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Furness Abbey.
BY SAMUEL LONGFBLLOYL
[The famous monastic ruin of Furness
Abbey is situated in Lancashire, about a
mile south of Dalton, and was founded A,
D. 1127, by king Stephen, while he was
Earl of Mortaign and Bulloign. who also
endowed it with princely wealth. It is
one of the most interesting ruins in En
gland The deep retirement of its situa
tion, the grandeur of its Gothic arches,
and the ancient trees that shadow it, all
fill the mind of the beholder w'ith solemn
yet delightful emotion. It is only equal
ed in interest by Fountains Abbey near
Ripon in Yorkshire.
On Norman cloister and on Gotliic aisle.
The fading sunset lingers for awliilei
The rooks chant noisy vespers in the elms—
Then night’s slow-rising tide the scene o’er-
whelms
So fade the roses and tlie flowers of kings,
And crowns and palms decay witli humbler
things,
All works built up by toil of mortal breath.
Tend In unbroken course to dust and death.
Pillar and roof and pavement all are gone;
The lamp extinguished aud the prayers long
done;
But faith and atve, as stars, eternal .shine —
The liumaii heart is their enduring shrine.
O Earth in thine incessant funerals,
Take to tliyself these ciuinbliug, outgrown
walls;
In the l)r- >ad w orld one God we seek and find,
And serve our JIaker Mdien we serve our kind.
Yet spare, for tender tiiought, for ireauty spare
Some sculp'.ured capital, some carving fiiir;
Yon ir'ied areliway, fit for Poet’s dream,
For painter’s pencil, or for writer’s theme!
Save ! for our model'll liurry rush and strife,
Needs much the lesson that tiiought, too, is
life!
Work is not prayer, nor duty’s .self divine,
Unless witliln tliein Reverence liatli her shrine.
Secret Beneficial Orders,
Every once in a while the conventionc
conferences and synods of certain relig
ious denominations go off wildly in a ti
rade of resolutions and speeches against
secret beneficial societies; no doubt
prompted liy a desire to hasten the antic
ipated day when all things worldly will
become pui e and perfect. However, in
these assemblages of intelligence and wis
dom, on this particular subject, it would
seem impossible for ignorance to exist.
True members of these merely moral or
ganizations may learn much of the churohi
but, we must be permitted to say it, the
church may often profit by the noble ex
amples set by these very secret associa
tions. What are the “dark mysteries” to
which such serious objection is made?
Why, when all is learned, and if all were
told, they would appear so simple and
harmless that any sensible man would
feel ashamed that he had ever permitted
his childish curiosity to become awake in
regard to them. The church itself, as
well as every well regulated family, has
its secrets; and so has every particular
denomination its distinctive forms, and
strange indeed do some of them appear
to many upright and woildly persons.
But the sincere man does not permit these
peculiarities to interfere with his well-be
ing and the goad of society. The resolu-
tionists in religious bodies who would
thrust from the Ohristion church its mem-’
hers attached to secret beneficial socie
ties, so far, however, have not achieved
much, save the flattening of their own
heads against the mountain they have
vainly sought to remove. And so will
their every effoit in the future most like
ly to prove.
What appears very strange in the on
slaught.made IS, that a considerable num
ber of the clergy and large riiimbers of
the laity of our churches belong to these
unchristian a.ssociatioBS. But to suppose
that any of them stand in the way of the
progre.ss of Christianity, because of the
secrets they have learned, is the height
of folly and the essence of ignorance ;
rather are they helps to the church than
an impediment in any way whatever. The
teachings of thesesecret institution.s, so
far as our knowledge extends, are drawn
from the same source from whence the
church derive,s its life. God is acknowl
edged as the author of all good ; the ne^
cessity of performing all the duties we owe
to Him and our fellow man is strictly en
joined. The divine principles of Love
and Truth, Hope and Faith. Friendship
ana Charity, are earnestly and beautifi.lly
taught. Aye, did the world, especially
that portion of the Christian world now
shaking its bigoted fists at those wliose
secret mission it is to minister to the ne
cessities of the sick and distressed, know
the meaning ofCliarity in this connection,
perhaps the dying prayer of their Savicr,
when all around him was persecution,
would he forcibly brought to mind. It is
a serious matter for the church to thus
array itself against these purely benevo
lent and noble organizations, teaching-as
they do obedience to God and duty to
man. We seek not to cover any associa
tion or in these desultory remarks such
only as cher sh the principles of Charity
in its broadest sense, and religious and
political tolerance, have invited attention.
—Germantown Guide.
Inward Joy.
There are .situations in life which, to
the outside spectator, appear the most
dark and cheerless, but are far from be
ing so to those who are in the center of
them. Bright spots come out and sources
of interest open, which common eyes dis
regard ; and we learn'lhat life may be
like the home of some Eastern lands,
which have their dull, dead walls to
crowd, but their fountains -and singing
birds in the courts within. There are
many joys which a stranger cannot even
discern; and, if we are to wait quietly,
we must cultivate an eye for these.
The .Baby's Death.
How tenderly Louise Chanaler MouL
ton touches upon that sharpest grief a
I mother’s heai't can know—the death of
i the little blossom which unfolded so gent
ly beneath hei'love, hut which the wise
Father has galheied to Himself:
There came a. morning at last when ba~
by’s eyes did not open.—Dr. Erskinefelt
the heart beat faintly under his fingers,
but he knew it was heating its last. He
trembled tor Elizabeth, and dared not tell
her. She anticipated him.
“Doctor,” she said—and her voice was
so passionless that it might almost have
helongeil to a disembodied spirit “I
know that my darling is dying.”
He bowed his head mutely. Her very
calmness awed him
“Is there anything you can do to ease
her ?”
“Nothing. I do not think she suf
fers.”
‘Then will you please to go away?
She IS mine—nobody’s but mine, in her
life and in her death, and I want her
quite to myself at the last.”
Sorrowfully enough he left her.
Elizabeth held the child closely, but
gently She tiiought in that hour she
never loved anything else—never in the
world should love anything else. She
wanted to cry, but her eyes were dry and
burning and not a tear fell on the little
upturned lace, changing so fast to marble
She bent over and whispered something
in baby’s ear—a wild passionate prayer
that it would remember her again in toe
infinite spaces. A look seemed to an
swer her—-a radiant, loving look, which
she thought might he born of the near
heaven. She pressed her lips in a last
desspairing agony of love to the little
face, from which already, as she kissed it,
the soul had fled. Her white wonder had
gone home. This which lay upon her
nungry heart was stone.
Happiness comes and goes like the
flowers of spring, and a boy no sooner
finds where the preserve jar is hidden
than his mother totes it away to another
corner.
There is no other spoken language so
cheap and expressive by telegraph as
the English. So th e electric wires are
becoming teachers of our mother tongue
in Foreign countries. The same amount
of information can be transmitted in few-
er English words than French, German,
Italian, or any other European language.
In German and Holland especially, it is
coming to be a common thing to see the
telegrams in English, to save expense
and insure precision.
My God, grant that my bounty may
he a clear and transparent river, flowing
from pure charity, and unoontaminated
by self-love, ambition, or interest.—
Thanks are due not to me, but to Thee,
from whom all I possess is derived. And
what are the paltry gifts for wliich my
neighbor forgets to thank me, compared
with the immense blessing for which I
have so often forgotten to be thankful to
Thee 1—Goothold.
Some of the chestnuts on the Paris
Boulevards are putting forth a second
crop of leaves and blossom.s.
Ladies are wearing tiny bows of
ribbons for earrings now, and we are
told that it s the very latest Paris fash
ion. The effect is odd, and, of course,
the fashion will rage.
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