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 repealed Des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."
OriElH of I lie Hurd IwrifT
Ktery day when we open me tows
papets and read Hie pnlm ai Ul» tin.
*ion* In Its columns we are sure to
.c me aeroM something about m,. u, n
-«t« "Hauler's Hound lalie |.;v,.rv*
one known the meaning of the word
•arid. hut It Is not generally known
where It urigtltated It |» of
origin and de«a ended to i„ fr„n, ,(lw
tint* when the MiMtr* oii'iipud a ^ i.i.||y
part of Spain In those days met lattit
a tort to guard the siru» • ••■•r.iitar,
and the* ■*»'*** •* Hrila II «,44 ma
iits'oni of Iheae |wup e |o ley^ .title *
ai ordthg to a died s> all w hi, ,
.tip pled and • hanged from time | , lys,
• tta as ninth »« we do onr wn , , n
laws on the inert ha ml t*« m 4u ll4
«»is pawing in wad o*« of Ui it,, r„
Min ts I It*• t iaiwod i he right to y,r.
tus ut strength and i t M, a , .
rw % i to wwv
in tb» N.l ►»»•«•* a< M mmgtim
lie.II* * seilhM of »»♦».,* gat* ,w
iwlwant ♦;*.»!. ta,.e..M»#, , -t||
and ha* hwshand a htbHoun* ,, .|lu
Mrs ttrat |«n l M
w >,h I t »•* p.,i to Mrs ilrtMta
fw« and a half a f«<4 u,*»
Mhat an odd taws' % M41 H
i wa.wf », .* nr *ju4 m |,**.
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