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g I **• I I I 8 *■ gtilii’s Simmer Trip | »» *»• M. Mm. I AH «Wk and tired of tkla lire! I 1 would rather die now than I endure It year artrr year, with «* hope of rotoooe! • Stella Manila threw her crochet work to the ••to dd« of the are all room. “If I «—d so to the trustor like other girh I might make * os I table match—one tot woald agTt me from the bondage a* porertyf* ^JCetia aadly looked op from her “Taa ha TO much to he thankfal foe. •■to toaSa," ah* said softly. “Toar •win a beautiful fare-" Tkat la the pood of my beauty? Whom do 1 are now? No one hot Dr. •—to and ha la old and stout, and to nan a our poverty too wall to thlak Ml this Juncture Mrs. Manila, a ladyHke woman, entered the xaoan. and looked from oaa to the othar ad bar daughters. "What la the trouble?” she asked. "Mamma. **»&a la tired and wests g» ta the seaside.” Notts mid soft er. "Foot StaOa Is weary of this life, mmd I think I bad better gtr* bar Unde 5 ■•Hmrt sift, and then the can hare •to with bar money, hat Natta. who ton* naan far years ertppiad by a fan. "Than I wll teO yoa what ni do, Tnmdatoant of alstarei I ahaO be aura to —to n ran (amt, and when I am —"tod I wS tabs yon to Ytaacsb to to * t you wish to see.” ■** > on# lapped at too lent later Dr. ■dames, a mil, rather stout man of mhant fnrty-flv* years of age, with a -Starr, kind face, entered. Two Weeks later Stella Moalte was tonriTM* la an aristocratic resort. Ato* went by. end her letters home to—not eery frequent Finally one totontag the postman brought on* that ana thao; **? Baer Mother and Slstar-I am Sbrnm to be married and bid adira to * — of poverty forever. Mr. Letond. to tutors hashes*, la Immensely toaaMhy. He owns ■ magaMcaat roe tototo la the dty end on* on tbe Hud. •to But there le one thing which 1 — torryte mention-he dace not wish — *• neknesrledg* my rclalhrea after —"•to Of eaars* I shall not forget Worn, mother and Metis, and shell rw which brought roe *— •* tbs earliest opportunity. My •■■ to— my fortaao. SteUa.” toirha ■?■**“* ****** ber f*°* wUh "My child has forsaken mar she ***** «o*M kordty Min a want at aaaailillia. What wta ikm ta my? ■* toaw bar alatar woreluped at the ****** •* waaltb, aad carad aat bow **** hfartu aha brake If aba oaty fwHwd k«r lots«d*f«r co«I A taw weete taler Or. Jaim made Wbjab waa aat alrtctiy ,~**P*-" *a aald. sUttas daws braid. ■**■. >» ahdra'a anarar trip baa ■•bar a haabaad. I read lha aaar ”** ■***•• * *» P*P" yaatarday. *••< * ***a a tarar la aak af ye*. I * ***** ad betas ata» la tha war Id; ****** « t*He ta taka rare af. aad ttHato aa one «iee who wmdd pirate «a bat yen. I hare krrnl yea arar w«*o UMt high'’—wMh a aw «0» «f Ma bead—'‘aad If yea will taaaa raa l wdl tab# yea ta rraara ta t»a pkjddnyM bare aat year heart • ******** ,h*y "" 7** 1 ■*•*• i» ♦Stdd^Lera” ***’ 1 afcan *•»• Faa 'I**** la hit ktad ayra ta >—hta WeMe wore mm u«. t I r a tatta, a ••waa. aad walled open like a quern, 1 have net a penny ot meaty under my control. ■Tcrylhloe 1 have is or derrd aad paid for afterward, but by. and-by I eball contriro a way to get It foe you." “Poor Stellar the asotbrr sighed. "1 am afraid that ta the end abe win think her eamamr trip a failure." “And her marriage, too." rejoined NefU. “ae all marriagea aot baaed cm Iran lor* prove." “I have tome good news for your Dr. Jams* cried, an ho entered the mane followed by a strange gentlemen. "Pat away your letter. Nuts, sad 11a tm." Xetta did bis bidding, and the stran ger Introduced himself n* a lawyer. He Informed that an nnclo of Mrs. Monlto * kad died end left bor heiress to his wealth—a goodly sunt. Severs! weeks later found Mr*. Mo nlto and Xetta en rout* for Rnglaud. Dr. James's nepkow Intended to croes the ocean, end the doctor bad intrusted them to his cure. "God grant your dearest wish may ba granted. Xetta." ho sold to her when parting. Months swat by, and Xetta wax on the road to recovery. By degree* she found her old strength returning, and at the end of n year was able to walk about without assistance. She was very happy, and to crown ■11* her sister Rtclls and her husband visited them. They were wmstny- a tour, and as her relatlrss were wealthy now, Mr. Leland had no objection to his Wife's associating with them. They Insisted that Mr*. Monlto and Xetta should be of tbstr party. “IV Stella's sake." Mrs. Monlto said. "Xetta. I will consent She Is un happy enough. She sold herself for gold, and only too late realises what that bargain means." Another six months passed away. Xetta had a number of suitors, but to nona did she give encouragement and Theodor* Donacombe. the doctor’s nephew, interpreted that alga favor able to himself. Ha wrote to his unde that Notts's health was perfect, aad her Ufa was bow • happy tm; then ha hinted that, la time, ho dreamed of winning her. “Theodore u a good boy.” tbs doctor whispered, when he read the letter. “They will ho a in I table pair, and I moat forget my wild dream.” Ha went to meet thorn when they returned, and congratulated Nett* on th* fclOH meat of her dearsat wish. After that ba called but seldom, and was grave sad restrained when they met by chance. Dnoseombe'a wooing did not prosper, and at last be begged of hla node to Ba< hla Infloence for him. "She thinks an much of yocr opin ion that sbs win bead yon." ho plead ad. and the doctor at last consented. He want to aeo Net to, and made his errand known. She looked at him with o flashed face. "I cannot accept yonr nephew." she •aid decidedly. "I do net care for hla as a woman should for the man she marries" “Bat In time yoo might." "Kernel I shall paear lore bat one ■an. and ba has had my heart since childhood.'* “Notts. I aorer dreamed of thtsr he •aid. -Who la he? Tell m*r "Need ir* she asked softly. “Who cared for me when 1 was poor and afflicted, and would hare burdened himself with me then? If he ha. changed. I-“ “Natter He opened bis arms to fold her la his embrace. “I neTer dam] hope for this moment!" Tboaddre Danseombe did not stay to hla unels's wedding, bat Stella and her husband ramo to witness It. "May God bins you. my uaselOah sister!" Stella whispered to the bride. And to all appearances her prayer la answered.—Wnrcrtey Magazine. r»iSil to rises as. The lagenlona Hermans bare vlerc T oped a DOTH method of pocking and shipping batter, which may be of In terest to American dairymen. A light wooden case or box Is lined thorough ly at Use bottom and sides with a lay er of plaster of parts a quarter of an Inch thick, oa which pieces of common glass ore laid before the plaster seta. The edges of the gless stabs ars made perfectly air tight by means of gammed paper, and Into the perfect Ottlng box that formed batter, wrapped la good water-proof paper. In ten-poaod rakes. Is placed. The glass top le now pat so and made air-tight with strips of gammed paper. A layer of plaster of parte ene-qaarter Inch 'hick is now ran ever the glass rarer and the U4 nailed on the box. Each root la made to eeatatn about two hundred pounds of hotter. The plas ter of parts being a non con duct or, rery little heat reaches the batter, which a friers at Ita destination to Totirbftl with loflaUe ptdioc, ■■ wtU ' "• with aarpasrtog wotrdoeoa. was the coartshlp of a mm Laacaablro alnrr wbo wsood bis maaln. a girl of olartara. across tba drlag bod •( tbo former, fatbsr. Tbo girt, wbo bad booa aomwoDod to narao tbo old aaa, fan la tors wbb tba aoa tbrongh watcblag bis tsadsraoaa to bla alllag *Uo, sad tbaa U caan a boot that wbllo tbo agsd Ilfs was obtoag awajr two raaag llrss wsro roar oral ag toward aoab otbar. Tbs fatbsr la bis float taoawaU garaard tbalr sorrat sod Jotasd tbalr ha ads. sad tbaa did this roiaarkablo wootog woar to Ka sad. U Osmsay. arbors tbs morto.rr •»<! wb*tobrtbMrtOM?toa^ awaatoa^blT ** darrtsd aa la tboos halls of tbs asod. tad aaaj morrW*oo bass booa glaaMd aad arraafig aaald tbalr Do Stale roads Increase the rains Of abutting property? Is a question often asked of the Massachusetts com mission. As a partial answer. It can be sold that Information has been re ceived from distant parts of tbo State setting forth tbs fact that certain form lands which were on tbo market for eonio years, without a customer, were sold shortly after tbs completion of the Slate road, and at prices above wh.it they had been offered for. As there are neither steam nor electric railways within several mlloa of some of the pieces of property referred to, It Is fair to sesame that the Judgment of the local Informants, who attribute the sale aad the rlso in price to the Blalc road. Is correct. Although it Is difficult to obtain di rect evidence as to a rise lb tbo value of property, there la uo lack of testi mony as to lbo value of the roads to the users of them. From aD parts of the State reports have been received which clearly show a malarial reduc tion In time betwoen- given points, n decrease In the number of horses ou certain stage, mall and milk roatsa. aad large Increase In loads with the same number of horses. Tbcat re sales sorely mean that the social con ditions are Improved. I be cost of main taining regular lines of transportation by highway Is reduced, and the pro duct of farms and Isolated manufec tortaa la movsd In n manner to In crease the margin of progt. Real property Is subject to the same laws, whether It be urban, suburban or rural Its msrkst value Is regulat ed by Its earning capacity. Its near beas to beautiful or picturesque scen ery. and still farther by Its religious, educational and social opportunities. A. line In Talus may follow an Im provement of any one of these con ditions. bat it most follow a better ment of all. The commission Is coo ftdant that tbs cam la not misstated when it says that wherever a state rood has been begun, a betterment •long the lines suggested will follow Its completion. r«Uf Mi Iki •ntiBillli Ordinarily the chauffeur on plsasar* bent lakes only scant Interest in tkat branch of aotomoblltsm which la con csrnad with transportation of freight. Nevertheless, then la an Intimate and necessary connection between the pro »reaj of heavy motor wagon traffic and the pleasures of those who never expect to operate an aa to mobile foe utility purpose*. These pine agree de pend very largely upon the mileage of good roads that ara at ^s's disposal, and the goods roads problem depends for Its eolation almost exclusively upon the advancement of automobile freight traffic and auto mo bu lam for agrtenl torsi Implements and the general hca bs adry of the farmer. Bo long aa the farmer Is compelled to employ borers anyway, for plowing hU fields and haul In* produce and provlalooe lo and from town, so long will be be disinclined lo purchase aotomobUes for ooy purpose, but the moment ho ran dispense with att horse*, save perhaps one team, and can begin to see a Having Is doing so. ha will also be willing lo listen to the financial argument in favor of good roads, and. • his argument being Immensely strengthened when be eaa measure tho traction effort on a poor road In the dollars and cents expended for gneolme (or perhaps alcohol), be will soon be willing to pay bis share for road Improvement It might be a pay. lug Investment II all automobile manu facturers would eodow a (pedal Insti tution for advancing the application of mechanical power to aU kinds of work Incidental to agriculture. It would at all events be a novel and meritorious depot tare, and might be made successful under competent leadership, although most other forma of cooperation which look so tempt ing to the theorist prove so futile In practice.—Automobile Topics. rinun'tMb. A dispatch from Wabash. Ind.. to tbs Bute Journal says that farmsn la tba northern part of Wabaab County ■ro building gravel roads, Independent of lb* county com mission era. at a rata which will soon tsars few of tb* old ■ad highways la cxlatene*. trader a system wbleb makes construction easy and cheap. One torn pike of ten ail leu, extending from North Manchester to Otalio. la now being completed, and the burden, under lb* eelf-aeeeeuucnt system rrotsed. baa scarcely been felt •■oog tbe land owners. Thorn farm er* entered Into an agreement to build the road, every owner of property sbulling joining In tba pact to pay 11.50 per aero In work or cash, wilbln three yean. Load assessed crtends back a half nib on ell bar skis of tb* road. Tb* work I* dots* In doll sea ■oas. and Iba lorn of Urns is sot foil by tba farmers, while tb* construction of tba road I* pushed rapidly. At tb* end of tb* thru* year* tbo county con taistlonsrs *re uotlCcd of tb* romplo ■ioo of tb* work, tbo costaly surveyor (aspect* tb* read, nod If It compiles with *H requirements. It 1* accepted, • ad tb* roximlsskaosTS. and** tb* gravelruad repair net, tmd*rtmk* to Keep It la gsad condition “Tbe man wba thinks be knows u an.- says tb* Uanaynab Phils* ophsv. • generally Hv«* loog cssougb to laara that even tbo biggest **eyrtcp*di* **■ mtloually nerd* a supple ussnt'— PhBadelphla Qetvrd. 1 \ fsiiiumm. There was a rud who worked all day And sat np lata at night. And toiled and planned and schemed away To asm the dixsy height; He longed to hare the right to atiod High o’er the crowd end hear men mv, As. looking up. they sow him lWe. "How grr*i he is, haw grand!" At last, when he wws heat, when rare * And toil hod marred hit vuage, when The moiil of tome was on It is hair. He stood high up o'er other men And. listening. Heard the ps«servby ha)- lightly; ' What a queer old gwy '* —Chicago Urrordlfi-rald. Pwesa’t Work. "CJveorfulucsa la riches.*' “Ob. no: If you can’t pay n b!U. he lng cheerful about It only make* the other uiuu madder."— Detroit Free Trews. Ineeeaa. "What la the key( to ■acenc*?* "'The ability to make people pay." "Tay for vliat they get;" "No: pay for. what you tell them they arc getting.**—Chicago Paau Getting Ob. The Good Man—"So, Willie, you’re going to school, are you? That’s ole*. And what hare you learned ao far?** WnUe—1"To whistle without pucker log my mouth.*'—Chicago Record-Her ald. ■ «r rualtj. She—"Kbe comes of s (rand old family. I believe?” He—“Ye*. very! Ao ancestor of Iter* was beheaded la the Tower daring the reign of the fourth Edward.” She—"How perfectly lovely’-Tlt Blts. «• lutkn Amsttlitanl. * * Dorothy—"How would you define a gentleman?” Katharine—“Well, my Idea of a gen tleman la a man who looks and acta like a gentleman even when he Isn’t dressed like a gentleman."—Chicago Record-Harold. Dleky—"I ain't got no tuts for a kid wot'a too goad to fill hit pockets wit* apples when a barrel of 'em falls off a wagon an' boats In de atrset’’ BlUy (with indignation;—"I wutn't too good. Da copper was a-watchln' mef—Chicago Tribune. "All people." remarked the earnest eltiseu. "are born equal." ''Perhaps." answered the deliberate friend; "bat they don't stay equal any looger thgn It takas for their parents to proelds them with clothes and pUj thlngs.”—Washington Star.. OMMnUaf ladutrj. “Mike,” said Plodding Pets, "did yon know soma people says your brain works all fie timer "I don't believe It." answered Mean dering Mike. "I'd rather do wit‘out sen as altogedder dan kart such a fool lab brain."-Waablngtoa Star. The Bi«a« c.aawsM. Briggs—They aay tbit If files were left alone—that it. If all tboat that are born were allowed to Uve—there would lie notblug else hut Hits,” Griggs—"That la. supposing the earth were nothing la tbs solar sys tem but a big railroad restaurant."— life. C—wlntt •‘You any yon are a detective ? "Yw.*’ "But ought you not to couceal U.« fact to aome degreeY* •*I da” “How Y* ”By not detecting anything.'*—Wash ington Sfr.r. ▼Iff# M*W. “lio you write because of Inspira tion?' ueked the Idealistic young won* an. "Not usuolly,” nnivrored the cold look *ug man with ink ou bis Ongrru. "A* u rule I write because of the ex piration of the time lor which the rent baa been paid.'' MfiUflttat fkUoMpkj. **1 am afraid BllggJna lisa met with rererses." “What makes jou thlQk *o7“ "He goes about with a gloomy look, sayiug Thera la no >ucb thing as disin terested friendship. That Is almost s sura sign that a man has been trying to borrow money." Tv. CM. "If ten men abould ..k yon to mar ry them. wh.t would tbit beT "Wlul would It boy "A I potior." “And If one abould oak you, rrhot would that be 7' "I don't know; what'/’ “A woiKlrr.”—Llfr. Qmmim rHiimib., "IVby do povla wear long Ualr7' aaked tba young woman win lu nnxloua lu learn. -Uy dear." antwrrrd Uo young woman wbo belloraa them la no aucb thing an modem I Iterator*. "If tbvy didn't wear lung balr bow would wa know they ara portal" Is IM r*l«N. "Do yrm kaap an ar.latent ta tba cook y "You." "And do ba tba aaalatant hart n helper y Mb. baa." "Aud bare yea a kUrban maid to clean up after tba aaeietaM'e ht lperr ■ Wa bare." "TVaa I'll glra m a weefc'e trial." — Brooklyn Ufa. TO BLESS OR BLAST Dl. TALK AGE’S SUNDAY SIlttON.; OiKiiwu tb« tanimcM ol lb* Uoo4 ■sd Bvll DM41 We Dw la Our Life'* JewMjf. lOrrrievi, im.i nmnoToj. D. C-In ,hl. dltcourae Dr. Talmtf* vhon • (h*l III. *uod 01 «ril we uu return. to bJcas or bU«t u., terl. luiah art. *fc"lt la He Hut utivtb upon the oreb of the earth.'’ While ret people IhoaeM that tbo world Ti. Rat ami thoueanda of year, he for© they found out that it was round . . t. mums ted the *hipc «h Got sitting upon the circle of u»© •*rth. The most beautiful figure m .ill I*ometry is the circle. God made the uoi* 0,1 * plmn °* cirT^ Tl*ere ere m the natural world straight lines, angles. parallelogram*. diigtmnU, quadrangle*, hut these ev*deullh aix? not Gods La von tr * Almost (wrii her© wbrre you find linn gaometruinc ">a find tlie circle dominant, and if not the cirrle then the curve, which i« a circle (list died young. If it had lived long euough it )xnro keen a full orb. a periphery. An ellipse is a circl© pressed <wuy a little too hard at the aide©. Giant'* causeway in Ireland show* what God tbinlu of mathematic© Thete arv oret 33.000 columns of rock*—octagonal, hat-agonal, pentagonal. These rocks sewn ^ l*sve been made by rule and tompjss. Even' artiet has hie molding room wh*re he may make fifty shapes, bet he chouses oer ahopc as preferable to all other*. 1 will not eay that the Giant* ruusowsy was the world’s molding room, but I do aay out of a great many figure* God ween s ** -7. •*}“*** the circle os toe bc-t. *1 J* He that aitleth on the cirete of the earth. The slant in a circle, the moon |® • circle, the inn in a circle, the universe m a curie and the throne of God the ten tre of that circle. .appreciation oi thi« would correct the architecture of churches. whore shape u •/i*"11 • defiance of divine suggestion. '* ben men build churches they ought to imitate the idea of the Greet Architect *ud put the audience in a cirri#, knowing tb»l the (idea of emotion*roll more easily that way than io straight lines. Kia thou sand years ago God flung this world out of Hu right hand. But He did not throw it out in a straight hoe, but in curvilinear, with a leash of love holding it ao aa to £ri*g U knulc again. The world started from His hand pur* and Edenic. It haa ?•*" r?Uj®| °* throuth regions of moral and distemper. How long it will roll God only known, hot it will la due tune make complete circuit and come beck to the place where it started—the band of God-pure and Edenic. Tb* history ©f the work! goes in n cir ele. Why is it that the shipping is our day u improving ao rapidly? A scientific shipbuilder saya it is becauee men are imitating in some respects what the email witn dends, the old model of Noah’s ark. not aa wa tee it in old time picture*, bat aa it really wa* according to the account girwa. Great ships have we now. hat where in the ship oo the aea to-day that could outride a driogc in which the heaven and the earth were wrecked, landing all the passengers in safety. two of each kind of living creators*, kaadreds of thousand* of specie*? Pomology will go on with its achieve mjtil after many centimes the world will have phi as and pears equal to the paiadiaaical. The art of gardening will grow for centuries, and after the Downing* and Mitcbella of the world hare done their beet in the Ur future th# art of •wdesuug will come up to the arbureaeenee of the year L If the makers of colored glass go on in Pit**®* thfP j® MKM centurie* be able to make anenrthmg equal to the east window of York minster, which was baill in the rear IMG. W* are six centanee be hind those artists. But the world must keep on toiling until it shall rosko the complete circuit and come up to the skill of those very men. If the world continues to improve -in msaoajw, we shall have after awhile, per haps aiUr the advance of centuries, mor tar equal to that which 1 saw in the wall of an exhumed English city built 10 the time of the Romans 1600 years ago, that mortar today as good as the day in which It was mads, having outlasted the brick and the itooe. I say. after hundreds ef yrare masonry may advance to that point. II the world aland* long enoogh vre mar novo a city as large aa they had in old timea—Babylon, five times the size of Lon don. You may go into the potteries of Knalaud and you And them making cups and vase* after the style of the cup* and vase* exhumed from Pompeii. The world is not going back. Oh, no! Hat it » swinging in a circle, and will come jround to the styles of pottery known so long ago as the days of Pompeii. The world must keep on progressing uat.il it make* tbr complete dreuit. The curve m in the rivkt direction; the curve will kern on until it becomes the circle. Well, now, what ia true in the material oirnt and spiritual »mn|rment. Th.it is the meaning of Ezekiel's wheel. All com mentators agree ia saying tipat the wheel means God’s providence. But a wheel is of no use unless It tarns, and if it turn it turns around, and if it turns around it moves in a circle. What then? Are sre parts of a great iron machine whirled around and around whether we will or not. the sktims of inexorable fate? No! 80 far from that I shall show you that ws ourselves start the circle of good or bad sc* tiuos, and that it will surely corns around again to ua unless by divine intervention it be hindered. Thom bad or good actions may make the circuit of many rears, but come beck to no they will as certainly ss that Ood sits on the circle of the earth. Jeaebel. the worst woman of the Bible —Shakespeare copying hie loidy Macbeth from her pujtere—alew Naboth because ahe wanted his vineyard. While the clog* were eating the body of Naboth Elijah, the prophet, pot down his coni pass sod marked a circle (rose those doge clear around to the dogs that should cat the body of Jetebel. the murdereev "Impossi ble'" the people said. "That will never happen." Who is that being flung out of the palace window? Jescbel. A few hours after they came around, hoping to bury her. Thsv find only the palms of the hands sod the skull. The doge that de voured Jezebel and the doge tbet devoured Naboth Oh, what e awift, what an awful circuit! But it is sometimes the rear (hat this rircls sweeps through a century or through many center*#. The world started with a theocracy foe government—that U. Ood was tbs prewident and emperor of the world. People got tired of a theocmee. They said. "We don’t want Ood dirurtfr interfering with the affairs of the world, Give aa e monarchy " The world had a monarchy From a monarchy It is going to hare a limited monarchy. After awhile the limited monarchy will be given np and the republican form of government will be everywhere dominant and meg niaed. Thru ths world wiB get tired of the republican form of government, and it wiB have an anarchy, which ia no govern ■sent at all And then afl nation#, fading out that man ie not capable of rtOt.W;. M*.rr,. l*« mam. ml err oat i(tn far ihro-roo. mr. "Lot Oo4 mm hath »»<f eoadarl (to •fl'.tr. of um worM.” lCrory otop—monarrhr, bmitod aao-uir •b*. MfkHwiom. aoor.br «•!» iflftor Ml Map. Warworn lb, ft rat tfirnrnry .vl Uw loot ihoorrorr or >o«k>m«. of tbo pul ortlo of tW Mrtb m arMrb find ofta. Sat do 004 Krooni, inpo'irot kaw r*» f»**<X Ma tba tarra of errata >u therefore cone lode that God'a government la going to break down. IiiatorT tells ua tn?) «■ the making of the pyramids it took 2000 men two rears drag ooe atone from the quarry and put it into the pyramids. If men short Used can afford to work so »)owly as that, cannot God ia the building of eta mi lira afford to wait? What though God should take 10,000 rrara to draw a circle? Shall we take our little watch which we have to wind up ♦very night leal it run down and bold it up beesde the clock of eternal agaa? If, according to the Bible, a thousand yean are in God'a sight as ooe day. tben. acrord* log to that calculation the 0000 vmm of the world’a existence baa hern onh to God aa from VI on Hay to Saturday. * Bat it is often the case that the rcWnd is quicker, the return ia ranch quicker tfbp that. The circle is eoonrr complctA. lou rcaol vc that you will do what Jmf you can. In one week you pul a nonlW counsel in the Kesri of a Sahbeth-erhA child. During that same week vou letter of introduction to j young rum struggling in business. During the week you make an exhortation in n jirajB jwctmp. It U all gone. You will neV hear of it. perhaps, you Gunk. A fS )*cari after a man route* on to yoa il mtu. "Van don't know roe. do sou?" - Yak wy. "No. f don't remember ever to have ■fen yoa." "Why." lie mp. "I waa ua the Sabbath-school class over which yoo\ wcic the teacher. One Sundav you in*\ vited me to Chriat; I accepted the offer. < ’OB jw ihatcharvh with luo tower* yon der^ * "\m." vna any. lie sate. "That it n here I preach," nr. ‘l>i •*o:i pec thnt gov* error's lionsc? Tbi t is t\herc I lire.” ("hie day u »na>i comes to you ami raja "Good moraine." You k»A at him and sav. by. you have the advanince «»•' me: 1 cun not place you." H* ravs. "Don't you lemembci thirty years ago g\in- me a let* ter of inti'oduction to a voting m.m—« let ter of introduction to William I" Dodge?" "Yes, jre*. I do." lie any*. "I am the man. That won my first step tnwerd a I fortune. But l have retired from hn>mc«a now end am giving my time to philauthro nien and tioblic interest*. Come up to tny [ I.erase and see me." (>r a man ronm to \©o and inr»: "I nanl to introduce myself to you. I west iot» a nrayer meeting »nm* years ago. I mat buck bv thr door. You arose to make an exhortation. That talk changed th* comae of my life, and if I ever fret to heaven tinder Ood 1 mil owe my aaWiuion to you." In only tee. twenty or Ourtv years th* circle swept out and inept bark ogam to your own grateful heart. But sometimes it ia a wider circle and doe* not return for a great while. I saw a hill of expense* for burning la timer and Ridley. The bill of «xpanic* ha* theae items among others: Shilling* I'enee. On# load of fire fagots.3 4 Car tag* for four loads of wood.3 Item, a poet.1 4 Item, two chains.3 ** 4 Item, two staples. 8 Item, for laborer*.3 I making in all 29a Rd That was cheap fire, considering all the circumstance*, but it kindled a light which shone all around toe wr»rM and aroused the martyr spirit, and ont from that burning of fatimer and Ridley rolled th* circle wider and wider, starting other circles, eonroluling. overrunning, circumscribing, overreaching all heaven—a circle Rut what ia true of the good ia just as true of the bad. You utter a sbnder against )our neighbor It has goo* forth from vour teeth. It wiD never come back, you think. You hero done the awn all th* mUchirf vou con. You reiofcc* to see hita wince. You aav. "Didn’t l gir* it t» him?* That worn hss gone out, that slanderous word, on its poisonous and blasted way. You think it will never do you any harm. But I am watching that word, and 1 aw* it beginning to curve and it curve* around, and it i* aiming at your heart. You had batter dodge it You can not dodge it. It rolls into your bosom, and after it roDa in a word of an eld book rolls la after it, saying: "With what taaae nre jr# met* it shall b* measured to you iftio." Yu* maltreated an aged parent. You begrndc* him th* room in vocr bo*a*, x ou art impatient with his whimsicalities and enrruhty. It make* you mad to hear him tall the asm* story twice. You give him food be cannot masticate. You wish be was away. You wonder if he ia going to lie* forever. H* will he gone very soon. Ilia steps urs shorter sod shorter. Ha ia going to atop. Bot God has an account to •uttJe with you on that subject Alter awhile vour cy* will be dim. and your rail will halt, nod the sound of the grinding will ho low. and you will tell the asms story twice, and yuor children will umnder if you will never he taken away. They called you "father" oner. Now they call vou the "old man." If rou live a few year* longer they will cull Ttm th* "old chap." What are those rough words with which your children are accosting you* Tl»cy are the echo of the very words you used in the ear of your old father forty year* ago. A gontlrtUAB passing along the aienue new a non dragging His father into the street by th* hair of the brad. The gentle man, outraged at thia brutal conduct, was about to puniah th* offender, when the old man arose and said: "Don’t hart him. It’a afl right. Forty years ago thia very morning I dragged out »ny father bv the hair of hr* hwid!" It ia a cirri*. Other sir* may be adjourned to the next world, bat maltreatment of parent* ia punched in this world. That circle is made quietly, v*-y qiuekl*. some difficulty has been settled to inn* it up again end Ond will not do anything Site that. God’s memory is mighty enough to hold all the events of the age*, hut there u one thing that is sura to slip Hi« memory, one thing He ia ante to forget, and that is pardoned tran*grr*»on How do I know it! I will prove it. "Their eina aad their iniquiUea will I re member no more." "Blessed ts he whose transgression is fcwgivda/' Bnt do not make the mistake of tkink iny that this dortrme of tbe circle Hope with tbit life, ft rolls on through heaven. Yon might quote in opposition to me what *t. John sera about the cite of heaven. He says it "lieth four square. That does seem to militate against this idee of a cir cle. But do you not know there is many a square hones that baa a family circle fac ing each other and in a circle moving, and 1 can prove that this is so in rq»M to haem. St. John aeya, "f heard the voice of many angels round about the throws and the beasts and the elders." And again ho aayw ‘1 saw round shout the throne four and twenty neats." And again he sera. 'There was a rainbow round about tbe throne." Tbe two former imply a circle; Lbs last, either a circle or a semicircle. The seats facing each other, the angola facing each other, the men faring each other. Heaven an amphitheatre of glory. Circumference of patriarch and prophet and apostle C4r ;u refer race of Scotch Covenants!* and Theban legion and Albitenaee. Circumfer ence of the good of all agra. Periphery of splendor tmhnagiwed and indescribable. A melel A rirefol But every circumference most bars a centre, and what is the centre of this heav enly circumference? Christ, llts all the rlery; Hie all tbe praiir; Ilia all the crowns AU benren wreathed Into a gar land round about film. Take off the im perial sandal from His foot and heboid the scar of the spik*. Lift the coronet of 4s* minion from H»n brow and see where was th« Iscoratson of the briers. Cense closer, all beers*. Narrow the circle around Hi* great heart. O Christ, the Bavionr! O Christ, the tonal O Christ, the Oedf Keep Thy throne forever, seated on the elrsle of the earth, seated on tbs circle of heaven. "On Christ, the solid rock. I stand: AD other groeed in shifting send. #
Richmond Headlight (Rockingham, N.C.)
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