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| The Bow of Orange Ribbon |
I A ROMANCE 0^ NEW YORK |
| Dy AMELIA E. DAHR. |
+ Author of “Friend Olivia," "I, fhou end the Other Cne,” Eto. +
♦ Copyright, 1886, lay DwiA, Mead and Company. X
CHAPTER V.—Continued.
Nell was intensely angry, and his
dark eyes glowed beneath their
dropped lids with a passionate hate.
But he left his father with an as
sumed coldness and calmness.
The sarcastic advice annoyed him
and he wanted time to fully consider
his ways. He was no physical cow
ard; he was a fine swordsman, and ho
felt that it would he a real joy to Stand
with a drawn rapier between him- f
and his rival. But what if rev tige
cost him too much? What if he new
Hyde, and had to leave his love and
his home, and his flue business pros
pects? To win Katherine, and to
marry her, in the face of the man
whom he felt that lie detested; Would
not that he the best of all "satb-iai
tions?”
He walked about the streets, dis
cussing these points with himself till
the shops ail closed, and on the stoops
of the houses in Maiden I.ane and Lib
erty street there were merry parties
of gossiping belles and beaux. Tie n
he returned to Broadway.
Still debating with himself, he came
to a narrow road which ran to the
river, along the southern side of Van
Heemskirk's house. Coming swiftly
up it, as if to detain him, was Capt.
Hyde. The two men looked at > arh
other defiantly; and Neil said with a
•cold, meaning emphasis:
"At your service, sir.”
"Mr. Semple, at your service,"—and
touching his sword,—“to the very hi.;.
«ir.”
"Sir, yourr to the same extremity.'
"As for the cause, Mr. Semple, here
it is;” and he pushed aside his em
broidered coat in order to exhibit to
Neil the how of orange ribbon be
neath it.
"I will dye it crimson in your bit"!
said Neil passionately.
"In the meantime, I have the fel
of wearing it;’’ and with an offensively
-deep salute, he terminated the inter
view.
CHAPTER VI.
At the Sword'3 Point.
Neil's first emotion was not so much
one of anger as of exultation. "I shall
have him at my sword’s point,” he
kept saying to himseif as he turned
from Hyde to Van Heemskirk's house.
Katherine sat upon the steps of the
stoop. Touching her, to arouse her
attention, Neil said, "Come with me
down the garden, my love.”
She looked at him wonderingly, but
rose at his request and gave him her
hand.
Then the tender thoughts which had
lain so deep in his heart flew to his
lips, and he woo'd her with a fervor
and nobility as astonising to himself
as to Katherine. He reminded her of
all the sweet intercourse of their hap
py lives, and of the fidelity with which
he had loved her. "Oh, my Katherine,
my sweet Katherine! Who is there
that can take you from me?”
"No one will I marry. With my
father and my mother 1 will stay.
"Yes, till you learn to love me ns I
love you, with the whole soul. You
are to be my wife, Katherine?”
"That 1 have not said.”
"Katherine, is it true that Capt.
Hyde is wearing a bow of your orange
ribbon?”
"Yes. A bow of my St. Nicholas rib
bon I gave him."
"Why?”
"Me he loves, and him I love.”
"You have mere St. Nicholas i il>
bons? Go and get me one. Get a bow,
Katherine, and give it to me. I will
wait here for it.”
“No, that I will cot do. How false,
how winked I would be, If two lovers
my colors wore!”
“Well, then, I will cut my bow from
Hyde's breast. I will, though 1 cut
his heart out with it.”
He turned from her as he said the
words, and, without speaking to Jons,
passed through the garden gate to his
own home.
In the calm of hi3 own chamber,
through the silent, solemn hours,
when the world was shut out of his
life, Nell reviewed his position, but
he could find no honorable way out of
the predicament. He was quite sen
sible that his first words to Capt.
Hyde that night had been Intended to
provoke a quarrel, and he knew that
he would be expected to redeem them
by a formal defiance. However, as
the Idea became familiar, it became
Imperative; and at length it was with
a fierce satisfaction he opened his
desk and without hesitation wrote the
decisive words:
"To Capt. Richard Hyde of His Majcs
ty's Service:
“Sir—A person of the character I
bear cannot allow the treachery ami
dishonorable conduct of which you
have been guilty to pass without pun
ishment. Convince me that you arc
more of a gentleman than I have rea
son to believe, by meeting me to-night
as the sun drops in the wood on the
Kalchhook Hill. Our seconds can lo
cate the spot; and that you may have
no pretense to delay, I send by bearer
two swords, of which I give you the
privilege to make choice.
“in the interim, at your service,
"Neil Semple.”
He had already selected Adrian
Beekman as his second, a young man
of wealth and good family. Beekman
accepted the duty with alacrity, an !
indeed, so promptly carried out his
principal’s instructions, that, be found
jCapt. Hyde still sleeping when he
waited upon him. H'de laughed light
ly at "Mr. Semple’s lmpatlenee of of
fense." and directed Mr. Beekman to
Capt. Earle as his second; leaving the
choice of swords and of the ground
entirely to his direction.
Lightly as Hyde had taken the chal
lenge, he was really mere disinclined
to fight than Nell was. In his heart
he knew that Semple had a just cause
ot anger: "but then,” he argued, ”1
would not resign the girl for my life,
for I am sensible that life, if she is
another's, will be a very tedious thing
to me."
All day Neil was busy in making hts
will and in disposing of his affairs.
Hyde felt equally the necessity for
some definite arrangement of his busi
ness. He owed many debts of honor,
and Cohen’c bill was yet unsettled.
He drank a cup of coffee, wrote sev
eral important letters, and then went
to Fraunce’s, and had a steak and a
bottle of wine. During his meal his
thoughts wandered between Kath
erine and the Jew' Cohen. After It he
went straight to Cohen’s store.
It happened to be Saturday, and the
shutters were closed, though the door
was slightly open, and Cohen was sit
ting with his granddaughter in the cool
shadows of the crowded place. Miriam
retreated within the deeper shadows
of some curtains of stamped Moorish
leather, for she anticipated the im
mediate departure of the Intruder.
She was therefore astonished when
her grandfather, after listening to a
few sentences, sat down, and entered
into a lengthy conversation. When at
las*, they rose, Hyde extended his
nanu. eonen. ne saiu, rew men
would have been as generous and, at
fliis hour, as considerate as you. 1
have judged from tradition, and mis
judged you. Whether we meet again
>r not, we part as frienri.3.”
“You have settled all things as a
gentleman, captain. May my white
hairs say a word to your heart this
hour?” Hyde bowed; and he * con
inued, in a voice of serious benignity:
The words of the Holy One are to be
regarded, and not the words of men.
Men call that ‘honor’ which He will
all murder. What excuse is there in
your lips if you go this night into his
presence?
There was no excuse in Hyde’s lips,
even for his mortal interrogator. He
merely bowed again, and slipped
through the partially opened door into
the busy street. Miriam returned to
her place and asked plainly, "What
murder is there to be, grandfather?”
“It is a duel between Capt. Hyde
and another, it shall be called mur
der at the last.”
“The other, who is he?”
“The young man, Semple. Oh. Mir
iam, what sin and sorrow thy sex
ever bring to those who love it! There
are two young lives to be put in death
peril for the smile of a woman—a very
girl she is.”
“Do I know her, grandfather?”
"She passes here often. The daugh
ter of Van Heemskirk—the little fair
one, the child.”
“Oh, but now I am tw’ice sorry!
She has smiled at me often. We have
even spoken."
Cohen, with his hands on his staff,
and his head in them, sat meditating,
perhaps prayirg; and the hot, silent
moments went slowly away. In them,
Miriam was coming to a decision
which at first alarmed her, but which,
as it grew familiar, grew also lawful
and kind. A word to Van Heemsklrk
or to the Elder Semple would be suf
ficient. Should she not say it?
Perhaps Cohen divined her purpose,
amt was not unfavorable to it, for he
suddenly rose, and, putting on his
cap, said, "I am going to see my kins
man John Cohen. At sunset, set wide
the door; an hour after sunset I will
return.”
As soon as he had gone, Miriam
wrote to Van Heemsklrk these words:
"Good Sir—This is a matter of life
and death; so then, come at once, and
1 will tell you. Miriam Cohen.”
It was net many minutes before Van
! Heemskirk’s driver passed, leading his
: loaded wagon; and to him she gave
the note.
That day Joris had gone home
i earlier than usual, and Bram only
1 was in the store. He supposed the
, strip of paper to refer to a barrel of
flour or some other household neces
| sity.
Its actual message was so unusual
and unlocked for, that it took him a
moment or two to realize the words;
then lie answered tne summons for
his father promptly. Miriam proceed
1 c l Kt once to give him such Informa
i tii n as she possessed. Brain stood
I ataring at the beautiful, earnest girl,
i and felt all the fear and force of her
words; but for some moments he
could not epeak, nor decide on his first
| step.
"Why do you wait?” pleaded Miriam.
At sunset. I tell you. It is now near
it. Oh, no thanks! Do not stop for
them, but hasten away at once.”
Be obeyed like one in a dream.
, Semple was Ju3t leaving business. He
jint Ms hand on him, and said, “Elder,
no time have you to lose. At sunset,
Nell and that d- English soldier a
dud are to fight.”
"Eh? Where? Who told you?”
"On the Ktlchhook Hill. Stay not
for talk.”
■’ltun for your father, Bram. Run,
my lad. God help me! God spare the
i lad!”
1
At that moment Nell and Hydo were
on the fatal spot.
Nell flung off his coat and waistcoat
and stood with bared breast on the
spot his second indicated. Hyde re
moved his fine scarlet coat and hand
ed it to C'apt. Earle, and would then
havo taken his sword; but Beekman
advanced to remove also his waist
coat. The suspicion implied by this
act roused the soldier's indignation,
and with his own hands he tore off
the richly embroidered satin garment,
and by so doing exposed what perhaps
some delicate feeling had made him
wish to conceal—a bow of orange rib
bon which he wore above his heart.
The sight of it to Neil was like oil
flung upon flame. He could scarcely
restrain himself until the word “go”
gave him license to charge Hyde.
Hyde was an excellent swordsman
and had fought several duels; but he
was quite disconcerted by the deadly
reality of Neil's attack. In the sec
ond thrust his foot got entangled iu
a tuft of grass, and, in evading a
lunge aimed at his heart, he fel! on
his right side. Supporting himself,
however, on his sword hand, he
sprang backwards with great dexter
ity, and thus escaped the probable
death-blow. But, as he was bleeding
from a wound in the throat, his sec
ond interfered and proposed a recon
ciliation. Neil angrily refused to lis
ten. He declared "ho had not come
to enact a farce;” and then, happen
ing to glance at the ribbon on Hyde’s
breast, he swore furiously "He would
make his way through the body of
any man who stood between him and
his just anger.”
Up to this point there had been in
Hyde's mind a latent disinclination to
slay Neil. After it. he Hung away
every kind of memory, and the fight
was renewed with an almost brutal
impetuosity, until there ensued one of
those close locks which it was evi
dent nothing but “the key of the body
could open.” In the frightful wrench
which followed, the swords of both
men sprang from their hands, flying
some four or five yards upward with
the force. Both recovered their weap
ons at the same time, and both, bleed
ing and exhausted, would have again
renewed the fight; but at that mo
ment Van Heomshirk and Semple, with
their attendants, reached the spot.
Without hesitation, they threw
themselves between the young men.
But there was no need for words. Neil
fell senseless upon his sword, making
in his fall a last desperate effort to
reach the ribbon on Hyde’s breast; for*
Hyde had also dropped fainting to the
ground, bleeding from at least half a
dozen wounds. Then one of Semple’s
young men, who had probably divined
the cause of quarrel, and who felt a
sympathy for nis young master, made
as if he would pick up the fatal bit of
orange satin, now dyed crimson in
Hyde's blood.
But Joris pushed the rifling hand
fiercely away. "To touch it would be
the vilest theft,” he said. “His own
it is. With his life he has bought it"
CHAPTER VII.
At “The King’s Arms.”
The news of the duel spread with
the proverbial rapidity of evil news.
Batavius heard the story from many a
lip as he went home. He was bitterly
indignant at Katherine, and hot with
haste and anger when he reached Van
Heemskirk’s house.
Madam stcod with Joanna on the
front stoop, looking anxiously down
the road.
Just as Dinorah said, "The tea is
served, madam,” the large figure of
Batavius loomed through the gather
ing grayness; and the women waited
for him. He came up the steps with
out his usual greeting; and his face
was so injured and portentous that
Joanna, wdth a little cry, put her arms
round his neck. He gently removed
them.
“No time is this, Joanna, for em
bracing. A great disgrace has come to
the family; and I, who have always
stood up for morality, must bear it,
too.”
(To be continued.)
“BAIT” FOR WILD TURKEYS."
Hundreds of the Birds Have Fallen
Before Gun of Expert.
Wild turkeys are still quite plentiful
in some portions of North Carolina,
as they also are in Arkansas, Texas,
Indian Territory, Oklahoma and South
ern Missouri, says the American Field,
but just how long they will be plenti
ful in any of these states is a question,
if the states possess a Gil McDuffie,
as does North Carolina, who, it is
said, only a short time since killed
seven turkeys at one shot. It is
claimed that McDuffie has killed 1,500
wild turkeys and 700 deer in his time,
besides countless numbers of smaller
game. The way he makes his war on
turkeys is by "baiting." He finds
where a flock of turkeys use and he
lays a train of corn to a locality where
he can arrange a good blind. The
blind is made and corn is put out in
good quantity for the turkeys not far
away, he being careful to place the
corn in such shape that when the tur
keys feed upon it they will be well
bunched. He then secretes himself in
bis blind and lies in wait for the
turkeys. When they come and get
bunched up over the quart or two of
corn, he turns loose with a shotgun,
and the slaughter is tremendous.
—
Fence of Elks’ Horns.
A fence nearly 200 feet long at Liv
ingston, Mont., is made entirely of
horns of the elk—more properly called
wapiti. These animals, like the oth
ers of the deer family, shed their
horns once a year and trow new one*
The old horns are found in large nunr
bers in the forests and are used for
various commercial purposes.
IS TIME TO LINE [ p
FOR THE POLITICAL FOOTBALL
GAME IN 1904.
Tariff Is to Be the Issue, atd .Gob
blers Must Decide Whether t3 Re
main Republican or Join the Anteri
can Free-Trade League.
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The Free Trader (orga;. of! the
American Free-Trade league No
vember says:
“Now and during the next tw wears
is the time for the Free-Trade llague
to gain the opening ear of the gi&ople,
to educate their intelligen >• i|d di
rect their growing indigna-ionl until
they rise in their might and mike an
end of protection monopoly. I
President Lamb in an "a;, pari” to
he people invites the Itepuic; ns who
are nursing the Iowa and other ideas
to join the free traders in tnd battle
against protection. He sa .« j
"The true policy, the plain duty, of
these reformers is to ally thinBclves
with advocates of free tra:\ Free
traders do not concern “jmselves
with the past belief of the present op
ponents of the Dingley tariT and they
do not ask for any retractloi. They
welcome these dissatisfied ;>fotection
ists; and what they do ash them is.
no matter what led them ab support
protection in the past. i|iat they
:,hould now realize aid dqplare that
the time has come for th. ii to advo
cate a change of policy
now proud uov. vjumm re, uirecior
of the Mint Roberts and their allies
should be to be thus » imed to the
free trade camp! In oni sentiment
we must agree with Nr I $mb; a man
must be one thing oi tht tither; there
is no middle ground, nd straddling.
Any departure from the policy of the
American system cf p dteetion is a
step into free trade I
Free traders know that they cannot
carry out their wishes! to the full.
They will only be too Clad to break
the ranks of their oppients, to con
quer by dividing. Th* is the only
hope they have o! sailing a victory
for their un-Americail cause. They
do not insist on theirf opponents be
coming pronounced trip traders; they
are satisfied to have jlhem renounce
protection in whole dr in part, but
they want them to s.A- •‘dissatisfied.”
As President LaaibsJys:
“The reason why free traders be
lieve It important tbit all reformers
of the tariff should rjbounee adhesion
to protection Is the Ame which leads
them to believe that they, on their
part, are right in consenting to the
gradual steps |>ropt*d by dissatisfied
protectionists, even! while confident
that better measure! could be taken.
The reason is tbaf measures of re
form, to be permanent, ahould secure
a support from pullic opinion which
shall be united acitf loyal. If tariff re
form does net av«v its intention of
consistent proare.-j toward free trade,
it may succeed at Ae polls, as in 1892,
but it is sure to tail In Congress, as
it did In 189-1, andf to be undone as in
1897, and th* wofk must all be done
over again. The) tariff reform move
ment failed becairee it was abandoned
by the dissatisfies protectionists, who
had supported itjin 1890 and 1892.”
This is tic new free trade idea, and
it is most ar-eptible. Let us be, as we
must be, tn? tiling or the other, free
traders or protectionists. If the tariff
is to be the isst4 for 1904, and the bat
tle is to beg:M now. let us line up
where we beloig and as we believe.
Those who warn a commission, or re
vision, or reciprocity, or any of the
cure-alls, are ifi line with the Ameri
can Free Trade league, whether they
want to aekacjwledge it or not. The
proof of this iWthe fact that the league
no longer caili upon the old guard oi
college professors for arguments, but
contents itself by quoting from Cum
mings & Co. t
So let us 1 ne up for the great game
of 1904. and l#t us ;.ll be honest enough
to get on ti|e side where we belong
and face the jbpponent s goal.
BABCOCK AND REVISION.
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Triumph eft Protection Over the Free
i Trade Idea.
Representative Babcock's interpre
tation of tJe meaning of the result of
the recenti! election is ingenious, but
not coneiijplve. “if,” he says, ‘‘the
Demoera ■« had won the house it
would signified that the people
want no tariff revision for the next
two year* as it would have been
impossiMj to accomplish anything in
that direAion with a Democratic house
and a FJJublican Senate.” The impos
sibility <¥ securing a revision of the
tariff ’‘F1 a Democratic House and
Rcpui.' An Senate is easily conceded,
but no1 fnB more. Had a Democratic
Hi use iJeen elected Democrats would
not havfc construed it as a rebuke to
Demo jts; Republicans could not
have refloiced in it as an indorsement,
but it i'ould have been universally
regard*! as a distinct encouragement
tj a irpe trade agitation. The people
do r.od sustain and foster any set of
national policies by voting the ene
mies pt those policies a foothold in
this government. They may some
day pleasure up to such subtlety, but
just $ow their procedure is the plain,
strai»itforward one of voting for
thosoi whose policies they approve
and against those whose policies they
•■onAemn. The issue of the campaign
was not a deadlock between the two
houtes to prevent tariff revision by
Reupbltcans, but matters in contro
veiy between the parties. No Re
publican anti-revisionist appealed to
the/ people to elect a free trader for
tfcflj purpose of preventing revision,
ri# Republican victory, like all other
infiubllcan victories, Is a triumph of
l&f protection idea over tha free trade
Idea. Tariff revision was the cam
paign Issue only as the Democrats
appeared as its champions, and Demo
cratic tariff revision was voted down.
The people voteu for Republicans, not
because they were revisionists, or be
cause they were anti-revisionists, but
because they were Republicans. Tar
iff revision by Republicans is a mat
ter of schedules, not of principles
The schedules were not an issue
at the last election. The people did
not vote on them; they neve* thought
of them. They are a matter for ad
justment in party councils, or party
caucuses, and not in national elec
tions, and while the people did not
vote for revision, as Mr. Babcock says
they did, neither did they vote against
it—Pittsburg Gazette.
The Hunter Started Out,
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He Finished “In.”
PROTECTION’S UTILITY.
To Help Home Labor and Produce
Treasury Revenues.
It appears very “ridiculous” to the
Burlington Gazette “to base an argu
ment in favor of a protective tariff on
the presumption that it promotes
prosperity.” Has Burlington no taxes
for itinerant merchants? Is there no
sentiment in Burlington based on the
presumption that the prosperity of
the city is promoted by buying at
home? Are the artisans and laborers
o? Burlington satisfied that it is all
the same to them whether they do
the work of Burlington or whether
the orders are placed in Chicago or
St. Louis?
Prosperity even for the few cannot
long continue without employment
for the many In productive industry.
It is safe to say that Burlington peo
ple of the laboring class who are not
working have poor credit at the
stores. If conditions are such as to
inforce idleness the loss of credit is
expanded, and the loss of credit
brings want, distress, business fail
ure and panic. If things stop conges
tion follows, prices drop, money is
locked up and the business of every
body is to make the worst of tho
situation.
mi a l_ • a i M_11.1 - > _ » _
1 lie LlllUfS IU UU, II J/WDiMUtC, Id IU
keep the machinery going and the
markets open. If there is plenty ol
work at a fair price prosperity is in
the air. With opportunity to work
abundant it is ridiculous to make
argument against prosperity. How is
labor to be well employed if left to
nurse its shins and suck its thumbs?
There must be work to do and remu
nerative wages. The presumption is
that Burlington does not need to im
port labor for its steady Jobs, and
no more does the United States.
The protective policy is based on
the presumption that it is wise to do
as much of our own work as we can.
Therefore in the business of raising
revenue from imports the protective
policy aims to give the advantage to
home producers, to the end that our
home labor may be prosperous. Pro
tection promotes prosperity.—Sioux
City Journal.
What Would Happen.
Any one of the great combinations
that has to do with protected articles,
if the protection is removed, will sim
ply set itself to driving independent
operators out of business until it has
made a place for Itself large enough to
give it a profit under any and all con
ditions. There will not be a sign of
trouble in the trust. But there will be
a storm of bankruptcies on all sides of
it. The outsiders will all go to the
wall or they will go into the trust.
That is the outlook in case of a Dem
ocratic Congressional victory this fall,
and there is no way of escaping It ex
cept by a solid majority in favor of the
prosperity of all instead of the pros
perity of the few who would profit by a
national panic.—Columbus Journal.
Palladium a Costly Metal.
Palladium is a metal used for the
mounting of astronomical instruments
! and costs $182 a pound.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON XIII, DEC. 28; GOLDEN
TEXTS FOB THE QUARTER.
Golden Text—"Lord. Thou Hast Been
Our Dwelling Place in All Genera*
tions”—Psalms 50:1—The Lesson*
lor the Year.
First Review.—The Rise and Progress
of the Hebrew Nation:
The Founder, Abrahum, about B. C.
2000.
The Family, the Patriarchs,
The Egyptian Experience.
The Exodus. B. C. 1491.
The Wilderness Discipline.
The Conquest of the Promised Land,
1451.
The Rule of the Judges. R. C. 1427-10M.
Time—About 9u0 years, from B. C. 2000
11 no.
Countries—Chaldea, Palestine, Egypt,
Arabia.
Lessons.—1. God is preparing a people,
not for themselves alone but as a
means, making the whole world to ba
his kingdom.
2. The progress is slow, difficult, va
riable, but on the whole a steady growth.
3. There Is seen to he a great variety
of influences.—punishments, glorious
works, manifestations of love, hard bat
tles. great victories, revelations of God
and his will, rewards of faithfulness, long i
discipline. j
Second Review.—The Development and |
Growth of the Nation During Three Cen- 1
turtes: I
I ime—f rom o. Hoi.
Place—Palestine.
Persona—Give n character sketch of
the lending persons, and the party they
took In making the nation. Joshua, Caleb.
Rahab. Achan, Gideon, Naomi, Ruth,
Orpah. Ell, Samuel.
Events—Appearance of the captain of
the Lord's host. Arousing courage for a
groat work. Crossing the Jordan. A di
vine wonder. Capture of Jericho. A mir
acle and a sign. Defeat on account of
Achan's sin. Reward of faithfulness,
though long deferred. Cities of refuge.
Good advice from an aged man. The past
teaching the future. The times. Mingled ;
good and evil. The sins and crimes, dis
obedience, idolatry, unfaithfulness, wars '
and devastations on the one hand; and
on the other the heroisms, the penitence,
the long periods of prosperity. such
glimpses of the inner life of the people
as are furnished by Deborah, Ruth, Han
nah. Hoaz. Ell. Samuel. The victory of
Gideon and his three hundred. The char
acter of Ell and his sons. The call of
Samuel.
Third Review.—An Ancient Pilgrim's
Progress:
From the Pondage of Sin and Ignor
ance, on the Way toward a Perfect Life
and a Perfect World.
1. The Egyptian bondage represents the
bondage of sin and ignorance.
2. The Exodus represents the new start
In life.
3. The Wilderness Discipline: A lender.
Manna or food from heaven. The pillar
of cloud and tire, guidance by trie Spirit
and the Word. The tabernacle, religious
services. Feasts. Living water. Grapes of
Eshcol, Falling Into sin. Sufferings, la
bors, trials, victories, helps, delays, dy
ing out of thu old. and growth of the
newer life.
4. Tuktng possession of our Promised
Land. The new life fully entered upon.
6. The Promised Land held by enemies,
beset with temptations.
8. The captain of the Lord's host.
7. Miracles of grace. heavenly helps
(crossing the Jordan, the fall of Jeri
cho).
8. Some of the fruits of the land, fore
tastes of the perfected life.
9. Renewing the covenant.
10. Cities of refuge, helps for the slips
and failures and Imperfections of our
dally life.
11. The Judges, the great struggle of
life.
12. Periods of rest, prosperity, growth;
the peaceful tenor of dally life.
13. The call of God, to a consecrated Ufa
for the service of God and man.
Reaching for God’s Hand.
It is recorded of Frances Willard’s
girlhood that in the summer twilight
she was wont to lie upon the grass
with her hand held up longingly for
God to touch.
When we read her life story, the
history of the toiling, strenuous,
grandly successful years, we cannot
help feeling that the young impulsive
reaching out for the help of God’s
hand was characteristic of the mature
woman as well as of the girl. In her
joys and her sorrows, her successes
and her defeats, there was always
that childlike turning toward the sure
sympathy and tenderness of her Fa
ther.
Would not life be wonderfully
brightened and many of its tangles
straightened if we reached out more
constantly with confiding trust? Most
of us indeed find it easy and natural
to seek our Father’s presence whea
trials come. How is it in the sweet,
summer days when the fragrance of
flowers is about us and there is the
song of birds in our ears? Do we
reach our hands up just as instinc
tively? It makes the days vastly
sweeter and happier for us if we do,
and surely it must please our Father.
The Money of God.
Friends, cast your idol into the
furnace, melt your mammon down,
coin him up, make God’s money of
him and send him coursing. Make of
him cups to carry the gift of God. the
water of life, through the world—in
loving justice to the oppressed, in
healthful labor to them whom no man
hath hired, in rest to the weary who
have borne the burden and heat of the
day, in joy to the heavy hearted, in
laughter to the dull spirited. What
true gifts might not the mammon of
unrighteousness, changed back to the
money of God, give to men and wom
en, bone of our bone and fiesh of our
flesh?—George Macdonald.
Branching Out.
The Reformed church in the United
States, better known as the German
Reformed church, is showing great
missionary activity. It has recently
purchased from the Church Mission
ary Society of England a large mission
plant at Lochow, Tunan, China, con
sisting of mission house, chapel, hos
pital and spacious grounds. The
Church Missionary Society has
moved its work further inland. Sev
eral additional missionaries have been
sent to strengthen the force of the
Reformed church in China.