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CHAPTER XVIII_fOowriirniD.) "Well, well, 1 will say no more," he •eplled. "Though, to be sure, If you lad consented to Indue A propos,” he iroke off, "and my trousers! They are lying In the snow my favorite trou pers?" And he dashed In quest of lean-Murlo, Two hours afterward Ihe boy re turned to the Inn with a spade under ine arm and a curious sop of clothing under the other. The Doctor ruefully took It In bis bands. “They have been!” be slid. 'Their tense Is past. Excellent panta loons, you are no more! Stay! some thing In the pocket," and he produced i piece of paper, "A letter! ay, now 1 bind me; It was received on the morn ing of the gale, when I was absorbed In delicate Investigations. It Is still legi ble. From poor, dear Oanlralr! It Is a1 well," be chuckled, "that I have edu acted him to patience. Poor Caslmlr and his correspondence his Infinitesi mal, timorous, Idiotic correspondence. He hud by this time cautiously un folded Ihe wet letter; but, ns he bent himself to decipher the writing, a cloud descended on his brow. "Wgre!" he cried, with a galvanic start. And then the letter was whipped In- I to the tire arid Hu* llnrtnr'v ran was Of) ! Ills head In ilic turn of u hand. “Ten minute*! I ran catch It. If I run,’' he erled, “It l» always laic. I go to Paris, I shall telegrapn.” “Henri! what. Is wrong?” cried his wife. “Ottoman Bonds?” came from the Jlsappcarlng Doctor; and Anastasie and Jean-Marie were left face to face with the wet trousers. Desprez had gone : to Paris, for the second time In seven years; he had gone to Paris with a pair of wooden shoes, a knitted spen cer, a black blouse, a country nightcap and twenty francs In his pocket. The fall of the house was hut a secondary marvel; the whole world might have fallen and scarce left his family 'more petrified. OHAPTKR XIX. N the .noming of the next day, the Doctor, a mere specter of himself, was brought back in the custody of OasSlmlr. They found Anastasie and the hoy sitting together by the (ire, and Desprez. who had exchanged his toilette for a ready-made rig out of poor materials, waved hi* hand as he entered, and sank speechles* on the nearest chair. Madame turned direct to Casiralr. “What Is wrong?” she erled. “Well,” replied Casiralr, ’what have 1 told you all along? It has come. It Is a clean shave, this time; so you may ns well bear up and make the beat of it. House down, too, eh? Bad luck, upon my soul," “Are we—are w» ruin'd?" she gasped. The Doctor stretched out his aim to her. “Ruined,” !*■ replied, "you arc ruined by your sinister husband.” Caslmlr observed the con sequent em brace through his eycgla.-s; then he turned to Jean-Marie. "You hear?” he said. “They are ruined; no more pick ings, no more house, no more fat cut lets, It strikes me, my friend, that you had best lie packing; the present spec ulation la about worked out,” “Never!” cried Desprez, springing up, “Jean-Marie, If you prefer to leave me, now that I am poor, you can go; you shall receive your hundred francs, If so much remains to me. But If you will consent to stay” the Doctor wept u little -"('aslml'- offers me a place as clerk,” he resumed. “The emolu Ill'll Id air r "iiuri, Util III 7 Will 1)4' enough for three. It I* too much al ready to have loat my fortune; must I lone ray non?" Jean .Marie nobbed bitterly, but with out a word "I don't like boya who ery." observed I'aaiiulr. “Thla one la alwaya crying. Here! you Hear out of thla lor a little; I have bualoeaa with your maater and mUtreaa. and thene domett1 le feeling* nay he nettle I after I am go.i . M.ixh' * and be held the dtatr open Jean-Marie aluuk out. like a detect ed thief Hv twelve they were all it table, but Iran Matte "Hejfr *ald Caatmir Hone, yt-u >r# fi*d tbe bint at un«e •* ' I do nut. I tonfeaa, «aid Iteepren ' I du mil aeek to ekr-tiae hte aiweu-* It atwak* a want of heart that dual* point a Utv Mtrel) ' Want of hMhoer* " nur ruled t'a*' utlr lleatt h« never bad W'by, In • MM, for a Heva* fvib.a you ate the muat gullible moti*l in t rvattoo t mt Ignorant*, of beaten nature and buo*in boatii-** la beyond belief Yuit vie * moult-I by b *ttxu turk* *att*d!ed bg tagabwod thlhlr*#. • a ted hr I • gbt and left upetalt* an* U- «u»latr* | tktn* It wo*t be yvm iatagin*t <o I thank mt *t*M I have Itune." " pardon at- replied |h*pt«« *n|l kembty. but a Mb a ret •< a «d *pmt at alghl of a dhrttn tarn to be dta*a pardon me. I'mun You i*--*«* .* MM t« •» emlnea degree tbe t»ai MuWl UMfiMiiuk It eae the lart of that In mo -it appears It Is my w^ilt point that has let! lo these repealed shocks. Hy the commercial Imagina tion the financier forecasts the destiny of his Investments, marks the fulling house-” "Egad,” Interrupted Caslmlr; “our friend Hie stable-boy appears to have Ills share of It,” The Doctor was silenced; and the meal was continued and finished prin cipally to the tune of the brother-in law's not very consolatory conversa tion. He entirely Ignored the two young English painters, turning a blind eyeglass to their salutations, and con tinuing Ills remarks as If he were alone In the bosom of Ills family; and with every second word he ripped another stitch out of the air balloon of I)os prez's vanity. Hy the time coffee was over the poor Doctor was as ttmp as a napkin. “l-et us go and see the ruins,” suld C'uslmlr. They strolled forth Into the street. The full of the house, like the loss of a front tooth, had quite transformed the village. Through the gap the eye commanded a gtrut stretch of open snowy country, and the place shrank in comparison, ft was like a room witli an open door. The sentinel stood by the green gale, looking very red and cold, but be had a pleasant word for tint Doctor and Ills wealthy kinsman. t'asimlr look'll at the mound of ruins, he tried the quality of the tar paulin. "H'ni,” he said, "I hope the cenar arm nan moou. ii it lias, my good brother, I will give you a good price for the wines." "We shall start digging to-morrow,” said the sentry. "There is no more fear of snow." "My friend," returned Caslrnlr sen tentiously, "you had better wait till you gel paid." The Doctor winced, and lagan drag ging his offensive brother-in-law to ward Tentaillon's, In the house there would be fewer auditors, and these al ready in the secret ot ills fall, "Hullo," cried Casimlr, "there goes the stable-boy with bis luggage; no, egad, he Is taking it Into the Inn.” And sure enough, Jean-Marie was seen to cross the snowy strept and en ter Tentaillon's, staggering under a large hamper. The Doctor stopped with a sudden, wild hope, "What ran he have?” he said. "Let us go and see,” And he hurried on. "Ills luggage, to l« sure,” answered Caslrnlr, "He is on the move -thanks to the commercial imagination.” ”1 have not seen that hamper for for ever so long,” remarked the Doctor. "Nor will you see it much longer," chuckled Casimlr, "unless, Indeed wo Interfere. And by the way, i Insist on an examination.” "You will not require,” said Dezprez, positively with a soli; and, casting a moist, triumphant glance at Ca.-;imir, he began to run. "What the devil is up with him, I wonder?” Casimir reflected; and then, curiosity taking the upper hand, he fol lowed the Doctor's example and took to his heels. The hamper was so heavy and larg\ and Jean-Marie himself so little and so weary, that It bad taken him a great while to bundle it upstairs to the De. - prez'B private room; and he had Just set it down on the floor in front of An astasia, when the Doctor arrived, and was closely followed by the man of business. Boy and hamper were both In u most sorry plight; for the one had passed four months underground in a certain cave on the way to Aeheres, and the other had run about five miles, as hard bh his legs would carry him, half that distance under a staggering weight. "Jean-Marie," cried (he Dor-tor, In a voice that was only too seraphic to tie called hysterical. "Is It ? it |»t-* |,e cried. "Oh. my sou, my son!" And lie sat down upon the hamper and sobbed like U little child. "You will ttol go to Baris, now,” said Jean-Marie sheepishly "Oaalmlr." said Desprex, raising Ills wet face, "do you see that boy, that angel boy? He I- the thief, he took the treasure from u man unfit to lie en trusted with Its use, he hriiias It back to me when I atu sobered mid humbled. These, Casimlr, are the Bruits of my . Teaching uud thia moment Is the Up ward of no |.Jfe “ ” I Is well,” said Cwstmir, lThe Nad I : My Fellow laborer. \ a * to • sifts* * My N Midi* NAUsAHO %..; t'lblTIKM I l*i* W »» nai ,- b-s a id, tv »<*>•* Ik »>,, >1 *t»<l H*. til* ' •4 ‘ mnwiiiki . i* i t ■; H*k 4k rikdm i »**k. t «4 IMM «f ■» ’ T1’ »»• •« *kli«k®' lb Mbit ton iwtmli H*kk4 1*4 akttb tat * ma4t>Mt fee distribute to individuals such cut tings front newspaiiers ns may con cern them, been made acquainted with a considerable amount of gossip more or less truthfully connected with my private affairs. This nuisance began to come upon me shortly after the publication some years since of my work, “The Secret of Life." The reader will remember, if this short history of facts Is ever made public in years to come, (hat the appearance of this book created a great sensation, even In what is railed English society. Everybody appeared to have read “The Secret of Life,” or pretended to have read It, und it was no uncommon thing to meet ladies who evidently knew far more about the whole mat ter than I did after many years' study. But It society I mean— seems soon to have tired of the srlenllflc aspect of the question, not even the Interest attaching to the origin and cause of existence could keep Us attention fixed on that for long. f'nfortunately, however, curiosity passed from my hook to myself. It seemed to strike people as wonderful I that they should never have heard any ihing of the Dr. (Josden (for tills was before Her Majesty was graciously pleased, somewhat against my own In clinations, to make me a baronet), who happened to lie able to discover the Secret of Life, and accordingly they, or rather some of the society papers, set themselves to supply the want. Thus it was lhat a good deal of rather Ill-natured talk got about us to what had been the exact relationship be tween myself and my fellow-laborer, Miss Denelly. I say Ill-natured ad visedly, for there was nothing more than that; hut still, at the best, It was, and Indeed is calculated to give pain to myself and to the lady concerned, whose conduct throughout has been morally blameless, and such as I can conscientiously say on the whole com mends Itself to my reason however much U may jar u|>ou my prejudices. And now with this short apology to myself for setting down on paper a passage In my private history, I will tell the story, such as It Is. I say “to myself," for probably It will never b made public, und if It Is, It will be in accordance with the judgment of my executors after my death, so i shall UUt> UWVIIIIIJj .... I am now a middle-aged man, and have been a doctor for many years. While I was still walking the hospit als, my mother died and left me all her property, which amounted to four hundred a year, and on this slight en couragement, having quiet and do mestic tastes, 1 went the way that young men generally do go when clr citmstances permit of It, and Instun'ly rot married. My wife, who possessed seme small means, was a lady of my own age; and, owing to circumstances w hich I need not enter into here, had a cousin dependent upon her, a girl of a bout thirteen. That girl was Fanny Denelly, and my wife made It a condi tion of our marriage, to which I read ily consented, that she should live with us. I shall never forget the Impression I hat the young lady made upon me when she came to Join us In our little house at Fulham, after we went there to settle at the end of our honey-moon. As it happened, 1 had only seen her once or twice before, and then In the most casual way, or in the dusk, bo tills was the first opportunity I had of studying her. She was only a young gill between fourteen and fifteen, i think, but still there was something striking about her. Her hair, which \< as black and lustrous, was braided back from a most ample forehead. The eyes were large and dark, not sleepy like moat dark eyes, hut Intelligent and almost stern in their expression. The rest of the face wan well cut but mas sive, and rather masculine In appear ance, and even at that age the girl gave promise of great beauty of form to which she afterward uttalned. (TO IIS CONTINUE!*, i Paymaster uml President. A railway paymaster,whose conversa tion is reported hy the St. I amis Globe Democrat, is inclined to magnify Ini* office; and no doubt he Is a pretty Im portant mail In the eye of the employes, who look to him for their wages. Tills view of the ease Is umphuHlzed hy a • •titi } n iin ii ini" ui i irnnit in »»• Kail* of the Hitt Four.” CrMliImt In. tiall* nu« out in Itiii special car one tiny ou 111* road, uiid atop(MmI near St |*aul, Ind.. for the pnrpu*e of luepcrtlng a ■ravel pit thut he antl> -Ipnted pur i huhln* He had »everal minor oflielala of the road with him. A iMtlen it,tug wan at work near by. and a switch rail up tntai the grawl pit, halt a mile dir* lant The day waa wry hot. and an almoat tropical mm threatened to wrarp the rails out of pualUnn, Naturally Mr, Ingalls did not cIiihmm> lu walk half a tulle under me h circumstance*, mi he called to the urctIon hoaa and ordered him to bring hi* handcar and rrew. and • airy the parti up to the pit "Not on your Itfe,” waa the aurpri tag reply, Mure. I hay# nr# order* from the mipeltltUudelil to lltl the work he »• nd and not leat# till tl a daubed Mr lugall* •nuk'd toleted and waa .duo l to reply, when use of th« pa* > tiled to kelp kiln out hi Mtylltg tth, that» ail right. Mike Tkia u Mr Itifall* ti*t yoor car att>l t «•***: glaafl Hut Mike waa not nmol In the he t ky thia appeal and promptly r*p i«d *• M In#ait*, la it * Slot a h i do I ear# who It# to I anakla I tot# tkia pub for Ik# ptinuin huu*lf god that a ail ther* hi atomt H V«a >*« walk (to Ik# gratet pit “ Uaia# •*»«•• are hetng vgtagafyaif »a#d Ut ffktrtd* aatera tkia ai«ts«. : TALMAGES SERMON. "THE SECRET OUT.” LAST SUN DAY’S SUBJECT. I - | From til® T»xt: "Anil Samuel Salit, Wliat Mranrth Then TliU lllratlng of tha sltr®|» In Min® Far* ami tli® Low ing of the Oxen 7" 1. Maui. IS 114. H B AmaleUltes thought they had conquered Ood. and that he would not carry Inio execu tion his threats against them. They had murdered the iBraclltcH In battle and out of battle, and left no outrage untried. For four hundred years this had been going on. and they say, "God either dare not punish us, or he has forgotten to do so.” I.et us see. Samuel, God's prophet, tells Haul to go down and slay all the AmaieKiies, tun leaving one oi mcni nllve; also to destroy all the beasts In tlielr possession—ox, sheep, camel, and ass. Hark! I hear the tread of two hundred and ten thousand men. with monstrous Saul at their head, ablaze with armour, bis shield dangling at his side, holding In his hand p spear, at the waving of which the great host marched or halted. I sec smoko curling againat the sky. Now there is a thick cloud of It, and now I see the whole city rising In a chariot of smoko be hind steeds of tire. It Is Saul that sot the city ablaze. The Amalekites and the Israelites meet; the trumpets of battle blow peal on peal, and there Is a death-hush. Then there Is a signal waved; swords cut and hack; arma fall from trunks, and heads roll In the dust. Gash after gash, the frenzied yell, Iho gurgling of thrott'lef. throats, the cry of pain, the laugh of revenge, the curse, hissed between clenched teeth an army's death-groan. Stacks of dead on all sides, with eyes unshut and mouths yet grinning vengeance. Huzza for the Israelites! Two hundred and ten thousand m^n w'ave their plumes and clap their shields, for the Lord God hath given them the victory. Yet that victorious army of Israel |g conquered by sheep and oxen. God, through the prophet Samuel, told Saul to slay all the Amalekites, and to 3lay all the beasts In their possession; but Saul, thinking that he knows more than God, saves Agag, thp AmalekltUh king, and five drove of sheep and a herd of oxen that, he cannot bear to kill. Saul drives the sheep and oxen down toward home. He has no Idea that Samuel, the prophet, will find out that he has saved these sheep and oxen for himself. Samuel comes and asks Saul the news from the battle. Saul puts on a solemn face, for there Is no one who can look more solemn than your young hypocrite, and he says, "I have fulfilled the command of the Lord.” Samuel listens, and he boars the drove of sheep a little way off. Saul had no Idea that the prophet’s ear would he so acute. Samuel says to Saul, "If you have done as God told you, and slain all the Amalekites and nil the beasts In their possession, what meaneth the bleating of the sheep In mine ears,and the lowing of the oxen that I hear?” Ah, one would have thought that blushes would have con sumed the cheek of Saul! No, no! Ho says the army—not himself, of course, but the army—had saved the sheep and oxen for sacrifice; and then they thought It would be too bad anyhow to kill Agag, the Amalekltish king. Sam uel takes the sword and ho slashes Agag to pieces;and then ho takes the skirt of bis coat. In true Oriental style, and rends it in twain, as mu. h as to cay, "You, Saul, Just like that, : hall be torn away from your empire, and torn away from your throne." in other or nla lot nil rho national (>f tho hour the story that *nnl, by <li ;o!ieylng God, won a (lock of film p hat lost a kingdom. I learn from this subject that God will expose hypocrisy. Here Saul pre tends he lias fulfilled the divine com mission by slaying all the beasts be, knging to the Amah-kite*, and yet at Ihc very moment he Is telling the story, and practicing the delusion, the < ret comes out, and the sheep bleat and the oxen bellow. A hypocrite is one who pretend to tie what he 1* not, or to do what he does not. E..ul was only a type of a cla s. The modern hypocrite looks awfully solemn, whines when h. prays, Slid during his public devotion show,, a r. eat deal of the Whites Of his eyes. Ill- never laug!i», or, If he do. * latu-h. ! e « ei is tori> b.r It .r-. pj though he had commute t » >ni* gr- a: Indiscretion. Tin But • tt;iu, p, j, „ chance he pray» twenty minute,-t in public, and when he exhorts, („■ to Imply that all the rs<c are sinners, one eaccptlon, his modesty forbidding the dating who ih.il one Is. There a;, a great many ohunhes that have two or llitee seeIrslastleal t'riah 11*< |w When the (ox begin* to |>ia>. tool, out (or your chicken* Tne more t u. nine religion a man has. the more com fort able Ho will be; but you Sid Linns a religious tmiMwir-r by lb* fact that he prld«» himself on being nn-oiuior table A man of that hind is of im nine U ><id*u t«* the thorth of f'brist l ship may outride a hundred alum* and tel n handful of worms In the planks may *luh 11 (u ths bottom The • butt h of hoi la not me t» in dang* • of tb* i o!«s*t of trouble and yen* . m ion mat «'>a< • upon 11 as <f tbs ** n i of fctt*. in. |sal Infest II hditl are of Wo .|ang*r to lb* fold of met on'*-*# thel I *|| Ith* *h**p Ar nold »*♦ sf iseti damage lu lb* army I baa t'ornwaltia aad bin hosts ita, we caanot deceit* IM with * • awt* a eve ns* si*' lie *e«a behind ih* >nriaie a* well a* krbitt tb* outai*. ha **•* etertihiug iaside uui a asaa mar through psdi*» beda aw teal > kuein *wt mad sib tha a• airs mm •**« tV whitened sepulchre and expose the putrefaction. Sunday faces cannot save hiui; long prayers cannot save him; psalm-singing and church-going can not save him. God will expose him Just as thoroughly as he branded upon his forehead the word"IIypocrlte." He may think he har been successful in the deception, but at the most unfortunate moment the sheep will bleat and the oxen will bellow. One of the cruel bishops of olden time was going to excommunicate one of the martyrs, and ho began in the usual form—"In the name of God, amen.” “Stop'" says the martyr, “don't say 'In the name of God!’” Yet how many outrages arc practiced under the garb of religion and sanctity! When. In synods and conferences, ministers of the Gospel are about to say some thing unbrotherly and unkind about a member, they almost always begin by being tremendously pious, the venom of their assault corresponding to the heavenly flavor of the prelude. Stand ing there, you would think they were ready to go right up Into glory, and that nothing kept them down but the weight of their boots and overcoat, when suddenly the stieep bleat aud the oxen bellow. Oh, my dear friends, let us cultivate simplicity of Christian character! Jesus Christ said, "Unless you become as this little child, you cannot enter the king dom of God.” We may play hypocrite successfully now, but the Ijord God will after awhile expose our true char acter. You must know the incident mentioned in me nisiory m who wna asked to kneel In tho pres ence of Randolpbus I.; and when be fore him he refused to do It, hut after awhile he agreed to come In private when there was nobody In the king’s tent, and then he would kneel down before him and worship; but the ser vants of tho king had arranged It so that by drawing a cord the tent would suddenly drop. Oltacas after a while came In, and supposing he was In en tire privacy, knelt before ftandolphus. The servant pulled the cord, the tent dropped, and two armies surrounding looked down on Ottaeas kneeling be fore Randolpbus. If we are really kneeling to the world while we profess to he lowly subjects of Jesus Christ, the tent has already dropped, and all the hosts of heaven are gazing upon our hypocrisy. God's universe Is a very public place, and you cannot hide hypo crisy In it; Going out Into a world of delusion and sham, pretend to be no more than you really are. If you have the grace of God, profess It; profess no more than you have. Hut I want the world to know that where there is one hypocrite in the church there are five hundred outside of It, for the reason that the Held is latger. There are men In all cities who will how before you, and who are obsequious In your presence and talk flatteringly, but who all the while In your conversation are digging for bait and angling for Imperfections. In your presence they Imply that they are everything friendly, but after a while you find they have the fierceness of a catamount, the slyness of a snake, and the spite of a devil. God will ex pose such. The gun they load will burst In their own hands; the lies they tel! will break their own teeth; and at the very moment they think they have been successful in deceiving you and deceiving the world, the sheep will bleat and the oxen will bellow. I learn further from this subject what God meant by extermination. Saul was told to slay all the Amale kite:-;, and the beasts in their possess ion. He saves Agag, the Amalekite king, and some of the sheep and oxen. God chastises him for It. God likes nothing done by halves. God will not stay In the soul that is half his and iialf the devil's. There rnay be more sins in o'ir soul tb,,n there were Arna If-kites. We must kill them. Woe unto us if we spare Agag! Here Is a Chris tian. He savs; "I will drive out al! the Amalekite3 of sin from my heart. Here is Jealousy down goes that Amalekite. Here in backbiting—down goes that Amalekite;" and what slaughter he makes among his sins, striking right and left! Wliat is that out yonder, lifting up his head? It |R A gag—it is worldliness. It la an old sin ho cannot hear to r.trlke down. It la n darling transgression he cannot afford to sacrifice. Oh. my brethren. I appeal for entire consecration! Some of the Pre: bytorlans call It the "higher Ilfo.'The Methodists, I Imlb-ve, cull It "perfection." I do not care v. ant you call it; "wltl.out hnUncss no t tan hail see the IrOtd." 1 know men who are living with their soul In p i pi lua! nine innnhin with Christ, and day after day are walking within sight of heaven How do I know' 'I hey tell me n J tielleve them. They would not tie about it. Why cannot wn a. tin thj < serration'' Why s'-ty ton e of tm- „ M, In our soul, and leave ot tc-r* to Idea; ! and In How ft r t er expos ire ur-d etui- I dt tniintlou? Christ wilt not slay la ito< wilts hon>e with Anti V u cunt g r,- j up A gag or give up CUrly J,«u» rtty*. ! “All of ihut bean t.t none " Haul stew 1 the poorest of the shi.p e.ud the I n .m- j nl of the oxen, t-ml l-pi aoiue of (h« hoest and lto fattest, and there am | Christians who have slain the most up- i popular el their tratuarestums and I saved those which »r* ni.au iMpsitt- 1 M* It wilt w»t do Kternal war j •t* siwat all th» Amaleklti >. n , m.r.v far \«rt I lean further from iki* subject that ti |> vain to try in defraud Christ Her* Mattl tha i*hi h* had . Assist u.„| „tii of I boss sheep and oxen bnl he UmI hla oses be lost hie empire fuu not tbe-ui Hud owl of a single e,nt. j Here la a man wbo kss made te« thua* sad d .liars tw fraud tutors be dies • very dollar of It will be ut u will give him itobsi unrest Here is a 1 Christ us who has heea largely- pt,.«. , per d. He has e l given |u ,bot |## j proper tine that is das la rhsrllies «ad : Uws vole aces, led eomsa tu the rsvh* and ha Uivs It sti sway ft ora yew Mow often it haa beea that Chris **• man have had a w|t amath Ml It is rone. Tile 1.3rd Cod earn* Info the counting room anu «niU: '1 liavo allowed you to have all this property for ten. fifteen or twenty years, and you have not done justice to my poor children. When the beggar railed upon you, you hounded him off your steps; when my suffering children appealed to you for help, you had no mercy. I only asked for so much, or so much, but you did not give it to me, and now I will take It all.” God asks of us one-seventh of ottr time in the way of Sabbath. I5o you suppose we ean get an hour of that time successfully nway from its truo object? No, no, God has demanded one-seventh of your time. If you take one hour of that time that Is to be de voted to God's service, and instead of keeping his Sabbath, use It for the pur pose of writing up your accounts or making worldly gains, God will got that hour from you in some unexpected, way. God says to Jonah, "You go to Nineveh." He says, “No, I won’t. I'll go to Tarshlsh.” He starts for Tarshlsh. The sea raves, tho winds blow, and tho ship roeks. Come, yo whale',, and taka this passenger for Tarshlsh! No man ever gets to Tarshlsh whom God tells to go to Nineveh. The spa would not carry hint; It Is God s sea. Tho winds would not. waft him! they are God’s winds. I.et a man attempt, to do that which God forbids liim to do, or to go Into a place where God tells him nut to go, the natural world as well aa God is against him. The lightnings aro ready to strike him, the fires to burn him, the sun to smile him, the watem to drown him, and the earth to swal low him. Those whose princely robes aro woven out of heart’s strings; those whoso lino houses aro built out of skulls; those whose springing fount ains are the tears of oppressed na tions—have they successfully cheated God? The last day will demonstrate— it will he found out on that day that God vindicates not only his goodness and his mercy, but his power to take care of his own rights and the rights of bl> church, and the righto Of his op- • children. Come, ye martyred dead, awake! and come up from tho dungeons where folded darkness hearsed you. and the chains like can kers peeled loose the skin and wore offthe flesh, and rattled on the marrow less bones. Come, ye martyred dead# from the stakes where you were burned, where the arm upllf ed for mercy fell Into tho ashes, and the err of pain was drowned In the snapping of the flame and the howling of the mob; from valleys of Piedmont, and Smltbflehl Market, and London Tower, and the Hlghlando of Scotland, thither In great procession, and together clap your bony hands, and together stamp your mouldy feet, and lot the chains that hound you to dungeons all clank at once, and gather all the flames that burned you in one uplifted arm of fire, and plead for a judgment. Gather all the tears ye ever wept Into a lake, and gather all the sighs ye ever breathed into a tempest, until the heaven-pierc ing chain-dank, and the tenipcit-:;i<;h, and the thunder-gro-.n. announce to earth and hell and heaven a Judgment! Oh, on that day God will vindicate iko cause of the troubled and the op pressed! It will be seen in that, day (hat though we may have robbed our fellows, we never have successfully robbed God. My Christian friends, as you go out Into the world, exhibit an open-hearted Christian frankness. Do not he hypo critical in anything; you are never safe if you are. At the most inopportune moment, the sheep will bloat and th* oxen bellow. Drive out the last Am tie kite of sin from your soul. Have no mercy on Agag. Down with your ins; down with your pride; down with your worldliness. 1 know you cannot achieve this work by your owu arm, but Al mighty grace is sufficient- that which saved Joseph in the pit; that which delivered Daniel In the den; that which shielded Shadrach In the fire; that which c heered Paul in the shipwreck. (HE SONAL ISLANDS. 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