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UU.UX HirD. i
,1 in the tender uprinf time. " I
hen the flowers had liloomed awhile.
1 m r?aiT of thi wld beauty. i
Ad I long for rammer'i smile j '
Xhe glortoua. passionate summer I
All elnwirar with fwrsnt
When the wind come op from the southland.
yn me oars are ion ana sweet.
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The summer slept on the hill tops,"
The south wind wailed and sixhed. . '
The robin's sons; grew drowsy, , ,
While the rages bloomed and died ; 1 .
u tben I thought of the autumn, ; ;
And I longed for the thoughtful days.
When the trees should don their purple.
And the hill tops hide in haae.
, ; i .1 ' - ;
Then autumn eaaae in her gTanJor ;
The grass grew old and brown.
And splendor lay in the forext. -1
And the loaves came drifting down: '
"was thro 1 ion rod Tor the winter, j
The wiuter eold and pale,
- And my revtleas heart grew weary.
And the autumn's charms were (tale.
.nd now in the heart of winter,
I Hieh for the snrins asain. 1 '.
And 1 think in Wild impatience
Of the flowers on hill and plain ;
And yet, ere the sprint- hat ranuhed.
My heart will tire, I auow.
While the jewel. Content, I seek for,
.Will never be mine below.
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; 4 STKAXGE EMCAPI-
! BY LILY 31. CUEKY.
; :llt was thoroughly uncomforta
ble ; of; this he was satisfied.1 lie
was sutferinjrV in fact, from a seri
ous conlpliealiou, in whieh i pique
and ennui were equally prominent.
He .VHWiietl, shut his jaws with a
snap, a iul again surveyed his apart
ments. i'He reailily thought they
ought to satisfy the most fastidious
ot wombu ; and yet she, contrary
little creature, persisted in absent
ing lierself... Whatever could; she
find in that slow Southern town t
What iitdeetl, when hero were home,
ele.gandet the gay season, and him
self hr husband. V W
lie sbowled at the ebony chef-
: fimier where lay her letter.an hour
since arrived. , u U'-'l
He blinked moodily at.herb5u
j (loir photograph on th( wide oak
j inantle above the pleasant fire a
! uharmihg image that sauced and
wDCKeu uim wiiu us suiiuug raMii
auce. Jlis own picture was; also
there, a tall, brunette fellow jwith
the ; best tempered of facesj the
frankest 1 of expressions. But he
gave this no thought ; he only felt
restles and impatient for her home
comiugi. V I -j
Two weeks was a period long
euj.uigU for anj- visit ; and here she
wanted another two ! Preposter
ous! ' ; -L 1
IIaviug a splendid time, was she
Among all lier old friends her
3:dung Iriends, that meant. There
i t - ;r ? l 1
! was no; end ot gayety. bhe jonly
f;wjshed?he were there himself.; He
j'had a good mind to take her at her
! word and go on without letting her
H know, j How surprised she would
! be! :H j ' - - M 1
If , Bnt then she was visiting her
-uio.tbeiyand though he loved her
it-mother (for her sake) he was not
l ulojigiugly disposed toward that ef
fj: ficious elderly lady. ' i;
l'"J:- inipi. -1 t . l. if : ti
. ij"xuey were uaviug sutu tun i -No
fun to be' harl here in the metro
polis, lui sttpposed. ,
:Nowf it were he if he ;wero.
away, he shauld be. constantly
thinking of this pretty liome those
cozy rooms in an apartment man
sion all curtained with satyi hud
plush velvet, wth bonized WoXmI
work iiilaid with .goldjJrud richlyr
huiig walls and fanciful bronzed
pottery. .j
. He siiatched her letter from the
cheflbuier, glancing at the fashion
able angular baud, and flung the
missive; on the tire. He; would not
iiuswerjit ; perhaps she would learn
to consider her pleasure when she
failed to hear from him. ! - 1 if j.
Meanwhile he would dismiss the
subject ( and look about for some
new amusement. Theatre was nil
old story ; opera a bore." j Teas and
At Homes'-were always: stupid', it
was dull enough, escorting Louise
when she was here. ! . .' -;i
He (Wished he were abroad; jtr
Paris, for example, where so many
novelties were spread before one.
At this point he was interrupted
by acaller agav bachelor friend
oil unlimited resources, social and
financial, i : ? j
"How d'ye do!" -said the visitor.
'How ate you!" res ponded JL he
other, with a doleful sort of i cor!
diaiity.j i - - r ' ; 'r;
. 4eyerras better, Martin ;l but
you seem depressed. . - t
"Yes,Mr. forester, you tto. iione
some perhaps. N hen do von ex
pect Mrs. r.r - :
"Lord knows," said Martin, with
a graaUi : "She has just written me
she will, stay two or three, or four,
or fifty keeks longer." jj
"Stretching , that a little, aren't
you.- :fi r j ... .t - :
i Xo;;Clfin, how do you manage
Ito janmsev yourself! You ivever
I seem bqi-ed. 1 wish you would tell
! me what to do to-night." j j
! That's what I came for." . I ,
"Xo H : ' j. . 'if m
j "Yes,; really ; I.wantyouto go to
the balli77
'What ball r v . - ;
The pal masque at the Academy;
French!, you .know. Oceans of fun.?
"Honest fact ?" : J . .' "i j" j
ytfhx nt cniirvi Itirv tliiiifr lita
of snap there."- " u ii !
1 "Alls right; 1 am yours. But
jmind you I don't stay if it gets tire-
lsome.11 j -ij . j l I
"Of course you lioeuu t. (Had
you have . no other engagement.
Ill be off now and call for you! at
nine." ! . ' : ' f !
Martin loutiged on after ! his
frfendV departure and fell into a
j Perhaps he woald enjoy the ball j
perhaps ho might even indulge in'
ii harmless flirtation with some'
mysterious witch in ioiuted hat,
:or some dainty page in crimson
tleshiiigsi, or some elusive: domino,
Who would shake her fan at him
and; laugh ; with dazzling eyes
through j a provoking mask, then
ilroii atitlower from her shoulder
Uy, knot audi glide awa. ! i
j 1 llei dined nervousjy ; his pulse
H already quickening at the .thought
jjbf the revelry in store.
U He was not quite sure that Louise
j would approve, could she know,
1825.
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bat he was his own master. , Be
sides, if she . preferred her mother
and sisters and old friends (her
former admirers, he thought, with
a jealous twinge,) she could not ex
pect him to forego all amusements.
At nine o'clock his friend. Clem
Moore, turned up and bore him off
in high glee to the Academy.
They were both in evening dress
and at once procured masks that
they might go upon the floor before
iniunigur. , ;
it was a scene nt to make one
faint and dizzv. The crowd was
poring down upon a floor that glis
teued from (circle to i stage. . The
boxes were hung with gay banners
and thronged with society men un
disguised, t The promenade band
wns oii one side ot the topmost gal
la'ry; the band that should play
for the daucing ras on the opposite
side. - . . ! -i . - '-, ; ' -i -
Delicious music streamed down
wards as constantly as the flood f
light from the gr.at electric burn
ers in the centre, and mingling
with the twain,; subtle fragrance
seemed to float with gentle insis
tence. - j'
Bnt what shall we do for part
ners, Clem t" asked Martin, as they
stood looking down from the toycr.
"I? md 'em pretty soon," laughed
the other. "There will be plenty
of ladies present.' tk j
But we dont know them."
Ddn't we f : Never mind, child,
ri'll manage somehow. Don't look
so glum." " ji. ! i
"But I want to dance," said Mar
tin, fretfully. ' j !
The band had begun one of his
favorite waltzes, 'My Dream j'l he
stood silent through the introduc
tion then swayed gently from side
to side as the first number, was be
gun. Meanwhile Clem Moore had
disappeared. , ' j ! : L
The waltz continued , and ended ;
other music followed, and the next
thing that Martin knew, he was
standing up for a quadrille. Be
side him stood a lithe form .in a
dazzling domino of the hue of red
carnations, a hue which seemed to
chain and master his senses. Such
a tall, lithe form with slender, 'ex
quisite arms and tiny hands in car
dinal gloves, and throat like cal la
lily stem, and hair magnificent in
blackness ! j ! I
What a divinely beautiful woman
this must be! And how , perfect
her costume of one color even the
small half masque through which
shone eyes like moon lit waters.
Was'it like a hourif I Or did jho
dream f Glanciug across ho saw
only that his. frieud,'s partner was
afairlad in palest bine, graceful
enough, perhaps ; but, oh, ye gods !
This woman at his side 1
Then, too, she danced with ex
quisite poise and balance. With
sucli a partner one could never
weary. tHgh against her lily throat
lay carnations in a j cluster, red ins
blood, fragraut beyond telling L
stroug, dizzy fragrance it was, that
enveloped one with its clouds and
billows. ; j ji . j
When the dance was tver they
slowly promenaded ; her hand upon
his arm, looking like a scarlet
flower. - : ! . !. it ". : r
He stole occasional glances at
the rounded chin and lips enthrall
ing with their pure placidity. Yet
he did not speak until they reached
seats. Then, "would she rest !" he
ventured, timorously,
sighing assent.
he gave a
He lifted her fan and fauued her
a little; 'she smiled graciously as
might a queen. 1 ! 1 I
tThe band played softly, thelights
shone, the dancers walked in twos,
and the perfumes of herflowers
seemed to enclose fUjem both. " j
Forrester dreamed on, and heard
the other band take up the left-off
thread of melody and branch out
into the passionate "Siren's Waltz.f
They went again upon the floor
and floated on its strong, sweet
waves until the j wild, closing
tumult. ."! . j : :' ;
There was a gay voice mocked in
his ear-rthe voice! of his friend
Clement :
"Having a good
time, Martin V
vuungo pa 1 1 m-ia wuu Die I
t . mn
No," Isaid Martin, sharply, to
his second question, and they drift
ed away once more.
-Toward midnight they wanderet!
iuto the jsupperroom. " Over the
clink of glasses came a maddening
straiu from "Orphee aux Enfers,1
and Martin grew strangely feverish
over his favorite Vive Cliquot."
His partner sippvd the wice in
gentle lady fashion,1 and tasted the;
pate, the ice, the Napolitaine, with
careless grace: j : j
, They returned to the ball room
and danced harder more steadily
than before, till by land by, when
the mu sue hushed like the quelling;
ot a fountain, a low, sweet voice-
tell upon ins senses. . -
"I am tired ; I must go "
- 4Not yet," said Martin, irrcsO
lately. j
Ah. yes; it must be near morn
ing." ' j.. " -
He led her to the cloak room,
thinking he should se her face at
last, and wtnt, for bis own things.
, But she came out wrapped in a
long cloak and heavily veiled
Outside were cabs in abundance,
waiting in the quiet that precedes
dawn. j
. He chose one and turned to her.
' She whispered the name, of a
west-side ferry.
They; drove away iu the quiet of
the empty streets, and ho spoke.
t impetuously :
"Tell me who you are!"
"Why should 1 tell joa, .mm
amir j
"Because I must know."
She gave a laugh aa musical as
falliug water or the ripple of xylo
phone music.' '
"Must you, indeed!'
'I must and will."
-'"Beware,", she said softly, 4be
ware 1" j j
He leaned toward her.
"Tell;. me your name," he said,
bicathlessly. -
"Delicia," she answered, alter
pause,
and then was
"Delicia,"
he, repeated,
"but
what else !" j t
."What does it matter!"
j "You madden we," he cried, im
mediately. ! j '
! The carriage stopped; they had
reached the ferry. 1 !
. "Dismiss the cab," she said sud
denly "I prefer to cross on foot."
They walked leisurely through
the ferry house and found the boat
about to start. Thej' hurried aboard
and passed to the forward end; j
As they settled themselves for
the trip, a taint cry came from the
lady. ! -'-. --! j' ';
My parcel! My parcel with
my things! I Lave dropped it in
the ferry-house; I remember j it
sMpped." ! . i i j
'Sit still," said Martiu. "Thero
is time. I will jgo for it." ' j
He strode through the cabin and
out again upon jthe shore, rushing
into the ferry-house, .and making
there a hasty search j ' ' I
But heconld find no parcel. j
He stootl for i moment, perplex
ed, uncertain. . He heard the wind
lass rattle, the Chains unloosened.
He ran ont again upon the dock.
Horror ! Thej boat had started !
Just for a moment he paused,
faltering, then ran forward, took a
long leap and missed the boat, j r
Heavens! He was falling, fall
ing, oh, so fart j j ' . i
Then be j struck the water; it
closed over his head, icy, smother
ing. - , -"
In a moment be came up again,
gasping, grasping, struggling, and
touched something like a rod or a
Pole. .'",' I ; j- r jj, :t.j
He clutcheti it and felt that he
was close to the dock, no : kept
his head above the water, breath
ing short, sharp breaths.
lie seemed awakening from an
awful nightmare ; he felt as if he
had been strangely saved from
something he scarce knew what. ;
He sit mmoned all his will power,
and slowly drew himself up, hand
over hand, until he reached a ledge
and an overhanging rope. !
After another micrhtv effort he
stood again upon the dock, shiver
ing and i dripping in the winter
night. He had made no outcry and
the boat had uot put back.
A strange sense of gratitude
grew within him, chilled and shiv
ering as he was. . 1 1 !
His individuality had returned :
his sense of right, no was himself
once more the husband of Louise
and her lover. j :
He got out through the ferry
house and found a cab iu which he
was driven rapidly to his home, f
He shivered in his wet garments,
and shuddered at his own folly.
Thauk heaven, he had escaped the
tpils of the siren. Lin
When ho entered , his room ho
was shaking with a hard chill. He
managed to get off his icy garments
and creep into bed. Then came re
action and fever. - j
Dawn crept slowly iuto the place.
Aud by-and by, perhaps an hour or
two later, the door opened softly,
and some one spoke his name :
"Martin, dearest !" I
He raised himself aud welcomed
her with feverish joy.
"Louise!"
! She rushed to embrace h"m.!
; "My own darling whal is the
matter! I dreamed 3611 were ill,
and so I came at once.' My poor,
dear darling !" ! i
"Oh, Louise. Louise. How could
you stay away from me!" j J ).
; "Never mind, dearest," sheSaid,
soothingly. "I'll take good care
of you and get you well ; aiid I'll
never leave you again. But what
is the matter! Have you taken
cold !"
"Yes, I havetaken cold." he said,
with a groan of remorse, "but I'll
never do it again." I j
Aud then she petted and caress
ed him with such sweetly tender
compassion that he scarce could
refrain from "confessing all his
stupid folly aud j his strange es
cape. - 1 j j ,
I Waklnjja Dekfand Dumb Couple, i
! ' Charlotte Observer. , , !
i The B 11 ford House oue night last
week gave lodging to a man and
his wife, both of whom were deaf
aud dumb. They were to go off on
the 3 o'clock morning train, and at
the proper time a porter went to
their door and commenced pound
ing to wake thein. As a matter of
course there was no response, and
as the door was locked, it became
a serious question as to how to
wake the slumbering conple. The
porters held a consultation, j and
finally decided to hoist a small
darkey to the transom and let him
see what the prospects was for get
ting the couple on their feet, i The
darkey,- was duly hoisted, and put
ting his head and shoulders through
the transom,! struck a match. ! As
he did so, one of the porters asked :
"Do you see 'em 1" but without re
plying the little darkey began
kicking, lustily yelling- "Lemme
down, lemme down I tell you!"
The flash ot his match had waked
the man, who, thinking that some
body was. trying to break iu on
him, reached under his pillow and
drew a jfrightfull3 long revolver on
the iuno.ent little negro. He had
cocked I the weapon and wa s taking
aim just as the little nig's head dis
appeared frora the transom. j The
porters! had a time of it getting the
couple but, but finally made them
understand what was wanted and
got them to the depot just in time
to catch the train.
Powerful Glass.
i 1 .
"What makes vou so lat to.
nightrV asked a wife of her hus
band, j "You promised me you
would be home by 10 o'clock.' !
,"l've been, (hie) lookin' a ;1 the
comets j" he replied. ! 1 h r
;"Comets ! there is but one comet
visible to the naked eye." j i
l"Yesh, but one comet visible to
er naked eye (hie), but yer see I
had th hid of er powerful glash and
could see two of 'em." ! !
a moment's
silent.
GREENSBORO, y. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1884.
Por View of Religion.
Sew York Wdd-6th.)
' a- .
oeiaom have the spacious par
lors of i Mrr' Courtland Palmer'
residence on Oramercr Park been
so completely filled nt a meeting of
tue, Nineteenth Century Club ias
was the case last evening. I
iue meeting was openeu uy a
short prayer by Mr. Palmer, who
expressed the hoie that iu the dis
cussion as much courtesy, indulg
euce and kindliuess would be shown
as upon the occasion of Dr. Ky
lance's ' : lecture on Tree ' thought
some time since. "The four great
religious theories to be discussed
this evening are Koman Catholic.
the sect of unity and iiower : Pro
testantism, founded uion a basis
of individual right; Judaism, the
louuuauon 01 me oiner sects anu
different from all in that it has not
for head au ideal man such as
Christ, Bnddba, or Mahomet, end
Agnosticism, the result of scienti
fic thought. The great question of
the century is,- What ; shall we do
...' . SB a ST f rf-a -
10 oe saveu 1 ? 1 3igr. -- uapel was
then introduced and said :
FROM A CATHOLIC STANDPOINT.
Mr. President : You did me
the honor to invite me to state be
fore the Nineteenth Century Club
the priuciple on Which the belief of
the Catholic Church rests ; then to
allow that statement to .be freely
discussed, and; finally, to close the
discussion by a rejoinder from me.
lhe frank, earnest way, sir, , in
which your invitation was made.
snowed clearly: it was prompted by
r .11 . ....
no iieuiug lor an mceiieciuai tut ;
and the motto of the club, "Prove
all things; hold fast that which is
good," indicated that your members
earnestly wish j to know "what is
truth." -, j !'." :
Yet I could not hide -from myself
that past experience proves the al
most insuperable difficulty to get a
satisfactory hearing for Catholic
ism, j Prejudice and passion are
proverbially deaf and blind. Un-
iortunateiy ootn , na piayeu a
great part for the past four centu
ries m perverting the i teaching of
the Catholic Church and fn attri
buting to her doctrines she not only
never held but t which she has al
ways repudiated. .The psist did
not encourage me much to enter
the lists. However, your courtesy.
sir, assured me that I should have
an attentive hearing. The literary
renown of your members made me
feel they would! with common fair-
ness not unaertaKe to tcacn me
what is Catholic doctrine, but be
'good enough . to accept my state
ment nt it as. true, ueoaung my
exposition, not! their preconceived
notions of the faith. The impreg
nable ! 1 position! of the Catholic
Church and her1 inexhaustible pow
er for good render Iter fearless,rnake
her invite discussion, seeking no
favor, but fairness. These facts
induced pie to accord to your re
quest. ' My only ami sincere regret
is, that a more competent aud wor
thier champion has not undertaken
the contest.
The length ot time granted for
statement and discussion will be
best spent in directing all our at
tention to the foundations 011 which
the grand superstruction of Cath
olic faith rests, r And iu doing this
it is of paramount importance that
we use our words in the samesense
and to have the same idea in the
mind, i You must, therefore, : bear
with mo if I . seem to lay undue
stress on the significance of. cer
tain words. :. " : ' "'I I I
1. The Catholio Church main
tains that a man i endowed swith
iutelleet to know truth, iwith: will
to do good, ne is gifted with' rea
son which, among its other capa
bilities and by its own power? and
light, can know of the existence of
God .of the immortality of man s
soul aiid of man's responsible de
pvndence on God. This constitutes,
in other woras, , natural religion,
aiid rests for its basis on the intel
ligence and discursive power of the
human soul. I 1 1
. 2. The Catholic Church holds
besides this j natural knowledge
concerning God, man's destiny aud
man's responsibility, there is anoth
er body of truth, called revelation,
giving still more extensive knowl
edge concerning God" and man.
This revelation1 differs essentially
from natural religion, inasmuch as
it is no product of scientific re
search but it is imparted by God.
It rates uot : on the capability of
reason but "on i the veracity and
goodness of God. -.By such reve
lation the mind is confirmed in its
own supernatural knowledge and
is further enriched by truths con
ceriiingOod and man to which rea
son b- itself could never have at
tained.! ; j - , i '
This revelation began with the
promise of a Uedeemer and ehde
nith the ascension of Christ. All
dogmas since formulated by the
lIiureh are but explicit declarations
of the several truths contained iu
revelation, j We hold that such
revelation is embodied in certain
inspired writings and traditions. !
It is of grave import that , we
bear in mind that the Catholic
Church in speaking of God. mani
fested by reason and by revelation,
is speaking pf a self-existing per
sonal being, really and esseutially
distinct from the world, infinite in
intelligence and will and iuall per
fections j this personal God creat
ing all wen to be saved, desiring
the salvation of all, and putting
within the reach of all the necessa
ry help for snch salvation. i
. 3. The j Church holds that be
tween reason ond revelation thera
never can bo any real discrepancy.
Since the same God who gave the
oue gave the other, j Here it is im
portant to remember the gulf sep
arating the facts in nature from
the scientific theories advanced by
men. The latter are oftentimes,
from -insufficiency of observation
or other causes, crude, inaccurate
or false. To such theories the
statement does not refer. We in
sist that between the facts and laws
iu nature known by reason and the
.u Vl revelation mere is
ana never can be antagonism, con-
Bequenuy mat reason must bo the
gainer in strength and direction by
mis- new mjimtestation! of God's
4. j.ne dimness of mau's knowl-
eage aoout liis Creator, -the weak
ness of man's moral nature, the re.
sponsibility of man. to God and the
good ness and justice ! of man's
Maker not only rendered revelation
possible but also necessary.. And
tne Uatholic Church hold that, rev
eiation being made, there is the
need ot an authoritative teacher
ana guardian of it. so that in all
times, for all persons and under all
circumstances the individual may
know the teach iug of God.
This implies infallible lor divine
authority, exercised though it may
oe through weak, sinful fallible
agents, i The commission, not the
individual, is to be looked at. Rea
son has the right to examine the
credentials of such commission,
1 1. . . ... . ..
out uemg convmceu tnat the com
mission is genuine and has emanat
ed from God, who cannot deceive
nor be deceived, reason has but one
duty' to accept the I message,
luougn it may De beyond the ken
of intellect. ,
ouch divine and therefore infalli
1.1 A.1 . . . ..
uic auiuoriiy was given to me or
ganic body called into existence by
Christ, aud which received on Pen
tecost Sunday as its perpetual prin
ciple 01 me me iioiy unost i? rom
that day forward a human-divine
organism existed on earth, easily
uiscuvereu oy me rocu, 1'eter, on
which it was formed and by the
marks of unity, apostolicity, catho
licity ana nolmess winch are of the
essence of its being and nur-
pose This is the Church of Christ,
tne piuar ana ground of truth.
THE PROTESTANT SIDE. -
s a 1 i - sr .' '
ax me cioso oi aigr. uarers re--
marks the Chairman introduced
the Eev. Mr. Pullraam, who spoke
as follows in defense of Protestant
ism : I- -
The Pro testa ut Reformation was
a turning back to reality. It broke
up a vast God-monoi)oly ; that had
usurped all the powers and prerog
atives of the divine being. Upon
every instinct, emotion, power, as.
piration and hope of. man the
Church of Leo X. had laid a tax
no less profitable and oppressive
thau would be a tax on vital air.
If some huge monopoly at this day
were to get possession of alt the
breathable air and first tax and
then adulterate it, we should have
a not inadequate illustration of the
condition ot things against which
the mighty voice of Luther rose iu
protests It was indecil a stroke for
liberty against a bondage grown
intolerable; but it was more than
that. 1 It was a demand for reality
the thing that is against all
pretense and unreality. . The soul
of Protestair ism is sincerity, and
sincerity alone knows what moral-
. a a m - ' '
lty is. a. coerced conscience is uo
conscience at all; murder is a worse
crime thau heresy. God's laws
cannot be bought off with, money:
sheepskin and ink uo uot convey
God's pardon. Bowed 111 the dust
under ritual, torm ana creed, man
once more heard the-voice of God :
1 of man, stand upon thy feet
and I will speak unto thee."
The logic of Protestantism be
came immediately visioie in tue
Roman Catholic bod' in the shapo
of ethical impulse. The Reforma
tion J rendered imperative those
moral reforms that were absolutely
essentia! to the continued existence
of that body. Thus, , in a very
broad sense, the Protestant Refor
mation was a Renaissance. That
happened to organize Christendom
which Christian doctrine declares
essential to each individual soul-
it was born again. Bnt as the new
birth idoes not destroy the personal
characteristic of the individual, so
neither did it in the' Christian
bodies. The Romanist still loves
authority most; the Protestant still
loves liberty most ; ! ''
I define Protestantism! to bo a
spirit or temper ot miim ; wiucn
loves reality and is loyal to duty.
Strictly speaking, there is no
Protestant! Church; nor is there, ex
cept in name, any Catholic Church.
The Christian Church alone exists,
ami a part of it is; dominated by
the sniriti of liberty," another is
dominated by the spirit of author
ity, and this is the real distinction
between Protestant and j Catholic.
The spirit of liberty is liable to an
abuse which we call anarchy; the
spirit of authority is subject to an
abuse which wecan tyrrany iieuce,
to form and then to reform has al
vrnva iiepn tho imooriaiihi
of
mankind. The Catholio botiy is
chiefly concerned in erecting itself
iuto an institution; the Protestant
body is chiefly concerned in infus
ing the ethical aud religious spirit
into all rocial and civil institutions.
This real Protestant Church is me
free commonwealth with j the reli
giousuid ethical life beating all
its veins; and tho achievements of
Protestantism, as tnus exnioueu,
are me marvei aim - giuij -uo
world. ! The logic of Protestantism
is modern civilization, but tocharge
the coufessetl defects of ci vilization
to Protestantism is to forget both
human history and human nature.
Aud to propose to reiuetly these
defects through Romanism is 11 ice
proiwsing to cure a dimuess ot vis
ion bv extracting the eye. The
remedy for twilight is daylight, not
miduight. So far as any section 01
Protestantism forgets itself and
scandals its origin by attempting
to govern mankind on the princi
ples jind by the methods of Rome
it fails in everything save in stiinu-
lt'iur tho protesting spirit Pro-
testantism is not the successor 01
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Rome in thus governing the world.
Borne is not its own successor in
that business. There is to be no
successor in that business. The
world is never to be governed any
more hv the Italian methtxl while
it remains worth Governing at all.
But there can be no greater mis
take than in assuming that the ex
1 aa ri n na r w .
t
ercise of private judgment leads to
nothing but sectarianism I; and iso
lation. It leads to sincerity, and
sincerity leads to solidarity.; iWhai
leads to anarchy and tyrrany is in
sincerity, false pretense; half beliefs
and "make-believe" beliefs. It may
wen oe, as nas Deen said, two t r
three thousand years! too early yet
to have a complete creed, but it is
not too early to believe! that this is
uod's world, not the devil's: that it
has a divine reason fori being; that
truth, and love are at the heart of
it; tlm all lies are destroyers: and
that goodness, ! justice! and right
cousness are realities which forever
and alone triumph and endure, i. In
iorm or auother these beliefs have
been the world's renoyators, and
uumamty has not climbed out of
the abyss on a ladder -of lies !. A
iree unity is the supreme achieve
ment 01 man, tne crown and reward
of his perfected faculties; it, comes
wnen ue is reauy lor n,! and it cah
not be coerced before the time.' 1 1
discern in Protestantism, thus 1 de
nnea,' tne world's great hope. There
may be tempestuous! work around
aud ahead of us, but - f j
Well roars the ctonn, to him who hears '
A deeper voice across the storm.
C ABBI GOTTIIEIL'S VIEWS. I
Mr. Pullman was followed by the
Rev. Mr. Gottheil, of the Temple
r.manu-r.i, who ; said s "The Qua
Kers, wtioiti r consider the nearest
and truest ideal of what seems to
me to have moved the soul' of the
fouuder of the Christian Church,
represent; as no people ever did the
idea of the divine spirit in man,!
anu inspirca by mis they swept
away an tormaiity and placed them
selves in communion with the Eter
nal Spirit, and abolishirg also '
ana jl ougui to say 1 am sorry ; for
tnat the ministry (laughter), but
giving us sucu a ciear -ana sucu a
beautitul idea that should they
cease to exist it would be a loss to
humanity. They there are the
Unitarians that worship culture. I
think that Unitarianism is culture
with a slight flavor ot Christian!
t3r. . (Laughter and applause.)
Looking at a body like the Wes
loyans, we see the organization and
power of the religious idea, and
without any claim to authoritv we
see what that religious idea is ca
pable of in that lincy" Then look
ing at the great Church whose rep
resentative we have with H us to
night we see what that Church is
able to achieve under one head; we
scr that it is capable 'of inspiring
a large number of men to renounce
all claim to the enjoyments of life,
surrendering themselves entirely to
that idea. The world has never
seen an organization like ! that.
and no oue who remembers j her
great deeds of charity can I ever
forget what service She is! render
ing to humanity. I confess when I
ineei one ot tho$e good Sisters
wandering up and down on her
holy mission, I, in thought, take off
my bat and only regret that chan
ty, that bright guardian angel of
man, snouia be obliged to walk the
earth 111 those sombre garments
and not wear those bright, cheer
ful colors to which their deeds 'hud
kindness of heart
entitle tnem,"
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(Applause.) !
Keterriug then to
Mgr. Capel's
argument, ne said it was a bold as
sumption for him to say that a man
had; two kinds ot reason. He i had
uot taith enough to accept, siica i a
claim. ,"Wc must at last," he con
tinued, "in the last resort, all come
home to the reason: 1 for even sup
posing we were directed .by jthe
Church,' she cannot go with us into
all the work of our lives to tell us
t 'a a 1 U 1
wuaii to uo anu we muse come uacK
to the reason. Then the reverend
lecturer made an j assertion i that
God created all men! to bo saved.
I wish to speak with i thej greatest
resnect. but this seems to be some
thing that almost borders on well,
I shall not use the terraj but that
God should create all mien to be
saved lias he cremated nbue to be
lost!! It so I think there are some
thai would rather be with the t lost
than with the saved. Iff the Cath-
olic Church would say that all peo-
nle had not only been created to be
saved, but will and must be saved,
thai would be a concession. I must
not iforget that I stand a 5 thj !rep
rPSPTif:itive of that faith which lire-
ceded the Church, and when the
reverend lecturer insisted oil the
I necessity of a witness andexpoaud-
er 01 me uiviue u uiu, ivg bv-cujs v
me that 011 the strength of the Old
Testament Israel is, that wituess
and j expounder,' and it he ask J for
any external proof we caauot point
to any great earthly power; j we
have no common saint; we are scat
tered over the face of tlie earth,
and we are still a persecuted race.
Only one stamp is upon us, and
that is upon the Drow 01 every as
ralite the stamp of unparalleled
martyrdom for the truth as we un
derstood it. We j have Dome our
witness. Our trust lies in the sure
n-nnl of God. llOt inclosed WltlllU
wont ut uu"i " iu.vow. .
the Bible Untdisseraiualed through-
ont the whole world, and that men
will ultimately come tq see me
truth as we see it; that is our oniy
hone, i It seems to me that in sev.-
eral important points the Catholic
Church, stands to day on the same
basis that the old Jewish unurcu
stood,! relying too much n . iraoi-
tion making tne woru ut vut ut
none effect'; . . L . . j
Tn r.losiner. Raboi Uotlhiei toia
thj story of a man in Bagdad who
was attacked by ( auo.er, wuu,
ri.on ii :iss:iilaut ran awai', 1111
stead of pursuiug him turned and
rt,in rhnonnosite direction until he
cjime to the gate of a burial ground.
"Let him go where ne wm,-; saiu
he, "I shall finally nieet him here.
and I will say to mm, 'iy uruiucr,
thou hast struck me. Ij nughtest
have struck back. 1 am strong
for that, but I will not.!, 1
mi'dit complain to- tne uaupu anu
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he would banish thee. J! I might
call upon the Aimiguty uou 10
send down curses upoutbeefor the
wrongthou didst me, butji wui itu
what I will do When time comes,
when both shall have passed this
gate and I shall stand; at the por
tals of Faradise, thouiby my side,
I shall say : 0, God, I will not go
into Paradise unless this brother
goes with me."' Tlio Universal
Church is not oue that goes into
Paradise alone or refuses to have
the gate opened for all men, iarid
tho members of that Church1 de
sire that all men shall go '.into the
presence ot God along with him."
TUE CHURCH OF THE WORLD.
Mr. Thaddeus B. Wakeman was
the next speaker. . "There is but
one church," said hej "that can
rightly be called catholic, and that
is not a theological butj a scientific,
and humanitarian chnfeh. As men
residing in different I cities have
joined together politically and
formed States, the same arrange
ment should be made tor religion.
The people who found religion nec
essary nave adopted it and religion
is mo outcome ot the
people and
has not been forced
The religious were all
upon them.
very useful
in meir aay ana are
useful still.
but their day is past. The old Torv
adage that no gentleman should
ever change his religion or politics
deserves to be revived under the
form that no oue should leave the
Church of the 1 world,' to which
those who have been taught noth
ing belong, as well as those whose
scientific attainments, have made
belief in ther breeds! impossible.
xvengiou is a necessity! to some peo
ple and I believe that'relurions will
only last as long as thjey are need
ed, au ot them have done good
work in the past but jnot one can
ever hope to become universal.
Once in a while an educated man
who is sentimental or a woman
who is still more tsenf imental will
bo converted, but the majority will
uot oe caught. The principal
premise made by! Mgri Capel-. can
not bo proved. There is no proof
10 convince a thinkiog man that
his soul is immortal, and the other
points were given as! indisputable
axioms because they Cannot possi
bly be proven. What Aguostics
neea is the audacity to stand up
ior meir convictions-
The Queen's New Hook. :
The latest literary effort of Queen
Victoria, and probably her last, as
it would be difficult to conceive of
any further filtration bf the roval
iutelleet by that process, purports
co oe a diary ot events extending
more or less disconnectedly through
a period of twenty years, aud. to
judge by the excerpts that have
been reproduced in the American
press, relating for the most part
to Her Majesty's family and domes
tic affairs. f
The good old lady has an indus
trious knack of stringing common
place incidents together, but the
awkward way in which she does it,
her weak simplicity of sme and
frequent lapses into lackadaisical
forms of expression, I that might
possibly be pardonable in a nrivato
journal intended only for the eye
ot surviving relatives, look strange
ly odd and amusingly grotesque in
print. They constitute, indeed,
another "Seutimental Joumev."
but resembling Sterne's in nothing
save the name.
The book is dedicated tq The
Loyal Highlanders and Especially
to the Memory ot the Faithful At
tendant and Friend, John Brown,"
and opens with the building of the
Memorial Cairn in honor of the
Prince Consort, on which occasion
she started off in "a little pony
chair," led by the inevitable Brown
and "actually drove" to tho very
top of the crag, where: she fouud
her "sweet baby Beatrice," who, in
some undescribed way, had got
there before her, and the foundation"
or the cairn to be erected to ner
"precious Alberts Hiving gazed
ui)on his inchoate tribute, she says:
"I and my poor! six Orphans all
placed stones on it, and flour initials
are to ue placed 0111 stones an
around it." ( '.'
This was a truly melancholy, af
fair, and the story is told with a
tear-ncompelling impressiveness ;
but an event of tar more tragic
character took place in October,
18G3, when.she was making an ex
cursion from Balmoral
to. Clova,
and her "faithful attendant" by
some miscalculatron or tempoiary
distraction of attention succeeded
in upsetting the carr age. The
Queen was mope or less thrown out
of gear by the accident, bnt she
forgot all about her oiwu bumps
and bruises, iu her tender sud for
giving solicitude for tlie cause of
the catastrophe, who seems to have
been badly hurt, and she thus re
fers to it in her diary : 4 ;
"I was much distressed at break
fast to find that poor Brown's legs
had been dreadfully cut at the back
of the knees and he safd nothing
about it But to-day one became
so inflamed aud swelled so i much
he could hardly move. The doctor
said lie must keep it up as much as
-- , . - ..... . .
possible and riilk veiy j li ttle, but
did not forbid bis going out with
the carriage. I did not go out in
the morning." : f
Poor Brown, howeveriwas a man
of great recuperative vitality, and
we have the cheering liitormation
fmm Her Maiestv on the very next
Tlay that "his leg was much better.'
A : more cheenui occurrence a
house-warming at ulassalt bhiel
Mountain Lodge is related iul8CS,
where, counting the children, ser
vants, policemen and urowii, mere
were nineteen persons present, all
of whom, excepting herself, joined
in dancing "five animated reels,''
Brown's legs long siqce having
gained their accustomed activity.
The festivities were enliveued by
whiskey toddy, and thej insiduous
Brown begged that she would
drink, to the tire-kindling." Wheth
er she Yielded to the persuasion or
ndt the diary fails to state, bat the
inference is that she did not lor
she afterward writes iu her journal :
"The merry, pretty Jittle ball
ended at eleven, but the men went
on singing in the, Stewart's room
fcr some time, all very I tippy. But
NEW SERIES, NO, 895
sad thought filled my heart, both
before dinner and when I retired to
rest I thought of my darling
husband, whom I" fancied I must
see, and "who always wished ! to
build here. Then the sad thought
struck me that it was my first
widow's house. But I am sure his
blessing rests on it" ; i l
Her heart was always fajl. But
it was destined to a still more iter
rible strain in 1879, 1 when' she re
ceived tidings of the death of the
Prince Imperial. Her wrongh-up
feelings on that occasion, as
"Brown knocked and came in nd
said there was bad news had bet
ter, like much of the rest of the
diaryi been : left out of the book
or held for revisionT- To think,"
she say8,1n the wild helplessness
of another woman's grief, lof that i
near young man, the apple or bis
mother's eye, born and nurtured in
the purple, dying thus is too fearf
ful, too awful, and it is inexplicable
that the others should not liave
turned round and fought for him.?
At another time, when they were
lunching on the grass at Gleucoe,
the irrerTressiblo Brown camo with
in an ace of, getting thrashed by
an impertiennt lot of reiwrters who
had gathered in the vicinity to take
notes of the royal fearty, but bloody
ehed was happily averted, as the
ueen informs ns with a delightful
nuivete, andjthe-newspapers lost a
thrilling item: s J r
"Brown came back, "saying he
thought thero would be a! fight 1
for when Browu said the Queen
wished him to move away, he said
ho had quite as good a right to re
main there as the Queen had;
Brown answered . very strongly
that the highest gentleman cf Enr
gland would not do what he did,
much less a manly reporter. Other
reporters came op and advised-the
man to come away quietly." i : ,
It is quite plain from thes brief
glimpses of the Queen's book, that
jf she is ever to attain eminence as
an author,' it will be because of her
eminence asa personage, and not
because ot the literary or historic
merit of what she writes. j
There are many entries in the re
cord that possess of course the
deepest interest to the Queen, but
what could possibly be in worse
taste thau to rob them of. their pri
vacy and to expose them to the un
feeling and critical daylight t They
si m ply reveal a goody-goody wo
man in an attitude that, may com-7
mand charitable respect for her
virtues, hut which excite pity for
the morbidness of her sensibilities,
wonder for her lack of worldly wis
dom and familiarity with public .
affairs, and by their publication re-
neci severely upon the woman
judgment and good sense of a
mother and grandmother of princes
" ' : ' 1 :1 V--N V;
. - Was It a Dream t i r
Dr. Walter Brace, of Micauonv:
Fla., recently had a very singular
revelation made to him in a way
that is hard to explain. Ho is a
native of Virginia,) where he mar--ried
Miss. Stribling, of: Fauquier
county, some yesifs ago and soon
afterwards removed to this Stated
as one of tho pioneers in orange
planting, and has ever since been
actively engaged in that busiuess.
He is well known about here as a
man bf sound judgment, high
standing and of the most practical
ideas, and 1s tar from being a be !
lieverjinany of the popular "isms",
of the day, especially Spiritualism.
Late on tho night of Friday Dec.
28th,"' ho was awakened from a
sound sleep at his house in this
place ,by so strong a feeling that
theyo was some mysterious pres-
ence in h(s room that he got up
and lighted a lamp and looked all
over the chouse, but, finding noth
ing unusual, he returned, to bed
and apparently fell into a light;
sleej in which there appeared to a
him a vision bf his wife's brother,'
R. M. Stribling, in a deadly con-1
flict, in which he had bis throat cut
iu a most liorrible manner, and
was removed to a store nearby,
where he was placed on a couuter .
and after the apparent lapse of'
time lie died from the effects of the
wound. ., - L
The vision was so real that Dr.
Bruce could sleep no more, and
when morning dawned ho went out;
but could not rid himself of the
very strong impression it had made
upon him. JHe related the dream,
as ue cal lea; it, toseveral of his j
friends, and later in the day visits
cd a- well known Spiritualist iu
Gainesville, who j told him that
some awful calamity must have be
fallen young Stribling. And, sure
enough, the, nejt mail frbm Vir
ginia brought Dr. Bruce a letter
announcing the death of his brother-in-law
in the exact .manner he
had seen and at the very hour that
it had appeared to him in his vision.
A sister of the murdered man, vis
itiug relativcs'in Kentucky at the;
time of his death, had a similar
dream, aud, while relating it at the
breakfast table, was handed a tele
gram announcing its fulfilment. 1
? Mleeplng Together. .
Somebody has said that more
quarrels occur between brothers,
between 'sisters, between hired
girls, between clerks-in stores, be
tween apprentices iu mechanics'
shops, between hired men, between
husbands and wives, owing to elec
trical changes which their nervouk
systems undergo by lodging to
gether night after night uuder the
same bedclothes, than by any other
disturbing cause. There is nothing
that will so derange the nervous
system of a person who is elimiua
tive in nervous force than to lie all
night iirbed with another person
who is absorbent in nervous force.
The absorber will go to sleep and
rest ail night; while the eliminator
will be tumbling and tossing, rest
less and nervous, and wake up in 1
the morning fretful, peevish, fault
finding and discouraged. No two
persous, no matter who they are,
should habitually sleep together..
One will thrive md; the other will!
lose. - ! ii . i I
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