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CllOlCK OK PUOKKSSION.
"I wish you a Happy Year, anil a r.M
OHO."
With careful hands wo laid it away in
Memory's casket, Oft times, as the pass
ingdays of 1874 left weariness and tiniest
at our hearts, would we turn to survey
this treasure. Its radiance serving over a
pnssihle prophecy of work unfinished and
tho sudden requisition "Give an account of
thy stewardship." Thus would we take
on vigor, and achcivc many a victory
which else had been defeat,
lSTo dawned in the full glory of a new
birth. I watched the ingress of visitors
and at last he came.
" Prof. this treasure your message.
Upon it has poised many a success which
otherwise had not been counted worthy
the struggle. It has fulfilled its mission.
I live and have won. Receive it again at
my hands, and may it prove to you a surer
talisman in Us two-fold ministry."
May loosened winter's icy fetters. June
roses bloomed. Our Christian poet had
already made our now state a land of po.
csy and song by his -Nebraska Legends"
and softer '.Midland Poems." Hit; having
adopted Puiishon's labor song, " No rest
except between the achievement of to-day
and the higher venture of tomorrow's
dawn," his fertile pen might not rest, even
amid the exhaustive labors of a Proles
sorship. Many contributions to current
periodicals indicated to his friends growth
rather than surcease of literrry strength,
"Whilst, as he expressed to the writer, "his
specific work for the year was Jo compile
materials for a new volume, Mich as in his
riper culture he chose to leave to poster,
ity. Summer deepened into autumn. A
mellow October sunset a quiet Sabbath
evening.
The Prof., child in hand, strolled out.
Was it to borrow soul radiance from the
dying rays ? Did he read thereon the pre.
diction of his own near sunset? His
friends perceived a radiance but did not
dioam the night drow on.
At S a.. M. he aroused his companion
Avith an expression of pain his last utter
mice. At 10 A. M, lie had passed "The
rock waste and tlie river." In the ripe
ness or mental and spiritual culture he
erected the Grand Conservatory of God,
into which comes nor blight nor waste.
The unfinished woik which fills every
hand when the paralysis of deatli siozes
it doth it go on, with tho resources of
Kternily to furnish the materials? We
would not lia the veil. Tho revelation
may be nearer to us than we think. Head
the lesson we may.
Casual words. They drop from our li s
into hearts, as the leaden plummet or the
sorcerer's elixir. The dead weight of sor
row sinks deeper or the canker-worm
dies and from its ashes springs a new
faith. The soul's stagnant waters give
forth rank vegetation and the serpent's
venom, or, by the new alchemy, make
new affinities, and the white lily blossoms.
Be wary then, oh trifierl Sensitive
plants may wither at thy touch, never to
put forth fresh leaves, lie slronjr, ad
icaper, looking in vain for full cars. Tln-rt-are
harvests which ripen when Alpine
snows have melted. Ye of the trembling
lips, if tho Master hath touched thee, put
forth the message. It shall not fail of
its mission though the announcement
await Throne Day.
Speak quickly, thou of slow utterance.
The waiting spirit passeth thee. Dumb
lips palied hands death's signet and
thy love token may be too late.
Mrs. Axoie F, Nkwmax.
CHOICE OF
Before the ship sets sail on the rough
and boisterous sea, in order to insure her
a successful voyage, she must undergo an
examination, be scrutinized by the work
men, her rigging must be overhauled, her
weakest parts made secure. She is then
tried on the smooth and placid waters,
where she glides with seeming perfection.
All is now ready and the captain sets sail
with high hopes of a successful vojage
because he has tri d his ship and knows
PROFESSION.
J2EEi
