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r INTERNATIONAL PRESS ASSOCIATION. CHAPTKR II.—fCoMTiavBO.) The eye* of the two old men tnel; the minister flushed allghtly, while Solomon'* dry llpa aaaumed the ehape generally taken when one I* about to give a prolonged whlutle; but no aound frllowed. Whaur dbl your reverence find the h; Irn? On the dooratane, did you any The m In later nodded. Thereupon Solomon walked over to the chair, put •>ti a pair of braaa-rlmmed apact*clea, and Inapected the child much an his master had done, but with prolonged a.io dubious shake* of the head. "lyOrd preserve na a'!” he muttered ''Solomon,” i rled Mr. I/>rralrie Im patiently, "what's to be done?” Solomon acratched hi* head, then Me, face lightened with audden Inaplra L jtfnn. as he answered: Bftxjfr ''Put the thing whaur ye found him, mMw tin the dooratane. f<ea" him there he’* uane o' oor*. Maybe the rolther I ■will come back and take him awa',” p The minister’* face flushed Indlg nantly. "On arch a night as this! Solomon SMucklebacklt, If yon hav* no more, Christian advice than that to offer, you can go hack to bed.” Solomon was astonished Seldom had he aeen hla master exhibit such authority, tempered with Indignation. ^ Not knowing bow to reply, be effected a diversion. "See, air” he said, still Inspecting the child u* If It were some curious specie* of fish, "the cratura wrlngln' wat!" Such was the fact, though It had es caped the minister's agitated scrutiny. The shawl ami nnder-drea* of the. In fant were soaked with rain or melted ft now "B'e*» my soul!" cried l»rnilne bending down by Holomon’* side; “and It* little body I* quite cold. Ketch My*le Hlmpson at once.” Holomon shook his head, ' Mysle'* away the night mi' her kinsfolk at the Mearns.” "Then there’s only one thing to be d< ne." cried Mr. Uirralne, with sud den decision. "We must undre** the child at once and put. him to bed, and In the morning we can decide how to act. If we leave him like this he will die of cold." "Put him to lied!" echoed Holomon "Whaur ■" "In my room. Holomon, unless you would like to lake him with you." "Wl’ me! I'm no used wl’ bairns. I couldna sleep a wink!” "Then he shall *tay with me. I»ok, Holomon. how pretty he Is, how bright hi* eyes are! Ketch me a blanket at once, and warm It by the Are." h Holomon left the room. The minis ter lifted the burde.n In hi* arms, and sat down by the hearth. Then, nervously and awkwardly, he undid the shawl and put It aside; loosened the baby’s outer garments, which were quite wet, and drew them gently off Thus engaged, the good man was In deed a picture to see—hi* soft eye* beaming with li ve and tenderness, hi* face puzzled and troubled, hi* little •j.Iinnp band* at work with eltunsy klndne**. Solomon entered with a blanket, warmrd it for a minute at the Are, and then placed It softly under the child, which now lay mother-naked- as «weet and bright a little cherub a* ever drew mother’* milk. Suddenly the sexton uttered an ex clamation. "Lord preserve us all. It's no a man child ava! It's a wee lassie!” Mr Lorraine started, trembled and almost dropped his load; then, bash fully. and tenderly, he wrapped the warm blanket around the Infant, leav ing only Its fare visible. "Lad or lassie,” he said, "the Ixml ha* left it In our keeping!" Stooping to the hearth-rug. Solomon lifted from it a tiny chemise which bad fallen there, and examined It with ludicrous horror. Suddenly his eyes perceived something which had es f raped Mr. l/urmlne's nervous gaze. Pinned to the chemlze was a piece of paper with some writing upon U. "Look, meenisler!" cried Solomon, unpinning the paper and holding It up; "there’s a letter addressed to yoursel’ here. Will I read it?” "Certainly.’* Then Solomon read. In bis own broad accent, which we will not re produce. these words, which were writ ten In a clear though tremulous fe male baud: To Mr. Uirralne lly the lime you read this, the writer will be lying dead oud cold In Annan Water. You are a good man nnd n clergyman Keep Ibe child, ns a gift of llud, end as you use her raey find u.te you!” That waa alt. Solomon stammered through the worda lu horror, while Mr Istrralne listened in genuine astonish ■tent. "There, mennlator1" esrlalmsd Solo ■>on. Indignantly. "Ind I no’ tell yeT It s a scandal, an outrage’ Keep the helm Indeed, and a woman bairn’ * Absurd notion** ’Hush Kolomna," Interposed the ■italaier solema'r ”1 begin to tee the Send o il««d la this ’* ttpeeigg the hodelulhe* he plaesu the lafaal la i e<wy spot, and atraaged the Hansels tenderly around It "Urwh, Koteasoa* It the not bonny P’ , Holoinon gave a grunt of doubtful approval. "flood night, Solomon," continued tbe minister, A word of prutMl waa on the aex ton’s tongue, but he cheeked It In time, then with one laet atare of amazement, perplexity and eurprlae he left the room. "The warl'e cornin' to an cn’," he muttered, a« he ascended the stairs to his room. 'A woman-bairn In oor house! a laasle In the minister’s aln bed' Weel, weel, weel!" Meantime, Mr. l/orralnc sat by the bedside, looking at the child, who had almost Immsdlately fallen asleep, i'resently he reached out Ills arm and took one of her little hands Into hla own, and hla eyes were dim and his soul was traveling hack to the past! Hours passed thus, and he still sat In a dream. "Marjorie, my bonny duo!" he mur mured aloud agal.i. "Is this Indeed a gift from Ood and you?" CHAPTKIt III, T KIVK o'clock the next morning, w h e u H o 1 o in on Mucklebacklt, can dle In hand, de scended the stairs, he found the min ister sitting by tbe bedside fust asleep, with Ills gray head resting on the side of tbe pillow, aud his right arm outstretched over the counterpane above the still slumber ing child. At the sound of Molomon's entrance, however, Mr. l/orralne awoke at ones, rubbed his eyes, and looked In a dazed way around him; then his /.i/ou foil nnnn lha Infant an/I hill fare grew bright an sunshine. "Bless me, meenlster! Mae ye been watching here a’ nlcht?” ”1 fell to sleep,” was the reply, "ami I was dreaming, Solomon, eneh bonny dreams' I thought that I was up yon der among the angels, and that one of them came to me with a face I well remember- ah, so bright,!—and put a little bairn—this bairn—Into my arms; and then, as I held the pretty one, a thousand voices sang an old Hootch song, the ‘Land o' the Leal.’ Dear me! - and It Is nearly daybreak, I sup pose?" Solomon did not reply in words, but, pulling up the blind, showed the outer world still dark, but trembling to the first dim rays of wintry dawn, while snow was thlcaly fulling, and the gar den was covered with a sheet of virgin white. The minister rose shivering, for the air was bitter cold; his limbs, too, were stiff and chilly. "Whafs to he done now?" asked Solomon, gloomily, "I maun awa' an' feenlsh the grave, hut Mysle will he here st six.” "I will watch until Mysle comes,” answered Mr. I»rralne; then, bending over the bed, he continued: "See, Solo mon, ray man, how soundly she sleeps, and how pretty she looks." Soloman grunted and moved toward the door. “Will I put on the parritch mysel'?" he demanded. "Ye maun he wanting something after sic a night." "Nothing, nothing. Go on to the klrkyard." An hour later, when the old woman appeared, having let herself In by a key at the hack door, she was at once apprised of the situation. Having learned by old habit to keep her UIUIIRMIM Iff uri»u-ii, auu i;rmn iyj mini ly disposition, and the mother of a large grown-up family, she at once, without questioning, entered upon her duties ns nurae. The child having wakened, crying, she took It up in her arms and huaiied it upon her bosom, where it anon became still; then, pang ing to the kitchen, ahe warmed Home new milk, und ted it with a spoon. By this time day hud broken, and when he hud seen the child comfort ably cared for, the minister put on his cloak and walked forth to make in quiries. The village consisted of one atrag gllng street with numerous small cot tages, a few poverty-stricken shops, and a one-storied tavern. Jock Stev ens, who kept the latter, was stand ing on ihe threshold with u drowsy atnre, having Just thrown open the door; and on questioning him Mr. lair ralne gained hla Ural and only piece of Information K woman, strange to the place, had entered tbs Inn over night, rarrylug an Infant underneath her abawl, and asked for a glass of milk, which ah* had drank hastily and Hilled away Ilka a ghost. Mar fare was partially hidden, but Jock was certain that she was a airangar, Stay! yaa, there was something more Hh« hod inquired for the manse, and tua ten keeper had pointed out the dires lion of ike rburch end the minister's abode further inquiries up and down the tillage elicited no further Information, I'erplnsed and weary, Ike paal maa trolled be< k to Ike manse Mere, in • he rudely fur a i *hed hlirken, he found a bright Rr« ouraiag. kle breahfaal ready, and Myale sealed by the ingle tide milk Ike »hi!d la her lap. la talubia iwaieisatioa with iba old eat lea The wretched mother, whoever she wa*. had Indeed chosen wisely wb*n she had resolved, while determining to abandon her Infant, to leave It at the gentle minister’s door, flays passed, and In spite of Solomon's pro testations, It wst still an inmate of the manse. Myale Simpson tmdsr atood the rearing process well, and since the child, as she had surmised, had never known the breast. It throve well upon "the bottle,” The minister went and came lightly, as If th* bur* 1 den of twenty yeara bad b*eu taken from bis shoulders: bad It Indead been hla own offspring be could tint have been more analous or more tandar. And Solomon Mucklebacklt. despite hla assumption of sternness and Indigus tlon, was secreity aympathatle, H*. too. hail a tender corner In hla heart which the child’s lanoesnt beauty did not fail to touch. Otic morning, some aevan or sight days aMer the arrival of the infant, when the storms bad blown themselves hoarse, and a dull black thaw had suc ceeded the falling and drifting snow, m ws came to he manse that the body of a woman had haen found lying on the brink of the Annan, Just where iu water* meet the wide sands of th* Solway, and mingle with the salt stream of the ocean tide. (Jrsatly agi tated, Mr. Tarrialne mounted his pony and at ones rode along the lonely blgb way which wind* through th# flat reacbeu of the Mosa. Arriving dose to the great sands, be was directed t« a disuse* outbuilding or barn, belong lug to a large tea-facing, and standing soma hundred yard# above high-water mark. A group of fishermen and pea# ant men and women ware clustered at the door; at Ilia approach th# man lift ed their ha’s respectfully, and th# women courtealed. On making Inqurles, the minlatar learned that the body had been dis covered at daybreak by some salmon fishers, when netting the river at the morning tide They bad at once given the alarm, and carried "It” up to the dilapidated barn wnerr it wan iuc» lying. The barn was without a door, and partially roofless. Day and night tha salt spray of the ocean was blown up on It, Incrustlng Its black sides with a specie* of filmy salt; and from the dark rafters and down the broken walls clung slimy weeds and mosses; and over It a pack of sea-gulls wheeled and screamed. The minister took off his hat and en tered In hsre headed. Stretched upon the earthen floor was what sserned at first rather a shapclesa mass than a human form; a piece of coarse tarpaulin was placed over It, covering It from head to foot Gently and reverently, Mr Lorraine drew hack a corner of the tarpaulin and re vealed to view the disfigured linea ments of what had once been a living face; but though the features were changed and unrecognisable, and the eye-sockets were empty of their shin ing orbs, and the mouth disfigured and hidden by foulness, the face was still set In a woman's golden hair. With the horror deep upon him, the minister trembled and prsyed. Then, drawing the covering still lower, he caught a glimpse of the delicate ham! clutched as In the agonies of death; and sparkling on the middle lingers thereof was a slender ring of gold. "God forgive me," he murmured to himself; "If this is the mother of Ihc child, I did he - a cruel wrong." He stood gazing and praying for some time, his eyes were dim with sympathetic tears; I hen, after replac ing the covering reverently, he turn ed away and passed through the group which clustered, watching him, at tb« door. (TO BK CONTISCBO. | The NMlioniiUud Poll. No doubt tne earliest manufactured toy of all was the doll. Little girls play with dolls everywhere, and have always done so. Indeed, among the Bechuanans and Basutos at the present time married women carry dolls until they are supplanted l>y real children. There Is for Its possessor a curious in dividuality about a doll, altogether un accountable to other people. How oft en may It be observed that a child will neglect the splendid new five shil ling waxen beauty, with its gorgeous finery, and cling faithfully to the dis reputable, noseliws wreck of rags that has been Its favorite hitherto! Home thing causes other children, besides Helen's babies, to dislike "buyed dol lies." even in the presence of an article made of an old towel. This some thing. whatever It Is, Is doubtless a great comfort to the small girls of Mashoualand. It is an Innocent, arm less sort of sffalr, without any such dis figurement as waist or shoulders might cause, no knee Joints to gel uufaMened. and nothing at the end of Its legs lu cause eipense ut the shoemaker's. As regards dress, II Is Inexpensive, tha whole suit of apparel consisting of a p.ece of string threaded through a bole humanely tarred through the head.-* The Strand. Musstly la Type Materiel A new idea in type material Is lbs eowblpatuin of glass with rellululd or hard rubber. The My of the type is made of rubber or celluloid upon tkldi glass lopped letters are flrmly remeal etl lu order that the fare of the type lu the form may not touch, the et Iremr fare la a trifle entailer lhau th* ! body purtloM Ureal ad tea (ages are 1 .tainted fnr thle sort of type among * them being that gtaaa will wear very , much louger then metal aad the prtal ■ ill therefore he sharper aad clearer With the slightly elastic baee and the small sect mas ia ekkk the let lent are made th*re is hut little deeper of krceeage e*ee with *ery rapid wart PALM AGE’S ’ SERMON. “LIKE THE STARS." LAST SUN DAY’S SUBJECT. Iri.n. tin* Test. Iliintwl sli, 3 "They I li.it Turn Many to lUgl.troii. itro sliiill *lito•* mm the SIsrM I orevrr mid I scr.’* VEHV man haw a thousand riMits and a thou Hand branches. HIh root* reach down through all the earth; hla hranehe* apread through all the heaven* He apeak* with voice, with eye, with hand, with foot. HU alienee often U loud a* thunder, and hi* life la a dirge or a doxology There U no such thing a* negative In fluence, We ore all positive lu the place we occupy, tanking tile world better or making It worse, on the Lord'* aide or on the devil's, making up reason* for our hle**edne*H or ban ishment; and we have already done work In peopling heaven or hell. I hear people tell of what they are going to do. A man who ha* burned down a city might a* well talk of aome evil that he expect* to do. or a man who ha* waved an empire might aw well talk of aome good that he expects to do. By the force of your evil Influence you have already consumed Infinite values; or you have hy the power of a right influence, won whole klugdoms lor Cod. It would be al.Kiirtl for me, by elab orate argument, to prove that the world U off the truck. You might a* well stand at the foot of an embank ment, amid the wreck of a capsized rail-train, proving hy elaltoratn argu Adam tumbled over the embankment sixty centuries ago, and the whole rare, In one long train, has gone on tumbling In the same direction. Crash! crash! The only question now Is. hy what leverage can the crushed thing he lifted? By what hammer may the fragment* he reconstructed ? I want to show you how we may turn many to righteousness, and what will he our future pay for so doing. First. We may turn them hy the '•harm of a right example. A child coming from a lllthy home was taught at school lo wash It* face. It went home so much Improved In appearance that Its mother washed her face. And when the father of the household came home and saw the Improvement In domestic appearance, he washed hi* face. The neighbors, happening In, saw the change, and tried the same ex periment, until all that, street was puri fied, and the next street copied Us ex ample, and the whole city felt the re sult of one schoolboy washing his face, That is a fable, by which we set forth that the best way to get the world washed of Its sins and pollution Is to have our own heart and life cleansed and purified. A man with grace In his heart and Christian cheerfulness In til* face and holy consistency In his be havior ls a perpetual sermon; and the sermon differs from others In that It bn* but one head, and the longer It runs the better. Again; We may turn many to right eousness by prayer. There In no such detective as prayer, for no otic can hide away from it. It puts its hand on the shoulder of a man ten thousand miles off. It alights on a ship mid Atlantic. The little child cannot un derstand the law of electricity, or how the telegraph operator, by touching the Instrument here, may dart a message under the seu to another continent; nor can we, with our small Intellect, understand how the touch of a Chris tian's prayer shall Instantly strike u soul on the other side of the earth. You take ship and go to some other country, and get there at eleven o'clock In the morning. You telegraph lo America and the message gets here ut six nVlnck the same moi'lllnc In nlher words It seems to arrive here tive hours before it started. Like that is prayer. God says; "liefore they call, I will hear.” To overtake u loved one on the road, you may spur up a lather ed steed until he shall out rare the one that brought the news to Ghent; but a prnycr shall eateh It at one gallop. A hoy running away from home may take the midnight train from the eonti try village and reach the seaport In tlmn to gain the ship that sails on the morrow; but a mother's prayer will he on the deck to meet him am) in the hammock before he swings into !t, and at the capstan before he winds tin rope around, and on the sea, against the sky, as the vessel plough* on toward It. There Is a mightiness In prayer George Muller prayed u com pany of poor iKiys together, and then he prayed up nn asylum In which they might he sheltered. He turned his face toward Edinburgh and prayed and there came a thousand pounds lie turned his face toward Dublin uud played, and there came » thousand pound* The breath of Klljah'a prayer blew all the eltud* off the sky, anil It waa dry weather The breath of KM jstis prayer blew all the clouds to gethet, and It wa* wet weather, l‘ra> er. In lianlrl’a time walked (he van as a Holt tamer It re*, bed up, and hulk the sun by lie golden bit, and stoppe I It and l he moon by Its allvet hll and stopped It We have all yet in try the full power of prayer, The time will come when the American Church will pray with Its le'* lowsrd Hit Weet amt all tha pralnes end Inland rltlea will surtend er to lirtd, sad will pray with face toward the aea, and all the latands and ship* will become Christian l*a tents who have wayward seas wilt get down on their taw an<l eat "l<ord, | send my hoy home and the tray Mi • ClUloa shall gel right Up from Ike gaming-table, and go down to find out which ship starts first for America. Not one of n* yet knows how to pray. All we have done us yet has only lieen pottering A boy gets hold of his father's saw and hammer, and tries to make sock tiling, but it Is a poor affair that he makes. The father comes and takes the same saw und hammer, and litlllds the house or the ship. In the childhood of our Christian faith, we 1 make I,tit poor work with these weup 1 one of prayer, but when wo come to the stature of men in Christ Jesus, then, uridir tln-so Implements, the j temple of Coil will rise, and the world’s , redemption will be launched. Ood j rates not for the length of our prayers; or the number of our prayers, or the beauty of our prayers, or the place of our prayers; hut It Is the faith In (hem that tells. Believing prayer roars higher than the lark ever sung; plunges deeper than diving-bell ever sank: darts quicker than lightning ever flashed. Though we have used only the hark of this weapon Insteud of the edge, what marvels have been wrought! If saved, we are all the cap tives of some earnest prayer. Would Cod that, In desire for the rescue of souls, we might In prayer lay hold of the resources of the laird Omnipotent! We rosy turn many to righteousness liy Christian admonition. Do not wait until you ran make a foimal speech. Address the one next to you. You will not go home alone to-day. Between ; this and your place of stopping you j may decide the eternal destiny of un Immortal spirit Just one sentence may do the work. Just one question. Just one look. The forms) talk that begins with a sigh, and ends with a canting snulflc, is not what Is wanted, hut the heart throb of a man in dead earnest. There Is not a soul on earth that you may not hrlng to Ood if you rightly go at It, They said Gibraltar could not he tuken. It Is a rock, six teen hundred feet high, and three miles long. But the ICngllsh and Dutch did fake It. Artillery, und sappers and miners, und fleets pouring out volleys ■»» mu, Mini inmnunoi iin ii » * > •» less of danger, rail do anything. The stoutest heart of sin, though It he ris k, and surrounded hy an ocean of trans gression, under Christian bombard ment muy hoist the flag of redemption. Again: Christian workers shall he like the stars in the fact that they have u light Independent of each other, I-ook up at the night, und see each world show its distinct glory, it is not like the conflagration, in which you cannot tell where one Hume stops und another begins. Neptune, Herschel, and Mer cury are as distinct as if each one of them were the only star; sn our in dlvidtisllsiii will not lie lost in heaven. A great multitude yet each one as ob servable, as distinctly recognized, ns greatly celebrated, as If In all the space, from gate lo gale, und from hill lo hill, he were the only Inhabitant; no mixing up no mob no Indiscriminate rush; each Christian worker stundlng out Illustrious all the story of earthly achievement adhering to each one: Ills self-denials anti pains and services and victories published. Before men went out to the lu:>i wnr, the orators fold them that they would all be remember ed hy their country, und their names lie commemorated In poetry and In song; hut go to the graveyard In Rich mond, und you will find there six thou sand graves, over each of which Is the Inscription, "Unknown." The world lines not remember Us heroes; hut there will he no unrecognized Christian worker In heaven. Kadi one known hy all; grandly known; known hy accla mation: all the past story of work for Cod gleaming In cheek and brow and foot and palm. They shall shine with distinct light as the Hturs, forever und ever. Again: Christian workers shall shim like the sluts in dusters. In looking up, you find the world/* In fami ly circles. Brothers and sisters they take hold of each other's hands and dance In groups. Orion In a group. The Pleiades In a group. The solar system Is only a company of children, with bright faces, gathered around one great fireplace. The worlds do not straggle off. They go In squadrons and fleets huIIIiil' thromch Immensity Ho Christian workers In heaven will dwell in neighborhoods and clusters I am sure some people I will like In heaven a great deal better than otb ers. Yonder Is a couatellatlou of stately Christians. They lived on earth by rigid ri:lo. They never laugh ed, They walked every hour anxious ' lest they should lose their dignity. 'I hey loved God. and yonder they shine In brilliant constellation Yet i should not long to uet Into that panieului group. Yonder Is a constellation of Hinall-hrufttd ChrutlniH asteroids In ’ the eternal astronomy. While sonic 1 souls go up from Christian buttle I and blue like Mars these asteroids dart a feeble ray like Y’esta. Yonder la u •tonstellstIon of martyrs, of aiHsales. of patriarchs, Our souls, ns they go up t heaven, will seek out the most con ! genial society. I Yonder Is a constellation almost iticr i ry with the play of light. On earth i they were full of sympathies and sougs and tears anti raptures and coBgiaittle tlons. When they prayed their words took fire, when they sang, the tune e mid uni hold them, when they wept over a world's woes, they sot,bed as If heart .broken; when they worked for Christ, th*y named with enthusiasm 1 Yonder they are olrcie of light! ton> stellatlon of |ay! galaxy of Are! lilt that you and I, by that trace which can transform the worst lute the beet wight at Iasi sail In the wnhe of that fleet and wheel In that glorlooe group ! as the stare for ever aud ever! Again: Christian workers will skint j like ib, atars In awtftueew of mutton , the worlds do not slap to shin* There are ao Used stars sate aa to retail** teietttoa The star apparently must Bcsd a tee I house ads of ntllee e minute The astronomer aetan hit tstseeup* Cm aa alpeaetueh. leaps trum world crag ta sitrld erag and tads so star stand ing still. The chamois hunter has to fly to - atrh his prey, hut not so swift Is hli> name as that whlrh the scientist tries to shoot through the tower of ob servatory. l.lks petrels mid-Atlantic, that seem to came front no shore, amt be bound to no landing place—flying, flying -to these great flocks of worlds rest not as they go wing and wing nge after age for ever and ever. The eagle bastes to its prey, but we shall In speed beat the eagles. Yon have no Heed the velocity of (lie siv horse under whose fed the miles slip like a smooth ribbon, and, us he passes, the four hoofs strike the earth In such quick beat your pulses take the same vibration Hut all these things are not. swift In comparison with the motion of which 1 speak. The moon movssi fit,000 miles In a day. Yonder, Nep tune flashes oil 11,000 miles In an hour. Yonder. Mercury goes 109,000 miles In' an hour. Ho like the stars the Chris tian shall shine In swiftness of motion You bear now of father or mother or child sick 1.000 miles away, and It takes, you l wo days to get to them. You hear' of some case of suffering Dial demands your immediate attention, but It takes, you an hour to get theie, Ob, the Joy wlicii you shall,In fulfilment of the text, take starry speed,and be equal to 100,00f> miles an hour! Having on earth got ' used to Christ Inn work, you will not! quit when death strikes you. You will; only take on more velocity. There is a dying olilld In Ixmdun and Its splrlti must he taken up to find; you are there In an Instant to do It. There Is a! young man In New York to he arrested from going Into thill gate of sin; you‘ are there In an Instant to arrest hint.. Whether with spring of foot, or stroke of wing oi by the force of some new* law that shall hurl you to the spoti where you would go, I know not; but, my text suggests velocity. All space open before you with nothing to hinder! you In mission of light and love and' Joy, you shall shine In swiftness of mo tion as Ibe stars for aver and ever. Again Christian workers, like the stars, shine In magnitude. The must Illiterate man knows that these things In the sky, looking like gilt buttons,, arc areal musses of matter To weigh them, one would think that it would re quire *i ale* with a pillar hundred* oC thouaand* of mile* high, and chutlmi hundred* of thousand* of rnllea long,! and aL the bottom the chalna ha*lna on either aide hundred* of thouaand* of! mile* wide, and that then omnipotence! alone could put the mountain* Into the! aoule* and the hills Into the balunc*-' llut puny mail ha* been equal to thi* undertaking, and ha* act a little bal-; mice on hi* geometry, and weighed! world agiiluat world. Yea, he ha* pull-: ed out hla irieaNurlng line, and an-. noiiDred that ller*che| I* 3*1,000 iiiIIimo In diameter, Saturn 79,000 mile* Ini diameter, and Jupiter 89,000 mite* In; diameter, and lhat the Miaalleal pearh on the baocb of heaven la Immenao lie youd all IniiiRltmllon. Ho all they whir have tolled for ChrlHt on earth aliall* rlae up to u magnitude of privilege, aiul> a Magnitude of Htrength, and a magnl tilde of bollne**, and a magnitude ofi joy; and the weakeat uulnt In glory be come greater than all that wo can Im agine of an archangel. Brethren, "It doth not yet appear what we shall he," Wladotn that obeli know everything; wealth lhat *hall poKHeaa everything; Htrength that aliall do everything, glory that shall etreum acilliu evrything! We *hall not he like a taper Met. in a elck man'* window, or a bundle of atlckr. kindled on tbe beach to warm a ahlverlng crew; but you mu*t take the diameter and the cir cumference of the world If you would get any Idea of the gieatpe** of our eatatc when we ahull ahlne a* the tar* for ever ind ever. Igiatly and coming to thl* point my mind alrnoal break* down undet the contemplation like the »lar*, all j Christian worker* aliall ahlne In dura tion The nit tut iilara lhat look down ! upon u* looked down upon the Chrla j tluti whephenla. The meteor that I hiiw Mashing acre** the *k> the other night, I wonder if It waa not the aami one that pointed down to where Jean* lay In the manger, and If, having pointed j out hla birthplace, It ha* ever »lnce ! watching to nee how the world would treat him! When Adam awoke In tlie gulden In lh<' cool of the day, he Haw jioniing out through the duak ol the ' evening the Hattie worldH that greeted ' uk laat night. In Independence hull In an old ernekad hell that founded the Hignature oi the Declaration of Independence. You can ' not ring It now; Inn UiIh great chime of silver hellr that ►trike in the dome of night, ring out in tut aweet a tone .•* when Uod awting them at the Creation, latok up at night, and know ihut the white I! I lev that hloom In all the hang ing gardenia of out King are century lilautu not binotic n„ once in a hundred 1 yc.iia, hut through all the centuries The tar at which tl.e icarluer look* tonight wua the light hy whhh the tthlpa of Ti»tah‘«h wire guided nci'oea the Mediterranean. and the Venctlnn flotilla found i Into t.eitittle Thelt at tour la . bright tonic It a» win in ancient tattle, the alaiu m their rouraee fought ataiiut tdaera. liltiOl Unlit, i ill Hit, Numli* of »*tar uic..lj have he** lead# to teat the »pe-. >1 at I deiilnattou of cor tod tad I lea thrown Into I la mw at tar ou* portion ni the world Th* it'ovt r< mark a to* ►tuaylr Hrr inaul ol w.i» lltal lit * •;» t» hot tie trawled g,iot< nil lea It* atom I wo year' and a halt roughly at the tale of ala and a half uni** a Jay It trawled from ft deg. Miulh latitude and W dag teat lougtftud* tu \V«»wn» Anatralta gaiua ai*ra'* nMitm t aut tlwuit Kiupp, the gowt iloaun tram Htwaicr. ***** fur vtalttug card* very thtg ahewta of rultvd trow The rWk fmd frown* «>« on* halt the world, and th* »*ih«r half.
