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FRIDAY, JOEY IR 1876.
Legend of Strasburg Cathedral.
Thf'i-e is a quaint old tradition which
comes down to us from ancient times,
totteriiio under its load of age, and re-
plele with the superstitions of the past.
On the borders of Alsatia there lies a
great citv, dating its foundation far back
to tie old Roman days, and rich in those
architectural relics of the olden time
which are ever so dear to the antiquary.
"(luaiiit offspring of centurial years, the town
of btrasburg stajuls,
K'ch in the lore of a mighty past, in legend
am! hi slory ;
J’.icli in high-heartccl men, honest sons—a
coimliy’s truest glory;
K.ch in its old Catiietliwl Churcli, with clus
tering ivy spread,
lilt! banta (hsce otthc land, where sleep her
noble, dead.”
The
The I^Iigion of Amity and the ! longer attract his attention. Thus, while
j growing up, he acquires, in eommou with
I all around him, the habit of using first
one and then the other of his creeds, as
the occasion demands, and at maturity
Religion of Enmity.
IIEEBERT SPENCEK.
story runs that, once in every
twelvemonth, on the eve of St. John, when
the quiet buighers of that ancient city are
wrapt in peaceful slumber, and when
the liour of midnight clangs out from
the loud tongued bell which hangs in the
olRCathedrol tower, the spirits of the
stone m isons by whose hands the sacred
pile was erected arise from the tomb and
once more re-visit the scene of their for
mer labours. Up from the dark and
gloomy crypt, along ths columned aisles
and vast dim nave, across the white
gleaming marble floor, checkered with
It would clear up our ideas about ma
ny tilings if we distinctly recognised the
ti util that w'e nave two religions. Primi
tive liumanity has but ore. The two are
opposed ; and we who live midway in
the course of civiliaation have to believe
in both—the religion of enmity and the
leligion of amity. Of course I do not
mean that these are both called religions.
Here I am not speaking of names, I am
speaking simply of things. Nowadays,
men do not pay tlie &ame verbal homage
to the code which amity dictates. The
last occupies the place of i.onor, but the
the habit has become completely estab
lished. Now, he fnlarges on the need
for maintaining the national honor, and
thinks it mean to arbitrate about an ag.-.
gression instead of avenging it by war';
and now, calling his servants together,
he reads a prayer, in which he asks God
that our trespasses may be forgiven as we
fergive trespasses against us. That
which he prays for as a virtue on Sun
day, he scorns as a vice on Monday. Of
these two religions taught us, we must
constantly remember that, during civili
old.
PEN AND SCISSORS.
.. Very few people know lioiv to grow
rea! homage is paid in large measure, if the religion of enmity is slo-ivly
notin the larger measure, to the code Boeing strength, while the religion of am
dictated by enmittn The religion of en
mity nearly ail men actually believe;
the reiigiun of amity most of them mere
ly believe they believe, In some discus
sion—.say, al out international- affairs—
remind them of certain precepts contain
ed in the creed they profess, and the
most you get is a tepid assent. Now, let
the conversation turn on the “tunding”
at Winchester, or on the treatment of
Indian mutineers, or on the Jamaica
massacre,'and you find that, while the
piecepts tepidly assented to were but
ity is slowly gaining strength.
Good Advice.
ghostly shadow.s that stream from picture ■‘ocnbii’-dy believed, quite opposite pre
oriels, past the stone carved statues that cepts are believed uadoubtingly and de
keep watch and ward with their swords folded witli fervor. Curiously enough,
and _ sceptres, comes the long train of
death like, night wandering shadows.
Clad in their quaint old medieval cos
tume, the masters with their compasses
and rules, the craftsmen with their
plumbs and squares and levels, the ap
prentice lads with their heavy gavels, all
silently greeting their companions, old
and dear, with time honored salute and
token, as of yore.
While the last note of the deep mouth
ed bell is still trembling in the air, rev
erberating from arch to arch, and dying
away amid the frozen music of the tra-
ceried roof, foith from the western por
tal otreara's the shadowy throng. Thrice
around the sacred ediiice winds the wav
ing floating train, brave Old Erwin him
self leading the way ; while far up above,
above the sculptured saints who look
down upon the sleeping city—up where,
at the very summit of the feathery, fairy
like spire, the image of the Queen of
heaven stands—there floats a cold, white
robed female form, the fair Sabina, Old
■Erwin’s well beloved child, whose fair
hands aided him in his work'. In her
right hand a mallet, in her left a chisel,
she flits among the sculptured lace work
of the noble spires like the Genius of
Masonry. With the faint blush of dawn
the vision fades, the phantom shapes
dissolve, and the old masons return to
their sepulchre, there to rest until the
next St. John’s eve shall summon them
to earth.
to maintain these antagonist religions,
we have adopted from two different races
two different cults. From the book.", of
the Jewish Nevv Testament we take our
religion of amity ; Greek and Latin epic:
Encourage your county newspapers.
Assist by kind words, prompt settlement
of bills and enco.uragement to the enter
prise the editors of all the papers which
are helping to herald improvements,
great or small. There never ’,vas a news
j paper, says an exchange, no matter how
j small or what its price, that was not
' worth more thau the price asked for it.
As light is to time, to growth and ripen
ing of fruit, so is the press to thought
and progress. No man is rich enough to
do without one, and more if he can ob
tain them. Food for the stomach, food
for the brain, are alike necessary to per
fect growth. The editor who is ericour-
aged will be a better editor next
year,
, , - . , ! unless he be a snarling, selflsh, orowline
and histones serve as gospels tor our re- : - . o
Being in need of a line we set this.
ligioii of enmity. In the education of
our youth, we devote a small portion of
time to the one, and a large portion of
time to the other; and, as though to
make the compromise effectual, these
two cults are carried on in the same
places by the same teachers. At our
public schools, as also at many other
schools, the same men are priests of both
religions. The nobility of self sacrifice,
set forth in Scripture lessons and dwelt
oil in sermons, is made conspicuous every
seventh day, while, during the other six
days, the nobility of sacrificing others is
exliibiled in glowing words. The sacred
duty of blood revenge, which, as exist
ing savages show us, constitutes the re
ligion of enmity in its primitive form, is
the duty which, during the six days,!-,
deeply stamped on natures quite ready
to receive it ; and then something is done
towards obliterating the stamp, when on
the seventh day, vengeance is interdict
ed. As the intelligent child, propound
ing to his seniors puzzling theological
questions, and meeting many rebuffs.
miserly, egotistical old bundle of 'cross-
grained antagonisms, begotten in spite
and at natural enmity with all the world.
But such abnormal monstrosities are few.
The ordinary editor is a man of brain,
.... Bronchitis is at pi-eseut tlie prevailing
disease in England.
.... I'le w-tio Jive.s w-illiout Mly is not so
wise as lie thinks.
'. -... Six women man-ied a Tennessee sew
ing' machine agent.
.... A mill at La Cros.se sawed 088,840 feet
ofluml lei- in six daj-s'.
. ... Measles arc -raging as an epidemic in
illinois.
. -... P-!K-!adeli>liia has mof-e fat women tlian
any otlier city in-tlie -Union
Off'Nova Scotia ^.>,000 spariing luli-
sters are captured in-a day.
.... Slieep are selling at f-om sixty to eiglity
cents-'a-liead in CaMl'omia.
.... Kosewood is so called from the rose
like fragrance -of llie -fresli cut -tree.
... A biiek in yo-ur hat is not the best
safeguard against sua-truke. A cabbage leaf
is bdtter.
Ar. American girl declared tliat slie
likes fello-t\’ citizi^ns better than any other
kind-.
. . ('alifoniia farn ei-s tiiink tlieycan rai.se
almonds eiiougli to supply the -market .
.... One oi' the Kala-mazoo college orators
forgot what he had to say, he.-'itati d and r*.-
tired. No applause, no beqiiets.
.... Six mi ns iiave been imported from
Europe to act a's ‘tcaeliers at the ccnvei.t sclioo!
in iMcridcn, Conn. *
.... Nearly 200 .persons ill Portland, Me,,
Iiave gone out of tlie liquor business within
tlie past yea-r and a hal-f.
The girl students of c’neinistry, miner
alogy and botany at Harvard are pi-ououneed
by the Piof ssors fully equal to the men.
A conscientious farmer in fJerlin, Wis.,
wiped-the iirad from liis-ca-rt wlieels before
permitting liis load of hay to go on the scales
to be weiglisd
Over one Muidr«l tons ofAraencau
beef, prepared by tlie cold air process, :,s
brought nttekly into the Loudon niarket.'
.-V M.nncapolis lady found a little pack
age that coiitaiiiid 17 dia-mouds secreted in a
desk wliich had once belonged to her great-
grdudfathcr.
...One thing-can be said in favor oitiie
thought, power, intelligehce ; a st'jdent i Mte A. T. Stewart’s r'elative.s ; thev made no
of life; a thinker, a sympathizer with
I his feilew men if they will permit him to
; grow to them.—Eeckertown, (Ah J.) In-
dependent.
The Hum-VN Voice.—Oh, liow won
derful is the human voice. It is indeed
the organ of the soul. The intellect of
man sits enthroned visibly upon his fore
head, and in his eye, and the heart of
man is written upon his countenance.
But the soul reveals itself in the voice
only, as God revealed himself to the
prophet of old in the still small voice,
and in a voice from the burning bush.
The soul of man is audible, not visible.
A sound afene betrays the flowing of the
eternal fountain invisible to man.-Ho??^-
felloio.
demand on liiiii while he wa.- alive
-. -... A Ifoston physi-ian says that blowuig
eoruets or trolnbones isth'e best exercise for
women, expanding tin ir lungs and makiug
tht-in straight.
A gill 3J years old las 23-S chances to
marry out of a thousand-. She has got to tako
the 233d ‘offer or die an old maid.
.... A warrant has been issued in Reading
for the arrest of '-twenty yoiin'g men who sit
on a ft-nee and insult ladies going by.”
sV gentleman of 28 luarrieil a spin.ster
onil at Keene, N. 11., the otliei- d,-iy. Wlat
a ctear, darling little pootsey Wootsy of abridc
she must be.'
.... Never put imroh confidence in stieh as
put no confidence in ofiiers. A man prone to
suspect cvul is mostly looking foriii liis iteiab-
bor what he sees in himself.
I-... The V’ouug man who can't swing a
cane so that it will hit tiiirteeii people in the
eventually ceases to think about difScul-
ties of which he can get no solution, so a j says that he is satisfied with them,
little later, the contradictions between
the things taught to him in school and
in church, at first startling and inexpli"
cable, become by and by familiar, and no
face, in the Course of a block, can claim no
Mr. Samp-soti, of Nertk Adams, Ma.=s., I standing in rlic be.-t social circles,
contradicts the story that he i.s going to | .... An English colony of 70 families hate
di.soharge his Chinese shoe-makers. He i purchased 8600 acres siirroniiding tVellsYliiin,
Stock ndsing, butter luid cheese fVill coiisti-
‘‘The evil-doer mourns in this World,
and he shail mourn in the next; in bpth
worlds has he sorrow. lie grieves, he is
tormented, seeing the evil of his deed,”
lute their business.
Opportunity is the floWer of tittle ; and
as the stalk may remain when tlie flower is cut
off so time may remain with us when Opportu-
nity is gone torever;
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