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• In Dnstslc alone during last y«ax gUdO tom of tmbtr were tnrned •mokox'B purpose In pipe* and t» holder*. Hill, of eonrra, sap of the familiar yellow variety, i amber, on the other band, a wonderful variety of tint*, pom ruby red to turqnoino Woo, a* nay beet be seen In the private collec ted of Arnold Bvffum. an American if fortune, who haa made colored am iern hie bobby, ha* writ tea a book about hem and haa recently been on a visit o London, carrying with him a mun -1 When a woman give* a man a eornpllj pnent, ehe generally epolla It by trying ho make n aerial story of It J-Prop* *t HalT* Catarrh. Cara, offer *IOO re ward for any «**»<*«*>»•& tUatconnotiw ouredby taking Hell's Send for testimonials. Just try a 10c. boa of Oucaieta. the finest liver and rawel regulator ever mad*. affiffigga?** B * Mr*. Winslow’* Soothing Syrup for qhildnn tite iSSre prt£ caiSrlrtoJ Wo-To-W*e for Fifty Cm t«. Over 100,060 oared. Wby m* lot NVv-To-Bae regelate or remote yrnur tots re for toboooo? pFss&off*g Thera an a great many caaee where « woman gives her dignity credit for protecting her, when it to really hot age. Impure fi/lood Bating rich and hearty food, sweets and lots In winter, elum confinement and breathing vttfated air la office, (tore, shop, bouse, fa©- iocy or reboot- f A i. A room, nooemar lly make* tbe I tIKC blood impure, sad eruption*, bolls, ploptas. burner* am the nsnlt, Dftsininn*.lMli li "l fl p sud mMy' | ** | fr troubles am also osuaad by Impure blood. Hood's^”,. jUrttebsab—in fbet the Ono True Blood PuiMUr. Issfs HOsSßag-SStt 1 ”- RmKmmfM hJSM sat : 5 ' I }ES] beer I the blood, yl the stem- V invigorates a /i.Wiv uie DOdy. fully flt (m T JR satisfies the thirst. 5 r\ Irr ft WK I ling, temperance ft / -XL* drink of the high* n * [O est medicinal value. IP 'ill **• CtemidL sS«»V. raa*. j s. -.wsr as —... -■"■-*■ - e* y. Po— twi I Aql r Jw V.;oT tfiW' V Jf S * / “I tm > lys\ \ lonij to* gted to t«»| gaaaaifaaar v\ / ttf jr to w« (reau r»loc \ MgßgSMm jot AlWl B»mp*rliu\ - I V \ I /hold OOMPMIM » onr\ i \\ I itmor hr ytt». I ttkil )i\ f tan t to S botilM of It every I /;) I Spring. i>eßir-oiuit\ \2^ / *hSwtb“ flr.i of April Aft*r\ i» Eg / tfcMlfMi HU » tWO I forlitoAMttp »r ijiUßi.flvetl | r F A I manUlMhtOf. A»»MPOdm«M-\ ff I f I riMltfeM M«mMrior,»ti*uttfa«t\ \r A. \\J I \ -\ \.V\ / PMl*d«iphi», p».. lurch IIS m \ I / K \ Ifj Ml w v / WEIGHTY WOROS J| W | Sarsaparilla, h 0. MB’S Mi The Noted Washington Divine’s Sunday Subject. Subject: “HOA3B ANd"RUTH” Tax*; ''lad aho went and name and gleaned la the Arid alter the roap««, and her bap waste light on a part ot th# field belonging unto Boa*, who was of the kin dred of JtUmelrch, "—Beth 11., S, Tbe time that Ruth and Naomi nrrira.it Bethlehem is harvest lime. It wus the cus tom whoa a shot fall from a load in tbs barrest (laid for tbe reaper* to re'ose to gather U up. That was to bo left for the poor who might happen to como along that way. If there were handfuls ot grain mat tered aero** tbe Held after tbe main harvest bad been reaped, to stead of raking it, aa farmers do now, it was, by the custom ot tho land, left In Its plaeo so that the poor, eomiag that wav, might gkwnlt and get their broad. But you ear, **Whnt Is the use of all these harvest Helds to Both and Naomi? Naomi is too old and feeble to go out and toll la the sun, and can you expect teat Ruth, tbe young and tho beautiful, should ton her cheeks and blister her hands In the harvest Held?” Boas owns a Urge farm, and ho goes out to seethe reapara gather In tho grain. Coca ine there, right behind th«* swartßy, sun browned reapers, ho beholds a beautiful woman gleaning—a woman more at to baud to n harp or sit upon a throne team to stoop among the sheaves. Ah, that was an event* fid day! It Was love at first sight- Boas forma an attachment for the womanly gleanor—as Attachment full of undying Interest to tee church of Cod la all agte, while Ruth, with an ephah, or nearly a bushel of barley, goes borne to Naomi to tell her the successes and adventures of the day. That Bath, who left her native lend of Moab In darkness, and traveled Through an undying affection for her mother-in-law, is in the harvest field ot Boas. Is afflanood to one of the beat families in’Judah, and become* In after time the an cestress of Jens Christ, the fjord of glory. Out of so dark a night did there ever dawn so bright e morning? I Irnrn in tbe Orat place from thb subject how trouble develops character. It was be reavement, poverty and entile that developed, Ittostrsted and announced to all ages the sublimity of Ruth’s ehnraotar. That Is a very nn'ortaunts man who has no trouble. It was sorrow that made John Banyan the better dreamer, and Dr. Young the better poet, nnd O'Connell the better orator, and Bishop Hall tbe better preacher, and Havelock tho better soldier, and Ktbo the bettor encyclopaedist, and Bath the better daughter-in-law. I once asked an aged man In regard to his pastor, who was a very brilliant man; "Why is it that your pastor, so very brilliant, seems to have so little heart and tenderness In his sermons?" "Well,” he replied, “ihe reason Is oar pastor has sever hod any trouble. When misfortune comes upon him, hi* style prill be different" After awhile the Lord took a child out of that pastor'* house, and though the preachw was just as brilliant as he was be to re, oh, the warmth, tbe tender ness of hi* discourses! The fact is that trouble is a great educator. Ton see some times a musician sit down at an instrument and his execution is sold and formal ana un fading. Tho reason to that all his life ho haa been prospered. Bat let misfortune or bereavement oomo to that man, and he sits down st the Instrument, and you discover tho pathos In the first sweep of the keys. Misfortune sad trials an great educotore. A young doctor comes Into a sickroom where then Is a dying child. Perhaps he Is very rough in Ms prescription nnd very, rough in bis manner sod rough In the feeling of the pulse and rough In his answer to the mother’s anxious question. But years roll on, and there has been one dead In his own house, nnd now he come* Into the sickroom, and with tearful eyes he looks at the dying child, nnd be say*. ‘‘Oh, how this reminds me of ay Cbaroel” Trouble, the great educator. Sorrow—l tee Its touch In the grandest i painting, X bear its tremor In the sweetest 'song, Itoel its power In tbe mightiest ergo- Oreolaa mythology sold that the fountain of Hippocreae was struck out by the foot of the winged hone Pegasus. I have often noticed In life teat the brightest and most bountiful fountains ol Christian comfort and S [ritual life have been struck out by the iron od hoot of disaster and calamity. I see Daniel’s courage best by the flash ot Nebu chadnezzar's furnace. I see Paul’s prowess bast when X find him on the foundering ship under the glare of th* lightning in tee breaker* of Halit*. Qod crown* his ehll j dran amid the howling of wild beasts and ! the shopping ot blood sploshed guillotine nnd tbe crackling fires of martyrdom. It took tke persecutions of Marpus Aurelius to develop Polyearp and Justtn Martyr. It took all tee hostilities against the Scotch Covenanters and the fury of Lord (Raver house to develop James Hanwksk end An drew Matrille and Hugh MeKall. th* glori ous martyr* of Scotch history. I* took the stormy tea end tee December Mast end the desolate New England coast and the war wooop of savages to show iorth the prowess of the pilgrim fathers. ; When amid th* storms they sang. And tbs stare beard, and the saa, ' And thesoundlng aisua of tee dim wood Bang to the anthems of tee free, i It took »tl our past national dlstwrees, and it takes all oor prawnt national aocrowa to . lift up oar nation on that high esteer where JSjßffl junk lopejkftsr tho iQotlgu aristoc- racies bate mocked and t yrunhlarUuffTmVo Jeered, shall be swept down under the om nipotent wrath of Cod, who hales despotism and who, by tee strength of hto own rad right arm. will make all men fr#*. And so ttu individually, aodinth* family, and la the church and in the world, that through darkuvas nnd storm and trouble men, women, churches, nations, are developed. Again, I see is my teat tire beauty of un faltering friendship. I suppose thaw were plenty of Iri«nds for Naomi while sh* was In prosperity, but of nil her acquaintances how many were willing to trudge off with her to ward Judah, whan she had to make that lonely journey? One—the heroine of my text One—absolutely one. 1 suppose whan Kaomt’s husband waa living, and they had plenty of money, and *U thing* went well, they had a great many callers, but I suppose that after her husband died, and her prop erty want, and she got old end poor, she was not troubled very mnch with caller*. AU th* bird* that nag in tee bower while the ana shone have gone to their nest* now tho night has fallen. Ob, those beautiful sunflower* that spread out their color iu the morning hour! But they are always asleep when the sun to going down. Job had plenty of friends when ho was the richest man la Ua, but when his property went and tho trials came then ikon were none so much that pestered as Eliphas; the Temanlto, and Bildad the Shnblto, and Zopbar the Naamatelte, Life often aecfc* to be a mere game, when Ibe successful player pulls down all tbe other men Into bis own Jap. Let sus picions arise about a man's character, and he becomes like a bank In a panic, and all the Imputations rush on him sad break down fa a day that character which in duo time would have had strength to defend itaolf. There are raputotiona that have been half a century In building which go down under one push, as avast temple is oonstunedby tbe touch of a sulphurous match. A hog ran uproot a century plant. In this world, so fad of heartlemnem and hypocrisy, bow ttrilUng it la to find some friend as faithful in days ot adversity*# to days of prosperity? David bad such a frtenc in Hoahst; the Jew* hud such a friend Is Mardecut, who nev«r forgot their cause Paul had such a friend in Oneoptoorus, wbt visited him in Jail] Christ bad Such In iht Marys, wbe odhored to Him on the cross Naomi had such none in Hath, who oriel out: “Entreat me not to leave thee, or to re turn from following after thee, tor whites thou gocst I will go, and whither tboi lodgeat I will lodge. Thy people shall b my people, and thy Qod my God. Wher thou dicst will I die, and there will I he buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if Might hat death pert you and me.’’ Again. I learn from this subject that paths which open in hardship and darkness often come out In place* of joy. When Ruthetortod from Moab toward Jeramlem to go along with her mother-in-law, I suppose the peo pie said: “Oh. what a foolish creature to go away from her father's house: to go off with a poor old woman toward the land of Judah! They won’t live to get across the desert. They will bo drowned In the sen, or the jackals of tbe wildomess will destroy teem.” It was a verv dark morning when Both started off with Naomi. But behold her In my text In tbe harvest field ot Bona, to be affianced to one of tho lords of the land and become ore of tho grandmothers of Jesus Christ, the Lord <ff glory. And so It often to that a path whteh often starts very darkly ends very brightly. When yon started out for heaven, oh, how dark was the honr of conviction; how Sinai thundered and the devils tormented and the darkness thickened I All tho sins of your Ufo pounced upon you and it was the darkest hour you ever saw when you first found ont your rim. After awhile yon went Into tbo harvest field of Clod’s mercy. Yon began to glenn in tbe field* of divine promise and you had more sheaves than you could carry as the voice of God addressed you saying. “Bliesed is the man whose tnnsgreeslons ora forgives and whose sins aw covered.” A very dork starting in conviction, a vary bright ending in the pardon and tee hope and the triumoh of the gospel! 80, very often in our worldly business or In our spiritual career we start off on a very dark path. Wo. moot go. The flesh may ihrlnk baek, but there is * voice'within, or » rates from above, earing. “Yea must go.” And we have to drink tee gall, and we have to carry tho cross, nnd we hove to traverse the desert, and we ore pounded nnd flailed if misrepresentation and abuwi, and we have to urge our way through 10,06(1 obstacles that have been slain by- our own right arm. IT* have to ford tho river, we have to climb ho mountain. w» have to storm tho castle, hit, blessed he Qod, tho day of rest and re gard will oomo. On the tiptop of tbe cep aired battlement* we will shout tee victory; If not In this world, than In that world whore hero to no gall to drink, no burdens to carry, so battles to light How do I know ft? Know It! I know It because Qod save so: “They ■hall hunger no more, neither thirst any non, neither thill the ann light on thorn, 10 r any heat. (Or tee Lamb which to In the nldst of the throne shall lead them to living tounfalns of water, end Qod shall wipe all mars from their eyes.” lit was very hard for Noah to endure the teoffing of the people In Ms dav, while he gas trying to build the ark and wo* every Homing qniesed about his old boat that ffould never be ot any practical use; hut then the deluge came and the tops of the nouutains disappeared like th* hocks of eea nonsteis, and the Moments, lashed up iu huy. Mapped their hands over a drowned world, then Noah la th* ark rejoiced in hto ran safety and la tea safety of his tomUy . md looked out on tbs wreck o< a ruined t MW* m • Christ, hounded ot persecutors, denied a ffliow, wort* maltreated than the thieves em Utber std* of the eraas, human hateameek hg Its lips In satisfaction after it had bean Iraining Its last drop ot blood, the sheeted toad bursting from the sepulchers at His •ructflxfpn! Tell me, O Getheemane and lolgotha, wan there ever darker times than boss? Like tee booming of tee midnight ten against the reek, the surges of Christ's tagutok heat against the gates of eternity, to j* echoed back by all the thrones Os heaven ud all tee dungeons of bate But the day >f reward comes for Christ. All the pomp uml dominion ot this world are to he hung m Hi* throne, crowned heads are to bowbe (Ore Htm on whose bead are many crowns, ud nil the oslssttai worship to to oomo anal Kls test, like tea humming of the forest, Ilk* ih* rushing of the wston, like the tenndar aof the sees, while all heaven, rising on r thrones, best time with their aosprem, ’HeUMnffth, forth* Lord God omnipotent Agnate” That eoag ot tore, now low and far, Bra tong sbati swMl from oter to start That tight, th* breaking day white tipa The golden spired Apocalypse. Again. 1 lean from mysuMoot that events ghMhMom to be most taelgnlfloant may he swmeotous. Cm you imagine anything §u imagine anything more trivia) than the feel list this lute just happened toallght—as hoy say—just happened to alight on that laid of Boae? Yet *ll aces, aQ generations., (eve an interest In teelset thnt she wee to seooraa an ancestress of th* Lord Jssus Ohrisr, and ell nations sad kingdoms must look at tent ora tittle toeldeot with a thrill I ff araneekabl* rad eternal satisfaction. Bo ( k to fayoar history and to mine. Brants 1 Inf you thought ot no Importance at all iniJMti wnr grwt mpfitoßb - toidal tontorsatfon, fhaf Acoidwfffnl mo*t .ng—you did not think of it again tor a long while, but how it changed all the phases iff four Use. It seemed to be ot no imporionoe teat fubni Invented rad* Instruments of music, mttfog them harp and organs, but they were Ac introduction ot all the world’s minstrelsy, ut<> ;t» you hear tee vibration of a stringoa Instrument, even after tho finger* hare been taV-i away from It, *o all music now of lute and drum and comet I* only tho long con tinued strains of Juhal’s harp and Jubal’s !>rgau. It seemed to he a matter ol very lit tle Importance that Tubal Qnln learned the usse of copper and iron, but that rude foun dry of ancient day* has Its echo in th* rattle ol Birmingham machinery and the roar and bang ol!notaries on tee Jlerrimae. It seemed to be * matter of no importance that Lather found a Biblo In a monastery, but as he opened that Bible and the bmre booud lids fell back they juried everything, and the rustling of tbe wormed leaves was tho Bound of the wings of the angel of tho reformation. It seemed to be a matter of no Importance that a woman whoso name has been forgotten dropped a tract in the way of a very bad man of the nemo of Biohard Bax ter. He picked up the tract and read It, and it wo* the means otitis sal ration, la after day* that man wrote a book called “The doll to thoUaoonverted,” thnt was the means, of bringing a multitude to God, among others Phillip Doddridge. Philip Doddridge wrote a book culled “The Rise and Pro gram of Religion," whteh has brought thousands and tons of thousand* Into the kingdom of God and among others th# great Wilberforce. Wliberforoe wrote a book called “A Practical View ol Christian ity,” which was tee means of bringing a great multitude to Christ, among others Legh Richmond. Lqgh Richmond wrote a tract colled “The Dairyman's Daughter," which has boon the means of the salvation of nnoonveriod muttitudea. And that tide of influence started bom the feet that one Christian woman dropped n Christian tract In the way ot Biohard Baxter, the tMe of in fluence rolling on through Biohard Baxter, through the great mlbarforoe, through Legh Richmond, on, on, on, forever, for ever. Both* Insignificant events of this world, seam, after all, to be the meet mo ntontoVs. Again, I see in my subject an iUw" ration ot the beauty of female industry. Behold Bute toiling in the harvest field under tho hot sun or at noon taking plain brand with tbs reapers or sating the jurehed corn white Boos handed to her. The cus toms ot society, of eoume, have changed, and without the hardships and exposure to white Both was subjected every Intelligent woman will find something to do. I know there is * sickly sentimentality on this subject. In some families there are persons of no praetiesl service to the house hold or community, and, though there are so many woes Ml around about them in tho world, they spend their time languishing over a now pattern or bursting into teaw at mid night over the story ol some lover who shot himself. They would not dMgn to look at Bute carrying back the barley on her way borne to her mother-in-law, Naomi. Afi tel* fastidiousness may seem to do very weß while they are under the abMtar of theft Person* under indulgent parentage may get upon themselves habits ot indolence, rat when, they com* out Into practical life their soul will recoil with disgust and chagrin. They will feel in thetr hearts what tbe poet so severely satirised when he said: Folks are so awkward, things so impolite, They're elegantly pained from morning until night. Through teat gate of indoienoe how many men and women bare march ad, useless on earth, to a destroyed eternity! Sptnola said to Sir Horace vere, “Os what did your brother die?” “Os having nothing to do,” Was the answer. “Ah,” said Spinola, “that’s enough to kill any general of ua!’’ Oh, eaa ft be possible in this world, whore there Mso .mute suffering to be alleviated, so mush darkness to be enlightened and ao many bur* decs to be carried, that there isnnypowm who eannot And anything to do? Mnua, de Start did a world ot work tn her time, and one day, while tee was seated amid instruments or masle, all ot white she had mastered, and amid manuserlpt books white she had written, some one said toner, “How do you find time to attend to all teeeo thing*?” “Oh,” tee replied, “these are not the things lam proud of. My chief boast is in the fast that I hare seventeen trades, by any oneof white I eould make a livelihood if necessary.” And, If in seoular spheres there is so mute to be done, in Spiritual work how rest the field! How many dying all around about us without one word of comfort! Wo want mors Abigails, more Hannahs, more Bsbeooss, more Marys, more Deborahs, eon sooratad, body, mind, soul, to the Lord who bought them. Oneo more I learn from my subject tea value of gleaning. Bath going into that harvest field might hare said« “Thera is a straw, and there is a straw, but what is a straw? I can f get any barley for myself or my mother-in-law out of these separate straws.” Nat w seM beautiful Both. She gathered two straws, and she put them together, and more until ahe got enough to make a sheaf. Rot ting that down, tee went and gathered more straws, until she bed another ahoaf. and another, and another, and another, ana then tee brought teem together, and sh* tbrateed them ont. and tee had an ephah o t barley, nigh a bushel. Oh, that we might all be tlunflif VIIM Burritt learned many things whjfi* tolling In a blacksmith shop. Abercrombie, tee world renowned philosopher, was * philosopher in Scotland, and he got his phil osophy, ortho chief part of it, while Ot a physician he was waiting foe the door ot the sickroom to open. Yet how many tears are in this day who say they an so busy they hare no time for mental or spiritual im provement. The great duties of Ufa «o*s the field like strong nepers nnd carry off all th* hours, and there is only, here and there n fragment left teat is not worth gleonlnm Ah, my friends, you eould go intotheburied day and busiest week of your tit# nnd find golden opportunities, Whleb, gathered, might st lost make a whole sheaf for the Lord’s garner, It to teeirtrav opportunities and th* t rey privileges white taken up and bound toarthsr and beaten out, will at last fIU yon with mute joy. , Thera an* lewmomeat* left worth the gleaning. Now, Ruth,to tho flaldl May each onshore• measure tali and running over! Oh, yon gleaner*, to the field! And H there twin your household an *g*d 000 or a wick relative that is not strong enough to oom# forth and toll Intel* field, then let Bute fete* ham* to feeble Naomi this sheaf of gleaning, “He that gosth forth nnd weepetb, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless oom* again E-”E?S.‘S3«JfT!S^ Naomi b* our portion forever! Th* Police Department M Tnufrton, Mam., U trying a novel experiment to decree** drunkeoneqa la that place, 'l ire name of every person wrested end convicted cl the offetwo la QUtetlon is to be sent to each llosnsed llijuor dral pr In the city, wltli a warning that If liquor in sold to say of them within six months altor the receipt of thoir names, the person 40 doing Will be Laid* to • fine. REUQIOTOREiDING; WE WU4, RAVI FAITH. The way h long nud dreary, Tbe path is bleak nnd bare; Our ftset aro worn and weary, But we will not despair. More heavy was thy burden, More desolate thy way: O Lamb of God, who takest The sin of the world away, Have mercy on us. Our heart* am faint with sorrow, Heavy and hard to boar, For we dread tee hitter tomorrow, But wo will not despair. Thou kaowest all our anguish. And thou wilt bid it aeaso; O Lamb or God, who takest The sin of tea world sway, Give us thy peuca I —Adelaide A. Proctor. THH tUKKTI VOST OATS TTBOnr. When Nelson signaled from his flagship to every pomm In his fleet, “England ex pects every man to do hi* duty,” it did not mean tee Banco to all. To the captains it meant that they ahonld do their boat os com manders; to the marines that they should do their bent at the guns; to tee sailors teat they should do their best iu sailing the ships; to tho cabin boys that thoy should do their best as messengers. Every one suc ceeded who did the best he could. Success Is not a question of talents, but of doubling thorn. It is not a question of present posi tion at all, but of making the most of one’s sMX. Over both departments of your busi ness, tho earthly and tee heavenly, in each of which you are called upon to glorify God and do good to men, writo high above the entrance doer this significant motto: God vxy man to do his best—Bar. G. nUTHE THE SXKATB OF TVS, SMUT. Prayer is tee breath of the spirit that to in harmony with God. Learn the condi tions of offeotual prayer, and conform to them just oe you obey law* of gravitation, of electricity, of physical life. Doily see that tho life ulm is right and high; thnt tee ruling daoire o>f your heart is toward troth and lov*; that the will is set wtch immov ahlo fixedness on righteousness; that the words and deeds of dally life are In the di rection of and in harmony with aim. desire., and purpose, and that you trust in the God revealed In Jesus Christ and abiding within you. Rest in Dim. Talk to Him. Wait in eilenoe before Dim. Let your whole life of business,of hard labor, of social Intercourse, ot recreation, of intellectual, artistic, scien tific, professional service be In harmony with this doctrine of prayer—this Ufa of prayer.—Bishop Vincent. PBATtB FO* WISDOM TKBOCOH SORROW. Wo beseech thee, Almighty God! healer and comforter of man's sorrows, that not only those tilings white we have suffered In tee body au<! the outward losses and pains of life may bless us; but also may the evil that we have done become to us tho solemn gate through white, In penitenee and sor row having gone forth, in joy and rejoicing we may return. We besoeoh thee to make us wise that no dead post may have power to detain us long; give us not sackcloth and ashes but help us to gain light from white we never should have fallen; and in newness of heart and freshness of oourage to do the thing* that we have hitherto left undone. !I«ar us of thy mercy. Mnkothy faoe clear to ns. Lead us in patience, correction and loving kindnea* through life and death into eternal peace, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amou. THE OHX TBZfO WOBTB CARIItO FO*. To await the growing of a soul is an Almost divine act of faith. How pardonable, surely, the impatience of deformity with itself, of a oonscicmsly despicable character, standing before Christ, wondering, yearn ing, hungering to be like that Yet must one trust the process fearlessly and without misgiving. "The Lord the Spirit” will do his part. . . . The creation of a new heart, tbe renewing of a right spirit, Is an omnipo tent work of God. No man, nevertheless, who feels the Worth and solemnity of what Is at stake will bo careless as to his progress. To become like Christ is the only thing in. the world worth earing for. Those only who make this quest tbe supreme desire ot their lives can ©von begin to hope to rente it—Henry Drummond. “We, too, would wear unspotted The garments ot tee King, Would have the royal pet fume About our path to Ming, , And unto all beholder* Alilled beauty bring.” Thought answereth alone to thought, And Soul with aoul hath kin; The outward God be findeth not, Who finds not God within. —T. L. Hoetner. THE DITTO* THIXGS OOUMT. Oftentlipes the little things you do don’t Memos mute account But they ate. One spring morning a little boy planted a single seed in a bank of earth. It grew, budded and blossomed into sweet blue violet* un seen by tee child planter. It also seeded, and the seed fell out upon tbe bank of earth, and tbs next spring more violets grew, and •o for years, increasing every season. The boy, grown a man in a foreign land, desired to visit his childhood's homo. When he saw tee bank of violets he remembered bow, years before, he hod planted there a single* seed, “(hut it be.” he said, “that all these have sprung from the single seed I planted? T Ml] never waste a singlo seed.”—English Exahauge. wa AX* MAT DO SOKBTBnrO, W* may not move through the dark conti nent of Africa, a living- sunburst of Ood’a truth and gloryjm did Livingston*. We may not be asked to He in a prison, as did Jua ■oa, to testify that w* desire God’* will to be don* hyu* and in ns. Bat we have some money to give, some heart prompting* to oomnasalOß. some insight to tee where aid is needed, some ability to pray. Are these all and ever at tbe disposal of tee Master?—& 8. Times. . moutuh Through trouble, with surprise we find The soul is lifted high, fin birds against n gratia wind There la snob a thing aa ratting oorartves laths wsy of God’s overflowing lov* and letting It boot upon ua till th# response of lore to Him comes, not by struggls,not oven rook.—Phillips Brooks.
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