Semi-weekly Independent, Volume 2, Number 10, Plymouth, Marshall County, 14 December 1895 — Page 7

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RELIGIOUS COLUMN.

ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ALL DENOMINATIONS. Gems in the Coronet of Love Not I'rofcssion of I'uitli, lmt Jtarnesitni'ss of Soul, tliat Makes Us Cliristiuns Short Sermons. Those in C):ir Clin rue. X I i: UIEXCE proves tli.it wo may make or mar Use clur.tcters of those pla-el l-y ii a t u r e in our charge. Tin? iul!fi i t"il traits :w strong: the iniluj r 7v t t: i " i 1 ' ''-1h i n gs i s strong r. J n tho rirst few years tlu seed is .-own that .hall (."row imo a faint fruit tivo or into a deadly upas, which .shall Mast tho child's lifo. Those early intiuenees may determine whether the child shall lie like the stinging nettle or prickly thistle, which uhl weil be spared and replaeed by beneficent products of the earth; or like the glowing bryony a I'd the graceful liighislnulc. lioth attractive yet poison, ;ts: or like sweet elover. which yields fragrance and sweetness to the honeyed stores of the bees; or like the starry daisy and blue-eyed violets or the llowors of eglantine blushing bright red. imparting beauty and loveliness to their surroundings. Children :uv the flowers of home. They are the perfume of life. They are living jewels dropped unstained froai heaven. Tbey nro jrenis gloaming in the coronet of love. They nro bettor than all the ballads That wer were sung or said. For they are living poems, And all ihe rest are dead. 1 Ilabbi J. Leonard Levy. Sineeritv in Keliy;ion. "The just shall live by failli." II. Hornaus, i.. 17. It is not what we profess that makes ti.s Christians, but the sincerity of motive, ami the earnestness of desire; these qualities reline the soul, prepare the mind for the reception of divine jrraco, and tend towards the cultivation of the heart. Indifference leads to the wild tempestuous sea of atheism as sure as tho river leads to and is lost In the mijrhty ocean, llelijrion is the knowledge and the love of !od, but this knowledge does not eonsist merely In Miperiicial ideas of Christian principle, it involves a deep and sincere conviction of the intellect regard injr the fundamental truths of Hod as revealed by Jesus Christ. This knowledge, which comes to us by revelation, whether thro;ii;!i tradition or the scriptures, begets in ns a fervent love of Iod, which is strengthened and increased in proportion to the sincerity of our faith, tied despises the lukewarm heart, we are told, also that The kingdom of leaven suffereth violence, and none lmt tho violent shall carry it away." This warning clearly Indicates the necessity for action. To be practical Christians, sincerely seekins after the truth ami persistently j fish tins a.sainst the evils that surround lis. St. I'aul continually admonishes us in his epistles asainst the danser of becomins slusish in fultillins our relisius duties and most cmphatieally insists that we not only should believe but still more i'iat we should practice what we believe, thereby manifestins our sincerity. Indeed, if we are sincere and earnest Christians we shall not only resard it as our duty to emulate all Christian virtues, and endeavor tu perform ih. various requirements of our religious station, lmt we shall likewise bo mos: anxious lo promote Cod's jrlory and increase our own faith, by strivins constantly after spiritual sanctity a ml uneeasinsly s.ronsthon Ins our convictions by an exemplary visilanco. following the sacred precept Watch and pray." ruAxeis s. mitciikll. ( Kncotiratririy: the Minister. He not afraid to speak to those who haw helped you in any way. Tell them plainly what they have done for you. You do not know what a help and an encouragement it will be to them. There nro alto.setlier too many who follow the same course as that taken by the man '.f whom Dean Hoyle in his "Itecollections" tells the followius story: When I lirst went to Hridsenorth. I found myself In the house of a very thoushtful man, who told me that he owed his soul to two sermons preached In my church by my predecessor. "I was a regular infidel," he said, "and I went after many years to the church. There I heard a sermon that pave me a week's misery. The next Sunday I went as'iin, and hoard another. Those two sermons set me to thinkins. I besan to read the Hible, and at last I'found peace." "Von went and told that elersyman, I hope, and encourased him in his work?" "I." he said. "Oh. no, I never spoke to him in my life."- Kx. Ih-iHMic of Spirit. The fully sanctified have an easiness of manner and spirit that they never would have had but for the operation of the holy spirit on their hearts. True easiness of spirit is not tho work of culture, but the work of the srace of Jod. It is quietness of soul, but it is that quietness of soul that is wrought only by the grace of Cod. The grace of God checks our natural haste, frees ii from the activities of nature and curbs our impulsive spirits, so as to keep us quiet and make us easy In our manners and ways even In time o? excitement. Let us seek to got this easiness of spirit. This easiness of spirit will not rob us of zeal and earnestness Jn our religious work. It will rather make us more in earnest. There Is

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what may bo called an easy rracsrnes3 of soul, which frees us from awkwardness in our work. This? easiness of spirit should be seen in or.r homes, in tho elmreli. in company. In our business life and everywhere else.

A Persistent Junior. Hot. S. II. Folk, of Heu. Tonn., reports :i case of a Utile girl in his church who desired tt join the Fudoavor Society, but her parents were slow to give their consent, riuaily she said to her mother: "Mamma, lind me a prayer in the Hible, and Til have a meeting of my wn. if you will not let me go to the l lliii v ii. Meanwhile, the parents looked on in ama.uneiit while the little girl sang a son;', read a few verses if Scripture, and knelt down and read the prayer her m :!)er had sdectr-d. It is needless to say that she was at once given permission join the society, in which she is now one of ;he most faithful workers. Mr. Polk says: So. parents, lot the little children work for Jesus, that they may be mre useful when they get oider. I sive ;!iis 1 i t tit story in hop that it may keep parents from objecting p their children attending the Christian lindeavor. This little -Irl is only '. years old." Cumberland I'resbytcrian. Jack the Soldier. "Can't do it. It's airainst orders. I'm a soldier now." said one newsboy to another. "s. you look like a soldier I" wag the niockin.i; reply. "I am. though, all the same." and .Tack straightened himself and looked steadily into .Unfs eys. ".Icsu is niy Captain, and I'm iroin' to do veryjhinr on the square after this, 'cause He says to." "That won't l:it Ion-." said .lim. "Just wait till you're in bad luck and awful hungry, and you'll ho jk somethin" f.ist cnoujjl!." "So; my Captain says. 'Don't steal.' and I won't. What I can't earn I'll p without, and if I'm likely to steal at any time I'll Just call to Ilim. He's always watcltin' to see if. any of His soldiers need help. He'll help me to do any thin:? he's told me to do." ise .lark! He had learned the se cret of a happy, useful Christian life and of standin;? by his C.iiitaiu. Christian Advocate. Sonl Shtisfuctiott. Soul satisfaction is the thins above all others to be desired, because it is the most valuable and is within the reach of all. Many desire wealth and stay poor; they crave reputation, and are dishonored; they thirst for knowl odjre, and remain comparatively isnor ant. Hut the sold that hungers and thirsts after righteousness, after a clear. er faith, a brighter hope, a holier joy, a diviner reverence, shall in due timo attain to the ledsht of full soul satisfac tion in regard to these things. "I shall be satisfied when I awake in Thy like ness." The awakening time is coming for all souls that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for Cod has said "They sh:ül be tilled." Homeless. The saddest thinj; I can Imagine is a homeless man. One who lias no abid- ? - 1 . - . 1. A A " 1 . - A. i 1 1 1 it Tiirtt: on nil iviiiiiii: vioii v iiiiiiiii S(,1IK. om? hUhUu.r llim ,novo mi; for whom in all the earth there is no wol come rest ins place which he can call home and where love shares and softens his sorrows. Sadder than this is the houseless, beam less soul. While yon are plannins for tlie body think of the soul. Make provisions for it by aeeeptins Cod's merciful bounty for forSive.ness and faith. Ilev. F. E. Smiley. Sympathy. There are those who never take a stone out of ihe way, never put any li;rht into darkness, never any comfort into sorrow. Hut there are those, too, who have much of the milk of human kindness, whose hearts are tuned to the key of tenderness, whose faces beam mln scatter sunshine. lie v. W. II. Moore. Kit f Thin sr. 'Hie fear of Coil is the beginning of wisdom. Find your place, fill your place, and lo. the kingdom of Cod. Kvery little Christian duty Is a big argument for foreign missions. Just trace it and see! Tho Hible is the mirror before which every one can see himself unless ho is spiritually blind. According as Cod alone is more and more our true portion, so is our progress in holiness. The one who gives up easy in his religious duties makes poor progress in his Christian life. Music makes the soul and lifts it high, and winss it with sublime desires and tits it to bespeak the Deity. Addison. The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do. something to love, and something to hope for. Addison. Virtue consists in doing our duty In the several relations wo sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellow-men, and to (Jod. as known from reason, conscience and revelation. A man may think ho has faith, may say he has faith, and yet be without faith. Hut if his life is pure and holy and earnest, ho knows that he has genuine faith, "faith which worketh by love." When one is in a foreign eon n try he feels hii..self to bo a representative of his own. and wishes to honor it by being worthy of it. Our citizenship is in heaven, and we should so live as to honor that letter country. How many lay up riches which they never enjoy, to provide for exigencies that never happen, to prevent troubles that never come, sacrificing present comfort and enjoyment In guarding against the wants of a period they may never live to ce. Jay. w

TALM AGE'S SEÜ3I0

SERMON DELIVERED IN WASHINGTON LAST SUNDAY. IJcwarcnf the Special Allurement of the Sfason-l'areiits Should Make Jfome Attractive Arm the Yoiin Against Tempt at ions Kum Horrors. Tlie Opening V'intcr. Last San. lay Dr. Tain ae !:ose as the Miojoci ot Ins sermon " 1 no Winter." Although the cold ernes ear- j lier or later, according to the ia;i .i de, ; this sermon is sooner or later as appro- ; priate everywhere as it is in Wa- ihi-.:..!. Tho text selected will he l'oim.l in f it us ! in., 1-, 1 nave Ut tciiuiueU there to wiu nr." l'aul was n it ireiepcp.dent of tl:1 seapons. lie scut f..r 1 is overoat 1 Tr .s .-.. .1 ,....!.. ....... yu .i ini.i''.i:iii- i" hi. .iii.i 111 Hie text h o text he is makinir arrariuctia- uts t'.-r e a;t;'roacl!in;: !. 1 weather and j. ;:l.c: the an apitoininn nt wiih Titps to nu-et h::a sit Net roiMilis. saying. "I have detei '.nined there to winter." Well, this is the S; h day ot Do-ember and th second Sale bath of winter. We have had a !ew shrill, sharp leasts already, forer.r.m'vs of whole retrimeiits of t-bu-nis and t; nipests. Xo oiio lief1 heeds to be loll that we are in th,- opening prates .f ji winter. This season is not only a te--t of one's physical endurance, but in our great cities is a test of moral character. A vast number of people have by one winter of dissipation been destroy -d. and forever. Seated in our lames on some stormy night, the winds howiing outside, we imagine the skipping help! --s-Iy driven mi the coast, but any winter night, if our ears were good enough, we could hear the eradi of a thousand mora! siiip wrecks. There are many people who came to the cities on the 1st of September who will be blasted by the 1st of March. At this season of the year tomptati ms are e-pecially rampant. Xow that the long winter Wenings have come, there are many who will employ them in high pursuits, intelligent socialities, in Christian work, in the strengthening and ennobling of moral character, and 'his winter to many of yea will be the brightest and the best of all your lives, and in t.utieipation I congratulate you. Hut lo others it may n-d have such effect, and I charge you. my beloved. lock out where jou spend jour winter nights. Kvil Allurement h. In the first place. 1 have to remark that nt this season of the year the evil allu.vments are especially busy. There is ;.ot very much temptation for a man to plunge in on a hot night amid blazing gaslights and to breathe the fetid air of an assemblage, but in tho cold nights satan gathers a great harvest. At such times the grogshops in one night make more than in four, or live nights in summer. At such times the playbills of 1 w places of entertainment seem especially attractive, and the acting is especially impressive and the applause especially bewitching. Many a man who has kept right all the rest of the year will be capsized now, and though hist autumn lie came from the country, and there was bister in the eye, and there were roses in the cheek and elasticity in the step, by the time the spring hoar has come you .viil pass him in ihe street and say to vo ir friends: "What's the matter with ihat man? How differently he looks from what he looked last September!" Slam of one winter's dissipation. At this time of the year there are many ontertai.iPicnts. If we rightly employ tlui.i and they are of the right kind, they enlarge our socialities, allow us to make important acquaintances, build up in our morals and help up in a thousand ways. J can scarcely think of anything better than good neighborhood. Hut there are those entertainments from which others will come hcsoilcd in character. There are those who by the springtime will be broken down 'in health, and. though t tho n!.i.!iin nf it. .ixiin a,,;. , were bright, at the close of the season thev will be in the lomils ,.f tlw. .:......... ... sleeping in the cemetery. The -ertiheate of death will be made out, and the physician, to save the fe lings of the family, will call the disease by a Latin name. Hat tho doctor knows, and everybody knows, they heil of too many levees. Away with all these wine drinking convivialities. Mow dare you, the father Df a family, tempt tlie appetites of the young people? Perhaps at the enterinont. to save the feelings of the mildster or some other weak temperance man, you leave the decanb'r iu a sid-i room, and only i few people are invited there to partake, but it is easy enough to know when you come out by the glare of vour eye and the stench of your breath that you have been serving the devil. Practice Felf Control. Men siim'tinies excuse themselves and say after late suppers it is necessary to take some sort of stimulant to aid digestion. My i.lain opinion is that if you have no more self control than to stuff vourself until your digestive organs refuse tlo'ir olhce you had better not call jours. If a man, but class yourself among the beasts that perish. At this season ..I the year the Young Men's Christians AssoeiatYms of the land send out circulars asking the pastors to spoak a word on this subject, und so I sound in your car tho words of the Lord Cod Almighty. "Woe unto him that putteth the bottle to his neighbor's ! lips." Hejoice that you have come lo tho glad winter months that remind you of the tunes when in your childhood voti were shone on by the face of father, moth er, brothers, sisters, some of tlmm, alas! no more to meet you with a "Happy New car, or u "Merry Christmas." Hut again mid again have we seen n New lears day the sons of some of the bst families drunk, and young inm have excused themselves by the fact that the wine cup has been offered bv the ladi s. and again and again it 1 as been found out that a holy's hand has kindled the young man's thirst for strong drink, and long after all the attractions of the holiday have passd that same woman ini hs in her rags, and her desolation, and her wc under the uplifted hand of tlie drunken inonstT to whom she had passed the fascinating cup on Xew Yar's day. If we want to go tu ruin, let us go alone and not take others with us. Can we not sacrifice .ur feelings if need b'V When the good ship London went Iowa, '.he captain was told that he might escape in one of the lifeboats. "No," he ieplietl, "I'M go down with the paswngers." All the world appkunled his heroism. And an we not sacrifice our tastes and our appetites for the rescue f others? Sun1 it is not a very great sacrifice. Oh. mix u t with the innocent bovcrags of the holiday the poison f adders! Mix not with the white sugar of the cup the snow

of this nwful leprosy! M:ir not the el.it

tor of the eiit!-T.v of the festal o. easioa with tu. ..l.jt.l- .. .. ... .1 .,:.. ...... .... , .i .i i.i,. mi. i.i i i ; i ..Ulli. Pass down ;l;e street and lo'-j. into the pawnbroker'., window. Liegau wate!.. lcgant furs, elegant f!::te. elegant shoes. eU';'.ut s lllentoes. earf. legant books, elegant nie- i "U soüi t iilte sii penple V.'l.h p.e isi'l cnirii, nan s I.okin;r into su-a a ; wiadow. Wh n I 1 iok iaio a pawnhro'k- ' r's wiiii.. w. ii s. i ins t. ! as it i ha. I look'-d into the u i::dow In !li T. wii ua ' did that v. ai. !i liel..n-v To a drunkard, i 'I'.. ..-!..... l; 1 a- . . . ..... ' 1. Mil liiu I : Ii l( SHIS I .'Ii III IT.' I drunkards wife. T. v.hoia did thoe slio'-s liv!.i!-V To a drill!!.;.?. I"s 1 tak" tiie th orai-a b.i!K t'ewav o 1 a pawhbrok-:-'s shop and 1 dank tliern le-etmr. soununic the knell .o" the !ran.ard's soul. A pa,ii!i:-oker's slioj ! is only one .t' the i-d.pes in tlie 'iea; for- j rent of mmiieip:1.! drunkenness. "(Hi." j ! sa.es some one, "I dn t palroni- such ! I 1'iins. I have des;roved no vouatr man hy i: h i :; :I t: -j :n 1 only take ale, and it i will take a p;cat .-iinount !' .-.je to iut..i ' ".. i .. i w . i , .in-. o . : i L lei! Vn'l I i ere IS l,ui a I -'- .... ''. ll.'l." J 1 I 1 .1 j dr;M:k. rd in Aiaef'ea tli.it did hot begirt i . itlia!e. Three X's- I do not know what j tloy mean. Tiire A'.- on the bivv. er's dray, tl. 's on the deor of th" "ins'a ui I three "s on tlie side of the bottle' Three J X 1 a!.cd a man. He c..uid not tell. :d anotb- r what is ihe moanm-r .!' j 1 the time X's. He eoul.l pot teil me. Thon 1 made up my mind that the three X's were an allegory, and that they meant lldrty heartbreaks, thirty :iirnies, thirty bfokeTi up households, thirty prospects of a drunk-mi's grave, thirty ways to perdition. Three X's. If 1 we,e going to write a story, the first chapter I would .all "Three X's" and the het chapter I wouM all "Ihe rawnbr-.kers Shop. Uh, beware of your inlluciice. Curse of Modern Socicly. The winter season is especially full of temptation, because of the long evenings allowing sin h full swing for evil indulgences. You can scarcely expect a young man to go into his room and sit ihere from 7 to 11 o'clock in the evening reading Motley's "Dutch lb-public" or .lohn Coster's essays. It would boa very beautiful thing for him to do, but he will not do it. The most of our young men are busy in ollices, in factories.' in banking houses, in stores, in shops, and when evening conies they want the fresh air and they want sightseeing, and they must have it. they will have it. and they ought to have it. Most of the men here assembled will have three or four evenings of leisure ,.n the winter nights. After tea. the man puts on his hat and coat, and he goes cut. One form of allurement s:vs. "Come in here." Satan says: "It is best for you to go in. You ought not lo be so green. Ity this time you ought to have seen everything." And the temptations shall be mighty in dull times such as we have had, but which. I believe, are gone, for I henr all over the land the prophecy of great prosperity, and the railroad men and tho merchants, they all tell mo of the days of prosperity they think are coming, and m many departments they have already come, ai:d they are going to come iu all departments, but those dull times through which we have passer! have destroyed a great many men. The question of a livelihood is with a vast multitude the great question. There are young men who expected before this to set up their household, but they have been disappointed in the gains they have made. They cannot support themselves how ran they support others? And to the curse of modern society the theory is abroad that a man must not marry until he has achieved a fortune, when tho twain ought to start at the foot of the hill and together climb to the top. Unattractive Homes. Then tlie winter lias especial temptations in the fact that many homes are peculiarly unattractive at this season. In tlie sunniier months the young man can sit out on the steps, or he can have :i bouquet in the vase en the mantej. or, the Wenings being so short, soon alter gasj light he wants to retire anyhow. Hut V'T T"11" 1,:,m,,ls lud" uot. ,!' i iers.au. i now to make the long winter i at tractive to their children. It ' ls ;u U'-'Hiy oM peopie I do not understand young people. To hoar some or those panmis talk you wouul think they had never themselves been iiiuii aim nao noen oorn wan spciacjes on. Oli, it is dolorous for young people to sit in the hor.se from 7 to 11 o'clock at night and to hear parents groan about their ailments and the nothingness of this world. Tho nothingness of this world? How dare you talk suh blasphemy? It took (Jod six lays to make this world, and ho has allowd i.oM years to hang upon his holy heart, and this world has fdion on you and blessed you and caressed you for these lifty r seventy years, and yet you dare talk ab ut the .. . . . i . ... . nothingness of this world! Why. it is a magnificent world. I do not believe in the whole universe there is a world equal to it '.eept it be heaven. You cannot expect your children to stay ia the house tlmso long winter evenings to lmar you denounce this star lighvd. sun warmed. showiT haptizr'd, llower strewn, angel watclnl, (io.l inhabited planet. Oh. make your home bright! Hrlng iu the violin r the picture. It does not ropiire a great salary, or a big house, or chasetl silvtr, or gorgeous upholstery to make a happy homo. All that is wanted is a father's heart, a mother's heart, in sympathy with young folks. I hav known a man with salary, and he had no other income, but he had a home so happy and bright that, though the sous have gone ut and won large fortunes and the daughters have gone out into splendid spheres and become princesses of society, they can never think of that early home without t'ars .f emotion. It was to them the vestibule of heaven, and all their mansions now, and all their palaces now, cannot make them forgot that early place. lake your homes happy. You go around your house growling about your rheumatisms ami acting the lugubrious, and your sons will go into the world and plunge into dissipation. They will hav their wn rheumatisms after n while. Do not forestall tlmir misfortunes. You were young noe, and you had yoar bright and joy ..us times. Now lot the young folks have a good time. I ntood in front of a house and 1 said to the owner of the house. "This is a splendid trc" He said in a whining lone, "Yes, but it will fad'." I walked round his garden and said, "This is a glorious ganhai you have." "Y's." he said, "but it will perish." Then he said to my little child, whom I was hading along, "Come and kiss me." The child prob-sted and turncl nway. He aid, "Oh, the perversity of human nature!' Who wuld want to kiss him? I was not surprised to lind ut that his only sui had beonie a vagab.nd. You in.".y groan p'ople ut f leceney, but you can never groan them into it, ami I declare in thp presence of these men aad women of common seme that it

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; y,,ur homes bright if you want your wuj uud dauhtcrs to turn out well. Arm A'ja'nsst 1 em itat Ion. Alas, that old pi-o;.;. so i:r,i' h lr.isat'.de i st. mo avui! i !ii TIl.T e was a tueat

Sunday school anniversary, and tlicA j i,v the remarkable disidav .1 were thousa.als ,f children l-resent lu.j.,,at js soau thues mad; lw ;a . r. deed an the Sunaiv schools et the to.vu I - , . u,re in the building and it was very up- j wf :'1:lC l- V,':. , r.iarioiis and full of diturhan.-e. :i;.l ihe ' IIUIU cotnd 'n. n:o:-. , .

presic.ini; otlieer on the e -easiiin came for - ward and in a very loud p. no shouted. 1 J "Silenee'." and .he m.-re u,,;t. th,- j - rc - id 1 .1' ..I - 1 i t . , jii.u' oaic.T maue tne more noive the enh i dr n made. Seme one else i-ue ..a ti:o . lit-itf. .! r iriil I'M 'do Oirwir.l mh.1 I.I. t ',.......:..,. i. i .'.v'-o .. .,., ,.,....,- , , ," ... . - .ij'i'-. i'p .l.'.lli'l ii. and it did s em as if there v. o;:id h. almost a riot and the jt .iii t hao to he called in when old Dr. re.;n!.;n. !.is hair white ;-s the driven snow. said. "Let ia. try my hand." So became forward nili, a mow step to the front of the J.l.li i'ot t:: ar.d v:: n the children saw l'.e v.-nera'-'-ma.n a!;d the white hair they thoM-ht they wot:ld hush e.p that iuat:t .-id hear what the el.J lean Iiad to say. II,! said: "ll -ys. I want to make a huruairi with you. If you wiil be still n..y, while I s'm ak. win n von iret to b as o! 1 as I ; am I will ho a still as a ii,.i:i;.." 'I'm, r.. was not another whisper that ..iV'-ues. He was as mmdi a b.-y as any ,.f ih.-m. Oh. in these approaching hoüdavs let i:s turn h.i' k our natures to what thev wer,. years ago and be b ys again and again ani matte all our homes nippy od dl hold you responsible f. r the mtleeiice you now -crt. and it will 1 very bright and very pleasant if s cm winter night when w. are sleeljiug UiiI o.-r th" blankets of sin.w our clii-dren j shall ride along in the merry party, and hushing a moment into soh-mnity l-.ol; and say. "There sleep the best father and mother that ever made a happy new year." Arm yourself against these temptations of December, .January and February. Temptations will come to oa in the form of an angel of light. I know that the poets represent satan as horned and hoofed. If I were a poet and I were going to picture satan, I would represent him as a human being, wiih manners polished to the last perfection, hair falling in graceful ringlets, eyes a little bloodshot, but Uoaliag ia bewitching languor, hand soft and diamonded, foot exquisitely shap.nl. voie. mellow as a flute, breath perfumed a though nothing had ever touched the lips but balm of a thousand llow.-rs. conversation facile, carefully toned and I'rt nehy. Hut 1 would have the heart incased with tho scales of a monster, and have it stuffed with ail pride and beastliness of desire and hypocrisy and death, and then I would have it touched with the rod of disenchantment until the eyes became the cold orbs of the adder, and to the lip should come the foam of raging intoxication, and to the foot the spring of tiie panther, and to the soft hand tho change that would make it the clammy J.and of the wasted skeleton, and then I would suddenly have the heart break, t'ltit in unquom-hnblo Uanies, and the afReeled lisp of tlie tongue bei-omo the bifS C-f the worm that never dies. Hut 'jntil disenchanted, ringleted and diamonded and llute voiced, and -onversatiou facile, carefully toned and 1-Tendiy. Jinayre in Hig;h I'urHiiits. Oh, what a beautiful thing it is to boo a young man standing up amid tbeso temptations f city life incorrupt while hundreds are falling. I will leli your history. You will move in res-portable circh's all your lays, and some day a friend of your father will meet you und say: "Good morning. (Had to see you. You seem to be prospering. You look like your father for ail the world. 1 thought you would turn out well when 1 used P hold you on my knee. If you over want any help or any advice, come to me. As long as I remember your father 1'ii re member you. tlood morning." That will be the history of hundreds of theso young men. How do I know it V I know it by th" way you start. Hut here's a young man who takes the opposite route. Yoiecs of sin härm him away. He read bad books, mingles in bad society. Tim glow has g..no from his heck, and ihu j sparkle from his yo, and tho parity from Jus soul. Down he goes, little by little, J The people who saw him when he cam to town w hile yet he.ver d over his head the blessing of a pure mother's prayer, and there was on his lips the tle.v of a pure sister's kiss, now as they see him pass cry, "NYIi.it an awful wreck!" Cheek bruised in grogshop light. I've L!eare with dissipation. lap swollen with inluhremes. He careful what you say tu him; for a trille h' would lake your life. Lower down, lower down, until, outcast of (lod and man. he lies in the asylum, a blotch of loathsomeness and pain. One moment he calls for Cod. and then h e;i!!s for rum. lie prays; ho curses; he laughs as a liend laughs, then bits hU nails into ihe quick, then puts his hand through the hair hanging around his head like Ilm mane of a wild beast, then shivers until the cd shakes with uuuttcrah.i terror, then with his lists -tights back the h'Vils or clutches for serpents that seem to wind around liitn their awful folds, then asks for watT which is instantly conse.im'd on his crackl lips. Some morning the surgeon going his rounds will lind him lead. Do not try to comb out or brush back the matted locks. Straighten t.ut the limbs, wrap them iu a shoot, put him iu a box ami let two men carry him down to the wagon at tho loor. With a pi-e of halk write n top of the box tin name of tlm destroyer and the lestroye.l. Who is it V It is you, Oman, if, yielding to the temptations of a dissi pa teil life, you go out and perish. Tln-re is a way that seemeth bright and fair and beautiful to a man. but the end thereof is jfeath. Ihr.ploy thse long nights of December, January and lYb ruary iu high pursuits, in int'lligent so ialitios, iu innocent ainusenn-nis, in imrisuan wirK. io not waste this wmtr. for soon you will have seen vour last snow shower and have gone up into tho cotnpanioush'p of him whose raiment is w hile as snoiv, whiter than any fuller on earth could whiten it. lr all Christian Imarts the winter nights of earth will end in the .1 lino morning of heaven. Tho river of lifo from iimlor the throne never free.s over. The foliage of life's fair tree is never frost-bitten. The festivities, the hilarities, the family greetings f earthly Christmas times w ill give way to larger reunion and brighter lights and, sweeter garlands and mightier joy iu the gr'at holiday of heaven. The DiflTereneo. Johnnie What's the difference between a visit and a visitation? Pa A visit, my son, Is when we go to see your grandmother on your mother's shl "Yes." "A visitation Is when the comes t? see us."

:t:o !; . . e.J '.'? " i '.er Jo-:caI stardctis is siartled ! theu'atlul or more a::i:'.;::n I action of the iüdiiTo -mikes v. - weather comes .,n. It was I; - i voor.b.v , fc . . V... , l he l;r-r i. a that was wafted acre.I'enned tile indigo wae was at jjand. :nt : lives . Th-y i :ic. : ititlj ii. :b no I !:cans bbdc: i lmr-.-rv ) could m; t:ike vio'etiL o.v warm up tl.- i;- b!o .d. f,ewill im; warm. So tl v problem I' sv:; 'lowing e.: ; turn. mo indh mu".!i w ; i ' . i I Iiis be';..;- j , ;l 1 f . ',.; I beci.jr.e-; i :i .1 j ea ' v,';: 1 ,o the. I Si,. ',;;, v 1'c'ds Comi'oelab! lo i '' .' 1 1 :s a v.-rv c.-v! t '4 1'; ,: Vi-l,i'' ! , :i:';';l'':p''- Tim fa:-; that tie j "r- " :er Tc ;s u-unily ''.do to ig::- ! thinking s:i ' ..IT.. snak. anvtii.ns. even i;s friep : ;-t : "nl I . ' ' ' ! .It '. .' . ;;! ,e '7m -i - o t ::o :: C Lo Ini. CM vcr tiud i ,e I tea; is reason : he -;:a:;e always s,a;i..n him--' i i: irnlig -make .s t age no m.Kter bow big . lb a lit ae sua: w:ii swallow it as ii . in. i a pi.ve or a j though ii w .-re Los, or some such luxury. IV" remarkable iu sagacity than tin; : snake are the tropical birds aviary. They are probably :.i -wonderful geniuses ever se, .i u 4'7.oo." Coming as they did dia's coral strand and tiier where thermoun.'ters die of ti: and tlie iceberg is unknown, t'i the:nehes unprepared for ilnj r:.r-jr ot the climate iu re. Such was is--: .mdiiion of tiie number of the new b rtl arrivals from India Satr.rd.iy. 'I'-Lcy nau .mining out then- ngat summer pa jamas with them, and when th-. winds came whistling into tillage they were chilled ;o laTheir bills eh.uterM like a to! Instrument. n the niuht of a ::- : ititig : .one. ra:.!l and they shivered ;-rriby. Then their sagacity came to -heir rescue. Tley no;iced that as the ."b r weather drew m-ar a. !arg.. : -.'! ? down appeared on some of 'Li- orI.. r birds. wm were more accr.s'otn-'-i to the -hange of temperature. T..: y wondered whether a similar growth v.odil makd its appearance .n them. !;:r. lila the youth who watches for 3ns. rir nets, tache, they were disappointed. Tiio down did not come. They eonlteil their tropiv-al friends who had :? n as the "zoo" for more than a year. Tlu latter winked and whispered a '-w words to them which raised jope in their troubled breasts. That, nigh: at twelve minutes pas: 12 these tropical birds wen: out in a body and a.:: ;, he.i the :iier birds who had more down than they. With sharp bills tv. tropical birds plucked tho down from their sleeping roommates. J.iule - Utile, they pulle! forth tho feathers. i'il ihey had stolen all they pnv-evse.j. j';;K. ing the down they in.erwove ic clev erly in iheir own feathers th:t: ; look ed perfectly natural. This !..;,; Then Vice and warm. Of course ir :.;. "; . other birds down on them, but tl: didn't V-are . long as -key had war;;: :;ds among each ;hor.- riii'a.lelj.'ii . !':, ss. Pigeons :t nt! 1'ostul Service. The most novel ami su-oe-:'-:l instrument eor used in the p-.:: I service is the homing pigeon. During tho l-'ranco-iJcrm;.'!! war. ISTd-Tl. ii:c ingentous I'reiu-h adopted this system of transmission of tl:ir corr -j,.i.d-cnee. The communications we--- printed and then luicropliotogrnpi.e-i nt thin lihns of collodion. Kadi p Hid., mtaiued the reproduction ot" sixteen folio pages of type, and was so JiL'iit that tifty thousaud messages could Incarried by cue j igcon. To insure saf transit the films worn rolled up and placed in a qui!, whh-h was fasteueil to om of the tail iValle ro of the pigeon. I "pen arri val ol th messenger at its destination the tilma were unrolled and thrown on :i canvas by means of an Jectri- lantern, copied by clerks, and dispatched t tlndr Iestinatioii. Later. smsi!ie paper was substituted for ihe canvas, and the letters wie lvprodr.ced on it ready for remailing. Another production of French in genuity was a balloon postal system Willi fifty-seven balloons. Fach .sceu sion -ost about oim thousand hdk.rs, and, although Krupp had built several guns for the Oerman army lesigucd espvially to bring down these ;urial mail cars, only live of them were ap t:ir'd. They carried many tons of mail, as well as ninety-one passengers during the period .f war. Dancing in Japan. Dancing forms a very important part of th Japanese ehuation of boys as well as girls. 'Um lau ing teacher mos to tin family every day. and it in to his unremitting drill that the pupil owes so much of her grace and beauty of bearing. It Is a mingling of what we should call dancing with lessons in deportment, which Anmrican mast era sometimes but not always give. Too lu;h lor Dr. Johnson. Johnson euid not discover the lorb ration of the word amuck. To "run atnuek" is an old phrase for attacking madly and indiscriminately, and has shnv been ascertained to be a Malay word. "Never marry a girl with the idea you are going to reform her, my boy," said Cu le Allen Sparks. "If she chews gum and giggles w hen she U a young woman, she w ill glgggle and chew gun when she is married.." Chicago Tril nue. J

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