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L AS YE EJID THESE, YE HAVE HOi^E JT UIVTC& ]?IE Through tho bleak and drear street, Where the cold winds keenly blow, See a child with bare, chill’d feet, Wand’ring on ’mid ice and snow; Houseless, homeless,—God’s own word Shall its precious comfort be, “As ye cfid it unto these. Ye have done it unto me.” some friends down here, who ai-e W'illing to help him take care of tho dear little children. The sum ' of money is not so very largo, but if every village, town and city. In an attic, cold and bare, ’Mid the dropping of the rain, See, a woman, gaunt and wan. Stitch from morn till morn again, F ainting, famished, Christian man. Does not God appeal to thee, “As ye did it unto these. Ye have done it unto me.” When you pass tlie orphan by, With averted look of scorn ; While tho lone one toils and sighs. Faint and weak from morn to morn. Think, there soon shall come a day. When thy God shall say to thee, “As 5'e did it unto these. Ye have done it unto me.” From the Albemarle Times. MISS MAU¥*S COWCEK'iT FOIS 'I'HE OKPM.4W ASYi-WM. ‘ How much did mamma. Miss Mary you saAr, sent up to think, the orphans ?” “ Forty dollars the sum.” “ 0 my! did wo make that much for the poor little orphans ? And then I did enjoy myself, mamma, so much besides ! IVasn’t it nice ? And the jteople all seemed so much pleased too. I declare I v/ish we could get up another festival or something like that to help the Asylum.” “Well, Cora, I am glad that you enjoyed yourself so much in doing good. But now tell me, did you think more of your owm appearance, and the pleasure it gave you to take part in Miss Mary’s extiibition, or the little children you were trying to help ?” Cora lield down her head and looked very serious. Directly she raised her radiant face, and, with her large beautiful eyes upturned to her mothers, said ; “ I hardly know, mamma, how to answer your question. Some times I thought of my beautiful dress, and wondered how I look ed with my angel-wings; and then I thought of the peojde— they seemed so well pleased ; and every once in a while, I thought how pleased the orphans would be, if they could only see us try ing to do something for them. Mamma, did you say forty dol lars r ^ i Mrs. Amans smiled to see how adroitly her little daughter w'as managing to shift the turn of con versation, and replied: “ Yes, Cora, I think that was the amount, after paying for some lew things she was obliged to purchase to j^repare for the exhi bition.” “ Well, won’t Mr. Mills be glad to get so much money ; and won’t the little orphans be glad to know tliat we have not forgotten their .visit to us.” “ Yes, Mr. Mills will be plea.sed to know that tho Asylum has and neighborhood and church, would send him as much, apiece, it would help him to buy a great deal of what the orphans need— meat, bread, clothing, books, &c.” “ That is just w'hat I was say ing to Essie tho other day. You know site was not over here, though I wish she could have been here, she would have made a good-looking angel for our pju'amid, and lier alto voice would have sounded so sweet in, T want to be an angel.’ ” “ Well, what did you sav to Essie ?” “ Why, she asked me what good could we children do in sending up a few dollars to Mr. Mills, when she had often heard her papa say it took so inauy thousands to take care of the or phans, and that tho rich people ought to send him all that he needs ; and I told her that it was just like the river there, the Cashie; it was iuade up by the water running into it from tlie swamps and creeks, and if every school teacher would do like Miss Mary, our school teacher, why, when all ot the Small sums ivere put together, it would make up all that he wanted.” “And what did she say to that ?” “ She said. Oh, yes ! I know now, it is just like we read in the Geography. The little drops of ivater which come down from the clouds sink into tho earth, th.en come out again from springs and then run in little brooks, then in oeeks, then into rivers, then into larger rivers, and then into the ocean ; so that tlie ocean is made up, after all, of little drops, as tl 10 ^'OGS “ Little drops of water, Little graias of sand, Make the mighty oceau And the beauteous lund.’^ “ I am glad,” said Mrs. Amans, “tliat Essie is such a sensible girl.” “ Yes, mamma, I like her, be cause slie 'always seems to be in a good humor, and is always talk ing- about the little orphans so pitifully. The other time she was at our house, she said It al ways made her feel sad when she thought of her good mamma’s and papa’s dying maybe and leaving her here and the rest of them, by tliemselves. They would be orphans too, and perliaps no one would take care of them, but then it made her feel glad to think that she could find good people who were fond of little children, to take care of her at the Orphan Asylum at Oxford, ’till she was big enough to take care of her self. Mamma, I could not help it, tears would come into my eyes, for I thought of dear Papa who has already gone to heaven, and it you were to go too, I would have to go the Orphan Asylum.” Mrs. Amans shuddered, and clasped her little girl to her arms. And when she could speak, chok ing down her emotions, she said: “I do trust that our heavenly father may spare mo ’till you are big enough to take care of your self; but, Cora, my darling, you. know what God saj’s—‘When father and mother forsake me. then tlie Lord will take me up.’” “ Yes, mamma, that was in ray Sunday School lesson last Sun day and she throw her arms around her mother’s nock. For some time they were both silent. Then Cora said : “Mamma, do yo 3^11 know what I was thinking ?” “ No, ni}’- darling, what was it ?” “ Perhaps the Lord means,” said Cora, “that he will take all the little orplians up to Oxford when their mothers and fathers die.” “ No, my child, not exactly that. He means that he will pro vide in some way for them. And perhaps this is one wa3n I have, sometimes, thought tliat God put it into the heart of Mr. Mills to propose to the Grand Lodge of JIasons to make an Orphan A33'- lum of the beautiful building at Oxford, and thus provide to take care of the orphans.” “ Mamma, was papa a Mason ?” “ No, my child, he did not be long to anv^ secret society. He did not like the Mason’s society mu.ch; but that was before they made the Orphan Asylum.” “ Do the}' (I mean the Masons) let an3'bod3'’s orphan children go there ?” “ 0 3'es, dear, they have but feiv orphans of Masons there. The Lodges support and educate tho orphans of their members in their own neighborlioods. The Masons have opened the doors of the Asylum for |any poor or phan.” “ Mamma, don’t 3'ou think if papa was living now he would like the Masons ?” “ I don’t know', my child, but I think lie would, since we can all see sonietliing good they are doing in the Orphan Asylum. Your papa used to saj' that the Masons, if they did au}' good, did it so sccretl}', that no one kn6w it.” “ Mamma, were you ever up to the Orphan Asylum ? Do tell me something about tlie beautiful building v'ou spoke of just now', and how—■ “Not now, my dear, at some other time I will; but it is time now for 3’ou to go to bed.” With this promise, Cora cheer- full}'- prepared for bed. Slio did not forget in lier little pra3'er, to ask God to bless the orphans, and Mr. Mills, and the Masons. And after falling asleep she had a pleasant, but wonderful dream. I will let her tell it at some future time if my readers will signify their desire to liear if. What say the little girls and boys, who may read this article? A. D. CoiiEK 'S'lIE BIK'S'M AK1> GKOWT.5I OF WOKiDS. Professor Richard A. Proctor delivered the first of a series of lectures on astronomy at Farweil Hall. The subject was entitled the ‘Birtli and Growth of Worlds,’ and dwelt with our earth up to the period wlien it reached a condi tion fitting it for the growth of life. The Professor commenced b}' remarking liow many there were who. considered that it was antagonistic to religion and dan gerous to their faith to search backward in tlm world’s early liistor}'. It was a very natural mistake, but on careful' consider ation would become apparent to tho scientific inquirer. Be this as it may, science enables us to go back step b}- step, and to discov er that worlds are composed of nebulous masses, but back of this there are unnumbered steps we can ever retrace. Traces of devel opment exist everywhere; in the solar S3’'stem W'e find it, in the sun turning on its axis, in the stars revolving in the same man ner, and what is remarkable all in the same course, and all revolving in the same direction, the onl}' exception being the planet Uran us, winch some might}' revolution has thrown out of its true position. The eminent French astronomer, Laplace, held that the whole so lar sytem was composed of revol ving masses of gaseous matter which -were continually adding to their bulk by attracting and uniting to tliemselveslesser bodies in their vicinity, eventually for ming new planets. This matter has been pursued so far that it had been discovered that some planets had been actually spoiled in the making. This might seem a strange expression to use in re gard to an apparently sacred sub ject, but to those who had studied the matter it was really no more than saying that a seed had been planted but not matured. Refer ring to shooting stars and mete oric showers, it may not bo gen erally known that such phenome na occur w'hen tho earth is atfrac- ting and taking with her system other planets. Our earth) prob ably takes in about 200,000,000 of such every year, but does not piin as much in bulk as might bo imagined. Tiie amount added is really very small compared with the bulk of our earth, but in the early days of the world’s forma tion from these causes-was presum ably much greater. Masses of me teoric matter of considerable mag nitude have, however, fallen at in tervals, One of a ton In weight and one of some fifteen tons has also been reported from South America. Thoimmensemagiiitude of comets was next dwelt upon and the re lations of the sun to the earth, the Professor stating that the “otlier worlds tha)i ours” and their sub ordinate aggregations wore still forming solar systems of their own. Our earth was no doubt at one time an immense mass of nebulous matter, and included tlie moon in its aggregation; but from some cause, in its revolu tions the moon became a separate body. Spots on the sun formed an interesting study, and observ ers would note that great changes were frequently occurring in such spots, one authority describing a change he bad witnessed .in the short space of ten minutes, show ing that mighty happened in re markably sport periods. Passing the eclipses, the Pro fessor called attention to that an nounced for the year 1878, and advised those interested in the matter to look out for tho zodiacal light which would bo visible close around the sun’s disc, outside tho thought not. It was impossible to find out the mysteries of God, but careful research would un earth such knowledge, which it was potent for men to know, yet they could not-if they would go back step by step to the very first work.—Chicago Inter-Ocean. Talliinsr Aboiit One’s Health. If there is anything in the world to destroy one’s health, it is the perpetual consideration of it. In much that relates to body, mind, heart, and soul, we must let tilings take their own way. The stomach resents being talked about, we find, and refuses to di gest for a man who continually gossips about it. It was put into the darkness, so that we might not see it. If it liad only been made as transparent as glass, and we could have seen the special effect of every article put into it, we should have become so, “ner vous” about its operations, that, shortly, the whole human race would have died off. Doubtless, the physiologist and the student of dietetics will give us some knowledge and wisdom ; but they will sacrifice many victims by their minute inquires and cautions. One of the best of them nil that we ever knew, had one fundamen tal principle to impress upon his disciples, “eat your victuals and go about your business.” A valetudinarian, long-suffering, re fusing this and that, and cutting / down year by year tho list of wholesome articles for ins food, at last bethought himself it were as well to die of fullness as starva tion ; and went to his accustomed restaurant at dinner-time, and or dered a full meal like any other man, to the amazement and in credulity of tlie attendant that al ways waited on him ; and on in quiry of the results of his bold ness, he replied be was as well af ter a full and various meal, as after all the littleness lie had been ac customed to- practise.—CMstian Begister. corona. The Professor continu ed by inquiring whether in the researches of tho evening auy'- thiug liad been done to oiidauger any person’s belief or faith. He WIS.IT IS THE HIBEE EIKI; I It is like a large, beautiful tree, which bears sweet fruit for those that are hungry, and affords shel ter and shade for the pilgrims on their way tO the Kingdom of Heaven. It is like a casket of jewels and precious stones, which is not only to be looked at and admired, biit used and worn. It is like a telescope which brings distant and far off things of the world very near, so that we can see something of their im portance. It is like a treasure house—a store house of all sorts of valua ble and useful things, and which are to be had without money and without price. It is like a deep, broad,- calm, flowing- river; the banks are deep and flowery, where birds sing and lambs play and dear little children are loving and iiappy. I AND J.—There are no two let ters in the manuscript alphabet of the English language, which cause so much miscoustruotion as I and J, as most people write them alike, fl’lie rule for writing them properly, and which deser ves to ’no universally adopted, is to run tho J below the line, and the I even with tlio line.
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