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VO L. 2.
-’REMO ;T. X. c:, FRIDAY, MAKCH, 17. 1-'.
KO. 39.
He leads me
A Song of'Trhst.
i can not always see the way that leads
• 'To heights above:
i sbrnetiiises quite forget
or; ' |
\T 1th h u»d of fo .-e:
But yet I-.know tko path
to
Immanuel's lai}d,
must leAd rm !
A ad when 1 reach fifes summit I
kiKi'A
And undoratadd
! can not a! way-; aw:" the onward
- coarse
My ship miiii take: 5
Hut. looking backward, 1 behold afar
its shining wake ,
illumined with UpdM light of love. and t
so I 1
I onwarc „• >, • • |
in ;m rfi ct troy th) E£d
helm
The L*unr.'.& muK-.know.
who. holds' the
I cannot always see the filan on whit 1.
(fe.
He ouilus nw
For of! the sound of b .mmer -. blow oa
. blow , '
The noise of strife,
G<tafrue me till [ quite forget He knows ]
A tid oversees. I
And toa.t in all act. is v/jth His good ;
plan i
• My life agreesi
J
w
J canut'.* always cicnv bajo unae^sutac ;
i . ^ie Mu liile:
I caonof alTayV do 'the ta - ■ He gives ’
. / In life’s bard jjihool; , !
Hit J •, learning vi;.h m.;. : ip
\
SO1v: ' ;
Thom, Cue by .pry
And when I cannot unde?.-.tan.. C> say,
; : “Thy will be VIon.
-4-Gertrude Ge.vjfiuif. < hi ;■! w ■ > '."onb--’
costal hear it.,1
The Truth Shall intake You Free-.
; The-Independent-(
'talking ».o ' Urn I< .
laid:
“I suppose you think I nave
loo much sj hr, and like ;uy
;r! had ■ ><>■>!• ;
Bess about j
.iid finally ■,
(own way too we 11. 1
[help it. I was born with ots of
imiifc \i p
[fcdepennence it? ray
and I just won't stand restric
tions, That in v.r acipalrea
''on. I suppose,-wir i
come a Christian, i
.tie idea of living by
having to stop, he hum <Jo r say'
ut
can’t i
haven t be- i
can’t bear
•ule, and of
wflHither it’s
to be a.
itiz.en, •- t
j>lease in'
\
a thing to' decide
exactly right or not. -, L don’t
want to turn myself into a hu
man machine. I want
. 1; • •. ' e * \ ■.•;i -u •.- i (
the rigid, to do what ’
the way I please.” I 1
- i .■ . j*- ■ i
"d s ip! > V von, want , ,o com.
mil murder oru.e i>- *a while,"
said Uncle’Be^^and get drunk,
iv. y 'Oi , ;
and-gamble, ai 1 ,
The l udep ' ' . y I. (. ri vun , -
upted him w ith a lilflo laugh.
'* Oh, !< 1 cour> i not,!!” .she ?al t.
i“You know I don't intend to. do
anyihit . v bad, btt I don’t
want to feel !hat 1 hav<
an i chain to my h io ;
j\ from doing what i might want to
h.t. ! v
, • '.‘I.suppose.:' said ^nele
**
; tdiSunVorsidod and an--! * ..ob
thing iiU he world .pfh . re
all sorts yf i»' vd Yng a '-on*
it all the time. * h« rejtheat u 1
ists who think they ought
be free to blow off thi heads
all r tilers they don't. n.W \nd
^bere are the men who think
they ought to be Yvo to get
' drunk eve; v Sun::* aiirhi m.d
beat their wives e ery Sunday
morning. . And. there are the
hoys who think the to
be free to hang around billiard
halls and smoke cigaro es all
day and haif the night, while
father luwWt >no her -.t> *r«d
scheme to make bo* a lends m . y
And there are-the gins who
thit'k they ought to be free to go
to matinees and sleep late in the
morning, while mother works
hard taking care of them. .
Bur, Uncle Bez,M beg in the
Independent Girl in a lone of
protest, *T don’t—'
“1 know, you don't,” sa d Uncle
Jh' but I only wanted to show
yQu what sort or company you
are in vice you-are eiainoring,
for tin;t kind of independence.
Now. you can see that if we are
going to cave a world worth -liv
ing in every person must . re
spect the rights of every other
’ -i i
*. That's I’ounuation .
of all government. When ‘he
.-avage gets mad at his neighbor
be takes a club arte his neighbor
takes a club, and they have a line
time nil' <Vg e • • it ott^or, but
when1 lire savage begins to • gef
civil itc 1 ho makes . .laws which
pn! a Uo loU kind of ' thing.
Do vviu i S: ink you are not ‘inde
pendent,- because you- can’t
choke to death, evmy person you
don’t like without getting into
trod hie V • .
ii,ur 'course you ticn-c; iou
know that tba-t. very. law makes
you fr . . . I this L.ncl of law
and order you are perfectly free
to go and cc .no as you like; '.a a
land without law, you wools ’•••
hdiH'back by tear—\ ou wouldn’t
bo ^imgbt very far from home
without protection. The law'
i:<ro gives you freedom. Can’t
you see that? "* * * *
u ' am not so <rot. at
folks v. uo; are not. Chris i-ians
haw e so much, freedom, after ail.
I have noticed that .folks who
t< kr the most about ‘perso
liberty,’ usually have the least
of it. The man who scorns to
bind himself by a temp'-rahee
pledge, is of ten u. slave to drink
The woman who refuses Christ’s
yoke* is oftenslave to a quick
tongue and a ha- .ty temper.' The
’man who refuse' t > bo bo.an 1 ’ey
'the -supersiitution^.of religion,'
is very apt-to-be, the slave of
lx little supers! iilom-:. ICs-boys
■ net. v rls who v oy-*-yfivo up their
‘iibos by homing church, are
op. \■ v.s to 111c -t» 1 uions of
jrhose they associate with.
. . d< n't sge that people out
side -injoth are so awfully
: ry r after ail
M'ku 1 do -know that the Chris
tian is the,freest person in the
■\V >r c for life yoke he bears
t *
v,. and the burden he ear
ices t> ’ win. j .
•Don't, you think tn: t that is
the grcutest' independence, after
all v„,Johnstone Murray, in
Calc', lions..
i i'i.v i .‘..-liars or l itI V -Hts.
Inhere is on the borders of
• mne '-t a small town, v. ten.
tbpv'U" vedii; and :Vcble. still,
’.vi|tb -too ol ■: “homo ir.is
stj su| d a
, and ina its ined regular
divin worship. P • 1 - •
when it became necessary to pay
thje minister s salary, there uiov
. • into the place a mar, who
gamed his living by carting coal
and by other similar labor.' It
w is notice d that this, man was
,-ery regular In his attendance at
chn -eh. a ,d was niwer absent
from tli prayer^meeting, but
- tiary -
. msi. od important,
r^s the ... when the
salary r one cf the
. all he Could
from i he pm op m, and thee gqz
the balance from the norms mis*
Ternary society. In accordance
tvitiVt is custom, one fine.morn-i
d '■ ’ ’* .'-ton A.. .1 mat* oi consid
e; able pemirioustih&s, started;
forth v-'itrx subscription paper in
hand, to see n nv much he conld ,
sq aeeze out of the pailsh for the
support of the minister.
The first person he met was.
the above metd iotie&'eoal carter,
raoving»aiong the road with a
cartload that materiel. The
deacon considered wit, .in himself
that it might be worth white t
ask him to contribute, seeing:
that ho was a good so/t of per
son. • od every little helps, and '
so accosted him with “Good- j
morning, Mr. B.. are you willing
'to give anything r ward the sup
port pf the pastor?” at the same
time handing him the paper.
Pi e 'man stopped, stood thought*
iviI] y for a moment or two, d rewjj
a pencil out of his poc ket, and
with his dirt-begrimed hand he
headed the iis with the sum of
fifty dollars. ';
■ The deacon was so taken by
surp.i ise that he could scarcely
behove'the evidence of bis acres,
and thinking the man had -made
a mistake, and not wishing to
take advantage of him, he asked•
him: “Did yon 'mean that fox
fifty 'dented” The 'coal-car:ter
if ;! j, tii’e'.v muisen up 10 ms
fi '■ height, at^.i with. great *--ar
nestn#s replied;, “I do not value
the gospel at fifty cents a year.’’.
/ The answer placed tlv‘ case in
a new light. The dhaeou went:
iapnediarely 1o the pastor, ■ \ lat
ed the incident, and said: ‘If
I that man can give fifty 'dollars a
'"year I < an. rive live hunure o
•The same spirit actuated 'the.
rest of the parish on hearing the
j story, and in a few day - the sal*
i arv was raised by/-the people
! thorn selves without the- nee^ss;
•ty' of appiying -fpr^outside aid.
■ 1 ow ,..n. !i d ■ you “value
hc-v-apspery’ for upon the an
may dei] nd yo for
{ etui uity. 1: ny a . whoJo-s :>T • i
(Jhi istianity v ou prove that you
|h ve'consecrated tipe,influencex
I morn \y—all that yqr-i liave and
are. to the service <
at that dread hour
j well.. But if not, t
l>f tue Master,
ali will be
len this ques
! tier , i;T u'e!l startle, von, for,
according to your
re wljl b
I of year services
valuation of
his valuation
there.—The
Free Methodist.
\
Spiritual Drill.
Statistics of the' present gen
eration of -young men and wo
men indicate an iiicre^n of bodi
ly sue' and _ muscular d< velop*
fit, ..is ri <• pUT.C >' -
crea^rfd attention to physical
i ra; n i rig The ocn try ha s a!so
ht ti ■ ssbt .that it
junwis to undertake ilitaiy
campaign without a. trained
i army. Popular education is also
\ makisg success ia proiessiona:
jiife more and more impossible
i with mt- severe mental. drili.
j .There is also such at thing as
spiritual drill. U is such a cou
1 slant moral religions exercise as
j braces one's conscience, and
! he's f s to keep the h^arfc. strong
! and t lean.
I)ui mg 'the War of
1 lutibh a private in
troop of the British
I detected stealing out
■ the night into ft
piece of woods. Ha y as watched,
the Revo
Highland
army was
of camp m
neighboring
and for several nights was &ee?i i
I
to repeat the nct-Ht i ways retrain*
icg ini about half an hoar.
He was arrested, and accused
of secret correspondence with
thp enemy. The penalty, was;
death.. The soldier begged par
don for any off< nee he might]
have committed aginst dfscipMno,'|
bn protested bus innocence of j
intentional wrong, and declared!
that he went into the woods that
he might be alone to pray.
•'Down on your knees and pray \
upw,” said the .st rn Scotch cap- i
: hi;. * uvi i *' >m; needed it,
more in' all your life.”
Tin* ,.:.n knelt and poured out ■
his soul as one prays who,, looks
co-mi- In 1*4• tan- His por
tion started tjho te irs in the eyes*
of his rough ( tdes. .j
“Let him go! muttered the i
old captain. “A man couldn'
pray like that unless he’d been ,
eg: lar to gospel drill.” - :
Life lias a thousand emergen-!
cues, and in some of ’ them one
must face death, or worse than!
death. Then it may not be e- j
nough to have kept the laws of
man. Strength of‘ soul that
knows t o moral fear Comes from
constant training, under the laws :
Of God, and constantly practis-:
ing 11 is precepts as declared and i
embodic in th • life of His Sop.
1, ‘ —Youth's Companion. ;
Fruit From Old Trees.
Who a :.not remember the old
apple-tree which was loaded
with fruit, so iueioas and so pre
cious that it was cherished, fiouj
gen - at i■■■.. ..' generation, and
Hs./ali at last was e-boamed ai
pa die calamity? Many another
younger hud stronger, went to
the dames ntiregret ted, .because,
the frruv was • canty or worth
.less, and the husbandman said,
•‘Cut it down, whyT cuinb* reth it
: he g e J F
Pi >m iture decay and untime
ly death are the direct results-of
irangtvsSK.n ,1.1 i disobedience,
i.f our li\ es are rebebious -and
our days are passed away it.
God's wrath, then “the days of
jour years are” but . ••threescore
[years and ten, and if by reason'
! of strength, they be fcrarscor<
■ rS, yet »s tin t strength j&boi
land sorrow, tor is soou cut oft
tnd 1 Ps. xt. 10.
r n is death/
^he ungodly are like the
whinh tie w:nd drIvusli awai;
: but ‘‘length of days and longlife
and peace” come from t he bless
: i e
jevornyun’o.” Prow. hi Ps
cxxxin.,3. And fnen who have
! laid hold on e ernal lifts are like
screen olive-trees in tbd courts of
i lb© Lbrd, and “stilllbriBg forth
’i• • :i „I ! V " Ps. lit. ;;>t.
! 12-14.. borne of the grandest
work < one is done 1 men. -
| “Ogllvie began the study of
Greek at fifty, add made atr'ex
cellent translation Of Homer;
! Galileo at seventy pursued
| studies with unflagging seal;
jMh tael Angelo designed the ie->
building of St. Peter's at sev
ten tv-one. and bad charge of the
; work until he was eighty-nine.
I He prod iced his masterpiece,
L“The Conversion of St. , Paul,
at seven thy-five, and died at
ninety, still working. Titian
lived to be one? hundred years
old, and produced “The Last
Supper” at eigbty-seven, and it
is called his masterpiece. Stra
divarius made his mosL famous
vi-Iion at ninety: ills eyesight
failed at eighty-five, hi t hr still
continued to make violins, and
lived to be nearly oaq hundred
vea.ro - p* nd i ng c.My his last
year in idleness."
■ Let Christians not be' dis
b-arioneM, let', thorn sR„ve
their strength, converse their
en< rgies raid live" as long as
they * an 1 and as well as
they run, and make this life hut
the hegi nn eng of thfe 1 i fe that
shall neveclend —Exchange.
The Unchanging tloit.
The '.vorid is full'of chanyo.
Storms and tempests, earth
tjuakes and con viLions,' wot k
their changes. Mighty elements
; net r. .eCm >;>f- f >rcnsy struggle
lor the- i ash tv. aim rage in
their fury, working desolation on'
every hand. But amid-all these
c hanges, thorebs one ueehiiige
able Hock; there is one in whom
there is no variableness nor
shadow o‘ turning. Everything
that man trusts in fails him; dv
evv*thing that; man tests on dot
ters and shakes, but they t..at
trust in the Lord shall be as Mt* *
Zion which cannot lie mat d, but
abideth forever. Earthly glory
fades; earthly power perishes.
Everything earthly decays In
the words <>f Dr. J• - n Cuo
miruy*
■ ■ Ti c empire of Caesar H gone;
the legions of Rome are mokior
ing iu the dust;'the ‘avalaunches
Napoleon hurled upon Europe
have me)red away; tne prkG of
the Pharaohs has fallen; .p; r:;
mid s' they raised to be their
tombs are sinking every day in
rock for bleaching fishermans
nets; Sidon ha ely left a
wreck behiu.dt out the Word of
Godtstn. survive-. AH - things
that threatened to extinguish' ;
have only aided it; and it only
proves oven day hou transient:
the noblest monument that man
can build, how enduring is the
las! ’v>rd Goo hr s spoken Tra
dition has dug for it-a grave; in
toleratire '-vis- ik-nt-G so il many
. iot; i my r J ;k! s has
tr:.‘. ■ (I o A, idi. kiss;, many*' a
Deaths forsaken it; bat the Word
of God stdl survives."' ;
An ltd t Word which has po
dured v dl endup*. ‘‘Header
and earth si ml pass • away, b .
»
i’Mf r. !.:gf)A * The whins with
' i •(' 1 i he 1 lower ! t.erewf f&P .
eth way, but the Word of the
: forever.” .j
■ -
. When t man urtn, h**s
to a church he should enter into
k si
, ,
tipns. , H<* should join it not to
he Simply entertained, or .to be
carried along* or to be h u mb red,
or to receive attentu n, or to !<
a selfish, idle existence; but he
should deal out whatever he his
of grace, love, purse, time, ad*
vice, h« p, zeal. and energy, if
jail acted upon this principle,
I what ■ a ■ power the choreh would;
.be! How the drones wotild disap*
I pear! How the treasury of the
jLord would be filled! How Chris
tian work would be advanced!
;Iiow • complaint* -Would cease!
How the pastor would be reliev
1 ed of many a burden, care and ;
i anxiety! And how God would be
•glorified!- Sel.
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