Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 5, Petersburg, Pike County, 12 June 1896 — Page 6

AND REPAIR Watchwords in St. Louis and Bast St- Louis. Order Oat of Ch»o*» While -the Relief Committee* Are Getting . Their Work >y»te ms tired— OIBetat I)«»(b LUta. The Stricken City. St. Lovu, Jane 3.—St Louis is grad‘Rally pulling herself together after he* terrible experience with the tornado, and the work of relief and repair is being reduced to system as rapidly as possible. Months will elapse before the si ricken districts recover fully from the appalling disaster. Probably years will elapse before all traces of the storm are en--tirely obliterated. Time will never be when some 6f the surviving sufferers nhall wholly revive from the shock they received. To these people the loss of home, -their destitution and their misery are -aterely secondary sorrows; their lasting grief i* the loss by violent death wr from fatal injuries of clpse aud dear relatives and friends. This 4?reat affliction will follow. them -through life. No resident of St. Louis who passed through the gigantic battle of the elements, and survived it, or no one who has viewed the wrecked, sections since their d$rasiation, will ever forget the scene. There «re*many who will carry to theirjgraves evidences of tue.fearful experiences of the calamity. Some of the victims have lost their reason; others have been permanently crippled and disfigured. The loss of property and homes are in themselves a terrible misfortune, but they are as naught compared with the distressing physicial deformities which the tornado has visited upon many of the living victims.

Sign* of Restoration. The work of restoration is progressing' in earnest. Every laborer applying for work is given something to do, mnd theie are hundreds of opportunities for men who want employ«nent at fair wages. Hundreds of teams are busy hauling building material, while on every hand *the imortor-mixer and the hod -carrier <au be seen at work. Brickmasofts, carpenters and tinners are thick as bees at a hive, repairing houses, busiatess and manufacturing buildings, educational institutions and churches, wtiieh were more or less damaged. Workmen are also beginning to rebuild at rue tu res that were entirely desdroYod. The sound of the hammer •nd/the saw and the trowel can be beard on every baud—the first noticeable indication of restoration. Moving vans tilled, with household goods ■iv yet at work carrying leads to other parts of the city, and families rendered ■homeless by the storm are finding temporary residences elsewhere. The relief work has assumed mam* wroth proportions, and is now being prosecuted on a systematic and thorough basis. It now extends to every ■section of the affected district Agents of the charities—men and women -are making a thorough canvass of every street, searching for destitute cases. The relief fund is growing handsome* Nj^jsaare also the donations of eiothtiiig and other supplies. • Tine merchants of St. Louis and the people are liberal, almost to extravagance, in furnishing supplies. Everybody seems to be doing something for the cause. Churehes, schools, all charity institutions, professional men, manufacturers, wholesalers and retail<#mL and nearly every private citizen are sending in all sorts and quantities of dona t ions for distribu tion. The death li-*t seems to be growing wmailer, as corrected lists of the dead »re made. Only one. body was recovered Monday, and this added to the O*ro:;er‘s latest corrected and revised list ot fa\a'.ities, gives the total num%bcr as llJi, - Ofttctst !N*itk I.l(t 'The following 11- names from the * -vv• rds of the cur. r is a comp.etc of•tituai list of tin* tornado victims up to *tiie present time: Ttie Ur)l<*f Work.

Attt-rt. H<*ury. .AilUsa. CUr>< K , rnf r, ('ll • • - < Aauter*-.^. WtlUam F, Her avail Frtu Bowler. V iliam Jti+ m. Aarj’.u iHJWi, (JeotK®. I Mergers: John rilerklia. Clrisk. .Utai-. Jsf Ivester. vllraitliatt, Wallace. .Hafcle. Fwl. •Oump. <'aiticrl»-' A. ■Obrnry. Emma L. -Craddick. Martin. •C-ilJ'ii. Mary ■ CM*-fpool Eth-'l * Cl* A pool. Cora. »CV.«»S. William. • He Martin. Suptux £ta’a&. Ban*. ' J>i«n MirbaeL D otrk hf 1N.-UT. Jbult r*. CkarUta Starr. Joseph.4 iSrsiM. T. A. iFkitsucke. Eat® 11a. •Kr.eaecke. Clara. <Frie*e«lt«. Ktjna Ftteher. Frank H. <Fi**ler. Gasper. 'Gardner. Anna. <>aU. Julius. .

•unr. ueoa. ber. Charlea L. <Q<mcw)- Henry H ■CilMon. Henry . <iar Suer. Emma. <2 off. Jiffies '<ie*res. Julia Horne. b* -Mowrli. Alice Helix. Melaaie. liow«fl, Ida IkirDina. Calker: ae A Herbert. Gtorje. Hess. Harry. Urveei. Joba. JleweU. Jack. 5 Hkkey, Maggie A. JHaacafrau. Paul Mr* ia. Thom a * U. Jum>, RielurJ. % Jxoi». Blnlie E. Henry. SCiilian. Harry. KUliaa. William. iKetterer. John B.

Kr.f>ebeJe. <«eorge W u- . . . ■ ' aia[! Mee. ciar>i Ma uc far a h** * tner. Trod. I Maurer, J.'ept} A. liif,v C. j llcOouaUl T. M. •-|| Mauobeuh* auer. Call). Miller, J, J. M -«gh ia. Thom a* L Munart. Hennas. Oale*. Tktaia* Otseosaeyer. Aueust Wuiaui. Prattle. Katherine. Piacfcek, Wsi Urn ! INpp t*. -Theodor* Ptiake. VV.liiam K - • ' , i ha . v Eat try. John. - Kohl flu Anna U.ii. M-ilUa. I Ret*. Theodore :j sehweratuiann, C H. Slots. L. P. Sieiakwtwr, Adam.

scnerbei. John Seheciit, lliarie*. 4 Ssdtk. WUSlam E. Schmaienbaeh, H. Spillman. Martha Sudfcoff. Charles. Sc b. E iwarsl Stephens, Y. J. Se hue riser. Alex. tberg. Christ laa. Smith. Andrew. Tandy:C harles A. Trarhler. William. Taiater. Char lea. Taylor. WU.'ntm icoL). Talbert. Mary. £ Unknown man. Voiimer. Outar. Vignette. L«ouisa. j Woodruff. Sarah tt Woods. William W. - ] Wilson, Robert. Warner, John. Winkler. William. Weils. F. UWUto. Michael Weis. Max. ' “ j Zimmer. Ernst H. Zimxserlr. Samuel. , i

There are still a large number reported missing. the Re public publishdhur a list oi SO. which is one of the pea- i

xling features of the situation. Tilers •re 11? of the injured still in the varif ous private hospitals. besides hundreds | who received injuries, some of them i very serious, who are being cared for in their own homes or the uouies of } more fortunate friends. EAST ST. LOUIS. Sis** of Rapid Recuperation—The Worw of the Relief Committees. St. Lons, June 3.—In our sister city across the river reouperatiou has begun. While an apathetic stupor enveloped hundreds of sufferers, the reaction among those citizens upon whom ! depends the city’s progress has been complete and effectual. Already the corporations which control the public transportation, communication and lighting facilities have I accomplished almost half the neceaj sary repairs of their plants; new roofs, ! windows, doors and walls have been placed on damaged struct a res; street after street has bceu cleared of wreckage; store after store has been reopened, and pile after pile of worthless debris has been burned. The marvelous work of the relief I committees has commenced to show | ts salutary effects. Families who had abandoned themselves to | desperation have been nerved < to effort; more than 4.000 persons i have been saved from starvation, Lclothed with necessary wearing apparel, and fully 250shelterless persons, | already suffering the ailments which accrue from exposure, have been placed under temporary roofs. It is impossible to calculate the reI suits obtained by the relief corps, but ' its members announce that if they are not afforded the means with which to continue their work the consequences will be almost as unfortunate as the : failure of their efforts would have been. The death list from the tornado now foots up 99. four deaths having occurred since Sunday. Following is • list of the identified dead: Revised List of Dead.

Anschel. Adolph. Avery. Gay. Andrew Richard. Anderson. Andrew. Ahearn.John. Harr. Mr*. Brucker. MirhaeL Brewer, Mrs. Brohan. Mrs. Brown. Joseph C. Connelly. Trudy. Carroll. C. Chapman, George. Collin*. Chas. Pern. Mrs. Miry I>uffy. Joseph Paris-Jone*. Mra-Rub; Esher, GeorgeFries. F A Farrell, W. G Flynn, Michael. FL’iimgan. Jim. Franks. J >eph. F raw ley-, John. G;» Idue. Emma. Grubb. Martin. Griffin, Thomas. Gerhardt. George. Glaldue. Henry. Glad due, Emma. Gropp. Martin ' < Qi. gaa Mike. I Hay wool. Mrs. Sooth Hayes. John. C Hays. Mrs. Wm Hughes. J. Horrigas. Mrs Hennessy. Mrs. Ellen. Humphreys, , Jdnes. R-.by. Keen. J. E. Kelly. John. Keefe. Mat. Kurtz. Jacob. Ker.ne. ^Irs. Ki’dea. Michael Kent, Ira. ' Lee. Mrs. Mary. Lany. Julia. Unknown white man.

Lucky. Herbert. Morgan. Clarence. Murray. Mrs. F. Mitchell. Myles. McCormick. Fr ink. Mitchell. Joseph. M Cann; P. J. Meuty.jF. Nk-hols. F. A.Null. Dr. C. FI. O'Neill. Thomas. O'Brien. Thomas. Potter. J A. Pot ter. 0. Poss. Henry. Preis, ¥*. A. ■Richardson, J. B. Rothe Charles. Rlce.lGeorge. Rlcke. William. Rlcke. Mrs. Bell. Ri se. Frank. Kee l. John. Step'ocr, Stella. Slate jlrs. Georgs. Sage, DariJ. Sage, Mrs. David. ScjtoumUe. Mrs. Speilmaun. Martin. Smith. W. E. Seltser. Barbara. Sullivan. Mrs. Jos. F. Snow, Samuel. Simmons. R. E. Strickler. P. J. Troutly. John' Trump. Daisy, Trump. MabeL Velths. Henry. Volk maun, Albert Vogt. Henry. Wait, C. W s Walsh. W. D. Waldron. Mrs. E. Whtcher. Capt. J. S Walmsley. Peter. Wlnterman, Henry. Wirdley. Ed Winthouse. Lena. Unknown white mat

Tb«M M»jr Ulr. Bernard and Mr*. Wlndhau*. Their child la already dead. ' Mrv McOaiiagher. Charles Halt Lancy Pierae. C. E. Koemer. . Harry Goodwia. Jaa>8 Steel*. Supposed to Have Been Drowned. Thomas Meissing, driver for Donk Bros. Coal Co., drove on the bridge from east side just before tornado. Meiuinf, the horses and wagon are supposed to hitve been blown off the bridge, as nothing has been seen of them since. • HARDIN-STEVEN50N. Marriage of the Vice-President’* Danghtei Julia mud Her. Martin 1). Hardin. ^Vasuisotox, June 3.—The marriage of Ms. Julia Stevenson, daughter; of tlit*1. : e-president of the I’riite i States, toiler. Martin D. Hardin, of Lexington. Kv.. which took place at the New Yor . Avenue Presbyterianchurch, the largest edltiee of that denomination in the city, was a brilliant affair, attended by all the high officials headed by the president find Mrs, Cleveland,' and moil of the diplomatic corps. Miss Stevenson was attended by her sister. Miss Letitia Stevenson, as maid of honor, and four bridesmaids. Miss Letitia Scott, Miss Jane llardin, Mis* Julia Scott and Miss Julia Hardin. Mr. Charles Hardin, of Kentucky, cousin of the groom, was best man, and the ushers were Messrs. Longmoor and Hill. Kentucky friends of the grooia; Mr. Carl Yrooaiaa, of Baltimore; Mr. Go rge llamtin. of Boston; Lieut. Br<*mwell and Mr. Wilcox,of this city. The groom's parents, Gen. and Mrs. Hardin, Judge Hardin, an uncle; Mr. and Mrs. Hardin, of Danville, Ky.; Mr. and Mrs. Harrity. of Philadelphia, and Gov. arid Mrs. Knott, of Kentucky, were among those present. DR. AYRES* REPORT On th!" Condition of Ibe Cyclone Soffercr* in Ka*t St. LoaU and St. Louis. Chicago, June i.—Dr. Philips W. Ayres, superintendent of the Chicago bureau of charities, returned yesterday from his visit of investigation in Hast fst. Louis. He reported that city practically isolated and desperately in need of assistance. He estimated the number of homeless people then aJt 500 and urged the immediate sending of 510.000 by Chicago citizens to relieve the distress. He also said £500 St. Louis people were homeless and in need of assistance, des?ute tbs refusal of that city officially to bus for aid.

TALMAGE’S SERMON. Consolations of Religion for All Who Are in Trouble. The Christian’s Faith HU Support Even Amid the Most Tryiujr Ordeala— All Affliction* Sent tor a Purpose. Rov. T. DetYitt Talmage in a recent I sermon before his Washington congre- | gation.presented the consolations of re- '■ iigion as a panacea for human troubles. ' He took for his text: And the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night. —Exodus X..1A The reference here is not to a cyclone, but to the long-continued blowing of the wind from an unhealthful quarter. The north wind is bracing, the south wind is relaxing, but the east wind is ipritating and full of threat. Eighteeu times does the Ilible speak agaiust the east wind. Moses describes the thin ears blasted by the east wind. The psalmist describes the breaking of the ships of Tarshish by the east wind. The locusts that plagued Egypt were borne in on tJie east wind. The gourd that sheltered ' Jonah was shattered by the east wind; and in all the 0,000 summers, autumns, winters and springs of the world's existence the worst wind that ever blew is the east wind. Now, if Liod would only give ns a climate of perpetual nor'wester, how genial and kind and placid and industrious Christians we would all be! But intakes almighty grace to be what we ought to be under tfca east wind. Coder the shilling and wet wing of the east wind the most of the world's

villi a mes, iraunas, outrages, suicides and murders nave been hatched out. I think if you should keep a meteorological history of the days of the year, and put right beside it the erimmal record of the country, you would find that those were the best days for piibi lie morals which were under the north or west wind, and that those were the worst days for public morals which were under the east wind. The points of the compass have more to do with the world's morals and the church's ! piety than you have yet suspected. Rev. Dr. Archibald Alexander, eminent for learning and for consecration, when asked bv one of his students at Princeton whether he always had fall assurance of faith, replied: "Yes, except when the wind blows from the east." Dr. Francis. dictator of Paraguay, when the wind was from the east, made oppressive enactments for the people; but when the weather changed, repeated him of the, cruelties repealed the enactments’ and was n good humor with "111 the world. 1 He fore I overtake the ma;n thought of my subject I want to tell Christian ' people they ought to be obserraut of climatic changes. Be on your guard when the wind blows from the east. There are certain styles of temptation that you can not endure under certain styles of weather. When the wind blows from the east, if 3*011 are of a nervous temperament, go not among Exasperating people, try not to settle bad debts, do not try* to settle “old dis- j putes. do not talk with a bigot on re- | ligion, do not go among those people who delight in saying irritating things, do not try to collect funds for 1 charitable institution, do not try to i&swer an insulting letter. If these things must be done, do them when the wind is from the north, or the south, or the west, but not when the wind is from the east. You say that men and women ought not to be so sensitive and nervous. I admit it, but I am not talking about what the world ougiit to be; 1 am talking about what the world is. . While there are ptersons whose disposition does not seem to be affected by changes in the atmosphere, nine out of ten arc mightily played upon by such influences. O t hryCtJan man! under such circumstance/ do not write hard things against yourself, do not get worried about your fluctuating experience. You are to remember that the barometer in *your soul is 011I3* answering the barometer of the weather.’* Instead of sitting down and becoming discouraged and saying. “I am not a Chris- ] tk:n because I don't feel exWil- 1 araut." get up and look out of .the ! window and see the \yeather vane pointing in the wrong quarter, and j then sav: **Get thee behind me. Satan. ; thou prince of the power of the air; : get out of m3* house! gel out of mv ; heart, thou demon of darkness horsed < t -e east wind. Away!" However good and great you may be in the

C ;r!>Ua-a life, your som win never be | independent of physical condition, i I feel 1 am uttering' a most practical, ■ useful truth here, one that-may give j relief to a great many Christians who i are worried and despondent at times, j I>r. Rush, a monarch in raedieine. j after curing hundreds of cases of men- j tal depression, himself fell sick and i lost his religious hope, and he would j not believe his pastor when the pastor told him that his spiritual depression j was ourly a consequence of physical depression. Andrew, Fuller, Thomas, Scott, William Covvper, Thomas Boston, David Rrainerd, Philip Meiancthon j were mighty men for God, but all of them illustrations of the fact that a man's soul is not independent of his physical health. An eminent physician | gave as his option that no man ever died a greatly triumphant death whose disease was below the diaphragm. Stackhouse, the learned Christian commentator, says he does not think Saul was insane when David played the harp before him, but it was a hypochondria coming from inflammation of the liver. Oh, how many good people havA been mistaken in regard to their religious hope, not taking these things into consideration! The dean of Carlisle, one of the best men that ever lived, and one of the most useful, sat down and wrote: “Though I have endeavored %o discharge my duty as well as I could, yet sadness and melancholy of heart stick close by and increase upon me. -1 tell nobody, but I \ta verv much sunk indeed, and V

'wish I could hare the ’relief of weeping1 as I used to. My days are !. exceedingly dark and distressing. In a word, Almighty God seems t«j> hide | His face, and I intrust the secret hardly to any earthly being. Is know not what will become of me. There is doubtless a good deal of affection | mingled with this, but it is not! ail so. | I bless God, however, that I never lose ' sight of the cross, and.thbugh I jshould die without seeing any personal interest in the Redeemer’s merits, j I hope that I shall be found at His feet. I will thank you for a word at your leisure. My door is bolted at tjie time I am writing this, for I aur full of ; tears.” ’ What was the matter with the dean ; of Carlisle? Had he got to be a worse man? No. The physician said that | the state of his pulse would not warrant his living a minute. Oh. if the east wind affects the spleen, and affects the lungs, and affects tlje liver, it will affect your immortal soijil. Appealing to God for help, braCe yourself against these withering blasts and destroying influ^nces,_ lest thaft whieh the psalmist said broke the $hips of Tarshish, shipwreck vou.

But notice in my text that the Lord controls the east wind: "*Tiie Lord brought the east wind.’” He brings it for especial purpose; the east ■ wind is just as important as. the north wind, or the south wind, or thu west wind, but not so pleasant. Trial mujst come. The text does not say you will escape the cutting blast. Whoever i did escape it? Especially who that! accomplished anything for church or state ever escaped it? I was in the pulpit of John Wesley, in Loudon, ft pulpit where he stood one day and said: “I haviTbeen charged with all the crimes in the catalogue except otae^that of drunkenness,'’and a woman arose in the audience and said: “Jjbhn, you wer&jdyunk last night.” So Jbhn Wes* ley passed under the flail. I-saw in a foreign journal a report of one- of George Whitedeld's sermons—|a sermon preached a hundred and twenty or thirty years ago. It seemed that the reporter stood to take the sermon, and his chief idea was to caricature it: and these are some of the repoiftorial interlinings of the sermon of ‘George Whitefield. After calling l|im by a nickname indicative of “a. physical defect in the e\-e. it goes, oh to say: “Here the preacher clasps his chin on the pnlpit cushion. Here he elpvates his voice. Here, be lowers his voice. Holds his arms attended. Bawls aloud. Stands trembling. Makes a| frightful face. Turns up the whites o| his eyes. Clasps his hands: behind him. Clasps his arms around him and hugs himself. Ro-irs aloud. Hollas.! Jumps. Cries. Changes from crvmg. Hollas and jumps again." Well, my brother, if that good man went through all that process, in your occupation! in your profession, in your store, in your shop, at the bar. in the sick room, in the editorial chair, somewhere, you will have to go through a similar process; you can not escape it. Keats wrote his famous p gem, and the hard criticism of the pjbcm killed him—literal ly killed him. Tasso wrote his poem entitled "Jerusalem '■Delivered." and it had such a cold reception it turned him inta a raving ma,niac. Stiilingfleet was slain by hjis literary enemies. The frown of Henry VIII. slew Cardinal Wolsey. The duke of Wellington refused to have the fence around his liou^e. which had been destroyed by a mob, rebuilt, because he wanted the fence to remain as it was. a reminder of the mutability and uncertainty of the popular favor. And you will have trial of some sort. You have had it already. Why need 1 prophesy? I might better mention an historical fact in your hisjtory. You are a merchant. What a time you had with that old business partner! IIow hard it was to get rid of him! Before you bought him out. or he ruined both fit you, what magnitude of innoyauee! Then, after you ha t paid ijim down a certain sum of money to have him go out, and to promise he would not open

a store of the sttne km 1 ot business m your street, did be not open tha very same kind of business a> near to you as possible, and take all yoUr customers as far as he could take them? A ml then, knowing all your frailties and weaknesses, after b>. ing in your business firm for so many year|s, is he not now spending his time iu making a commentary on what you furnished as a text? You are a physician, and in yonr sickness, oh in your absence, you get a neighbor ing doctor to “take your place in the sick room, and he ingratiates himself into the favor of that family, so that you forever Ipse their patronage.„ Or. you take a patient through the serious stages of a fever, and some day the- in-patient father or husband of tile siek one rushes out and gets another medical practitioner, who comes! in iust in time to get tiie credit of tjhe cure. Or, you are a lawyer, ana -you come in contact with a trickster in your profession. aud iu your absehce, and contrary to agreement, he moves a'iuonsuit or the dismissal of the ease; or the ju ige on the bench, remembering an oid political grudge, rules against I you every time he gets a chance, and says, with a snarl; “If you don't like my decision, take an exception.” Or, you are a farmer, and thfe curculio stings the fruit, or, the weevil get* into the wheat, or the drought stunts tie corn, or the long-continued rains give you no opportunity for gathering the harvest Your best cow gets the hollowhorn. your best horse gets foundered. A French proverb said that trouble eomes iu on horseback ami goes away on foot. So trouble dashed in on you suddenly, but oh, hew 1 ng it was in getting away! Came * in horseback, goes away on foot Rapid in coming, slow in going. That is the history of nearly all your troubled. Again and again and again, you have experienced the power of the east bind. It may be blowing from that direction now. Aly friends, God intended these troubles and trials far some particular purpose. They do no: come at random. Here is the promise: “lie stayeth Ills rough wind in the day of the east •'bid,” In tuo tower of London the i

swords and the ?uns of other ages are burnished and arranged into huge passion-flowers, and sunflowers, and bridal oaks, and you wonder how anything so hard as steel can be put intp such floral shapes. I have to tell you that the hardest, sharpest, most cutting, most piercing sorrows of this life may be made to bloom and blossom and put on bridal festivity. The Bible says they' shall be mitigated, they shall he assuaged, they shall be graduated. God is not going to allow you to be overthrown. A Christian woman, very much despondent, was holding her child in her arms, and the pastor, trying to console the woman in her spiritual depression, said: “There, j you will let your child drop.’’ “Oh, no," she said, “I copldn’t let the child drop!” He said: “You,/will let the child drop,’’ “Why.” she said, “if I should drop the child here, it would dash his life out!” “Well now.” said the Christian minister, “don’t you think God is as good as you are? | : Won’t God, your Father, take as g<fed j ■ eare of you. His child, as you take I | eare of your child? God won’t let you | | drop.”

1 suppose God lets the east wind blow just hard enough to drive ’us into the harbor of God's protection. We all feel we can manage our own affairs We have hejm and compass and chart and quadrant. Give us plenty of sea room and we sail on and sail on; but after awhile there comes a Caribbean whirlwind up the coast, and we.are helpless in the gale, and we cry out for harbor. All our calculations upset, vfe say with the poet: Change and decay on all around I see: O Thou who changest not. abide with aie! The south wind of mild providence makes us throw off the cloak of Christian charaeterunifswe eateh cold, but the sharp east wind of trouble makes us wrap arouud us the warm promises. The best thing that ever happens to us is trouble. That is a hard thing, per- ’ haps, to say. but I repeat it. for God announces it again and again, the best thing that happens to us is trouble. Nothing like trouble to show us that this world is an insufficient portion. Hogarth was about done with life, and he wanted to paint the end of ail all things. He put on canvas a shattered bottle, a cracked bell, an unstrung harp, a sign-board of a f&veru called “The World's End” falling down, a shipwreck, the-horses of Phoebus tying 'dead in the clouds, the moon in her last quarter. and the world on fire. “One thing more,” said Hogarth, aud my picture is done.” Then he added thp broken palette pf a painter. Then he died. But trouble. with han^ mightier and more skillfull thau Hogarth's, pictures the falling, failing, molderiug, dying world. And we want something permanent to lay hold of, and we grasp with both hands after God. and say: “The Lord is my light, the Lord is unlove, the Lord is my fortress, the Lord is my sacrifice, the Lord, the Lord is my God." Bless God for your trials. Oh,'my Christian friend! keep your spirits up the power of Christ’s Gospel. Do not surrender. Do you pot know that when 3‘ou give up, others will give iap! You have courage, and others wilt have courage/ The Romans went into the battle, and by some accident there was an inclination of the standard.The standard uprignt meant forward march; the inclination of the standard meant surrender. Through j the negligence of the man who carried the standard, and the inclination of it, the army surrendered. Oh! let i us keep the standard up, whether it be i blown down by the east wind, or the north wind, or the south wind. No inclination to surrender. Forward into i the conflict.

There is near Bombay a tree that i they call the “sorrowing1 tree,” the peculiarity'of which is it never puts forth any bloom in the daytime, but in the night puts out all its bloom and all its j redolence. And I have to tell you that though Christian character puts forth i ts sweetest blossoms jin the darkness of sickness, the darkness of financial dis-'j tress, the darkness of bereavement, the darkness of death, “weeping’may endure for a night, but joy oometh in the morning.” Across the harsh discords } of this world rolls the music of the skies—music that breaks from the lips, music that breaks from the harps and rustles from; the palms,, mtfsie like j falling water over rocks, music like , wandering winds among leaves, music like carrolling birds, among ' forests, music like ocean billows storming the Atlantic “beach: "Tftev shall hunger no more, neither thirst i any snore, neither shall the sun light on then! nor any heat: for the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne j shall lead them to living fountains of ; water,* and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” i see a . great Christian fleet ''approaching thatT harbor. Some of the ships come in with sa;is rent and bulwarks knocked way, but still afloat. Nearer and nearer the shining shore. ■- Nearer and nearer eternal anchorage. Haul away, my lads, haul away. Some of the ships had a mighty tonnage, and otherf were shallops easily “lifted of the wind and wave. Some were men-of-war and armed of the thunders of Christian battle, and others were unpretending tugs taking others through the “Narrows,” and others were ; coasters that never ventured out into the deep seas of Christian e.vperiencs; but they are all coming nearer the wharf — brigantine, galleon, lice-of* battle ship, longboat, pinnace, warfrigate—and as they come into the j harbor I find that they are driven by ; the long, loud, terrific blast of the ! east wind. It is through much tribu- j lation that you are to enter into the j kingdom of Gob j You have blessed God for the north j wind, and blessed Him for the south wind, and blessed Hun for the west wind; can you not in the light of thus subject bless Him for the east wind? Nearer, my God. to Thee. Nearer to Thee. \ E'en though it be a cross That rateeth me. «- SllU cay sengsbait be. Nearer, inv God, to Thee, Neirer to Thee.

GOOD THINGS TO EAT. Green Currant Pies.—Pick the currants from the stem and stew them for five minutes in barely enough water to cover them; then sweeten them to taste end pour while hot into the crust, place on the top crust and bake until brown. Ripe Currant Pies.—If very ripe, a little cornstarch must be added to the sugar with which the currants are sweetened, to absorb the juice. The best pies are made with partly ripe currants. Bake with an upper and under crust like the green currants. Cream Gruel.—Mix three tablespoonfuls of Indian meal with sufficient cold water to make a smooth paste. Add by degrees one pint of boiling water. Let boil ten minutes and salt to taste. At the last moment add a generous tablespoonful of cream, which must be hot. but not boiling. Currant Pickles.—Boil twro pounds of sugar in a pint of vinegar, add nutmeg and cjnhamott-to taste, and half a cup of = good raisins. When thoroughly boiled skim out the spices and raisins, put in the currants, and let them boil two minutes. then skim them out carefully and put them into the jar where they are to remain. Boil the sirup ten minutes longer, and pour it over the fruit. Cover closely and set away in a cold, dry place; —Boston Ilerakl.

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