'rilE TWO rOKTKESSES
I know a little fortress where
Suinbers of people hide.
I wonder, iny yoimg friends, if you
Have ever been inside!
Some think it is a fortress sure,
(Although in trnth ’tis not,)
Tiiithcr the careless love to run;
’'Xis called, “ 1 quite forgot.”
You “ quite forg’ot” thatmother called.
To-day when you were reading.
You let her wait upon herself,
^Vhilc you went on uidiceding.
You quite forgot to leave your room
As tidy as you ought;
And tlicn, O how ashamed you felt
When visitors were brought.
This mon.ing you “forgot” to pray.
And everything Avent wrong;
Cross words, unkindness, bitter
thoughts
Have teased you all day long.
And now to shield your character
Tliis fortress is no use.
For those around you plainly see
“Forgot”’s a lame excu.se.
For if you ahvays “quite forget,”
Folks feel they cannot trust you,
You’ll lo.se. respect, and forfeit love.
And little good Avill do.
But there’s another little fort
That 1 shall like to mention.
Conscience and duty are its guards;
’Tis called, “I’ll pay attention.”
Will you not come aTid mail this forti
Instead of cure, ju’evention
,Twill give you, if you say and mean.
Henceforth “I’ll pay attention.”
JOHN MIETON.
Perhaps our young readers
would like to know something of
the celebrated author of Paradise
Lost—John Milton. Witli the
single exception of Wm. Shak-
speare, he is generally consid
ered the greatest poet that ev
er lived, lie was also a very
learned man, as he had the best
educational advantages, and was
always exceedingly studious.
Wlicn young he studied every
night until 12 o’clock, and at
seventeen knew Latin, Greek and
Hebrew, and could compose
beautiful poetry in Latin. His
personal beauty was so great
that he was called “the lady of
Christ’s College.” His hair was
of a light brown color, jjarted in
the middle, and fell in curls upon
his shoulders. Though so effem
inate looking, he excelled in man
ly exercises. At twenty-four
years of age he left the Univeisi-
ty and spent five years in “a
ceaseless round of studies.” His
mother then dying, (when he was
29,) he spent the next fifteen
months in travel on the continent,
and was received with great dis
tinction in Paris, Rome, and oth
er cities. He made the acquain
tance of the two learned men,
Grotius and Galileo. About that
time the English people put
Charles 1. to death and threAV off
the monarchy, and these momen
tous events called Milton back to
England. He returned in 1639,
and became a famous polemical
prose writer, earning for himself
a very great reputation, and ac
quiring honors and high position.
One of his articles was to prove
that a nation had the right to
put their king to death. He was
married three times. His first
wife, to whom ho was married in
1643, left him after one month of
married life, and returned to her
relatives. They, however, became
reconciled in 1645, and dwelt to
gether afterwards. In 1654, when
46 years old, he became com
pletely blind, through excessive
use of his eyesight in writing
and studying;, yet his eyes re
mained perfectly clear, without a
mark, speck or disfigurement.
His wife died in 1653, leaving
three little girls. lie was soon
married again to a lady- with
whom he was happy for fifteen
montlis; but she died, and his
friends made up a third match
for him. Amid constant quarrels
between his daughters and their
step-mother, he wrote his famous
poems. Paradise Lost and I'aradise
Regained, the former of which
was sold to Samuel Simmons, a
bookseller, for 820.00. For twen
ty years of his life he was the
firemost champion of English
1 berty, and a writer whose learn-
i ig and splendid rhetoric were
unequaled. To the very end of
life ho was a liard student. On
the 8th of November, 1674, he
died of consumption, calmly and
without pain, at the ago of sixty-
six, having been born December
9th, 1608. He was quietly buried
in Saint Giles Church, Cripple-
gate, London, by the side of his
father. The entry of the poet’s
burial is, “John Milton, gentle
man. Buried November 12, 1684.
Consumption Chancel.”
In the same church rests the
body of John Fox, author of the
“Book of Martyrs.”
The church, a picture of Avhich
we give, was named after Giles,
who is said to have been a no
bleman of Athens, in the Seventh
Century, who was noted for his
piety and benevolence. Near by
the chui’ch was, also, the ancient
“Cripples’ Hospital,” which has
given its name to the locality,
Cripplegate.—Kind Words.
HOW THE APOSTEES DIED.
1. Peter was crucified in Rome,
and at his own request, with head
downward.
2. Andrew was crucified by
being bound to a cross by cords,
on which he hung two days, ex
horting the people till he expired.
3. St. James the Great was be
headed by order of Herod, at Je
rusalem.
4. James the Less was thrown
from a high pinnacle, then stoned,
and finally killed with a fuller’s
club.
5. St. Phillip was bound and
hanged against a pillar.
6. St. BartholomeAV was flaymd
to death by command of a bar
barous king.
7. St. Matthew was killed with
a halbert.
8. St. Thomas, Avhile at prayer,
was shot with a shower of arrows,
and afterward run through the
body Avith a lance.
9. St. Simon was crucified.
10. Thaddeus, or Judas, was
cruelly put to death.
11. St Matthias—The manner
of his death is somewhat doubt
ful ; one says stoned, then be
headed, another says he was
crucified.
12. Judas Iscariot fell, and his
bowels gushed out.
13. John died a natural death.
14. St. Paul Avas beheaded by
order of Nero.
THE CDEOKS SENEIGHT,
It was a beautiful piazza en
twined with climbing roses, where
Ida and Jane had been sitting
with aunt May, looking upon the
fine sunset scepe which was there
presented.
And now the sun had sunk be
neath the western hills and left,
oh such beautiful colors behind !
—crimson and gold and purple.
The clouds were radiant Avith
their rich hues,, and the river re
flected them from its smooth sur
face.
“ Why don’t Ave see these beau
tiful colors in the middle of the I Becommended ly
day f' asked Ida, “instead of on
ly morning and evening ?”
“You remember the prism
which I shoAved you yesterday
replied aunt May, “and hoAv many
colors it shoAved you in the sun
light ?”
“Oh, yes,” replied Ida ; “and
you said the prism separated the
rays, so that Ave could see the
different colors; but Avhen all
are blended together they look
Avhito.”
“And these colors Avonld be on
my hand, or on my dress, or cn
the Avail, Avherever the ray hap
pened to shine, said Jane.
“In the same way the air or
atmosphere which is betAveen us
and the sun sepai'ates the rays of
light, and causes the colors to
appear. But in the middle of the
day the sun is higher in the heav
ens, and the air through Avhich it
shines is not dense enough to
bend or refract the rays. At
morn and in the evening the air
is more dense and separates the
rays, so that Ave see their differ
ent colors.”
“And see ! they have tinted
the forest on the hill side, and the
trees in the meadow,” said Ida.
While they Avere gazing Jane
asked, what makes the rainbow,
auntie 1”
“The rays of sunlight pass
through the falling rain drops,
Avhich act as a prism to seperate )
the colored rays and shoA’V each " '
one distinctly.”
“Oh, that is Avhy mother says
run look for a rainbow, for the
sun is shining and rain falling at
the same time,” said Janey. “But
sometimes I see a rainbow Avhen
the rain is not falling.”
“That is Avhen it is falling at
some distance from you. There
cannot bo a rainbOAv Avithout sun
shine and rain at the same time.
Do you knoAv Iioay many colors
there ave in a sunbeam, as seen
in the rainbow or through a
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