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V(JLUME .iCASX THE WET.”—‘tCOOTE Ai\» MWE.” (Jolm xsi : 4.) OXFUIU), In. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 187g7 In the enriy, early Tnovuing, When the weary night was o’er, All for nought liad been the toiling— Labor long, and sad, and sore, Light of hope had faded dimly, Joy had almost ebbed away; Lark the night, but scarce less darkly Came the dawning of the day. Thus, inteut on grief, they knew not Whose the form that came to greet, Wlioso the voice across the waters— “ Children, hare ye any meat V' All bereft, unseen, forsaken, They had deemed their lot miknown— Nay, the love that never sliiinbereth Through it ail had watched His own. On tho world's w’ide, troubled waters, JIauy fishers through tho night, Vainly casting, vainly toiling, For they do not seek aright, They may ply their craft full bravely, Jiut the hours are drear and .'slow,— Lotii life yield them satisfaction 1 They can only answer, ^‘No.” Hearken, tlieu, the word commanding, Wise, reliable, and true. Cast the net to His directing, For the Master .speaks to you. Do his bidding, ye shall know then Whose the form upon the shore; AVealth of treasure He will show then, From the deep, unknown before. Then they drew them in and counted; Thus Boul-tishers of to-day, In the heavenly rest remaining, Shall the spoils of earth display.'.-'- • Here we number them not wisely— Joy reserved till work is done— There the glory his forever, As we count them one by one. Oh, the glad, glad feast awaiting, Thirst and hunger gone for aye; Heart’s delight for heart's own feasting, Tlirough the long eternal day. Closest union and communion, Fcastiug on f(..r evermore; Wheu the Master's voice saith sweetly, “ Como and dine,” upon the shore. A. A. M. dollar of tho adult goes for that which luiiiisters’ to piTle, than which there is nothing worse to cultivate, unless it be the gross habits of the liesh, which debase and debilitate so manv. Wluil: is the matter with this young mait ? How is it that lie is alwavs bor rowing and never able to assist the destitute and the worthy f How is it that he never makes presents to In's sister, and is iiii- mindiul of his mother, and never has a dollar lor tho charity collec tions of tile church ? The case is a very plain one. On bis own poor useless body he NUJIBEK 3:1. H.mi> TI.tSES Ai\» TMEfIS OB- ElOATIO.NfS. has wasted his salary. His dol- THE POWER OE THE DOELAH For evil or for good the dollar has a mighty power, and few there be who have studied the subject. Knowdedge is anotlier power, the advantage of Nvhich the Eomish Church does not ad mit, for she strives to keep the masses in ignorance, for do ive not find her in this favored Re public denouncing and destroy ing the public schools I Tiie power of education like money is often perverted to base ends. The unfortunate Tyndall has knowledge and education, but lie does not know how to use them any more than many of the mil lionaires of this and other lands who know not the proper use of the dollar. Knowledge and money are both good things when rightly used. It is their misuse and not their possession which entails mis fortune uiion their possessors. Knowledge and money do often puff up and tempt men to think more highly of themselves than they ought, and when men or women get into that unholy con dition their usefulness has depart ed. The wise man shrinks from poverty and riches, for both are alike in their numerous and fatal temptatioas. The worst thing one can do for a weakling is to give hiru money. The best thing one can do with money i.s to aid those who are doing good. _ When a child gets a few pen nies it starts for the candy shop and buys colored poison, The lar has gone for rings and canes, for rum, tobacco, and the kindred follies of riotous living. He must attend the theater, and go to the ‘■horse-race. Tiiese expenditures require more money than the lib eral salary, so the demented crea ture borrovvs and steals. Provi dence has given this lad his full share of talents and opportunities, and he takes the shortest cut for the swine and the husks. His progress can be marked every datn Instead ol distributing and expending the dollar wisely the fast young man and the” silly young woman expend every cent upon themselves. Titoy have not tho sliglitest idea seemingly of the power and purpose of the dol lar. These wasters are not build ing up, they are tearing down, destroj'ing themselves and socie- ty by pouring their motley into the lap of vice. The wise young man who, with his salary, jtrovides things honest and lovely, is tho contrast to the stupid spendtlu'ilt whose expendi tures nevei get beyond himself. St. Paul had trouble iu his day with a class of people who made a god of their belly and had no substance left with which to servo God and mankind. The voung man of thrifty habits, full" brain and large heart (wo have too few of them, which is chiefly the fault of mothers), puts the dollar, which iu his hands is a mighty power for good, to a veiy different ac count. He considers the poor. In the Bible he is described as tlie man who scatteretli and j-et increaseth. Ilis dollars are ali placed vvdiere they will really do tho most good. When a fellow clerk falls out of euiploym.ont he stands by him iu the gap with words iiidorsoJ by cash. He has the acquaint ance of tlie city missionary, and through him gives bread and gar ments to the blind, tho sick and the needy. The money wliich common fools spend iu tobacco, lager and rum, this uncommon jmung man uses to repair tho damage inflicted upon society by dollars ill-spent. Mothers, can you not send out into the world more of such young men ? Men and money consecrated to God— what power equals these I —W. T. Witness. We assume that it lakes at least five thousand bales of cotton to furnish tho farm supplies of Edgecombe county. We further state that the county, as appears from the census, produces a greater home supply than tho cotton country generally.—Char lotte Democrat. Now anc.i then we hear of fam ilies starving, not off on the plains, bat at our very doors. . And this dcploiTible condition of things is as often attributable to the un willingness of tho sufferers to make known their wants as it is (0 tlio selfishness of those who have the means to relievo them. One dishonest beggar or borrower inflicts a world of injiirv iipoii hone.st jioverty. Most" jieoplo wlien once deceived by a lazy fel low draw tight tlioir pur-se-strings for over. They coaciudo that every applicant for aid is an im postor. This conclusion is reach ed wiih ease, for it soothes their acquisitiveness, whatever it may do with their consciences. These are very hard times, and almost every one whose income goes regularly on has some friend or acquaintance out ot work who needs brotherly assistance. Are we dividing the loaf with them in this crisis I Have we the liuiigrv on our minds at all ? Are we going about doing good! It is written that the man who provides not for iris own liouss- liold is worse than an infidel, and there ar a few couditioris worse than that. In this class we place the spendthrift and the drunk ard, who obey no other obliga tions but those of self-gnitification. These wasters of treasure and opportunities have never learned, theoretically or experimentally, the philosophic truth that it "is more blessed to give tlian to re ceive. When a great warrior re turns from military victories he receives the honors of his country men ; but that is empty satisfac tion compared with that of the large-hearted philanthropist who enjoys tho praises and blessings of the poor, d’he majority of us —even men and women inside tho Church—know no rule so well as that making ourselves cornfortahlo. We take it for granted—which is a very great mistake—that every one is able to take care of himself. The sail ors, when they discover a man in trouble ou the wide ocean, for get everything else and go for him. "Ihe sign ol distress stirs their souls with brotiieiliness. On tho land we are not as for ward as that in kindness. AVe enjoy ourselves while our neigh bors iu tho same street are with out food. What we need is more of tho self-sacrificing spirit. In these trying times, when so many are unable to find employ ment, the first question with generous individuals and families should bo: Is it ivell with all our friends f Men are still fall ing among thieves as they jour ney through life; are the^Samar- itans on the increase or decrease ? This world wants nothing half so much as the brotherliuess exempli fied by Christ, whose mission w'as the welfare of the bodies and souls of men. When we do meet a Christian we find a man who is spending and being spent in these divine acts of self-denying char ity. The most effectual way of re- formins: the dejiraved and tho man who has been habitualh lielping others tlirough life may. in his day of need, ask assistanci with boldness and confidence; but who authorizes the penurious arm to be stretched out for returns where the seed of liberality was never sown I What right" lias a man to expect assistance in his day of trouble from friends or strangers who never lifted his lit tle finger when they were calling for help I “As ye sow,'so shall ye reap.” Reader, hunt up those wlio are ready to perish.—W. Y. Witness. FEOWEKS .N'OT KEVEAEEISS. As flowers emblemize our mor tality, so they likewise symbolize our reserreccioq_. Flowers perish, y-et they live .again and are thus symbols of our revival from the dust of the earth. It is true, tliey do not reveal tho resurrection. The Bible alone does that. Even in those civilized lands of antiqui ty on wliicli its celestial iighi never shone, the most observant and imaginative men did not from the return of flowers infer the res urrection of the dead. Wo find an ancient poet singing of the re vival of flowers, and yet utterly hopeless of any resuscitation from man ; ' The meanest herb we trample in the field, O.- in tim garden n r ne, which its leaf In autumn dies, forbodes another spring, And from brief slumber walios to life again ; Man makes no more! Man, peerless, valiant, svise, Once chill’d by death, sleeps hopeless in the dust, A long, unbroken, never-ending sleep.’’ Flowers then are not revealers, only symbols of the resurrection. It is exclusively the province of the gospel to “bright life and im mortality to light;” and therefore to those who believe it the return of flowers each spring has a new and a deeper meaning than it ov er contained to men wlio were ignorant of tlio gospel. How different from the mournful lines of the pag.an poet, just quoted, are these verses of a Christian one : “In all places, then, and iu all seasons, Flowers expand their and soul-like wings, Teaching ns, by most persuasive reasons, How akin they arc to human things. And^wilh child-like, credulous affection ^ We behold their tender buds expand, Lmblems of oiir own groat ro.surrectiou, Emblems of the bright and better laud.” To every man who has accep ted the gospel, the revival of flowers thus makes an appeal. Every opening bud tends to keej) thoughts of our own resurrection fresh and forceful in our minds ; and all such thoughts exert a healthful influence on our lives.— Evangelical Magazine. 7--'0 ^ i • scoffing is to be found in liberal acts of self-sacrifice. Faith and works are never separated. The A cactus has a form destitute of beauty. No man unaware of the tact would imagine that a plant so rugged in appearance and of such slow growth would, at the appointed time burst into such magnificent bloom. On some back shelf in the conservatory for years, it enjoys its share' of”wa ter and sunshine, and continues its slow and rugged growth al most unnoticed. But by' and by crimson buds appear on every part, and all the past culture i”s repaid by an affluence of beauty that delights each belioldei’. Let not anyr one desjjair of making life glorious. _A very interesting meeting of nnssionaries and their wive.s, from different parts of the world, was recently held at tho Baptist Mis sion House in Loi'idon. Am-uig those present u-as Rev. J. Aileu of India, whose remarks made a deep impression upon all who heaid them. He said he had now passed througli the three stages which every thorough-going mi,s- sionary mast experience: First, that of anient zeal and confident expectation of success following' upon work; secondly, that o°f despondency, cau.sed by the feol- ing that y ou have niade a grand mistake, and that India is not prepare.! to accept the Gospel; and thirdly a hopeful revulsiorq aiisiug trom a c]e:irer uorcepition of the difficulties of the" ease, and of the work that was really being done. I en years had elap.sed since he entered into the third stage, and the revulsion lias since deep ened in his mind and heart year by y'ear. “I can say' now,” con tinued Mr. Allen, “that I have more hope to-day of the speedy- success Oi luissioiis in India than I had when I entered upon the ^York; and this hope is founded not merely upon my own expe- lience, but upo!i the testimonies, of the natives themselves,’ Amon.r other illustrations of tho native feeling, he told of a meeting of educated natives, none of whom were phristians, who for five Sun day's in succession met to discuss the question, (‘Is it likely that Christianity will become the reli gion of India?’ At tho close a vote was taken, and it was unan- imouslyr decided, in the .affirma tive. They' seemed thunderstruck with the results of their own de- libeiations. One of the gentle men, tue head-inastei’ of a gov'- ernment school,.got up and said, “Then what aie we here for?’’ Tliis question was echoed by all present. The result -was" that they broke up and never met any' more. The strong current of Western life and thought is si lently at work under the surface of Indian society, every fiber of it ^ replete with antagonism ; to Hindooism and Moiianimedanism; and some day, perhaps not dis tant, the uprising will come with a rush. Then there will not be men enough to show inquirers the W'ay. It will bo far more dif- ficult lor the Christian Church to direct that movement than it is at present to direct the work Madagascar. m The monument erected by the Methodist women of New En gland to the famous old Methodist pieacher, the Rev. Jesse Fee, was dedicated at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Baltimore, July 11. The monu ment stands in what is called “the preacher’s lot,” a plot where a number pf distinguished Metho- clist ministers lie buried. It is of Scotch granite, and bears upon one side the inscription “New' England Methodists erect this tribute to the memory' of the Rev. Jesse^Loe, on the 8Gth anniversa ry of his first sermon in Boston, preached under the old elm, on the Common, July' 11, 1790. Quarrels would never last long if the fault ■was on one side only.
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