Home and Fireside.
More Than A Dream.
live up to the highest that's la you,
lie true to the voice iu your soul.
I*et love and your better self win you.
And follow them on to the goal.
Afar in the path of Endeavor
The temples of Happiness (fleam.
They stand as a promise forever
That heaven is more than a dream.
We fall iu the moments of weakness.
Borne dowu by the passion lor sin.
Acknowledge the error with meekness
Aud strengthen the guard from within.
The lusts of the brute we iuherlt
Must cower and shrink from the light
That Hows from the throne of the spirit
And shows us the path to the right.
1 know not what creeds we should cherish.
Or if tht y may all be astray.
I only know nothing can perish.
That nothing is taken away.
3 know not, when earth-chords shall sever.
How much or how little survives;
I know not if spirits forever
Move on through a cycle of lives.
1 know not the kingdom immortal;
Yet feel in my innermost soul
That Death's not a wall but a portal.
Through which lies an infinite goal.
I know not the glory supernal.
Nor paths that the angels have trod:
Yet something within is eternal
And grows in the sunlight of God.
1 know not the realm where my spirit
Sojourned ere I came into birth;
Yet know in ray heart I inherit
A memory not of the earth;
And by some interior vision,
Beyond the dark river, I see
The hills of a country elyaian
I'll tread in the" aeons to be.
1 know with the wisdom of Sorrow,
The lessons I've gleaned by the way;
The fruits that we gather to-morrow
Are grown from the seeds of to-day.
(life's page we have blotted and checkered
No power on earth can restore.
We write an indelible record.
To blight or to bless evermore.
With voices seraphic and tender
Our loved ones are calling afar.
With light that is golden in splendor
Truth shines like a mystical star.
The veil of the Silence is riven.
The banner of Hope is unfurled;
And Love, through the portals of heaven.
Illumines the night of the world.
?Denver News, j
l he Good of Bern? Good.
In one of his early stories. Wil
liam Black represents a sour
temnered Scotchman protesting
against the idea that a sinner he
has in mind should be allowed to
escape the consequences of his
acts. "What's the good of being
good?" he asks, "if things are to
turn out thatwav?" The Scotch
man's question has often been
put. The Satan of the Book of
?Job implies it when he asks,
"Doth Job serve God for
naught?" Jacob, at the outset
of his spiritual life, suggests it in
the terms of his covenant at
Bethel. He bargains that, if God
will take care of him, he will do
certain specified things in return.
The elder son in the parable looks
in the same direction when he
contrasts the kid he never got in
payment for his virtues with thg
tatted calf bestowed upon his re
pentant brother.
There is no doubt that this con
ception of the relation of obedi
ence to reward has its uses in the
earlier stages of the spiritual life,
whether of men or of races. The
child may be brought to take its
medicine or its exercise by the j
offer of some privilege or gift,
before it is wise enough to appre-1
ciate that tht happiness of health
is the true icward. So in the
spiritual life our first instinct is J
to look for some outside reward 1
beyond the life itself, as its end
51IM1 CUIlHUIIlIIltH-lVil.
To this need, indeed, the Bible
adapts itself very wisely. Its pic
tures of the life beyond death, for
instance, with crowns of glory
and golden harps, and other de
tails of the apocalyptic vision,
appeal to the untrained percep
tion of the beginner. But tne
Bible itself, as we come to read it
in the light of a deeper experi
ence, suggests grander meaning
for these symbols, which are seen
to correspond to spiritual bless
ings of vastly greater worth and:
and beauty. In MacBonald's
happy phrase, (iod seems at times ^
to offer us a sixpence, and we find
it a shilling instead. But it is
because sixpence attracted us the
more. The reward which seemed
to lie outside the lifedrewusmore
than that embraced within its
bounds.
Jeremy Taylor reproduces from
some Oriental mystic the story
of the King who, when riding out
to the chase, met a woman
bearing a torch and a pitcher
of water. He asked her what
she was going to do with
them "To burn up heaven and
quench hell," she said, "that men
henceforth may hate sin and love
God for himself alone." There
are people whose notions of
heaven and of hell leave work for
both her torch and her pitcher.
As long as either is conceived of
as something from without the
life,?we are llngeringstill among
primary and inadequate ideas of
the truth.
The-truest conception of hell is j
1
that it is life prolonged in a con
dition of unmitigated selfishness,
with each human atom flung into
ceaseless and unmitigated strife
with all the rest, and each en
during the essential misery of the
ceaseless fall in the black pit of
atheistic despair. What the en
vironment of such a life may be
matters little. Were it transact
ed among all the beauties and
delights with which poets and
painters have invested Paradise,
its misery would be the same.
The misery is within one, not
i without. Some one once, bishop
Whipple says, tried to pose a
poor colored woman by asking
lier where they would get all the
brimstone needed to keep up hell
fire forever. She replied: "Dose
sinners all takes dere own brim
i stone wid um."
As for the life of the redeemed,
the Apostle John takes us as far,
in a few words of his great Kpis
tle, as in all the visions of the
Revelation: '"He that hath the
Son hath the life." There can be
nothing greater than to live in
fellowship with God the Father
and his Son Jesus Christ,?to be
found with the only begotten Son
in the bosom of the Father. To
live that life is to have attained
to the highest blessedness. This
true, spiritual heaven is not a
thing beyond death onlv. "He
that hath the Son hath life." He
is not waiting for eternal life to
be reached after liedies. Hedoes
not, in the Stoic phrase which has
slipped into ourChristian speech,
expect to "goto heaven." It is
not a Muslim paradise, to be
earned by specific acts which sus
tain only a conventional or arbi
trary relation to its own nature.
It is the fruition of a life begun
here,?the victory of a warfare
going on now.
For this life and for the next,
therefore, the good of being good
is just in being good. It is the
good of spiritual health, in which
every function of our spiritual
nature has the tone of true vital
ity and energy. It is the joy of
the widest usefulness, in which
the energy of every function is
directed to serving God in serving
our fellows' need. It is the life of
serene communion with the
Father of our spirits, in which we
attain that rest for which we were
created, but can find nowhere ex
cept in the embrace of Him who
made us.
"Thou art the source and center of all minds.
Their only point of rest. Eternal Word !
From thee departing:, thev are lost, and rove I
At random without honor, hope, or peace.
From thee is all that soothes the life of man, j
His high endeavor, and his glad success.
His strength to suffer, and his will to serve, j
But, O thou bounteous Giver of all good.
Thou art of all thy gifts thyself the crown, j
Give what thou canst, without thee we are j
poor,
And with thee rich, take what thou wilt
away."
-8. 8. Times.
And Jobn Had To.
"John," she said, as she toyed
with one of his coat buttons,
"this is leap year, is it not?"
"Yes, Mamie," he answered, as
he looked fondly down on her
golden head that was pillowed i
on his manly bosom.
"This is the year when the pro |
posing is done by the young
ladies?"
"Yes."
"I hope you don't expect me to
propose to you ?"
GyVllv Vi omi/? /Ino * T rtrnmw 1
" 11?T ? unii , 1 ucvci
gaye the matter a thought, I?er'
?to?to tell the truth, I've onlv j
known you for?that is to say?v !
"I'm glad you didn't expect ine
to propose. I'm not that kind,
I hope. No, John, dearest, 1
couldn't be so immodest. I'm
going to let you do the proposing
yourself, in the old-fashioned
way. The old-fashioned way is
good enough for me." And the!
gentle maiden gave her lover a
beaming smile, and the young
man rejoiced that he had found j
such a treasure of modesty.?
Ixmdon Tit-Bits.
Ideal Enough tor Earth.
Miss Bridesoon?"Whatis your
idea of the ideal lover?"
Miss Yellowleaf?"The one who
marries."?Smart Set.
The Boil.
This is a Boil. It is on thej
Man's Neck. M ould you like to
Feel it? If you I)o, the Man will
Feel it, too. The Boil is a mean
Thing, and it is a Coward. If
you strike it, it will Run. But
the Man will not Run. He will
Danoe and make Remarks. Boils
may start Way down near a lit
tle Boy's waistband but they
alwayscome to a Head at last.?
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There is Never a Time.
They say there's a time for everything.
Hut It isn't exactly so -
There's a time to shout ami a time to ?iug
And a tim?* for the weeds of woe:
I There's a time to risk for the stake, a time
To conceal your hand aud wait;
There's a time to creep and a time to climb.
Hut never a time to hate.
They say there's a time for everything.
Hut they haven't expressed it right;
There's a time to imrley, a time to fling
Sweet patience away and tight;
There's a time to charge ami a time to flee.
Aud u time, alas, to grieve.
Hut never a time to selfishly
Endeavor to deceive.
?S. E. Kiser in Chicago Record Herald.
Sell-Help.
Atlanta Journal.
As t lie commencement season
approaches many persons who
are supposed to have skill or
i ability in writing are receiving
from college students, both boys
and jiirls requests to prepare
sjieeches or essays for them. It
is always a pleasure to well-dis
posed persons to aid the young
and inexperienced, but it is mis
taken kindness to do so to the
extent that is often asked.
The boy or girl who has suffi
cient intelligem-e to win a place
on the list of commencement
speakers or readers should be
able and willing to make prepara
tion for tilling that place credit
ably. As a rule this can be done
by earnest and unaided effort
and the boy or girl who makes
that effort will gain much more
from college training than by
relying upon others. The lesson
of self-reliance is one of the most
valuable that can be taught.
To put forth one's own efforts,
to use one's own knowledge is to
strengthen both mind and char
acter. The habit of relying upon
others for work to be displayed
upon special occasions is, we fear,
quite general among' our college
students.
it is impossible for professors
to prevent it, except in those
cases where the proffered speech |
or essay is palpably beyona the
capacity of its alleged writer.
Many of us have heard at col
lege commencements so-called!
original productions which we
knew were not written by those
who delivered them. The teach-!
ers of such institutions must j
have known it also if they were
capable of filling their positions.!
Such evident frauds discredit the i
school which permits them, as
well as the students who perpe- j
trate them.
There is a sort of assistance in
such matters which is perfectly
proper, and even commendable.
To refer the young writer to au
thorities on the subject he or she
is to discuss or to some good
book that treats of it is all right.
But the aid should not go be
yond that point and critical cor
rection of the student's own
work.
Give the young mind the mate
rial and then let it assimilate it
as much of it as it can and put
the result in its own way.
It is not the part of true friend
ship to prepare the work which
the student should do for himself
and leave him or her to merely
memorize it.
The son of a man of great
ability once wrote his father to
prepare for him the speech he was
to make at commencement. The
father replied: "My boy, I sent]
you to college and have kept you j
there four years that you might
fit yourself to do that sort of
thing for yourself. If you have
not done so your college career
has been a failure in spite of the
honors you have taken. I would
lie ashamed of you if I heard you
deliver as your own a speech
which another had written."
That was a seemingly harsh
answer, but it was really a kind
one.
The young man struck out for
himself and wrote and delivered
a speech which won for him very
liign praise. Better still he learned
a lesson that has been of incal
culable value to him.
I jet us encourage our young
friends to practice the noble and
elevating habit of self-help.
To Cure a Cold in one Day
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Tablets. All druggists refund
the money if it fails to cure. E.
W. drove's signature on each
box. 25c.
The Blfger Boy's Side of it.
"Don't you know," said the
kind-taced old gentleman who
stops to talk to the children,
" that it is very wrong for you
to fight u boy smaller than your
self?"
" Yes," was the reflective reply.
"I'm willing to take my share of
the blame. Rut I think he ought
to have a lecture, too, on the
impudence of speakftig rudely to
boys that are bigger than he is."
?Washington Star.
WHAT ALARMED HIM. v7!
A story is told of a gentleman
who is at present serving in one of
the largest European capitals as em
bassador extraordinary and minister
plenipotentiary from the United
States which, fhotr'h it seems hard
ly credible us being related of the
suave and elegant minister, is
vouched for on unquestionable au
thority.
The present embassador had just
graduated from college and was en
joying a stay in Paris with some of
his chums. One evening after a din
ner in which considerable liquid re
freshment had been imbibed tho
merry company took cab for a the
ater.
The show was a pantomime. The
young men arrived late, and all
rushed into a box without stopping
to obtain programmes. After they
had arranged themselves and all qui
eted down it was noticed that the
future embassador's eyes opened
wider and wider, and lie seemed to ,
be in great terror.
Finally, just before the curtain
fell, he rose slowly. All eyes turned
on the box, while the young man, in 1
a husky voice, which was audible to
every one sitting in the lower part of '
the house, cried:
"Take me home! I must be fear
fully drunk, for 1 haven't heard a
confounded word of this show!"?
New York Sun.
I 1
Good For the Enemy.
"I have been reading about the
latest German army innovation," re
marked the gentle optimist, "and it
certainly seems to me it tills a long i
felt want. It is a sleeping bag, just !
large enough for a man to crawl i
into, and when he once gets in it is
pulled up over his head and tied,
the air for breathing purposes being !
supplied by tubes. The advantages
of this bag are said to be that it J
keeps out bugs and snakes and rain,
but it seems to me it has another,!
which its advocates have overlooked. ]
"Think of the value it would be , :
in case of an unexpected night at- j
tack ? the value to the enemy, 1
mean. It is so difficult to handle
men at large, even when they are
surprised, and it is so easy to handle j
them in bags. The attacking force
would only have to tie extra hard
knots in the cords that close the
bags and then dump them all into
wagons to be carted away, for even
the inventor admits that it requires
time and patient effort to get out
of one of these new army beds.
"The distressing confusion that
usually follows a night attack would
be lacking, and the results could be
summed up by the officer in com
mand of the sortie as follows: 'Sir,
I have the honor to report that we
captured 487 bags of men. Where
shall we pile them up ?' "?Chicago
Post.
Peculiar Presents.
Two elephants were once offered
to King Fdward, and not long ago
two fine Bengal tigers arrived at
Sandringham. "I have accommoda- 1
tion at Sandringham," He said, "for -
horses, cows, dogs, cats, mice and
even rats, but I must draw the line J
at tigers." The German crown
prince received a fine steak from a
society of butchers on his eight
eenth birthday recently, which re
minds us that Bismarck once re
ceived a lump of coal from some
miners. But the record in gifts be- i
longs to a speaker of the house of : j
commons (Mr. Brand), who received
an old pair of trousers, carriage
paid.?St. James Gazette.
He Want? the Money.
Here is a characteristic letter
whieh Andrew Carnegie is said to
have received from Mark Twain the
other day:
Dear Mr. Carnegie?Understanding that you are
blessed at present with an unusual surplus of in
come and knowing well your generous spirit and
desire to do good to those who will help them
selves, 1 want to ask you to make me a contribu
tion of $1.50. When 1 was a young man, m.v
mother gave me a hymnbook, which 1 faithfully
used. It la now. thanks to my efforts, worn out,
and I think it should be replaced, and you are the
man to do this. Appreciating to the full the
generous deeds tbst hsve made your name Illus
trious in this and other countries and believing
that in making me thia donation you Will be
carrying on the apirit of your work, 1 am yours
faithfully, Mari Twaiw. ;
P. 8.?Don't tend the hymnbook; send the one
dollar and fifty cents. M. T.
"Baby It Sick."
The state of Kansas hn8 for long
years been nominally a prohibition
state, and the law has been en forced
perhaps as well as such drastic laws
can l>e. Spirits are allowed to be
lold only as "medicine," and that is
how the following story camo to be
told: A bronzed and stalwart Cow
boy planted a two gallon demijohn
on the counter of a chemist's shop.
"Fill her np," he said. "Baby'a gi<A."
London Chronicle.
Yet It Wa? Appropriate.
A company recently playing One
of Hoyt's farces in Kansas, says the
Kansas City Journal, has an adver
tising hanger which reads. "Kv^ry
body goes to a 'Hole In the
Ground.'* One of these hangers
appeared in the window of the most
solemn and conventional undertak
ing ihops in Emporia and gave the
town a fit.
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