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DEVOTED TO THE OKNKRAk Of gALDWKLL, WATAIIOA, AHHK AND ADJACENT COUNTIES.
LENOIK. N. ",I," iBSroAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1877.
NO. 22.
WHIN THI TIP! COMffl IH.
Whn th ltd eom In,
At ouo th a and abort Utflu '
Together to b flad.
What th Ud ha brought 1
No nu dm aakad, do man bM aouglit ;
What other tide nave bad
Th deep land bid away ;
The lt bit of th wrtoka they wrought
Wu burnodop yeUrdy.
Whn lb tide toe out,
Th sbor look dark tad d with doubt,
Tb landmark ar all lost.
For th Ud to turn
Man patten! wait, mn mUom yearn.
8wt ehanU tby bar oroMl,
In boat rookad with glee,
Htrttoh now bar atony road that bum
And Uad away from me.
Whn th Ud oomi In
Id haarta, at ono th brU begin
Together to b glad.
Wbat th tld ba brongbt
Thy do not oar, they bar not Bought,
All Joy thy vr bad
Th new Joy maltlplle ;
All pain by wbleb It may b bought
8om paltry aaorlflo.
When th Ud goo out,
Th heart ar wrung with fear and doubt ;
Alt trao of Joy teem loat,
WUlth Ud return?
In rettlee qaeatlonlng they yearn,
With band unclasped, nnoroaaed.
Tbey weep, on eeparat way.
Ah ! darling, ahall we ever learn
Lore' Udal hoar and day f
Kev Century.
A Struggle for Appearance.
"I have ticket for the concert to
night, Annie," said James Henley,
coming Into the sitting-room where his
wife wa working the sewing machine
with a busy whirr.
"Oh, James, how I wish I could go I"
The light died away from the hus
band's face In a second.
"Wish you could go, Annie! Why,
of course you can go."
"I can't, James. I must finish these
three dresses before Sunday, and It wll'
take every minute."
"Three dresses?"
"For Jennie, Susan and Lottie. All
the spring things are ready but these
dresses."
"But this is only Wednesday."
"I know, James; but look at the
work. There are oversklrts to each
and ruffles on all tne waists. Jennie's
has three flounces. All the children In
the congregation are well dre&sed,
James. You cannot afford to put the
sewing out, so I must do It.
"Let the children dress more simply,
then. Come, Annie, stop that buzz for
once, and come to this concert."
"Can't you go?"
"And leave you? I should not enjoy
It If I knew you were stitching here.
Come."
With a heavy sigh, as if James were
exacting a sacrifice instead of giving
her a pleasure, Annie left the room and
went to her own apartment to dress for
the concert.
All through the evening, while her
husband drank In the sweet sounds in
which he delighted, Annie, with her
face all polite interest, was thinking of
the unfinished work.
"Was it not delightful?" James said,
they walked home in the soft spring
moonlight.
"Delightful I I am glad I went,
James; Mrs. Gordon had on her new
spring dress, and her dresses all come
from London. The trimming on her
basque Is quite a new style, and I am
sure I can put Jennie's on in the same
way."
Sunday morning shone clear and
cloudless. Mrs. Henley had put the
last stitch Into Lottie's dress as the
clock struck twelve, and she awakened
with a pain in her chest and a headache,
but a feeling of triumph. Her children
would wear their new things, that had
cost nothing but the material. Noth
ing! Mrs. Henley did not estimate the
hours spent over the machine, the wear
iuess, the neglect of many little duties.
There bas been no actual money laid
out la dressmaking, so it Is clear gain
on the material.
Very pretty the children looked when
they were ready for church. Jennie
and Susan, twins of ten years old, were
dressed alike, in delicate pearl color,
trimmed with blue, and hats of the
newest shape and blue ribbons. Lottie
wore cerise color, with cerise trimming,
for. Lottie was a brunette of seven.
The 'charge at starting for Sunday
school were :
"Be sure you lift your oversklrts
when you It down; don't lean back
upon the streamers of your hats, and
walk where you will Dot spoil your light
" boots. ' Don't strain your gloves." :
"Overdressed, Annie," remarked Mr.
Henley. "Tour own dresses are not
more elaborate."
"It is the fashion now to cut chil
dren', dresses like ladies'. But you
ought to be proud of your children,
Jamea. Everybody compliment me
upon the taste with which I dress
them."
'Annie 1" Mr. Henley said, suddenly,
leading bit wife to a mirror, "look at I
your own face."
"Weir" ihe laid, wondering what he
j .T?I. ' . -
rxnuamtaii.
"3Tour cheek are as white at chalk ;
here li a Heavy line under your eye,
and your whole air Is that of a woman
worked to death."
"Jamei, what nonsense t"
"It Is not nonsonie. 1 wIhIi It wa.
Five yean ago you had the complexion
of a child, a clear and rosy a Susan',
i Your eye then were bright, full of ani
mation. You had young children, a
house to keep in order, and Just half
our present Income. Yet you could
find leisure then for a dally walk, could
read In the evening or sing for me,
could enjoy an occasional evening of so
cial pleasure or some entertainment. I
had a wife then."
"Jumcsl what do you moan?"
"I mean that, In tho place of my hap
py, healthy wife, 1 have now a sickly,
overworked seamstress. Those dolls
that have lust gone out have none of
the grace of childhood. They are fast
becoming little pieces of vanity, all ab
sorbed In their finery. Their under
clothing wouia uo tor signs in an em
porium of linen, with the embroidery,
ruffles and tucks."
"But I do It all myself, James,"
"Exactly. You are stitching your
life into the garments of your children,
who would be far happier, healthier and
better In the simple clothing suited to
their years.
"Oh, I am well enough. I am pale
to-day because I sat up late last night.
But I must dress for church, or we shall
be late
Tlw services passed over Mrs. Henley
with but little Impression. To her cha
grlrj, the little Goodwins, who had all
their dresses direct from London, had
an entirely new style of oversklrt that
made Jennie, Susan and Lottie, look
quite oldfashioned In the eyes of their
mother.
Summer came, and the long June
days were spent in preparing a seaside
wardrobe for the children, for Mr. Hen
ley, by the advice of his physician, was
going to take his wife to tho seaside.
The pain in her side had become very
troublesome, aud there was a little hack
ing cough that meant wakeful nights.
The pale cheeks were Beldom tinged
with a healthy color, and the eyes were
languid and heavy. People spoke pity
lngly ol Mrs. Henley as "quite an lnva
nu," ana ner uusDana mourned over
the alteration in his wife.
He insisted upon having a physician
who advised fresh air and sxerclse and
a tonic. And Annie obediently swal
lowed the tonic, took a daily walk, and
then made up "for lost time" by stitch
ing at night. For were not the Good
wins, the Wilcoxes, and all the leading
fashionables of Langton going to the
same place where Mr. Henley had taken
rooms, and could Jennie, Susan and
Lottie have one Inch less ruffling and
tucking than they possessed ?
He only shrugged his shoulders when
his little girls minced along with dainty
fine lady airs, instead of bounding with
the freedom of childhood. He bore the
steady whirr of the sewing machine In
tne evening, instead ot the voice or
music of his wife.
But when Annie s health bezun to
give way he exercised his authority
and found he hail been silent too long.
But. the summer wardrobes complet
ed, the dainty dresses trimmed, the
trunks packed, Annie faithfully prom
ised James to rest during the summer's
sojourn at the seaside. With a sudden
conciousness of growing weakness
there came to her an appreciation of
her husband's love and patience that
bad been numbed. She begun to realize
that she had let her ambition for dress
overshadow her love for her husband,
and that she had wronged him In de
priving him of the companionship he
prized so highly.
"I will rest while I am gone, and
when I come back James, I will give
my evenings to you as I did when we
were first married."
That was her parting promise, never
to be exacted. Only a few day of rest
were allowed her before an aoute attack
of lung fever prostrated her. James
left his business to hurry to the seaside,
a nurse was engaged, and medical skill
did its utmost. But the constitution,
weakened by confinement and over
work, could not resist the disease, and
while the summer days were still in
their full beauty, Mrs. Henley knew
she was dying.
It was a bitter thought. Life held so
much that was precious; her kind, lov
ing husband, her beautiful children, her
nappy home, all these must be left.
, "A mysterious dispensation of Provi
dnce," said Mrs, , Goodwin ; ,"sucb a
feood motri(4r. J Aiia those children are
just the age when they most need
mother's care."
Annie Henley, in the dread hour
when the bade farewell to hope, wound
her arms around her husband's neok
and tobbed :
'If I had only listened to you, James,
I might have been a guide to our chll-
dren, a companion to you; for 'pMj
yen, and wh0 I died ha left loving
merr.orle, Instead of a trunk or flue
l nr.
cioimog. i on to waniou my in.
And Jamo Henley, In till widower'
weeds, with his three little girl In
sombre black beside him, wonder
mournfully how many mother of the
land are wasting their lives In the same
struggle for appearance.
Uaa TtMkli.
Teach them that a true lady may be
found In calico, quite as frequently a
In velvet.
Teach them that a common scbool
education, with common sense, 1 bet
ter than a college education without
it.
Teach them that one .good honest
trade well mastered, I worth a dozen
beggarly "professions." ;
Teach them that "honesty i Alio best
policy" that "'tis better to be poor
than to be rich on the profits of 'crooked
whiskies,' etc., and point your pre
cept by the example of those who are
suffering the torments of the doomed."
Teach them to respect their elders
and themselves.
Teach them that as they expect to be
men some day, they can not too soon learn
to protect the weak and helpless.
Teach them that to wear patched
clothes 1 not a disgrace, but to wear a
'black eye" Is.
Teach them that God Is no respecter
of sex, and that when he gave the sev
enth commandment he meant it for
their own good as well as for their sis
ters'. Teach them that by Indulging their
depraved appetites In the worst forms of
dissipation tbey are not fitting them
selves to become the husbands of pure
girls.
Teach them It is better to be an honest
man seven days in a week than to be a
Christian (?) one day and a villain six
days.
Teach them that "God helps those
who helps themselves.
Do all this and you will have brought
them up 'in the way they should go."
Directions la Caseaf fir.
Keep the doors and windows of struc
tures closed until the. firemen come;
put a wet cloth over the mouth, and
get down on all fours in a smoky room ;
open the upper part of the window to
get the smoke out; if in a theatre,
church, or school-room, keep cool; de
scend ladders with regular step to pre
vent vibration. If kerosene just pur
chased can be made to burn in a saUoer
by Igniting a match, throw it away.
Put wire-work or glass shades over gas
lights In show windows, and in bed
rooms with curtains; sprinkle sand in
stead of saw-dust on floors of oil stores ;
keep shavings and kindling wood away
from steam boilers, and greasy rags
from lofts, cup-boards, boxes etc., see
that all stovepipes enter well in the
chimney, and see that all lights and
fires are out before retiring or leaving
he P,aoe of bulne88 i keeP matches in
uieta) or earthen vessels, and out of
reach of children; and provide a piece
of stout rope, long enough to reach to
the ground, la every chamber.
Neither admit anyone If tne house is
on fire, except the police, firemen, and
known neighbors; nor swing lighted
gas-jets against the wall; nor leave
small children where there are matches
or an open fire; nor deposit ashes In a
wooden box or on the floor ; nor use a
light to examine the gas meter. Never
leave clothes near the fire-place to dry ;
nor smoke nor read in bed by candle
light; nor put kindling wood to dry on
top of the stove, nor pour out liquor
near an open light; nor keep burning
or other inflammable fluids in rooms
wjjere there is afire; nor allow smok
lng about barns or warehouses. Dr.
John Hall.
Children Never Live Lone.
When they are not carried away In
little conins and laid lorever in the sil
ent grave, they become transformed
so rapidly that we lose them In another
way. The athletic young soldier or
collegian, the graceful heroine of the
ball room, may make proud the parent
al hoart, but can they quite console It
for the eternal loss of the little beings
who plagued and enlivened the early
years of marriage? A father may
sometimes feel a legitimate and reason
able melancholy as he contemplates the
most promising of his little daughters,
full of vivacity and health. How long
will the dear child remain to him? She
will be, altered,. La . six months; in six
years she will be succeeded by a totally
different creature a creature new in
flesh, and blood and bone, thinking
other thoughts and speaking other lan
guagot i There la a sadness even in that
change which Is Increase and progres
sion', for the glory of noon-day has de
stroyed the sweet delicacy of the dewy
Aurora, and the wealth of Summer haa
obliterated the freshness of Spring
The violet grows low, and covers it-
eir wun it own leave; ana yet or an
flower yields the moat delicious and
fragrant imell. Such 1 humility
UavlMlMlly la Wa Africa.
A writer In 'Fraier'a Magazine' say :
"It I now nearly four hundred year
luce the first attempt wa made to Intro
duce Christianity Into the Wfatorn por
tion of Africa. The lummary of Chris
tlan iiiImnIoii may be given In a few
words. The Itoman Catholic came
llrst. In 1481, the King of Portugal
sent ten ahlp with five hundred
soldiers, hundred laborers, find a proper
coip piemen t of prleftH a missionaries
to Kim I na. The Jtorulah uiIhhIoiih thus
founded lingered on for a period of 'HI
years, till at last, In 172.1, that of tlx
Cspuchlne at Sierra Leone was given
up aud they disappeared forever from
West Africa. They had made no lin-
proMlon lavo upon their Immediate de
pendent; aud what Impression they
made upon them was soon totuly oblit
erated. Protestant missionary attempts
were commenced by the Moravians 17'W,
one hundred and forty years ngo, and
continued until 1770. rive attempts
cost eleven lives without visible results
The Wesleyans follow next. In the
minutes of conference of 17!r2 we first
find Africa on the list of the Weitleyan
missionary stations, Sierra Leone being
the part occupied. In the minutes for
for 171W, we find the names of A. Mur
doch and W. Pat ton set down as mis
sionaries to the Foulah country, In
Africa, to which service they were
solemnly set apart by conference. Tho
Church Missionary society sent out Its
first missionaries in 1801. They estab
lished and attempted to maintain ten
stations amongthe aborigines, but tbey
could make no progress, owing to the
hostility of the natives, who preferred
the slave traders to them. Tho mission
aries were forced to take refuge In
Sierra Leone,-the only place where at
that time they could labor with safety
and' hope. The Basle Missionary !jo-cletv-rone
of the most successful on the
coast had their attention directed to
Western Africa as early as 1830. But
it was not until 1828 that their first
company of missionaries reached Chrls-
tianborg, near Akra, the place which
the Moravians had attempted to occupy
more than thirty years previously. The
United Presbyterian Synod of Scotland
commenced a mission on the old Cala
bar river, in the Gulf of Benin, in
April 184C. Five denominations of
American Christians Baptists, Metho
dists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians,
Lutherans are represented on the
coast; In Liberia, Lagos, the Island of
Coresco, and Gaboon. The first Ameri
can mission was established on the coast
In 1822. Now, what has been the out
come ol these missionary operations r
The results thus far achieved are in
many respects highly interesting and
Important. At the European settle-
tlemeuts at various points along the
coast from Senegal to Loanda, and at the
purely native Stations, occupied by the
Niger ( native) missionaries, the Scotch
missionaries, anil American mission
aries, some thousands of natives, having
been brought under the influence of
Christian teaching, have professed
Christianity, and, at the European settle
ments, have adopted European dress
and habits. Numerous churches have
been organized and are under a native
ministry, and thousands of children are
gathered into schools under Christian
teachers.
Dlscuaaiaa; (he Faulta of Other.
It is natural for men and woman to
sit in judgment upon each other. The
critical faculty constitutes a part of the
mental furniture of the least intelli
gent, and can no more be repressed
than thought itself. We are weighed
and labeled by those who know us, and
the badge of our character we carry
conspicuiousiy displayed, though we
may be so vain as to think we can hide
our real self from observation.
It is well, perhaps that we are con
sclous of the activity of this critical feel
Ing, for It plays an important part in
our self-culture, by putting a certain
restraint upon our conduct. For what
ever our theory of virtue, we are none
of u half as bad as we might be, if we
did not fear the scrutinizing gaze of
our fellows.
But this critical habit sometimes be
comes so deep seated ; and is so abused,
as to make it a great curse. By it
friendships are disturbed, enmities
awakened, and life-long misery pro
duced. It is exercised often from what
Is supposed to be the most benevolent
of motives. "I am a plain-spoken, can
did man," my friend says, "1 must tell
that person Just what I think of him ;
and he proceeds to find his victim, and
on tho plea of friendship begins his
merciless attack. His criticisms may be
lust, but by what authority does he
trample upon the feelings of another,
and drive a dagger to his heart?
The best test by which to judge of
auch a course of conduct, is the result
that would follow if it became ur.iyer
sal. For any principle of action, it is
safe to say la erroneous, which cannot
bear a broad and unrestricted applica
tlon. It requires no very keen percep
tion, certainly, to discover what would
become of society if our "candid"
friend' dictum were the guide of all;
for since there I not one so faultlena
that he would not come in for a share
of MTonal and Impertinent censure,
there would follow a the result of this
universal uplifting of every man' voice
against bis follow, an utter demolition
of the mx lal fabric. Yet If one man Is
entitled to run rouiih-ihod over another,
In his zeal to tell him rjbt faults, so have
all the same right.
It can bo affirmed that no one, even
from the lest of motlvea, is at liberty to
exercise his critical faculty as he please,
upon the character or act of his fel
lows. The parent himself Is not clothed
with such authority over his offspring
that he can Ignore the child's right to
have hi feelings respected, even when
reproved.
The abuse of this critical habit Is pro
ductive of the greatest evil, In the sphere
of the society gossip. The trouble does
not begin when, in the free Intercourse
of dally life, a man tell a friend his
opinion of another' character or con
duct. Thus far only an Irrepressible
Instinct bas been gratified. For with
our opinions of each other formed and
ready for use, they are aure to be de
clared. But when the confidence, in
which personal judgment has been ren
dered, Is violated, and the friend,
thoughtlessly, or with malicious Intent,
plays the part of a tattler as soon as he
can find the ear of the one criticised,
then the wrong is done which brings
with It alienation, bitterness, hatred,
and an endless train of evils. A more
dishonorable breach of good faith can
not be committed than when the sacred
ness of this which we repose In one
another In ordinary intercourse is dis
legarded. The insensibility which pre
vails on this subject among those known
as very respectable people Is astonish
ing. It Is the duty of every member of
society to cultivate a delicacy of percep:
tion respecting those points of social
honor in which centre all that Is essen
tial to good fellowship.
East ladlaa Oaf a.
To this day a sort of fanciful value
attaches to the magnificent gold mohur,
so soft that It could be bent by the fin
gers or scratched by the nail, while the
silver sicca rupee long held its ground
against the Company's rupee, with its
slight admixture of alloy. The practice
of having coins and ornaments of abso.
lutely pure gold and silver had its good
as well as its bad side. No doubt the
trinkets were easily defaced, the coin
quickly injured by friction. But then
the natives of India have always found
it convenient to convert coin into ban
gles and nose-rings, or to exchange
these latter for coin, at will, and with
the minimum of loss. A Hindoo ryot
has but to carry a bag of silver to a jew
eler, and on paying the cost of the labor
he procures Its transformation Into ank
lets and armlets for his wife and daught
ers; possibly, in some rare instances oi
bucolic ostentation, Into silver tires for
the wheels of his ox-cart. He has no
doubt of the 8nb?tantlal value of the
property which he thus oddly Invests.
For in India is not as with us at home,
where jewelry is dear to buy, but cheap
to sell; where costly rings and brace
lets are with difficulty disposed of at
the most alarming of sacrifices, and
where many a reduced gentlewoman
has listened with seml-lnciedulous in
dignation to the contemptuous estimate
by which Messrs. Snap and Pinchback
gauge the worth of the "family pearls"
hereditary gems which she had been
from infancy accustomed to regard a
second only to those of royalty itself.
The Hindoo customer knows that his
pure gold and pure silver will always
command their just price, while he
learns the selling value of a ruby or an
emerald with at least approximate ac
curacy. All the Year Round.
Antlqnlty and Durability af Brick.
The palaces of Cro3sus,MauBoleusand
Attains, and other extremely ancient
buildings, were constructed of hard
burnt red brick. At the decline of the
Roman Empire brick-making fell, to a
great extent, into disuse, and was re
vived again by the Italians after a lapse
of some centuries.
The medifcval, secular and ecclesias
tical architecture of Italy abounds with
fine examples of brick and terra ootta
work, and decorations of great beauty
have Win executed in those materials.
Brick making arrived at its greatest
perfection in the reign of Henry VIII.,
in England, and some of the finest
known specimens of ornamental brick
work constructed in that reign, are still
the subjects of admiration and are well
preserved from decay.
On rebuilding London after the great
fire in 1666. brick was the material uni
versally adopted for the new erections,
and laws regulating the sizes, thickies
of wall and projections, were at that
time made and enforced for the better
protection of the community. Much of
the brickwork remaining in London in
buildings erected in the latter part of
the seventeenth century and beginning
of the eighteenth, is admirably ex
cuted and In good preservation.
The chief ingredients in the composi
tion of those qualities that gain esteem
and praise are good nature, truth, good
sense, and good breeding.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
Even a banana-skin will turn when
trodden upon.
The proper place for proof-readers:
the house of correction.
Youth Is lb vernal season of life,
and Hub blossom It then put forth are
Indications of those future frulU which
are to be gathered In the succeeding
periods.
To be truly great. It Is necessary to
be truly good and benevolent, for all
other distinctions the clod of the valley
will cover, and the greedy worms de
stroy.
1 find no quality so easy for a man
to counterfeit a devotion, though his
life aud manner are not conformable to
It; the essence of It I abstruse and oc
cult, but the appearance easy and
showy.
Accustom yourself to overcome and
master thin us of difficulty; for, If you
observe, the left hand for want of prac
tice Is insignificant, and not adapted to
general business, yet It holds the bridle
better than the right, from constant
u?e. I'liny.
The first step toward making a man
of your son Is to train him to earn what
he spends; then the best way to teach
him to be frugal Is to take away hi
money as last as he earns It and spend
It wisely for yourself. There Is nothing
like teaching the young by example.
A funny little ornament lor a bureau
is a square piece of silver cardboard,
about six inches each way, embroidered
on the edge with some fanciful design
In worsted and having in the centre tne
words "Scratch my back." It Is hung
on the gas fixture by a cord. You turn
It around and discover the back to be a
piece of sandpaper to scratch matches on.
Manv of us have made great mistakes,
and have shut ourselves p In the cells
of poverty when our feet might have
stood in a large room. We nave laid
down pipe too small to bring ua a full
current of blessing. We have half killed
our prayers by tlght-Wclng them, even
as rooiish mothers kill their daughters.
Our cup Is small, and we blame the
fountain. Spuryeon.
He that loses his conscience has noth
left that is worth keeping. Therefore
be sure you look at that. And, in the
next place, look to your health ; and If
you have it, praise God and value it
next to a good conscience; for health is
the second blessing that we mortals are
capable of, a blessing that money can
not buy .therefore value lt.and be thank
ful for iu Ixaak Walton.
The history of the origin of the Polka
is In season. It is this: "A servant
girl in a tradesman's family in Bohemia
was one afternoon singing a village
song and dancing to the time of it a pe
culiar step, and while doing so was ob
served by her employer, who made her
repeat the performance. In the evening
she was brought Into the parlor, and,
in the presence of some friend of the
family, she sang and danced again.
Not long afterwards, occurred the citi
zens' ball in the town, and the atep was
Introduced, and in 1835, five years after
ward, it came in fashion In Prague and
was called the Polka, which means in
Teheque, 'half.' "
People who have warm friends are
healthier and happier than those who
have none. A single real friend is a
treasure worth more than gold or pre
cious stones. Money can buy many
things, good and evil. All the wealth
of the world could not buy you a friend
or pay you for the loss of one. "I have
wanted only one thing to make me
happy," Uazlitt writes, "but, wanting
tnat, nave wanted everything." And
again, "My heart, shut up in a prison
house of this rude clay, bas never found,
nor will it ever find, a heart to speak
to." We are the weakest of spend
thrifts if we let one friend drop off
through Inattention, or let one push
away another, or if we hold aloof from
one for petty jealousy, or heedly slight
or roughness. Would you throw away
a diamond because it pricked you? Oue
good friend is not to be weighed against
the jewels of the earth.
Don't live for yourself alone ; better
take a wife and raise a family. Don't
oppress the poor; remember that you
are simply "a tenant at will." Don't
commit suicide; the world recognizes
the right of a fool to live. Don't de
spise your neighbor on account of his
poorciotnes; you were not porn In a
velvet Jacket. Don't dream that you
are wiser than your associates; dreams
"go by contraries," you know. Don't
practice deceit; he who wears two faces
is self-deceived. Don't fail to rest,on
the Sabbath, but don't let your Sabbath
last the whole week. Don't spend all
your time saying sweet things; life Is
stale without a little tonic. Don't jump
at conclusions; a shoemaker may be
proud, though he is often at your
feet. Don't slander a man simply
because he is a publie servant ; even office-holders
have rights that the people
should respect.
You are tender-hearted, and you
want to be true, and are trying to be
learn these two things; never to be dis
couraged because good things get on so
slowly here; and never fall to do dally
that good which lies next to your hand.
Do not bo in a hurry, but be diligent.
Enter into the sublime patience of the
Lord. Be charitable in view of it. God
can. afford to wait; why cannot we,
since we have him to fallback upon?
Let patience have her perfect work, and
bring forth her celestial fruit. Trust
God to weave your little thread into the
great web, though the pattern shows it
not yet. When God's people are able
and willing thus to labor and walk re
membering that one day is with the Lord
as a thousand years, and a thousand
year as one day ; the grand harvest of
the ages shall come to its reaping, and
the day shall broaden Itself to a thou
sand years, and the thousand years
shall show themselves as a perfect and
finished day McDonald.