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SALISBURY. N. G, NOVEMBER, 1, 1877.
NO. 2
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Fram the Christian intelliprencer.
The Guide's Story.
BY O. I,. V. 1
Onr niide Ulrich wcmed to know every -
"My wholived in the valley through
ffliiih we hid just passed, aud seeing that
I was. interested in his stories, he was
about to tell me about
LITTLE HUM THE WOOD CARVER,
v ... vnst. of flip nartv reached us.
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uv ,11 dismounted and accompanied the
niidea into the grotto which had been cut
some distance into the Grindlewald gla-
The dog followed us m of course;
cier.
be wns.Auch a great fellow, and took up so
in ucli room, that he, was quite crowded
against the icy wall, for the grotto was
iiot very commodious, and there were a
number of travellers who had come to see
it. The ice, where the light slrone through
. j ,iF n. lienntif'nl kp:i freen tint, anil
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cool air within was delightful, but l.ot
.,5 l.M1tlifn1 t tlios fornix from the
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August warmui wiuiour, so we uiu uoi -1
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I'll kh s-dog began to push his way through
the crowd to iret .out. It was no new
grht to him, although, wise dog as he
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admiration as something which might be
expected in a place to which his m aster-j
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LURii pomieu ,u u.e u nee gigauuc :
mountains southward, which he told us
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were the Eiger, the Mettenberg, which
forms the base of the Schreckhorn, and
the Wctterhorn Two glaciers liejjetweeu
these mountains; near the upper one lies
the bridle path to Meiiinren. "There,"
said the guide, "lives Uubi the wood car
vtT, of whom I was about to tell you."
"Tell me about him by all means," I
jsaid. So Ulrich began the story.
"Christen, the lather ot liubi, was a
guide; if you have ascended the Metten-
berg some years since you may have seen
Lini. Have you been there V
So, we had not; then Ulrich went on
with his story, but not until he had risen
in his. saddle to point out with the end of
his whip which way you started for your
laborious six hours of ascent. He grew
very enthusiastic, and began to expatiate
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mere, me view or me curecKiioi n ami
the Finsferaarhorn, of the . Griudelwald
valley and the hjsmeer. "It takes you
.duly an hoijr," lie said, "to cross the Eis-
meer (sea ot ice;) then von reach the
chalet of Zasenberg, a rude stone cottage
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u.e uuge masses oi ice you can raue in one
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bchreckhorn, the jescherhorn, mid oth-
erg. 1 he whole -journey can be accom
plished iu five or six hours, Christen used
to say, if you go right through."
I wish you could have seen how enthu
siastic Ulrich became as he spoke of the
grand scenery of Switzerland. Some ot
the guides were stupid, heavy-looking
men, who seemed blind to the natural
beauties around them. Not so Ulrich
In his enthusiasm he-quite forgot about
the tory he was to tell until I reminded
him of it. "Oh yes, surely; welb-as I was
about to say, Christen had two sons, Jo
seph, a handsome young fellow, who was
"a guide like his father, and poor deformed
little liubi. 'Poor lad,!, his father would
say, 'he will always -be a burden to us.
lie is so lame and so misshapen. I wish
lie was like our Joseph, but alas ! he is so
ugly and so helpless.' liubi cried when
his father spoke so roughly of him, but
lis hipther wiped his tears with her coarse
apron and said : 'Never mind, poor boy
I will buy you something nice the next
time I go-down to sell my lace,' for she
used to make lace and sell it to the fine
ladies who went by in the diligence
o one day she bought him a wooden
toy representing a goat, carved by Pete,
who imul along the Black Lutsciue. and
who made hisJiving by doiug'such work
'liubi thought the .goat was not as nat
ural as it might be; its head seemed too
smalhand its legs too long, but he did
not say so to his mother, for although he
was only a deformed little Swiss lov, he
had finer feelings than some better folks,
and he was very thankful to his mother
for her kindness, although he did not think
much of his present as a-work of art.
"He kept constantly lookiug at the ill
uaped goat, and wondering if he could
not cayve if he should try.
-ue was so persrsreni; in asking urn
u.tny ms motner got tne necessary tools
- U.U., ami ue not o.ny succeeuecv, out
he soon became very expert. He worked
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in nis iatner s aoseuce. lie wouiu
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vllt" N,y' eiir nnmivTt in can ue
6wuHoou carver as some nave. oecn,
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u .Miomuuoi uea uuiueu .lojou.
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- iuii arc lima uuiueu 10 me. iiiim.
-u wonia repiy; -you are tne comtort or
my me;' then his mother would kiss him;
-u u.us mese two seemed oearer to eacn
on'i A-1 ii. . . ,
uuer ior me very netpiessness ot poor
.luu ...s uepeiiueoce upon ner love.
One cold autumn day Christeu and Jose
ere near the deep gorge between the
Jungfrau and the Wengerhalp, and they
"were caught by a. severe storm. Oh ! what
storms those Oberland giants can get up
among themselves. I.
"The Meench and theEiger know kowi
to bluster and confuse a poor traveller.
"Christen was brought home with abro-
ken leg, trying to save Jose who fell.
" 4 There will be-no one. to support you
now,7 groaned the father; 'that poor, help-
less Rubi will be Hiore of a-lmrden than
ever, and you, the mother, will get blind
over your lace work if you have to sup
port us all.'
Xot so, father,' cried Rubi; 'I have a
little money here Ihave saved up. Take
it, use it, it is all yours.' The father did
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n""n rrtII,cu
no umuiim mm wcu uic jjiit ui wjiub i
traveller who had taken compassion upon
the poor deformed lad.
"The money which had been paid from
time to time at the way side bytbose who
purcluised liubi's carvings was soon ex-
hansted, because it was ouly pedestrians
who used that mountain path, and Rubi 1
had little chance of selling his work. Then
how hard the poor mother had to toil, and
Kubi cried e,rei'y niSht to think that he
wa only a bunion, ami could not support
ins mother as lie nopal.
"One diiv there were footstens heard
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4i(..,ir n cirveA work Tn hU hand he
dta tr ln.canea wo,k- , ln ,us nana l,e
ing over the rocks.
Does the boy who
carved this li ve here V he asked.
" (o ' said tile father frcmi his bed in
the corner, 'no one lives here; but my wife
I !inil I ii nil tliiif. nnnr li-li-lf frp!ifiir
yonden ,f ouly my hamlsonie . Josei)h
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- f, , t Meiriniren: it is
there x su,)OSe, the man who carved
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yonder 4ieee.'
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" 'No, father, no,' cried poor Rubi; 'it is
I who carved yonder piece.'
'You,' exclaimed the father, 'sir, the
boy must have gone crazy. He never
carved a .thing in his life. Alas ! is that
to be added to niv misfortunes? Is the
boy to be an idiot like Jose Horner's chH-
dren over at Jmenz ?i and he looked at
broken leg and groaned, while the tears
rau-dowu his cheeks.
It is very strange, said Hottinger,
'for the man of whom I bought this told
me that the boy who lived here carved it,
and I have come to order some more work
of him.'
"The mother was not at home, but had
gone to sell her lace, and the father would
not listen to his son. He thought liubi
was getting crazed, or idiotic, as so many
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of tj,e S,viss jm Jlll(1 ,,e W(uId Mot
allow
any orders for copies of the carving to be
left with them, for, as he honestly said,
he would not cheat the merchant "into
thinking that the orders would be tilled.
"As you see, Christen was a very lion-
est. straiinittorward tellow. but a verv
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.j a 0i,8tiiiate one. Hottiugei
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,...,., ont of th cb:ilot after him
'0 air i.lt.-i. T , iw.t.nni.lint Vn.
ther rf . ()f me becanjMj , -
ugly and misshapen. I am not like hand
some Jose my brother,-but I did, sir, I did
carve the piece in your hand;' and then
Kubi criedfroni the very excitement and
eagerness to make tlie merchant believe
him. But his tears and his twitching
aud trembling occasioned bv his ear
nestness ma not make his appearance
more prepossessing, and the man was
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only the mine convinced that the father
was riglit aud the child was out of his
miiul. He thought that the beautiful
chamois could never have been the work
of that miserable, deformed boy.
"While still the child sat on the road
side crying, as if its heart would break
from the disappointment, he saw his
mother coining up the mountain path iu
tlte distance.
"Then his eagerness to keep the mer
chaut until she should come made his
manner more crazy than before, for he
knew that if his mother reached there be-
fore the merchant left, she could tell him
that it was he who had done the beautiful
catving.
'"Poor Bubi caught the merchant by the
arm, but it was not hard to shake on a.
child so deformed.
"Then he put both arms around the
merchant's leg so that he could not free
himself without hurting. Kubi. The mer
chant looked anirrv. and the poor bov re-
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unonthe tsswithsnchasad and Titi J
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f,.l,rvil1:,ttUmPr,l,flnUh,nw tn l.va-
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at hini. But, it seemed na if the chibPs
heart was broken, and he did not even
offer to pick up the little copper coins the
merchant threw down before him. It
seemed as if the last hope of getting work
was gone, and all his dreams of helping to
supporting mother were over. IIe must
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v0
"The-meichant was SO touched by the
look of $ distress on the face of the
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fore he had made up his mind as to what
hc g,,ould d 0 Kubrs motuer came-up.
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.iShe confirmed wbiTt. thn nnor littl
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I tiii'inc huh oaiu. x c, nuui uau luoeeii
Mrv(1(i thft work .,,ilt. m-h nAmir
uThe mother was so proud to hear her
poor littie crf pple Iiraised that ghe raised
I ,.im nn tendeilv in Iipf arms nn.l b..I -
'He will yet get work to do like the work
men in the great cathedral.'
." 'Oh, no, -mother,' he cried, 'ndone will
trust in me, no one believes in me, only
yon mother. I had thought to earn some
thing to help you. But 1 shall be always
burden. The gentleman spurned mef
everybody hates me, only
mother.'
"He put his thin arms around her neck,
and as she held him her tears mingled
with his, and she wipe! them away with
her rough coarse hands, for she had known
hard work and much trouble, this poor
Swiss mother, and she was the reverse
of gay aud fashionable women, for her
heart was soft and her hands rough and
coarse.
" 'Nay, my lad, hut the rich merchant
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iaic u.j u.k auu no m outer nunc,
rtmi lutj iuoujer was ngui, imoi nau
orders for as much jwork as he could do,
"He helped his father more than his
handsome brother Uose had ever done.
There - were none in the family who earned
so much for their support as the poor de-
formed lad, and he was as patient and as
humble as before, i even though he was
known through the valley as Rubi, the
great carver of wood, instead of being
spoken of as that ; helpless burden, the
cripple liubi."
Wheu the iruide finished his storv I
l" lc",u,,u,:l " "ul
People at home, for I have heard of bovs
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and girls who are not so anxious as Kubi
to do all the good they can.
I would remind such that we are all of
us unconsciously carving day by day, not
in the perishable material iu which the
poor cripple worked, but by little deeds
of every day life we are shaping the char
acter in which we sjiall be presented be
fore God for judgment.
Are we carefully working! Are we do
ing what we can f :
ASTONISHING; JUGGLERY THE
MAGICIANS OF SI AM.
A letter from Siam to the World thus
describes a scene ait an exhibition given
by some native jugglers :
"That is Norodom,'' .whispered Woun
Tajac in my ear. Another actor now came
upon the scene, whom I recognized to be
the tall athlete, Tepada. Behind him
came a smaller man, whose name, Wouu
Tajac informed me, was Minimum, and a
boy, probably twelve years old, called
Tsiu-ki. These four began some of the
most wonderful athletic exhibitions that
can be conceived. It is impossible to be
lieve, unless you saw it, what work these
men put human muscles to. I am not
going to provoke the incredulity of your
readers by attempting to describe tin? ma
jority of them. Inj one feat Tepada seiz
ed Norodom by liH long white beard, held
him oft' at arm's length, and spun round
with him uutil the old man's legs were
horizontal to the athlete's shoulders.
Then, while they still spun with fury of
dervishes, Miuhmau sprung up, seized
upon Norodom's feet, and spun out a hori
zontal continuation of the ancient, and
when Minimum wijs firmly established the
boy Tsiu-ki caught to his feet in like
manner, and the tall athlete, every mus
cle in him straining, continued to whirl
the human, jointless lever around. At
last, slowing slightly, Tepada drew in his
arms till the old man's white beard touch
ed his body. There was a sudden strain.
and the arms of the men, from being
horizontal, became perpendicular, Noro
dom's head resting atop of Tepada's,
Miuhmau's head jupon Norodom's feet,
and Tsin-ki's head on Minimum's feet.
A pause for breath, then the column of
men was propelled into the air, anfl pres
to ! Tepada's head was on the ground,
Norodom's feet to his, Minhman's feet
upon Norodom's head, Tsin ki's feet on
Minhman's head.; Each had turned a
summersault, and the column was un
brokeh. I could fill sever.il columns with de-
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8LI 'I'""118 Ul lue " U!,L remnrkiioje aim un
accountable feats pt magic by these won
derf, JUSS1"'8. 1 ,ullst refv.un. One
trick with Minhman performed was a very
superior version oif the mango-tree feat of
the Indian jugglers. He took an. orange,
cut it open, and produced a serpent. This
die took down into the audience, and bor
rowing a lobe from one, cut the snake's
head off and covered it with the robe.
When the robe was lifted again a fox was
in place of the snake. The fox's head
was cut off, twoj robes borrowed, and
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I wnen tney were rjuseu mere wras a
wolf,
whicWas killed j with a
whiehWas killed j with a sword. Three
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roue8 auu a Pr" appearea ; it was
Uhn with a javelin
Four robes covered
a most savage-looking buffalo that was
killed with an axe. Five robes -covered
in part, but not altogether, a lordly ele
phant, which, when the sword was point
ed against him, seized Minhman by the
neck and tossed lliiin violently up. He
mounted feet foremost, and finally clung
by his toes to thej capital of one of the
columns. Tepada now leaped from the
stage and alighted upon the elephaut's
shoulders. With! a short sword he goaded
the beast on the! head until, shrieking,
the unwiedly animal reared upon his hind
feet, twined his trunk about one of the
great columns, anid seemed trying to lift
itself from the. ground and wrap its body
around the great pillar. The music clash
ed out barbarously, Norodom flashed forth
a dazzliug firework of someort, and the
elephant hacfdisaipeared, and Tepada lay
upon the stage wjithing in the folds of a
grtiat boa constrictor, and holding up
Minhman upon his feet.
During three hours the exhibition con
tinued feats of the sort I have described,
each more wonderful than the one that
preceded it, following each other in rapid
succession. 1 shall content myself with
describing the last and culminating won
der of the startling entertainment. .
A perfectly-formed and most lovely
nautch girl spring out upon the stage,
and was hailed with universal exclama
tions of delight, everybody calling out her
name, Lnan-Prabana, as if it were a word
of good omen. Her ouly dress wast short
petticoat of variegated feather-work. A
wreath of rose-buds crowned her soft,
short, black hair, and she wore a pearl
necklace, as well as broad, , gold armlets
and anklets. With a brilliant smile, she
danced exquisitely for some minutes to
the accompaniment of a single pjpe, then
knelt and laid her head upon Id ,Koro
dem's knee. The boy fanned her with a
fan made of sweet fern leaves, Minhman
fetched a lotos-shaped goblet, and Tepada
mured into it from a quaint looking flask
a fluid of a greenish hue. The old yogi
like Norodom took the goblet and blew
his breath upon the contents till they
broke into a pale blue flame. This Tepa
da extinguished with his breath, when
Norodom held the goblet to Luan-Pra-bana's
lips, and she drained the contents
with a sigh. As if transfigured, she -suddenly
spring to her feet, her face strange
ly radiant, and began to spin giddily
around in one spot. First t ho -hoy, then
Minhman, then Tepada, tried to arrest
her, but they no sooner touched her thau
she repelled them with a shock that thrill
ed them as if she had imparted an electric
spark to them. Spinning constantly, with
a bewilderinglv-rapid motion, the girl
now sprang oil" the stage and down the
hall, along by the foot of the columns,
Tsiu-ki, Minhman, and Tepada iu active
pursuit. In and out among the crowd
they spun, three chasing. Tepada seized
hold of the chaplet tlfat crowned her. . It
broke,"and as she whirled along a of spray
rose buds was scattered from her brow iu
every direction. Any thing more grace! u I
never was seen. Aud now a greater won
der: At the extremity of the hall the
three surrounded and would have -seized
her, when, still revolving, she rose slowly
into the air and floated gently over our
heads towards the tage, scattering roses
as she went. At the brink of t lie stage
she paused in mid-air; then, with a slight,
wind-like motioii'Of her arms, mounted
up, up, up towards the loftiest arch of the
vaults overhead. Suddenly old Norodom
seized a bow and arrow amJ shot towards
her. There was a wild shriek, a rushing
sound, and the dancer fell with a crash to
flags of the floor, and laid there an appar
ently bloody mass. The music burst forth
into a wild wail, and the chorus of old
hags came tuinultuously forth and bore
her oft' in their anus.
Now, from behind the red curtain came
a dozen strong men, bearing on their
shoulders a .great leaden box, which they
laid upon the front part of the stage. As
they retired the old woman came out,
bringing a low couch, decorated with
flowers and gold embroidered drapery,
upon which lay Luan-Prabana, decked
forth iu Initial garments, and sweetly
sleeping. The couch, with its sleeper,
was quietly put down upon the front of
the stage and left there, while Norodom
and Tepada went to the leaden box, and
with hot irons attempted, to unseal it.
"That is Stnng-Tieng's coffin," whisper
ed Woun to me; "the old saint has been
dead more thau half a milleuium."
Quickly, eagerly it seemed to me, the
two men broke open the fastenings of the
eolfiu, until the side next the audience
falling out at last, a teak-box was discov
ered. This was prized open with a small
crowbar, and what seemed a great bundle
of nankeen taken out. Tepada and Noro
dom commenced to unwind this. wrapping,
which was very tight. Yard after yard
was unwound and folded away by Minh
man, and at last, after at least 100 yards
of wrapping had been taken oft', the dry,
shrivelled mummy ot an old man was
visible eyes closed, flesh dry and hard
dead and dry as a smoked herring. No
rodom tapped the corpse with the crow
bar, and it gave a dull, wooden sound
Tepada tossed it up and caught it ; it was
stiff as a log. Then he placed the mummy
upon Norodom's knees and fetched a flask
of oil, a flask of wine, and a censer burn
ing with punguent incense. Norodom took
from his hair a little box of unguent, and
prying open the month of the mummy
with a cold-chisel, showed that the dry
tongue could rattle like a chip against the
dry fauces. He filled the mouth with un
guent and closed it, and anointed the eye
lids, nostrils and ears. Then he and Te
pada mixed the wine and oil, and carefully
rubbed every part of the body with it
Then, laying it down in a reclining posi
tion, thev put the burning censer upon
the chest and withdrew a pace, while the
drums, aud gongs, and cymbals crashed
and clattered, and the shrill, cackling
treable of the chorus of old women rose
hideously.
A breathless pause ensued one two,
three minutes and the iriummy sneezed,
sneezed thrice, so violently as to extinguish
the flame of the censer. A moment later tile
thing sat up and stared bliukiug and va
cant around the vault an old, old, wriuk
led man, with mumbling chops, a shriv
elled breast aud belly, and little tufts of
white hair upon his chin and forehead.
Tepada approached him reverently upon
his knees, bringiug him a salver, with
wine and a wafer-cake. The old man did
not notice him, but ate, drank, then tot-
tered to his feet, the feeblest, decrepit old
dotard that ever walked. In another mo
ment he saw the" nautch-girl slumbering
upon her couch 7 he shuffled feebly to her,
and, mumbling, stooped as if to help his
dim eyes to see her better. What a glad
cry the maiden waked, clasping him in
her arms and to her breast, and kissed
him. Incomprehensible magic ! He was
no longer a nonagenarian dotard, but a
full-veined, fiery youth, .who gave her
kiss for kiss. How the :. transformation
was wrought 1 have no idea, but there it
was before our very eyes. The music
grew soft and passionate, the chorus of
the old women came out, and, with strange
Phallic songs and dances,, bore the two
away- a JbVidalpair. " I never expect
again to behold a sight so wonderful as
that whole transformation.
DOMESTIC QUARRELS.
From the Danbury News.
It was at this season of the year just
seven years ago, that an extraordinary
scene occurred in Danbury. It was in
the evening, and a couple were bringingiu
several pots of plants from the yard to
save them from the frost which the tem
perature of outdoors threatened. While
thus engaged she spoke, referring to a
geranium she had in her hand :
"I wouldn't lose this one for a great
deal, as mother gave it to me."
He looked at it.
"Your mother give it you ? Guess not.
I bought that plant myself."
"Why, it's 110 such thing.''
"I tell you I did," he added, speaking
with warmth.
"And I tell you you didn't," she firmly
isseverated. "Do you suppose I don't
know what was given me V "
"Do you suppose I don't know what I
bought with my own money ?"
"If you say you bought that geranium,"
aid she, speaking very slowly, and with
white lips, "you say that you kuow to be
false."
"Do yon mean to say thatf I lie?" he
hissed.
"If you say that, I do."
"You shall le sorry for this," hc threat
ened.
"Never !"' she retorted.
He put on his hat and coat and left the
house.
That was seven years ago this fall. She
never saw him again, nor heard from him
in all that seven years. What must have
been the thoughts, the agony of mind en
dured by the wretched wife in that time
no one on earth knows. She kept her
thoughts to herself and patiently, as far
as outward appearance went, bore the
burden put upon her.
On Friday evening of last week her
door opened, and a man walked into her
presence. There was a look, a cry, and
she was in the arms of her husband.
What a happy home was that. All the
agony of the seven long years was forgot
ten in that hour of reconciliation and re
union. A hearty supper was spread, and
with tears and smiles she hovered about
him, ministering to every want. After
supper there was a long talk of the past.
"It is so singular, ' she said, speaking
in one of the pauses, "that it should hare
happened as it did. I can scarcely com
prehend it all. It seems like an awful
dream. We both lost our tempers, and
we have both suffered for it. The miser
able geranium ! Do you know I cannot
bear to see one of those plants ? I told
mothc?to come and take it back, for I
would not have it in sight."
"What!" he ejaculated; do you still
persist in saying that she gave it to
you f "
"Why, John, of course she did. Haven't
you got over that idea yet ?"
"No, 1 haven't," he persisted, his face
darkening. "I bought that geranium as
sure as I am a living man."
She thought of his years of cruel deser
tion, of all.hc had caused her to suffer be
cause of his obstinacy, and her heart hard
ened, and her face flushed.
"You are mean to say that when you
know it is false."
"It isn't false ; it's heaven's truth."
"It's no such thing; it's a mean, con
temptible lie.
He jumped up from the chair, seized his
hat and coat and shot out of the house iu
a flash, and she never uttered a word of
protest. She sat there with clenched hands
and white face, and let him go.
And so he is gone. And t-day she is
alone again, with the old burden and the
old pain.
Tom Evans hasn't got much opinion of
the average editor, in proof of which
statement we preseut the following vigor
ous paragraph, which is from the Keids-
ville Times, of this week : "But great Je-
rusalem ! the little sap heads, wild chil
dren, foolish men, and overgrown gawks,
who are running about the country as
editors ! As soft as a gourd of soap, they
are as cheap and as dirty to the profession,
and the result is that the press to-day is
a splendid, strong throne, whose sceptre
any 'big man' or 'big firm,' who chooses
to bribe, or to bully or court or to flatter
its little, half-fool editor."
It was a Delaware wife who said, 'my
dear, if vou can't drink bad coffee with
out abusing me, why is it that you can
drink bad whiskey without abusing the
bar keeper V
From tbe Lutheran Visitor.
The Congregational Church.
rhis denomination takes its name
lrom its government, which rests in
the congregation. It was planted on
the shores of New England by the
Pilgrims ; who, having fled from re
ligious persecution, desired to estal-
lish a church wholly free in its gov
ernment. The Congregational ists differ very
little from Presbyterians (Xew School)
in doctrine. How little thev differ
from Lutherans in church government
"will appear Trom"the following i""-
1. They recognize only ministers
and deacons as officers of the Church.
Such an eminent scholar as Dr. Krauth
maintains that there is no authority
in the New Testament for the order
of "elders," and. that the introduction
of such an office into our Lutheran
chu relies in America was purely acci
dental. ,
2. They hold local conferences,
twice a year. These conferences are
usually composed of about a dozen
ministers and as many lay delegates.
At these meetings, discussions of prac
tical and doctrinal questions are hadt
just as in our Lutheran conferences.
The usual matters of business pertain
ing to these particular churches come
up for consideration, but the confer
ence has no legislative power.
3. Next comes the general associa
tion in each State, which meets an
nually, and answers to our district sy
nods. So far as I can learn, there is
no material difference in the power
exercised and the kind of business
transacted by these two bodices; both
are advisory.
4. In 1853 the American Congre
gational Union was organized. Tins
body meets trienuially, and is in all
leading features like our general sy
nods. In the language of its consti
tution, the Union is "to do whatever
a voluntary association of individual
may do in Christian discretion, and
without invading the appropriate field
of any existing institution for the
promotion of evangelical knowledge
and piety in connection with Congre
gational principles of church govern
ment." The National Council met in
Detroit October 17th.
5. The conference, association am
National Council are advisory. Not
one of them can legislate for a partic
ular congregation. It follows, then
that the congregation is the highest
authority. In this respect our Church
is Congregational.
G. Councils of churches are called
to declare the opinion of the churches
on any matter of common concern.
These usually consist of pastors and
lay delegates, invited from several
neighboring churches. "A council is
to be called only by achurch, or by
an aggrieved member or members in
a church which has unreasonably re
fused a council, or by a competent
number of believers intending to be
gathered into a church." When a
church refuses to call a mutual coun
cil, and ex parte council may be called
by an aggrieved party. "Councils
are constituted for the communion of
churches with each other, and not for
government over the churches"; so
that, after all, the decision of a coun
cil is only advisory.
As with us, pastors are settled.
What this meant a hundred years
ago, may be learned from some fig
ures which I have gleaned from a
"Historical Survey of Churches, 177G
-1876," by Rev. I. N. Tarbox, D.D.:
ln 177G there were 271 settled. Con
gregational ministers in Massachu
setts. Of these, 223 remained in their
places until death. One had a minis
try in the same parish, or congrega
tion, of over 70 years; --21, over GO
years; 51, over 50 years; GG, over 40
jyears; G2, over 30 years; 24, over 20
1 1 ,n , 20 vears. The
j - -
average period of ministerial service
in one pastorate, in the whole list of
271 ministers, was a fraction less than
38 years. The changes are far more
frequent now. I doubt whether any
other church in any country can
! P such an arra? of lonS l)asl"
i rates as the Congregational Church of
Massachusetts one hundred years ago.
In 1776, when the Congregational
ists had 289 churches is Massachu-
setts, there were but 64 churches of
j ' . .
Oiner ueuumuiauuus 111 uiu uue.
Now the Congregationalists have 521
out of an aggregate of 1,884 churches.
Then the Methodists had none, now
336 (second in rank) the Catholics
none, now 249; the Baptists38, no w
289; the Episcopal 12, now 110; the
Quakers 10, now 9 ; the Presbyteri
ans 4, now 15 ; Lutherans are credit
ed with two. ' -
I gather still further- from the
"Historical Survey" that"thcre never
was a fire lighted in the firstmeeting
louse ; nor in the 'second one until"
January 21, 1827. A period of 92
years had passed before .it yaa ,eyer
conceived that a fire could! Toe-had in
the Church ot God." The expedient
adopted was "Sabba'-day houses,"
about sixteen feet square, with a large
chimney and fire-place. During the
intermissions there was an opportu
nity for warming.
May I not add, that it has not been
practical ly conceived yet in some parts
that a fire may be lighted in the house
of God ?
Bass viols were formerly used in
the church choirs. The parish of
Barre passed a vote "that the bass
viol be laid aside on communion and
eeture days." This was done iu def
erence to an old gentleman, who could
not enioy the sacramental occasions
when the "big fiddle" was about.
. It Seems very strange that the New
England fathers did not have. the Bi
ble read in the churches. Thev, per
haps, di(T not, simply because the
Episcopal (Church of England) did.
The Bible might be read, verse by
verse, for exposition, but not other-
wise in the churches. Although many
of the town and city churches adopt
ed the practice of reading th' Scrips
turcs over a hundred years ago, yet it
did not become general until the ear
ly part of the present century.
Since the War the Congregational
ists have increased rapidly in the
Northwest, and also gained ground
onthe Pacific coast. The Church is
seven tli in the order of numerical
strength, having a little more than -half
as-many members as the Luther
an. In general education, benevo
lence and missionary enterprise Con
gregationalists stand first.- The Amer
ican Board of Commissioners for For
eign Missions (A. B. C. F. M.), the
American Home Missionary Society,
the American Tract Society, and the
first movements in behalf of sailors
and in. the cause of temperance arc
due to Congregationalism." The mem
bers of this Church are liberal con
tributors to these, and all other be
nevolent objects.
Several weeks ago the A. B. C. F.
M. held its annual meeting in Provi
dence, It. I. The reports showed
that the board owed a debt of 48,
000. Ex-Gov. Page, of Vermont,"
moved that steps be taken to pay the
debt then and there. The motion
was adopted, and in less time than
an hour the whole amount was se
cured. Indeed, next day it was
increased to over 51,000. Ex-Gov.
Page and Hon.Wm. E. Dodge, cf
New York, each gave 5000; two
persons gave 2000 each ; one, 1,500;
sixteen, 1000 each ; -and so it went
on down to contributions of less than
one dollar. Of course, such amounts
could not be similarly, raised in some
churches, because the members are not
so wealthy. But the question is,
whether in all the xpmt is in propor
tion to the ability. What this Con
gregational board of missions is do
ing, may be learned from the follow-,
ing summary: Number uf mission?,
17; stations, 81;
out-stations, 53
Whole number of laborers connects.
with the missions, 1,563; of whom
151, including 7 physicians' "are or
dained missionaries ; 7 physicians no:
ordained ; female assistants sent from
this country, 227; native-preachers;,
125; preachers and catechists, 255 ;
native school-teachers, 522; churches,
25G with 13,435 members; training
and theological schools, IG with 551
students, aud 24,562 pupils in com
mon schools.
Tbe educational work iu our next.
Iota.
Parker Gone Home. Xew York, Oct
14. Xiles G. Parker, ex-State treasurer,
of South Carolina, who was arreatedon
requisition in Jersey city last evening,
was takeu to South Carolina to-day ou
the steamer Charleston.
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