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The sound or Ills reel upon mu ■ way began the business of the day; for the vlllaae was si III sound asleep. Thu church lower looked very airy In tho sunlight; a few birds that turned about it seemed to swtm In an atmosphere of more than usual rarity: and the Hoc tor. walking In long transparent, shadows, filled his lungs amply, and proclaimed himself well contented with the morning. On one of the posts before Tentall lon's carriage entry be espied a little 1 dark figure perched III a meditative ; attitude and Immediately recognized Jean-Marie. "Aha!" he said, slopping before him humorously, with a hand on either knee. "Ho we rise early In the morn ing do we? It appears to me that we have all the vices of a philosopher." The boy got to his feet and made a grave salutation. "And how Is our patient?" asked Desprez. V I* appeared the patient was about the same. “And why do you rise early In the morning?” he pursued. Jean-Marie, afier a lung silence, pro fessed that he hardly knew, "You hardly know?" repealed Des prez. "We hardly know anything, my man, until we try to learn. Interro gate your conscience. Come, push me this Inquiry home. Do you like It?" "Yes,” said the boy, slowly; "yes, I like It." "And why do you like It?" continued the Doctor. "(We are now pursuing the Hoeratlc method.) Why do you like It?" 1,1. . .... 4 I . — \M .4 4.1 4. . ik in * I • 11 »* i, Hiinnri' <i ( “and I have nothing to d»; and then I . feel as If I were good,” Doctor Desprcz took a seat on the post at the opposite side, lie was be ginning to take an interest In the talk, for the boy plainly thought before be spoke, and tried to answer truly. "It appears you have a taste for feeling good,” said the Doctor. "Now, there you puzzle me extremely; for I thought you said you were a thief; und the two are incompatible.” "Is It very bud to steal?" asked Jean Marie, “Such Is the general opinion, llttlo boy,” replied the Doctor, "No; hut I mean as I stole," ex claimed the other. "For I had no choice. I think It Is surely right to have bread; it muat he right to have broad, there comes so plain a want of It. And then they heat me cruelly if I returned with nothing.” he added. ”1 was not Ignorant of right and wrong; for before that I had been well taught by a priest, who was very kind to me.” (The Doetor made a horrible grimace at the word "priest.”! “But It seemed to me, when one had nothing to eat and was beaten, It was a different af fair. I would not have stolen for tart lets, I believe; but any one would steal for baker's b-ead." “And so I suppose,” said the Doctor, with a rising sneer, "you prayed God to forgive you, and explained the case to Him at length.” ‘‘Why, sir?” asked Jean-Marie. "I do not see.” "Your priest would see, however,” retorted Desprez. "Would he?" asked the hoy, troubled for the first time, "I should have thought God would have known." "Eli?" snarled the Doctor. "1 should have thought God would have understood me," replied the Other. "You do not, I see but tlieti It was God that made me think so, was it not?” “l.lttle boy, little boy,” said Doctor Desprez, “1 told you already you hud the vices of philosophy; If you display the virtues also, I must go. I am a student of the blessed laws of health, an observer of plain und temperate nu Illlt* ill nci k illinium niiii, ttim i i uii nut preserve my t*(|uunliulty In prea* ••lice of a mourner. Do you under* aland?" "No, air," aald the hoy. "I wilt make my meaning dear to you," replied the Ike'tor. "Look here al the ak> behind (he lielfry Aral, where It la ao light, and then up and up; turntug your ehln tun k right to the top of the dome, where It la al ready aa blue aa at noon la not that a beautiful color? Ihiea It n*>l pu-a>« the heart? NVe have aeeu It all our llyea, uutll It haa grown la with out familiar thoughts. Now," changing hi* tune, "suppose Ikal aky to be* outs aud •It lily of a live and Aery amber, like ih* color of clear c*-ala, and growing scar let towari the lop I <fu not any II • auk! he any the lean beautiful, bui would you like It aa well?" "I suppose nut, 1 ansaen-*| dean !Urh "Neither do I l‘ke yud." irtWawl ih< Ika-tuf, roughly I bate all odd pe • pie, a-d you ate 'he Most oniuita t|H|< buy in all the world J*«n Marie *e* m> d t» ponder f*w a while and then he raised hi* to * again and t imbed mri al the Ituyto with at air of * *hdul ingulf y Hu are tod you a tr*r» curiuu* a»i ti* m*w?' h- aak*d fh# |aa,tor threw away hi* tilth hw*tnda I «n the hut, «leaped him U hie hoawm. m»4 a *aed Mm <m hell •heeba "Admiral* t* •dmirahta imp*' la ertnd Wha a momma what an h**»« far 4 th* *ri»* t forty *tw«* No, h tufMIntfed, *p tttwphhnog hea**n lot not lie* that at I hoy• atiated. iimi timim' ii iji in^ riu « • til*" ii”" ■ • » Im like,'' he added, p11 king Up tils slick, "like ii lovers’ meeting. I have bruised my favorite stuff In that mo ment of enthusiasm. The Injury, how ever, Is not grave," lie caught the boy looking al him In obvious wonder embarrassment, and alarm. "Hello!" said he, "why do you look at me like that? Kgud, I believe Hie boy de spises rue. |>o you despise me, hoy?" "O. iin," replied Joan Marie, serious ly; "only I do not nndersiuud," "Vnu must excuse me, sir," returned the I Victor, with gravity; ”1 am still so >oting. 0, Icing him!" he added to himself. And lie took his soul again and observed the boy sardonically. "He bus spoiled the quiet of my morn ing," thought he "I shall be nervous all day, and have a febrlcule when I digest, l,ci me compose myself ” And ho he dismissed Ills preoccupations by an effort of the will which he had long practiced, and let his soul roam abroad in the contemplation of the morning He inhaled the ulr, tasting It critically as a connoisseur tustes a vintage, and prolonging .he expiration wlftt hy gienic gusto. Ilf counted the little flecks or cloud along the sky. lie fol lowed the movements of the birds round the church tower making long sweeps, hanging poised, or turning airy somersaults In fancy, and heating the wind with Imaginary pinions. And In this way he regained peace of mind and animal composure, conscious of his limbs, conscious uf the s'ghl of Ills eyes, conscious lhal the air had a cool taste, like a fruit, at the top of Ills throat, and ut Iasi, In complete ab straction, he began to sing. The (Vic tor had but one air -"Malbroilck sen va-t-en guerre;" even with that he was on terms of mere politeness; and his musical exploits were always reserved for moments when ho was alone and entirely happy. He was recalled to earth rudely hy a pained expression on the boy's face, ’’What do you think of my singing?" lie Inquired, slopping In the middle of a note; and then, after lie hud waited some little while and received no an swer, “What do you think of my Hing ing?" he repeated, Imperiously, "l do not. like It,” faltered Jean 14 «el<. "Oh, come!" cried the Doctor. "Pos sibly you are a performer yourself?” ■'1 sing better than that," replied the boy. The Doctor eyed him for some seconds In stupefaction. He wait aware that he was angry, and blushed for himself In consequence, which made him angrier. “If this is how you ad dress your master!” he said at last, with a shrug and a flourish of his arms. "1 do not speak to him at all,” re turned the hoy. "I do not like him." ■'Then you like me?” snapped Doctor Desprez, with unusual eagerness. "I do not know," answered Jean Marle. The Doctor rose. "I shall wish you a good-morning," he said. "You are too much for me. Perhaps you have blood In your veins, perhaps celestial Ichor, or, perhaps you circulate noth ing more gross than respirable air; hut <jf one thing I am Inexpugnahly assured that you are no human being. No. hoy" shaking his stick at hint -"you a.e not a human being. Write, write It in your memory 1 am not a human being I have no pre tension to he u human being I am a dive, a dream, an angel, an acrostic, an illusion what you please, Imt uo; a human being ' And so accept my humble salutations and farewell!" And with that the Doctor made off along the struct In some emotion; and the hoy stood, mentally gaping, where | he left him. CIIAPTKlt 111 Ml ADAMK DKSPKKZ ,,, . 111 i.-M itiii uaiiit* of Ana»tnale, prt* *• lilt'd an aatf alilf l.vpf of Ilf I in. ek • •ftllugljr aluil* MIN i* lo look tipoll a atom brunt- with iopl.HHiiaith throb a »t«.dv, dark ur» { and bauda ibai neither art nor uatute « old iioptoti She aaa the aort of par non ot r r ahoni nlirraltt poaaee Uke a alllumer > load »hr might, lb the aural of inijw I urea, bull bet bfoaa Into one trim* furrow for a moment, but the neat i I would be g«ne nbe bad mu<h of tht ptia. idio of a toitentad nun wtib tit tie uf ber plet| b-<uevtr for tkat l laale aaa «* a »*i> mundane nature fotid of ot alula and old wine an> •omen ha bold ntvaaaatrtaa, and d* laitii tu bei bu<ban ) fut ber »wn tab ret bet than for hla. Mba aaa impel lu’ habit good h*toted but bad bo id# I' nf aalf Mirlhv To live in that pbat ant old bout# at b a gr>*n g-t lea be j nlnd ah I blight fkua fo about t be a in b>» M> *at tnd drtnb of the touri t got alp a lib a motgbhiat let a paatir j n| in bum n* t*i in n*ii mu *±? , dreaa nirpl a ban the Went lo fun i lainehtauu rkuppill in bo trpt to oHtUkutl a>|ppH t>f tk' * hokelr. ip i to tar matlbrd g the 'or Ihtgrag an I bate ho ground uf Jaabgwa I gil«d *b I ( gug of bar hatura to th* brim Thau I a bo bad known tb* luti«r in tu* belt | data rbn M had a trad gul*> *» man theories, but of a different order, at tributed his present philosophy to tho study of Anustasie. It was her brute enjoyment that he rationalized and per haps vainly imitated. Madams Desprez was an artist in the kitchen, am) made coffee to a nicety. She had a knack of Udlness. with which ^he had Infected the Doctor; every - inlng was !n 'its place; everything capable of polish shone gloriously; and dust was a thing banished from her empire Aline, their single servsnt. had no other business In the world hut to scour and burnish. So Doctor Des I pn z lived In his house like a fatted calf, | warmed and cosseted to his heart's Pf;enf. The midday meal was excellent. | There was a ripe melon, a tlsh from the rlv<*r In a memorable Hearnalae sauce, a fat fowl In a fricassee, and a dish of asparagus, followed by some fruit. The Doctor drank half a bottle plus one glass, I he wife half a bottle minus the same quantity, which was a marital privilege, of ari excellent Oote-Rnile, seven years old. Then tho coffee was brought, and a Mask of Chartreuse for madlime, for the Doctor despised and distrusted such decoctions; and then Aline left ilie wedded pair lo the plcu.i iiics of memory and dlgesiIon "It Is a very fortunate circumstance, rny cherlsbc I one," observed the Doc tor "tills coffee Is adorable a very fortunate circumstance upon th>< whole Xliusfasle. I beseech you, go without that poison for to-day: only one day, and you will feel the benefit, I pledge my reputation." "What Is this fortunate circumstance, my friend?" Inquired Auastnsle, not heeding his protest, which was of dally u , tirmd e. "That we have no children, my beautiful," replied the Doctor. "I think of It more and more us the years go on, aid with more and more grati tude toward the Power that dispenses such afflictions. Your health, my dar ling. my studious quiet, our little kl.Th en delicacies, how- they would ull have suffered, how they would all have been sacrificed! And for what? Children arc the last word of human Imperfec tion. Health llees before their face. They cry, my dear; they put vexatious questions; they demand to be fed, to be washed, to be educated, to have their noses blown; and then, when the time comes, they break our hearts, us I break this piece of sugar, A pair of professed egoists, like you and me. i._I -I ...... i.l ..IT.. III/. new in M.l.it Ity." "Indeed!" m.iDl she; and she laughed. "Now, that 1h like you to take credit for the thing you could not help." "My dear,” returned the Doctor, solemnly, "we might have adopted," "Never!" cried madume. "Never, Doctor, with my consent. If the child were my own flesh and blood, I would not say no. But to take another per son's Indiscretion on my shoulders, nty dear friend, I have too much sense." "Precisely," replied the Doctor. "VV« both had. And I am all the better pleased with our wisdom, because be cause He looked at her sharply. "Because what?" she asked, with a faint premonition of danger. "Because I have found the right per son," said the Doctor (Irmly, "and shall adopt him this afternoon.” Anastasle looked at him out of a mist, "You have lost your reason,” she said; and there was a clang in her voice that seemed to threaten trouble. "Not so, my dear," he replied; "I re tain Its complete exercise. . To the proof; Instead of attempting to cloak my Inconsistency, 1 have, by way of preparing you, thrown it Into strong relief. You will there. I think, recog nize the philosopher who has the ec stacy to call you wife. The fact is, i have been reckoning all this while without an accident. I never thought to And a son of my own. Now. last night, 1 found one. Do not unneces sarily alarm ourself, my dear; he is not a drop of blood to me that I know. It Is his mini, darling, his mind that calls me fathe-." "Ills mind!" she repeated, with & twitter between scorn and hysterics. Ills mind. Indeed! Henri is this an idiotic pleasantry, or are you mad? His mind! And what of my mind?" ■to ns mvruuiu i A sjsk-ui. The young postmaster of a village was hard at work in his office when a gentle tap wus heard upon the door and In stepped a Mushing maiden of 16, with h money order which she wished leashed. She handed It. with a bash ful smile, to the official, who, after I timely examining It, gave her the money It called for At the same time k. I k. iff _ k... uh. ■ — written (Mi itn murKtn nf (he order. No I have m»t." eh* rrglM "for t i annul Mink* it out Will you i>i*ae* iraii t» for m**‘ III* young 1*0*1 tuueter lend ae fol (owe I »*ml you Ida and a toeeb klaaea ’ tllatn in* at the tbuhfut girl he Mill Now I hate paid tuu lh* money and I *uppoe* you want the klaaea' ’ Yea," ehe Mild If h» haa eent 1 any htaaea I want th*m l«u It ta hardlt neieaaary H* aat that the hatnnoa of the nrdet »« grout glty paid 1 ; and in a *• leutih. manner I Hi ten* hlhd hotm the delighted l plat.lew K-Warhed tai h*f mother \|..(h*i, Ih*» paielkt mirn of 1 iwn ta a great thing drteloging more and tame every yeat and «a> fc hear (eatttle mgi to he the heat timtny eent toe a doaen hleeee along with the * ' won* * o«dvi and the guetmnatee gat* f 1 me twenty It hmt« the age. ygl de * ||te y *» <•»•» ell h*>tt *n fid title * I' i I Via* > i V|.a ttadatm i »% hat to th* neni 1 * at l he analog ink today my 'tent* * til* ttolhego dm It it tdma haa * * a»« took amt Mr* Heatnam ha* tm * *atna ote> «h« go' »»n 4ayg agth“« » t b ade' Hit V‘t'h \ merl« at. TALMAGE’S SERMON. “HEALTH OF THE BODY" LAST SUNDAY'S SUBJECT. From l he Text: "Till a Dart strike Through tile Liter" Fruterlia t 11*13 Tlio tio>|>el of Parity In Hoily mu«I In Soul, OI/OMON'8 anato mical ami physio* logical discoveries ^ i were so tery great J that he was nearly " ^ 'thru e thousand years ahead of the scientists of his day. He. more than one thousand .« .. years before Christ, j seemed to kr.ow about the eltculatlon of the blood, which Harvey dbcovered sixteen httn- ; dred und nineteen years after Christ, for when Solomon. In Ecclesiastes, describing the human body, speaks of the pitcher at the fountain, he evl dently means the three canals leading from tile heart that receive the blood j like pitchers. When lie speaks in Ec clesiastes of the silver cord of life, he evidently means the spina! marrow, about which. In our day, Doctors Mayo anil Carpenter and Dalton and Flint and Brown-Sequard have experiment ed. And Solomon recorded In the Millie, thousands of years before sci entists discovered It, that In Ills time the spinal cord relaxed In old age. producing I he tremors of hand and head: "Or the silver cord be loosed.” In the text he reveals the fact that he had studied thut largest gland of the human system, the liver, not by the electric light of the modern dissecting room, hut by the dim light of a com paratively dark age, and yet had seen : its Important functions In the God bullt castle of the human body, its se lecting and secreting power. Its curi ous cells, its elongated branching tubes, a Divine workmanship In cen tral and right and left lobe, and the hepatic artery through which flow the crimson tides. Oh, this vital organ Is like the eye of (!od In that It never sleeps. Solomon knew of it, and had noticed either In vivisection or post-mortem what awful attacks sin and dissipation make upon It. until the flat of Al mighty Cod bids the body and soul separate, one It commends to the grave, and the other it sends to judgment. A javelin of retribution, not glancing off or making a slight ! wmiiiu, uui H iruiii »»uc side "till a dart strike through his liver." Galen and Hippocrates ascribe to the liver the most of the world's moral depression, and me word mel ancholy means black bile. 1 preach to you the Gospel of Health, j In taking a diagnosis of diseases of the j soul you must also take a diagnosis of j diseases of the body. As if to recog nize this, one whole hook of the New Testament was written by a physician. Luke was a medical doctor, and he discourses much of the physical con ditions, and he tells of the good Sa maritan's medication of the wounds by pouring in oil and wine, and recog nizes hunger as a hindrance to hear ing the Gospel, so that the live thou sand were fed; he also records the j sparse diet of the prodigal away from home, and ihe extinguished eyesight of the beggar by the wayside, and lets us know of the hemorrhage of the | wounds of the dying Christ and the j miraculous post-mortem resuscitation. Any estimate of the spiritual condi- j tion that does not Include also the physical condition is incomplete.* When the doorkeeper of congress fell dead from excessive joy because ’Burgoyne had surrendered at Saratoga, and Philip the Fifth of Spain dropped dead at the news of his country's de feat in battle, and Cardinal Wolse.v faded away as the result of Henry the Kighth's anathema, it was demonstrat ed that the body and soul are Siamese twins, and when you thrill the one with Joy or sorrow yon thrill the oth er. We may as well recognize the tre mendous fact that there are two mighty fortresses in the human body, the heart and the liver; the heart the fortress of the grac-s, the liver the fort revs of the furies. You may have the head filled with all Intellectual! i ira, hum ‘w* ■ — .... — • • — ■ r t>reflation, and the mouth with all elo quet e \ und the hand with all Indus trie* and th* hears w.th all teneroal tles, and yet a dart strike through the liver ' M» friend. Ilev. |lr Joseph K Jones, of I'hlladalphla, a translated spirit now wrote a book entitled Man Mor al and I'hysleal,** In whhh he shows how different the saw* things nut appear So different people He say* Sfter the great battle on the Him to tn l*i» tj*tw**n the Kretteh and the rtardtatans on the one side and ih* hastrlans on th* other, so disastrous to Ihe Utter, the defeated army t*ti*ai*d lottow*d by the « blurs A demr.ptlo t of th* m*r«h «d *a«h attat is «>**# p, two e irraapondeat# of th* ld»#4o* tint*. *»» «f whom tra***ed with the •u. ..ssfnl host th# other with tlo t« the differ*#** U *»#** and st«i*m«nls of »h* **m* pta** **•»*• and •*»*•* i* ramaebahi- th> to M*r «r* said ta he marthin* throw#* a beattlul and IwanrUnt > w—fty d« >aa th* «U* ted a< atgat •netmpina where they at* supplied with ah ****>#• ,laio* ul th* beat pewstawn*. a#*' *" o.i t* of rural ila>ntt** There ta n«*h ibe af war a bunt th# g* «**dtng *a»*pt it* stim ntss iad itewehi *t# :h* j »id* of th* p»m %aa»ti*h* W t« ol th* r*t«ia* In hts U»t** of th* •*#»* 'dai* i|*«ei :tUh« th* earn* pU *• ah * i a matsh am at th# ow toad, th* wt ■1 | *« ah *• st»*ly ffnd word. H» Set Utk th* oiffirth# imts**i*#»« am* dt##'*»» | existing around turn. What was pleas | ant to the former was intolerable to the latter. What made all this differ ence? asks the author. One condi | tion only: the French are victorious, the Austrians have been defeated.' ” So, my dear brother, the road you are traveling is the same you have been traveling a long while, but the difference In your physical conditions makes it look different, and therefore the two reports you have given of yourself are as widely different as the reports In the London Times from the two correspondents. Fid ward Payson, sometimes so far up on the Mount that it seemed as if the centripetal force of earth could no longer hold him, sometimes through a physical disorder wras so far down that it seemed as If the nether world would clutch him. Poor William Cowper was a most ex cellent Christian, and will be loved in the Christian church as long as it s'agi his hymns beginning "There Is a fountain filled with blood,” "Oh. for a closer walk with God.” "What various hindrances we meet,” and "God moves In a mysterious way." Yet was he so overcome of melan choly. or black bile, that it was only through the mistake of the cab driver who took him to a wrong place. In stead of the river bank, that he did not commit suicide. Spiritual condition so mightily af fected by the physical state, what a great opportunity this gives to the Christian physician, for he can feel at the same time both the pulse of the body and the pulse of the soul, and he can administer to both at once, and If medicine is needed he can give that, and if spiritual counsel is needed he can give that—an earthly and a Di vine prescription at the same time and call on not only the apothecary of earth, but the pharmacy of heaven! Ah, that is the kind of doctor 1 want at my bedside, one that cannot only count out the right number of drops, but who can also pray. That is the kind of doctor I have had in my home when sickness or death came. I do not want any of your profligate or athe istic doctors around my loved ones when the balances of life are trem bling. A doctor who has gone through the medical college, and In dissecting room has traversed the wonders of the human mechanism, and found no God in any of the labyrinths. Is a fool, and cannot doctor me or mine. But, oh, the Christian doctors! What a com fort they have been In many of our households! And they ought to have a warm place in our prayers as well as praise on our tongues. My object at this point is not only to emollate the criticisms of those in good health against those in poor health, but to show Christian people who ate atrabilious what is the matter with them. Do not charge against the heart the crimes of anotnet ponton ui organism. Do not conclude that be cause the path to heaven is not arbored | with as fine a foliage, or the hanks beautifully snowed with exquisite chrysanthemums as once, that there fore you are on the wrong road. The road will bring you out at the same gate whether you walk with the stride of an athlete or come up on crutches. Thousands of Christians, morbid about their experiences, and morbid about their business, and morbid about the present, and morbid about the fu ture, need the sermon I am now preaching. * * * Some years ago a scientific lecturer went through the country exhibiting on great canvas different parts of the human body when healthy, and the same parts when diseased. And what the world wants now is some eloquent scientist to go through the country showing to our young people on blaz ing canvas the drunkard's liver, the Idler's liver, the libertine's liver, the gambler's liver. Perhaps the spec tacle might stop some young man be fore he comes to the catastrophe, and .I,,, iioei wiril'p thrnueh his livor. My heaver, this is the first sermon you have heard on the Gospel of Health, anil it may be the last you will ever hear on that subject, and I charge you, In the name of God, and t'hrist. and usefulness, and eternal des tiny, take better care of your heulth. When some of you die, if your friends put on your tombstone u truthful epi taph. It will read: "Here lies the vic tim of late suppers;" or It will be • Behold what lobster salad at mid night will do for a man," or It will be: • Ten eigurs a day closed my earthly existence. ’ or It will be: "Thought I < guld do at seventy what I did at twenty, and l am here;" or It will h» “Here is the consequence of sitting a half day with wet feet," or It will lie ■ This is where I have stacked nn har vest of wild oats," or. instead of words, the stone-cutler will chisel for an epi inph on the tombstone two figures namely, a dart and a Utter There Is a kind of sickness that U beautiful when It fumes from over work for God. or •••»•• , euntry, or one* own family I have arel» woo mis that were glorious I have seen an empty sleeve that was wore Iwautifu; than tin must muscular forearm I ha vs seen a green shade over the eye shot out in battle that was more hews ilful than shy two eyes that bad p*»» I without Injury I have seen an old mtaatonai * worn tort with the malaria of tftbsk jungles who looked to W no»r« radiant than a raid*ami gym uast I have seen a mother after slv weehs wan king uv*r a family of chil dren down With statist lever With i lke j around her pale and wan fa • - that surpassed tbs *04*10 It hit 4» ud* -tn how you got your *oko#*» •nd In What battle Jusi wound* If we must get c.h and wort* 1-i 1st it he In G»*d * **»* Ho and ill ■ k i „gt»v to tmthe the World gvaet hi*d ) jg, tbs a*rv ige v»# *•» v*' k*' n* 1 uf the most pgt bet w ** eaes that t e* * ■ nttnswa, aad I d'»s sw It in that af m«n or someth # *nver'»d M the M ties or sixties or seventies wanting to be useful, but they so served the world and Satan in the earlier part of their life that they have no physical energy j left for the service of God. I hey sac rificed nerves, muscles, lungs, heart ; and liver on the wrong altar. | fought on the wrong side, and now, ^ when their sword is all hacked tip anl their ammunition all gone, they enlist ! for Emmanuel. When the htgh-met ! tied cavalry horse, which that man I spurred Into many a cavalry charge j with champing bit and flaming eye and ' neck clothed with thunder, is worn 1 out and spavined and ring-boned and j spring-halt, he rides up to the great Captain of our Salvation on the white j horse and offers his services. With 1 such persons might have lieen. through I the good habits of a lifetime, crash ■ ing their battle-ax through the helmet I d iniquities, they are spending their I days and nights in discussing the best way of curing their indigestion, and ’ quieting their jangled nerves, and i rousing their laggard appetite, and try I ing to extract the dart from their out raged liver. Better converted late than | never! Oh. yes; for they will get to heaven. But they will go afoot when they might have wheeled up the steed hills of the sky in Elijah's chariot. There is an old hymn that we used to sing In the country meeting house when I was a hoy, and 1 remember how the old folks' voices trembled with emotion while they sang it. I have forgotten all hilt two lines, but those lines are the peroration of my sermon: 'Twill save us from a ousand snares To mind religion young. Poii't Kat I'olm V on At** IIungry. There Is a good old maxim which runs as follows; "In time of peace pre pare for war,” and this is as true in connection with the question of diet in health as in other things. Too many \ people assume mat iieeauso iney enjoy fairly good health, no improvement need be effected in their diet, but that this position is eminently untenable* none who carefully consider the sub ject will deny. Those whose practice brings them into contact with the wealthier classes have frequently an opportunity of estimating the bad ef fects of improper diet. As regards the poor, they are unable to procure meat on account of their poverty, and, as a result, their diet is composed largely of carbohydrates. In the case of general sickness, or even without unfavorable climatic conditions, both classes seem to he unable to resist attacks of dis ease. It is for tlie most part the ap parently healthy people who are so quickly stricken down by disease, while the chronic invalid may pass through unscathed, and yet no one seem to un derstand that conditions were present which predisposed tlies healthy m in or rtUl'1“" o ml t hi t these pre existing conditions were largely due to want of attention to diet. It would be well for those who feel so sure that they are In perfect hpalth to consult a doctor for Instructions how to avoid disease. One very common mistake is to eat when not hungry, simply iie cause it is ‘meal time,” and act not one whit less stupid than that of re plenishing one's fire because one hears one's neighbors coal-scuttle rattling, regardless of the fact that there is plenty of coal already on, and that any addition thereto would be mischievous. One (auite of Kreak Hill*. Senator Forney, of the Kansas stata senate, has a young daughter who tells why her father introduced so many freak bills in the senate, “Whenever he tan up against anything he didn't like, ’ she says, "he would come homo and write a bill again it. There is ono of his railroad bills, for instance, W« drove to town to church one night, anti there was a freight train on the cross ing, and it kept us there for twenty minutes. It annoyed pa dreadfully, ami lie went home and wrote that bill to prohibit trains from obstructing cross ings more than five minutes. Then ono night somebody stole all our chickens. The next day pa wrote his chicken bill. But you will notice that the bill doesn't protect ducks. I*a don't like ducks. And be said if anybody wanted to steal them It whs till right the ducks w»« punishment enough. Whenever pa sat down to write u hill we always knew that something had happened to him." 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