Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About The Loup City northwestern. (Loup City, Neb.) 189?-1917 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1897)
CHAPTER XIII.—(Coxtixi l M They passed from room to ro« >, find ing each one gloomier than its prede cessor. The old man pointed <i iit the pictures and various relics witch he thought might he Interestln) . and Caussldlere glanced about hit with eyes like a hawk. As they pub, ‘d on ward bis face became less rad!tint; a frown of weariness and disappoint ment began to cloud his brow. At length the whole of the castle had been examined, and the two men began to descend the quaint oaken stairs. Catn sldlere, lingering as If In no haste to go, still talked pleasantly and glanced Impatiently about him. Presently they passed the half open door of a kind of boudoir. Caussldlere, who had looked keenly In, paused sud denly. "Surely," he said, "1 know that face! The old man went forward and pushed open tile door, and the French man, following closely behind him. en tered the room and stood thoughtfully regarding the object which had arrest ed his attention. It wus a picture, a good sized painting, which hung above the mantelpiece, " 'TIs Marjorie Annan," explained the old man, "foster daughter to the minu ter. 'Twas painted by Johnnie Suther land. The mistress bought it because she likes the lassie, and because it bus a favor o’ herse! ’,’’ The Frenchman stared. "Like Miss Hetberlngton?” "Ay, like hersel.” returned the old man. "You’d be no denying itself If you saw the picture In that press. I Is Miss Hetberlngton at seventeen or eighteen years of age. "I should like to see the picture.” “Aweel, aweel, you should see It; but the press is locked and Mysle has the key.” • You could not get It, 1 supposeV "Ay, 1 could get it," returned Handle, still under the influence of the French man’s gold. "Bide awhile and you shall see.” He shuffled off, leaving the French man alone. • The moment he was gone Caussl dlere's face and manner underwent a complete change. He sprang from the room, as *t were, with cat-like fury, turned over papers, opened drawers ransacking everything completely. Al last he came upon a drawer which would not a pen; it was In a writlnj cabinet, the counterpart of one he had at home; he pressed a hidden spring; in a moment the drawer flew open, and Caussldlere was rapidly going over th< papers which It contained. Suddenly he started, drew forth « paper, opened, and read It. A gleam ol light passed over his face. He folded the paper, thrust it Into the lnnei pocket of his coat and closed the draw er. When the old man returned with his key he found Caussldlere, with hit hands behind him, regarding the pic ture of Marjorie Annan. CHAPTER XIV. HILE the persever ing Caussidisre wa: Inspecting the in terior of Annandah Castle, Miss Heth erlngton was busllj making inquiriet about him at Dum fries. To her own dla appointment sh< learned nothing t( the Frenchman's discredit, but, deter mined to break up all relations betwcei him and Marjorie, she visited ihi manse the next day and secured Mr Lorraine's consent that Marjorie shoult uisconuuue ner r reni n lessons tor tin present. This done, she ordered the coach nmu to drive to Dumfries. When they reached the town the; drove straight to t'anssldlere'f ludg ing. and with a very determlufit fan the lady of the Castle descends!. .tut walke'd up the doorsteps. She knocked sharply at the door which was immediately opened by . servant girl. "I'm seeking the gentleman ilia lodges here the Kratich teacher," di said, stepping without ceremony ini the lobby. C'sussldwre, who was within fut hi l.eud out of the doot of Ills riaim. uni recognised hU visitor at once with . luaming smile |»ray step this way. Ml<% Hethwriug ton," he cried "I siu delighted to sc you!** she followed Him Intu his llttls It tlngroom. and stisal leaning upofi he staff and looking at h'm with hsr Id e I ryes. while he drew *vrwuti I (lul »ml lagged her to he M.v.si kmlil rd grimly and glam-d nj d i,^ spot meni «l Ik* tabkr Hit. m wi* •wondeuce at the tuns, * I ..ct • id there, at th* row and is *y*i which peeped la at the otarn * tot. w rheit she walked to th* ebstr It" lit' are pared lor he and sluing down t icked at him itidly agaia Sot la th m*at daunted he stood emMlag gl hei sad watting k» her in ny’rhl ha tiWilarew At hull ah* *|mh* la her i*1 > “itiwt gad I <* »* *' how ci cah e t Met hut* kaa« swtag t« »e far ku r>—rh Mtaaoa* ' As eha aahed th> unset tow Wm ll«k Wftrfti-a drew aut sa old fsektuaed mil I purse and began examining l a eon tents. Finding that the Frenchman did not reply, she looked up and repeat ed It. "How muekle In Marjorie Annan ow ing ye? Tell me that. If you please." "Nothing, Miss Hetherlilgton,” he re plied. "Naethlng? Then Marjorie has paid ye already, maybe.” "Yes. she has paid me,” roturne j Caussldlere, quietly. Naturally enough his manner hat changed, and his courteous smile bad given way to u cold expression of hauteur, tempered with gentle Indig nation. "How muekle has she paid y< ?" de manded the lady of the castle. "She has paid me,” answered the Frenchman, "with her sympathy, with her sweet society. I have not taken money from her. I shall never take It. My labor. Miss Hetherlngton. has been a labor of love.” The lady's eyes flashed, and putting up her purse, she uttered an Impatient exclamation. "Nae doubt,” she cried. "But from this duy forward your labor's done. I have come here to pay you your hire, and to tell you with my aln mouth that Marjorie Annan’s French lessons are ended, and that If she needs nuir she'll get them from another teacher.” Caussldlere flushed angrily, but still preserved his composure. "May 1 ask a question, Miss Hether lngton ?” "If you please." "I should like to know what authority you have to act on behalf of my dear pupil? 1 don’t ask out of mere curl oslty; but you would oblige me by in forming me If the young lady herself bus requested you to come here on so peculiar an errand?" "The young lady?—a bairn who kens naethlng of the world." “But, pardon rae, had yon her au thority to dismiss me, or that of her guardian?” “The balm's a bairn, and the minis ter's old and foolish. I've ta'en the business Into my own hands." "Indeed!” exclaimed Caussldlere, still sarcastically smiling. “Ay, indeed!" repeated the lady, with growing irritation. "And I warn you, once for a', to cease meddling with the lassie. Ay, ye may smile! But you'll smile, maybe, on the wrong side of your face, my friend, If ye dlnna tuk' the warning I bring ye, and cease mo lesting Marjorie Annan." It was clear that Caussldlere was amused, instead of smiling now, he laughed outright, still most politely, but . with a self satisfaction wnlch was very irritating to his opponent. Subduing his amusement with an efllort, he quietly took a chair, and sat down opposite Miss Hetherlngton. "Weel,” she cried, striking with her staff upon the floor, "whut’s your an swer to my message?” "You must give me a little time, you have so tuken me by surprise. In the first place, why do you object to my friendship for the young lady? My In terest in her is great; I respect and UUiUil O l uv/oim , *» u/ ' MU we not be friends? Why can I not con tinue to be Uer teacher?" "A bonny teacher! A braw friend! Do you think I'm blind?" "1 think,” said Caussldlera, with a hum king bow, "that your eyes are very wide open, Miss Hetherington. You perceive quite clearly that 1 love Mbs Annan.” The lady started angrily. • What?" she cried. ‘‘I love her, and hope some day, with your permission, to make her my wife.” Trembling from head to foot, Mirs Hetherington started to her feet. "Your wife!” she echoed, as |f thun derstruck. "Why not?” asked Cuussldlere, calm ! ly. *T nm not rich, but I am u gentle man. wad my connections are honor able, I assure you. Why, then, should you distrust me so? If you will per 1 mlt mo. I think l can give yon very good reasons fur upprovliiR of my union with Miss Annan.” ‘ "How daur ye think of if" cried Miss Hetherington. "Murry that bairn' I forbid ye even to come near htr. to I speak wl' her again.” Caiissblleie shrugged his should >rs. "Let us return,If you pleat-*, to where we began You have not yet lufortued me by what right you attempt to inter fere with the hupplnos of my dear pn pit ” Hy what right*" I'reelsely What may lie the na ture of your relat nafet'i n h the y mug lady?” A a he spoke he Rial ti.s tie.* us* rdy opon her, to her tdiatous *-n* <a,, tv>el Her pale face giew toiler Isti i •'« I am ylarpn b Annan a ft lead,” >tl I answered, after a imusc ttf that I win aware. Him Hr. genus , I'tu I aw aware aieo that you bate teas aery hind to her that tug t< • f .Misted her IhMS thtldhoaHl ta ttg htnyw •ugts uut of your own p s kat May | I ash without offegM hats you dugs II this uut of pure phiUnthtopi hgt meg I you hats at*. h a thrrllabl# heart? r l He stltl watehsd her with Ha ten a • half sareastu penetrating i— k lisp , I twkai i aasuogi la. rsased and she lid II got reply, hut her lip* hs-ew* dry. »*4 she moistened them nervously with the Up of her tongue. Suddenly his manner changed and he rose smiling from his seat. "You are fatigued." he said, politely. ‘•|>*t me offer yon a glass of wine." She declined his offer with an angry gesture, und moved toward tbe door. "I hue warned you,” rhe raid In a *■» *' voice. "I hae warned you ami forPh den you. If ye didn’t heed my wr;-» Ing I'll maybe And some other m*.tn: to bring you to your senses. ” She would have left the house, but quietly approaching the door, he t-et h!: back against It and blocked the way. “Pray do not go yet." he said. "Par don me, hut you must not. You have given mo your message, my dear Miss Hetherington; now let me ask you to hear mine." "What's your will with n:e?” ►iv cried, Impatiently. "Will you sit and listen a little while?" "I'll stand whero I am. Wed?” "First let me thank you for the k'ral n<ss of your servant In showing roc over the beautiful castle where you >iv I am Interested In all old houses, and yours Is charming." She stared at him In blank amazi ment. "The Castle? when were you there . " "Just before 1 returned to Dumfries. I regretted that you were not at home, In .order tlj/it I might ask your kind permission; but In your absence I took the liberty of making a reeonnaissam I came away delighted with the place The home of your ancestors, I pre sume?” The words were Innocent enough, hut the speaker's manner was far from a; Muring, and his eyes, keenly Axed on hers, still preserved that, penetrating light almost n threat. "Dell tak' the man. Why do yon glower at me like that? You enter'd my house like a thief, then, when I w.ia awa'?” "Ah, do not say that; It Is ungener ous. I went merely as an'amateur to sec the ruins, and I found—-what, shall I say? so much more than I expect ed.” He paused,while she stood trembling; then he continued; "The Castle Is so picturesque,the ruin so Interesting, and the pictures— the pictures are ho romantic and so strange. Ah. It Is a privilege, indeed, to have such a heritage and such an ancestry; to belong to a family so great, so full of honor; to have a 'scutcheon without one blot since the day when the first founder wore It on his shield.” It was clear that he was playing with her, laughing at her. As he proceeded, hla manner became almost, aggressive In Its studied insolence, Its polite sar casm. Unable any longer to restrain her anger, Miss Hetherlngton, with outstretched hand, moved toward ’he door. “Stand awa’, and let me pass." He obeyed her In a moment, and with a profound bow drew aside; but as she passed him, and put her trembling hand upon the door handle, he said In a low voice close to her ear: “It would be a pity, perhaps, after all. to quarrel with one who knows so much.” She turned furiously, and fixed be; eyes upon him. "What's that?" she cried. “Who knows so much, let us say, about the morals of your bonny Scot land as compared with those of la belle France.” "What do you mean? Speak out! What do ye mean?" He smiled, and bending again close to her ear, he whispered something which drove the laBt tint of blood from her cheek, and made her stugger and gasp as If about to fall. Then, before she could recover herself, or utter a single word, he said aloud, with the utmost politeness: "And now, my dear lady, will you stay a little while longer, and ta'k with me about Marjorie Annan?” (TO HE CONTIS CEO.) ABOUT SUMMER DISHED M/i. ttorrr'M Way of ft •(luring tit* Cook ing to tho Minimum. “Mu' h summer cooking may be dons nn the i n at u 11 mi>n t nlun ** urrlluu Utu 4 T. Rorer on Summer Dishes With Lit* tip Fire," In thp I.utiles' Home Journal. "If uspsrngus la ortlerptl for today’s din ner. cook double quantity, and serve Hint remaining for tomorrow's salad. From a fricassee of chicken for dinner the giblets tnay bp served for gitilet stew for the next tlay's luncheon. You will thereby gain a dish without extra cost. Rotted fish, with cucumber sauce, may lie served as a first course in place of soup, but If the latter is preferred, a quick soup may be made by stirring beef extract lilto boiling water, and sea sou 1 UK It with celery seed and bay leaf. Where light meats are to be served some of the cream soups are not out of place, as they coutaln nourishment eas ily digested Cream of potato, cream of |iea. tomato, celery, asparagus, rice, squash, till umber and oma beau soups are all very aeeeptabh •« hot weather, lulling the heated lert, he roast joint might be served cold. s' eiy garnished with edible green* NO •» u hot vege iabbs might be netted The hot meat dishes should be light and qul.hly c yoked lb away with the large Joints, the pot rousts aud the heav bode, and .ni ctitate chops smothered beef, roiled | steak broiled steak It union, steak ur , tnrktsb meat t ails dtuffvd . sWtaM.’s iilll be served occasionally in the glare *f meat egg plant staled with meat , sad bread crumb*, sad t»mat> an and tqush prepaid In the msm way rttow ccHihlaa makes III ewe vegwtgtUUa palatable and wholesome, ' Heiigtna nil howl love la fanaUtraw Heit«t»a with love la a loagwe wf Ire Ne« M hi a ;t» wder Methodiet t ia . v aaait. O. TALMAGE’S SERMON. DYNAMITE IS NOW UNDER OUR GREAT CITIES. from the Text: "The Hoar Out of tba Wood Doth Wait* It, and the Wild lleaxt of th* rield Doth Devour It” I’xaltnx MO : 18. Y thl* homely but expressive figure, David sets forth the bad I n fluenccs which In olden time broke in upon God’s herl t a g e, as with swine's foot tramp ling, and as with swine's snout up rooting the vine yards of prosperity. What was true then Is true now. There have been enough trees of righte ousness planted to overshadow the whole earth, had It not been for the axe-men who hewed them down. The temple of truth would long ago have been completed, had It not been for *he Iconoclasts who defaced the wall* and battered down the pillars. The whole earth would have been all B-uhoi of ripened elustera, had It not been that, "the hoar has wasted It and the wild beast of the field devoured It." I propose to point out to you those whom 1 consider to be the destructive clnercs of society. First, the public crlni'i-als. You ought not to be sur prised that these people make up a large prr portion of many communities. In 18C9, of the forty-nine thousand paopla who were Incarcerated In the prisons of the country, thirty-two thousand were of foreign birth. Many of them were the very desperadoes of society, oozing Into the slums of our cities, watting for an opportunity to riot and steal and debauch, Joining the lav,« gang of American thugs and cut throats. There are In our cities, people whose entire business In life Is to com mit crime. That is as much their business as jurisprudence or medicine or merchandise Is your business. To It they bring all tli*»Ir energies of body, mind vmd soul, and they look upon the Interregnums which they spend In prbop as so much unfortunate loss of time, Just as you look upon an attack of Influenza or rheumatism which fas tens you In the house for a few days. It Is their lifetime business to pick pockets, and blow up safes, and shop lift, and ply the panel game, and they have as much pride of skill In their business as you have In yours when you upset the argument of an oppos ing counsel, or cure a gun-shot frac ture which other Burgeons have given up, or foresee a turn In the market so you buy goods Just before they go up twenty per cent. It Is their business to commit crime, and I do not suppose that once In a year the thought of the Immorality strikes them. Added to these professional criminals, American and foreign, there Is a large clas» of men who are more or less Industrious In crime. Drunkenness Is responsible for much of the theft, since It con fuses a man’s Ideas of property, and he gets his hands on things that do not belong to him. Rum Is responsi ble foi much of the assault and bat tery, Inspiring men to sudden bravery, which they must demonstrate, though It bo on the face of the next gentle man. They are harder In heart and more Infuriate when they come out of Jail than when they went In. Many of the people who go to prlRon go again and again and again. Some years ago, of fifteen hundred prisoners who, during the year had been in Sing Sing, four hundred had been there before. In a house of correction in the country, where during a certain reach of time then had been five thousand people, more than three thousand had been there before. So, In one case the oris on, and In the other case the house of correction, left them just us bad as they were before. The secretary of one of the benevolent societies of New Yorl; saw a lad fifteen years of age who had spent three years of his life In prison, and he said to the lad, "What have they done for y ou to make you better?” "Well," replied the lad, "the first time 1 was brought up before the Judge he said, 'You ought to be ashamed of yourself.' And then I committed a crime again, and I was brought up before the same Judge, anil he said, 'You rascal!' And after a while I committed some other crime, and 1 was brought before the same Judge, and he said, 'You ought to be hanged*" That Is all they had done for him In the way of reformation and salvation. "Oh," you say, "these peo ple are Incorrigible," I suppose there nra hundreds of persons this day lying In the prlBou bunks who would leap m> »• tie* nrnspeet of reformation, If society would only allow them u way Into decency aud respectability. "Ob,” yuu say, "I have no patience with these rogue* " I a»k you tu reply, how much betlei would you have been under the same circumstances? Suppose your mother had been a blasphemer and your father a sot, and you had started t|f« with a body stuffed with evil pro clivities, and you had spent much >f your time In s cellar amid obscenities and cursing, and If at leg years of asc y o | had been C II)pe!If d In go out slid steal, battered and binged at night If you came In without any spulle, and •ti|.|H>..e your early manhood and w< M anhood hod been covered with rag * and tttth. and decent so*iety had turned tie bach tipon you aud left yuu to c»«t»ort with vagabonds and wharf* rata how much better would you have fe*"W? I have no sympathy with that emuttve > lemetw y which would let crime run loose, or which would Sit in the gallery of a court room wcoping b«pause eume hard* hearsed wretch is brought to Just i.e, but | do say thst the safety sa.l Ilfs of the .ummwnlly demand mors potential mluencsn in behalf of Ihees offenders I stepped into one of the prteotM of one of our great cities, and the air was like that of the Black Hole of Cal cutta. As the air swept through the wicket It almost knocked me down. No sunlight. Young men who had com mitted their first crime crowded In among old offenders. I sow there one woman, with a child almost blind, who had been arrested for the crime of poverty, who was waiting until the slow law could take her to the alms house, where she rightfully belonged; but she was thrust in there with her child, amid tho most abandoned wretches of the town. Muny of the offenders In that prison sleeping on the floor, with nothing but n vermin covered blanket over them. Those people, crowded, and wan, and wasted, and half-sufforated, and Infuriated. I said to the men, "How do you stand It here?” "God knows." said one man; "wo have to stand It.” Oh, they will pay you when they get out! Where they burned down one house, they will burn three. They will strike deeper the assasstn's knife. They are this minute plotting worse burglaries. Many of the Jails are the best places I know of to manufacture footpads, vagabonds and cut-throat*. Yale Col lege Is not so well calculated to make scholars, nor Harvard so well calcu lated to make scientists, nor Prince ton so well calculated to make theolo gians, us the American Jail Is calcu lated to make criminals. All that these men do not know of crime ufter they have been In that style of dungeon for some time, satanlc machination cannot teach them. Kvcry hour these Jails stand, they challenge the I/Ord Al mighty to smite the cities. I call upon the people to rise In I heir wrath and demand a reformation. I call upon the Judges of our courts to expose the In famy. I demand. In behalf of those In Cnrcerated prisoners, fresh air and clear sunlight, and. In the name of him who had not where to lay his head, a couch to rest on at night. In the Insufferable stench und sickening sur roundings of some of tho prisons, there Is nothing but disease for the body. Idiocy for the mind, and death to the soul. Stifled air and darkness and ver min never turned a thief Into an hon est mun. We want men like John Howard and Sir William illackstone, and women like Klizaheth Fry, to do for tIn prisons of the United States what those people did In other days ■ »**v i” mwiin vt kiikhiimi, l luiiun God for what Jaaae T. Hopper and Doctor Wlnea and Mr Harrla and ftcere* of othera have done In the way of prlaon reform; but we want aome thlng more radical before upon our cltler will come the bleaalng of him who aald: "I waa In prlaon and ye 0(1 rrw, nntn VMM •* In this class of uprooting and de vouring population and untrustworthy officials, "Woe unto thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes drink In the morning!’ It Is a great calamity to a city when had men get into public authority. Why wax It that in New York there was such un paralleled crime between 1866 and 1871? It was because the Judges of po lice In that city, for the most part, were as corrupt us the vagabonds that tame before them for trial. These were the days of high carnival for elec tion frauds, assassination and forgery. We had the "Whisky Iting," and the "Tammany Iting,” and the "Erie King." There was one man during those years that got one hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars In one year for serving the public. In a few years it was estimated thut there were fifty millions of public treasure squan dered. In those times the criminal had only to wink at the Judge, or his luw yer would wink for him, and the ques tion was decided for the defendant. Of the eight thousand people arrested In that city in one year, only three thou sand were punished. These little mat ters were "fixed up," while the Inter ests of society were "fixed down." You know as well as I that a criminal who escapes only opens the door of other criminalities. It is no compliment to public authority when we have In all the cities of the country, walking abroad, men and women notorious for nKlininullt v iintirhlmixxl of iontl,... nu, . .. are pointed out to you In the street by day. There you find what are called the ‘'fences," the men who stand be tween me miei ana me noncst man. fheltering the thief, and at great price handing over the goods to the owner to whom they belong. There you will find those who arc called the "skin ners,” the men who hover around Wall street and Stale street and Third street with great sleight of hand in bonds and storks. There you find the fu neral thieves, the people who go uud sit dow n and mount w ith families and pick their pockets. Ami there you ttnd the "cotilldence men," who borrow money of you because they have a dead child ill the house, und want to bury It, when they never had a house nor n family, or they want U> go to Hngluud and get a large property there and they waul you to pay ihetr way. and they will send the money bark by the very ueit mull. There are the harbor thieves." the "shoplifters," lie | "pickpockets," famous all over the cities Hundreds of them with their faces In the "Itogues gallery," yet do lug nothing for the Iasi live or ten years but deft uud society and escape Justice, When these people go Ultat 1 rested amt unpunished, it Is pulling a 1 high pic to i toil upon vice, and saying | to the young t mutual* of this country < ‘What a safe thing II is to W a great | criminal l.rt the law swoop upon ; them? I art U he known In this voutt | try that trim* will have wo quarter. 1 that the detectives are after it, lhat | the polite > Ink is twins brandished that the Iron door of the prison Is he M»g Opened that the Judge Is fendy t» ; tail Ike I ass' Too greed leniency lu : rrtnilnats is too great severity to no • • * In Ihsen Ametkan close whose try of waal I in'stptei tfcsrs are hundreds j end tkuwaands of honest pour who are • depewdewt upon individual slip and state charities. If all their voice*, could come up at once. It would be a. groan that would shako the founda tions of the city, and bring all earth and heaven to the rescue. But for the most part It suffers* unexpressed. It sits lu silence, gnashing Its teeth and sucking the blood of Its own arteries, waiting for the Judgment day. Oh, I should not wonder if on that day It would be found out that some of us had some things that belonged to them; some extra garment whleh might have made them comfortable on cold days; some bread thrust Into the ash barrel that might have appeased their hunger for a little while; some wasted candle or gas Jet that might have kindled up Ihelr darkness, some fresco on the celling that would have given them a roof; some Jewel which, brought to that orphan girl In lime, might have kept her from being crowd ed off the precipices of an unclean life; some New Testament that would have told them of him who "came to seek and to save that which was lost!" Oh, this wave of vagrancy and hunger and nakedness that dashes against our front doorstep, I wonder If you hear II and see It us much as I hear uiid see It! 1 have been almost frenzied with the perpetual cry for help from all . classes and from all nations, knocklngV^^j knocking, ringing, ringing. If Hi roofs of all the houses of destitution could be lifted so we could look down Into them Just as God looks, whose nerve* would he strong enough to stand It? And yet there they are. The sewing women, some of them In hun ger and cold, working night after night, until sometimes the blood spurts from nostril and lip. How well their grief was voiced by that despair ing woman who stood by her Invalid husband and Invalid child, and said to the elty missionary, "I am down hearted, Everything's against, us; and ^ then there are other things." "What other things?” said the city mission ary, "Ob,” she replied, "my sin." "What, do you mean by t.hut?" "Well,” »h>. said "I never hear or see anything good. It's work from Monday morn ing to Saturday night, and then when Sunday cornea I can’t go out, and I walk the floor, and It makes me trem ble to think that I have got to meet Clod. Ob, sir, It's so hard for us. We have to work so, and then we have so much trouble, and then we are getting along so poorly, and see this wee lit tle thing growing weaker and weaker; and then to think wo are getting no nearer to Ood, hut floating away from him—oh, sir, 1 do wish I was ready to die!" 1 should not wonder If they hail a good deal better time than wo In the future, to make up for the fact that they had such a hud time here. It. would be Just like Jesus to say ’Tome up and take the highest seats. You suffered with me on earth; now lie glorified .with me In heaven." O thou weeping One of Bethany! O thou dy ing One of the cross! Have mercy on the starving, freezing, homeless poor of these greut cities." 1 want you to know who are the up rooting classes of society. I want you to he more discriminating In your charities. I want your hearts open . with generosity, and your hands open ’ with charity. I want you to he made the sworn friends of all city evangeli zation, and all newsboys’ lodging houses, and all children’s aid societies. Aye, I want you to send the Dorcas society all the cast-off clothing, that, under the skillful manipulation of the wives and mothers and sisters and daughters, these garments may he fit ted on the cold, hare feet, und on the shivering limbs of the destitute. I should not wonder If that hat that yon give should come back a Jeweled coronet, or that garment that you this week hand out from your wardrobe should mysteriously be whitened and somehow wrought into the Savior’s own robe, so in the last clay he should run his hand over it and say, "I was naked and ye clothed me..*’ That would be putting your garments to glorious uses. kindly (Jod has dealt with you In your comfortable home*, at your well-filled table*, and at the warm register*, and to have you look at the round faces of your children, and then, at the re view of Clod's goodness to you, go to your room, and lock the door, and kneel down and xay, “o !,ord, I hav# been an Ingrate; make mo thy child, O l.ord, there are so many hungry and unclad and unsheltered today. I thank Thee that all my Ife thou ha* taken ^ such good care of me. (> I,ord. there are so many sick and crippled chil dren today, l thank Thee mine are well, some of them on earth, some of them in heaven. Thy goodness, O l.ord, breaks me down. Take me once and forever. Sprinkled as I was many yeuis ago at the altar, while my moth er Itehl tue, now I rottawrale my soul to Thee In u holitt baptism of repent ing tears. " Kor tinners, I. rd. thou ram st to bleed, Vnd l ilt a sinner vile Indeed; laird, I believe Tb) ara <• Is free; t) magnify that grace in on " •• ~P»ha*,“ home une has found out Hut ' I'ttu ' Campbell • fatuous retort ]'>tia«v abate tbs const tlutto'i lu'wwen I (t tends * * was anticipated two hundred | t««it ago by no less dignthed a pep. ■ uiagc tnan aokn lieldm. Ibe witty and learned Kwgltsh law yet II:, vvr stun read* I He house of "oil,utott c J Is called the lower house lu twenty ( tmtlUmcot hut wbat’a twenty act* •I parliament « uu.ua friends* New Vuth rrttmwe He who help* a > hud help* humanity with w dtafiwetwwsn, with an imm«4t' aimesa sink no other help given tv i human . realm** m any efber •>*§ • „f j their bumsu Itte cwn poswtbt* gtvn I again (Hilldps ttruug*