PKAYJ^B OF AJ\ UJ\FOKXraATE.
Father, come to my bed-side to-night,
For Fm dying and there’s no one in sight—
Dying uncared for, unloved and alync,
Come to me, Father, and call me your own.
"Witness the penitent tears which I shed,
Whisper forgiveness before I am dead,
And kindly waft on the fair wings ot love
A prayer to the angels, bright angels above.
Once I was fair as a half-blown rose
Unfolding its leaves to the breeze as it blows,
Kissed by the sunlight, dripping with dew—
I once was as pure and as beautiful too.
I gazed on the world and my heart was light,
I thought it fair as it seemed to my sight;
Never once dreamed of the false or uutrue,
Drinkiug life’s sweets as a blossom the dew.
]\Iy wanton destroyer came in disguise,
With dowers in liis hands and tears in his
eyes,
With words on his lips that were burning in
tone,
Bowed his face close to mine and whispered
“ My own.”
I heard him ; believed him ; loved him, and
fell,—
Fell like an angel from heaven to hell—
Fell beyond Iiope or aught to dispel
The sorrow of loving unwisely, too well!
Such was my fate, to be led ihus astray,
And cursed and abused and driven away;
Yet great as my siu was considered to bo,
ills aud the world’s were as great against me.
Fesr when I had blessed him with loveundefiled,
With love as pure as the prayer of a child,
The knave’s aud the villain’s heart was so
small
He betrayed my trust aud accomplish’d my
fall!
The world grew cold— though light was my
blame.
They smiled on him, and branded my name;
Aud doomed me to wander witli no whore to
An outcast e’en shunn’d by the moan and low ;
Barked at by the dogs, and scorned by the
high.
Still dreading to live, yet fearing to die—
Thus sentenced for years to do penance alone
For a sin tl at was his and but little my own.
a brothex' man. The appeal in
pei'son strikes homo as the appeal
in print never can.
The territory is entire En
gland, and it extends its opera
tions to Ireland and to adjacent
islands. The expenses are met
by voluntary contributions.
Evangelists ai'e sent accoi’ding
to request, and labor for a certain
number of days or weeks
months, as circumstances may re-
quii'e.
The work is not carried on in
dependently, but in connection
with Christians in any given
place. Those who find spirtiial
destitution in their own homes or
neighborhoods, unreached by
other agencies, take the initiative
step, and apply to the office of the
“Evangelical Society,” in Lon
don, for preachers." They are
sent ill part or entirely at the ex
pense of tlie society, if necessary.
The meetings are held on neutral
ground—in barn or school room,
in tent or liall, in theater or in
the open air; a place to which
tliose for wliom the effort is made
will come; a jilace where all de-
aominatious of Christians can
unite.
is Christ-like in its spirit and in
its aim. It unites Christians ;
strengthens and enlarges tlie
churches; it supplements, not
supplants, other agencies in the
field. The seal of God’s blessiiiw
is evident!}' upon it.
A similar organization in the
city of Boston, for New England
in the city of New York, for tlie
01' Middle States, or for the Empire
State alone; in the ci y of Chi
cago, for the West—aud in others
of the great capitals of our widely
extended land—could but be
productive of similar good. It
would systematize evangelistic
work. It would give it perma
nence. It would furnish for it a
center and a watch-care. The
number of evangelists would be
increased, and the places con
fessedly in need of such labor
applying for and receiving this
supplemental aid, would be vastly
multiplied.
TBIE JUOiVMO;'^ VAiVtiBLICAI.
SOCIEI'Y.”
BY GIDEON DR.VPEK, IN
ADVOCATE.”
‘CHRISTIAN
London, the four-millioned
cit}', is the center of unparalleled
Christian effort. In this paper
we wish briefly to notice its
“Evangelical Societ}'.” It is
claimed to be the firs of the kind
that has ever had an existence.
While there have been solitary
and detached evangelists and
separate evangelistic labor, there
has not before been a compay of
men associated tor this purpose.
Other organizations which have
been formed for the preaching of
the Gospel have been either a
part of the church work of some
Christian bod}^, or have consisted
of missions to the heathen. But
this is an association, irrespective
of denominational lines, to preach
the Gospel in a Christian land.
The object is to reach the
heathen at home—those who are
not found in church or cliapel;
those whom the missionary, the
Bible-reader and the tract-dlstri-
ter have passed by.
The society is under the con
trol of a committee among whom
are some of the best known names
in the English Christian world,
and is entirely undenominational
in cliaracter.
It is sought to bring the Gos
pel by the living voice to those
in towns and country districts
who are without its saving power
—those who would not read the
printed page, and can only be im
pressed by the loving sympatliy of
It is onl}' the work of the evan-
elists. The
preached
Christ. No sectarian doctrines
or extraneous truths are promul
gated. Local Christians, without
distinction or name, aid in the
work, and converts join the
church of their choice. It is
God’s message to the godless.
Candidates for the position of
evangelist are admitted only after
careful inquiries, and then go
througli a process ot training for
the work. This consists in a
course of reading, of examinations
and of lectures. And year by
year, for the past nine years,
iheir number lias increased, and
the sphere of their operations lias
enlarged. The educated and the
workingman are alike employed.
The latter, if a humble, devoted
Cliristiaii, is found more success
ful among workingmen. They will
come more readily to hear one of
their own class, and the familiar
speech finds its way more quickly
to the heart.
The results liave been exceed-
Ingly satisfactory. We have be
fore us a record of two hundred
and fifty-five principal places, not
including those of lesser promi
nence, where this work has re
cently been carried on with great
success;jMlso, letters from cleorgy-
men of different churches, testify
ing to the immense good done,
the salvation of tliose who were
beyond the influence of other
instrumentalities, and applying
most earnestly for the further aid
of this faithful co-workers in
Christ.
Ill the lists of contributions are
the names of many who remit a
“tliank-ofiering,” either for their
own conversion or for the con
version of a friend through the
agency of this society
It is an organization that meets
a felt want. It is pushed with
vigor. Captain W. E. Smith, its
Honorary S e c r e t a r y, at its
office near the Strand, a business
center of London, is indefatigable
and enthusiastic in labors in its
behalf. This society is the off-
of pure love for souls. It
SSEMKY CEAY AIVD GOV.
CAEFE.
MET-
A relative of Gov. Metcafe has
furnished us with the following
incident, which will Illustrate the
habit “Old Stone Hammer” had
simple Gospel is of playing practical jokes. Some
salvation throu«-h time before the introduction of
spring
railroads. Gov. Metcalfe represen
ted in Congress a district of vvliicli
Nicholas county was a part. Mr.
Clay was Secretary of State un
der President John Quincy Ad-
amsl It was the custom to make
the trip to the National Capital
in private conveyance. It was in
the days of Mr. Clay’s greatest
popularity that the two distin-
guislied politicians agreed to trav
el to Wasliingtoii in Go v. Metcalfe’s
caiT-iage; and all the arrangements
perfected, they started together
for that city. While passing
through the State of Pennsylva
nia, Mr. Clay told Gov. Metcalfe
that he had received intimations
that in a certain town they were
approaching, he would be honor
ed witli an ovation by tlie citizens
(they like thousands of his fel
low-countryman, loved him, but
had never seen him.) Just be
fore coming to town. Gov. Met
calfe, who Iiad all along been dri
ving, suggested to Mr. Clay that
he take the lines and drive,"as he
himself was tired. Mr. Clay read
ily consented, whereupon the
Governor took the back seat in
the caiT'iage. The honored states
man drove tfle team successfully
into tlie town, and was met by a
large concourse of people. Gov.
Metcalfe alighted from the car
riage, and being asked whether
he was Mr. Clay, answered yes,
that he was glad to meet them,
etc.; and at this the crowd fairly
hoisted him upon their shoulders
and triumphantl}^ started with
him to the place of reception.
Looking back at Mr. Clay, who
still sat in the carriage, somewhat
nonplussed, the Governor cried ;
“Driver, take those horses to the
stable and feed them.” The mer
riment of the crowd, when the
joke was discovered, can better
be imagined than described, Mr.
Clay himself as heartily entering
into it as the rest. Frequently
afterwards he would refer to it,
and said it was one of the best
practical jokes ho ever heard
played off on a fellow.
THE ESE OF MEMOKY.
“ What’s the use of remember
ing all tills?” pettishly cried
boj', after his father, who had
been giving him some instructions,
left the room.
“ I’ll tell you what; memory is
of great service, sometimes—in
deed alw.aj's,” said his cousin
“for you are not obliged to tell
everything you remember, and it
is very awkward when you for
get anything. Let me tell you a
little story about a dog, to show
what use was made of liis mem
ory.
My father had a dog called
Dash, and he was stolen from
him once. After being absent
for thirteen months, he one day
entered my father’s office, in
Manchester, with a long string
tied round his neck. He had
broken away from the man wlio
had kept him a prisoner, and
tliough he had only been to the
office two or three times before,
yet he remembered it again, and
jumping up at my father, express
ed his joy in the way dogs do
wlio love their masters. A man
followed poor Dash into the of
fice, claimed him as his own, and
brought up several witnesses to
prove the dog had been in bis
possession a long time. At last
my father called a policeman, and
charged the man with stealing his
dog, and they at once proceeded
to the magistrate’s court. Tlie
mayor, who was presiding, asked
my father if lie could give any
satisfactory proof of this dog be
ing Ids property. My father at
once placed his mouth close to
the dog’s ear; then giving liini a
knowing look, and whispering a
little sonietlung well understood
between tliem, Dash immediately
eared upon his Idnd legs, and
went through a series of maneu
vers with a stick, guided by my
father, which set the whole court
in a roar of laughter. My father’s
evidence was deemed sufficient:
the thief got fourteen da3's’ im
prisonment ; Dash was liberated,
and amid the cheers of the peo-
ole, within and without the court,
le bounded merrily homeward
with my father, to be loved and
caressed by us cliildren.
“ There, now,” said the cousin,
don’t you think that dog’s mem-
oiy was of some service.”
‘ That’s right,” said the boy’s
mother, wlio had been quietly
listening to the story; “ think of
this, Charlie; if remembering his
master’s instructions served a dog
so well, how much more likely is
it to be important for a boy to
treasure up the instructions of his
father, which- are given him in
pure love.”
The little boy, after hearing the
story, could not rest till he had
obtained permission from his moth
er to go and see Dash, and the
cousin having found out the mv^s-
terious instructions given by "his
father, placed the walking-stick in
the dog’s fore paw, and uttering-
following is an extract
an address delivered by
^ leo. N. Itamsay Esq. beffire the
Grand Lodge ot Good Tomolars
ot North Carolina :
“What a mighty conquerer is
old king alcohol? He carries
a black banner, and he takes no
prisoner. He digs a ditch across
our continent, and rolls sixty
thousand of his slain into it an-
ually. He marshals under liis
black banner an army of [five
hundred thoiisa'nd drunkards.
And this army was raised in our
land, illumined be the liglit of
fifty thousands^ cliurches. An
army of five Iiiindred thousand
drunkards in Christian America !
Great God ! what a sight. Look
at his army as it staggers on
doiVii the broad road to min—
broken, ragged, with blood-shot
eyes and swollen limbs—tramping
on to their awful doom. Tlie on
ly music tliat rolls along their
shattered lines is tlie plaintive cry
of fathers, mothers and cliildrei’.
Oh God, pity this multitudinous
throng of whiskey-scarred, riiin-
iddeii, perisliing humanity.
DO.Y’T IIOAKOYOUK SJLYEK.
The ^ reappearance of silver,
though in a very limited quantity,
has caused some of our people to
be seized with a mania for jirocii-
■ing and lidding it. This is es- ■
pecially so among old women,
bomo of this class would rather
bum a busliel of fractional ciir-
eiicy than to spend a dollar in
silvei-. This is not only foolish,,
but dangerous in this season of
the year. Foolish because^it is
not wortli any more than green
backs, and dangerous, because it
attracts both lightning and rogues..
We are informed tliat during tho:
storm which prevailed Friday tho
house of an old country lady, a
few miles from this city, wlio had
hoarded a few hundred dollars of
the metal, was struck by light
ning and badly damaged, the old
lady suffering a severe shock her
self. Scientists in the neighbor
hood say that the silver, conceal
ed back of a bureau, attracted tlie
' 'ghtaing.—Ecxlmnge.
AYH8TEWASIJ EQUAE TO
PAIAT.
The following receipo for white
wash sent out of the Treasury
Department to all lighthouso
keepers, makes an article that an
swers on wood, brick or stone
nearly as well as oil paint and is
miich_ cheaper; Slake half a
bushel of lime with boiling water
keeping it covered dur?iig tlio
process. Strain it and add a peck
of salt; dissolve in warm water
three pounds of ground rice, put
into .boiling water and boil to a
thin paste; half a pound of
powdered Spanish whiting and a
pound of clear glue dissolved in
warm water ; mix these well to-
ether, and let the mixture stand
for several days.
Keep the wash,
prepared, in a kettle or por-
the magic words, tho faithful an- furnace, and when used put
imal went through his perform
ance as he had done in court.
There are in Lodon 8,000 chil
dren dependent on poor law relief,
having either no homes at all, or
no shelter but wretched dens that
cannot by any eupheinism be
riled homes.
it on hot, with either
whitewash brush.
paintera or
Don’t fail to make things clear
to the little people. A child
told her mother that she did not
wish to be one of Christ’s lambs,
for the sufficient reason that sho
did not care to go on four legs
and eat grass.
wmm