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My loss is loss ; such hurt cannot ”
be healed;
heavy laden.” So if you can
think of God as your parent, only
more willing and .bknA. Ahelp, I
liras oixT~' •
I had worked for my employer
seven years, when upon a certain
Saturday night in paying me off
he said, “John, I want you to be
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thing ?” I cried.
“Oh ! treachery that plotted while
I slept!
Oh! Foe that stole while I, con
fiding, kept
No watch my fairest,dearest Held
beside;
My noble field, so sunny and so
wide.
Only at midnight could a foe have
crept
To work this harm.”
^.las! in vain I wept;
rive at the age of ten years with
out being warned that “it is all
stuff and nonsense about another
life.” And in every man’s bosom
the lower life fights with all its
immense advantages of position
against supernatural ideas. So
plain a thing as we are told to
reckon this “delusion” to be, ought
not to survive if it “has nothing
absolutely nothing, to stand
upon.” May not all “enlightened
persons” surmise that the contin
ued vitality of supernatural fears
and hopes,,may possibly have a
great deal to stand upon? May
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them understands all your needs,
and their own cares are so many,
they are anxious to find some one
to assist them. He cannot mean
himself, for he had failed many
times to bear his own burdens,
and he dare not trust himself. If
you will read the fourth verse
you will find he means God. So
our text would be: “Casting all
your care upon God, for heeare-
eth for you.” David, surrounded
by his enemies, who were anxious
to destroy him, understood this as
he wrote : “Cast thy burdens upon
the Lord, and he shall sustain
thee; he shall never suffer the
righteous to be moved.”
Perhaps you remember the in
cident -when Jesus came walking
on the ,water to the disciples ’who
were in a boat. When Peter saw
it was Jesus, he asked him to let
him come and meet him. When
he was a short distance from the
boat, seeing nothing but water
beneath him, he became frightened
and cried out, “Lord save ; I per
ish.” Immediately reaching out
his hand, Jesus lifted him up and
they walked on together to the
boat. I have thought Peter was
thinking of this when he wrote
our text, and he wanted every one
else to trust the Lord.
But you ask, “how can I cast
all my cares upon God?” Why
just the same as you cast some of
them upon your fathers and
mothers. When anything goes
wrong, no matter how small the
trouble, you go right to them and
tell them all aboutit. When you
shut the door on your fingers the
other day, you cried bitterly be
cause they ached, but ran as fast
as you could to, find mamma.
Hearing you coming, she ran just
as swiftly to you, and putting her
arms around you said : “Whatis
the matter, dear?” and as you
held up your hurt fingers, she
kissed them and they were soon
well.
Peter wishes you to go to God
with all your cares, just the same
as to your parents, for Jesus says
he is “our Father in heaven.”
Our Saviour once said, “Let little
children come unto me,” and
knowing the many cares and bur
dens we must carry said, “Come
unto me all ye th^t labor and are
word declares our natural state to
be, he affirms in his providence ;
for what is there more frail or
more liable to injury than man ?
Time goes through the world
mowing down the multitudes as
the harvester cuts down thegrass,
respecting no more the new-born
child than the stalwart man. And
it would seem that in this respect
man has little pre-eminence over
the brute; for the whole animal
kingdom, man included, stand, as
it were, before some great Jug
gernaut that moves irresistibly on,
crushing and grinding; and, rela
tively, one species appears to have
very little superiority over an
other. Truly, we areasa shadow
that now is, and now is not.
What we call life is compared to
“wate^ipilt.; upon He grouua.
The idea could hardly be brought
lower than that. What is life
according to the Scriptures ? The
description is not only beautiful
and sublime,.but it carries withit
the universal'judgment of man
kind. Put it down by the sideof
all. the descriptions that science or
philosophy has given, and we in
stinctively, turn to it and say,
“That is life.” Take, for instance,
the attribute ot endlessness. The
ungodly speak of life as short or
long, according to circumstances,
but life is eternal from its very
nature—so declared to be in the
divine word : and the universal
feeling that it should be so, or
was designed to be so, is evinced
in the regret and sorrow every
where experienced when it is be
lieved life is about to end.—N.
Y. Christian Advocate,
her light when half eclipsed. If
the church, instead of listening to
the command, “Preach the preach
ing that I bid thee ;” if, instead of
manifesting the whole truth, it
simply exhibits phases of the
oi tiirdays, but then I must
mop'“Well,” he replied, “say
noil about that.” I went to
wore, ad discovered that he had
plac'd man in my position that
woKi on Sundays, but he had
dare., ! the work, and set it back
tw ini'weeks. He was a drunk-
ar, an wholly unreliable. Five
yers live passed since then, but
I av.i not been called upon to
wk oa Sundays, and have had
costant employment. “In keep-
ir fils commandments there is
gat reward.”—N. Y. Christian
Aveeate.
A case of poisoning by nicotine
occurred lately in Paris. The victim,
a man in the primg of life, had been
cleaning his pipe with a clasp-knife ;
with this he accidentally cut one of
his fingers, but as the wound was of
a trivial nature he paid no heed to
it. Fiveorsix hours later, however,
the cut finger grew painful, and be
came much swollen; the inSamma
tion rapidly spread fo the arm and
shoulder, the patient suffering such
intense pain that lie was obliged to
betake himself to bed. Medical ass
sistance was called, and- ordinary
remedies proved ineffectual. The
sick man, questioned as to the man
ner in which he cut himself, explain
ed the -sn to which the pocket-knife
had been applied, adding that he
had omitted to wipe it after cleaning
the pipe. The case was understood,
and the doctors decided amputation
of the arm to be the only hope of
saving the patient’s life, and this
was immediately done. IIis life was
barely saved. No wonder smokers
so often have sore and poisoned
mouths, cancer of the lips, and like
troubles.
Boys, never, never use tobacco!
It not only poisons the body, but
leads to company and practices which
have been the ruin of many a man’s
soul. If you love your mother, if
you value your own self-respect, if
you hope for heaven, never use to
bacco ! Endeavor to influence your
playmates who use it to give up the
pratice. Smoking or chewing is a
filthy, ungentlemanly, dangerous
habit.—New York Christian Ad
vocate.
Far away in the most northern
part of Siberia a traveler named
Pallas found a race of theemallest
hay-makers in the world. Some
of them live singly and some in
families, and they dwell either in
houses which they make forthem-
selves in the trunks of old trees,
or villages, as we may call them,
made in the clefts of the rocks;
but their settlements are always
close to some open space in the
forest where the grass grows
greenest and freshest. These “lit
tle people” are none of them much
taller than a rabbit, bat tb-y arc
very industrious and clever; In
the middle of August they begin
to collect hay, choosing only the
very sweetest and softest grass,
and a few bitter herbs which they
mix with it, most likely to make
it more wholesome; they spread
this out to dry on the ledges of
rock, and in September stack it,
and for fear of the severe winter,
they make an underground pas
sage from the hay stack to their
dwellings. Sometimes these stacks
of hay are as high as an ordinary
man, and twenty-four feet round.
You will be surprised when I tell
you that these little hay-makers,
Or hay-storers—for they are called
both—are small animals of the
hare tribe, and called rat hares.
Poor things! they are often de
pi'ived of the fruits of their in
dustry, for the sable-hunters keep
a sharp lookout for this fodder
and carry it ofi for their horses ;
and the peasants also take it
away, leaving the poor littlehares
to starve in spite of their industry.
—Sunday Magazine.
gospel, sections of the truth, as
pects of the divine word; if it
sets out in full light the divine
love, while it keeps back divine
justice, under the shadow of a
dark eclipse; if it tells of Ghrist’s
teachings, and is silent about
Christ’s sacrifice; if it points to
Christ’s life, and not to Christ’s
blood, as the center of saving ef
ficiency ; if it sets out the freedom
of man, and holds in abeyance di
vine sovereignty and efficacious
grace; or if it minimizes the gos
pel in ihe one sentence, “Come to
Jesus ; ’ or if it lays Christ as an
humble suppliant at the feet of
men until proud sinners imagine
that it is a stoop of condescension
to permit Jesus to save them—
then surely it is no marvel that
men turn away from a belittled
gospel and a belittled Saviour,and
that the church sits in weakness
when it has weakened its own
strength by paralyzing one of its
own arms, and depending simply
upon the hidings of its power.—■
Dr. 17. M. Paxton.
gmpwOTa.
THE CHRISTIAN SABBATH.
SEEING IN A EOG.
GOOD HUMOR.
AN ENCHANTED CAVE.
^risfew liihs^j,
; i suae . you wiry Yay it easy i wath a .Sew", of the cares rtS re-
,^..uj v«. --res upon nim. _ sponsibilities of life to recognize
But Deter here tells us why it
its bright and especially its mirth-
SeMte&m
ONE LIFE.
BY REV. W. C. GRIFFITH.
^a!«a®lfcaL
SUNDAY WORK.
BY A LABORER.
OUR CARE TAKER.
worst,
BY REV. E. A. BLAKE.
people have, to be sure.
They can
No one knows
I care and thought.
Chris-
works
profit-
gler or the harlequin?
But while causes like these
I lifted my heart to God in pray
er, saying, “Now, Lord, I has
The best sermons or the
ference as to the importance or
value of existence here. We cling
to this existence as of inestimable
value. It is the objectof constant
What remarkable memories some
“ghosts”—their new name for the
supernatural in life—continue to
walk up and down in the chamb
ers of the human soul, wringing
the conscience with pain, and be-
1 1 .: 'YLENN'INS ANITY
7 and ’ diocy.
there is noieveningit is cut down, and with-’gospel is but half told. The sym-
-- ” And what God in his bol of the church is the moon;
Forever, spite of all new seed I
sow,
Past summer’s sun and winter’s
purest snow,
Forever poison tares my beauteous
field,
"Its shining harvests waving to
and fro,'
"Forever poison tares is doomed to
yield!
V 4 nd I, with swift clear-sighted-
ness from pain,
Like one long blind, who, sudden
gaining sight,
Gries out at first, in suffering at
the light,
J^pk back: -and know, with au-
' u ’guis“h keen as vain,
No foe who had in treacherous
ambush lain,
And stealthy sowed his poison
fares by night,
Did work upon my beauteous
field this blight.
Humble I walk beside the loaded
wain;
My head bowed down by shame,
and dumb my tongue ;
Fate gives each man the gifts he
has bestowed,
And metes exact all measures
which are owed.
The seed from which these poison
tares have sprang
One idle day my own hand care
less flung.
I only reap the harvest that I
sowed.
There is probably uo task upon
which so much labor has been ex
pended as upon that of thrusting
the supernatural out of human
life. We count not only the
books that have been, written, the
eloquence, satire, sarcasm, sneer
ing denunciation that have been
spoken; we must also count the
steady struggle of a vast body of
men who do not “like to retain
God in their thoughts.” The
lower man in men has nine-tenths
of their attention, and he is ofthe
earth earthy, and perpetually
fighting down all supernatural
notions, facts, doctrines. Is not
the wonder, then, that these
“ghosts” are forever rising up
again to appall the conscience and
keep alive the higher man ? Why
cannot all this so-called “hard
sense,” all these “perfect demon
strations,” cast out the disquiet
ing presence of belief in another
world? Why have they all—
these “enlightened” people—to
begin again every new day a task
in which they have the co-opera
tion of “the world and the flesh”
and possibly also of “the devil ?”
The materializing task has so
many busy hands employed upon
it that we can but wonder why it
is never done.
Nor is it any sufficient answer
to say that the mass of men are
superstitious. It is these super
stitions hanging like a cloud over
supernatural beliefs that would
seem easiest for the omniscient
atheists to destroy; and withal
the superstitions seem to cling to
the high as well as the lowly, to
pursue the enlightened as well as
the ignorant. As a matter of
fact, we believe, none escape the
dark cloud of ghostly fancies ex
cept those who discover the bright
side of that cloud lighted up
with supernatural glory. We re
peat that the people who have fol-
centuries reported the delusion of
the supernatural, and zealously
affirmed that no “sensible persons
believe in such a world,” seem to
We forbear to speak of the Bible
or Christian doctrine, or redeemed
lives or happy deaths. All the
cloud of witnesses that hover
about these spiritual doors into
heaven may be for the moment
forgotten. The solid foundation
which we now refer to. lies imbed
ded in human life. It is a thing
which now and again is laid
bare, as if by lightning, in the
glow of experience. Only the ut
terly degraded and debauched
escape the vision of it, and even
they do partly feel that it exists.
What is it then? It is the simple
consciousness that a decent, right
eous, progressive human world
rests upon supernatural founda
tions; that all better living, lov
ing, striving, hoping, helping,
have their fastnesses, their strong
towers, their bright armor and
their certain honor, through sup
ernatural believing. The alliance
of a decent world with a super
natural world is the explanation
of the endless and losing fight of
atheism. If by some impossible
prowess it could conquer virtue,
order, honor, honesty, sobriety,
thrift, manliness and make them
speak its denial of the world un
seen, then its long labor might
reach a victory. The question is
not whether ( all atheists are im
moral; for all of them have, had
Christian air to breathe, and un
conscious fashioning by super
natural forces at work in Christ-
iauity. Only just this: no plain,
hard- headed man believes that an
atheistic world would be a decent
world. And if all our virtues cry
out unto the heavens for succor,
and will not, for a moment, be
lieve your off-tale that the heav
ens are dumb, how can you ever
hope to prevail with your creed
of despair? Is not all said—and
said against you—when your
complete success must mean de
spair of all the decencies and pur
ities of human life ?-—W Y. Meth
odist.
A. friend of ours last March,
sailing down the. coast, came on
deck one morning to find the ail-
pervaded by a fog so thick as to
shut off the vision for even a few
yard^from the steamer. He had
been aware during the night of a
peculiar vigilance and activity on
board, and ascertained that the
fog had lasted since the previous
evening. On inquiring of the
captain concerning their where
abouts, he was told that they
had passed Cape Hatteras in the
night. “How did you know
that? Could you see the light?”
“0, no; not in a fog like this.”
“Well, you certainly' could take
no observations without n. star in
sight.” “No; but we have other
ways of seeing where we are than
those you have mentioned.”
“How?” “By the lead. Our
soundings told us when we were
off the Cape, and when we had
passed it.” The spiritual have
us to be the victims of a peculiar
and unexampled obstinacy, and
depravity in things. It is so
easy, they repeat, to see that “it
is all a delusion;” why, then, do
so few see it-? Why do the
Among the worldly and pro
fane, and in classical literature in
all times, human life is confound
ed with the present existence, but
in the Scriptures it is clearly dis
tinguished therefrom—tacitly and
by implication in some instances,
in others by express terms. This
is the case, both in the Old and
New Testament, but particularly
in the New.
We read, it is true, of “the life
that now is, and of that which
is to come,” of “this life and the
other life,” yet it is only by way
of contrast and comparison, or in
accommodation to human notions,
that the word is applied to the
present form of existence. Ac
cording to the divine word there
is but one life, and it is said that
life and immortality have been
brought to light by the gospel.
Jesus said, “I am come that they
might have life, and that they
might have it more abundantly.”
There is a very marked and in
structive contrast between the
biblical view of life and that of
the world. It-is not simply for
the sake of use and convenience,
or as an accidental union of terms,
that we associate life with this
existence; it is wedded to all our
thinking, runs through all our
literature, governs our conduct in
every direction, and is never sep
arated from the present state.
But, according to revelation, man
falls so far short of the Creator’s
design—is so shorn of strength
and so reduced from the original
type—that he no longer lives; he
has only the possibility of life.
And hence there is a wide dif-
other means of seeing than what
we call our sight. They see by
the lead. That lead is faith. All
distinctively Christian seaman
ship consists in the use of this
“vision and faculty divine.” There
are nights when the heavens
seem walled above our heads, and
no light shines from the shore,
when through the moaning and
midnight seas we have the stormy
and perilous crises of our life. But
we go on, sounding the very
depths that encompass and im
peril us, and find in the rocks and
shoals themselves our chart and
our security. For we walk by
faith, not by sight.—Christian In
telligencer.
To secure the proper observance
of the Sabbath, we must look to
other agencies than human law.
We must teach men to love the
Sabbath, as the lent day of Eden,
and the prophetic type of heaven,
embodying a relic of the peace of
the one and a promise of the rest
of the other. We must convince
the rich man of the wise political
economy of the Sabbath ; its rela
tion to a nation’s wealth and
greatness; its action as a great
balance-wheel in human affairs,
checking over-production and
under-payment: preventing over
working deterioration; restoring
wasted energies; keeping alive
the pure and powerful influence
of domestic joys; compensating
for the neglect of early education;
and preparing the laborer to re
turn refreshed, elevated, and
cheered to the toil of another
week. We must cause them to
leel tnat me violation ot dauoarn
rest is as blind, suicidal, and ruin
ous an economy as the robbery of
the refreshing sleep of the night.
When to this pervading sense of
the value and sweetness of the
Sabbath there shall be added a
walking church, a ministry burn
ing with light as well as love, a
membership emulous of the fer
vent spirit of their spiritual
chiefs, a sanctified press,a purified
literature, and a Christianized ed
ucation, then shall we hope to see
that Sabbath which is “a delight,
the holy of the Lord, honorable ;”
that Sabbath whose golden promise
has brightened the horizon of the
future to the eye of prophecy, and
which, when it weekly draws its
girdle of light around the glad
earth, shall aptly prefigure that)
blessed Sabbathism, where “the
wicked shall cease from troubling,
and the weary be at rest.”—Meth
odist Quarterly lieview.
If the truth of God is the in
strument of power, and the hu
man part of the work is simply its
manifestation, then the strength
of the church must be weakened
whenever the gospel is subordina
ted to human themes.
If the church dispenses essays
upon history, antiquities, philoso
phy, politics, science, upon Darwin
and Huxley; or if, instead of
manifesting the word of God, it
reflects the light of the secular
press ; if it dispenses to the child
ren, instead of bread, stones
gathered from the world’s
thoroughfares, or poison collected
from the fields of rationalistic
speculation—-then surely it will
be no marvel if the church, in
stead of exorcising demons, sinks
into imbecility, while evil spirits
sport at her side and haunt her
very altars. In the same manner
our strength is crippled when the
gospel is caricatured by sensation
al themes, discussions, illustra
tions and expedients, which at
tract attention, indeed, but which
belittle the sacred doctrine of the.
Cross by associating it, in the
minds of the thoughtless and
worldly, with oddity, extrava
gance, coarseness and catch-penny
expedients, to attract a crowd,
and fill the exchequerof a church.
What shall be the doom of
those who take the sacred gospel
—the rod of God’s power—and
turn it into the wand of the jug-
Soni brink first exhilarates a
man, ad Chen renders him tem
porary insane and ill. We all
knowhat most temporary and
acutejiseases have a strong ten-
dencjpj become chronic. A man
who j insane for a day is liable
to bepme insane for a week, or a
year,for a life time. The man
who ikes strong drink, and thus
make himself insane or ill, runs
the ok of that insanity or illness
becoiiug a permanent condition,
the disorder becoming chronic,
and Itting him for the maniac’s
cell ad straight jacket, or for the
sick led and the grave.
Folbes Winslow, the celebrated
Engfeh physician for the insane,
oncefold a committee of Parlia-
mentthat he could dip out of the
braiuof any habitual drunkard a
fluidso full of alcohol that when,
put in a spoon and a lamp placed'
beneath it, the liquid would burn
witha blue flame, Perhaps the
two aiost important physical cir
cumstances that can be pointed
out in relation to alcohol are, that
it hardens'all the colloid or glue-
like substances in the body, and
thatit has a local affinity for the
brain. Alcohol hardens the white
of an egg. The brain, and much
of the matter in the nervous sys
tem, is albuminous in chemical
composition, as the white of an
egg is ; and as alcohol everywhere
else hardens colloid substances, so
it does in the brain. The blue
flame which Forbes Winslow
kindled shows the, affinity of
al, ohcl for the brain, and should
!» .'jet binning as a pillar, of fire,
famous saying of Hyrt (quoted
lately in the Scientific American)
that he could tell in the dark
whether he was dissecting a
drunkard’s brain or the brain of
a teroperate man, for the former
would be hard under the scalpel.
He used to explain to his pupils
that the only way to obtain good
brains for dissection was to hard
en them by alcohol, or to get
brains that had been hardened be
fore death.
Intemperance, more than any
other cause, fills our lunatic and
idiotic asylums. According to
the statistics of insanity in France,
thirty four per cent, of the cases
of lunacy among males were due
to intemperance. One half of the
inmates of the Dublin insane asy
lum owe their disease to the use
of liquor.
Tritchard and Esquirol, two
great authorities upon the subject,
attribute half of the cases of in
sanity in England to the use of
alcihol. Dr. Benjamin Rush be-
| There is a world of wonders
’vet to be discovered in the South
^Western country. New Mexico
and Arizona abound in natural
n-iosities, which will furnish
any an interesting newspaper
mid illustrated article. In N^w
Mexico is a great turquoise mine
-'v^ne of the very few in the
veld. This mine has been
w irked for many generations,long
before the advent of the white
man on this ■ .'fitment. The Je-
Good humor is rightly reck
oned a most valuable aid to happy
home life. An equally good and
useful faculty is a sense of humor,
or the capacity to have a little
fun along with the humdrum
cares and works of life. We all
liews that one third of the cases
ofiisanity in this country were
earned by intemperance, and this
wai long before its hereditary
potency was adequately appreci
ate!.
Jr. S. G. Howe found that the
paints of one hundred and forty-
fiv, ont of three hundred idiots,
wee habitual drunkards. He
att-ibuted one half of the cases of
idilcy in the State of Massaehu-
sets to intemperance, and he is
susained in his opinion by the
mat reliable authorities. Dr.
Hove states that there were seven
idjfcs in one family where both
patents were drunkards. One
hit’ of the idiots in England are
of drunken parentage, and the
sine is true of Sweden, and prob-
aly of most European countries.
I is said that in St. Petersburg
post of the idiots comeof drunken
puents. In Norway, in ten years
o’ iree liquor traffic, after the re-
no’al of the duty on spirits, in-
ssuty increased fifty per cent.,
ate the percentage of idiots born,
inyeased one hundred and fifty
parent.” If a girl wants to be
tie mother of fools, let her marry
a Bin who drinks wine or strong
dnfk. “At the last it biteth
on hand to-morrow morning, to
push forward that machinery, for
it is to go to South America by a
given time.”
“Sunday morning!” I replied.
“I cannot work on Sunday ; it is
against the commandment of the
Lord, and my conscience forbids
it.” “That is nothing to me,”
said my employer. “You may
stick to your principles, but my
work must be done, and if you
cannot do it I do not need your
services any longer.” “But, Mr.
, have I ever disobliged you
before? and have not I done your
work well?” “That is nothing
here nor there,” he replied, “you
need not come back again.”
This blow came upon me in the
dullest season of the year, and my
wife and children were sick ; the
shops were every where discharg
ing their men. But I went out,
and for eleven days diligently
sought for work, determined that
I would not violate God’s holy
command. On the evening ofthe jiio a nt and gt;i h
' vl ? le crossing the ferry. ldder ;-L,Safe- Guard.
n""s emmovej ,-ndinns to o-olUo"
previous stouw KUm u. two hun
dred years ago. Near Hanson-
berg, in New Mexico, a very won
derful cave has recently been dis
covered. On entering it the visi
tor hears sounds, as from an
fEolian harp, which are made by
the strong current ot air passing
through objects which vibrate. A
party of miners explored it re
cently, and they discovered a
series of steps which led them to
the bottom of the cave. These
seem to have been hewn out of
the rock many generations ago.
Passing through an arched open
ing, a view was presented which
fairly bewildered the explorers.
The purest stalactites of crystal
lized carbonate of lime hung from
the ceiling. Wreaths of pink
colored sulphates of lime, quartz,
and spar crystal studded the sides.
It seemed like a real fairy’s
haunt. The effect was heightened
by the melody which had struck
their ears at the entrance of the
cave, and which seemed like the
distant murmur of a symphony
from a mighty organ. The
miners wandered on, hall after
hall exhibiting a succession of
splendid scenes; a realization of
the marvels of the Arabian
Nights. Before leaving the cave,
however, the party had a couple
of unpleasant adventures. A
mountain lion sprang at them,
but was finally killed by repeated
discharges from their revolvers.
He measured eleven feet from tip
to tip. A monster rattlesnake
was also killed. This measured
eight feet in length and eight
inches in diameter. New Mexico
will soon become very well known
to travelers, as railroads are pene
trating it in several directions.—
Demorest’s Monthly.
know how it brightens up things
generally to have a lively, witty
companion who sees the ridiculous
points of things, and can turn an
annoyance into an occasion tor
laughter. It does a great deal
better to laugh over some domes
tic mishaps than to cry or scold
over them. Many homes and li— a
are dull because they are allowed
-. become too deeply impressed
nth a .'sense', of the cares atu re-
is easy. Do you not know how
hard it is to talk to any one who
does not know you, or cares noth
ing for you? But we are told
here, “God careth for you.”
A short time ago, while riding-
in the country, I saw some little
boys sailing their toy ships in a
brook by the road side. The boats
were so small they were in danger
of being blown over. To keep
them upright, or from running
into the shore, the boys had pulled
off their shoes and stockings,
rolled up their pants and were
wading around after them. They
bad a great deal of care for those
little vessels, and many times were
obliged to set them up straight
or turn them away from the
shore.
Now this is the kind of care
God has for you. Our Lord once
said, “Lol I am with you al
ways,” and again, “him that com
eth unto me I will in no wise cast
out.” When you get troubled, or
have any. care, you go directly to
God and tell him all about it, for
he loves you. You may change
the words of the text a little to
guilino- the wearied spirit with the this better than Satan, who said,
hope of a better life ? j “All that a man hath will he give
What can it be that really ob-lfor his life.” But that which we
structs“a task so beneficent” as put above every thing else the
that of freeing men from the be- Bible calls a vapor, which appear- paralyze our power, there are
lief in a supernatural order about: eth for a little time and then van-1 others which produce simply an
us unless it be-that this order isheth away. “All flesh,” it is abatement of strength. For ex-
actuallv exists’ This is an eu- said, “is as grass, which cometh ample, the church can only put
Uo-hfened ’noe Everybody has up in the morning, and in the forth half its strength when the
heard the news that 1
other world.” Few children ar-,creth.
done all I can; thou hast prom
ised that my bread should be^-
en to me, and that my a ter
should be shure ; now tho Must
do the rest.” I went he 16 and
told my wife. The next-raping
came. After working hc rs began
who should enter myiome but
my old employer, askg if 1 had
any work yet. I angered, “No.
But I do not suppe’ y° u Want
me?” “Well,” said 16 , “f think
you were very stif n y our opin
ions, but I want J “ to take up
that job where ye left it. “But
you know I canr work on Sun-
JUDGE Merrimon delivers a fine ad
dress on the occasion of the closing exer
cises of Kings Mountain High School,
and among other things stated that when
North Carolina entered the Federal Un
ion she ranked third, to-day she ranks
fourteen, and he believed that this retro
gradation was due to her neglect of educa
tion. To illustrate, ho compared North
Carolina with Ohio. He said that Ohio
with an area less than that of North
Carolina by 10,000 square miles, did not
enter the Union until 1805; that she
entered ranking eighteenth and has been
taking a higher rank at each census; that
in all her p od icts she far exceeded North
Carolina and he gave the statistics to
prove it, and that last year North Caro
lina spent $373,000 for education, while
Ohio had spent during the same time
ovr $3,000,000.
“Casting all your care upon
him; for he careth for you.”—-
1 Peter v: 7.
Mauy times you have heard
your minister, as well as other
good people, say it was easy for
children to be Christians. Al
though you knew they believed
what they said, you wondered if
they had not forgotten when they
were children, or whether they
had as many cares and troubles
as you, so you said, silently: “It
may be easy for ministers or dea
cons to be good, but very hard
work for girls or boys.”
I do not wonder you felt so, es
pecially if you had never thought
of what Peter wrote in our text.
If you will read it again care
fully, I think you will see the
whole secret.
Whom does Peter mean by
“him?” He cannot mean any of
your friends, because not one of
A sweet and intelligent little girl
was passing quietly through the
streets of a certain town a short time
since, when she came to a spot where
several idle boys were amusing them
selves by the dangerous practice of
throwing stones. Not observing
her, one of the boys, by accident,
threw a stone toward her, and struck
her a cruel blow in the eye.
She was carried home in great
agony. The doctor was sent for,
and a very painful operation was de
clared necessary. When the time
came, and the surgeon had taken
out his instruments, she lay in her
father’s arms, and he asked her if
she was ready for the doctor to do
what he could to cure her eye.
“No, father, not yet,” she replied.
“What do you wish us to wait
for, my child ?”
“I want to kneel in your lap, and
pray to Jesus first,” she answered.
And then kneeling, she prayed a
few minutes, and afterwards submit-
ful side. Into such a household,
good but dull, the advent of a
witty, humorous friend is like
sunshine on acloudy day. While
it is always oppressive to hear
persons constantly striving to say
witty or funny things it is com
fortable, seeing what a brightener
a little fun is, to make an effort
to make some at home. It is well
to turn off an impatient question
sometimes, and to regard it from
a humorous poiut of view, instead
of being irritated about it. “Wife,
what is the reason I never can
find a clean shirt ?” exclaimed a
good but rather impatient hus
band, after rummaging all through
the wrong drawer. His wife
looked at him steadily for a mo
ment, half inclined to be pro
voked ; then with a comical look
she said, “I never guess conun
drums; I give it up.” Then he
laughed, and then she went and
got his shirt, and he felt ashamed
of himself and kissed her; and
then she felt happy, and so what
might have been an occasion for
hard words and unkind feelings
became just the contrary, all
through the little vein of humor
that cropped out at the surface.
Some people have a peculiar fac
ulty for giving a humorous turn
to things when they are reproved.
It does just as well oftentimes to
laugh things off as to scold them
off. Laughter is better than
tears. Let us have a little more
of it at home.
of no avail to make a man a
tian, yet a Christian’s good
are both pleasing to God and
able to men.—Arnot.
are not those that are preached in
our churches, or from the pulpit.
They are the sermon lives. And
the street, the counting house, the
office, the shop, the parlor and the
kitchen. And men and women listen
to them, who never hear any other:
Let us be careful how we preach.
ted to the operation with all the pa- remember, to a day, when you com-
tience of a strong woman. mitted an error, or made a mistake,
How beautiful this little girl ap- a nd they are not content with re-
pears under these trying circum- mem bering it themselves, they are
stances? Surely Jesus heard the determined that you shall remember
prayer made in that hour; and he it, too, and every convenient oppor-
will hear every child that calls upon tunity—and they make it convient
his name. Even pain can be endur- quite often—they twit you of it.
ed when we ask Jesus to help us They delight in thus doing, and if
bear it. London Christian. the twitting is done in the presence
»,.^„ ^. i of others their delight is much great-
—Prohibitory public meetings will be er - But, then, these twitters, al-
held in Greene county as follows: Ephra- though they annoy for the moment,
ims Chapel, Monday, July 11th, Hooker- can do no harm, and it is not worth
ton, 15th, Bull Head, 23d Barrows, 27th, hile t n ti them.—Methodist Re-
Seminary, 28th, Speights Bridge, 30th, i ,
Snow Hill, Wednesday, Aug. 3rd. | colder.