TEE OKPilANS’ FKIENI).
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WHO DOUBTS.
■\Vho doiil)ts that there*8 a God on high,
Ktoriinl ill his might,
■\V>ul(l doubt formation of the earth
Or 8un that shines so bright,
For who coukl for tliis spacious M-orld,
(Too grand for shejitictlicrao)
With all its vast subliinity,
if iiol a great Supreinv °t
For all inspir’d as if with life,
Is Nature’s glorious plan,
And shows what a Creator's power
Has done for fallen man.
But y» t '.here is none can o;npiehcud
The marvels that appear,
Or why the globe itsell was fona’d
And plac’d within its sphere.
For every living, breathing thing
.Upon the teeming earth,
And every lovely jdant that grows,
From chaos had its birth.
A*d all the brilliant stars that shine.
With worlds and worlds on high,
Are showing man God’a wondrous works,
Adorning earth and sky.
Infinite, then, must he the mind
Who hath created all,
And whose great \\'ovd from nothinguesa
The mighty plaiicte call.
y«t what are these to him compar’d.
Whose glories gem the sky,
And lights the earth with joyous beam3,
To gladdou heart and e)*e.
Then never doubt that there's a God,
But kneel before the throne,
Bclietiiig what from us i« hid
Shall bo hereafter known.
For nations yet unborn shall praise
' And bless his holy naaio,
Who all onchang’d thro’ emOess time
I* evermore the same.
EARTH AliD JIEATBH.
Between ♦wo worhfs I stand,
With tired feet;
Between two mighty shoree
My pulse* bcftt.
Here Is tho' toil, the pain,
The gloom, the woe ,
Here, round the gweetost Hon e
The tliistlos grow.
Here are the weary forms,
The drooping heads;
Here are the silver hairs,
The dying beds.
Here ace tb© shrouds, the graves,
Tho last farewells;
Hero nro tho funeral hymns,
Tho funeral knells.
Here, on that other shore
By faith I soo
Tho gates of shining pearl,
The crystal sea,
Tho city of my God,
Tho joys unbdd,
Its walls of prfictouB stone.
Its streets of gold j
And round the dazzling throne
A throng I*Soe,
Who onco were dwellers'hero
In tears like me.
They know no sorrow now.
They shed no tears ;
No grave's are made in heaven
Through all God’s years.
They talk with C-V.rist in white,
Tliey die no more ;
They know no sin, no pain
On that blest shore.
O Jesui, lift me up
By thy strong hand.
And lead me to the joys
Of heaven’s bright land ?
Tkc Cat and the Fox.
One (lay a fox met a cat in tlio
midst of a wood. “Ah I how do
YOU do, puss t” said tho fox. “I
km glad to see you. 1 hope you
are well.”
“Yon are kind, sir,” said the
cat. “I am quite Avell, and hope
YOU are the same.”
“Yes, puss, I am in good health,
hut I own that I fetd iil at ease.
' feel that you, my friend, will
. ot long be free from harm. I
wish that I could see my way
clear to help yon. But in these
vintes—”
“Sir, what do you mean ?” said
’*e i»oor cat iu great fiig>t.
“What great liarin to me do you
dread f ’
“Well, as to that,” said the fox,
“it might be liariii to me toe.
The plain truth is, there is a
pack of hounds not far from this
wood. Now 1 have ten or twelve
tricks—nay, 1 may count on at
least a score of tricks—by whicli
I can get out of reacli of the
hounds wliilst you, poor puss—
oh! what can you do‘ that you
may be out of their Avay ? What
tricks do you know ?”
*T know no tricks at all,” said
the cat; “I have but one plan,
and if that fails mo I shall be
lost.
“Poor puss! poor puss! said
thefox. “Quo does not like to see
h friend in such a strait. I might
teach you a few of my tricks,
but these are hard times, aud one
must not trust too much. It is
but right to think of self—hark !
Tho hounds in full cry! You
are a lost cat 1 I have no time tO'
spare to tell you what to . do—1
must bo off at once.”
Those words wore scarce out
.of his mouth when ho and tho
cat saw the hounds.
The cat at once ran up a tree
—that was her one plan.
The fox could not climb a tree
and he could not get out of sight.
The cat saw the hounds kill him.
Ah !” said tlio puss, I find that
one good plan is of more use than
a score of sharp tricks.”—-TAc Con-
gregationalist
Sensible Bo,.
The ludiaiiapolis Sentinel gives
the'following acQpuiit of how a
little boy saved a fearful catas
trophe on a railroad by his fore
thought and heroism. We give
tho story in full;
“Last Tuesday tho Cincinnati
day express, going oast, leftCon-
norsville on lime, and was fi3’ing
on ita waj^ at tiio rate of twenty-
fivo miles an hour. AYheii ap
proaching a bridge over a river a
few miles from Connersvill the
oiiginoor noticed a small boy in
tho middle of tho trade motion
ing wildly with his arms. Tho
hoavjyraias for several dat's be
fore liad caused the inau at the
throttle no littlo auxietjp and iu a
moment it Hashed over hi.s mind
tlio bridge, but a very slior dis
tance alioad, was at least damaged
by the freshet.
AVith one hand he reached for
the whistle, and with tho other he
reversed the engine. Tho train
employees heard no : ordinary
stopjiing signal in tho. keen, short
whistle, and in a moment con
ductor, baggage-man, and all the
train .omploj'oes wci-e helping tlio
regular brakeman wind tlie' chains
that were perhaps the onlj' hopes
of saving the lives of all on board.
The train was stopped witliin
but a few steps of Avhere tho
bridge once rested on the abut
ment. The sti’ucturo had been
washed entirely awaj^, and had
it not been for the boy the ,entire
train would have gone into tho
river, as the bridge was just at
tlio end of a curve and so hidden
by trees tliat its disapjiearanco
would not have been noticed un
til too late.
As soon as the passengers had
gotten over the shock tho full
realization of their danger had
caused, a search was made for
thebo)'. lie was found sitting
down off to one side of tlio track,
shaking a.s if he liad a chill, so
hadlj' was lie li'iglitcnod.
Everj- one on tlie train flocked
around tho brave littlo fellow,
who said ho was eleven 3’ears
old, and almost cruslie.d him iu
their jovful anxiety to even touch
ids liodv. 11c iiiiiocentlj' said
lie did not begin shaking until ho
sat down, tliereby slioning that
not until he had seen- the train
stop iu safety did his nerves give
ivaja
He said his name was Davis,
and that he lived near by, poiiit-
to a farm-house. He was on his
waj' home from a neighbor’s when
he discovered that the bridge had
been washed away since passing
an hour previous. He remember
ed tho down passenger train, and
knowing it was about time it
came along, hurried up tlie track
to give warning.
He had only just ani .’ed at the
spot where he was noticed by
the engineer when the train came
along. One of the passengers,
an elderly Quaker ladj', gave him
five dollars, which ho was reluct
ant to accept, although the con
ductor informed he that tlie of
ficers of the road would reward
tlie boy.
The following day .Supprin-
tendont AVilliams arrived at tiie
scene, and hunting out the hero
(gave him what monej^ he had
about him, some S20, with the
promise that whenever ho Want
ed anj’tliing at all that ho should
apjdy to him.
Masonry in Italy.—At a ban
quet which followed tlie con
secration of a new lodge, the
Alexandria, at Manchester, Eng
land, recontl)*^, the AVorshijiful
Master, in responding for his
own health, roferrod to tlie Pope’s
denunciations of Masonry, and
said there w6fo now nearly two
hundred Italian lodges and about
ton thousand M!M('n,.'i working
under the Grand Orient includ
ing some of tho most distin-
guislied men in Italy. Tho Free
masonry of Italy was identical
witli that of England, and its
roeognition bj’ tlie Grand Master,
lie said, was a complete answer
to the heated vituperations of tho
Pope.
bottomless pit of liell ! Fatliov,
wliere is v’our boy to-night? It
mav^ be, just out here in some
public bouse; it ma)-- bo reeling-
through ’ the streets of London,
drunk ; it may be, pressing on
down to a drunkard’s grave.
How many fathers and mothers
are tliere in London—yes, pray
ing Christians too—whose chil
dren arc wandering away while
tliey are slumbering and sleep
ing ? Is it not time that the
church of God sliould wake up
and come to the help of tlie Lord
as one man, and strive to beat
back tliose dark waves of deatli
that roll througli our streets,
bearing upon tlieir bosom the no
blest J'oung men we have ? 0 m\'
God wake up the churcli! Ahd
let us trim our liglits and go forth
and work for tho kingdom of
God.”
On
Slecpiiig Chm-cli.
Mr Moody relates the follow-
i'ng;
“There wns a little slory going
till} round of the Amerlcau jiro^s
tliat made a great impression up
on,mo a.s a father. A father took
his littlo cliild out into tlio field
one Sabbath, aud he lay down
under a beautiful sliadj- tree, it
being a hot dax'. The little child
ran about gathering wild flowers
and little blade.s of gi-ass, and
coming, to its father, aud saying,
“Pretty, pretty !” At last the fa
ther foil asleoi), and while, bQ:Was
sleeping tlio little, child wandered
awajn AA’^hen lie awoke, his first
tliouglit was xvhero is inj' child ?
Ho looked all around, but ho
could not see him. He shouted
at the top of his voice,, and all he
lioard xvas tho echo of his own
x'olcii.
Running toalittle liill, he.lookod
around and shouted again, but all
bo beard was the echo of his own
voice. No response! Then go
ing to a precipice at some dis
tance, lie looked doxvn,. and tliero
upon tlio rocks and briars ho saw
the nianglod form of his loved
child.' He rushed to the spot,
took up the lifeless corpse and
hugged it to his bosom, and ac
cused Iiirnself of being the niur-
dorei- of his oxvn child. Wliile he
was sleeping his chilil had xvan
dered over the precipice.
“I thought, as 1 heard that,
what a picture of tlio church ol
God! IIow luanj^ fathers and
mothor.s, how manj^ Clirlstian
men are sleeping now, while their
cliildrep 'vvandcr over tlie terrible
preciiiice, a tiionsand times xvorse
than tliat precipice, riglit into the
Help One Another.—This lit
tle sentance sliould be written on
eveiy lieart and stamped on ex-or)'
menioiy. It should be the gold
en rule practiced not in every
liouseliold, but throughout tlie
world. By helping one anotlier
wo not oni}^ remove thorns frotn
the’patliwa}^ and anxietx' from tlie
mind, but vie feel a sense of
pleasure in -our hearts knowing
we are doing a duty to a fellow-
creature. A helping hand or an
encouraging xvord is no loss to
us, 3-et it is a benefit to otiiers.
Adxhce for tub Married.—Pre
serve sacredly the jirix-aii-is of
your hous.e,'your marriage-state,
and j’our heart. Let not father,
mother, brother, sister nor anj-
third peixson, even presume to
come in between you txvo, or to
share the jox's and sorrows that
belong to 3'ou two alone. AVitli
HcavoB’s help build j-our oxvn
quiet xvorhl, not allowing tho
dearest earthly friend to bo the
c infidant of aught that concerns
your domestic peace. Let iili-
enatlon, if it occurs, bo healed at
once. Hex-or speak of it outside,
but to .-each other, confo.ss, and all
will come out rig-lilt. Never lijt
the morrow’s sun still find x'Ou a
x-ariance. Renew or review the
vow at. all temptations—it will do
j-ou both good. And thereby'
xmiir souls xvill groxv together,
cemented in that love xvhich is
stronger tiian death, and 3'ou xvill
become triilv one.
101—J F Bamlolpli, T J CariimU, Kiofi-
ill’ll .GraTigpr.
Cliiifon, 107, N. M. Iluan, Ji C* Griffith, C
Wiitsuii.
Alltans Loclffe, No. 114—Ed. Mr.Qucen>
Clinlan, JVo. 124.—Thoa. White, K Y
Yiirliro, G. S. Baker, J. G. Kiuj?.
H. T. Pitman and Nuill Townsend.
Jl/l. XeiiaHOH, jVo. 117.—^JaincsW Lancaster,
A. J. Brown, S. B. Waters.
Tiiscarora, 122, M B Jones, W S Grandy, W
K Turner.
Franklin, lOl). Wni. M. Tlioinitson, F B
Miici!, B Lowenhcrif.
Mt. Fnei-ffi/, UO—J B Floyd, II ILUey, W
E BulUvlc.
IlolesoUlc, 1.50, C 11 Horton, I II Scarboro,
A li Young.
Bajfalo Lodge, 172.—A. A. Mclvcr, A A
Harrington, B. G. Cole, A. M. Wieker
and U. M. Browti.m
Gary, 103, A D BlacAA-okod, P A Sorrel, R
II Jones.
ilff. 0liv4y2{Y.\—Jesse T Albritton, Jitel Lof-
tin, I)- M M Justice.
Berea, 204—W 11 Reams, F M Meadows, K
W Hobgood, E C Allen, A Shennati.
Lebanon, No. 207.—Jno. H. Sumincrsett,
Win. Monitt, W. S. Frin.k
McCormick, 223, A. D.vlryjnplo' Nathan Dan
gall, "W 0 Thomas.
Loioir, 23:1, Benja S Grady, John S Bizzetl,
S B Pakerr, John H Aldridge, Jacob P
Harper.
Wiccacon, 240, Norman L. ShaAr, Matthew
BroAver, Wm E. Peel.
j Rountree, 243.—Allen Johnston, Samuel
Quincoley, Wm D Tucker, W T Mose
ley, F M Pittman, Henry F Brooks.
Newhern, 24.5, J E West, T Powers, E Ilnbbf*.
Cat-aicha Lodge, No. 248.—R. P. Rienhardt
J. N. Long, D. W. Ramsonr.
Shiloh, 2.50, W. II. Gregory, Rev R. Hines,
T. J. Pitt.'Ard.
Farmington, 205-—L. G. Hunt, W G
J'olin.rdou, W. P''. Fiirclies.
Watauga, 273.—J. W. Coimoil, J. Harding,
L. L. Green.
Ncio Lhtdnon 314, Samuel Williams, John
J.acobs, W M Spence.
Jerv.alem, 315—John 11 D.avls, GcoE B.-mn-
hardt, Thomas M Be'isoiit.
Mattamuskeet, :i28—S S Baer, J C M.tCloud
FayeUeeilk, 320, A 3 H-ido, W M. H E
•Sedberry, ..S W, and George P McNetU,
J W.
Mt. Moriah, 11 D., J W Powell, J B. Phd
lip.s, W P Hine.‘.
. IL LYON,‘JR; E. DALEY. E. H. L'
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