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Announce ments of Marriages and Deaths, and no tices of a religious character, inserted gratis, and solicited. ffcW Personal Communications, when admissable; Communications of limited or individual interest, or recommenda tions of Candidates for offices of honor, profit or trust, will be charged for as advertisements. !5imtltty X ending. For the Progress. SACEIFICES HO. 1. THEIR ORIUIN. I. As is the case with many other types nod symbols of our religion, and even some existing parts of our wor ship and belief, the origin of sacrifices is wrapped in the impenetrable and mysterious silence of the Holy scrip tures. It cannot be certainly known whether they were of Divine institu tion or sprung from a natural religious instinct of man. The opinions upon the subject are various and enter largely into the realm of speculation. XII KIR CHARACTER. II. Intimately connected with the subject of their origin is the interest ing enquiry what was the nature, what the object, of sacrifices and offerings iu the primitive days? There is oo record to which appeal can be had us "settling this mutter. The scripture narrative opens tip a wide field for conjecture. So fur as we can learn from it, God has not revealed to us for what reason lie sanctioned the earliest sacrifices and manifested His acceptance or rejection of them. Xo regulation, no ordinance from (2nd con cerning them, is given until the Exo dus, when the scriptures lay aside their biographical character and become the history of a nation. IN THE l'RIMEVAl, PAYS. III. From the account of the first recorded sacrifice, we learn: "That Cain brought of the fruits of the ground an offering unto the. Lord ; and Abel, He also, brought of the firstlings of his flock, and the fat thereof; and the Lord had respect unto Abel and his offering, but unto Cain and his offering He had not respect." How the preference was made known we arc not told ; but evi dently in some way perfectly clear to the Brothers. It is suggested by some commentators that God's acceptance of Abel's offering was manifested by sending down firo from Heaven to consume it. This, however, is only conjecture, because the like was done afterwards. Why God made a differ ence is partially revealed. Ho tells Cain: If thou doest well shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin Ueth at the door. It has been im agined by many that there was a pre existing ordinance sanctioning animal sacrifices, and hence tho respecting Abel's offering. Comparing tho cita tion above with St. Faul's declaration : "By faith Abel offered a more excellent sacrifice than Cain." We can have but little doubt that the different spirit in which the offerings were made was one cause of the preference between them. Abel comes before God with a heart full of trustful love, and acting from an earnest and profound religious feoling. While tho "wild-beast sin crouches at the door" of Cain's soul ready to, as it soon did, spring in and take possession. Whether entirely voluntary or by command, it seems clear that tho offering was purely an act of worship, and doubtless accompa nied by prayer or thanks-giving. It could hardly have been as a sacrifice for sin that it was made. For Abel seems to havo been almost sinless, and we know from the Epistle to Rom. (Ill, 20), that "by the law," long ages af torward delivered, "came knowledge of sin." Possibly, this may refer to the law written upon man's heart from the beginning; but tho plainest view is It is not intended in this article to dis tinguish between sacrifices and offerings. that tho Ceremonial Code is intended. We have noted but olio reason for the preference of Abel. Another seems to be indicated in the fact that he brought of the firstling of his flock and the fat thereof, that is the best he had. While it does not appear that Cain took either the firtt fruits or the best. As touching the question wheth er offerings were voluntary or by or dinance, it may be in point to note an incident related by Bishop Hore, mis sionary among the Indians of our Western Territories. In a recent let ter the Bishop says : "A Chief sought us in the Mission Homo and spoke somewhat thus : "I hear you are the Chief holy man, and pray to God. We Indians have no book from God (i. s. no Bible) ; but I pray to God, and when I have anything I think will please Him, such as a skin or any thing of that sort, lift it up and of fer it to Him, and ask Him to take it and Lave pity on me and help me." This conduct of the untutored savage coincides woderfully with the Jewish leave-offering. It is true, offerings differ somewhat in character from sacrifices properly speaking; yet, they evident ly rest upon the same general princi ples and show au identical origin and nature. The action of the Indian may throw much light up on the motives, object and charac ter of the primitive sacrifice, and seem to show that offerings accord with the nature of even depraved man, and are accompanied instinctively by prayer. It is fair to point out, however, that tho argument is somewhat weakened by attributing tho Indian's religions notions to tradition of truths long ago taught his people. Kecurring to the first sacrifice, it may be remarked that aside from its symbolism, the lessons it seems designed to teach us, are: 1. That our hearts must be thoroughly cleansed before we approach God through religious observances. 2 That each and every man may do well and if ho do not, himself is to blame "sin licth at tho door." god's sanction of sacrifices. IV. The acceptance of Abel's offer ing taught the primitivo men that their Heavenly Father sanctioned sacrifices made in a proper spirit. It is also thought that Noah was com manded to take into tho Ark seven pairs of clean to one of unclean ani mals and fowls for sacrificial purposes. (It may be noticed, parenthetically, that this preservation of clean beasts and birds before the formal division into clean an unclean by Moses, shows a natural power on the part of man to draw the line between tho two classes. The instinct and tastes of the human race must always have taught the dif ference between "doves and vultures," sheep und swine.) Certain, it is, that when the flood had subsided, Noah descended from the Ark and offered up of the clean beasts and birds a burnt-offering upon the first altar of which we have an account. This sacrifico is directly sanctioned. The Scriptures attribute to it the tender thoughts God is represented as enter taining toward man at that time, and points to it as the moving cause of the blessing then pronounced upon the earth for man's sake. The Bow of God set in the Heavens as a token of His gracious promise to destroy the earth no nioro by a floo:l, may be equally the sign of tho efficacy of sac rifice and prayer. SACRIFICES BY DIVINE COMMAND. V. In the Patriarchal days the re corded instances are numerous where sacrifices for special purposes were made by God's command. Thus Abraham (then Abrum) was com manded to offer tho sacrifice of the. cov enant (Gen. xx). And God passed be tween tho pieces of tho burnt-offering in tho form of a Lamp or Flu in o of Firo, as He afterwards generally denoted His acceptance of offerings, and as He appeared to Moses in the bush. The most remarkable occur rence, in man' respects, related in the old Testament is only carrying into effect a command to sacrifice. Abra ham told to take Isaac his son to the land of Moriah and sacrifice him, sets out upon the journey with unhesi tating obedience and the firm purposo to execute the Divine command. After three days he comes to tho hill where tho ottering is to bo made. He knows it afar off. Binding the wood upon Isaac he takes him to the chosen spot and lays him an unresisting victim upon the altar, when his hand is stay ed by the angel of God, and a ram substituted for his son, whom he re ceives back 'in a ngure rt. x aui says. The Jews have a tradition that Adam had erected an altar on this same hill, and that it hud been like wise used by Abel and Noah. Hence, Abraham's long journey that he may worship at the spot consecrated by his fathers. The tradition seems fully warranted by the Bible narrative taken in connection with subsequent occurrences. (Compare Gen. xxi. 33, xxvi. 25, xlvi. 1.). We learn that Isaac and Jacob erected or repaired altars at Beerslieba us Abraham had before them. Hence, we may safely infer that in the eyes of sons there was a peculiar sanctity about the places at which their fathers bad sacrificed. In the instance under review, the dis tance traveled, the immediate recogni tion of the place, the familiarity both Abraham and Isaac display with re gard to the altar and the nature of burnt offerings, all lend an air of great probability to the tradition. But the occurrence is chiefly remarkable, be cause a greater significance must be attached to this sacrifice than would be afforded by viewing it as a mere test of Abraham's faith. Note how all the facts surrounding it tally with tho offering up of Christ upon the Cross ! "The Father deliberately sac rificing his only son ; the SV willing ly obedient unto death; the wood car ried by the victim up the hill ; the sacrifice fulfilled in purpose, though not in act ; and the Father receiving bis son after three days of death in the father's purposo and belief." "All this," says Harold Browne, "is as much an actual prophecy of tho sacrifice and resurrection of the Son of God as was possible without a true slaying of Isaac for which tho ram was substi tuted." In this very substitution an ancient Father of the Church finds the perfect resemblance of the typo to the antitype ; pointing out that Isaac represented the God-head in Christ, and the ram the manhood which alone could suffer. ,It Hecms unnecessary to detaiHhe incidents bearing upon our subject in the lives of Isaac and Jacob. It will be sufficient to say that so long as the Bible relates only the lives of in dividuals and the course of families, there is no missing link in the chain of evidence showing that sacrifices were customary among the patriarchs. We see conclusive proof that God is never left without a witness; that in the life of every typical man of the sacred record occurs an illustration of the power of Faith, and the awfulncss of communion with God. Sacrifices seem to bo tho Divinely appointed means of these illustrations. And every slaughtered victim symbolizes and points us to the lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world 1 Sac rifice, was tho govern, from which all religious service has sprung. The Jew with a veil over his heart could not seo into what it would develnp. To us all is clear. Looking back or for ward, we sec that every ray of Divine light radiates from the cross as a cen ter 1 No longer are beasts and birds to be laid upon altars smoking with blood as an atonement for our sins. But yet, the day of sacrifices has not gone by, nor will it puss awa until sin and death are no more. Christ has in deed been offered up as an atonement for the sins of the whole world, but still tho law though changed remains, and we have no part in Him unless we cleanse our souls, and offer up the in cense of pure prayer from tho altar of tho heart. Wo are still to keep our selves, our souls and bodies under the spirit of that Divine passage of the Psalms.: Tho sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit, a broken and contrite he:irt, O (rod, shalt thou not despise! tVIiscclluiicoiis Xlcjitltiici. To Test Water. An English tech nical periodical points out an easy way of testing whether water is good and fit for general use, It says: "Good water should be free from color, un pleasant odor and taste, and should quickly afford a lather with a small portion of soap. If half a pint of the water be pieced in a perfectly clean, colorless, glass-stoppered bottle, a few grains ofthe best white-lumped sugar added, and the bottle freely exposed to the daylight in the window of a warm room, tho liquid should not become tur'iid, oven after cxposuio for a week or ten days. If tho water becomes turbid it is open to the grave suspicion of sewage contamination, but if it re main clear it is almost certainly safe. Wo owe to Heisch this simple, valua ble, but hitherto strangely neglected test." Fnm tho Springfield Republican. Actions of a Boy which gave Future Prom ise of the Man. About thirty years ago, said Judge P., I stepped Into a book store in Cin cinnati, in search of some books that I wanted. While there, a little ragged boy, not over 12 years of age, came in and inquired for a geography. "Plenty of them," was the sales man's reply. "How much do thev cost?" "One dollar, my lad." "I did not know they were so much." He turned to go out, and even opened the door, but closed it again and came back. "I havo got sixtj'-ono cents," said ho ; "could you let me have a geogra phy, and wait a little while for the rest ofthe money ?" How eagerly his little bright eyes looked for an answer! and how he seemed to shrink within his ragged clothes when the man, not very kind ly, told him he could not ! The disap pointed little fellow looked up to me, with a very poor attempt at a smile, and left the store. I followed him, and overtook him. "And what now?" I asked. "Trj- another place, sir." "Shad I go, too, and see how succeed ?" you "Oh, yes, if you like," said he in sur prise. Four different stores I entered with hinv, and each time he was refused. "Will you try agaiu?" I asked. "Yes, sir, I shall try them all, or I should not know whether I could get one."- We entered the fifth store, and the little fellow walked up manfully, and told the gentleman just what ho want ed, and how much money he hud. "You want the book very much?" said the proprietor. "Yes, sir, very much." "Why do you want it so very, very much?" "To study, sir. I can't go to school. but I study when I can at home. All the bo's have got one, and they will get ahead of me. Besides, my father was a sailor, and 1 want to learn of the places where ho used to go." "Docs he go to these places now ?" asked tho proprietor. IlBisdeud, said the boy, sottlv Then? ing t.l ie added, after a while, "I'm go- ,oa sailor, too. " i ou, though ?" asked tuo ten- sir, it i live. Will, my lad. I will tell you what I will'do ; I will let 3-ou have u new ge ography, and you may pay the re mainder of the money when you can, or I will let you have one that is not new for fifty cents." "Are the leaves all in it. and just like tho others, only not new?" "Yes, just like the new ones." "It will do just as well, then, and 1 shall have eleven cents left toward buying some other book. I am glad they did not let me have one at any of the other places." The bookseller looked up inquiring ly, and I told him what I had seen of the little fellow. Ho was much pleas ed, and when he brought the book along, I saw a nice, new pencil and some clean, white paper in it. "A present, my lad, for your perse verance. Always havo courage like that, and you will make your mark," said the bookseller." "Thank you good." sir, you are so very "What is your name ?" "William Jlavcrley, sir." "Do you want any more books?" I now asked him. "More than I can ever get," he re plied glancing at the books that filled the shelves. I gave him a bank note. "It will buy somo for you," I said. Tears of joy came into bis eyes. "Can I buy what I want with it?" Yes, my lad, anything." 'Then I will buy a book for moth er," said ho ; "I thank you very much, and somo day I hope 1 can pay you back." Ho wanted my name, and I gave it to him. Then I left him standing by tho counter so happy that I almost envied him, and many years passed before I saw him again. Last year I went to Europe on one ofthe finest vessels that ever ploughed the waters of the Atlantic. We had very beautiful weather until very near tho end of the V03uge ; then cumo u most terrible storm that would have sunk all on board had it not been for the captain. Every spur was laid low, the rudder was almost useless, and a great leak had shown itself, threaten ing to fill tho ship. Tho crew were all strong, willing men, and the mates were practical seamen ofthe first-class ; but after pumping for one whole night, and the water stillgainingupon them, they gave up in despair, and prepared to take the boats, though they might have known no small boat could ride such a sea. Tho captain, who had been below with his churls, now came up ; he saw how matters stood, and, with a voico that I heard distinctly above t he roar of the tempest, ordered every man to his post. It was surprising to see thoso men bow before the strong will of their captain, and hurry back to tho pumps. The captain then started below to ex amine the leak. As he passed me I asked him if there was any hope. He looked at me, and then at the other passengers, who had crowded up to hear the reply, and said, rebukingly : les. sir, there is hope as long as one inch of this deck remains above water ; when I see none of it, then I shall abandon the vessel, and not be fore, nor one of my crew, sir. Every thing shall be done to save it, and if we tail it will not be from inaction. Bear a hand, every one of you, at the pumps. Ibrice during the day did wo des pair; but the Captain s dauntless cour age, perseverance, and powerful will mastered every niun on board, and we went to work again. "1 will land you safely at the dock in Liverpool," said he, "if you will be men." And he did land us safely; but the vessel sunk moored to the dock. The Captain stood on the deck of the sink ing vessel, receiving the thanks and the blessings of the passengers as they passed down the gang plank. 1 was the last to leave. As I passed he grasped my hand and said : 'J udge P., do you recognize me r I told him that I was not aware that I ever saw him until I stepped aboard his ship. "Do you remember the boy in Cin cinnati ?" "Very well, sir ; 'William Haverley." "I am he," said he. "God bless you!" "And God bless noble Capt. Haver ley !" Female Barbers How the Fifth Avenue Belles Secured their Bights. The York, Pa., Democrat has a New York letter which says: Two women, at least, have secured their rights, and have now all the privileges that men enjoy. Two very pretty young girls, aged respectively 18 and 20, had a papa who was rich, and who lived in grand style on Fifth Avenue. Papa got into the hands of the Philistines last autumn, and bust ed The girls were genuine girls, not withstanding the fact that they had been fashionably educated, and they felt their poor father's distress keenly. The old gentleman's trouble so weighed upon his mind that he sick ened and took to his bed, and got into a bad wav genorallv. The house in which he lived was fortunately in his wife's name, so they could not be turn ed out of doors, but as the old gentle- man miu buuk cvui v uonar ne mm iu l .1 .! 1- 1.11 1 1 1 "DRiVer became an imminent one. One morning the old gentleman's barber did not come around to shave him, and Ella, tho eldest girl, said sho could do it. She took her father's im plements and shaved him as nicely and neatly as any tonsorial artist could do it, and dressed his hair and trim med his whiskers and propped him up in bed as comfortable as you please. An idea struck Mary, the younger. "Ella, if you can shave papa you can shave any other man." "True." said Ella. "If you can shave a man I can shave a man." "True, once more. But what has that to do with us?" "Ella, do you want to starve ?" "No, my child." "Papa can't get out ; mama is sell ing off the plato to get what we eat each day. Let us stop all this by starting u barber shop." Ella saw the" point. The two girls rigged up an extempore chair they took their coachman, whom they bad not yet dismissed, because he wouldn't go, and they shaved him for practice, and dressed his hair, and trimmed his beard every day. To accommodate them he brought his friends in, and in a week's time the girls were accom plished and expert workmen, or rath er workwomen. Then they sold the horses and car riages, and taking the proceeds fitted up a modest but very neat shop in I nion Square and went at it. The first customers they had were young swells who hat! known them "in socie ty," and groat was their astonishment. "Miss Mawy," said one of them, "by Jove, what led you to this?" Pupa failed, you know Charles and we had to do this or worse "Worse 1 worse ! Why, what could you do that would be worse ?" "Marry a man like you!" replied Mary, dabbing her shaving brush in his mouth. It is an encouraging fact that the girls have all they can do at good pri ces, and are not only supporting their parents in comfort, but are laying up u handsome sum besides. At a recent meeting of the Potomac Fruit Growers Association, two mem bers "presented peach buds showing how different localities affect trees. The buds from high ground, where it was cold and not protected from winds were sound as a dollar, while those from low lauds, protected and exposed to tho sun's warmth, were all dead." The Visalia Delta reports that about 1.000 bead of cattle were killed during the past season by the settlers around the lakes of Kern, county, California, in defense of their crops, and there is a strong feeling in that part of the county in favor of the no-fence law. Mr. Mechi asserts that there are 1 miles of fences to every 100 acres of farmed land in the United Kingdom, or a total of 130.000 miles, half of which could Ih profitably spared. In a Poor Pasture. When Washington Smith studied medicine, a great deal of difficulty was experienced in procuring dead bodies for dissection, and the students at his college used to make fora- upon tho cemeteries at night for the purpose of maintaining the supply. One day they heard of the interment of a per son who died of a mysterious malady, and they determined to resurrect the remains. That, night, Washington and his friends started out without a lan tern, but with plenty of spades and shovels. When they came to the place and saw the white marble tomb stones, they climbed over the fence, and after a while found a spot whore the earth was apparently fresh. They then began to dig. They dug for two hours, and went down about twenty four feet. After they had excavated a big enough hole to make a couple of cellars and a rifle pit, they concluded that they must have been at the wrong spot. They picked out anoth er place where the ground had just been upturned and after nearly burst ing a blood-vessel apiece, and getting out a few hundred tons of dirt, they knocked off, and as they sat down on the edge ofthe bole to rest and wipe off the perspiration, they expressed their astonishment at the scarcity of bod'es iu that particular burial-ground It was getting on toward morning then, but they determined to try once more. Just as they remove the first shovelful of earth, Washington, who had been wandering around the place meanwhile, suddenly said, in a mourn ful voice : "Boys, I think we had better go home now." "Why? What for?" they asked. "Well, I think any how we'd bet ter knock off now, on occount of vari ous things." " hat d yon mean ? hat d you want to go home for?" asked tho crowd. "Well," said Washington, "I think it would be judicious for several rea sons, but principally because we've been rootin' around here all the night in a marble yard !" They did go home. They had got ten over tho wrong fence, the cemete ry being a few steps further down the road. The members of the class who went out after breakfast to see how the ruins looked by daylight, said that while the owner of the marble yard ing when he came to business, ho in fused into tho old variety an unusual and picturesque scenery. Permanent Whitewash. With the return of Spring comes the usual inquiries for a good whitewash. We have only to repeat the following di rections given below, as follows : Take half a bushel of unslucked lime, slake it with boiling water, covering it dur ing the process to keep in the steam ; strain the liquid through a fine sieve or strainer, and add to it a peck of suit previously well dissolved in wa ter ; three pounds ground rice boiled to a thin paste, and stirred in boiling hot; half a pound of clean glue which has been previously dissolved by soak ing it first, and then hanging over a slow firo in a small kettle inside a large one filled with water; add five gallons of hot water to the mixture, stir it well, and let it stand a few days covered from the dirt. It should be put on quite hot ; for this purpose it can be kept in a kettle on a furn ace. A pint of this mixture will cover a yard square ofthe outside of a house, if applied with a large paint-brush. A Texas Cattle Farmer. Captain King has an enclosed pas ture of 70.000 acres, though he owns about 150,000 acres of land in Nueces and Duval counties. The entire stock held bv him at the present time is 50,000" head of cattle, 20.000 head of sheep and 10,000 head of horses. He overstocked his inclosed pasture to such an extent lust fall that he was compelled to turn out a great many on the range again, although he sent 4.000 head to Kansas and slaughtered 4.000 head more for their hides and tallow. He disposes annually of about 8,000 head of cattle either by Pale or slaughter, notwithstanding which his stock is always steadily on tho in crease. He has recently purchased another ranch in Cameron county, on which he has about 10,000 head more of cattle, and attached to which is -about 10,000 acres land. He is mak ing extensive experiments in the im provement of the stock of the State, having imported a great many head ofthe finest Kentucky cattle to inter mix with the native grades. Baltimore American. The Prohibitionist held a conven tion in Toledo, Ohio, on the 2Gth of March, and nominated a ticket for city officers, appointed a central and ward committee, and resolved that the abol ishment ofthe liquor traffic is tho most important question before the people ; that tne evil can only be abolished by tho power ofthe people vested in tho Government; that such power can only be vested by a political party committed to that work, an inviting all citizens opposed to dram shops to join them iu favoring the women's temperanco movement and woman suffrage. "Woman suffrage," and not "temperance," would appear to bo "the rat in the meal tub !" , f II
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