Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1885 — Page 6

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the noun. O D to tootled Ctatna aave ticoi ta that rlr tun ob baa established Us hearth, era ta tusa ol tt it poes uaica and fMianea, tcsce will cot depart u nothlai Cam tin ewar. tahinoe If he Laa departed be ihxj to U ABderer, and 11 tie returns he ceases to waudcr, gjaCiüon !mo ClTil Law. Then itay at hone, ay heart, and rert. The bird Im safeet la tue re.; O'er all that 13 Jttcr their wings and fly. a as l toteTlfli la the sky." Longlellew. TO UN (J KOLK?.

Litt! Foxen. Amcnz my tinier line I ?py A Lttie lox named By-and-ty. Tterj a-t upon hin tU'-k, I a-,-. TU will yoMüi huattr-Kighi away. Around each tender vine I plant I find ine lux 1 can'L Thfn, ft as evtr hunter ran, Cbas hua wita bold aad urve I caal Na ue In trylu-lars and whinej Thu tox among my tender Tine. Thea drive hin low and drive bira hljh With Ulis good hunter, named I'll try. Amonj- the vin?t in my small lot Creeps in the joan foz-I forgot. Then bant him out and to his den With 1 will not forget again. A little fox la hidden thera Aicoag my Tinea, named I don't care. Then let "I'm sorry" hunter trueCease him afar from Tinea and yoa. Christian Union Little Men and Women. Can you pat the spider's web back in its place That once has teen swept away? Can yon pat the apple again ou the bough, Thi fell at our feet to-day? Can yon pnt the lily-cup back on the stem, And cause it to live and growt Can you mend the butterfly's broken wing, That was crushed by a crncl blow? Can you put the petals baca on the rose ? 11 jou could, would it smell as sweet? Can too pnt the Hour again In the hask, And show me the ripened wheat? You think that these questions are trifling, dear, Let me ask you another one: Cm a hasty word ever t-a unsaid, Or an unkind deed undone? A Plucky Yoang Man. Here is a true story of successful energy. A young drug clerk wrote from the Far Weal to ft prominent phaimicist in New York, saying be would like to coxae to the eitj and enter a store. lie came, but when the pharmacist questioned him personally hfi found that his visitor had never put up prescriptions written in Latin; canseauentiy. be could not get a situation. He id cot know a soul in the great city, not even the gentleman to whom he had written (until be met him at his store). He sought in vain for a place, and finally found a sub ordinate position, where he was given five dollars a week and bad to board himself. He was a studious, pushing, active young fellow, aiid scon managed to attend the lectures at the College of Pharmacy. The gentleman with whom he had correspjnded took an interest in him, and invited him to come to his store and assist in the manufacturing of fluid extracts. Once be ahowed his employer what he could do in that line. The man wai surprised. "Why can't you do something of that kind for xnt ?" he asked. The clerk said he could, tnd his salary (which in the meanwhile had bten slightly increased) was raised to very respectable proportions. He worked for a time in this way, eventually receiving a fa!ary of fifty dollars a week; finally he opened a laboratory of his own, and to day he employs forty. or fifty "hands." And yet, when be arrived in New York he did not hare a dollar, and was without Influence and without friends. From "Ready for Business," by George J. Manson, In St. Nicholas for November. A Genuine Santa Clan. A Washington Correspondent of the Chicago Inter-Ocean says that a gentleman has tttn discovered in Washington who has been for several years discharging in a thoroughly practical manner the kind oilicea imputed to Santa Claus. Ilia method of operation originated simply, and may be cdopted and successfully practiced by other benevolent men. This Washington Kriss Kringle Li a quiet, well-to-do gentleman on Capitol Hill, and for seven years he has been playing Santa Claus. He obtains from the postoffice all the letters dropped in the boxes arid in the oitice by little people eddressed to Santa Claus. Kriss Kringle, etc. 'Seven years ago," he said, l saw in the papers among the list of advertised letters one addressed to Santa Claus. I thought I would get it and see what was in It and what the little writer wanted. I had hard vrork to punuade the Postmaster to let me have it, but succeeded, and I receive all that sort of letters that come to the Post ofUce now. They run from half a dozen to twenty or more a year. They come from all parts of the country, and with all sorts of requests. Some come from children away from the privileges of books and papers, and ask for something to read, though of course the majority want toys and that sort of thing. To those that ask for books or seem to want something of this class I usually vend book. Many I refer to their parents. In some cases I have personal knowledge that the results of the letters and answers have been to brighten the homes and lives of the little ones, not only for the moment but permanently. I know it has been a fCOQ experience for me. Hook forward to Christmas now as eagerly as the most anxious child on account of this feature of it, and so do the members of my family." Oer trutle'a Falth-A Christmas Story. lMrs. A. D. Hawkins In the Brazil, Ind., Demokrat.! It was the day before Christmas. The Whistles were blowing for . e'clock in the morning calling men from their slumbers to prepare for the day's labor. Away in the distance could be neard first one chanticleer bravely founding forth his shrill note, then another one gave his hoarse call, and then came a chorus from half a dozen or more proclaming the new born day as if to press their claims for attention from the public. And now the clock from the CityHalltoll forth solemnly one, two, three, four, live, and suddenly the city becomes alive and with a clatter, a clash, a clang and a roar, the machinery of city life moves on. Lit leGertrude Wise lay. in her trundle bed in the bumble room in the tenemce. house they called home, listening to all these ound with a feeling of awe, a sense of lone Uness. In the dim gray light things Lad a spec tral appearance, and her thoughts and feeling partake of the nature of the sounds and surroundings of the occasion. fche remembers that this is the morning before Christmas eve joyous time for children. She thinks of the old, old story of the fchepherds who watched their liocka by night, and how the an eis came down tinging the first Christmas carol the world ever heard; thinks, too, of how the Wise Men came from the F.ast guided by the Star, until they found the iran per In which lay the infant Jesus. A onderfal ttory ! With these thoughts come also the remembrance of other facts, not so pleasant to contemplate. How poor she is. Nsver before his a Christmas found her irtthont plenty of food and with high hopes of eood cheer for the coming morrow. Now, cia, she has no gifts to give: no expectation Of SJ3T. Am ih A tsa&vft rm thar tavis-1 fafl 1 Xa atl 8he wonders Ü the Christ c-iia, whosa lot was cast in the midst of Taching poverty, does not feel for the poor " liieren on ik . i wAtm kwuv4 a4 A 44 A OSJ i i V (!C3. wcu mure man uou ülruftc?lk ia her father's house TtJf? CxT? which business men call ?m3. Her kind father has had no )r long weeks, and young as she Is to enable her to grasp the brings money, and money -acrt, sometimes even luxuries in tl th;ii HtUa Xanily, ow ue

knows the limited supply of meaqre fare is almott exhausted. Yo drt she bis seen the care, the Her, the "disappointment, stamped npon her dear father's face, and brave little girl that she is, she his said not a rord of wnat she needs or wishes for the coiclng Christmas. Silence reigns in the rconi a silence unbroken nave by the steady breathing of the sleepers cr the ticking of the little clock upon the manteL She knows it will be oi no use to waken the father whose willing handswhich would gladly grasp the ponderous sledge and make it ring oat the music so welcome to the industrious poor man's ear axe forced to die idle idle! Again her thoughts go back to the ever pleasii g theme oi Christmas. Then comes to her remembrance the words of the Fsalmist and she says to herself how rich (iod must be. "The earth and the fullness thereof are His," and again "the cattle upon a thousand hills." Verse after verse comes to her memory until one alone, wb'ch her dear teacher has read and expounded to her, rings oat clear and plain "According to your faith be it

unto you," and aain "Ask and ye shall raceive." Slipping quietly out of her bed ehe kneels upon the Hoor. and with her head Lowed npon her Utile hands she sweetly prays thus: "Dear Jesus Yoa know what it is to be poor. Will you pfrase pity us? Will you please have your father send our father work to do? Please ask Him to send ns good things for a merry Christmas day." And then, after a silence as if she were battling with a mental problem of how and what to say, and just how much she might ask for, a tittle sob bursts out and the words "Dear Jeans, ask him to send us a turkey an v how." Quietly slipping back into bed, ehe was scon wrapped in peaceful slumbers. Not till little Tom, her bedf ell w, awakened her by calling to her did she arouse from the mornirg nap. "Gertie! oh, Gertie," said he, "do you think we'll have any Christmas?" "Of course we will. Everybody des, 'cause it comes anyhow." "But I mean will v - have presents and good things?"' "Yes. I don't know just how ranch we'll have, but we will have a turkey." "Pslia! What makes you think so, Ger ter' "Jesus says so." 'Ob, He never," gays Tom. "Ye?, He does." "You never saw Him, Gertie Wise." "Cut He Eays bo in the Dible. and I believe Him." "Oh, Gertie, that's an awful story and I'll tell ma." Tom bolts into his clothes and runs to tie little kitchen crying at the top of his vcice. "Oh, ma, don't you think Gertie Wise says that Jesus tays in the Bible that we're going to have tnrkey on Christmas day. Does He. know?" The long Hullering little mother looks up with a queer smile as she says. "Gertie means all right You do not under-tand her, my son." For well she knew that Gertrude had interpreted the Bible promise llteially, and es she probably asked for turkey she expects to receive turkey. The stinted meal of coffee made from parched corn, potato soup and bread a od molares is soon over and another day of patitnt wailing fairly sets in. The father wraps himself np warmly and prepares for a ten mile walk to an odjoiniDg village in hopes to find a job of common day labor, saving "if I fret work I shall not come bark for several days, and mother you must lo the best you can on what little is left to eat." Little Gertie slips her hand in his and fays as she looks up into his face, "Don't worry, pa, we're going to have turkey to rxorrow." I hope yon may, my danghter, but papa ran baidly earn the turkey and get it here for you by Christmas day, but darling, you shall indeed have a nice one on New i'ear's day if 1 get the work." "But we'll have one to-morrow, papa." "Yes," savs Tom, "don't you think she says that Jesus eays so in the Bible." Poor little Gertie stands blushing and ttarfnl, yet firmlv asserting, "I know we WUL" "Oh, that's a guy," says Tom. "Does He say anything about fire crackers, too?'' "Hush, Tom, you shall not tease your sia t er. There are things in the Bible that are past my understanding. Who knows! Who knows!" Kissing each one tenderly, the father stepped briskly out into the cold and went away hopefully to find work, money, food, for those he loved. Somehow thera ring in his ears the memory of words he had heard in his boyhood: "Like as a father pitieth bis children, so the Lord pities them that fear Him," and he brushed a tear away as be thonght of Gertie his child, Gertie. And in the little home left behind the mother was busy patching, while Gertie washed dishes and swept and rocked the baby to sleep, and then she had time to watch the pacseis by. The snow lay smooth and white, well beaten down, splendid for sleighing, and the a'r was ringing with tne sound of merry sleigh bells. It was just a beautiful day in the city. The great plate glass ehow windows were full of gorgeous things things costly and rare. All along Broadway and Commercial street, and up Washington and Capital, and down Fourth, the crowds of ladies and happy children trooped along, full of glee, full of hope, full of oy, and apparently full of peace and good will to mankind at least let us trust so. "God moves In a mysterious way His wonders to perform." The same God who takes care of even the sparrows thinks nothing too small or too humble for His attention. Let us see how He lays His ringertsuches and commands by a breath. Let us see how Gertie's faith is regarded. She is is only a little girl only a poor man's child. Ai.d it is only a turkey she has prayed for, and yet her faith may be as strong as that of King David the peal mist and is just as precious in the sight of the Father and will just as scon be rewarded. While Gertrude watches the many groups of children with packages of toys and sweetmeat?, thinking no grain of envy or bitterness, but looking with pleasure and thanksgiving for the joyous occasion, another little girl stands also at the window watching the passing pageant. In the rich man's borne accross the street one looks forth with eyes swollen from long and bitter weeping. Every now and then sobs shake her little form aa she leans wearily against the wicdoweasing and peers through the clcsed blinds. Her father's splendid n.ai s on is darkened, and fram the silver door knob there floats out on the winter breeze the table emblems of mourning. In the solemn hours of midnight there came to their home two mysterious visitors Life and Death. And now in one of the stately chambers in that lovelv home, upon t snowy conch the beloved mother and wife lies cald in death. Clasped close to her pulseless heart she boldd her little infant rhüd, whose span of life covered but a single hour of time. The mother, so lately a living, breathing, loving, real mother, is dead. No wonder the husband sits in his darkened library speechless, tearless, crushed, stunned by the blow. Only yesterdey her fingers were busy In the pretty fancy work for the Christmas gifts. Only yesterday her voice was heard singing so sweetly a grand old Christmas anthem. So lately she sung and spoke and laughed within her home that the echoes have scarcely died awav. And this is why the little fairy-like child stands grieving by the windows on that winter day the day before Christmas. She gradaally finds sights to attract their attention, and for the time forgets the grief as she gazes out upon carrriage loads of children and their friends who are driving homeward as the day advances. She sees little ones whom she knows, sees her mamma's friends who walk or drive slowly by, looking at the house of mourning and evidently speaking of it Then coaes to her ftcew esee of wfca; the has

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mamma, my blessed mamma." 'Husn, my dear," says her nurse who comes forward and clasps her in her arm. "Ycur mamma is an angel now." "Me don't want an a a gel me don't love angels me only wants mamma!" "But, dear, she has gone to Heaven. God took her." "Me don't love God if He took my mamma me don't know angels me wants mamma thess my own mamma." "Oh. but darling, you be good so you can go to Heaven to see your mamma." "But me don't want to go. Home Is the b;st place. Ma wants mamma to home." And so poor nurse has to give up in despair. The child-like sense of us older children of larger growth cries out in bitterness of spirit at the sudden cruel loss which had come to ber. SeeiDg her failure nurse now tries to tern the little one's attention. "Oh, see that little girl across the street. I wonder what her name Ii. What pretty shining batr she has it looks like bilk." "Who's her nursey?" "I don't know, Miss Angie; but some day yon may go over and see her and she will tell you her name. You may ask her to come and play with your dollies." "Oh, may IV" Seeing her interested in the new object for contemplation, nurse left the little one with the sweet brown eyes to look and think her quaint thought?. She looks and looks again at the little Gertrude in her clean frock and fresh blue and white check apron. She likes that face. It rests her from her sorrow to watch every movement But pretently she sees the corner of the little stranger's apron lifted to wipe a tear away, and then another and another. Instantly her tender little heart responds to the demand for sympathy. With Hying feet she quickly rasses throuch the hall. down the long stairway and out at a side ' door. The soft, thick carpets give no echoes of her footsteps, and she is away and across the street all unseen by the household. Bareheaded, her long silken locks Coating out over her soft rich garments, she looks the very embodiment of a poem. Iiunning with outstretched hands she grasps Gertrude's garments, and looking up into her face says "Be your's mamma dead, too, little girl?" "No, oh, no!" "What makes you cry then?" "Oh, nothing much. I was c nly thinking. I'm lonesome and sorry " "What makes you sorry?" "My father has gona away and I miss him.'r "Oh! Have you got any little brother?" "Yes." "What's his name?" "Tommy' "What's your name?" Gertrude Wise." "That's a beufull name. Take me in your house little girl for I'm so cold and yonesome, too, Me don't like we's house any more it's so yonesome to we's house." Clasping her hand in hers Gertrude led the little one and tells her mother it is the little girl from over in the great big house, adding in a whisper, "the little girl whose mother is dead to-day." Going opto Mrs. Wise, who sits rocking the cradle with her foot while she patches Tommy's coat, the child says "Please won't you take me np and rock me?" a "Why. yes, of course I will," come? ue cheerful answer. "You poor little lamb." A half hour slips quickly away. There is very little said, but the sweet brown eyes are taking in all the surroundings, and ohl how enjoys the clasp of those motherly arms which hold her so tenderiy. Finally jumping down she says "I think I must go home now; papa will miss me; he's yonesome too, I Bpect " She walks out and away as promptly and quietly as she came. Once within her own doors she goes to her father in his library, and springing up into the outstretched arras ready to receive her, she cuddles up to him and cays: "Me don't want me' a ChrisamDS tree; me don't want any things; me don't like presents; papa send them all away to the little girl over the street and to her little brother Tommy." "What little girl, darling? Who is she?" says her Lither. "Gertie Wise. Come, me will show you," and leading her father to the window she pointed out the little house. "How do you know but the has a Christmas tree, daughter?' "Me aid go over to her house and Bee. Her papa is gone and they are yonesome, like we. Her mamma did rock me, too oh, so nice." Thoughtfully, wilh tearful eyes, the father looked down upon his lonely child and looking and thinking he realized the fact that she was too young to bear this blow in its full force. Tenderly clasping her in his arms he said ' Come, love, we will go and pick out a few keepsakes to remember our dear little mother by, and then we will send the tree and all there is in it to your little girl across the street. Let them be happy if we are not. It will be a royal gift to them." Unlocking the drawing room door they entered. One and onother of the gifts that the loving mother's fingers had fashioned and placed upon the tree for them they carefully laid away. Kinging for the black coachman be tben said "Jackson, you may take this tree after dara and remove it carefully to the little house acros the way and present it to little Gertrude Wise in the name of my daughter. And, Jackson, while you are about it, take a turkey also, for pine limbs and popcorn are poor food, however much the toys may please the children. Give the lady my thanks for comforting my little baby girl," and then with a sob of grief, the father walked slowly away with his little goldenhaired child child clasped close to his heart. Jackson knew just how to plan it. When the children were in bed and asleep be, haying forewarned Mrs. Wise, walked softiyiin. beariDg upon his browny shoulders the royal looking tree, snow clad and laden with whistles, and drums, and dolls, and toys of eyery kind and of costly quality. There were dresses and aprons, and mittens, and stockings; there were stores of candies, and loads of birds, and butternies, and stars, there were candles ready to light with a touch everything complete and beautiful. And last of all, there were firecracker for Tom. Returning af'er a few minutes, Jackson gravely finished his errand by presenting the turkey, and seriously, almost tearfully, he explained the situation in their Borrowful mansion. "Now, madame," said Jackeon, "let roe light up the candles and then you call down your children, fur pears like I'd like to see them 'joy its charms.'' When finally the tree was all aglow with light and beauty, and Jackson bad bidden himself behind a doer to watch unobserved, Mrs. Wise, who had waked and dressed her children, led them into the room. Tom met the situation with a shout of joy, while Gertrude stood in silent wonder, her eyes slowly rilling with tears until the turkey caught her sight, then seizing it she cried out exultantly to Tom, l knew He would send it" Would it not be better for us all if poverty, bereavement and atlliction of every kind would work in us the perfect work of Faith, Hoi and Charity? Soil covered with living herbage or with such dead vegetable matter as leaves, straw, wood dung, Ac, says Prof. F. Wollny, is warmer in winter and cooler in summer than bare soil under similar condition?. The difference of temperature Is greatest in summer and least in spring and autumn. Bare soil heats more quickly in spring and cools more quickly in autumn than that covered with living or dead vegetable matter. The fluctuations of temperature are utcn eualle; thaa ;n bare soil.

KNOTTY PR0BLFJU4

Out readers are invited to lamlxh OTlxmal enlx has, chart. dc. riddles, rebuses and other "knotty problems." addreMlnc au com rann icanona relative to this departnent to JL . Chad bo urn, LewliWn tfAlSS, No. lOf.l. Our Neighbors. Cold winter, dread winter, is with us a?ala, Making work for the tons and the pot er: Eutinall we of bracinz cold weather complain 11 Me can have wo 4 and a stoker? V'e've a tet of toush newborn well posted ia wood, tl their odd name is not a misnomer, Who would handle our fuel, or might if they could. Iu a way that uould cheer the cblUe3 rnoaucr. They would ask, I am pure, not much but their board They are lurnlihed already with raiment ; Not xnisera are they, though they hide and they heard. For to eat is their chief entertainment. They sleep in their eliart, eat cabbage and bean a. Will tiiey leave their warm berths and good eatlnsj? With nothing to do but to eat, and in dreams Live over tne feasia they are keeping? They have cousins abroad with a name, nom do plume, Whope mcaniDC is somewhat provokine: In thi renchlfied way they politely assume To mar til our puna and our Joking. "So, lOr,?. An Anagram. While tome are feeling gay, And othtra feeling ad, We will only say: GtiVKi-.S.l LEVEP LAP. Nei.-onjas, Ifo.lOC.. TranpoaItion. A goat story. 1 1. A litt'e goat over candy for the of an hour. '2. This same goat being the liveliest of raps and the climax by getting into a fearful by one of its foolish , Whereat his goatship's , being one of Barnum'8 fox , cas him into a big , where he is drowned. Ermika S. No. 10(14. A Charade. II in a newspaper you chance to be reading. And pomeihing the style of the following find, "for the young and the old an amusement we ofler. Instruction, and profit and pleasure combined," You may know it's my all Mr. Editor mentions; II "profit and laurels" you're wanting to win. Sit down to your dekk, and with pen, and with paper, And the big Dictionary before you, begin. Don't use all the ones Mr. Webster may oCer: And nothing imcrtthat he doesn't indorse: Pursuing the final i ith ardor and caution, lor my all is a thing that's environed with laws. And when you have done, roil your manuscript neatly, For careless anangement i always despised; And juieily wait for the premium offered, i Ana if you don't get it, not don't be surprise I. Kor.i.v. o. IOC") Decapitation-.. Comes from the clouds' d.rk, dismal croll A mdden blae- it is my whole. hehcad me, Iben I pray beware, i'or 1 can strike please htve a care! I'rhc-ad me yet agnin, and see! There riucfc up a well known treo. Ciu.ok, o lOGf,. A Pyramid. A consonant. An animal. Tardier. Haughtier. Most gloomy. Pertaining to aerology, ObjectB pre-existent to tne Deluge. 1. . 4. f.. w Ce ntrals downward. Consistent with the laws of Nature. A. It. A. S 1007. A Kiddle. In almost every box and trunk, I surely take a place, Tn coach and car. in wardrobe and in case. Of every yari I form a part, Am in the gate and door; In boots and fihoea 1 am oft found, In gloves oft times am I : In church and school, and hall and cot, As well as in the ety, Clara Hkitkam. A Fine Prize. Dickens' "Pickwick Papers," nicely bonnd in cloth and illustrated, will be given the sender of the best lot of answers to the "Knotty Problems" published dnring January. The solutions for each week should be forwarded within six days alter the date 01 the Sentinel containing the pnzles answered. Answers. Aye-aye. Flag rant. -Intimidate. The letter C. Star. -Six feet 1017. - 1018. ' 1C4H. 10.30. io:i. ic:,3. Incomprebensibleness. THE SUmiY-SCIIOOL. Ictt ruatlonal Leona Flrat Oaarter, 1S8. Uy llenry M, Grout, 1). !. January I Panl at Troas. Acts 20: 2-1. iouEN Text. And upon the first day of the veek, when the dlsciplea came together to break break, I'aul preached unto them. acts 20:7, It is now the early part of the summer of the year A. D. C-7, and very soon afler the riot at Ephesus. There is no evidence that the "uproar," violent as it was, hastened the Apostle's departure from that city. Already, before the outbreak, he bad "purposed in the spirit" to undertake the journey on which be is now setting out (10:21). Nor does he now make undue haste. Callirg a farewell meeting, he takes an affectionate leave of the disciples, and departs. What we have in this part of the narrative may be grouped under three heads. 1. A brief record of a great work ( -?-!). Not all our best work finds human recognition, much less historical record, in this world. But no part of it is forgotten in Heaven. The period of time, covered by the first six of these verses, was not less tban nine or ten months. It is, however, only from allusions here and there in the Epistles that we get even hints of how the most of it was spent From Fpbesus Paul went to Troas, where he tarried long enougu to gather a company of disciples. Thence he passed to Phitippi, where he wrote the second Epistle to the Corinthians, and thence to Illyricum, and through Thessalonica and Berea to "Greece," o- Achaia. We may be sure that a good share of the three months of his abode here were passed at Corinth; for it was at this place and time that he wrote his powerful Epistle to the Kornaus, and possibly that to the Galatians. Three or lour things only are noted respecting this journey, (a) To the churches in Macedonia he gave "much exortation." Having planted the seed he was eager to look after its growth. Young Christians, and older ones too, have need of doctrine, reproof, correction and instruction In righteousness. Work designed to confirm and develop faith is never unimportant (b) At Corinth his old enemies, the Jews, "laid wait for him," to do him ill. Was it because his doctrine displeased them? No doubt. Often in our own time do the hnmbling doctrines of bis great Epistle to the Kornaus, just now penned, provoke hostility. But Paul neither suppressed nor modified God's saving message to please men. (c) He found matured disciples to return with him to Asia. Sopater, Aristarchua and Secundus were all products of his former missionary work In Macedonia. So soon do missionary fields begin to return help and blessing to the regions which gave the gospel to them!

Prayer-meetings and Sunday-schools in oatlying neighborhoods often repay many fold the labcr expende J upon them, (d) He tarried at Phillippi to keep with the converts there the passover feast. Did he do this to conciliate in an innocent way those who bad notjret quite outgrown the Jewisk customs? ferhaps. (e) Then we note the use of "ns" and "we" in the fifth and sixth verses, showing that Luke, the writer, has now rejoined the Apostle. 2. A glimpse of a primitive Sunday (7-12). The first day of the week was oar Snndav.

And how plainly is it nere muicatea mat already this was the usual day when the disciples came together to break bread. The prac tice had become a custom. In his first letter to the Corinthians, written some months before this, we find a still earlier allusion to the first day of the week as set apart for religious duty: "Upon the first day of the week let each cne cf you lay by him in store," etc 1 Cor. 1;:1) It was on the first day of the week that our Savior rose from the dead, and so completed he work of redemption. It was the great day, of the seven, to the early Christian's heart; and early church history confirms what this pjrticular scrii tire intimates, that it was. from the first, their day of afsembly for worshio. Thus we see how the weekly rest day, the day of respite from toil, and of spiritual refreshment and worship, was transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week- The change had the sanction, and was the act, o! the apostles under divine guidance. It is easy to understand why the gathering for worship should have been in the evening. Many of the early dipciples were slaves of heathen masters, and conld not use tha daytime as they would. Tner could not assert their privilege of abstinence from labor. It is interesting to observe that the Lord's Sapper came at the . end of a service of preaching. In this instance the service was ereatly prolonged. This is not an example for ns to follow, save in an exceptional eise like the one at Troas. It was Paul's first visit after the church was formed, and also his farewell. He had much Instruction to givo and much counseL Men of the world often continue their assemblies for business and for pleasure until after the midnight hour. Why should Christians not do the same, if there seems to be a call for it? But such a call can not often occur. Where preachers can address the ame liock every Lord's day, shorter sermons arc more likely to make a vivid, deep, abiding impression. The prayer-meeting, too, which begins promptly and ends at the expiration of the appointed time, is more sure to be sustained in interest The case of Eutychus is so fully narrated, most likely, for the reason that it illustrated the gracious power of Gad setting a divine seal npon the word and work of the Apostle. The windows, without glass, were really wind-doors, or doors for the admission of air; and the lad, as boys are now fond of doing; preferred to get where the current was least obstructed. Po.slbly the many lights which marked the joyfulness of the occasion, made him more sleepy. He was not to be blamed, as most modern sleepers at an ordinary church service are. A Sunday-tchool teacher or a preacher with a class or congregation asleep has ipoor encouragement to go on. But where many sleep the fault can not be all on one side. We note that, after the breaking of the bread and the eating, the Apostle "talked a long while." This points to social interchange; perhaps in answer to religious inquiry, and no doubt also in expressions of mutual regard. The after conversation sometimes adds much to the profit and the joy of religious meetings. Is it a good way to rush to the doors, and home, the moment the benediction is pronounced? Even simple, cordial hand shakings help to cement Christian allection, and to make all who participate eager to come again. .". An illustration of intentnes3 on the Master's Eerviceilo-Ul) It is idle to conjecture why the Apostle should have chosen "to go afoot" to Aesos. Perhaps he wanted tobe alore; perhaps to take along some of the dlciples of Troas for further conversation. But we note that he pushed on as rapidly as he could to Miletus. Some of the places be passed were then famous. Mitylene was the "fair Mitylene,: of Horace, the capital oi Lesbos, the birthplace of Sappho, and Alcaeus. Chios and Lamos bad their legendary and histoiical associations. But none 'of these things detained the Apostle. He would not even stop at Ephesus, where were so many Christian friends, dear to his heart, lest he 6hould be detained too long. Always it was with him as it is with any whole-souled Christian worker, his eye was single. "This one thing I do." rEACTICAL SUGGESTIONS. 1. Note Paul's Idea of the us 3 of life; not for ease, honor, riches or pleasure, but to do what he could to win this world for Christ. 2. It is wonderful how often God thwarted the plans of Paul's enemies, thus teaching us that he never forgets his true servants. X The eaily Christian workers often went in bands, partly to carry the more infiueuce with others which is at least a suggestive example, 4. No positive command to keep the first day of the week, as our day of rest and worship, could be more assuring than the example of the apostles and early Christians. .". If we love what the Lord's day commemorates we shall want the whole of it for religious duty and worship. C. Is the Lord's Supper as much to us as it was to those who observed It every Lord's day? Christ's death and resurrection ought to be the centre of every Christian's hope and joy. 7. Sleepers and languid worshipers in Churca imperil their souls, if not their bedies. Though the services be ever so dull, God is present to hear and bless, and is not to be dishonored by indifference and listlessnets. What I a Pound Sterling'' IW. Mattleu Willisms. in the Gentleman's Maga zinc This question was asked of Sir Kobert Peel in the House of Commons, and he replied by pitchin g a sovereign to the querist No better answer is possible. Some years ago when teaching political economy at University College School I presented to my pupils a curious problem a3 follows: Onr currency is ail based on the sovereign, and the sovereign, as defined by act of Parliament 1 the 11, SO!) of 10 troy. or. otherwise stated, anybody, taking ingots of standard gold to the mint may have them coined without charge into sove eigns, at the rate of l,Stt for every 40 troy; tnese lGü weighing 10, the same as the ingot gold. This being the case, what is the troy weight of each sovereign? I offer the same problem to my readers. Those who attempt to work it out will find that they have to face a problem something like squaring the circle. I have gone as far as thirteen places of decimals, showing the weight of a sovereign to be nearly 23.274i7.30Cö.7 grains. How much further cne might go without arriving at the actual weight I can not say. The simplest attainable vulgar fraction is 121 171-623 grains. Nothing could be clumsier than this. It has caused volumes to be written by currency paradoxers who have denounced the abomination of fixing the price ef gold. Why, say they, should we not have free trade in gold? Why should the Government arbitrarily fix its price at 3 17s. 10) Jd. per ounce instead of allowing supply and demand to fix the price cf this commodity as of other things? Had tne weight of the sovereign been a simple fraction of an ounce, say one-quarter of an ounce, this question would have answered itself at once by showing that because four sovereigns weigh cue ounce the value of gold measured by savereigns (i. e. its rice) must be 4 so long as the weight of the coin remains unchanged and no charge is made for stamping it. It is the present complex fr8ction hat has obscured this yery sirapl subject

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If I bad tto-sM so soon he would t&ve 2ioJ, Le ta:d. I Lad been tenderer in my sjech, I had a nnnem lingered at her side. And hel J her, ere he passed beyond nr reach. If 1 had thought so soon the would have did. That day she looked up with her startled evc. Like some hurt creature waere tte noida are deep. With kif ms I had -.tilled those trekking sighs, With alJie closed taoso eyelids into sleep. That day she looked up with 'startled eyes. O, had I I nown she would have dil so sooh, Love bad not waste ! on a barren land. Love hka those rivers uuder to-ri 1 noon Lost on the desert. i-oured out o-i the SAnd h, had 1 knontLe would have d'.edao avia! x The BtiXT, KLX1UIOU9 I-ntkllu;i;nci5 and ixci. UExr, John Bright is iu favor of delivery of the mails by carriers on Sundays as on the other days of the week, whereat the Sbbatarian and verv many of his fellow-aakers are much offended. Rev. J. O. Peck has created a buzz among the drones in the New Haven society hive by his sermon denouncing clubs, from the text, "The young man who pitches his tent toward Sodom." There wa3 once a man being married and the minister made a very long prayer. When he concluded the groom whispered in his ear: "This may te an anxious, but it is not a protracted, meeting." In li00 RomanisU constituted one-third op the population of Great Britain and Ireland; in 1S4 they constituted less than oneseventh. In the English-spsaking countries of the world there are ll,0u0,000 Kornau Catholics and fc?,0CO,0O0 Protestants. "1 hope you maintain a family altar at your home," said the parson, "and have regular prayers morning and evening." "Well, yes, I did have 'em for awhile," replied the Dackslider; "but finally 1 quit. I was afearfd I was making myself obnoxious." Tie Young Men's Christian Associations of this country have enjoyed great prosoerity the past year. Eighty societies own buildings valued at $3,000,000. The total number of associations in the United States is S3;, ard the membersh ip numbers nearly 110.CCO. The Protestant Bishop of Chester nas been Btrcngly recommending both the study of German and the reading of novels. The latter, he says, should be used not as bread, bnt as jam, and he reveals the secret that the chief professor of theology in Oxfoid Uni versity spends most of his time over works of fiction. A Canadian Bishop of Scotch birth was tb guest Eome time ago of a certain rector it- Buffalo. Speaking of his visit aiterward tl old . en tie man said: "They were all g' cd pe.-i le, and most kind I am sure; bnt do you know, my dear, they gave me water to drink at the table and unon going to bed, as if I had been a horse." New YorS Tribune, The Holy on of flod roost high. t or love of Adam s Jips'd ri . Quit the sweet pleasure of tiie tky To bring us to that haj.py place. His xot.es of liebt he Hid aside. Which did His Majtty adorn. And th- irAil state ol uortal tried. In human Ceh sni tigure born. Tte ben of Ood thus man became. Ifcat men the fcons o Goi might be, And by tbtir second brth regain A lilienet-s to His deity. Henry Moore. There has been a great change in the state of affairs in a very few months. The southern Pres by terian church, which wassoEevere upon the Orthodoxy cf the Cumberland Presbyterian church at the Presbyterian council at Belfast, seems now to be sadly disturbed by contests over supposed error in the citidel of Orthodoxy in South Carolina, while the Cumberland Presbyterian church moves on its quiet and peaceful way without a jar and without any suspicion of unsoundness in its theological halls and pulpits. O blefsed day, which givest the eternal lie To self and tense, and all the bmte within! Oh I come to us. amid this war of life; To hell and hovel, come; to all who toll In senate, shop, or study; and to those Who sundered by the wastes of half a world, Ill-warmed and Hrely teaipted, ever face Nature's brute powers, and men unmanned to brutes, Come to them, blest and blessing, Christmas lay. Tell them once more the tale of Bethlehem, The kneeling shepherds and the Itabe aivine. And keep them men indeed, fair Christmas Uay. Charles Kinsley. The growth of skepticism among the Protestant Germans is becoming painfully evident to the professing Christians of the empire from the remarkable falling oif in the attendance at the Churches. This is especiahy true of the large cities. Hamburg has 4G0,000 inhabitants, but only ö.OOO attend Church on the average, while in Berlin, with 1.000000 population, the average Church attendance does not exceed 20,000. Some cynic has remarked that the decline in rsligtous interest in Germany is due to tie beer, which, he says, is better than preaching. President Grant' Little Mory. lEx-t-'ecretary Robeson, moted in tie Washingtoa Correspondence of The Cinctmati Commercial 'Settel "By the way," he went on. "I remember an incident that clearly illustrates Irs ( General Grant's1, character. Vhenlwas Secretary of the Navy some hundreds of the sailors of the better class cape to me and asked to have Eome rank gives them. They di ln't care about an increase of pay, they said, but they wanted relative rank. "I couldn't do anything or them, bnt they came several times, and were rather importunate, and 2 finally led a delegation of them over to the White Hou.e and let them present tieir petition to President Grant in persor. They told him what they wanted, and argued for a redress of their grlevanees plainly but forcibly. "At last an old boatswain came to the front, and hitching up his trousers and turning over bis incumbent quid, he said: 'Mr. President, I can pnt thi 'ere matter so's you can see it plain. Now, here, I be a parent; in fact, a father. My sou is a midshipman. He outranks me, don't you observe? That ain't right, don'cyou see?' "Indeed," said Grant; 'who appointed him a middy? " 'The Secretary here,' tbe bo'sun said; and encouraged by tbe question, be went on : "It ain't right, don't you see, that I should be beneath 'im? Wy, ef I was to go onto his ship, the boy I brought np to obedience would boss his own father! Jeet think of that! " An' he has better quarters 'n me, and better grub, nice furn'ture, an' all that; sleeps in a nice soft bed 'n all that. See!' "'Yes, the President said; yes, the world is full of inequalities. I know of a case quite similar to yours.' "The old bo'sun chuckled quietly, and gave another hitch to his lower gear. " I know of an old fellow,' said General Grant, 'who is postmaster of a little town in Kentucky. He lives in a plain way, in a small home. He is a nice old man. but he isn't much in rank. His son outranks him more than your son does you. His son lives in Washington, in the biggest house there, and he ia surrounded by the nicest of furniture, and eata and drinks anything h takes a notion to. He could remove his father from oflice in a minute if he wanted to. But be doesn't want to. And the old man that's Jesse Grant von know doesn't seem to care about the inequality In rank. I suppose he Is glad to tee his boy get along In the world.' "The old bo'sun looked down at the carpet, and tried to bore a hole In it with his tee, and his comrades all laughed at him joyously, acd slapped him on the back, and tiled out in great glee. It was the last I ever heard of the petition or the petitioners. The old bo'sun fiung his quid into a cuspid ar as he left. Probably he had concluded to give up thinking." Chickens hatched by electricity are among the novelties of the present year,

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