaven bow the head and bend the knee as the King's chariot goes by, and the archangel turns away because lie cannot endure the splendor, and the chorus of all the empires of heaven conies in with full diapason, "Holy, holy, holy!" Keverence. Beverence for sham, reverence for the old merely because it is old, reverence for stupidity, however learned, reverence for incapacity, however finely inaugurated, I have none. Rut we want more reverence for dod, more reverence for the sacra ments, more reverence for tlie Bible, more reverence for the pure, more reverence for the good. Keverence a characteristic of all great natures. You hear it in the roll of the master oratorios. You see it in the Baphaels and Titian nnd dhirlandains. You study it in the architecture of the Aholiabs and Christopher Wrens. Do not lie flippant about dod. Do not joke (iIhiiiI death. Do not make fun of the Bible. Do not deride the Mternal. The brightest und mightiest seraph cannot look unabashed upon him. Involuntarily the wings come up. "With twain he covered his face." Who is this dod before whom the arro gant and intractable refuse reverence? There was an engineer of the mime of Strasicrates who was in the employ of Al exander the Orent, and he offered to hew a mountain In the shape of his master, Ihe emperor, the enormous figure to hold in the left hand a city of 10.000 inhabitants, while with the right hand it was to hold a basin large enough to collect all the mountain torrents. Alexander applauded him for his ingenuity, but forbade tlie en terprise because of ils costliness. Yet I have to tell you that our King holds in one hand all the cities of the earth and all the oceans, while he has the stars of heaven for his tiara. Karl lily power goes from hand lo hand, from Henry 1. to Henry II. and Henry III., from Charles I. to Charles II. , from Iouis I. to Louis II. and iouis III., hut from everlasting to everlasting is dod. dod the lirst, dod the lust, dod the .jly. He has one telescope, with w hich he jees everything -hi omniscience. He hai one bridge with which he crosses everything -his omnipresence. He has one hanir.ir. with which he builds everything- his omnipotence. But two tnblespootifu' of water in the palm of your hand, and il u ill overflow, hut Isaiah indicates that ij(id puis the Atlantic nnd the Bacilic ami ti e Arctic aud the Antarctic and the Medit erranean and tlie Black sen and all the waters of the earth in the hollow o his hand. The fingers the beach on one ,bK the wrist the beach on (the other. "I,i holdnth the water in Ihe hollow of Ins hand." A Measure of the llnrth. As you take a pinch of salt or powder between your thumb and two linger, ao Isalnh Indicates (Jod takes up the earth. He measures the dust of the earth, the original there Indicating that dod take all the dust of all the continents between the thumb and two finger. You wrap around your hand a blue ribbon Ave time, ten times. Ton say It I fire handbreadtha, or it i ten hsndhreadth So Indicate the prophet dod winds ihe n'ue nhlou of the sky iii'ound his hand. "lie metei'i out ihe heavens wiih a span." Vou kuow that balances are made o, a le-ar. sus speiidcd iu the Ulhii!!.- with I wo basins at Ihe eitremity ,,f coual licit. I u that way what vast hell Iras been weighed. But what are all the halanc s ,,f earthly ma iiipishilioii compared with ihe balances 1' lit Isiiiiih s;: w susp! ; .led when he saw dod pulling into tin- i- .il. -, the Alps and the Ai.eniiii.es and Mount Washington and the Sierra Nevaoas. You see the earth had to be ballasted. !i would not do to has e too much weight iu llurope, or too much weight in Asia, or too much weight in Africa or in America, so when dod" made the mountains he w eiglied them. Tbo Bible distinctly says so. dod knows the weight of the great ranges that cross the continents, the tons, the pounds avoirdu pois, ihe ounces, the gra ns, the milligrams just how much (hey weighed then, and just how much they wciii now. "liu weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance." Oh. what a dod to run against! Oh, what a dod to disobey! Oh. what a dod to dishonor! Oh. what a dod lo defy! The brightest, i lit- mighti est angel lakes no familiarity with dod. The wings of reverence an lilted. "With twain he I'nii "i : liie face." Another soi;;,,' posture in the text. The i-eraph mi..-; not alui.ys stand still. He must move. : nd it must be without clumsiness, 't here must le celerity and beauty iu the movement. "Willi twain he did fly." Correction, exhilaration. Cor rection at our slow gait, for we only crawl in the service w hen we ought to fly at the divine bidding. Lxhilanition in the fact that the soul has wings, as the seraph have w ings. What is a wing? An instru ment of locomotion. They may not lie likt seraphs' wing, they may not lie like birds' wing, hut the soul has wings, dod say so. "He shall mount up on wings aa eagles." We are made in Ihe divine im age, and dod has wings. The Bible say so. "Healing in his wings." "I'nder the Nhndow of his wings." "I'nder whose wings hast thou come to trust V" Th son!, with folded wing now, wounded wing, broken wing, bleeding wing, eageJ wing. Aye, I have it now ! Caged with in bars of bone and under curtains of flesh, but one day to be free. I hear the rustle of pinions in Seagrave's poem, w hich we sometimes sing: BiBe, my soul, and stretch thy wings. I hear the rustle of pinions iu Alexan der I'ope's stanza, where he says: 1 mount, I fly. O death, where is thy victory? Wine to Heaven. A dying Christian not long ago cried out, "Wings, wings, wings!" The air is full of them, coming and going, coming and going. You have seen how 1he dull, sluggish chrysalis becomes the bright but terflythe dull and the stupid and the lethargic turned into the alert and the beautiful. Well, my friends, in this world we are in the chrysulid stale. Death will unfurl the wings. Oh, if we could only realize what a grand thing it will be to get rid of this old clod of the body ami mount the heavens! Neil her sea gull nor lark nor albatross nor falcon nor condor, pitching from highest range of Andes, ao buoyant or so majestic of stroke. i See that eagle in the mountain nest? It looks so sick, so rugged feathered, so wornoul and so half asleep. Is that eagle dying? No. The ornithologist will tell you it is the molting season with that bird. Not dying, but moiling. You see that Christian sick and weary and worn out and seeming about to expire on what is called his deathbed? The world says lie Is ifying. I say it is the molting season for his soul -the body dropping away, the ce lestial pinions coming on. Not dying, but molting. Molting out of darkness and sin" and struggle into glory nnd into (Jod. Why do you not shout ? Why do you sit shiver ing at the thought of death and trying t.j hold back and wishing you could stay hero forever and speak of departure as though the subject were filled with Ihe skeletons and the varnish of coffins and as though you preferred lame foot to swif t wing? i Oh. people of dod, let us stop playing Ihe fool and prepare for rapturous flight. When your soul stands on Ihe verge ol this life and there are vast precipices be neath and sapphircd domes above, whiclt way will you My? Will you swoop, or will you soar? Will you lly downward, or will you fly upward? Kverylhing on the wing 1his day bidding us aspire. Holy Spirit on the wing. Angel of the ,,.w Covenant on the wing. Time on tlie wing, flying away from us. Klernity on the wing, fly ing toward us. Wings, wings, wings! Live so near to Christ that when you are dead people standing by your lifeless body will not soliloquize, saying: "What a disappointment life was to him; how averse he was to departure; what a pity it was lie had to die; what an awful calam ity." Kalher, standing there, may they see a sign more vivid on your still face than the vestiges of pain, something that will indicate thai il was a happy exit the clearance from oppressive quarantine, the cast-off chrysalid, the molting of the faded and the useless and the uscent from mala rial valleys to bright, shining mountain tops, nnd be led to say. us they stand there contemplating your humility and your reverence iu life and your happiness iu death, "With twain he covered the feet, with twain he covered the face, with twain he did fly." Wings, wings, wingsl Measnre the KennHm. If we fail to measure the results that are hourly wrought ou shingle and on sand, It is not Ix'oause these results are unreal, but liiMiui.se our visum Is too limited In its powers to discern them. When instead of comparing day with day we compare ceulury wiih century, we may often find that In ml luis 1m come sen and sea lias become land. Kven so we perceive, at least iu our neighbors, towards whom Ihe eye N more discerning and Impartial than to wards ourselves, that under the steady pressure and experience of life, human ehariuiers nre continually being deter mined, inodlth (1, altered or un lenn'ned. It is tlie olllco of good Hctise no less than of faith to realize this great truth before we see il, and to live under (ho conviction that our life from day 1o day Is n true, powerful and Hcnrchlng dis cipline, molding and making un wheth er it be for evil or for good. W. E. (llndHtone. People hiccough because of a mus cular contraction of the diaphragm. It Is supposed lo be sympathetic and to arise from an effort of the dia phragm to assist the utomach to get rid of some Indigested or dlsaarMbU matter. ' i
