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
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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 -
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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.
Their I« ut I.ttt Aflirinn I hf
flood Authority#
The existence of the Sonal or 1’hiU
lips islands in tho Pacific ocean, which
lias b,-en mooted by mariners for years
and finally discredited, has just been
reaffirmed by the captains of the Hrifr
h i ships Lock Kck ifnd Swunhilde, and
1 he little group is iikoly to be replaced'
on murin - churls. The maritime ex
change lias just got possession of all
Itic facts.
< pi. I’ctt 'irlyh master of tho Itrit*
i- fellip Lock Kck. which cleared thlh
poll in September last for lliogo,
•Input i a ted the Islands in latitude
e.U t icnil and lougitud" llo.- i in th$,
South !’; . c mv*n and reported th*
fie"- < f iii- discovery to tho branch
h.V' "o« "tpnie office in tho Kvcnaugo
this oif. He repi. U'J the island*
i i (>• il . iii numb-* iiml to form 4
I'w m* in • i < i«t*it of vi— n't.* |i|y.iu U»
< In iii lot .1. mi. ituuiii’tr in h aouth*
• • ■ nui . i!.- • tloii for m% or «•##
i ni-* bolts tf conna-lanl by low lying
rwk» It I* t« Ufirtt Hint H>o tliii4
lubin l la of iviu.it forninU o linvlng
r im* tu Ho* mirfiufi of tba w «l**r * Itlt*
i • tli<> im-t nix luiiuilix mi i tbn xnlir*
b'roii;i withm tlM’Int jr«nr
ll l> ttum Ut llioy 'tar* i f ml .dll*
or if. in*! * a .!«•-*<{ i ;it v i»i tlna
H it.alt x«niitn .i, iuit only *on■
I* 'i.• it Hu i*> iitiuii of till* .a umix tail
n'mi lihiiMl tiii'Ht Inluabilatl I a|*»
Mi <ii«a of thl« iv«h fully im«Hiuo-*4
H.i laa’lt Ill'll n»|KH I.
II bi » >bili a, of t a Ul mil ba
•'if yilw»| tu •« a two i aaaa baut* of
bsatik a tfutlua mil to io * t lata t» **•
I buy ifxiba In a ma unblMn* l*»a
Kuufe-»i. tbw {warty tailll. ami thirty.
• I mi a«to nnxo-i bub bo 4t.*4
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rvi**ra* aabnly ilifarawl I root tb*
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