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Kveit-Tide.
The stream U calmest when it nears
the tide,
And flowers are sweetest at the even'
tide,"
. And bird most musical at close of day
And saints divinest when they pass
away.
Horning is lovely, but a holier charm
Lies folded close in evening's robe of
balm.
And weary man must ever love her best
For morning 'calls to toil, but night
- ,iit j rest. - y
" ' She comes from heaven, and on her
wings doth bear . "
A holy fragranceUke the breath of
prayer;
Footsteps of angels follow- in her trace,
Toshut the weary eyes of day in peace
All things are hushed before her, as she
throws
O'er earth and sky her mantle of r
pose,
There is a calm, a beauty, and a power,
That morning knows not in the even
ing hour.
Until the evening we musl weep and
toil,
Plow life's stern furrows, dig the
weedy soil,
Tread with sad feet our rough and
thorny way,
-And bear the heat and burden of the
day.
Oh ! when our sun is Betting may we
glide
Like summer evening, down the gold
en tide ;
And leave behind us, as we pass away,
sweet, starry twilight round our
sleeping day.
Selected.
Communications.
Women of Japan.
BJV REV Y. YOSHIOKA.
The position of women in JapaD
has a marked contrast with that
in other countries of the East.
They are treated with respect aud
consideration far above those ob
served in other parts of Asia. They
are allowed greater freedom, and
,.Jnce have more, djgnitx and self
confidence. They are much better
educated. It is frequently tie case
that soioe of our eminent poets,
artists and authors are found in
the ladies' circle. No woman's
feet are t-ver bound, and among the
middle and lower classes, especial-
) ly, she is almost as much at lib
erty to walk and visit as in Amer-
v ica. A large -amount of freedom
' prevails among our womankind
that cannot be expected in any
other Asiatic country.
The heathen religion has a great
deal to do with the low state of
woman in Japan as compared with
that in Christian countries. In
Buddhism, which is the only re
ligion in Japan worthy of a name,
in the sense of a binding system oi
dogmatics, or i purifying and ele
vating moral power, there is no
hope of immortality for a woman
unless she 'is reborn as a man,
which means that there is no sal
vation fr a woman. In the eye
of Buddhist dogma and ecclesiasti
cal law, woman is but a tempta
tion, a snare, an unclean thing's
scape-goat, an obstacle to peace
and holiness. Shintoism accords
her a higher place, but it can never
have influence over the heart and
mind of the modern Japanese peo
ple. A great principle of filial obedi
ence is the cause of the degreda
tion of our .women. Duty to
parents overshadows all other du
ties. The Japanese maiden, as
pure as the purest Christian vir
gin, will at the command of her
father enter the brothel to-morrow,
and prostitute herself for life. Not
' a murmur .escapes her lips as she
thus filially obeys. To a life she
"loathes, and to disease, premature
old age and an early grave, she
goes joyfully. The staple of a
thousand novels, plays and pic
tures in Japan if written in the
life of a girl of gentle manners and
tendet Jieart, who hates her lift
and would gladly destroy it, but
refrains because her purchase
money haB enabled her father "to
pay his debts, and she is b jund
not to injure herself. In the greal
cities there are to-day hundreds oi
girls who loathe their existence,but
must live on in utmost misery be
cause they are fulfilling all right
eousness as summed tip in filial
obedience. . - -
The system of female education
has been : improved since the res
toration, on the Western plan. We
. have, besides, common schools,
colleges and normal schools for
our girls, whose progress and suc
cesses are lemarkable. Our pres
ent Empress has done a great deal
t elevate the condition of her fe
male subjects b' encouraging the
education of the girls, and setting
a noble example, not only of
womanly character, and active
deeds of benevolence, but also in
discarding the foolish customs of
past ages, especially of blacking
the teeth and shaving the eye
brows. She has already accom
plished great reforms in .social
customs and fashions, and both by
he encouragement of her presence
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and by gifts -froia he r, private
purse, has greatly stimulated the
cause of the education. andeleva-
ion ot woman in Japan. Progres
3i ve men nave learned to Dest"w
that measure of honor upon our
voinen which they see is enthusi
istically awarded by Westerners
to theirs. The marriage laws have
been so reformed as to allow the
people to marry on the basis of a
civil contract. Christian Japanese
Uad their brides to Christian
altars to nave the sanction ot re
ligion.
The new education which is not
founded on Christianity, but not
inferior in all other respects to
that of women in the West, bas a
tendency to exalt the mental pow
ers at the expense of the mural
and spiritual; Like our young
Tien, our young women are brougi.t
under the influence of modern in
lidelity, and exposed, to the
daugers and temptations of the
civilized life. Hnce, with all the
blessings of modern civilization
hey are ultimately reduced t the
same condition of women who are
in darkness and ignorance of su
perstition and idolatry that of
souls without hope aud knowledge
of Christ.
Thoughts.
BY J. E. It.
We are a people shamefully over-
axed for the benefit of political
robbers, and there is no remedy
for us short of a reformation ol
ur National adhniTri?TmTTnn
Money gained for its on sake,
helps no man, benefits no people.
There are better things in this
world than gold belter things thsu
id can buy. The richest men
are not the best men, nor the
wealthiest nations the noblest.
Jerusalem stained her streefjeH
with the blood of her prophets,
and afterward sought to paliate
her guilt by rearing monuments
to their memory. Before God and
u the eight ofthe world . we to-day
tand guilty of just such a crime
u tolerating saloons.
The Christian voters of the na
on are sovereign, and in their
sovereign capacity can,' say to this
nan go, aud he goeth, and to that
man come, and he cometh," hei ce
the blame attaches to them, that
he saloon exists, because if they
will, they can vote stronger against
the saloon than liquor men can
vote for it. There is not an inch
neutral ground for any sane
man when called to decide by the
exercise of his sovereign right a
matter of right and wrong. He
hat is not for is against. Claim
what he may, his vote helps or
linders. The great vital, fo-ce-
ful teacher is example, and to
teach the right we must act the
right.
Suppose the liquor men- were as
indifferent, or if you please, as
disloyal to their interests, as we
to our principles, to our profes
sions, what would they accomplish
for their traffic? Will we never
learn the needed lesson from their
success, aud the means by which
i hey achieve it?
Under the plea that he cheapens
labor, we banish the -'Chinamen''
from our phores. Under the plra
that he builds up industry, wj wel
come the '"German." The truth is
tht-t the one makes it his business
to make us a ?lrn people, the
ther makes it Lis business to
make us a filthy peopre. The one
runs the laundry. The other runs
the saloon.
We fight for prohibition on the
broad basis of principle. We
would promote good, by lessening
evil. We have no corrupting fund
to buy vasiliating voters, that is
the weapon of the other side. We
simply aBk the good people of
every class and order, to put this
question to a critical analysis ;
determining for themselves what
it involves, and cast their vote in
the light of an informed conscience.
Selections.
Bishop Keener Speaks vut
The following letter from the
senior bishop to the Missionary
Secretaries speaks for itself. We
publish it entire, and wish that it
may stir up many consciences on
the subject which it touches.
Ret). I. G. John, W. II. Potter, and
H. C. Morrison, Secretaries of Mis
sion Board, M. E. Church, South.
My Dear Brethren: I have
0
waited very expectantly, since our
lmeetiug in Wilmington,, for some
I i x . r 1 . ' .rr .
announcement of a special effort
to liquidate the mission
four Church, which is upon us at
a leopard at our throat. One hun
dred and eighteen thousand dol
Jars is something alarming to a
society that lives fully as much by
sight as by faith. It w ill require
a continued effort from now until
the end of the year to keep our
heads above water. The asy style
of calculating that twenty-five
cents per member will jield so
much, and fifty cents per member
so much more, and that one dollar
per member will bring in over one
million of dollars into the mis
sionary treasury, does not bring
the money. The numbers are not
to be found in any missionary
sense no, not a half of them, nor
:v quarter, nor a tenth ; and tho-e
who feel themselves responsible to
the son of God for the advancing
his kingdom, personally responsi
ble, are alarmingly few. They are
the ones who are already supply
ing the sinews of this campaign
igaiust the power of darkness in
heathen lauds. It is from them
w.e are main!' to expect the funds
needed to liquidate this debt.
Much as they have done, and are I
ioing, their .Lord ( alls upon them
an increased liberality, tor yet
more self-denial ; with the promise
a richer supply of grace and his
own personal acknowledgement of
indebtedness to them in that day.
Those who have given the dollar
yes, ten times over are the ones
to be visited and called upon spec-
iallyin this hour of alar in ing nec
essity. We must not go back
upon our Japan mission, our Chi
nese, our Mexican, our Brazilian,
at this time when things look dark
and the sky ia lowering somewhat
in those fields of Chrirtian enter
prise. The man who sleeps at home in
his own bed every night, and ex
pects to die in a land where -the
sun of the Holy Spirit never sets,
only long enough for some saint
to pass into heaven, can well af
ford to sustain his brethren at the
front, in their weariness and soli
tary encounter with paganism.
Let us deny ourselves for the
present all new enterprises of a
Connectional kind, that we may
move in power and national
breadth in the mighty work of
preaching Christ to the world.
This cpn only be done by extricat
ing our Foreign Missionary So
ciety from the toils of debt, at
once and forever. The B;ird is
pledged to keep out of debt Lence-
forth in all of its annropr'ations.
We want no shrinkage in our
annual receipes this year. They
are small enough for maintaining
missionary life in our church. But
we want a debt contribution, gener
ous and dehnite, the tunds ot
which are to be announced in a
separate column, both at the An
nual Conferences and by the Mis
sionary Treasurer a monthly
report. Put me down $10U in this
debt column. Yours truly in
Christ.
J. C. Keener.
Ocean Springs, Miss.,
July 28, 1891.
The Louisiiia Fijjht.
We are advised that the lottery
war is already on in Louisiana
The anti-lottery people have be
gun the fight early, and propose
to carry it forward with the utmost
zeal to the bitter end. The con
test promises to be ouof intense.
National interest, and of bitter
ness of feeling unparalleled in
American history.
But why should there be any
such war? Has it not been the
settled policy of the State for
twenty years, and more, to sanc
tion legally this lottery and share
in' the proceeds of its robberies.
Have not the most reputable news
papers in the country received
large gains from the infamous bus.
iness of the infamous, law-created
highwaymen? Have not the man-
agers of the concern the "personal
liberty" to continue their scoun
drelly trad"- linhnmnored bv laws
which, in the phraseology of dem
ocratic platforms, '-vex and harass
the citizen, and. unduly' restrain
him in his rights to life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness!"
Takj a parallf 1 case the liquor
tralfic, for example. Is the lottery
worse than the liquor trade?- Does
the lottery debauch men into idi
ots, madmen and brutes? Does it
make hells of homes, and fill jails
and penitentiaries from an end
less procet sion of criminals? Does
it send one hundred thousand men
effort) to , jo.r tm
:?y debCjgrave, make sixrythoBeand help
less widows and three hundred
thousand orphans, and a million
paupers every year as the liquor
traffic confessedly does?
Honestly, the comparison of the
two evils is frivolous because so
overwhelmingly to the advantage
of the lottery and 1o the total con
demnation of the liquor traffic.
Yet presses, pulpits, legislators,
laymen of every creed, who are so
bitterly enlisted against the lottery
as to threaten revolution as the
last rpsort for its annihilation still
consent to, vote for and uphold in
every way the infamous, disgust
ing, damning trade in liquors. .
Such flagrant inconsistency, hy-
pocricy and treason to true prin
ciples deserve no victories and are
not likely to gain any. The sa
loons they support will fight
against them and favor the lottery.
The liquors they declare proper
articles of lawful commerce will
inflame, befuddle and seduce the
voters. The bribe of $1,125,000
per annum to th! tax payers will
muzzle the mouths of the majority
and torse tle-ir owners to keep si
lent in the face of the bribery of
the ignorant, depraved voters. It
is no worse to buy a fortress for
the lottery in the State constitu
tion than to buy protection for the
rum trade or the way ot a rascal
of any party into & public office
in truth, that lottery war is a
great moral farce. The curses of
a guilty participation, for decades
past, in lottery, Tm, gamblifig-ftiul
prostitution revenues, have come
home to the people of Louisiana
and bid fair, by unfair, unholy and
lawless methods, to establish their
roosts for another quarter of a cen
tury in the c;itital and constitu
tion of the Polican State. Atlanta
Herald.
Mrs. James K. Polk.
A lett r written to the Courier
Journal from Nashville, Tenu., da
ted August 14, gives an interesting
account of the death of Mrs. Polk.
We copy the following paragraph :
At G o'clock this morning her
physician announced to her the
fact that the end was very near.
'Yes.' she quietly replied, 'I know
it I am ready for it and haye been
all my life ready to obey the sum
mons of my Master.' She then at
length, as her strength would bear
attested her faith in the Christian
religion, and the great peace of
mind and happiness it had always
given her even unto this, the end
of her 1 fe. From this serene ex
pression of her u wavering Irust in
the Lord, she continued with a
clear voice, though becoming mo
mentarily feebler, 10 thank Him
for His goodness and His mercy
through all her life, prolonged far
beyond that natural to human
life, and to praise Him and mag
nify His name, for His goodness
and grace to her, quoting most
touchingly beautiful stanzas from
that rap'nrous hymn: "I would
not live always." Just before her
dealh, she put her hand upon the
head of her beloved niece, Mrs.
Geo. Fall, and gave her her dying
blessing as expressive of undying
love; commending her and . her
great-niece, Mrs. Sadie Polk Gard
ner, to the goodness and the care
and mercy of the Lord."
Thus ended the mortal life, and
thus began the immortal life of as
good a Christian woman as enno
bled her sex or graced in perfect
womanhood our country, in which
she had been elevated to the
proudest position woman can hold
in presiding as lady of the White
House wife of the president of
the nation. Before and then and
since, to her death, had this grand
historic woman, in the gentleness
and grace and goodness and sim
plicity of her life, in the purity of
her character, in the lofty exem
plification of Christian woman
hoo 1, been an example worthy of
emulation to her country women
and to her sex throughout the
world.
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Horae is the father's haven, the
mother's world, the son's sheet
anchor! and the daughter's training
rchool. i i
A possession j'outh hopes for,
niankin1 cares for, and old age is
thankfulfor.
The golden setting in which the
brightest jewel is "mother."
A shijj upon the ocean of life,
where the captain is assisted by a
first-class mate.
'Home- is the blossom of which
Heavenis the fruit.
A ' -?
rrf,-iher lives.
'ApaTeasi
ly left, but not so eas'-
ily forgotten.
The place where
the great are
sometimes small,
and the small
often great.
The kingdom of love
whose
queen is mother.
The world's workshop for the
manufacture of character.
The best place for
a married
man after business.
A working model of heaven, with
real angels in the form of mothers
and wives.
The only place on earth where a
man is seen as he truly is.
Piace mar 18 euner maae or
marreu oy a woman.
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An oasis in the desert of life
where one can find a shady retreat
from the sun of toil and drink
trom the well ot happines.
tt , ' ;i;t, kj
-its harmony depends on those
who are in it.
As steam to the locomotive, so
is homo to the human heart, the
stand propelling power. London
Tit-Bits.
IV? I .1 1 I" L '
It has been learned within the
past few years that several of the
most serious diseases known to
man are caused by particular
species of bacteria. Such diseases
are called infectious. Amongst
i nose i o resnrwixuiti -jisjOr i gin ave
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are tuberculosis. Asiatic cholera.
erysipelas, and some forms of
blood poisoning, tetanus or lock
jaw, some forms of pneumonia,!
typhoid fever and diphtheria.
We know the germs which are
concerned in the causation of
these diseases, and can grow them
in tubes in the laboratory and
work out their life history.
There are othes diseases belong
ing apparently in the same general
class, of whose mode of origin we
are stiil largely ignorant. Such
..i..u isnuiMct
are smallpox, measles, scarlatina, loudly that you and John may for
yellow fever and " others. We ever be happy as two turtle doves.
believe largely on the ground of
analogy, that these too are caused
by some forms of germs, each
after its kind, but what they are
we cannot yet say.
Malaria, it has been pretty well
established, is due to a minute
organism which belongs not
among the plants, but low down
in the animal series, in the class
known as the protozoa, and it may
be that some or all of
the last
group above mentioned
may be
caused by similar organisms,
which as yet we cannot cultivate I
in the .laboratory, or even bring
within our vision with the micro
scope.
Consumption, or tuberculosis is
largely spread by the specific
bacteria in the sputum throw off
by affected persons, which is
allowed to dry and become dis
seminated in the floating dust.
Typhoid fever is communicated
by the gorms discharged from the
bodies of those ill of this disease,
which is one way or another, but
largely in polluted water and food,
get into the digestive tract of well
persons. Diphtheria may be coni-
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germs in the membranes cr
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from the mouth of the stricken
ones, and may linger long wholly
dry in garments and household
furniture and rooms.
The bacterium causing tetanus
or lockjaw-is not often conveyed
from one person to another, but
is exceptional in having its usual
lurking place in the soil of
certain regions. '
Now, how do these particular
species of germs cause these
special forms of disease? We
have already seen that one of the
marked life features of bacteria is
that when they assimilate nourish-
ment and grow, they set free
various forms of chemical sub-
stances. When putrefaction oc-
cu 18 in a bit of meat for example.
certain bad smelling gases, as well
as a host of other substances, are
let free by the bacteria which are
feeding on the nipal. These cause
its putrefaction. Each species
ticts in its own peculiar fashion
in the 'acquirement of its food and
ets fr-e its own p "culiar chemical
substances.
Now the same thin,; happens
when bacteria, in one wa.- or
another,gets into the bodies of rnua
or animals and grow there. But in
the large proportion of cases the
bacteria which we take into our
bodies in vast numbers with the
greatest variey of uncooked foods
and with water and milk produce,
if they grow at all, chemical sub
stances which do no manner, of
harm. It is indeed not at all im
probable that some bacteria which
are constantly present in the di
gestive canal form, under ordinary
circumstances, materials which aid
the process of digestion.
It has, however come about in
the lapse of ages that a very few,
an infinitely small proportion, of
all the bacteria which are about
us produce chemical substances
in the body which in one way or
another act as violent poisons.
These substances produced by
bacteria are called ntomaines. and
here at last our nlummet seems to
he strikinsr hottom. It is the
ptomaines or peculiar vegetables
1 poisons produced by these germs
which usualy do the damage,
sometimes these ptomaines are
produced in some special part of
the bod where the bacteria Srow
aud, gaining access to the body
fluids, are carried all over the or
ganism, inducing in the most
vulnerable parts those changes
which are characteristic of the
disease and which gives rise to
what we call its symptoms. This
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and typhoid fever, in which the
bacteria are confined, in the
former usualy to the mouth and
throat and air passage and in the
latter to the intestinal canal
But the soluble ptomaines are car-
t ien--e yen'"""""", wonm-"?; Jw-aa.
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I T. Mitchell Prudden, M. D., in
Harper s t Magazine.
Reasonably Miserable
"Madame,'r said a pompous old
gentleman to a bright-faced girl
who had only worn the dignity of
wife for a few months, and was
receiving on all sides congratula
tions and advice b th merry and
tender. 'Madame, I have a bit of
advice for your ear, which
will be
uew and startling to you. These
simple-minded friends are hoping
Xow I beg that you will"' make
your husband reasonably misera-
ble; yes, madarae,-1 mean what I
say. Very happy people are of no
account. If vou want John to be
of an y use to the world, see that
you make him reasonably misera
ble."
Mary did not need to follow the
queer ol.t gentleman s advice
the
did
"briers besetting every path
that effectually, and it was all she
I t t t ' , t TT 1 1. l"
could uo to Keep jonn reasonamy
eomtort able. But the remembered
speech emphasized for her through
years of chang'ng
of "chang:ng fortunes the
fact that the appointed work of
trials' discomforts is to make us
of more account.
However, we must see to it that
these ministering servants do their
work : it is altogether possible that
the trials may come, making us,
as we cry, unreasonably miserable,
and yet the world's needs be no bet
ter off. As troubles present them
selves, whether they knock at our
door or seize us by the throat, or
stab us through the heart, or stun
by their heavy blows, let us say to
ourselves: '-Cease then, selfish
heart, to hunt so persistently for
. . . . . . . J, T
there
not some child that needs
ithy guidance to-day, some servant
discouraged with her life of drudg
ery, some sick one needing a visit,
a cordial, a flower, some pilgrim
fainting by reason of the weary
way, to whom a cup of water may
be offered?
If we give our trials this recep
tion, we, and many other "little
ones," will be the better for their
coming. And as we fare along
together, lo, the trial that came to
i, j r :
us with a severe aim irownmg
countenance will become transfig-
uredj and if he leaves us, or if he
Btay will be seen to lift upon us
hands of benediction! Illustrated
Christian Weekly.
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Thoy Were All Americans.
Some time since three tal
Americans mi. rtoDinson, six
feet high, and the Rev. Phillips
Brooks, six feet two inches high,
both of Boston, and the Rev. Dr,
M ii ker, six feet four inches.
f Philadelphia made in com
pany, a trip to England. En route,
they determined that, when they
should reach England, they would
ravel apart, lest three such tall
nen together might provoke re-
vark. But arriving at a well
known town in Yorkshire, and
learning that a lecture was to be
del i vered to working men on Amer
ica the three determined to be
present." ;Entering the hall separ-
atejy iney toon seats apart. As
the lecturer proceeded, his utter
ignorance of America soon became
manifest to the three Americans
Finally, however, a statement con-
c rning the pize of Americans
wad too absurd to be endured in
silence. The speaker had barely
tim; to conclude a sentence asser
ting that Americans are proverbi
ally short of stature, never exceed
mg at. the utmost five feet ten
inches, when. Mr. Robinson arose
and said;
"My friends, I am an American,
and, as you see, I measure fully
six feet. If there is any other
American who happens just now
to be in the house, I request him
to stand up
An expression of surprise was
followed by roars of laughter as
the Rev. Phillips Brooks arose
and said :
"I am an American, and my
size, six feet two inches, occasions
no particular remark in America.
If there is any other American in
in the house, I in turn request
him to stand up."
After a lapse of a few seconds,
in order to give the lecturer a little
time to recover himself, Dr.
M'Vicker slowly raised his ma
jestic figure to its full height of
six feet four, and began :
"I am an American,and "
But this was too much, and he
could, not get any further. The
audience had lost all control of
themselves, and the BpqHS?g!fl dis
appearehce from the stiige brought
the entertainment to a premature
close. London Tit-Bits.
New Yorkr, Paris and Berlin al
together have not so large an area
as London.
Mrs. Ayer, relict of Ayer of Sar
saparilla fame is said to be the
richest widow in America. She
wears a pearl necklace which cost
$250,000.
Tit-Bits. .
Much has been said about feats
of strength, but it is an actual fact
that a man of but ordinary stature
recently knocked down an ele
phant. The performer of the great
feat was an auctioneer.
Eminent Personage: "May
ask whether you are related to the
Mr. Smith whom I met at Venice
last year?"
Mr. Smith: "I am that Mr,
Smith, sir."
Eminent Personage : "Ah ! that
accounts for the remarkable retiem
blance."
Doctor : "Does "your husband
enjoy sound slumber, Airs. Mur
phy?"
Mrs. M. : "Sound slumber, doc
or I Kayther! Why, he snores
like a pig."
A country paper, in puffing a
certain soap: "It is the best ever
used for cleansing a dirty man's
f&c?. We have tried it, and there
fore we know."
"My friends," remarked the min
ster, "the collection to-day will
be devoted to my travelling ex
penses, for I am going away for
my health. The more I receive
the longer I can stay." And,
si range to say, the largest collec
tion ever made was then taken up.
A despairing swain, whose girl
shows signs of jilting him, de
clares that if she doesn't he'll
drown himself or perish in the at
tempt. Sick Woman: "I'm so appre
hensive, dear doctor, about being
buried alive."
Doctor : "You shan't be if I can
prevent it."
Teacher: "What great event
occurred in 1885?"
Small boy, after a pause : Please
ma'am, I was brn then."
Current Opinion.
Don't Break the Child's Will.
The Michigan Christian Advocate
objects to the statement that itts
better to break the will of your
child when it is young than after
it becomes older, and pertinently
says: "Why break it at all? Con
science ought not . to be broken.
Intellect and heart we never want
to break. Why break that faculty
which ought to be strong? Never
break it. Keep.. . it as : strong
as possible, and train, the
child in its wise and conscientious
use." This is good sense and good
religion. I making their passage
through the worlds Our "chfldren
will have abundant aeed of all the
will-power that they can command.
As the Richmond.4Zi;ocae has said,
we should "brake," - not "break"
their wills. We have known some
of these "broken" children, poor,
spiritless creatures disposed to
apologize for the fact of their ex
istence and to cower like slaves in
the presence of opposition. ,; Of
course children must be taught
the lesson of obedience and sub
ordination to parental authority,
but this is far from requiring that
they should be dealt with as if
they were mere things and not
rational and moral cieatures.-
Nashville Advocate. '
"These Hands."
We iove to look at the Paul of
Dore on Mars Hill and the swell
ing veins in that forehead when
the Ephesian sentences were shot
from the bent bow bolts from a
ballista. We shrjjjk from the
soiled and coarse garb of the fac
tory hand of Tarsus and shut our
eyes to shun seeing the stiff, horny,
stubby fingers that plaited- the
rough goat hair for the poor wage
of a few copper coin. The man
and the minister met in Paul. The
millinery has minimized many of
the modern messengers. Bascom
mauling rails for his father's fence
and magnetizing the ' multitudes, .
or Tom Lowe in battered . x&f and
shabby shoes snaringf thef ; -shy
catching a brain full of thoughts
from air, earth, and water for the
Sunday sermon, were the fading
and few Mohicans, the rari nantts
who linked the loom of the Levant
with pioneer preaching, plowing,
and preserving the apostolic suc
cession. These be the days of the
"Apostle of theGenteels." The
color of the side-whiskers in keep
ing with the "warmth''' of the fres
coing and the pulpit ornaments;
the tapering fingers " setting off
with their purple nails the rich
"book-marks;" the symmetrical
swell of the calf in the perfect,
pants ; the delicate and delightful
liBp what endowments ! For we
are saved by taste. Richmond Ad
vocate. South Not Monumental.
The history of the suffix "South,"
as connected with the question of
"change of economy" "in the Gen
eral Conference of 1866, is equally
fatal to the idea of it being a
'monumental witness to the con
stitutional position of ourChurch."
In that General Conference, on a
proposition to adopt "Methodist
Church, south," the motion re
ceived only nine votes. On a reso
lution to adopt Episcopal Method
ist Church (dropping the monu
mental suffix, comma and all), the
vote was ninety-six for the change
and forty-seven against it. Con
sidering the fact that the suffix
South had been so recently dedi
cated as a monumental witness to
a great constitutional question,
and that many of those who so
consecrated it were members of the
General Conference of 1866, is it
not strange that only- nine out of
one hundred and thirty-two votes
could be found to let the "monu
mental witness" Btand? Alas, the
instability of human" affairs and
testimony! lfr. M. Prottsman, D.
D., in Richmond' Advocate.
There is no such thing as free
dom in the world : fr,om the cradle
to the grave we are under orders
to some one or something. Just
as the high walls hem in the play
ground where the boys are free to
do as they like, so does the great
circle of that which the Greeks
called Necessity surround the life
playground we call free will ; and
iberty is but a shadow. Through
out we are all, young"ahd old, un
der the harrow of circumstances.
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