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SELECTIONS.
The Support of Aged Ministers.
The average salary of a Christian minis
ter in this country is cruelly small. We
use the phrase considerately. The statistics
of any one of our denominations will atnplv
justify it. They will show that the average
salary among the whole pastors is a sum
low down iu the hundreds. Remembering
that to raise this average we have the com
paratively large amounts paid in many city
churches, it is evident that there is a vast
number of working ministers who receive
•but a mere pittance.
call this state of things cruel. Its
'cruelty affects more than the mere comfort
of the minister. IIis intellectual growth is
cramped by it. Waut of moans deprives
him of the books, the mental food which in
many fotins is necessary to his development
and strength Even his spirituality is often
lowered by the worldly cares which of ne
cessity barrass him continually. The hours
iu which ho should bo left free to quiet
meditation are invaded by a thousand worry
ing questions as to how he is to “make both
ends meet” His strength, of which the
whole is needed fur his profession, is wasted
imfiuding ways and. means to i ke out a sup
port. The liberal education he longs to
givcuhis children is often too dear a luxury.
If, with utmost effort he can make each vear
“clear itself,” it is almost a hopeless under
taking to lay up anything for old age, or
for his family after bis death.
To too many of our tuiuistcml readers,
these words will recall bitter experiences,
at which we have hardly hinted. And if
their labor wa.t not one of love, they would
either send up a cry that would compel at
tention or abandon the li d l We sometimes
hear it said of those who suffer thus, “Why
don’t they assert their rights as men ?—
Why do they not shame the stinginess of
those who starve them, by h aving their
service outright, and seeking other employ
ment?’ They do not do it. because above
their own comfort or their own lives they
set the service of Cod and their fellow men
And as duty keeps them in their place, so
delicacy prevents the loud remonstrance
which might better their condition. Wore
is written of late than formerly about tin*
injustice, but not nearly enough has been
said to louse the laytueu of the Church to
•a sense of their duty.
We have now in mind one special hard
ship involved in this state of things,—the
condition of a minister in old ago. Take
a case which is the type of thousands. A
man of fair ability, and devoted to his work,
has given the whole strength of hisjmanhood
to the ministry. v To live, and to support
and educate his family,has not only exhaust
ed year by year his salary of a few hundred
dollars,hut lias drained every other resource
he could reach. Any little inheritance he
or his wife may have had was long ago
swallowed up. Help from friends has'barely
bridged him over the hardest places. And
now lie is growing old. The natural abate
ment of his powers b- gins to manifest it
self. Stinted in literary resources, he has
fallen somewhat behind the thought of the
I time. lit* is still able and willing to work.
i llat.it grows harder and harder to find a
place. Parishes like young men for their
ministers. As old age is falling upon him.
he appears before many a congregation, and
is passed by for a more youthful and at
tractive candidate. What shall he do ?
He must live He has nothing to fall back
on, and bis one resource fails him more and
more with advancing years. Is he to sink
into abject and degrading poverty—or to
seek sufferance in the households of friends,
if such can be found—or what shall he do ?
' This is the problem which is at this very
time forcing itself on hundreds of such men
Having given their best and their all to u
life-long service of unselfish devotion, at its
cr.d, with the infirmities of age upon them,
there is nothing for them but utter penury
or humiliating dependence.
It is a shame to our Churches that such
things should bo The country pensions
the soldiers worn out. in its service. .Shall
.the Church call, its best and brightest to a
work of self-sacrificing labor, and when
their work is done neglect them utterly.—
Christian Uni an.
Attendance at Public Worship.
The question is often askSd, how shall we
get our workifig classes to attend public '
worship. The answer may be supplied by
an incident of mv boyhood. On the man
telshelf of my grandmother’s best parlor,
among other marvels was an apple in a
phial. It quite filled up the body of the
bottle, and my wondering inquiry was.
“How could it have been got into its place ?”
By stealth I climbed a chair to see if the
'bottom would unscrew, nr if there had been
a join in the glass throughout the length of
the phial. I was satisfied by careful obser
vation that neither of these theories could
be supported, and the apple remained tome
an enigma and a mystery. But as it was
said of that other wouder, the. source of the 1
.Nile
• “Nature well known no mystery remains,’’
» go was it here. Walking in the garden T ,
saw a phial plaoed on a tree bearing within |
it a tiny apple, which was growing within ,
{he crystal ; now I saw it all ; the apple ^
was put into J,he bottle while it was little. |
and jt, grow there. Just so we catch the ,
little men and women who swarm our (
streets—we call them boys and girls—and
introduce them within the influence of the
.jlliurch, for alas ! it is hard indeed to reach ,
them when they have ripened in carelessness |
and sin. I
The first end to whioh all wisdom or ;
knowledge ought to be employed, is-to illus- -
trate the wisdom aud goodness of God. t
Ik we would not like to ha frightened or ,
ileceived ourselves, it would not he right to i
frijj\>tftB or deceive others. 1
Lkt your promises ho sincere, aud within
the compass of your ability. l1
How to Deal With Children.
Children cannot he deceived. They can
rend you through and through. Therefore,
to be successful with them, the first essential
in you as a Sabbath School teacher, is he in
earnest—to fed that the souls of those chil
dren are in yotir keeping ; to feel, that if
you are unfaithful to your heaven imposed
charge, you will be held accountable iu the
last great diy.
With a heart thus burdened, your man
ner and your words will be earnest. This
will give your class faith iu you, which will
be one 'point gained.
Having then respect, nexfc seek to secure
their love. This can be easily done. Treat
them not as your inferiors, hut bring your
self down to their level. Try to feel like a
child,—to understand their child natures.
Above ajj^-^o not be dignified or pompous !
Do not enter the class with a frigid air and
stiff bow, but smile a bright, cherry smile
as you got within sight of it. Call each
child by name. Give each a cordial shake
of the hand. Ask after their parents.—
Ask linir they liked their library book.—
Then when school opens, each little heart
will be warmed toward you. Each face
will be bright, and each car keen to listen
to your words. Then is your time, delir
teacher. You are the potter, and tbe*e!ay
is before you; God help you to mould it
aright!
Do not, however, banish them from your
mind and heart till next Sabbath ! Pray
for, and think of them all through the’
week. If you see them upon tlfe street, dVr
not “pas> by on the other side.” Go,speak
to them. ' Walk with them, if you have
time; and let them feel that your.interest
in them is not put on like Sunday clothes,
once a week * but is an abiding, constant
interest. If it be possible, meet them pri
vately, and pray with and for them.
Occasionally write, each one a tender,
toeing note, beseeching them to come to
Jesus. Then when G"d graciously answers
your prayers.and the first one emm a tremb
lingly and says. “Teacher, l want, to love
Jesus.” oh ! receive him tenderly, and try
to lead him to the •‘Children’s Friend.”
And when he feels that “peace which comes
from believing,” make him your co-worker.
His heart will be overflowing with love,and
he wilPbe eager to do something for his
dear Saviour. He will gladly j »in his
prayers and appeals with yours, for the sal
vation of the others, and y*u will have, if
you are only'earnest and faithful, the great
joy of seeing one after another gathered
within the fold.
uriiu pia<3uu m mo ncau or mac class :
Chance had nothing to do with it !
If you live near the Cross, socking
strength and guidance from your' diwitic
Master, your labors will assuredly he
crowned with a rich reward.
Therefore, faint not.
Work, struggle, and pray, remembering
the precious words.
‘ They that turn many to righteousness
shall shine a« the stars forever and ever.”-—
»S\ S. Times.
Systematic Giving.
One of the best evidences of the decided
progress in tHe Church of Christ, is seen in
the rapid growth of systematic giving.
But a few years have passed since the
weekly offertory was unknown in most of
»ur churches. Now it would probably be
i difficult matter to hod any one of our
sity Churches'without it. And when it has
been properly tried, its beuefits are very
ippareot.
Does it not seem strange that the Church.
n modern times, should have been so slow
0 follow the example of the primitive
Jhurch in this particular, since it was a
solemn injunction of St. Paul, and com
uend* itself so fully to the judgment of all
neu of intelligence? Every sensible man
mows that we are all creatures of habit; 1
md that our interest in every object is. as
1 rule, proportioned to the attention we give
oit. In nothing is this more clearly seen
hau in the habits of noardiug and giving.
A by is it that it is generally so hard for a
rery rich man to giwtiberally for the pro
notion of the gospel, or the relief of the
>oor? Is it because he is a meaner man
hail his less prosperous neighbor. IIis
mbits of calculation may indeed iu the eud
mm inrun . dui, uitcu ,wucu( jic^ia-ii
o give of liis money, h(i is very f6,ady to ,
10 tin act of kimlne-s to his suffering fellow
le will even put himself to much trouble
0 do.a kind deed, hut to give he is not able.
Tis like drawing his very life-blood ; and
imply because his thoughts, through life,
lave been centered upon the ore business of,
loarding. lie may indeed have haeomc a
011 of calculating machine, Before he
rives a dollar, he may have to go through
he painful duty of calculating how much
ntciest is lost to him through the remaining
rears of his life.
On the other hand, we see the man who
ias been trained to the habit, of systematic ,
riving, relishing it as his greatest luxury. 1
Ie is never so happy as when he is giving '
>f-his means to build up the kingdom of his
jord, or relieving his suffering brethren
Vn abundance of illustrations could be fur- j
lished «*f the growing disposition to give
ibundautly, among those who have for a
ong period persevered in setting by a port,
if their means for the Mister’s work, as he
prospered them. To'deprive them of the
leavenly privilege of giving freely of their
reasure, would be to deprive them of the
iliief joys cf life —Our Own Church Work, i
Many people drop a tear at the sight of
1 is tress, who would do better to drop a. dol- j
ar. Dr. John Hall well a»ks, “Who ever
leard of a man boing disciplined for covet
■usness? For other sins,” he says, “men
,ro cast out of the church ; hut in this sin,
ehich the Bible calls idolatry .they live and
lie without ouo honest rebuke/’ C >vetous- j
:ess will keep more people out of the king- !
loin of (iod than any other sin ; the love of
mmey, says the Apostle, is the toot of all ,
vil. 4
Industry, honesty, and tempcranco, arc
isscniial to happiness.
Where is Your Place?
A place for i vory man, ami ever)
in his place ! Thin motto is as go<
during the war. But what is every Ohrid- j
tian’s right place ?
Wo answer that it is one for.wRich God
made him. and for which the Holy Spirit
| converted him. To mistake it is a fad
( blunder ; to desert it is a disgrace.
Some men—like Spurgeon and Newmau
Hull arid Bishop Sympson—-Were created
for the pulpit. God gave them clear heads,
warm hearts, strong lungs and eloquent
tongues, and'a hunger for saving souls.—
i To?possess such gifts is a clear call to the
ministry. And thousands of humbler
! preachers who cannot attract Spni grinds
' crowds, are yet as clearly called to' ih min
; istsy of the word as the Loudon Briuot'.ires
was himself. But tin- vain-glorious creature
who cannot attract an audience except' bv
, scu<ational “chip-trap,” or by BiinuiuiisJi
advertisements, was certainly never called
of God to the sacred ministry, lie may
\dmw auditors ; but he ‘commonly draws
: any from places where tin y v ulu be more
profiled.
What our Churches most need is lit" da- \
■ vdojiincnt of all the members. £o ui.ueh is
! thrown upon the ministry that some of us
can hardly catch a spare hour dor our own
family and fireside. The Spurgeons and j
John Halls sud Guthries are (icing ground
to death by overwork. A city pastor is
[ often expected to prt pare toree sermons or
j lectures, to visit the flock, to see the sick.’
! to bury 4'be dead, and to act. on a dozen
comiliittics, and to make two or three
speeches, all in a single week ! The Church
becomes Dr. Tyiug’s Church, or Mr.
Beecher’s Church or Dr. Crosby’s Church,
sir some other man's Church, instead of
being the people's Church, with-some gifted
man as its overseer and pastor.
Now I I »ve to work exceedingly; but
uot one whit more than I love *o sec my
congregation work. And no man in my
tlock has any more right to turn his spiritual
work over upon me than be has a right to
semi me to market for him, or to cook or
eat his diuner for him, He needs his noth
as much as l ueeu mine. In revival-times i
the wliule Church is alive and busy. But f
where and when did the Master ever give J
a ‘ furhinyh" to three-fourths of our people,
to quit the ranks just as soon as a revivul
cainpaign is over V—Rev. T. L. Cuylcr.
Tcacli Lovingly.
The man who never smiles has no divine
call to the Sabbath School ministry. The
i half-hour on the Lord's day is not the only
I time we teach. A kind word, a loving
| look, a shake of the hand, teaches . Never
pass your scholar without speaking to him.
Don’t call Jim Peter, when everybody else
rills him Jim. Ask names and use them,
j Seek out homes, *»nd visit them. Learn
| ages, companions’ names, as well as those
of the parents.
If you are interested in your scholars,
they will be in you. It you treat them
wiill, they will you. Your manifest love
will make them study at home, bring them
| early to school,- and keep them in order
while there. A look from you will often
be better than dismissal. If you are not
well, they will be attentive out of sympa
thy. If the quest ion <Tikre hard, they, will
listen to the explanation out of respect. If
you are absent, little hards will pull the
door-bell on Monday. Thus, before you
commence, the lesson. their hearts are in
your hands. They have given you what
the Master wants, and you as his servant
can easily direct them to him.
Bo in earnest; love always is. Aim at
their hearts; l*ve always does. Be per
sonal, because you love each one personally.
Speak in tender tones. You may fiud a
tear on your hand. Good! That mirrors |
your love, and is more convincing than ;
language. The chil l who sees that will
say in her heart, “My teacher loves me.” 1
Teach lovingly, and when the bcii rings
more hearts .than yours will be terry to
hear it.—Christian at Woi'/c.
Set Him to Work.
If you have a boy in your class who loves
the Saviour, set him to work.
lie will^do for a wild companion more
than you can do. |
The class e-xpects you to “talk pood” j
and be" pood, because you are a Sunday
Schoolteacher; hut when one who has been
as wild as themselves pVs to them and ]
says. “Boys, T have found a new friend j
and want yon to find him too,” this is uu- '
expected, and it will make them think eveu
when they do not want to thiilk.
Get your Christian scholar to join with
you in prayer and effort for one aud then
another.
Urpo him to ask others in the Sunday
School and prayer meetinp. Give him pa- j
pers and cards to give away to others.
He may do preat. pood.
lie may be a better Christian for the
work, ami you will be better for helping
him.—Sunday School Times.
Sometimes love may fall upon unworthy
objeots, hut how much better this than to
have no love. Suppose the raiu should
sa v :
“I°will not fall, there are so many desert
places where the sand only soaks me up
and pives forth no verdure.”
No, God’s rain and sunshine fall upon
the just and the unjust, the waste places as
well as the fruitful. So "our love should
reach 911. !
Every man dtioms that he has precisely
the trials aud temptations which are the
hardest of all for him to bear; but they are
so becauso they are the very ones he needs.
The crown of ail real manliness, of all
Christian manliness, is purity.
Hk who waits to do a gfeat deal at once,
will never do anything.
What a man does is the real test of what
man is.
'•Of Such is the Kingdom of God.”
BY REV. E. K IIENDPJX, A M.
Not only may a child be a Christian, bat
every person who would become a Christian
must first bcc me as a child. There is no
condition proclaimed in the gospel that a
child cannot fulfill, no requirement tb«t it
cannot meet. A child’s faith, and prayer,
and hope, and unselfish service, form the
ideal of a true Christian life. The more
child-like we all are in our religious life,
the more we please our Father in heaven !
It were as foolish fora man, who was erect- \
ing a costly house out of mareriul “such as '
m/rble,” to refuse to use marble itself when j
offered, as i? is for us, who believe that the I
true Church is composed of child-like be
lievers, to “forbid” a believing child a
place within the .Sivi-mr’s arm*. Some
go.nl meaning disciples now, as in the 3a- j
\i u>\s time, thus act., and we doubt not ,
tliat now. a* well as then, Jesus is much
“displease! ” with them.
.\ uat is to t»'*i;oiyc ot an orchard where
there arc no young trees, or of a Church,
all of whose members are adults ? Shall
the place of the dead tree be" filled by one j
transplanted when full-grown V That would i
he a perilous Undertaking, and ofaly under ;
tht» most favorably circumstances, and even j
then in the fewest calces a success. It is j
equally perilous— and only the help of j
God’s grace makes it possible for h'im to
succeed—when a man who has spjnt his
life in disobedience to the will of God be- :
gins in middle life to prune his wicked I
habits and to adjust hin.self to the require
mi nts of a Indy life. Not only woutd^the
Church that depended for recruit** upon the
few adults thus transplanted into the car
den of the Lord, s »on have h r candlestick
removed out of its place, hut she would
subject herself to the curse of Jesus when
he said. “Whoso shall offend one of these
little ones that believe in me, it wore better
f»r him that a mill-tone were hanged about
his neck, and that lie were drowned in the ;
depth of the sea ” In place of training up
a child in tlie way he should go, that win n
he is old he may not depart from it, we let
him go in way he should not go, and when
he is old, we find that he will not depart
front it For just at that time when the
Church is inactive, Satan is most active. !
After most careful inquiry Lord Shaftesbury
stated at a public meeting in London, that i
nearly all the adult male criminals of that, i
city have fallen into a course of crime when
between eight anu sixteen years of age. Ir
is with persons at this age that Home is
most active, and finds among them her
most zealous converts. ‘ Give me a child
for seven years.” was a favorite saving of
Archbishop Hughes, “and he is good for
Home.” The child should never know any
other atmosphere than that of the Church, j
If should always be “our Church,” with
him. Then would the Church suffer less j
from scandal and reproach, because old sin
ful habits would n*>t be constantly pulling
her converts back to ways of evil. Says
Spurgeon; “I have, during the past year,
received forty or fifty children into Church
membership Among tho>e I have had at
any time, to exclude Church fellowship out
of Church of a twenty-seven hundred mem
bers, I have never had to exclude a single
one who was received while yet a child.”
In tact, the Saviour’s statement is true
of the Church to-day. the "visible “kingdom
of God.” Her choicest members are not
simply those who have become as little
children in their Christian life, hut those *
who devoted themselves while yet children
to the service of God. Let any pastor find j
out how many of the members of his Church j
became disciples of Christ when they# were, J
•av, less than sixteen years of age, and he j
will find among them the ripest and most j
useful Christians of his flock. ^Especially :
is it true ot the miuistry that it is composed, j
for the most port, of persons who became i
Christians at an early age. perhaps, in the j
majority of cases, when less than sixteen j
years. i
A Wonderful Preacher.
A correspondent of the St. Louis Ath'Q
rafc gives the paragraph following,concern- !
ing a new star which has just been discov
ered iu the galaxy of Sou-hern MethodiSt"
luminaries :
“On Saturday, there came to the meet j
ing from a mountain circuit, ou which he
is a ‘supply,’ a man of most wonderful
powers. Horn in the mountains of North
Carolina, tlie son of a Methodist preacher,
surrounded by no other refinements than '
the true refinements of religion, he grew to
manhood without education. At twenty- ,
me he purchased his first English grammar.
He studied it and mastered it. Rhetoric, I
logic, natural sciences, followed. (»od j
jailed him to preach. lie refused. Afiiio
ion came—long, severe, intense. It passed,
ind ho yielded to the call he began his
ministry. Providence threw him iatlie
mountains of Georgia, on missionary grqufyd,
ind there he has a circuit. lie came to
mr camp meeting. Plain, unassuming,
deeply devout, ’ he came to work, for his
Master. He preached for us three times,
and of the three, two such sermons T never
heard. Has heard the preachers of great
note in our Church; has heard Bishops
Elliott and Beckwith and Johns. Has
heard Stephens, Toombs and Douglass in j
their palmisst days, but never did he hear j
from mortal lips eloquence that thrilled like
the eloquence from the lips of that tuoun- |
tain missionary. Without a single grace
of elocution, without any pretence to polish
orelegauce, bis grand thoughts were like
huge nuggets of pure gold thrown out by
the rude miner from a California vein. The
very remembrance of some passages of the
sermon on the spirituality of man’s nature,
and God’s response to it, cause my nerves
to tingle oven now.”
Nkvkk get another to do for you what
you can just as well do for yourself. Money
thus paid out is thrown away.
Do your business honestly, aud then you
will have a good character among men.
Masonry and Christianity.
We live in an enlightened ago of the
world, one in which every institution, and
Lbc doctrines and principles upon which it
is founded, is tested and scrutinized by all
the lights of science and reason, and whore
faults and flaws can be found they are ex
posed to the scorn and derision of this pro
gressive and enlightened ago.
Both Masonry and Christianity have been
a thousand times- assailed by infidels and
bigots,and they have hitherto withstood the
shocks that have been leveled against them.
Neither of these institutions have suffered
from the investigations that have been
brdogbt to bear against their principles or
policy, so tar, and they shun no tests or
scrutiny which the new lights of the pre
sent generation are able to bring to bear
upon them.
Notwithstanding these two ereat institu
tions have come down to us through many
centuries, and have labored together, hand
in hand, for the amelioration of the moral
condition of the world, yet some Christians
and Christian ministers ?©ek to cast odium
and contempt upon Masonry; and some
Masons seem to discard Christianity.
If these two institutions are both able to
defy the world, in regard to the purity,
truth, and soundness of their principles and
doctrines, is there any good reason why
they should not harmonize with each other,
and continue to labor together for the im
provement of the condition of our disorder
ed world?
But it is said by Christians that there is
no such thing as the recognition of the per
son and sacred offices of the Lord Jesus
Christ ; and that, therefore, MasoDry has
left Out the very life, soul aud essence of j
Christianity—that there is no such thing as \
redemption and the new birth, taught by
'••ur Ancient Craft.
This charge is partly true of Ancient
Craft Masonry, hut wholly untrue of Ma
sonry as a whole. Ancient Craft Masonry
took its rise, from doctrines and principles,
a thousand yt?ars before the Christian era, ;
and therefore it could not engraft these fea
tures upon its body, or constitution, for the ;
reason that they did not then exist. It
gathered i*s light from God and Nature as ;
they were theu revealed aud understood ; j
and as its very existence depends upon uni- *
ty’ip perpetuity, it c«uld not change with |
the changes of the time, and remaiu a unit
over the whole world. But it accepts the
Old aud New Testaments, and in them we
have all that is claimed by the Christian.
But Masonry does keep pace with increa
sing light, and the improvements of the
ages as they pass. This is not done, how
ever, by a change ot its organic structure,
but by instituting superseded organizations
which arise in the progress of passing ages.
For example : at. the building of the second
Temple, under the supervision of Z *rul>ba
bel, the prince of the house of David, Joshua
the High Priest, and Ilaggai the Prophet,
a new <Jrder of-. Masonry sprung up, now
called Royal Arch Masonry, which bears
the impress of tb it age, and treasures up
newly develop.*^ truths, which Ancieut
Craft Masonry did not possesss
Again, we have an Order of Christian
Masonry, ealled Knight Templars, which
is strictly Christum in its character, as it
sets forth Christ and the resurrection, with
ill the evangelical truths of Christianity, in
i most promineut and attractive form. This
Order arose out of the crusatdes made by
Christians for the recovery of the holy se
pulchre of our Lord, out of the hands of
the infi lei Mussulmans. This Order,there
fore, is a union of Christianity aud the
sword, the sword being used as an emblem,
i»r symbol, as is done in the Holy Scrip
tures— #‘the s>cord of the spirit.’'
Thus, when Masonry is spoken of rn this
late age of the world, we use such terms as
“Ancient Craftf “Royal Arch” “Knight
Templar,” or the Christiau Order of Ma
sunt-y. Taken, then, as a whole, no such
objections can be urged, as those referred
lo, which are supposed to ignore Christ
md his gospel institution
We have most suggestive symbols in
Ancient Craft Masonry, which have a di
rect reference to Christ, and the resarrec
rection, which can only be fully explained
to ooe legally authorized to receive them.
We conclude, then, that as Masonry is a
system of truth, based on science and the
word of God, and Christianity is a system
of tru'b, based upon the word anj spirit of
God, both having universal charity iu view
they cannot be antagonistic, aud the .votary
of the one should never be the opponent of
the other! Rut ir. is natural to say, “we
saw one casting out devils in thy uame,\vho
followed not us, aud we forbade him.”—
Family Visitor.
John Newton, with no more pungency
than truth, said :
“Many sermons, ingenious in their kind, i
nay he compared to a letter put iuto the ;
Post office without a directionit is ad- ,
iressed to nobody, it is owued by nobody,
md if a hundred people were to read it,
not one of them would thiuk himself con
cerned in the contents/*
A Serious Thought.—Suppose there
was a book, in which the whole of your life
was recorded, each page of which contained
the events of'a day : and at the beginning
was written—“This is the life of a ration
al, immortal, accountable creature, placed
in this world to prepare for eternity.** Oh,
what an amount of guilt would the record
of Sack day present!—Dr. Dayson.
One of the hours each day wasted on
trifles or indolence, saved, and daily devo
ted to-improvement, is enough to make an
ignorant woman wise in ten years—to pro
vide the luxury of intelligence to a mind
torpid from lack of thought—to brighten .
up and strengthen faculties perishing with j
rust—to make life a fruitful field,and death
a harvester of glorious deeds.
As daylight can be seen through very
small holes, so little thiugs will illustrate a
person's character.
FARM AND GARDEN.
Plant Flowers.
Headers in country or town, no matter
how bumble or unpretentious your dwell
ings, let me entreat you to plant flowers
there around. They will brighteen your
homes, aud lend an air of pleasantness and |
cheer that will interest the most indifferent
beholder of the most obtuse intellect.— j
Flowera^gladdeu our homes.
Yes, plant flowers. They will make J
your lives happier^and your children more i
amiable and lovely. Know you not that j
our temperament aod disposition are cast,in
the mold of circumstances—that they take
color aud form from the material things
which we are surrounded '? Have you nev
er learned that pleasant objects and scenes ;
exert over us an influence for good ?
Then plant flowers, those fragile plants ■
that look up with their bright faces aud
smile upon us fur our watch-care over
them. Yes, plaut the beautiful flowers.
They are bright gems, God-given to sinful
mao ; angel tears dropped from heaven to !
brighten the devious pathway of our lives,
lie that has no taste for flowers is void of
every tender feeling His heart is a barren
rock, a parched aud arid desert with a sin
gle oasis to cheer the horrors of its isola
tion
Yes, plant flowers ; those mute though
impressive teachers that point our thoughts
upward to the skies. You will be all the
better, and happier, and healthier for hav
ing a few flowers to cultivate and train.
They cost but a trifle. A single dollar will
pay f'*r quite a variety ; the labor of work
ing them, which is light, will give health
to your cheeks ; and their fragrance aud
beauty will repay you a hundred fold for all
your toil and care.
Yes, you who live in the pent-up city,
plant flowers for your health aud amuse
ment ; and you who may be farmpr’s wives
or daughters, plant the brilliant gems to
break the dull monotony of “the work and
worry*’ of rural life. Plant a viue to climb
about your cottago gate; a rose in memory
of some sort though it be but one ; have
one at least over which to while away an
idle hour Yes, plant flowers, the beauti
ful flowers. If you have uo ground make
a garden of the veranda or of y«>ur parlor
window. Plaut flowers, though it be only
by the grave of some lost friend. The
tomb is no inappropriate place for flowers.
For myself I ask no prouder mouument
than to have flowers bloom over my grave.
—B. IF. J. in Rural Messenger.
Clover as a Shade.
There is probably do other plant in the
world of sueb value to the farm era for this
purpose. It furnishes the most perfect pro
tection to the soil during the fierce dry heats
of the summer. Being a constantly decidu
ous plant, its leaves are perpetually falling,
and soon form a delicate covering for shade,
and easily penetrded at ali points by the
air, which is the great carrier to the worn
out soil of those atmospheric elements that
aro to enrich it
In this way the clover plant noi, only
contributes directly to the fertilizing of the
soil, by giving its own substance to it, but
it furnishes a protective covering to the
entire ground, which enoourages and stim
ulates those chemical processes by which -the
hungry aud exhausted soil is recuperated
from the vast supplies of nutriment that are
held in the atmosphere. It becomes to *he
farmer the most valuable fertilizer in the
world, as it imparts fertility to the entire
soil.—Journal of the Farm.
Mulch as a Manure.
An experienced farmer, once found, by
experiment, that where be mulched his
wheat land with veitcb, he had an increase
of crop of twelve bushels per acre , and be
iuvariably fouud that land which hud been
sheltered during the previous winter, from
the action of atmosphere, frost, cold, etc.,
was always more fertile Tlian any portion
of his adjoining laud, even under a high
state of cultivation.
Our use of mulch upon small fruits, also
confirms the above theory, fora good mulch
invariably increases*the production from
fiftoen to twenty-five per cent., as well as
contributing very materially to the size,
color and cleanliness of the fruit. We be
lieve that mulching will always pay —
Horticulturist.
Though most farmers keep their fowls,
and raise their own eggs, there are many
who have not learned the difference there is
in the richness and flavor of eggs produced
by well-fed bens, and those from birds that
have been half starved through our winters.
There will be. some difference in the size,
but far more in quality. The yolk of one
would be large, fine colored, and of good
subsistence, and the albumen or white,clear
and pure ; while the contents of the other
will be watery and meagre, as in the parent
fowls, to properly carry out and complete
the work nature had sketched.
Grafting Potatoes —A novel experi
ment was tried by a neighbor of mine this
season. Ho took an Early Goodrich potato,
out out every eye. and inserted in their
place the eyes of the old-fashioned red po
tatoes. He made only one hill of the graft
ed potato, and he dug from that one hid 161
pounds of potatoes that were neither like one
or the other, but, like Jaoih's cattle, ring
streaked and speckled.—Country Gentle
man.
Care »f Teeth —Put a piece of quick
lime thesize of a walnut in a pint of distill
ed water. Clean the teeth frequently with’
this fluid, washing the mouth well with
clean water afterward. The application
will preserve the teeth and keep off the
toothache, and will harden the gums.—
CorresjxHuhnt of English Mechanic.
Know your route before you commence
your journey. •••
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JOB WORK.
Book ahd Job 1’kistino of every kind done
Hour Job Office in the best styje arid on nioder-'
ite terms.
Farmer's Wiye0.
Did you ctor think of the amount of
bought requisite to plan three meals a day
"r three hundred and sixty-five days in
succession'? To prepare enough and not
oo much, aud for those living a distance
Tom tows to remember that the stock of
lour, tea, sujar, etc., aro replenished in
lue time ? Do you ever think of the roul
■itude of her cares aud duties? She rnusf
rise early to prepare breakfast or Oversee it.
Perhaps, there aro children to wash, dress
aud feed, or get ready for school with their
dinners. There is baking, sweeping, dust •
ing, making beds, lunch for the men, may
be, dinner and supper to he made ready at
the proper -time, the washing, starching
folding and ironing of clothes, the Cafe of
the milk, including the making of butter
aud cheese, and the inevitable washing of
dishes. In the Autumn there is an addi
tional task of pielsliug, preserving and can
ning of fruit, drying apples, boiling eider,
niakiug apple-sauce, with the still more un
pleasant task which falls to her lot at butch
eriag time. Then there is haying, harvest-'
iug, sheep shearing, etc., when more help'
is needed, bringing an increase of her la
bors. Twice a year comes house cleaning.
By the way, of all the foes a house-keeper
has to contend with. dirt, is the greatest.—
She may gam a complete victory, and think
to repose upon her laurels after her semi
annual engagements, but it is only tempo
rary. The enemy soon returns, and even
skirmishers do not keep it at bay. There
is the mending, too. Sewing machines are-'
great blessings, but they can’t set in a
patch or darn stockings. I do not mention1
these things by way of complaining of wo-'
luab’s lot in general, or asking for bef Oaf
rights she does not posses;!. I don’t know'
that there 1. any remedy in the present";
date of the world. It seems to me one of
•he evils of life which must be borne as we
hear no other ills—but what I do ask is a
due appreciation of the important part that
woman acts,and a concession that her labors,
mental and physical, are as great, all things'
considered, as those of the other sex. Wo
men are not so childish that a little sympa
thy now and theu. or acknowledgement of
their efforts and sacrifices, make them thiuk
their case worse than it is. I tell you, men
aud husbands,it doeth good like a medicine,
aud many a poor, crushed, broken-down*
wife and mother is dying for want of it.!’
Transplanting Trees.
A tree will transplant very much bettei'p
and grow with more certainty, if dug when1
the ground is very wet, and if it is a valua
ble tree it pays well to wet the ground the'
day before digging.
Almost any evergreen will bear trans
planting, and will do well if shaded the first
summer. No one would believe the differ-’
ence till they try it.
Tbera is no trouble about transplanting'
large trees, if you take two or three years1
for it. We have tried it ou pears, which ia'
the hardest to move. Dig three-fourths up,
an i.fill up the place till another year ; or if
a very big tree, lake still another year.—"
This saves labor for then not so much dig
ging is necessary.
Plant started too early in the spring gets
a check or kind of chill from which they
will not recover the whole season.
Trees should hardly fco watered at atf
unless they are mulched, not simply be
cause of the waste in evaporation, but the'
told produced by the evaporation, doer
about as much harm as the water does good.
We often hear persons say they wonder why
watering trees does so little good. The1
reason is that the evaporation produces so'
much cold that tho trees stop growing.—’
And then it tabes very much more water to
reach the roots of a tree than the inexpe
rienced are aware of, so that a single bucket
jnly makes a cold place around the collar'
of the tree. If the tree was in a strong'
[•rowing state it could bear it, but it is in’as1
much need of warmth as water.
Mulch prevents evaporation and bolds thtf
water till it has time to reach the roots.—•
But when we consider that a barrel of dry
earth will nearly hold a barrel of water, we'
must not think that a single bucket of water'
will be of much use.—Gardner’s Monthly
Keeping Sweet Potatoes.
I notice K., in your journal of February
23, wished to know hew to keep •west',
potatoes. We hare them perfectly sound!
and good all the year round,and though our'
way may not succeed in a colder climate, J
give it:
. Dig just before heavy frost, and having
plenty of perfectly dry uirt, and making at
layer of it on top of the ground, in a pen/
house, or out of doors, lay the potatoes on*
it, (to be very certain of not rotting, let DW
two touch, and another layer of dirt, and
then one of potatoes, &o. An obtuse eoDfet
sharp is best. Layers of dirt to be one or'
or two inches thick. After disposing of alt
your potatoes in this way, cover them with
the same dry straw, fodder, or something of
the kind, and protect it from theraio by
boards, etc. In getting them out for nae,
use care, and take out enough for several
days at once, and I think you will snceeed.
I suppose the straw covering will need to
j be thicker in your oouotry. Of course you
can regulate that to suit. The principal
point is in'having the dire dry, and keeping
it sc. A trench around the pile with
outlet is first-rate.—Country Gentleman.
Don't Rest.
Thera is no such thing a* rest for th#
farmer who would attain to full success.—'
Admissible lulls in his physical labors may
occur, Wt there are required mental labors
enough to fill these up Plans must be
laid, and these “rests,” as they are called,
are the seasons in which to lay them.—r
Thoroughly matured and well digested
plans are over half the battle. No man
should strike a blow until he knows exactly
what be expects to AgT The industriou#
farmer who has au p full view at Ihp
beginning of the - Bt,'will be sure 19
have an object to vrtfl. Bjn the jear ok*«A*