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THE. FRANK
VOLUME XIX.
FRANKLIN. N. .C. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 27, 1904.
PRESS.
WITH NOTHING
I oft compare myself with other gents
When worries and depressions grow
profound,
Whenever high and higher go tbe rente,
Thoueh wtuws still remain mion the
ground.
w ...,, 111 ' ni ilk bii.iiiii ti 11 ' ii i aw
Those blessed from birth by fortune's
mvors Diitiu
Behaving In a manner fancv free
O happy man with nothing on your
mind I
Behold yon clubman, statuesquoly tall;
His r.ttitude is ever free from care,
His cerebral equipment Is so smull
He cannot hold a full-sized trouble
there.
His thought cannot look forward nor
yet buck;
He has no thoughts worth thinking
of, you'll Hurt;
Nowoes to make his nights Insomniac-
v uuiipy inuu who Homing on your
mind!
Ufye Wife's
By
"Well, my dear," said William Stan
Icy to his wife. "1 think if you will
get out my salchel and fill It, I will run
off to town for a few days."
"Ah!" said Mrs. Stanley, arching
her eyebrows. "On business?"
"No, not particularly," he replied.
"I liko to go occasionally; and I sup
posed that this week would be quite
as convenient a 'time, all things con
sidered, as I could choose."
So, with the belief that William
had something to rail him from home
that he did not care to trouble her
about, like the confiding, trusting
wife that she was, she packed t'.ie
satchel, dropping into it one item
that had not boon tailed for a tear,
shed at the thought of her coming
loneliness.
"Silly child that I am!" Bhe said,
hastily wiping -ler eyes. "Two whole
years a wife, anil still so childish!
I'll dry my fears, r.nd bo no longer
foolish. And yet. would he have gone
away so coolly a year ago for no par
ticular reason, except that he 'liked
to go occasionally?' N he tiring of
me me who meant
the best of wives, and
like no other place on
musi leave me tor so p,
' son?" And pretty Mrs Sxun
quite dejt-ie. as she went
work and sought to drown u
thoughts in the performanc
duties.
William Stanley took t
for town, telling his wife
humored, yet meaning s
should bo hack again q:
as she would be glad to
"Gone!" she ejaculatedi
bow Jijiig a time I know J
dreary Ur"noiTs('sTem,S : -
shall I spend all these weary day
My lnjftsework Is but little, and now
that there Is only myself to care for,
will take but a few hours of the day.
Let me see! I'll take up some of
my girlish occupations. There Is the
ottoman cover, that never was fin
ished; that pencil drawing cf the old
homestead that I was to complete
and get framed; that handkerchief
half hemstitched for mother; and then
those songs that William bought for
me the other day. Ah, I will finish
these odd Jobs. Then they will be
off my mind, and I shall be so busy
that I sbll not have time to he mis
erable. What a happy thought! Now,
If I were a real heroine, I should lie
on the lounge al day, en deshabille
with not a thought for anything but
myself, thinking, all the time, that 'I
would not, if I could, be gay.' No,
no; nothing of that kind will do for
me. 'Away with melancholy!'" sang
the lltle lady, as she took the duster
and proceeded to dust the parlor. ,
Her morning work finished, she
went upstairs into the little ante
room, where things long forgotten
were stored. Opening an old trunk,
she seated herself on a small trunk,
and commenced a review of Its con
tents. A neat pasteboard box held
the cloth and the gay worsteds with
which. he ottoman cover was to have
been worked. The sight of these re
newed many youthful days, and she
searched the trunk to the bottom to
Bee what else it might hold that had
been forgotten since she left her child
hood's home. Here was a bundle of
letters from her schoolmates full of
demonstrations of lasting friendship
friendship that had not outlived the
poor little notepaper that had testi
fied to Its existence. Opening them
she became absorbed In their con
tents, and hour after hour rolled by.
"Well, well, I have had two pleas
ant hours and have lived over some
happy days," said Mrs. Stanley. "Af
ter dinner I will certainly commence
the work I have planned."
All the afternoon her fingers flew
merrily over the canvas, and at eve
ning the task was nearly completed.
"One hour more of work, and there
will be one bit more of furniture to
surprise William with when he re-1
turns. When he returns! Let me see
that will probably bs in about three
or four days. Oh, dear, what a long
timet I know I shall have the blues
before he gets home. Well, I will
try and keep them off with employ
ment There is that tulip bed to be
weeded. I'll do It now."
Wedding is hard work if faithfully
done. Mrs. Stanley worked until, for
. weariness, (he knew she could work
no longer; so, going Into the house,
she seated herself in the western
bay window, and taking her knitting
work prepared for an hour of twilight
rest and meditation. A city belle
would have smiled at the homely oc
cupation that busied her fingers; but
- our little heroine was country-bred,
and had many old fashioned notions
that made her happier woman than
she might otherwise have been. The
soft clicking of a set of knitting need
le" had something In Its sound pecuy
llarly quieting and soothing. Busy
people sometimes hare the feeling
that they cannot sit and fold their
hands, even when, they wish to think.
Let me assure my lady friends that,
with a half knit stocking -In their
fingers, all such feeling will vanish.
They will have the happy conscious
ness that they are "doing something,"
and that goes a great way la making up
the happiness of some lives. Instead
therefcrt, of leaning "her hd upop
ON YOUR MIND.
The dusky severe chief of Pungaloo
Mil; Hud the highest joy in ways like
tli.s;
He has no clothes to wear and nought
to da
But Bleep beneath the palms In per-
i i:i , uuwi
When it comes time to eat he only needs
to snoot nis next-aoor ucignoor irora
behind.
Then with sublime beneficence be
feeds
O happy man with nothing on your
mi ml!
1 cannot find the land of Punealoo.
Where natives eat bananas and their
friends;
I cannot mingle with the glided few,
Because my oil stocks yield no divi
aciias;
And so Hiave to rustle for my grub
And sweat and fume for all that I
Far troln tn( plmy forest or the club-
u nappy mini wun uoiuing on your
mind!
Wallace Irwin.
Experiment.
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A. N.
her hand, and thus gazing out into
the night, as heroines of romance are
wont to do at the twilight hour, our
heroine took her knitting work, and
sitting In an easy chair, looked quiet
ly at the fading sunset, at tbe slowly
descending new moon, and the bright
stars that came out one by One. Very
beautiful she thought the scene; and
then she wondered where William
was, and what he might be doing.
"Perhaps he will go to the theatre,"
she thought, nnd then corrected her
self as she remembrcd that It was
an opera night, and that he had al
ways expressed a wish to see the pop
ular operatic star.
The evening breeze at last drove
her from the window, and, lighting the
lamp, she sought the "amusement"
column of a dally paper, and found
that the opera for that night was
"Lucrezla Borgia."
"Ah. I am glad of that! William
will enjoy it highly." Self-forgetful,
she did not lament that she could not
be there, too; but she plctureHe
" .1 1 I a
aim was uupp; i-a
ma
she receivB-TtTmie time she
had for the odd Jobs she had planned.
But the worsted work was finished,
and the pencil drawing commenced.
On the third day tho parlor was
strewn wfth drawing materials, work
ing cotton, etc, and slight showers
kept Mrs. Stanley Indoors and busy.
"Oh, this hemstltrhlng is getting
tiresome! I would not make mamma
a present that has cost mo any un
pleasant hours. I'll lay It aside
for a time. I'll draw a little while.
No; I'll look at those songs. Yes;
at this one." And seating herself at
the piano, she opened Mendelssohn's
beautiful little song "Far Away:"
"O. far away I'll fly In dreaming,
Where thou art now;
Where everlasting snows are gleam
ing. And foaming brooks go lakeward
streaming,
Where thou art now.
"And still my soul pursues Its dream
ing Till thou return.
Time shall not move me to complain
ing. Our hearts unaltered aye remaining,
Till thou return."
Charmed by the Influence of tho
words and music, Mrs. Stanley leaned
her elbow upon the music desk and
fell to thinking. She was aroused
by a touch upon her shoulder and a
kiss upon her forehead.
"Oh, William! Is that you? How
you frightened me! I did not expect
you so soon."
"Ah! then it was not my return for
which you were waiting? Hey, my
dear?"
Mrs. Stanley blushed, hut her hap
py face told the truth: "Whose return
should he be waiting for?"
Yes, yes," said William; "but I
have not been among 'everlasting
snows' and 'foaming brooks.' "
'Well, well, have It as you please,"
said his wife; "only I am 'so glad that
you are here! But how did you get
in without my knowing It?"
Oh, 'out of sight, out of mind,"
jiou know."
"Cruel man," she said, "you know
nothing about It. Look around the
room and see how hard I have tried
to keep busy, and no! to grow lone
some." .
"Drawing, embroidery, sewing, read
ing, music! Do you know that 1 fan
cied that your occupations had been
vastly different?"
"Why, what can you mean?" she
askid.
"Have you forgotten a year ago at
this time?"
"Yes, yes I believe so," she re
plied. "But what of it?"
"Well, It so happens that I had not
forgotten It," said her husband.
"Scrubbing and cleaning work, was It
not?"
"Perhaps so," she said. "What made
you remember ft?"
"Why, I set It down In my memory
a the unhappiest week I bad known
since our marriage,'? he replied; "so
this year I resolved to be out of the
Way while tbe three days" revolution'
was taking place: so i hastened to
the city."
"Oh, William, h id you told me this
before you need not have gone, and I
should have been spared some sad
thoughts, and tome sad tearssome,
not many, mind youl
Ah! how 1 that?" he Inquired.
I have attended to no honseclean-1
ma iu yuu iii, wow replied, ' 1
"Indeed," he said. "Then the evil
day I put off?"
"Not so," she replied. "I have bo
evil day. This year I resolved to hsve
no more bouseclenntng periods, but to
put the house In order In the most
quiet way possible doing a little of
the all-Important housecleanlng every
day until all was completed. In order'
to save all this disagreeable bustle
and confusion. An hour or two every
morning I have given to It; and It
vmi as if It h,d .gone off with
ti'ie help of magic. I like It so well
that I think I ought to take out a
patent for my new homoeopathic treat
ment of the annual disease house
cleaning." "Do so, best of wives," said her hus
band, "and it shall cut me of my rov
ing habits, of which I should be glad
to be free; for, if ever man had cause
to say, 'There's no place like home,'
It Is your happy William." Saturday
Night.
CLERK WORRIED FOR A YEAR.
Then Discovered Depositor Didn't
Know Certificate Was for $1800
Too Much.
An ex-bank official said that during
his career In the banking business he
had known more than one employee of
a bank to get Into trouble on account
of carelessness in handling money.
One collector, who was a light
hearted fellow, was going along the
street In high water season, flipping up
a 20 dollar piece with his thumb and
finger, and catching It as It came
down. Finally It slipped and fell
through a grating on the sidewalk Into
about two feet of water. He made
some efTorts to recover It, but finally
decided to wait till the water wai
gone, and then it was found that the
coin was also gone. Another time th
same fellow was coming up the street
with I1H.000 in 20 d liar pieces on his.
Bhouldor. In some way he lost hold
on the sack, and In striking tho side
walk It burst and the coins rolled In
all directions. A number of people
rushed to his assistance, but he de
scribed. a large circle around the Back,
and, waving his arms wildly, ordered
everybody to "stand back." He recov
ered iiiiinl if i "'Tin but decided to
g business.
naman camo into
d $200 and took
Tho clerk
pre-
ie certificate as
e iu. 'Just a year from the day
posit was made the Chinaman
alked into the bank and presented
the certificate to bo cashed. When
asked how much he wanted he said all
$200. He had never noticed the mis
take in the amount of the certificate,
and he has never found it out, and the
clerk suffered the worry of being short,
In his mind, for a whole year, for
nothing. Portland Oregonian
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
Kilkenny castle Is one of the oldest
Inhabited houses In the world, many
of the rooms being much as they were
800 years ago.
In pulling down the old cathedral of
Metz a strong box has been found con
taining coins and watches valued at
120,000 poundB.
A Russian peasant advertised In an
Irkutsk journal that ho wanted to
sell his wife and two young pigs for
25 rubles the lot.
Inmates of St. Asaph workhouse, In
Wales, possess a pony and phaeton, a
piano and a library of more than COO
volumes. All are provided by gener
ously disposed persons In the district.
The town council of Hlldershelm,
Hanover, has decided to preservo the
ancient appearance of Its streets by or
dering that all new private buildings
must be In the 17th century German
style.
Male "housemaids" are the most re
cent contribution to the solving of the
servant problem in Great Britain, It
seems. Several thousands of foreign
young men have recently been trans- '
ported to London to engage In general
domestic work In British households.!
The Headsman's Defense. I
Dclbler. Jr., who has succeeded his
father as nubile executioner of France.
has Bont through a process server, a
letter to a Journal by which he con-
slders that he has been libeled. Tho .
newspaper had attacked the nrlnci-
pie of capital punishment in general, 1
and the present guillotine operator in
particular. Two remarks In Deibler's
letter are quite worth quoting. He ob
serves that the Journal has fallen In
to the common mlstnke of coupling the
functionary with the function. If the
writer had taken the trouble to make
inquiries he would have found out
that, in this Instance, the men and the
institution are to be considered apart
A a matter of fact.' Delbler himself
strongly disapproves of capital pun-1
Ishment. "But," he adds, with a yot I
more sardonic humor, "one must live.?
London Dally Telegraph.
The Whistling Tree.
A species of accacla which grows
very abundantly In Nubia and the
Soudan Is also called the "whistling
tree" by the native. It shoots are
frequently distorted In shape by the
agency of larvae of Insect and swollen
Into a globular bladder, from on to
two Inches In diameter. After tho In
sect ha emerged from a circular hole
In the side cf this swelling, the open
ing played upon by the wind become
a musical Instrument nearly equal In
sound to a sweet-tqned flute. The
whistling tree Is also found In the;
West Indian Warnls. In Barbadoe.
there is'a valley fl led with these trc,
and when the tratfi wind blow across
V T Ti r TH ?"-r"us "",p" f
toned whistle is heard ftom
thorn,
which In the still hours of tb
night
has a very weird and unpl
nt
iteU
Potting Soli For Azaleas.
All the aialeas and rhododendrons
need extremely firm potting and do
best In a compost of peat, with a little
loam and leaf mold, sand being added
In proportion to the lightness of the
loam used. No manure Is needed or
Is desirable for these plants, but liq
uid manure or soot water In a thin,
clear state may be given once or twice
a week when they are in growth or
swelling their buds.
The Early Chicks.
The brooder house should be warm,
Whether hens or brooders ara used.
Loss occurs largely from overfeeding,
lack of warmth and failure to keep up
the temperature at night Feed three
times a day, never leaving food to re
main over a single meal, but between
meals a little millet seed should be
scattered in Utter for them to seek by
scratching, as they will thrive best
when kept at work. For the first three
days give plnhead oatmeal, allowing
nothing tho first 36 hours, and then
feed morning and night bread made
of equal parts by weight of cornmcal.
middlings, sifted ground oats and anl
mal meal. Alternate this with the
plnhead oatmeal, If preferred. After
they are a month or six weeks old
feed anything they will eat. P. H.
Jacobs in Farm and Fireside.
Dairying That Pays.
In a Berles of institutes in the
northern counties of Pennsylvania I
found that farmers are specializing to
a much greater extent in that section
than In many other sections of the
Btate, says L. W. Llghty in National
Stockman. Quite a number of dairy
men are putting In plants of their own
for buttermaklng and are devoting
all their thought and energies along
that line. In a number of instances
they sent their sons to the' state col
lege to take a short course and are
putting on the market first class but
ter. In every Instance of this kind I
learned that the demand was greater
than the supply of butter at a very
good price. The universal verdict of
those men was that, while dairying Is
hard and slavish work because of the
te and constant attention that the
uire, it pays
VUW
change in rati'
sary to bring
of milk. In sue?
be of the kind t
renewed flow, s
be succulent In
watch should be
see If she Is co
she should b
salts.
An
of an
nually
the last
Jlzed to
horses l
classes,
putatlon
ate the besi
high condltli
Traders an
public deman
horses being
wholesale mar
animals are sac
lshed condition.
fancy extended V
fat sale horses
principal equine b
discriminate In tl
horses In medium
to the fashion, the
dustry has developed
portions. In nearly
the horse breeding
"on dealer who has
ranged establishment'
horses for market. Not!
Principal breeding
Pennsylvania, unio ana o
manT dealer make a specif
ln" thin western horses
them or the New York mart!
Industry that during the
year nas riT'ed feeding ca
slheep for profit Tho principal
of the eastern feeder Is to ml
market on the farm for the rouj
and surplus grain, which in mos
stance has paid a better marglit
profit than If sold at the elevator
Saving of Labor.
American farmers are raoldlv turnlr
their attention to the utilization "or
farm product on the farms. In order
to derive the most that Is possible
to be obtained therefrom. Dairying
I making great progress, but this la
due to the Invention of the cream sep
arator and improved churns and 'dairy
appliance. Compared with the past,
a well-managed farm can support
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: twice a many animal as formerly,
because of the great saving of labor.
In some communities the farmer take
I their milk or cream to the factory
: and bring back their skim milk to be
i converted Into pork. ; If within con
i venlent distance, the milk Is shipped
to the cities. Dairying entails tedious
i work dnrlng every month of the year,
I and every dy In the week, early and
i late, bat no industry on the farm
! give such satisfactory returns.. which
1 demonstrated by the larje numbers
tanner. w?o e anny 00
addK, to lM f ialrmen.
dalrT tkrm ,de, , market ioT the
producUl MUh- d(U
need not otillze anything that cannot
be grown on the farm. Dairying gives
the farmer greater control M bis op
ratlozj, and the work ! also educA- !
tlonal. It ld to th u Vf bttr 1
stock, 'and the farms are gradually
being depopulated of the-scrub eat--
tla which have caused so much loss
in the past, the pure breeds rapidly
coming Into use-over' all portions of
the country. If tests are so conducted
Las to teach farmers the actual cost of
the product they will add to the value
of the high-record cows. Philadelphia
Record.
Orchard Cultivation.
After an orchard Is set out it pays
to take care of it, but a great many
people do not realize tbe fact. Their
pay in most cases is several years
coming, which may have something
to do with it. Some people think it
does not pay to take care of crops
that -require a term of years to yield
returns, but sometimes such crops
give the best dividends. Many farm
ers over the country buy a lot of trees,
set them out. In an orchard and that
is tho last heard of the trees. They
are left to shift for themselves, and
ke?p company with the grass and
weeds.
Tho orchard should be cultivated
from tho time It la set until it comes
into bearing. This causes tho root
systems to bo formed deep In the
ground and a large, healthy top to bo
formed. Hoed crops should be planted
the first few years, then after tho
trees come Into bearing, clover and
llko crops can be used. The orchard
can bo pastured It manure Is put
around the trees to supply the fer
tility taken out by the grass. The
kind a of crops used depend to some ex
tent upon the fruit, as apples, pears,
aud peacn7s each require different
trcutment to do tho best.
The cultivation of. the orcloard
breaks up the soil, making it so thu.t
the tree can obtain the fertility that
is In tho ground. The results obtalnel
recently by the department of agri
culture point to the fact that a great
deal depends upon the cultivation of
the soil. They have concluded that
all noils contain tho necessary ele
ments to produce crops, but the ques
tion Is. how to make them available
for the use of the trees and other
crops. It Is a noticeable fact, and is
inrne out by Investigation that watei
lias more to do with the growth ot
crops than-almost any other element.
Cultivation puts the soil in such a
sliapo that it takes up the rain ar.d re
tains It for the use of the crop. The
fine mulch prevents the evaporation of
the moisture and the tree uses it
when It is In tho soil for use. There
are more orchards that are not cul
tivated enough than too much. C. B.,
ajt Farmer.
Trek
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and, not b
scribe .the
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with her; she
art! of looking)
and good humor-;
so' thoroughly, fti
cldo. !liko. Pan f
charms of a bfi
I think an AnrVAV
bly take- the apple.
rather envy ; the , BrlV,
iher or not personally
are able not only tot
brides, but handsome c
1 1 London Truth '
A
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' CAT CHANGED INTO MUTTON,
Blayar . Finds a. Prize, but Somebody
Else Lose Dinner;. ,
Sneaking by' the frleuda he met In
the streets, w(th a guilty feeling that
they might guess the package he car
ried contained a dead torn cat, a cer
tain man of East Orange, N. J., we
amazed when he reached his home to
find that the cat wasn't a cat at all,
but a fine leg of mutton. This man
had heard about cat being served un
der other names In 35-cent table d'
liofa restaurants In New York City,
but the reversal of that dinner custom
puzzled him for a time.
He Is in business in New York and
is a pigeon Yancler. Recently vagrant
cats have been killing his pigeons, so
yesterday afternoon he lay in ambush
with a gun and shot one of the four
footed bird fanciers. He started to
bury tbe dead cat in his back yard;
then thought prying neighbors might
think he was hiding a murder.
"I know whar Pll do. I'll wrap the
corpse In papers and throw It off the
ferryboat when I cross in the morn
ing,'; said he. Tno neat bundle was
In his band when he boarded the
train this morning. But on the boat
ho was surrounded by friends and he
reflected ho might havo to make em
barrassing explanations if Sie threw
the bundle overboard. "An ash barrel
In New York will do," he thought. But,
on reaching Mahattan, he found it
hard to carry out his plan. There
seemed to be a. policeman at every
ash barrel. The-at carrier remem
bered that sections of human bodies
had been found in ash barrels, and he
didn't want to be arrested on suspi
cion. So he went to his office and
locked the remains of tho late lament
ed In a closet.
"I'll throw It overboard on the way
home," said he. But on that trip he
mot more acquaintances, and as a re
sult the cat still was with him when
he boarded the train. He laid the
package down besido him and tried
to become absorbed In his paper, but
the cat haunted htm. " When he
reached his station he picked up the
package and went home.
"Here," said he to the cook, "bury
this In the back yard." She went out,
but camo back In a few minutes, look
ing surprised. "Why d'ye want to
bury that, sir?" she asked, and she
held out just as nice a leg of mutton
as ever graced a tabio. He stared;
then guessed at the truth.
"I hope the other fellow who took
that cat home doesn't learn who 1
am," said he, and he told the cook
they'd have mutton for dinner today.
But what the other family will eat Is
sinful question. New York Press.
i In the Woods.
Paul Smith,
A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN INTERESTING DISCOURSE BY THE
1EV. J. A.. TRACY.
shjeett Pmvfmne Th Trne Joys nf
- ' Kellclea Imprmlrs l the ChMrrul.
Mil Bora of tha Testimony of Good
ConMlenoo No Compromise With Hln.
BnobKLtH, N. Y. The Rev. J. A. Tra
cy, C. M., of Germantown, Pa., preached,
Sunday, in the Church of the Visitation,
on "Perseverance." Father Tracy took
M.his text, "Be faithful until death, and
I will give thee the crown of life." (Apo
calypse ii: 10), end id:
I can imagine no sight more inspiring
or more consoling than that which I be
hold before me to-day. Hundreds of souU
have listened obediently to the voice of
God speaking through us and hundreds of
hearts have, been opened to the infusion
of grace from or high. Cheerfully and
bravely you have looked into the condi
tion of vour consciences and on detecting
the marks of sin there you hastened to tbe
tribunal of penance, you exposed the guilt
contracted by sin, you resolved that with
the help of God's grace you would never
compromise yourselves in the sight of (iod
again. The absolution of God's represen
tative was pronounced over you and you
went forth with light hearts and pure con
sciences and grace filling your souls, liy
the reception of Holy Communion the seal
was set upon your resolutions and the act
recorded in the book of life. Your bodies
are now the temples of the Holy Ghost,
your souls are burning with His grace and
in your present condition you nre worthy
to be called saints, the name given by St.
Paul to the early Christians.
Hence I have no hesitation in saying
that the congregation aasembl.-d'hcro to
day, pure, holy, unspotted, cleansed from
the defilement of sin. is . n nhioct nf mm.
placency to the blessed and axloiable Trin
ity; to God the Father, hecau-e lie nees
His people, the work of His hands, faith
ful, loyal and obedient;; to tiod the Son,
Wause His tremendous snorii.ee li,n not
been in vain; to Uod the Holy ((host, be
cause your souls nre the receptacles of llii
grace and you show the work of Ilia
mighty hand. And the guardian angels oi
this church participate in the common jnv,
for they see tne glory given to (iod by His
faithful people. Yes, from the height? if
heaven above the cherubim and seraphim
look down upon you to-day and Liens tiod
their Master for His mercy ii you ami
for the wonders of gr .ee wrought in your
souls.
And we, too, bless God ami full down
in humility before Him at the thought of
having been His unworthy instruments
in this mighty work. For it is not we
that have done it. Irresistibly the convic
tion is borne home upon us tli-t "this
change is the work of the right hand c(
the Most High.'' But we have in His
name received your confessions; we
have listened to your sighs of repent
ance; we have heard your resolutions of
amendment, and have satislied ourselves
of your determination to persevere in rai-c
and holiness. By your own free act vnu
declared an eternal divorce from sin. 'flint
resolution was registered 1:1 heaven, .-,n l
when you stand before the throne of Cod
in judgment it shall be brought forth as
testimony for your everlasting joy it you
have kent it: for vour eternal confusion
if you have failed.
row. there is no doubt about vnnr m-fi-
ent dispositions. Wc know tint as you
now stand your hearts nre for K id an 1
against sin. But we cannot close our ryes
to the melancholy fact that the flesh is
wean. When the present religious fervor
has passed your uld enemy, the devil, will
return to the attack and you must be pi -sl
to meet him. You must not deci'e
loolToisitua tisMtra icht
ifructiom anil who will gloat over your
nun And nnslly never-eniliiig pains in
flicted by the omnipotent hand of an an
gry God. ;, . -
But this is a mc'nlicbo'v thought. God
has other motives than fear to deter us
from sin and to inspire us with tbe reso
lution to persevere in His grace. And it
is a pleasure to turn from the thought if
punishment to that of reward.
Tile first effect of a good life that can
not fnrl to impress you strongly is the
cheerfulness ana joy oorn ee the testimony
of a good conscience. Instead of the depressing-ami
overpowering sense of guilt
produced by sin, yon now experience a
light heartedness and a buoyancy which
tells you plainly that a terrible weight
has been lifted from your soul. The dom
inant uote of your life now is peace, that
"peace which surpssseth all understand-.
itig," the peace that enables you to look
the world in the face unconscious of pub
lic offense or secret defilement.. You were
strangers to this peace wliile- you were
aware that you were not in the friendship
of God. Now that it is yours you will
iriinrit if no-.iiTtt nil nttnplra and npver
again forfeit it by sin. You will not allow
yourselves to be blinded by the seductive
and fleeting pleasures of the moment. You
will be brave and loyal and steadfast in
temptation and remain true to your God
and grAteful for His mercies. Kvermore
you will keep before your minds the prom
ise nf our fiord: "lie faithful until death
and I will give thee the crown of life."
Ann when, at let, the struggle is anout
to close aud this dreary world is fading
from vour siaht. with the smile of God
sweetly beckouing you on, vou will be able
to lay down yooi weary heart's in' peace
and resitnatiou. You will take courage
from the declaration of Chri, "Ho that '
perseveres unto the end, heNlllilll be
saved.',' Death will have no terrorsHur-.
juu uvcuiise you will he able to regard it
ns tile ga'o through which all must pass
to enter upon the rewards k( eternnl life.
The iu.-miml words of Holy Scripture:
'Klewd arc the dead who die in the
Lord," will liml tneir fulfillment 'in your
ca.se, for you will go 1 'leerfully with the
seal of fait li to the sweet repose ol ever
lasting peace.
Whither? To fiod and Ilia heaven. Let
us confidtr our reward. Let us try to
pierce th cities and oatc.i a glimpse ot tho
joys awaiting us. Our mental vision
ranges over the myriads angels end arch-
angels, patriarchs uud prophets, -postles
and martyrs, confessors and virgins, who
bask in the t-unshme of (be nreswice of
(Iod. Our ffmls are transported beyond
the bounds of 'the niatorinl ondy when we
think that we. too. are called to join in '
the praise of do.l, with the nine choirs of
angels. Our hearts expand with joy when
we behold tho.se now rejoicing who, Ilka
us, have l-stthd with ...e enemies of their
calvation. 'i h-y have fought the good
1'uiiit. they luve linished tneir course, they
Pave Kept tlio until, rsow they are enjoy- ,
ing the crown of justice which God, the
just judge, has awarded tb'-ni for their
fidelity. Thev anj ph.ced beyond the 1
- I. .f i:u..i i-. :.. 1 nJ
ii-.icit hi ii oiiiiiu ion, 101 in Iienvcu vrvo-p
shall wipe away all tears fioni their eyi
ana death fchall be no more, nor mot
in. nor crvinj. nor sorrow shall bei
move, for these things have passed awf
How clcarlv docs their happy statcf
emplity the apostles words: ihe 81
oisis o I itie .Ti-e:r iii n' an
being compared to the glotl
vnieh snail tie revealed to us
And to think that the blcssd
saints is the destiny which!
marked out for vou. This
vocation to which God has
Listen to !t. 1'aiii: "Vou nre comel
he, to the Mount ol Zion, and to I
of the living God, the heavenly Jeei
leni, and the many thousands of anc
and tbe chur' h of the first born who i
written in heaven, and God the Judge of
All, and Jesus the Mediator of the New
'estamcnt." Has earth sny joys compared
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