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INTERNATIONAL PRESS ASSOCIATION CHAPTER I. T !• always a thankless office to give advice In these matters,” said Mrs. Charles Itomalne, discreetly. "Your brother and I have decided not to at tempt to influence you in any way, Constance; not to bias your Judgment in favor of or against Mr. Withers. You, as the one most nearly Interested In the consequences of your acceptance or refusal of his offer, should surely be able to make up your mind how to treat It and him.” “I should be, as you aay,” responded the elster-ln-law. "But I cannot.” She was a handsome woman, In the prime of early mulurlty, whose face seldom wore, In the presence of others, the perturbed expression that now be gloomed It. “That does not affect the fact of your duty,” answered Mrs. Itomalne, with considerable severity. “There are times and circumstances In which vacillation Is folly—criminal weakness. You have known Mr. Withers long enough to form a correct estimate of his charac ter. In means and In reputation he Is all that could be desired, your brother say*. Either you like him well enough to marry him, or you do not. Your sit uation In life will be bettered by an alliance wltb him, or It will not. These are the questions for your considera tion. And excuse me for saying that a woman of your age should not ho at a loss In weighing these.” Again Constance had nothing ready exrent a weak nlirase of reluctant ac quiescence. "I feel the weight of your reasoning, Margaret. You cannot de spise me more than I do myself for my childish hesitancy. Mr. Withers any sensible and honorable man deserves different treatment. If I could see the way clear before me I would walk In It. But, indeed, I am in a sore dilem ma.” She turned away, as her voice shook on the last sentence, and affect ed to be busy with some papers upon a stand. Mrs. Romaine was Just in all her dealings with her husband's sister, and meant, In her way, to he kind. Con stance respected her for her excellent sense, her honesty of purpose and ac tion—but she was the last of her friends whom she would have select ed, of her free will, as the confidante of such Joys and sorrows as shrink from the touch of hard natures—refuse to be confessed to unsympathizing ears. Her heart and eyes were very full now, but she would strangle sooner than drop a tear while those cold, light orbs were upon her. In consideration of the weakness and ridiculous sensitiveness of her compan ion, Mrs. Romaine forbore to speak the disdain she felt at the Irresolution and distress she could rot comprehend. ‘‘Is Mr. Withers personally disagreeable to you?” she demanded, In her strong con tralto voice. “I liked him tolerably well—very well, in fact, until he told me what brought him here so regularly," Con stance stammered. ‘‘Now I am embar rassed in his presence—so uneasy that I wish sometimes I could never see or hear of him again.” “Mere shyness!” said Mrs. Romaine. Such as would be pardonable in a girl of seventeen. In a woman of seven and-twenty It is absurd. Mr. Withers Is highly esteemed by all who know him. Your disrelish of his society is caprice, unless"- the marble gray eyes more searching—"unless you have a prior attachment?" Constance smiled drearily. "I have never been In love in my life, that 1 know of." “You are none the worse for having escaped an infatuation that has wreck ed more women for time and for eter nity than all other dtdusions combined. A rational marriage founded upon mutual esteem and the belief that the social and moral condition of the par ties to the contract would be promot ed thereby—Is the only safe union. Th* young, inexperienced and headstrong, repudiate this principle. The mature In age know U to be true. Hot, as 1 have said. It Is not my Intention to di-1 reel your Judgment. This Is a momen tous era In your life. I can only hope and pray that you may he guided aright In your decision.** I .eft to herself to digest this mursi-l of pious encouragement. Constance drew a low seat to the hearth regis ter, clasped her hands upon her knee*, and tried, fur the hundredth time mat day. ta weigh the facia of her position fairly and impartially Ithe hat been an orphan for eight years, and a resident in the house of Iter elder brother Her senior by mote than a dosen years, and in the sv.tt tag awing wf savcwssful mercantile life he had little hlwie for the study of at* sister'a I sales at. i trails, whrn site Ami became his wai t and conceived the task la be aa own senary em wow that the was ta he a Mure ta his lam Hy. sod appeared ta «•> .»« smoothly with hts wife, la troth, u g»*er o* enrred la him ta lay a diet ohms anger gptm th* ttaieel wheel at the dowat'k machinery IHa respect N h < immse'• gteceute aad admtatWretHe audit «* vrm Mseeded only hr her tee* leu.e ta her awa power*. AM was M»*. irassi Us. had he haaw that she ' has* kora* dawa vaHnly aad *•*«•'**'»* III *!(•«» pi H I#U*H***#* '* ^ orations as minister of the Interior— the ruler of the establishment he, by a much-abused figure of speech, called hla home. A snug and elegant abode ahe made of It, and, beholding Con stance well dressed and well fed, habit ually cheerful and never rebellious, he may be forgiven for not spending a thought upon her for hours together, and when he did remember her, for dwelling the rather upon hla disin terested kindness to a helpless depend ent than speculating upon her possible and unappeased spiritual appetites. For these, and for other whimsies, Mrs. Romalne bad little thought and no charity. Life, with her, was a fabric made up of duties, various and many, but all double-twisted Into hempen strength and woven too closely for a Bhlne of fancy or romance to strike through. She bad coincided rendlly in her hus band's plan to tuke charge of Ills young sister when her parents died. “Her brother’s house is the fittest asylum for her," she had said. “I shall do my best to render her comfortable and con tented.” She kept her word. Constance’s ward robe wag ample and handsome, her room elegantly furnished, and she en tered society under the ehaperonage of her sister-in-law. The servants were trained to respect her; the children to regard her as their elder sister. What more could a penniless orphan require? Mrs. Romalne was not afraid to ask the question of her conscience and of heaven. Her “best" was no empty pro fession. It was lucky for her self-coin I' * *1«_ j uiui nut; i nui'j/ivwcu 11 uub years of barrenness and longing these eight were to her protege. Constance wns not a genius there fore she never breathed even to her self: "I feel like a seed In the cold larth, quickening at heart, and longing for the air.” Her temperament was not melancholic, nor did her taste run after poetry and martyrdom. She was simply a young, pretty and moderately well-educated woman, too sensible not to perceive that her temporal needs were conscientiously supplied, and too affectionate to be satisfied with the meager allowance of nourishment dealt out for her heart and sympathies. While the memory of her father’ll proud affection and her mother’s caresses was fresh upon her she had long and frequent spells of lonely weeping—was wont to resign herself In the seclusion of her chamber to passionate lamenta tions over her orphanage and Isola tion of spirit. Routine was Mrs. Ro ma ine'e watchword, and In bodily ex ercise Constance conformed to her quiet despotism—visited, studied, worked and took recreation by rule. The system wrought upon her benefi cially so far as her physique was con cerned. She grew from a slender, pale girl Into ripe and healthy womanhood; was more comely at twenty-seven than at twenty-one. CHAPTER II. c:-- tTT all this time she was an hungered. She would cheer fully have refund ed to her brother two-thirds of her liberal allowance of pocket money If he had granted to her with its Quarterly v ' ' payment a sentence of fraternal fond ness, n token, verbal or looked, that he remembered whose child she was, and that the same mother love had guard ed their infancy. Her sister-in-law would have been welcome to withhold many of her gifts of wearing apparel and Jewelry had she bethought herself now and then how gratefuiy kisses fail upon young lips, and that youthful heads are often sadly weary for the lack of a friendly shoulder, or a loving bosom, on which to rest. She did not accuse her relatives of willful unkind ness because these were withheld. They Interchanged no such unrcmuneratlve demonstrations among themselves. Husband and wife were courteous in their demeanor, the one to the other; their children were demure models of tltial duty at home and industry at school; the training in both place* be ing severe enough to quench what fee ble glimmer of Individuality may bate been born with the offspring of the methodical and practical parents, t'ou s:ance found them tiiremely uninter <sting, notwithstanding the natural love for children which led her to court their companionship during the earlier seeks »t her domestication In their house. It was neat to a miracle that she did not stiffen la thia atmosphere into a buckrim image of frmlatue pro priety a prodigy of starvh arid virtu# such a* would have brought calm de light to the we'l regulated rntad of h#t rtfwylvf, and effvvttMliy chased all thoughts of iwaiftiMuay from those si masculine b#holder* Had her dtsewa lent with her allotted sphere been lea* active, ihe result would have been cer tain and deptorablev gh« wn*. in* *1 popular among a«r t<qoaiutaa, i* of both aevee, and had tunny friend*, tl few tavern Thia taltar detetency had glvew her wo concerw unlit wiihiw tws yearn At isikii live tk* opened b> i *yen In wide amas# upon the ihtnnini ran ha af her virgin anewcfatten, and he tan a*rtooaiy to ponder the saw*** that had left hot wasowght. save ky Ie* v*n sill* a«d wiierty laeltg hi# strains a bom nvertwrew were, in her etaeem. pro sumption that wan only too rldtawiowi to be Insulting. Her quick wit and knowledge of the world helped her to a solution of the problem. “I am poor and dependent upon my brother’s char ity,” she concluded, with a new and stifling uprising of dissatisfaction with her condition. "Men rarely fall in love with such—more rarely woo them.” She never spoke the thought aloud, but it grew and strengthened until It re ceived a startling blow from Mr. With ers’ proposal of marriage. He was a wealthy banker from a neighboring city, whom business rela tions with Mr. Romalne drew to hie house and Into his sister's company. Ills courtship was all Mrs. Romalne could desire. His visits were not too frequent, and were paid at stated Inter vals, as befitted ills habits of order and punctuality. His manner to the lady honored by his preference was repleto with stately respect that was the an tipodes of servile devotion, while his partiality for her society, and admira tion for her person, were unmistakable. He paid his addresses through Mr. Ro maine as his fair one's guardian, offer ing voluntarily to give his beloved whatever time for deliberation upon the proposal she desired. "you had better think It over for a week,” advised her brother, when he had laid the case duly before Con stance. "It is too serious a matter to be settled out of hand.” After that, neither he nor his wife obtruded their counsel upon her until the afternoon of the seventh day. Then Mrs. Itomalne, going to her sister's chamber to communicate the substance of a telegram Just received by her hus band to the effect that Mr, Withers would call that evening at 8 o'clock, was moved to grave remonstrance by the discovery that she whom he came to woo had no answer prepared for him. Constance was no neanr ready after the conversation before recorded. “I cannot afford to he romantic,” she had reminded herself several times. “And who knows but this Irra tional repugnance may pass away when I have once made up my mind to ac cept him? This may be In ull likeli hood It Is my last chance of achiev ing an Independent position. It has been a long time coming, and my charms will be on the wane soon. True, a marriage with Elnathun Withers Is not the destiny of which I have dream ed, but then dreams are but foolish va garies after all. Life is real and ear nest.’’ (TO MB CONTI VC BO. I A ZOOLOGICAL DIVERSION. An Klepliant Tliut to Vlmr » < I*T*r ITU k on VUItora. The elephant at the Jardin des Plantes, at Paris, used to play his vis itors a trick, which could not have been thought of but by an animal of much Intelligence. Hia house opened upon an Inclosure called the Elephant's park, containing a pond, in which he would lay himself under the water, concealing every part of him except the very end of his trunk—a mere speck that would hardly bo noticed by a stranger to the animal’s habits. A crowd would assemble around the inclosure, and, not seeing him In It, would watch In expectation that he would soon Issue from the house. But. while they were gazing about, a co pious sprinkling of water would fall upon them, and ladles and gentlemen, with their fine bonnets and coats, would run for shelter under the trees, looking up at tue clear sky and wonder ing whence such a shower could come. Immediately afterward, however, they would see the elephant rising from his bath, evincing, as It seemed, an awkward joy at the trick that he had played. In the course of time his amusement became generally known, and the moment the water began to rise from his trunk the spectators would take flight, at which he appeared exceedingly uengniea, getting up ns fast as he could to see the bustle be had caused.—Pittsburg Dispatch. USES OF ICE WATER. In ll#4lth It Khoaltl Not It* 1'irtl for Drinking l*urj»t»•#*». In health no one ought to drink Ice water, for it has occasioned fatal lu Pamnialion of the stomach and bow els, and sometimes sudden death. The temptation to drink It Is very great In the summer. To use It at all with safety the person should lake but a Mingle swallow at the time, take the i glass from the lips for half a minute, ■ ami then another swallow, and so on. | It will be found that In this way It be - cornea disagreeable after a few month ’ ful*. On the other hand, tee Itself may be taken as freely a» possible, not only without Injury, hut with the moat strlk ; Ing advantage In dangerous forms of | disease If broken In sties of a png or bean and swallowid us lm ty as pra - i tleahle, without much chewing or crunching between the teeth. It will of'rn be rtit, lent In chreklUg V crloos kinds of d arrhea. ami has cured vio lent canes of Asiatic cholera .A kind of cushion of powdered Ice kept la the enure scalp has allayed violent inP Me ntation of the brain, and arrested fear ful convulsions Induced b> let atu H blood there In croup, water as odd as Ice can make it, applied freely In the throat, neck and chest with a vssayc or clo'h very often aflord* an a*nto*t miraculous relief, and If tkU bn fat lowed by drinking cop ouvly of I hit same Ice-cold ckweat. Ike welted pat's wiped dry. and the child wrapp | up well In the bed dethea. It falls Into a delightful sal Itf giving •lumber,-* j New Vork l ed* r. •V-iCi **i#*a I c«tMi«« In Case,la no campaign kilt g • rib i bens ar badges can be wem between non,iK,tton sad polling da> The carvt lag of flags a* a party bade* ta also fur 1 j bidden Tke penalty Is a flne sf |l« nr three months in pu*m nr lock. - i j basso•> journal NNNa«OCM6£ | DR. TALMABE’S SERMON. | Washington, D. C., Nov. I, 1896.— Clear out of the ordinary style of ser monlilng Is this remarkable dtaeourse of Dr. Talmage. Hla teat la: Rom. 9: 8: “i cSSld wlah that myaelf were ac cursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the fleah.” A tough passage. Indeed, for those who taka Paul literally. When some of the old theologians declared that they wars willing to be damned for the glory of God, they said wbat no one believed. Paul did not In the teat mean ha was willing to die forever to aave hla relatives. He used hyperbole, and when ha declared, "I could wlah that myaelf were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,” he meant In the most vehe ment of all possible ways to declare hla anxiety for the salvation of his relatives and friends. It was a pas sion for souls. Not more than one Christian out of thousands of Chris tians feels It. All-absorbing desire far the bettermen of the physical and men tal condition Is very common. It would take more of a mathematician than I ever can be to calculate how many are, up to an anxiety that some times will not let them sleep nights, planning for the efficiency of hospitals where the sick and wounded of body ar© treated, and for eye and i ear infirmaries, and for dispensaries ( and retreats where the poorest may j have moat skilful surgery and help ful treatment. Oh, ft is beautiful and i glorious, this widespread find ever- | Intensifying movement to alleviate and cure physical misfortunes! May God encourage and help the thousands of I splendid men and women engaged In that work. Hut ail that Is outside of i my subject to-day. In behalf of the Immortality of a man, the Inner eye, | Innir par thp InriPr ran.iritv for gladness or distress, how few feel any thing like the overwhelming concen tration expressed In my text, Hnrer than four-leaved clovers, rarer than century plants, rarer than prlma don na*, have been those of whom It may be said: "They had a passion for souls." You could count on the fin gers and thumb of your left hand all the names of tho»o you can recall, who in the last, the eighteenth century, were so characterized. All the names ‘ of those you could recall in our time ! as having this passion for souls you can count on the fingers and thumbs of your right and left hands. There j are many more such consecrated souls, j but they are scattered so widely you do not know them. Thoroughly f'hrls tian people by the hundreds of millions there are to-day, hut how few people do you know who are utterly oblivious to everything In this world except the redemption of souls? Paul had It when he wrote my text, and the time will come when the majority of Christians will have it, if this world is ever to be lifted out of the slough in which It ha* been sinking and floundering for near nineteen centuries. And tb* better ment bad better begin with myself and yourself. When a committee of the "Society of Friends" called upon a member to reprimand him for breaking some small rule of the society, the member replied, "I bad a dream In which all the Friends had assembled to plan some way to have our meeting house cleaned, for It was very filthy. Many propositions were made, but no conclusion was reached until one of the members rose and said: ‘Friends, I think if each one would take a broom and sweep Immediately around his own seat, the meeting-house would be elean.’ ” So let the work of spiritual Improvement begin around our own soul. Some one whispers up from the right-hand side of the pulpit and says: “Will you plcaBe name some of the per sons in our times who have this pas siou lur Hums: wu.uo: i nai would be Invidious and Imprudent, and the mere mentioning of the names of such persons might cause In them spiritual pride, and then the Lord would have no more use for them. Home one whis pers up from the left-hand side of the pulpit: “Will you not then mention among the people of the past some who had this passion for ttouls?" Oh, yes! Samuel Kutherford, the Scotchman of three hundred years ago, his Imprison ment at Aberdeen for his religious aval and the public burning of his hook, "Lw Keg.” In Kdlnboro, and his unjust arraignment for high treason, and oth tr persecutions purifying und sancti fying him, so that his works, entitled “Trial and Triumph of Faith'* aud "Chri.it Dying and Drawing Sinners to Himself," and. above all, his two bun* tred and tlftreii unparalleled letters, .bowed that he had the piunlon for Mills. Milliard llaa'cr, whose para phrase of the New Testament ' eaused him to be dragged before Lord Jeffries, who howled at hint as “a rascal" and sun sling |*n abytrrtsn." and Impris on* I hint for two yntw lit tier, writ I mg one hundred and slsiy-elght roll* gtcNia books, his “Call to the t neon I terled ‘ bringing uncounted thuosaud* ! mtu the pardon af the ti-rapet, and his •rtamta Kv«rlv»'taa Heal" o,cuius teiten to a h.» Utnn e ,aM*. Hi. h lid Well Thomas a K’->eps, wrtHbg kts “lint 'i <1 of < >'|s( * fur all a*< i, , Harlan fan*. Uoo»rt M X'be*ne, Net tletua, ITaa»> And w»re wh-m I miaht at -tilieu, the dUfsetw tc as ef whine It tee was an soul >»*itug paw Mao l.«r «<aU % It Furl, the lUpitd taugeUM, h» I I I t* to.ktp the Mrilu-.int net *«dt*t had it, Jar-.a ; Knapp had It, I r Ha has, pr««t t«u. * .4 Mamtltoa v*v»lhge, had It, and when ) isM h* hit en t half an hour is Itwe, •aid, “la that *a* thru take at'* nut 4 at* b*d at l plot »* Uj t ai t»*.l aa I Id M e> »d that lima ,u alllsf »u tied t»r the Miidos »f the war Id ‘ A ad to he dwd up it at# lt«w 1 ’i.| tf>- to been uth r* 1 ahuwe aamsa bare i #« l«>t*s ee'i In their own family or neighborhood, and here ami there you think of one. What unction they had In prayer! What power they had In exhortation! If they walked Into a home every mem ber of It felt a holy thrill, and if they walked Into a prayer- meeting the dull ness and stolidity Instantly vanished. One of them would wake up a whole church. One of them would sometimes, electrify a whole city. But the most wonderful one of that characterisation the world ever saw or heard or felt was a peasant In the far east, wearing a plain blouse like an In verted wheat sack, with three open ings. one for the neck, and the other two for the arms. HI* father a wheel wright and house-builder, and given to various carpentry. Ills mother at flrat under suspicion because of the circum stances of his nativity, and he chased by a Herodlc mania out of hta native land, to live awhile under the shadows of the sphinx and Pyramid of Olseh, afterward confounding the LL.D.’g of Jerusalem, then stopping the parox y«m of tempest and of madman. His path strown with slain dropsies and catalepsies and ophthalmias, transfig ured on one mountain, preaching on another mountain, dying on another mountain, and ascending from another mountain the greatest, the loveliest, the mightiest, the kindest, the most self-sacrificing, most Iwautlful being whose feet ever touched (lie earth, Tell us, ye deserts who heard our Savior's prayer; tell us, ye sea* that drenched him with your surf; tell us, ye multi tude* who heard him preach on deck, on bench, on hillside; I el I us, Golgotha who heard the stroke of the hammer on the spikeheads, and the dying groan In that midnight that dropped on mid noon, did anyone like Jesus have this passion for souls? A stranger desired to purchase a farm, but the owner would not sell It would only let it. The stranger hired It by lease for only one crop, but he sowed acorns, and to mature that crop throe hundred years were necessary. That was a practical deception, hut 1 deceive you not when 1 tell you that tho <rop of the soul tubes hold of unend ing ages, I see the author of my test seated In the house of Galus, who entertained him at Corinth, not far from the over hanging fortress of Acro-Cortnthus, and meditating on the longevity of the soul, and getting more and more agi tated about Its value and the awful risk come of his kindred v/ore running con cerning It, and he writes this letter containing the text, which Chryso stom admVed so much he had It read to him twice a week, and among other things he says those daring and ufart llng words of my text: “1 could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, accord ing to the llesh.” Now, tho object of this sermon Is to stir at least one-fourth of you to an ambition for that which my test presents In blazing vocabulary, namely, a passion for souls. To prove that it Is possible to have much of that spir it, I bring the consecration of 2,990 for eign missionaries. It is usually esti mated that there are at least 3,000 mis sionaries. I make a liberal allowance, and admit there may be ten bad mis sionaries out of tbe 3,000, but I do not believe there Is one. All English and American merchants leave Bombay, Calcutta, Amoy, and Pekin as soon as they make their fortunes. Why? Be cause no European or American In his aenses would stay In that climate af ter monetary inducements have ceased. Now, the missionaries there are put down on the barest necessities, and most of them do not lay up one dollar In twenty years. Why, then, do they stay In those lands of intolerable heat, and cobras, and raging fevers, the ther mometer sometimes playing at 130 and 140 degrees of oppressiveness, twelve thousand miles from home, because of the unhealthy climate und the prevail mg immoromicn ui uiujh rf-giona com pelled to send their children to Eng land, or Scotland, or America, prob ably never to see them again? O, lIlesHed Christ! Can It bo anything but a passion for souls? It Is easy to understand all this frequent deprecia tion of foreign missionaries when you kuow that they are all opposed to the opium traffic, and that Interferes with commerce; uud then the missionaries are moral, and that is an offense to many of the merchants not all of them, but many of them who, ahseui from alt home restraint, are so Im moral that we can make only faint al lusion to (he monstrosity of their abominations, Ob. I would like to be si the gate of beaten when those mission arles go |u. to see huw they will have the pick of coronets, and thrones, and mansions on the best streets of heaven We who have had easy pulpits and loving congregations, enuring heaven, will, lu my opinion, have lo lake out turn and wait for the Christian work era who, ant'd physical su(f<rtrg» and mental privation and environment at squalor, have done (heir work, and on < the principle that In proportion as ant has been self-sacrtll lag and euflrrtng far Christ's sake on earth will be thelt celestial preferment M ha Is Ihttl yawn* > <u on lb« worst street In Washington S» w l >?k t r I*-ados II hie la Hand sad a little )>*t Wage IS wbl-’h aw SOI-.11 t its of So divines. sad tie h* r bundle la wh V t gw I ’ ells' How dare site rt* h< r «elf ••iotas these "rousha." and srtts Is idle galas ' She bt use et the q-l <RI el Proven hunting up Ih* el* sad hungry, and bed,-re sight she wilt hate wad Christ * ' let get year h tit pa i,uot.!ot is right nr tea places and t 0111*4 ant low th. *a twls the r ght SnSMgf el |rv;a t«i esse path, eat giv* i rn f «l la a IsmCy that w»utd e*h*r t « have had neihtng ta *at telly ; tad taken the M>«tft» 11 a >1 »I »hid (hat ah* may piepa<e fi t it a shroud t «r itfty a< i at kmdaesr ini th<- Pt ty ————mmmmm hm_i| accompanied with a benediction for tLi soul. You see nothing but th# filth} street along which abe walk# and thi rickety atalra up which aha climb#, bn she la accompanied by ** unseen cohort of angel# wltl drawn aworda to dafand her and with garlands twisted foi her vlctorlea, ell np end dowi the tenement-houa# dlstrlot*. I you there waa not a® much exeUamaa' whan Anne Roleyn, on har way to hot coronation, found the Thame* atlrred by fifty glided bargee, with brilliant flaga, In which bung small ball#, real by each motion of the wind, notional ■tending In scarlet, end wharf spread with cloth of gold, and all the getewayi surmounted by buxzablng admlrar* and th* atresia hung with crlmaon vel vet, and trumpet* and cannon* Bound ing the Jubilee, and Anne, dreaaed la surreal of silver tissue, end brow, gleaming with a circlet of ruble*, and amid fountains that pored Rhenish wine, paused on to Westminster Hall, and rode In on a caprlaoned palfry, ltd hoof* clattering the classic floor, and, dismounting, passed Into Westmlnstei Abbey, and between the choir and high altar, was crowned queen, amid organ! and choirs chanting tho Te Deums— I say, there was not much In all thal glory which dazzles the eyes of his tory when It la compared with tb* heavenly reception which that minis tering spirit of the back alley shall re* calve when ahe goes up to coronation, In this world Ood never docs hid beat. Ho can hang on the horizon grander mornings than have ever yet been kindled, and rainbow the sky with richer colors than have ever bean arched, and attune the ocean* to mora majestic doxologle* than have ever yet been attuned; but as near as I can tall, and I apeak It reverently, heaven la the place where (Jod bus done hi* beat / He can build no greater Joys, lift no mightier splendors, roll no loftier an them*, maren no more impoem* cessions, build no greater palaces, and spread out ami interjoin and wave no more transporting magnificence. I think heaven Is the best heaven God can construct, and It Is all yours for the serious asking. How do you llkt the offer? Do you really think It Is worth accepting? If so, pray for it. (Jet not up from that p'W where you are sitting, nor move one Inch from where you are standing, before you get a full tills for It, written In the blood of the 8o» of Qod, who would have all men corns to life present and life everlasting. It you have been in military life you know what soldiers rail the "long roll." All the drums beat It because the ene my Is approaching, and all the troops must Immediately get Into line. What scurrying around the camp and putting of the arms through t’ c straps of the knapsack, and saying "Good-bye" to comrades you may never meet again I Home of you Germans or Frenchmen may have heard that long roll Just be fore Sedan. Home of you Italians may have heard that long roll Just bsfors Bergamo. Home of you Northern and Southern men may have heard It Just before the Battle of the Wilderness. - You know lts stirring and solemn meaning; and so I sound the long roll today. I beat this old Gospel drum that has for centuries been (tailing thousands to take their places In llns for this battle, on one side of which are all the forces beatific and on the other side all the forces demoniac. Her* the long roll-call: “Who Is on the Lord's side?" "Quit yourselves like men.” In solemn column march for God, and happiness, and heaven. So glad am I that I do not have to "wish myself accursed," and throw away my heaven that you may win your heaven, but that we may have a whole conven tion of heavens heaven added to heav en, heaven built on heaven—and while I dwell upon the theme I bei^in to expe rience In my own poor self that which I take to be something like a passion for souls. And now unto God the only wise, the only good, the only great, be glory forever! Amen! r LASHES OF FUN. He My life without you will he a lonely one. The Heiress- Hut think huw biiay you will have to do -Lite. He Have you any reason for doubt ing what I say? -She Yea, 1 have. He —What la It? She—I don't believe you. - Puck. Tourist (presenting his opened Haed eker to the coachman) Here, driver, I want to see the first four pages.-- File- X gende lllaetter. "It's all over." As the woman ut tered these words she dropped to (ha floor. 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