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RALEIGH, K. C, AUGUST 20 1874.
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I ON THE INJITNCT10X TO WISH EACH
' - ' OTHER'S :lTKr.-F5is5
DR JOUN A. BROADUS, D.D., LLlD.' l.
There are some devout and estimable
! brethren who believe that our Lord meant
i to establish the gashing f of feet? as' a
Church anlinauee, ;orfat any rate to ap-
point i ts observance as. a religions eere
i uiouy. If this opinion i correct, tbey
i do l ights to maintain the practice, how
ever the world may deride it ; and the
1 fidelity which is sometimes thus shown
. tq eouvictions of Christian X duty' com
i niamls our sincere respect. Thoso who
i are satisfied that our Lord did not mean
i this, ought yet to inquire very earnestly
what; He did mean by so remarkable an
"act and the accompanying injunction.
Ix't us always be careful; lest in our dis
! putes over a passage we. fail to feel the
!ut" of practicing those things which all
i must agree that it teaches. '$i&M$&&:
What was the significance of the act
of washing the uistaplesTfeet,as performed
by our lionl t It is; mentioned only in
John xiiu Let 114 endeavor to state the
meaning of that' passage. ?
, On the' night, before - hU crucifixion,
Jesus becanseUe knew i that the honr
bad come, that lie should depart out of
i this world unto the Father, having loved
; i His own .who were- in the world, (and
whom lie must now; leave iu the world,)
. lie loved them to . the end. This lore.
cht i Uhed to .the end of His life in the
flesh, ' He Strikingly manifested by the
act which follows A.ud supper being
served, (the correct translation,) notwith
standing the devil; had alreadyput it
i n to the . heart of J odas Iscanot to be-"
trav Hiui, and although -He knew that
j the Father had given alt things into His
hands and that Lie came lortn from uod
and was going io God, He rises from the
supper, deluierately makes all the neces
saiy preparations ; as a servant would
bave doue, and began to wash the disci
pies' feet, and carefully to wipe them.
We leant from Luke, (xxn. 2.) that"theie
arose also a strife among them, which of
them should be aeeoun ted the greatest."
It would appear. that this unworthy con
tention occurred after they "reclined at
table, (beginning, perhaps, with a dis
pute about the. places of honor, or possi-;
bly about the question whether some one
lot them should not perforin that washing
of feet for which they had no servant,
j but which w as desirable, as they had just
come in trom ' Bethany,) and hence the
fact mentioned by J ohn, that Jesus "rose
from toe supper? and washed their feet,
which we may suppose He would other
'wise hare- done before, reclining. This
allusion in John forms a point of connec
tion with Luke, and other such points
occur afterwards. . ,-,;.. ' '' -v - ." ;
i Coiubiniug the narrative, . we find a
two-fold "signification of this impressive
. act. : It was a striking impression,
given at the close of their long and inti
mate personal intercourse, of Jesus' ten.
. der, yearning, unutterable affection for
these men though they indulged such
u u worthy feelin gs, and J udas had al
ready determined 5 t6 betray Hun, and
though He was Himself so exalted a be
ing, aud uw about to return to the
Father.; The penitent love of that sinful
woman who wade His ; feet wet with her
ears the fond yet reverential friendship
with which Mary ; of Bethany annotated
His feet and Wiped them with her hair -the.
gentle;- care .with . which, grave men
and refiued wouien have been seen to
bathe a poor soldier's wounds these may;
give as some idea of the love with which
t heir .Teacher and iLord ," performed for
Peter and John and the Test this service
for which they had been too poor to hire
an attendant. , 2. It was a lesson in hu
mility,, 0 their miserable jealously, their
sel fish -iain ffi tion 1 : 4t; W hich of them
should Iki accounted the greatesf? in that
worldly 1 kin gdomr.j)r; which; they. were
lookiii!' it was the old dispute. ; Should
it be t hos ; who had first entered His ser
vice, and who might think ; it their ob
vious t ight to take precedence, (Matt xix,
' 30.1 or t he h ree Whoso names; always
taiid m the head.of those companies of
, four iuto which tbe twelve appear td have
been divided, or the three who had been
on the Mount of jTransftguratiou should
it bc Peter, to whom such : remarkable
th i us had been - specially addressed, or
James and John, whose ambitious mother
1 w as a kin. to the f uture sovereign who
should be the grtttest .- Wonderful that
He Iwre with them, and. wonderful, O
brethren; that He bears ; with, us j.when
we, too, give way sto unworthy ambition
i or despicable jeolonsies. i How patiently
! He had striven to core this spirit, and to
teach them humility. . ; Besides often
teaching it in words,. He had once placed
a little child in the: midst of them as a
pittern of humility. And now, last and
most striking of all, He, though possess-(iuguuimsaltlominiou,condescendsHim-set
f to act as their servant, in a menial
office. What a lesson, not only, to them,
but to all men, through all the ages, x j
s There is also a third way in which our
Ijord's act was significant, -though this
meaning appears riot to , have belonged
. to the priucipal design, and to have been
mentioned only for the sake pr;oyerconi
iug Peter's - reluctance. Peter just like
Lira warmly attached - to the Teacher;
but thinking himself the best judge what
was worthy of him declares, even when
told that the meaning; of the act will be
' explained to him afterwards,; that the
Lord shall never" wash - his feet, never.
Jesus answered him, If I wash thee
hot, thou hast no part with me." Peter
just like him again,- going from one ex
treme to the other- says to him, "Iord,
hot my feet only, but also my hands and
uij head.". his whole ierson, so far
as nucovered. " Jesus says to him, He
. that has ' bathed,- (the exact meaning,
has no need save to wash the feet, bat js
wholly clean: and ye -are clean,. but not
all," Judas being-a exception. Wash
ingany j art ot the bedy would easily
surest to a Jewish' mind the idea of pu-
riucation fiora sin ; and our Lord wishes
Pctsr to understand: this cHlce of
affec
tion and lesson, of - humility as at the
same time symbouzin g that pun Qcauon ,
from ; sin which was obtained through !
him. If Peter had, not the purification
xf soul -which this washing sj mbolized,
he could not snare with Jesus iu the spir
itual blessings which Tvere for Him and
His. -But he does not now need the en
tire purification which would be repre
sented by washing the whole person. He
is like one who, having come up from a
bath, has merely soiled his feet, and needs
only to wash :them. He t has had "the
tiatbing of regeneration,? (Titus iu. o,)
and need only the purification irom sinsuo
RAnnftnt.lv committed, "to. be wholly clean.
And the same is true of ; the rest, except
( J udas. Hisfeet were washed, but. nis
soul was not clean. , ' ; -
Having completed the washing, our
Lord reclined : again in His place, and
solemnly calling their attention, declared
that He had beenl giving them an exam
ple, that they also ought to wash one an
other's feet, tor ; they were csrtauiiy not.
superior to their Master, and should not
bold themselves iabove doing a thing
which He bad dOna .Now did He mean
thab they should wash one another's feet
when there should oe wcasiou ior it as
an actual service,- not shrinking rrom it.
as degradingbut exalted by love, as He
had been, above the teenng oi numiua
tion or did He ..mean to establish feet
washing as an ordinance, or appoint it as
a ceremony ir - .'. :u P'
v Of the latter; where is the proof! Our
Lord had not -washed their feet as a mere
ceremony, it was an actual service, pro
moting their comfort and appropriate to
the occasion, and . was' a proot that He
loved them to the end, at the same time
that it had, as performed by Him, a sym
bolical meaning. . When He teljs them
not to slirmk from doing the same service
that He had done, the presumption would
certainly not be that they were to make
a ceremony of it. - Yet this presumption
is absolutely all the authority that can
be found for feet-washing as an ordinance
or
oeremonv. There is no auusiou io
such a ceremony in the Acts of Epistles,
none whatever ; and it is several centu
ries before such a ceremony is at all heard
of in the history of Christianity. .Nay,
it hannens that we have an Apostolic al
lusion to ieet washing as an actual ser
vice, which effectually disproves, (though
one is under no obligation to prove a
negative,) the idea that if Was practiced
in the Apostolic Churches as an ordi
nance or ceremony. r " ;
When Paul wrote his first Epistle to
Timothy,; the latter was laboring at
Enhesns: and there seems to have been
a neculiar arran crement ' there ; by which
certain widows were supported by the.
Church, and expected to work. among the
female members. 1 where . it was contrary
to Oriential manners for the ministers to
visit families, and especially, of course,
amone tho poor and the sick- . Tho Apos
tle gives, (1 Tim. y. 1-16, ) some direc-,
tions as to what persons shall be put on
this list- ; (l.y -The widow must , not be
under sixty years of age, lest she marry
acaiti, and break up the arrangement.
( She must be one who had no chil-
tlreh or grandchildren able to support
her, for "if any one provide jiot for his;
own. and especially ior those oi nis own
house, he has denied the faith, and is
worse than an ; Unbehevei77 a ' passage
often misunderstood, for it simply, teach
p that a ; man must suDDOrt his family
himself, and not thro w them on the Church',
for support, (yompare verses , o, ao.j
(3. She must . be a' person suited, by
character and experience; v to the work
expected i "well reported of 5 for good.
works : it sue nave orougncup cuuaren,
if she have lodged strangers, if she have
washed the saints' feet,; if she have re
lieved the afflicted, if she have diligently
followed every cood work." Maternal
experience prepared her to counsel moth
ere, and gave greater" assurance that she
twonid be Kmaiy ana sympainizmg y pre
'vious benevolence and hospitality showed
her to be the right person tor going
among; thepoor and ; suffering j; and if,
when she had a home, and brethren used
to viMt her, she did not hesitate being
too poor to haver a "servant for the pur
pose to wash their feet herself, then she
would not surinK irom wasuing tne sores
of the sick, and miiiisterin g Ito any and
very want, Now if feet-washing had
Deen ouseryeu m me iipusiouuuuiuues
as ah ordinance or ceremony,, the fact
that a given old sister had practiced it
Would furnish' no-evidence of her fitness
to be on the lifet." But it is manifestly
here, Presented an 'such f as evidence-
Therefore feet-washing was not observed
as an ordinance or ceremony
It may perhaps be replied that as feet-
washing is a humiliating" thing; Only the
most humble and devout wrould pbserVe
it, and thiis the observance "would be a
Proof of unusual piety. It is very nat-
ural that tbe lew persons who conscienti
busly practice the ceremony now,- nnsat
ported and sometiines;; even ridiculed by
the ereat mass 01, proiessing unrisuau.
should think this a valid reply. Aiuc
they forget that if feet washing bad been
a Church ordinance or an appointed, cer
emony, it must certainly have been gen
erally observed by the Apostolic Church
es. .If it bad been a known duty to prac
tice the ceremony,; and yet so commonly
neglected that a person's having observed
it was proof of eminent piety, wq should
have had somewhere, in .the Acts or the
Epistles, a censure of , the neglect. It's
exceedingly difficult s to ; belie ve that the
supposed duty should have beeu nowhere
mentioned ; it ia impossible to believe that
the general and . habitual , neglect . of it
should have been entirely .over looked. .
t Feet-washing, l therefore, as ;f an ordi-,
nance or appointed ceremony, is not only
destitute of proof, and supported only
by an unfounded presumption, but we
are able to prove the negative and show
that it was not so ' regarded jnlhe Apos
fcolie ""Churches. - . , .
" : V hat, then, did our Lord mean ; by
saying that we ought 10 imitate Iliscon-
dnct on tliis occasion T. Why, that we
ought so waraly to love oar bvethrea ta.
crladlv to , render them every service in
our power, 'even in things inconvenient
or disagreeable, where occasion demands
it. "If a brother's muddy twots need to
be blacked, his horse rrried.'his clothes
dned and brushed, his wouuda bathed;
ves. and if his feet need washing, and
there is no servant to pcnorm tne tasK,'
let us do it, cheerfully and with pleasure,
counting a degradation which is doue out
of Cnristian affections and for the bene-;
fit of a Christian brother j yea,' we should,
be ready to iay aown our uves ior iue
brethren," But it must be a real services
and not a mere ceremonj ' To wash feet
which das-notneea'-'iV'-tteraty lo 8wi
that we are willing, is no more appropri
ate, (aiit has I been well .said,) than to;
make a ceremony of handing,' round a
cun of cold water to disciples who are
not thirsty. v '
i To practice feet-washing as a ceremony
is not an imitation of our Lord's exam
ple, and misses the point of his injunc
tion.!; We should be willing to wash bur
brethren's feet whenever it is needful and
appropriate; and to do things much more;
difficult and ; much mote disagreeable-
willing; because prompted by love, and
sustaiued by humility. - ; - ? .V
Beloved brethren in Uhnsty whatever
may have t been our practice as to tho
matter in question, let us cultivate and
cherish a spirit of fervent Christian love,
and act it out in all our relations to one
another.'- ":-' .'.
Greenville, & C, -i-
HARVARD EXAMINATIONS 1X)R WOMEN.
The results of the Harvard Examina-,,
tions for Women, held at the close of the
academic year, in ; June, have just been
made public Tho number of candidates
who finally presented themselves was
seven, a smaller number than ; was hoped
for, though not smaller than some strong
advocates or tne experiment naa expect
ed, r The examinations covered in all six
days, occupying on tbe average three
hours in the morning and; two in the af
ternoon, and were conducted for the most
part ny means 01 pnurea papers 01 ques
tions, answered by .the candidates j in
writing. . Some member of the college
Faculty superintended the work, with the
assistance, or tne lauies represenung tuo
Female Education Association, and the
answers were then taken to Cambridge
to be examined, and to have their marks
assigned by the real examiners, who were
for the most part the gentlemen who had
breDared tho, Questions. .The reports f
the several ; examiners wnen conecieu .
were finally referred to a committee of
the Faculty, who ascertained and declar
ed the results in each case... H
Of the seven ' candidates, all. of whom
offered themselves ; for. the preliminary
examination alone,; four receive the cer
tificate of the Faculty stating, that tney
have passed and are entitled to proceed
to the advanced examination; one failed
to pass, and two cases are reserved until
f . 1 . a. .
tne canuiuaies at some iuiure e&auuuar
tion pass satisfactorialy . in certain
branches in which they were found defi
cient. '.(-, i - , .
The number of candidates who came
forward this year was so small that it is
dangerons to . enter upon any general
statements; but with a caution as to
drawing any conclusions from a first trial
made on so small a scale, 10 may do noted,
that having their choice between elemen
tary , Physics, , the; candidates all cjhose
the latter; in direct contradiction of twhat
most people would have predicted; that
in electing between Greek, Latin and
German; one elected Greek, three elected
Latin, and three German; and; that, the
examiners generally ; remarked on neat
ness and regularity 6fc the written wrork
and its freedom from errors in spelling;
and grammar, tas compared with, the
average of such' work in college.. - . ,
We understand .j tnat mere is aareauy
such evidence of interest excited by this
first trial as promises a largely increased
number of candidates for the next year's
examinations. - The preparation for the
preliminary examination involves a lon
course of study, and but few of those who
are known to have undertaken the work
were ready ' to presen t themselves the
first year after the announcement that
the college Faculty would hold the ex
aminations, t There - was ! also in1 some
cases a natural reluctance to be the first
to enter this new. path. At all events
the friends of the undertaking look for
ward with confidence to the coming year,
as likely to how' that in establishing
these exammations5th;nniversity; has
respouded to a real and serious want off
the part of the pabtic Here again, bear
ing in mind 'the" limited extent of this
year's trial; J ifr-'ts" to -be -remarked that
some of the candidates sought for the
certificate as a help in' obtaining situa
tions as teachers,' while others were in
fluenced simply by; the love of study, or
by ambition for academic honors. '
I It is proposed," we believe; as the resul t
of this years experience, that tne exami
nations shall in future cover more days,;
with fewer hours of work on each day,
five hours being found to be too severe a
strain upon the candidates. In' this re-:
spect the Faculty appear to be In a di
lemma, the convenience of the candidates,
esneciallv of those from a distance, le-
quiring concentration of the work.-:;lt
maybe doubted, too, whether the tax
u pon a ' y oun g - woman's endurance is
greater when a continuous effort for six
days is required, than it would be if the
excitement and suspense were kept up
for ten days or a fortnight, though with
a less demand for - actual work on each
day.- - The examinations will be held next
year in the latter half ofMayy which will
be a much more favorable season than
that at which they were held this j ear.
Atlantic for September. '
Wo should bring our friends t Jesus.
Under all circumstances we should ex
ercise a sab missive and unwavering faith
in Christ. ; . -1
LEARNED MISERY IN GERMANY, i
We may form some idea of the poverty
that is so. common among the learned
old ana young, in Germany, from the
following narrative which we And: in a
Leipslo paper 1 ' :' '
ivaome ten months ago; a ikh patron of
the sciences and the ' arts, of Berlin of
fered prizes of two huudred1 thalers
(about one hundred - and forty dollars
each) for the best essays : on the history,
of: the middle ages, astronomy, geology,'
poetry; and metaphysics j - and five hun
dred thalers each for the best romance
and the best poem.; A committee formed
of members-of , several university facul-i
ties, was to award tho prizes. A short
time ago the awards iTvere made itfihe
" Gewandhans'' (a?lajge; and; t)eautiful
hall in Leipsio, famous on tfcoount of the
concerts given in' it.) The competition
for the prizes wras large, and many of the
. m. 1
essayist3"hadf done good rW
names or tho
sealed envelopes. ' on
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i.v. : f
which fictitious names were inscribed,
c The prize for the essay on metaphysics
was awarded to a young man named
Max Markmann, who had chosen for his
theme KmVaWAntinmieiderKreinm
VernunftJ' and had sent' in his essay an-.
der the name of "Hans Wildeustein,"-
.. When Dr. Schmidt, after opening the
cover; called but the name Markinann, a
pale, poorlv -clad, exceedingly wretched-
looking young man stepped forward, and;
was saluted witur a hearty rouna 01 ap
plause.' His hair!was thin and already
Rorinkled with cray. and his whole ap
pearance excited : the , sympathy of the
audience. -After receiving his prize, ho
rmip.tlv returned to his seat, r : r-
riiThe astronomical essay considered the
movements i and changes 01 the, Stern
ennebel (nebula), with ,pial regard to
the groose Nebel (great nebula) in Orion.,
Here, too, the author, was louna to oe
Max Markmann. . This announcement
was received with
irata Md twilvl bS;
while be came forward
nfiA lrtrttrir papa mala viattiaSltr- Artel Air.
hausted thanoeiorev r -"-;- -t. i
view of certain historical works -t ilgain;
Markmann was the recipieht oflthe prize,!
and the spectacle was repeated in a ward-j
inn fha',nhai4 Ttrivna : t Th T-ftitAmAntt
amooer the ;stadeiits ? present . knew no
bounds, and a little more and they would.
.have borne him on .m triumph, us
: , The prize-poem was also from his pen.;
In the natural delicacy ot tne language
it reminded one of Roquette, awhile the
thoughts would have done honor to a
Shakespeare or a Goethe. M The ; prize
romance, "The Village Schoomaster,,,
Berthold Auerbach, who was one of the
committee, pronounced one of the most
gracefully-written stories he ; had ever
read. The author was vno other than
Max Markmann. This was the last prize
awarded: but hardly had tbe fortunate
competitor arisen to go and receive it
when he fell fainting to the floor. A
death-like stillness reigned in the hall,
while they carried the poor young man
into an adjoining room, where the physi
cians succeeded in restoring him to con
sciousness. but that was ; all, for; four
hours afterward he was a corpse A His
death was the result of long years of;
deprivation t he 3 literaly v5 starved .'t6
'deafly
i?;He Twho succumbed in the hour of his
triumph, had lived for several years in a
miserable chamber in an out-of-the-way
street, and had eked out a miserable ex
istence by giving lessons in the modern
languages; and nearly all the other lib
eral branches of learnin g. His room con
tained unfinished models of remarkable
mechanical apparatuses, 1 a broken chair,
and piles of manuscript, among which
there were letters from some, Of the most
distinguished men' in Europew'He had
for months been kept alive almost. solely
by the fire of his genius,' and in spite of
every deprivation, he had labored on un
tiringly to win the prizes,' which together
amounted to something more than'two
thousand thalers. Then when1 the day
came, weak ! from hunger,' he dragged
himself to the "Grewandhaus," to receive
them all, and to die. Ts there - in the
history ot labor and 'genius, and their
reward another episode so sad f--2Vans-laied
'from the" German for Appleton1
Journal. ' ' "- u 'r . "' 4 :
SERMONS.
'ti -.t
iTJ it
Sermons are like guns.' ! Some ', are
large, others are small; ; some are long;
others short; -some are' new,' others' old:
some are bright, others rusty; some are
made to oe looked at otners to oe useo.
some are loaded, others empty; some are;
owned, others borrowed. , aome are air
guns," some - are pop-guns, some or every
size, jrom the pocket-pistol to the Palx
ban-mm.' Some are charged only with
Dowderv - and make a great noise' and
emokev i Some send only small shot, that
irritate ; rather . than kill. nome carry;
heavy metali that does execution. - Some
discharge chain shot, moving down whole
platoons. Some' are wide-mouthed mor
tars, t.hrowin! only ; bomb shells! - Some
are dneliiiff Distols. 5 nsed only iri control
ersyvile 1 things Some - go1 off half
bent; Some fl;kh iri the ' panj-' Some5
Jnake a terrible flzi the charge uil eseap
ing at the priming hole. Some shoot too
high, some too low, some sideways, a tew
directly at the ' point. Some are aimed
at nothing and hit it. "Some scatter pro
digiously some kick their owner over.
Some are unerring; others' always hit the
"Wron g obiect. lj- some ' nave too - m ucn
wadding, dnd vice - versa! Some : are
alarm guns; others rare 'complimentary
guns, used only for salutes on special oc
casions. -Some are in a series, constitu
ting a battery; others are swivels, made
to turn in any direction. Some are use
ful, some useless, some dangerous, bome
amuse, some frighten some exasperate,
some explode, some gain the victory.
Very ranch depends opon the uiauuer iu
which they - are made and managed.
Jlcv. Baron Stow. ' ' . -
FAITH TESTED.1
BY SPUKOEON.'
:1
Faith mnstboudged by its towo vpon
the character.) The man .who really DOf
lieves in Jesus becomes a roan of prayen
Never had a man laith and .vet despised
the mercy-seat. "Behold; he prayetn,1?
is a declaration akin to "Behold he be
Ueveth.", How about your prayers, then;
my dear friends t CAre they, .neglected I
Are they performed io a slatternly man4
ner I I will not inoulre so much as to
your formal prayers, as tonbe?puit of (
prayer ; does your heart all day long go
ud to uod iu silent'. cries and secret
srroans ! ' Do von speak to God out jot
your inmost' sonl 5 by snatches while ftt
m..W e , -'Ia hnvr' llrn Y1a1 i WF
Father, help me," when nono couhl tel
that your lips are moving is .11 yQU,uave.
-ft T.. ... -..iWJ. 1
llie. HUU UlLiIU V COIJC1UUO tuK juur
J J . .' I .link 'A 1
xaiiu is ueuu, wuu mui juu uuiuo buvuu
God's rest. , ..... "i
True faith' works upon, us by leading
ns to obedience, wnen wo ueuevo.m
Jcsus.f wo desire to' do all Jesus tells ns,
Many Christians viall short nere ixney
want to do as little as they can, and yet
keen a nuiet. conscience ; they- do not
read some ' parts of the Bible for fear
thev should discover dutie8'which! would
be inconvenieutf. to attend ta Shuttiug
the eyes to Hheavenly jiligbt ia dangerog
work. Do not. knowiujrly neglect tho
smallest commaud of our Lord Jesus, for
an ! act of i-willfnl disobedience ' upon a
point which may ; seem td ' be nbn-osRen-
tial may sufficiently . proverb at your pro
fession is rotten at tne core, oecause
SS iStZSS'
FaI th works 1 in ' us separateness from
sinners. .Those who believe iu Jesus can-i
not enter into the; pleasures 1 01 the un;
podlv: thevliave hiffher joys : like the
tne world's gJ5.S-
ee be seen riotinir with the unclean and
profane, enjoying A their fooleries,! and
lanerhinsr at their excesses f .Yetthe heir:
of heaven is akin to angels, aiid it free
a shame tor mm to stoop 10 niav
eharms only the baser part of mankind.
MHolyhannlessy ;- tuuletiled, -separate
from .sinnera.?.-is the; creat Apostje and
High Priest of our profession,; and his
true discibles imitate him What 'say
von as to vour faith, my brethren 1 1 Is it
.01 mat Kind wnicu. Hepaiiw juu
the world! 1 Doeslt inspire you to fight
against temptation I Does it lead you to
conquer siri t Does it impel you to walk
with Godl't
i i
TIlE'OLD STORY.
The other day a young man came into
our office and . said to the editor : "les
terday I was released from the Eastern
Penitentiary. I had two months taken
off i fern myi time for good behavior. I
was but in for larceny. . I want to turn
over a new leaf and be an honest man.;
But I 'find it' almost ' impossible to find
vrork: ' I have been reading your paper
in the Penitentiary, and I thought I
would callitt. andi.see. if you could not
help me in regard to employments In;
reolv to the- ouestion, "What work can
you do ; what trade-are you master 01 r
"ha araaroraA ThffTA U insLtllP trnnblp '
I never learned to do-anything, . ; Wheur
I was a lad," I idled away my time. And;
now there is nothing that I am master,
of except seating cane-seat chairs, whicli
I learned, in prison ; and, that business is.
all done in the Penitentiary ; so that there
is no demand for it outside. If I oiily
iad a trade 1 could get a place. ;xA. gen-f
tleman wanted a man to-day to tate care
of bis garden j if 1 had understood the
business or a gardener 1 could nave nau
a place at good wages right away."' i ,
s We have in mind, at this moment, an
other pereen iwbo is struggling laborious
ly and honestly to support his famuy.
But he is in tbe same condition, lie has
never. aay business ; he 1 is master of
nothing, except indeed those branches of
industry that require no expenence or
apprenticeship and' that can 'be picked ,
up at a day's notice, and hence that are
always oyer stocked. He is wilung ; he
would be glad to learn; a trade ; but it is
not so easy for a man with a family on
his hands to do that. - 1 ": fi - ,: " 3
' Within a few days we fell in with a
friend of about 40 years of age, who has
had more than usual advantages of edu
cation, having graduated at college and
also studied; abroad. : He was heir to a
moderate property,. . which relieved, liim,
apparently from the need of acquiring a
profession or calling. ; But in time his
property melted away, and now, when
approaching middle life, with a wife and
several children, inr .world and in a
country where all is pn'sli aid hurry and
eompetitiouV ; andj wbere?thedeniand is
made of every man, 'Wbatcanyou doff
he finds himself, without. any trade or
calling of which JeJniaster .wpelle4
to do the ei siest, most rud inientary the
poorest paid work.taSo, as the result,rhe
is.really unable; by . his utmost exertions
to support ; his family . in ( anything like
comfort.- - f ' .."-
And if one turns to the other, the
fairer portiou of liiimanity, it is the same
storyi tAskthe heStTpersori; be it miii or
woman, who comes to you tor charity, or
for workbr for help of any kind, Whal
can you; do t"', and ! the . answer .will 1 be
"anything .which means, i of coarse,'
nothing." . -,-;,- . ;-U ;J--"
. If every person were master of some-!
thing, knew,bow to do something that is
useful and) that is in demand, and if the
blame spots of intemperance, Jewdness.
and gambling were dried up, nine tenths
of the poverty .would : be4 annihilated.
The poor house and the jail would be
"To Let." ' " 1
Tht S3 whom Christ intends to honor
the most be often tries the most. - ;
. WHICH IS THE MIRACLE! .
Men cross the sea in soJety every day
ana. generally ao not coustder a safe voj-v
age a iniraculousj tlink. "Bat the Cathot
Ho pilgrims to the Pope" choose to consid
er their safe arrival on tbe other side of
the ocean worthy the, name ot miracle.
Very well, it may bo that It in bo. It i$
doubtless pleasing to them to think that
4 1 a1 WAbtlV . t . - a. .-1 ....... .'. . . . I
vw K'o iucui n gouu piiKue oecausQ
of their loyalty and devotion tO 'the'
church. ; Let them call it a miracle.- 1
Another event, which transoired sine
the arrival of the Pilgrims at Xiome teal
so regarded as miraculous, but by .quite5
another class of people."1' It is the escape
of Bismarck from death at the hand of &
would be assassins ; And ireither of th4
events are miracles"; the latter surely is.
The Prince,- after starting for a drive;
was greeting a. smau assembly or per
a sraau assembly or per
ouiWBeujei wasfssuot ac -oy ivawaru
1 1. , . . t a m - 'm-m a . .
wounded .him in : the hand at the, mo.
mentheVa8 touching his hat. -Hishand
evidehtlysaved his head. This' is thi
second , tihiei that Bismarck vjhas been;
made a target, by; ftnaticswtt MayiloCCi
hp had a narrow , escape from ;murderi
But Bismarck is au enemy of tbe churchl
The' query is, ' it "a 'miracle 'has been
wrought lately does it-bring bope or feaj
: And in England two events have hap.
pened wh ich might.4 be called miracles
perhapsi ! One of- tbem Is so called by a
chttrchman i He writes to Rev. Mr. Spur j
geon wholabas been; afflicted iwith gout
tor some time that the. gout is sent to
biw as a judgment from, (iod for.opposU
tiou a the church of Englarid.wiThe goui
is one even&t The . other lis the death of
that he was thrown front bis horse
bcred that he was thrown from bis horse
and killed. Mr: Spurgeon retorts upon
the churchman who ' wrote liim;!fIf a
swollen leg. proves that . a man ia nude
God's displeasure, what udoe a broken:
each of tha tysides;of the ,
events, on
channel;we
asto wbiclr is the miracle 1T3rai
Translated front the German, fey S, P. fimitK, E. D,
THE GENE A 1)0 ICS OF THE UIBEE. j.
iv Msvt '-'..7 u r-ifi. .q...--:
An,' evangelical clergyman in 'France
often at divine service pointed out.to his
hearers passages in. the $ible to fte.readj !
and exhorted them to peruse afterwards 1
the-places' te - wliicht he'referred; iri 'his
sermons. ; lie odco heard a woman
who .was ,.-tYery jfamiliar'witttd Jier Bibh?,
and whose conversations was. yery; edify-
ing. to many persons .who "visited heri
When he went; td '.the village where ;she
resided he fonod her sitting down to rest
after bet housework with her Bible open
before her. jvLpoking, , by .chance, at the
page at which tlie Bible was opened, he
found it at one of the chapters of geueal-;
ogies, which people generally pass over
without reading.u He made up his mind
that she must be a very singular person
and asked her more than once what she
was reading! - She always pointed to the
genealogy; He was about to exhort her
seriously to choose some ether portion of
. the divine .word but he? concluded pre-?
yiousiy to asKea .nerwnat sae round to
she answered, "I catinot tell youall; -
but every one of these names eives uie a
great deal to think of. O ur Saviour con-!
sented to become, man,. It was for him
alone to choose his earthly origin5, and
lot hechoOses a rice Of shiners and gives
us thehtaamesil thuikfof everyene of
these names, and of what the Bible tells
us of itbem.;4 Among them are the names'
of sinners, convertedredeemed and sanc
tified jf and riot these"ralohei" but alsd of
stiff-necked sinners, who provoked God's
anger, and we know, npt whether Jbey
ever repented...., Thus : I V understand
the better the humiliation and condescen
8ion of my Lord. How: nhwortby of him
are the best of all - these,- his human an
cestors i ii Why ! did,; he so graciously as
sociate.with 4 himself, ,iu .the line of his
pedigree the' deceiver Jacob, and the
iiarlot'Eahab ! u So I discover that in his
kingdom there is nothing but mere mercy.
Mercy I nothing ;.but. mercy - And. so I
believe that hej will accept even jinwor-
thyme!" , ,...'. - ' u
f The clergy mau went away ashamed,
and thanked God ever afterwards for the
truths wh ich j he J had S stored up in the
chapters T)f; genealogies,,
V.' i'-i f '
1 MANNERS IN jTRAYEL.
Dr. Prime recently went up' the Had-
son on a crowded steamer, and describes
the way : some women: behaved iaithe
matter of seats: ;vf, . : f ,J 1 .
"".Women have .no difficulty in securing
nbt One seat only.1 tut tvrd and Sometimes
threes As I looked about me, ' within a
few feet of where I was sitting I counted
six women, : each with .an extra chair,
which she kept possession of all the way
up the river, though scores of weary men,
who5 had itieen working hard "all1 day
longed invain ffor a 'seat, and stood by
the. cide .of these chairs.. One. woman
had a miniature ship which, she placed
on her extra chairanother put her shawl,
etc, on hers; a 3 third -wished hers for a
Satchel; the fourth bad a small hand-box
seated; number five used three chairs for
herself and child; and Miss No. 6 had an
extra one for her feet -and the occasional
Use f auy Tonngl man -who would chat
with herl'or a few moments, fe-All of these
women passed for -ladies, aud when any
gentleman undertook r to take the extra
seat, they didl not hesitate - to say that
they were engaged ! .Suchi.cnduct eanf
be justified ? bnly- on ; the ground of wo
man's rig his; the right to do what would
be UDjcind and nnchristian in a man. . In-!,
deed, no mau on a boat -would use two
chaira while a- lady had none ahd was
standing near him.: But l made notes of
six women within tea feet of me -who had
extra chairsj and kept - them 'defiantly
while gentlemen were stin; andcoin
plaining for want of seats. . v . 3 v!
AN EXAMPLE WbBTH E0LL0YING..
A"; r ' , y -i 1 -
One of the largest publishing houses
in this country, has 'carried on its work
now for nearly half a century, and has
never suffered from ft strike, Outsiders
wonder at tho sagacity that successfully
avoids a danger which is more or less of ;!
a standing menace to all great manufao -turing
establishments, and r they ask
themselves what is the secret ot this rare
: Last week this firm surprised one of
its employes who 'had served' long and ;
raithfuliy la a position or great trust and
importance, with a: six month's leave of
absence or a; yacaUon, and a check for
$5,000 to render the vacation practicably
available.'- A fewyears ago a poor wo
man, engaged in one of the departments
of the house wished to go" for a fortnight
to.sce a Bicksister!bat.;Cquld not afford
to abandon ;her post or i to, spend the -
money required by the journey. l he
senior member of the ' firm ascertained
the facts, and one day : handed her quietly
at her work, a book, f which be asked her
to read when she got home.; ;When she '
came to open1 it; she; f
bidding her to ' go to ' see her sick sister
and enclosing the money for the journey1,
. Friendship is not a ma,rketable article.
It cannot be bought, v But such instances
as these---aud ; they ;are: frequent; in the
history of the liouse' to which; we referr
at once illustrate and prove the existence
of a, personal s8ympatbvbetween thni-
plover aud employed, which is the best.
possible1 ; specific against strike. Men
do nbt strikew; their friends.'- We nien.
tion no names! because tbe valuo of the
example does nob depend npon t he name.
and because, Jialt s tlie effect orsucii mi-.
ingVthempublicity.r!-Tlie ? public
ing-them publicity.? 'The -public only
kuowof this house -that .itHever so fliers-
frpm aike, andi tbt. in itsvarions de
partments it is served to-day by nieu wbo
were serving in it' twenty -five years, a go.
Only thbse who are Inside know1 that the
isecret of this tod rare fact in the history
of . American ; manufacturers, is the per
sonal friendship between the capitalists
'anU'the'lw'drkiriffm
regard and esteem hold fast when ties of
self-interest are easily brokenfltrMf fan
.Uwtjf..,:
THOUGHT ESSENTIAL TO HEALTH. '
if "we would have 'our bodies healthy
out brains ninst be1 tised,V in orderly and
vigorous way s, that the life-giviugstreamfj
otsforce may flow, fiown - from; them into
the expectant, organ.swhicb- can minister,
but as, ' they 'are 'ministered nnto. We '
admire, the vlgorplivanimalilite of tbe -Opeeks
and j without iojustice?w6 recog
nize and partly seek, to imitate the vari
ous gymnastib and , other means which
they employed to secure it. But proba
ply we Shordd makea3? fatal error if we
omitted from ;om7 calculatiott the hearty
and generous earnestness wth which the
highest subjects of art, speculation and .
politics were pursued by them. Surely -in
this case the beautiful and eniergetio
mental life was expressed in the athletic
and graceful ramtVAfid werec it a mere .
extravagance to ask . whether some part
! whienhearjdmu
ot toe lasBiiuue auu weariness 01 me, 01
5,.-; "L-l Ji.'' j. ' Jl a. 'L -i ..t. i. . s-
be due to jlackf mental occupation on
worthy subjects, exciting and repaying .
a generous enthusiasm as well as, to au
over-exercise on lower ones?.. Whether
an en grossment on matters- which have
not substance enough to justify or satisfy
the mental grasp lies not' at the root of
some part of the,; maladies .which; effect
bur mental;, convalescence f ; Any, one
who tries it, soon finds Out how wearying
how disproportionately exhausting is an
overdoese of "light literature,",compared
with ah equal amount of time spent on :
real Work. Of thts-we may be sure that
the due exercise ?bf brain-df thought
is one of the essental elements of human
life, . The.perfect health; of a man is not
the same as that of an ox or a horse. The
pTcpondering" capacity ? of ' his nervous
parts demands a- corresponding life!
Gornhill Magazine.: ,f ,:tr: .-
f,now jj .W114 iLooK in Death.- A
person lately deceased and who possess-
1 wt a gpeculative' acouaintance ' with di.
1 Tin tmth.'had. bv nnremittini industry
and Carefully watching; every opportnni
fypf ; increasing his wealth, accumulated .
the sum of twenty-five thousand pounds,
But alas f he became engrossed and en
tafiglediitb the world and to its acqui
sition he -appears to have sacrificed infi
nitely higher interests. A' 'dangerous
sickness that brought dcathx near to his
view; awakened his fears. Conscience '
reminded him of his neglect of eternal -Concerns,
and filled him with awfnl fore
boding of future misery. ,A little before
be expired 1 he ,. was . heard, to ayr " My
possessions amount to twenty-Jive thous
and pounds. ' Onehalf of this property I
would give sb that I might live one fort
night longer, to repent and1 seek salva
tion, and the other i would gire my dear
and only son." British Messenger.
Narrow Guage. After what may be
justly considered a fair trial; the broad-
guage system or railways may oe regard
ed as a failure; and it -appears that the
two great representatives of this system,
the Great Western in England, and tb
Erie in this country, are likely to return
to the parrowJgnage plan. In; tho case i
of the former; road,: a. partial return has
already been e ffectcil, -'aliout two huudred
miles having been relakl to the standard :
guage' of four-feet - ejght and - one half -iuchesl
Thb English Mechanic, referring to
this change commends it, and the zvg-a .
ments in its favor chiefly those of econ
omy to, the stockholders are so strong .
that there seem3 little doubt but that the
Eiiawill soon take the initiative tep by
.laying jathird laiL:;; fs -
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"' Jesas doue makes tie deaf to Lear and
the dumb to speak. '
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