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TTni . Tk-r, . -rvTVrn f under your heal by night, acid were religious reading. ;aear nuuciucos wm oecome an JSlim, with palm trees and wells of water. Andrew Geikie. TBA.CTIOAL KNOWLEDGE. Won I was a lad trying to Jearn my mul-t-Vtion table, the teacher gate us some hvi'ii'!''S to do which were intended to put t.. knowledge already acquire J into practice -in I jlWelop facility in using it. Each ex a r plo seemed an iusuperable task a harder rn- I have not met with since. I would ttru '1 over the first product, and after that was obtained by recurrence to memory or re ffr.jii. to the text-bo jk usually the latter reat the same process, and so on till after th' slowest possible progress the final result was reached, aud taen that was as likely to wrong a3 it was to be right: bat after I Li 1 become perfectly familiar with the tables uf r I had wrought them into the very fibre of1 "icy brain and made them a part "of my' mental consciousness, multiplication became .imn;t An involuntary thini?. and the exarnpk-s aout did themselves. So it is L'ur'Vto fulfill tho commissions we carry, to I,.- altruists aud consecrate our lives to others -tJ work tho works of God in the earth.asloug jn v; do it all mechanically or by rule; but l.t lov). which is the soul of God, enter our L-arts and become a part of them, and obey iuj (rol. blessing our fellow men, doing our lifi'-work, translating our slf-cons iousness lt character and conduct, will be the easiest tasks of our lives, tho natural and !,..,siiry functions of our being, the sure, inevitable goal of all our attempts and attain uients. Ilev. John Balcom Shaw, D. D. TALK ABOUT IT. He who is determined to become "rich to ward, God," and to that end i3 looking care fully after the various sources of spiritual revenue, will by no means neglect opportun ities for religiou3 conversation. Hs will feel that ho cannot afford to lose the stimulus to his zea: and the enlargement of hi3 religious knowledge that comes from comparing ex periences with others. "Iron sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend." They that fear theXord should cer tainly speak often one to another about the things lying nearest their hearts. If religion is steadily ignored as a topic of conversation among those who meet socially or privately day after day, how is it possible they should consider each other to be really in earnest after likenS3 to Jesus? There is pressing need of a change of habit in this regard among professing Christians. AWAKE. There was an old turnpike man on a quiet country road, whose habit was to shut his gate at night and take bi3 nap. One dark, wt midnight I knocked at his door, calling, "G.ite: Gate!" "Coming," said the voice of the old man. Then i knocked again, and once more tho .voice replied, ' -Coming." Tbis went on for soma tim till at length I Krew quite angry, and jinaping off my hors9, opened the door and demanded why ha crie J Coming" for twenty minute3 and nover came. "Who's there?" said the old man in a quiet, sleepy voice, rubbing his eyes, "'What d'ye want, s'r?" Then awakening. "Bless yer. sir. and yer pardon ; I was aslejp ; I get so used to hearing 'em knook that I answer 'coming' in my sleep, and takes no more no tice about it." So it is with too many hearers of the G:3 pel. who hoar by habit, and answer God by habit, and at length die with their souls asleep. Awake, 0 s'eeper, for God "hath appointed a day in which he win judge ino world in righteousness by that man whom he hath appointed :" and then your idle answers will all be brought to light. The Watchword. DIVINE UXION. Nothing is of more importance, if we would rapidly grow goo J, than tholiabit of making all the petty trials, annoyances, and griefs of every-day occurrence a maas of uniting the will more fully with God's. This is the true mission of trials, and only as we use them to this high end are we using them aright. Alas ! most people find it a very long and dif ficult lesson. Nevertheless it can assuredly be learned. The trifling disappointments and sorrows, the crossings of our will or in clination that come so constantly, may yield, each of them, but a trifling gain ; but the total sum shall be glorious indeed. Every time we utter down deep within a hearty "amen" to any of these minute manifesta tions of God's will, the union between U3 and God is made a little closer. TESTING. Tills matter of testing reacho3 to the heart of our daily living and affects nearly every thing with which wo have to do. Tjo food that we eat, the cloth in our garments, the wagons or cars in which we ride all are in some way tested or proven before we make us ' of them. We can each cite a multitude of ea-es that come to our notica every day. And as wo are given to passing judgment upon the material things aoout us, so we are bfiiig judged and proven by a higuer power than ourselws. The great ques.iou is : Are we lively to stand tne linai great test oi joa a day of judgment when every secret work is to be psed upon? Christ is the standard by which our lives are to be tested. He is "'the end of tho law for rightoousnes to every one that believetb." If we have taken him as our personal Saviour, are trusting in him and keeping his commandments, we shall be able to pass the required examination, to stan I the test. In him we find the way. Selacted. We are exhorted to the sacrifice of our bodies unto God the mouth to proclaim His word; the eyes to gaze on His works; the hands to do Him service; the feet to walk on His errands. Goulburn. As we hold a candle to tho flame until it is fully lighted, go we must hold ourselves to Christ and His word by meditation. Bee gel PERFECT nR3I )XY. One may imagine a musical instrument loft in some old castle deserted during political revolutions, standing warped and cracked with heat and dampness unstrung, untuned and voiceless. But at length tho owner re turns, and tho tuner is summoned to put the instrument in order. . He lifts the cover and the dust rolls back in clouds. "Ah!" h pays, "it is a noble instrument, by the grandest of makers." He strikes a chord a hideous discord, rather which drives aU he-irers from tho place. And now, as he be gins to screw and turn, to bring up each key t its proper pitch, what wailings and f-.-reeehings till the room ! People would say, "'That a musical instrument ?" Bat the t;Wr says, vVait, all will be right: in time." And when the long work is completed, and he sits down to draw forth from those strings ":v.o melody, or one of Beethoven's majestic harmonies, "children aud servants flock to listen in amazement and wonder. Thus it is with us in the world. Oh, bo patient while tolistuniug you: Now the wailing and the discord, b-ana-by the full and perfect harmony. IJearv Ward Beecher. SYMPTOMS. roes your spirit faint ? The Divine prom ises are a drooping honeycomb, batter than Jouathau's. Dip your pil-rim staff into th-ir richness, and put your hand to your auth like him, and your faintnesa shall pass away. Are you thirsty ? They are the h . win; stream of the water of life, of which u may drink by the wy, and lift up your n'id. Are you overcome by the sultry burden !of the day? They are as the 1'.,' I dow of a giant rock in a weary Have your steps well-nigh slipped ? 1 'iy are a staff in your hand," oft lop of winch, betimes, like Jacob, you may lean, and rshipGod. Are you 6ad? There are no ': ri "0cgs to beguile the road, and to bear 5" u on with gladness of heart. Tut but a DRINKERS AND CHILDREN. ! The Sanitarium for May has thij almost astounding paragraph (astounding it cer tainly would oe if we had not become fa miliar with the facts of this nature) under the heading of "Drinkers and Children": "A distinguished specialist in children's diseases (quoth the , American Practitioner and News) has carefully noted the difference between twelve families of drinkers and twelve families of temperate ones during a Eeriod of twelve years, with the result that e found that the twelve drinking families produced in those years fifty-seven children, while the temperate ones were accountable tor sixty-one. Of the drinkers twenty-five children died in the first week of life, as against six on the ether side. The latter deaths were from weakness, while the form er were attributable to weakness, convulsive attacks, or oe lema of the brain and mem branes. To this cheerful record is added five who were idiots; flvo so stunted in growth as to bo really dwarfs; five, when older, became epileptics; one, a boy. had grave chorea, ending in idiocy: live moro were diseased an 1 deformed, and two of the pilepties became by inheritance drinkers. Ten, therefore, of this fifty-seven only showed during life normal disposition and development of boly and mind. On the part of the temperate, as before stated, five died in the first weeks of weakness, while four in later j'ears of childhood had curable nervous diseases. Two only showed inherit ed nervous defects. Thus fifty were normal, in every way sound in Dody t:nd mind-'' j INTEMPERANCE AND CRIME. In the annual report of the State Boar! of Pardons of Ohio attention is called to the fact the Board has in most cases deemed it prudent to include in the recommendation for pardon a condition requiring abstinence from the use of intoxicating liquor. This is done in the belief that it will lessen the liability of tha pardoned prisoner to again commit crime. "It is a conspicuous fact," says the report, "that in nearly ev?ry case of eriron against the person, the offender was either under the influence of liquor or became involved in an affair by reason of being in a place where intoxicating liquor was sold." , ROT'S RAVAGES IN AKHICV. Bishop Tugwell, vi"eiterr Afrca, rax sounded a cry of alarm concerniuir th? ravaees of rum among the natives of West era Equatorial Africa. He says that' gin and rum are being poured into that country in alarming quantities, and in some places 'where there is a rich trade in native nrod ucts. European manufactures are hardly tc be seen. They have been driven out by tin traffic in strong drink. Its effects upon the people are disastrous in the last degree; ia some cases it is actually destroying the ex cellent work of missions. He points out that the result must be the utter destruction, un less the traffic is checked, of the African races and of European commerce as vrel.'. TEE STATEMENT WAS INCORRECT. A prominent English physician started to investigate the statement which he heard at a temperance meeting, and did not believe, "that 60,000 persons .annually die in th United Kingdom from tho use of alcoholic drink. He now says that the statement u - Incorrect; the number is Dr 120.003. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report I r" n o -v r rvvh a n roy Pm3er ,PlayM in Morocco. A dozen or so horses are drawn up Into line at one end of the plain, the riders, ly means of bit and stirrup, working their animals Into a ferment of excitement Then, at a given signal, the long-barreled guns are waved in the air, and the troop sets forward at lit tle more than a walk, which Increases as they proceed, waving their guns and saluting the while, until it becomes a furious gallop. Suddenly the weapons are brought to the shoulder, held with both hands, the elbows raised io the level of their shoul ders, and thej next moment the little troop of horsemen Is lost to sight, en veloped In the clouds of white smoke which the flint-lock guns and Inferior native powder produce, only to issue again In their showy trappings, rein ing In the horses with all the strength of their iron i wrists, until the poor beasts, often with bleeding mouths, are brought to a standstill. The lab-el-barond, as the natives call it, admits of but little variation when performed In numbers; but this is not always the case, and at times one man alone will gp-fhrough the maneuvers, Introducing some new system of his own lying back in the saddle and fir ing behind him, for Instance, or under his horse's belly. Unpleasant Japanese Custom. 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