. Abi Ax i ^ItS i>I '■ v J^i t ^%A^JkkHftL^ '.j1.__.m- i .. . ■ ftnll..—t_r«-h—M-_j—i 2 The Eternity of Character. RET. A. C. GEORGE, D. D. "He that is UDjust, let him be unjust still : and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still : and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still."—Rev. xxii, 11. "My Lord Cardinal," said Anne of Austria, to Richelieu, who ex- ercised for a long time a cruel and despotic power, "God does not pay at the end of every week, but at the last he pays." This is an assertion of the doctrine that God governs the world. He governs it in detail, that is, fully, comprehensively, abso- lutely. No human act escapes him. No thought or desire or secret purpose evades the glance of his searching eye. It is a necessity of the moral government of God, that every sin should be noticed in some way, either pardoned or punished. And though this is not a world of retribution, and though injustice and oppression often seem to prosper and triumph, yet in the end God pays. And what is more, and more to the purpose of our text, he pays in kind. These Scriptures establish our point: "Say ye to the right- eous, that it shall be well with him; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him ; for the re- ward of his hands shall be given him." "His own iniquity shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins." "The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways"—the most terrible malediction which could be pronounced on him—" and a good man shall be satisfied from himself" —that is, with the consciousness of his own rectitude. The Lord, moreover, says of such as have hated knowledge and de- spised reproof, and would none of his counsel, "Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices; for the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them." "Evil men and seducers," in the very nature of things, "wax worse and worse, deceiving and being de- ceived." Our characters constantly tend to fixedness. They harden by life's processes. The current of our na- tures grows stronger with advancing years. It becomes, finally, difficult, if not impossible, to change its course, except God's miraculous grace shall interpose. The Scrip- tures teach us this same truth: "Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil." And yet this is a remedial dispen- sation. God interposes graciously and constantly in behalf of men. A miraculous mercy overflows from the divine heart to sinners. There are gentle interpositions which come like the dew, or the sunshine, or the summer rain; and there are mighty manifestations of God which shake us like tempests, or earthquakes, or volcanic eruptions. Our characters by these ministrations are trans- formed and revolutionized. Some- times the transformation is gradual like the breaking of the morning, the advance of spring, or the melt- ing of icebergs in tropic seas. Sometimes it is sudden, as if men had been lifted at once to a higher plane of being, to move henceforth through a grander sphere. An earthquake in southern seas is said to have brought an island of dia- monds to the surface ; so by the convulsion of conversion the lessons of childhood, the virtues excited by the decipline of years, the inner graces of the Spirit, are brought to view, and men marvel at the mirac- ulous change. We see the same law working in society. The supreme government of the world is on the side of the right. The Duke of Weimar, said of the tyranny of the First Napo- leon in Germany, "It is unjust, and therefore it cannot last." And, in the long run, the criticism is correct. Feudalism, depotism, slavery, ag- gressive wars, every species of wrong and outrage, disappear before the onward march of the Gospel. The general principle of the divine administration is expressed in these words: "He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned and perverted that whioh was right, and it profited me not, he will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light." The Word and Providence and Spirit of God are a trinity of mighty agencies to turn man back from destruction. The truth of God, morever, acts as a transforming leaven in society, and the end of Christ's reign is to set judgment in the earth. But this text contemplates a period when these remedial agencies will cease; when probation will end; when retribution, unmixed with mercy, will begin. Then the Saviour will be no longer a Saviour. His atoning sacrifice will be no longer prevalent. His intercessions will close. "He will no longer act as High Priest over the House of God. He will leave the mediatorial throne, and offer no more prayers for sinful man. Then the Holy Spirit will cease its gracious offices, and con- vince no more of sin, righteousness, and judgment. Then the Providence of God will no more mean, as always now, salvation. We shall then come to a fixed, unalterable, and eternal state. The unjust and filthy will remain unjust and filthy for- ever ; the righteous and holy will remain righteous and holy forever. This will be the punishment—the reward; they will forever remain what they are. It does not need the mist of dark- ness, the quenchless flame, the com- panionship of devils, to make a hell for a filthy and unjust soul. Like Milton's outcast archangel, such a soul might say, "Which way shall I fly? which way I fly is hell; myself am hell." filled with these unguents and colors, and the pencils they used with them, as well as various sorts of combs and hair pins ; of the latter there is a very pretty set in the museum at Boulak—single pronged wooden pins with jackal heads, stuck into a cush- ion in the form of a turtle, which was evidently one of the favorite dressing table ornaments belonging to the deceased lady. All these little essentials of the toilet were placed in the tombs by the loving hands of friends and re- lations for the use of that spiritual body, which they believed required all the adornment the lady had loved upon earth. Notwithstanding the elaborate care lavished by the Egyptian lady on her personal adornment, she adopted a simplicity of dress suita- ble to the climate in which she lived. Except for the wig, the head was usually uncovered, with sometimes a colored band tied round it. The queens often wore the vulture head- dress, but this was more as an official ornament than as a covering. In common life also the women both of high and low degree, went barefoot, though they had sandals to wear when they were in full dress. These sandals were made of papyrus, or palm fibre, or of leather; they had straps to pass around the foot and between the toes, and in some a piece of the sole was turned up and lent over the toes to protect them; n later times some of the leather landals had sides to them, which iauses them very much to resemble nodern shoes.— The Woman's World 'or August A LIUle Too Smart. I heard the other day of a clerk in dry goods store who was smart nd quick, a splendid manager and 11 that. He had an exalted opinion f himself, and frequently made imself disagreeable by remarking o his associates that the concern ould not possiblyget along without im. This came to the ears of the senior partner, and the old gentleman called the clerk into the private office and said: "Mr. Jenkins, you have been very efficient, and we appreci ate your services; but I hear that you have repeatedly asserted that if you were to die the concern couldn't possibly survive it, and this has wor- ried both myself and partner very much; for you, like all men, are lia- ble to die very unexpectedly. We have therefore concluded to experi- ment while we are in health, and see if the concern will survive your ab- sence. You will therefore consider yourself dead for one year, and we will make an effort to so consider you for that length of time."— Globe- Democrat. The Moral Law. Dr. Adam Clarke thus speaks of Scripture: To say that Christ's per- sonal righteousness is imputed to every true believer is not scriptural; to say that he has fulfilled all right- eousness for us, or in our stead, if by this is meant the fulfillment of all moral duties, is neither scriptural nor true; that he has died in our stead is a great, glorious and scrip- tural truth; that there is no redemp- tion but through his blood is asserted beyond all contradiction in the ora- cles of God. But there are a multi- tude of duties which the moral law requires, which Christ never fulfilled in our stead, and never could. He has fulfilled none of these duties for us, but he furnishes grace to every true believer to fulfill them to God's glory, the edification of his neighbor, and his own eternal profit. The sal- vation which we receive from God's free mercy, through Christ, binds us to live in a strict conformity to the moral law; that law which prescribes our manners, and the spirit by which they should be regulated, and in which they should be performed. WISE AND OTHERWISE. Johnny's Complaint. Our preacher says—an' course he's right— It's very wrong to tell a fib, (So mother's taught me ever since She rocked me in my little crib), That's why I can't just understand Why in his sermons he will run Along like sixty when he's said, "But one word more and I have done.' When first I heard him say those words They made me glad, for I, you see, Was tired, for half hour sermons seem Enough for little folks like me; But gracious ! I was quite surprised To find he'd only just begun, When pausing for a breath, he said, 'But one word more and I have done." I wonder what he'd think if I Should say, when at his home I'd sup, Just one plum more and I have done," Then eat his wife's preserves all up? I guess he'd ask me what I meant, I'd have to say I was in fun, Just like he must be when he says, "But one word more and I have done." — Wade Whipple, in Richmond Dispatch. They were discussing art matters. "Have you ever been done in oil, Mr. Smith?" "Oh, yes," he re- plied.—"Who was the artist ?—" He wasn't an artist—he was a broker." —Puck. Ardent lover — " Dearest, I love you 1 Only promise that you will be my—" Small boy under the wipdow —"Game's called, fellers!" Excited lover, at window—" Say, bub, what's the score?" We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of con- scious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.— C. H. Spurgeon. A Southkbn California doctor, bitten by the real estate craze, is said to have put the following directions on a prescription:—" Take one-third down, and the remainder in one and two years, secured by a mortgage." Angbr swallowed up by Pity.— "John, John, there's a burglar in the house! I hear him at the cup- board! "—"Where you put that pie?" —" Yes. O, John, where are you going ?"—" I'm going down to res- cue him." GENERAL MENTION. For Jesus won tbe world through shame, And beckons thee His road. —Fabtr. Why tun I Not a Christian? 1. Is it because I am afraid of ridi- cule and what others may say of me? "Whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed." 2. Is it because- of the inconsis- tencies of professing Christians? "Every man shall give an account of himself to God." 3. Is it because I am not willing to give up all to Christ ?" What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" 4. Is it because I am afraid that I shall not be accepted? "Him that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out." 6. Is it because I fear I am too great a sinner ?" The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin." Church Literature. The importance of pure church literature cannot be overestimated. Every family is made wiser and happier into which a pure literature finds its way; and the boy and girl of the household grow up into man- hood and womanhood "rooted and grounded" in the faith of their fathers and mothers through the in- fluence of sound church literature. If there be spirituality in the church it will find its way into the family that takes its literature. The mem- bers of that family will be regular attendants at church, and will take an interest in the advancement of pure and undefiled religion in the world. Circulate your church liter- ature, and crowd out and keep out of the home the pernicious literature of the day. Keep the numbers of this paper on file and thereby secure for yourself a complete history of your church and its work. The value of this is apparent. We know persons who have files of their local church papers running back seven years, which contains valuable infor- mation that, if lost, could not be re- placed. lis Depths. Little boats always totter about on the surface of the water, going all ways, as it happens, and over- turning in a breath, while the great ship sinks deeply and more deeply in and goes steadily on. The cause of its steadiness is its depth. So abiding in the great truths of God gives steadfastness of motion to the soul. Under all the pressure of error and unbelief and false doc- trines, it is "immovable, abounding in the work of the Lord." It is not "tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive." It is a great thing to take the truth and hold to it. It is a great thing to know error and let it alone. Holding on to the funda- mentals of truth, and seeking God's help, the soul is sure to come into the light. Everything by turns and nothing long, what growth, what progress can be hoped for ?—Dr. Goodell. God tells us to bear our burdens every day, and when we look back we shall see that the difficulties that appeared to frown upon us as we faced them, at last smiled upon us. The United States leads all the rest of the world in its telegraphic business, as well as in many other things. She has nearly 700,000 miles of wire, stretching all over the continent, like the lines of a spider's web. France comes next, with less than one-third that number of miles; Germany follows third, and Great Britain fourth. But the rates are much cheaper in the last country than anywhere else in the world, consequently the number of mes- sages sent stands next to those trans- mitted in the United States. Have you any idea how many that may be? No less than 72,000,000 in our own country, and about 33,000,000 in Great Britain! These are the figures for 1886. The telephone is used scarcely at all in Europe, but the record in our country for the same year was 312,605,710 messages. Think what a number of "Helios!" The following beautiful illustra- tion is used by Dr. Guthrie to show the saints' appreciation of the fact that heaven was won or obtained for them by Christ, and not by their own merits or exploits: "Won by other arms than theirs, it presents the strongest imaginable contrast to the spectacle seen in England's pal- ace on that day when the king de- manded of his assembled nobles by what title they held their lands. 'What title?' At the rash question a hundred swords leaped from their scabbards. Advancing on the alarmed monarch, 'By these,' tbey replied, ' we won, and by these we will keep them!' Howdifferent the scene which heaven presents! All eyes are fixed on Jesus: every look is love; gratitude glows in every bosom, and swells in every song. Now with golden harps they sound the Savior's praises; and now de- scending from their thrones to do him homage, they cast their crowns in one glittering heap at the feet which were nailed on Calvary." Christian Courage. Workman of God ! O lose not heart, But learn what God is like; And ii. darkest battle-field Thou shalt know where to strike. Thrice blessed is he to whom is given The instinct that can tell That God if on the field, when He Is most invisible. Blessed, too, is he who can divine Where real right doth He, And dares to take the side that seems Wrong to man's blindfold eye. Then learn to scorn tbe praise of men, And learn to lose with God; 8 use of the Presbyterian church, one square west of our own, has been kindly granted. The Christian women of all our Ann Arbor churches will doubtless be much in- terested in these missionary meet- ings. The time of holding the conven- tion is, of course, an unfavorable one for us in Ann Arbor in the matter of entertainment. It is hoped that our members will prac- tice all possible self denial in order to entertain as many as practicable; and we shall welcome from the homes of others than our own members a continuance of the reci- procity usual among our churches in Ann Arbor when any one of them is entertaining a representa- tive body of its denomination. All who can etertain either for meals or lodging or for both, and all who may be willing to bear the expense of one or more guests at boarding places to be selected by themselves or by the committee, will be given an opportunity to make the arrange- ment. If any one willing so to provide, is not called upon, a postal card sent to Prof. II. N. Chute, Chairman of the Committee on En- tertainment, will be gratefully re- ceived and the arrangement made. Recent Additions to the Mem- bership. By .Letter.—Mrs. Zellars, Miss Eliza Cady, Miss Louise Cady, Miss Agnes Cady, Mrs. Hess, Miss Maud Hess, Frank Hess, Mr. Hanford, Mrs. Hanford, Mrs. Harriet Goble Miss Grace Goble. By Baptism.—Mrs. Mary Dow- degan, Miss Lizzie Dowdegan, Miss Nettie Hurd. The Students. We try to remember that students do not form a distinct zoological species but are human beings. In- deed we consider the students as young gentlemen and ladies whose distinguishing characteristic from other young gentlemen and ladies is simply the fortunate fact that they are able to give their princi- pal energies for the present to the work of self culture. They are here in large numbers because of the far-famed facilities of Ann Ar- bor for the furtherance of the work of education. It is our belief that the religious work most helpful to the student will be in general that work which would be most helpful to the ordin- ary human being. The church services should not be a continua- tion of the lecture-room method, to which the student is accustomed throughout the week. The preacher who aims over the heads of his ord- inary hearers for the sake of hitting students or college professors is likely to hit nobody. This pulpit will hold ever before it the warn- ing example of the preacher, told of by Mr. Spurgeon, who preached as though the injunction were not "feed my lambs," but "feed my giraffes." Accordingly we invite students not to a lecture-room nor to a par- lor; but to the "living-room" of our church home. We wish them to feel at home in the family and ac- cordingly shall not try perpetually to make "company" of them. Let them understand that they have the privileges of the home. In many cases they will find it advisable to bring their church letters with them, and to devote a reasonable amount of their time to church ac- tivity. Such a course is demon- strably helpful to most students both in their studies and in their religious life. We shall endeavor to provide a living, working, consecrated church which will aim to do the best pos- sible work for Ann Arbor, develop ing the field to the utmost. We believe that in so doing, and by the pulpit enforcement of fundamental gospel truth the students of Ann Arbor will, at the same time, best be reached. The experience of Mr. Moody at Oxford and Cambridge has proved that students can be better reached by the gospel even in a faulty literary setting, than by any substitute for the gos- pel, however faultless the literary style. At the same time it is ex- pected that much care will be given in our church activity to maintain the intellectual dignity as well as the simplicity of the gospel. Special Religious Interest. A gradually increasing interest in the services of our church and the attendance upon our meetings, has had an encouraging develop- ment. The meetings of Sunday, September 16th, and of the week preceding, were of so promising a character as to lead the pastor to appoint an inquiry meeting for Monday evening, the 17th. It was not known what results would fol- low, but we were gratified to find fifteen persons present that even- ing, and desiring religious conver- sation with the pastor. Two of the fifteen were young Christians who had been walking in the dark. Several others had been for some time hoping in Christ, but had never made the open pro- fession of their faith; still others were earnestly inquiring the way to Christ. Seven of these had the important matter so thoroughly decided that they wished to go forward without delay in baptism. These seven were examined by the advisory committee and recom- mended to present themselves to the church. One of the seven cases was of special interest. It was that of a student who completed his High School course here last year, and outers the University this fall. He went home this summer expect- ing to be baptized and unite with the home church, but found his church pastorless on his return. Not to be thwarted in his noble purpose, he returned to Ann Arbor before the beginning of the Uni- versity year in order to have some extra studies preparatory to his course, and also in order to make public profession of Christ in bap- tism before he entered his extended course of study. His clear, manly testimony and action constitute a cheering evidence of the through ness of his conviction. JAMES E. HARKINS, Ann Arbor Savings Buk, D. F. SCHAIRER, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN PINE AND STAPLE Hardware, Stove, Tin and Sheet Irou Ware ANN ARBOR, MICH, DRY GOODS. PUMPS AND FURNACES. Capital, $50,000. Surplus, $50,000. Assets, $600,000. Work of all kinds Promptly Attended to. 28 EAST HURON ST., • AM ARBOR, MICH. 4 SOUTH MAIN STREET, A General Banking Business Transacted. Exchange on all the Principal Cities Bought and Sold. ANN ARBOR, - MICHIGAN. 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Human Hair Goods. and all kinds of Wood and Coal. OPFICE, No. 36 EAST HURON ST. 86 WASHINGTON STREET. College Laundry. H. KITREDGE, G. F. STEIN, Liveiy, Hack and Baggage Line. Ho. 8 WEST ANN STREET. DEALER IN MISS C. KAPP, (In the rear of Edward Duffy's Grocery Store.) FRESH AND SALT MEATS, Orders for Trains, Parties, Weddings, Funerals, etc., Promptly Attended to. BOLOGNAS, ETC. 44 E. Huron St., Ann Arbor, Mich. 1 East Liberty Street. Telephone No. 108. ANN ARBOR, MICH. E. A. CALKINS & SON, TRADE WITH MRS. A. OTTO, DEALER JN CASH GROCER, MILLINERY 34 SOUTH STATE STREET, ANN ARBOR, MICH. 2-4 ST-A-TE STREET. Cheapest Place In the City. Of all kinds and Styles, CHEAPEST PLACE IN TOWN. 19 FOURTH STREET, • ANN ARBOR, MICH. LEWIS, u,e PHOTOGRAPHER, can now be found at 7a South Main • Street. Cabinet Photos only #3.00 per Doz. Call and Examine Work. 12 V YOUNG PEOPLE. Live It Down. Has your life a bitter sorrow 7 Live It down. Think about a bright to morrow, Live it down. You will find it never pays Just to sit, wet-eyed and gaze On the ^rave of vanished days; Live it down. Is disgrace your galling burden t Live it down. You can win a brave heart's guerdon; Live it down. Make your life so free of blame, That the lustre of your fame Shall hide all the olden shame; Live it down. Has your heart a secret trouble? Live it down. Useless griefs will make it double, Live it down. Do not water it with tears— Do not feed it with your fears— Do not nurse it through the years— Live it down. Have you mads some awful error t Live it down. Do not hide your face in terror; Live it down. Look the world square in the eyes; Oo ahead like one who tries To be honored, e're he dies; Live it down. Saved by his Wife's Letters. A story was told not long since in a Denver court of how a wife's let- ters and a child's picture saved a man's life. The narrator said: On a hot day in July, 1860, a herdsman was moving his cattle to a new ranche further north, near Helena, Texas, and passing down the banks of a stream other cattle that were grazing in the valley be- came mixed with his herd, and some of them failed to be separated. The next day about noon a band of about a dozen mounted Texan rangers overtook the herdsman and demanded their cattle, which they said were stolen. It was before the day of law and court houses in Texas, and one had better kill five men than steal a mult worth five dollars, and the herds man knew it. He tried to explain, but they told him to cut it short. He offered to turn over all the cattle not his own, but they laughed at the proposition, and hinted that they usually confiscated the whole herd, and left the thief hanging on a tree as a warning to others in like cases. The poor fellow was completely overcome. They consulted apart for a few moments, and then told him if he had any explanations to make, or business to do, they would illow him ten minutes to do so and defen himself. He turned to the rough faces and commenced: "How many of you have wives?" Two or three- nodded. "How many of you have chil- Iren?" They nodded again. "Then I know who I am talking to, and you'll hear me," and he con- tinued: "I never stole any cattle. I have lived in these parts over three years [ came from New Hampshire. I failed in the fall of 1857, during the panic. "I have been saving. I have no home here; my family remain East, for I go from place to place. These clothes I wear are rough, and I am a hard looking customer, but this is a hard country. Days seem like months to me, and months like years. "Married men, you know that. But for the letters from home," here he pulled out a handful of well-worn envelopes and letters from his wife, "I should get discouraged. "I have paid part of my debts. Here are the receipts," and he un- folded the letters of acknowledg- ment. "I expected to sell out and go home in November. "Here is the Testament my good mother gaye me, here is my little girl's picture;" and he kissed it tenderly, and continued: "Now, men, if you have decided to kill me for what I am innocent of, send these home, and send as muoh as you can from the cattle when I'm dead. Can't you send half the value? My family will need it." "Hold on now, stop right thar," said a rough ranger. "Now, I say boys," he continued " I say, let him go. Give us your hand, old boy; that picture and them letters did the business. You can go free, but you're lucky, mind ye." "We'll do more than that," said a man with a big heart, in a Texan garb, and carrying the customary brace of pistols in his belt, "let's buy his cattle here and let him go." They did, and when the money was paid over, and the man about to start, he was too weak to stand. The long strain of hopes and fears, being away from home under such trying circumstances, the sudden de- liverance from death, had combined to render him helpless as a child. He sank to the ground completely overcome. An hour later, however, he left on horseback for the nearest staging route, and as they shook hands and bade him good-by they looked the happiest band of men I ever saw.— Youth's Companion. Those who wilfully or negligently absent themselves from the Lord's house, fall short of the following necessary Christian duties: (1) Social prayer. (2) Hymning praise. (3) Gaining knowledge of God. (4) Admonishing and encouraging one another. (5) Speaking often, one to another". (6) Stirring up one another unto love and good works. (7) En- couraging the preacher of the Word in his endeavor to build up the best of all causes. The tongue blessing God without the heart is but a tinkling cymbal; the heart blessing God without the tongue is sweet, but still mnsio; both in concert make that harmony which fills and delights Heaven and earth. We need an inspired churoh as well as an inspired Bible; inspired men in the pew as well as in pulpit. All men have peculiarities, bat they are worse in some men than in others. IS THE HOME. Gossips and Scandal-mongers. The gossip and the scandal-monger have been execrated from the be- ginning of time. In the crudest forms of organized society the gos- sip was singled out as an object for contumelious remarks. We' find here and there in the Bible these references. As far back as Leviticus there is this injunction: "Thou ihalt not go up and down as a tale- bearer among the people." Solomon wrote: "The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly." There are other passages to the same intent. The old Latin writer Juvenal wrote: "There is a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbor's shame; On eagle's wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die. Byron in one of his poems has a pertinent allusion to this subject. He says: "In fact, there is nothing makes me so much grieve As that abominable tittle-tattle, Which Is the cud eschewed by human cattle." But, granting that the gossip and the scandal-monger have their uses with some of the other pestilential vermin of the universe, in each one what a sacrifice of honor and respect and dignity do we see! It is a brutal act to mock the shortcomings of others. It is heartless and wicked to spread the report of misdoing when it is just as much the weakness of one to err as the other. There is no infallibility in this world, and with thii truth in one's mind, how is it possible that one should make of himself a judge of the conduct of others? To be a woman gossip ia bad enough, but a male gossip has no right to exist and to enjoy the pleasures of this life. A man should be in better business. We can partly overlook the sin of soandal- mongering in the weaker sex because with a great many women time hangs heavily upon their hands, and it is certainly very true that "an idle brain is the devil's own work- j shop." Society is to blame for this listlessness on the part of many wo- men and their consequent mischiev- ous acts. If it were the fashion to work in place of dawdling and loll- ing, there would be less time to de- vote to our neighbor's business and his or her sins of omission and com-' mission, and surely the results would be more beneficial and healthy to the individual as well as to society. Be Merciful. Where there is one woman with jourage enough to sustain her in the hour of tribulation and with res- olution sufficient to live down a stain upon her reputation and its attend- ing consequences, there are a dozen who give up in despair. A man sur- vives the effects of a tale-bearer's words better than a woman, but even in the case of a man, especially a man of fine sensibilities, the tongue of a gossip is venomous and stings with wasp-like severity. Few wom- en there are that can arm themselves against this poison. They bear the punishment so long as they live. Do you say that they deserve some penalty that will last with their lives, that will cause them to lose friends, social caste and serenity of mind? Then think how easy it is make a mistake; how much loftier a trait of the mind it is to forgive than to censure. Is it not the mis- sion of human kind to bring joy and light to hours that are gloomy and darksome? Is it not the mission of men and women to assuage the grief of the afflicted and to make the cross 1 light instead of heavy? O! ye that ipare not where mistakes have been made, think of this: If you are with- out sin cast the first stone! If you are not without fault why do you censure? The world is too uncharitable. Tom Hood's lines— Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity Under the sun) echo and re-echo throughout the civilized world. We should culti- vate charity; charity for the short- comings, for the misdeeds of others. What does St. Paul say of charity? This: "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angles, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. * * * And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burnt, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long and*is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh not evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things." These words have the ring of the true metal about them. Charity is another word for mercy. As we ex- pect to be judged when we are ar- raigned for error so should we judge others. "Sweet mercy is nobility's tiue badge," writes Shakspheare. In other words, that man is the noblest who is most merciful. Mercy is a grand quality of the human soul. Shakspeare in his "Merchant of Venice" puts this exquisite senti- ment in the mouth of Portia: "The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath; it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes; 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it be- comes The throned monarch better than his crown." Never forget to be merciful where there is error; for "with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again."—Master Geoffrey. One man's charity for another's fault's is sometimes a cloak for his own. Riches are never out of style; poverty is never in. 16 KOCH & HENNE, FURNITURE, Carpets, Oil Cloths AND DRAPERIES. Ordered Work and Repairing a Specialty. UNDERTAKING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. Noi. 56 and 58 South Main St., ANN ARBOR, - - MICH. THE STUDENT'S BOOKSTORE, STATE STREET, Carry the Largest Stock of Books and Bibles of all kinds, and offer them at New York Prices. Ladles' Fine Stationery a Specialty. 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WALTER TOOP, THE STATE STREET BAKER AND CONFECTIONER, 26 South Main Street. CEO. L. MOORE, DEALER IN Staple am Fancy Groceries No. 46 South State St., ANN ARROR, - MICHIGAN. ZINA P. KING, Attorney and Counselor Particular attention given to the Law of Real Property and Collections. 16 Main St. Soutb, ANN ARROR. WILLIAM HERZ, HODSE, SIGN, FRESCO PAINTER AND DECORATOR. Paper HaDging, Glazing and Calclmining. No. 4 W. Washington St., ANN ABBOR. J. Q. A. SESSIONS, Real Estate! Insurance Office, No. 5 North Main Street. HOUSES FOB SALE OB TO BENT. Particular Attentlo to Carriage and Bus Loads. ; fur Ladies to drive. 17 & 19 N. 4th St., E. Side of Court House, ANN ARBOR. MICH. C. EBERBACH, REALER IN General and Builders' Hardware, Furnaces. Mantles, House Furnishing Goods, Stoves, Agricultural Implements, Guns, Iron, Glass, Cut- lery, Pumps, Kubbor and Leather Beltiag. Manufacturer of Tin, Sheet Iron and Copperware- 23 & 25 MAIN STBEET. CHANGE HATS with A. L. NOBLE. BRING THE BOYS TO A. L. NOBLE'S. Buy a SUIT yourself of A. L. NOBLE Made from Strong Muslin, with Fine Linen Bosom, and nicely Laundried, only 59 cents, at -A.. L. ITOBLB'S, Sign of the RED STAR, Clothier and Hatter. The Ann Arbor Baptist. Vol. 1. ANN ARBOR, OCTOBER, 1888. No. 2. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OP ANN ARBOR. MICH. CHURCH DIRECTORY. REV. A. 8. CABMAN, - - - Pastor. No. 36 Thompson Street. DEACONS. Paul Snauble, W. H. Dorrance, V. M. Spalding, J. B. Cady, W. H. Freeman, C. M. Stark. TRUSTEES. The Deacons aDd Prof. W. W. Beman, Prof. J. G. Pattengill, H. B. Dodsley. TREASURER. Prof. W. W. Beman. No. 19 S. Fifth Street. CLERK. Prof. J. F. Eastwood; Assistant Clerk, W. H. Dorrance, Jr. SUNDAY SCHOOL. Superintendent, C. M. Stark; Assistant Super- intendent, Dr. U. W. Lacea; Secretary and Trea- surer, Prof. H. N. Chute; Assistant Secretary and Treasurer, Alvln H. Dodsley; Librarians, W. H. Dorrance, Jr., John Dowdegan; Chorister, J. R. Sage; Organist, Miss Jennie Bird. Senior Bible Class, Prof. V. M. Spalding, Teach- er; Students' Clasp. Prof. W. W. Beman, Teach- er; Normal Class, Mrs. Dr. Stevens, Teacher. Students Classes, Professors Beman and Dem- mon; H. 8. Class, Prof. J. W. Pattengill. COMMITTEES AND SOCIETIES. Music Committee-Dr. O. W. Green, Prof. H. N. Chute, W. H. Freeman. Ladles' Aid Society—Mrs. Prof. Beman, Prest. Ladies' Missionary Society—Miss H. M. Spald- ing, President. Young People's Society—Mr. Grant, President. Committee on Assignment of Pews—H. N. Chute, H. B. Dodsley, U. W. Green. Finance Committee—Prof. W. W. Beman, Paul Snauble. Prof. V. M. Spalding. Advisory Committee on Membership and Disci- pline^—The Pastor and Deacons. SCHEDULE OF BENEVOLENT CONTRIBUTIONS. 8econd Sunday in June subscription for Min- ister's Home, payable first Sunday in July. Second Sunday in September, subscriptions for State Missions, payable first Sunday in October. Second Sunday in November, subscription for Borne Missions, payable second Sunday in De- cember. Second Sunday in January, subscription for Foreign Missions, payable second Sunday in February. Second Sunduy in March, subscriptions for Min- isterial Education, payable second Sunday in April. Last Sunday in each Month, collection for ex- penses of the Sunday School. PLAN OF FINANCE. A definite weekly or monthly contribution from every member. Pews not rented, but assigned to contributors by lot. A number of the best pews reserved for strangers and students. REGULAR SERVICES. Preaching Services—Sunday, at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. K. Sunday School—At Noon. Young People's Meeting—Sunday at 6:30 p. m. General Prayer Meeting—Wednesday, at 7:30 P. M. Covenant Meeting— Wednesday evening preced- ing firstSunday of each month. The Lord's Supper—First Sunday of each month. Ladles Missionary Society—Second Friday of each month, 3 p. m. The pastor will gladly receive at his home or visit at their homes those wishing counsel upon religious matters, or those in trouble or affliction, or strangers, whether members of the church or not. His mornings are reserved for study; his afternoons and evenings usually devoted to call- ing or to the meeting of appointments at his Members Received During Sep- tember. Mrs. Emily Mains, 38 S. Twelfth street, by letter. Mr. Elmer Mains, 38 S. Twelfth street, by letter. Miss Eva Mains, 38 S. Twelfth street, by letter. Miss Jennett Case, Maynard and Williams streets, by letter. Mrs. KateT. Moore,Unity Block, on experience. Miss Mary E. Moore, Unity Blocl by letter. Miss Genevieve Storms, 44 Broadway, by baptism. Sadie Storms, 10 Bowery, by baptism. Mr. W. E. Tichenor, University, by baptism. Miss Nina Doty, Thayer and Ann streets, by baptism. Miss Emma Morgan, 10 S. State street, by baptism. Miss Nellie Hurd, 17 S. Thayer street, by baptism. Perry Goble, 59 North street, by baptism. Our Prayer Meeting*. At 6:30 o'clock every Sunday evening our young people's meet- ing is held. It has large opportu- nity for good, and we wish it to be a very prosperous meeting during the coming year. This constitutes the most convenient time for the students of the University and high school to attend a prayer meeting which will not conflict with any of the meetings of their Christian Association, and it brings students and other young people into Chris- tian acquaintance. The meetings have been maintained all summer this year, and the influx of new | material with the beginning of the school and University work this fall gives great added interest. It is desirable that all of our young people attend and participate in these meetings. The Wednesday evening prayer meeting, however, must not be considered as an old people's prayer meeting for which the young have no responsibility; it is the general prayer meeting for all of the church membership, and the youngest lad in the church as well as the oldest member; the most illiterate member as well as our most learned University pro- fessors, have the full privilege and duty of the Wednesday evening prayer meeting for their very own. Welcome is also extended to all who wish to attend this meeting to do so. Our Young People's Society, which has the conduct of the Sun- day evening prayer meeting, desires to enroll in its membership all of our young people. It affords to those residing temporarily among us for the purpose of study an op- portunity to have a definite connec- tion with church work, although their membership may be held else- where. Please be careful to inform the pastor of any cases of sickness in your own family or in that of others of our congregation. He cannot be sure of knowing of the matter otherwise. It is always in place for you to send word to your pas- tor when sickness or trouble keeps you from the services of the church. Such word will serve the double purpose of excusing your absence and notifying the pastor of the matter. (Additional local on page 8.) ■ 4 Tho World of Beauty. BY THE LATE EDWIN H. KEVIN, D.D. I have read of ft world of beauty. Where there is no gloomy night, Where love is the main spring of duly, And God the fountain of light. And I long to be there! I have read of the flowing river, That bursts from beneath the throne, And the beautiful trees that ever Are found on i s banks alone. And 1 long to be there! I have read of the myriad choir, Of the angels uarning there. Of their h dy lovo that burns like flro, And the sinning robes they wear. And I long to be there! I have rend of the sanctified throng, That passul fiom the earth to heaven, Aid llure unite in the loudest song Of prni'c for llnir sins forgiven. And I long to be there! I have read of their freedom from 6in, And suffering and sorrow too. And the peace and joy they feel within, As their tiscn Lord they view. And I long to be there! I long to rise to that world of light. And to brcitlic its balmy air, I long to walk with the Lamb in white, And shout with the angels there. 0, I long to bo there! A Suggestion From Dennis. "When Dennis mentioned the mat- ter for the first time. I was almost indignant. We were sitting at the fireside one evening—he had been reading the paper, and I was almost dozing over a dull book—when he looked up quite suddenly and said: "I have been thinking, Clara, that you and I should begin giving sys- tematically." "Giving systematically to what?" I asked in genuine surprise, and en- deavored to look widc-awako and interested. "Why, to tho church and mis- sions and so on," exclaimed Dennis. "Give what?" I asked again, set- ting my lips a trifle firmer, and mak- ing it just as hard for poor Dennis as I could. "Money, of course," ho answered. "You know what I mean, dear. Sup- pose wo keep a tithe box. At pres- ent wo really give nothing worth speaking of. Wo mean to, bnt when Sabbath comes there is no small change in the house, or we neglect to take it. Then wo have not felt able to pay for sittings in the church, and it is beginning to seem easier to 6tay away than to ask the ushers for seats every time. If we had tho tithe money, things would be very different with us, I imagine." "Whatever aro you thinking of, Denni!1," said I, "to talk so soberly of giving, when you know that we have not nearly enough to live on as it is? It is more of a problem every day, with our income, to make ends meet. To bo sure, one tenth is small enoagh to be ridiculous; we would not care to have anyone know bow small; but we could never do without it, that is certain." I looked meaningly around the plain little room, with its modest, lonely looking furniture, and re- minded Dennis of the rent which was overdue, and the many things which wo both needed. I even quoted scripture to the effect that if any one provide not for his own he is worse than an infidel; and, being fairly started, soon talked both him and myself into a very dissatisfied frame of mind. It all ended in Den- nis saying: "Oh, well! no doubt, as you say, what is impossible is im- possible, and that ends it. But I do wish we wero able to give some- thing." Tho matter was not again referred to between us, but it came again and again to my mind. It seemed quite out of my power to forget it; for I was conscious that the responsibility of the final decision being mine, the guilt, if guilt there were, was mine, too. But Dennis did not have his salary raised, and expenses increased rather than lessened, economize as I would. It was still true that there was frequently no money for the Sabbath collections, regular or special; and we attended services less and less frequently, feeling sure our acquaintances remarked our having no sitting in our own church. In this state of affairs a serious illness came to me; and, as I needed constant care, Dennis, who was very busy in tho office, proposed that we 6end for a young girl whom we had become interested in, as a child, in the orphan's home. I knew she had experience in attend- ing tho sick, and rather unwillingly consented. Maggie was a capable, well trained girl, and made herself very necessary to me from tho first day. Sho had a peculiarly gentle and pleasing voice, and I loved to hear it so well that, during my con- valescence, I kept her talking on one pretex or another most of the time. In this spirit, I asked her rather languidly one day what she kept in a little pasteboard box I had several times noticed in her hands. "This is my tithe box," said Mag- gie, turning her honest blue eyes full upon me. "I was just counting tho money over to seo how much I have for the missions next Sabbath." "Why, child," said I, "come hero and sit by me; I wanttotalk to you. Do you mean to tell me you give a tenth to the Lord?" The girl was rather surprised at my vehemence; but she answered simply: "Why, yes ma'am. I'm very sorry it is so little I can give, having only my earnings. Some- times I think it would be nearer right if I, whose whole is such a trifle, should give one-fifth. Thero is so much need of money, you know. It is different with rich peo- : plo; one-tenth of their money is a great deal, and so much good can be accomplished with it." I winoed under Maggie's ingenious argument—such decided inversion of mine; but she, sweet child, all un- I concious of my thought", went on | to tell mo of the good matron at the home, who had taught her, as a little j child, that she had a Father in | Ueaven ready to be more to her than the father and mother she had lost. Sho told us," said Maggie, "that when Jesus left tho earth, after His resurrection, He put tho missionary work He had begun do- ing for three years—and, £or that 5 matter, all His life, the matron said —in our bands to do for him; and He said plainly that every, one of us who love Ilira should show it by •what wo do of the work lie loved. If we cannot preach or teach or give up all our time to Him here or over the seas, we can at least give part of our money to Ilim. She liked to give a tenth, beoause that was God's own plan for the people Ho loved; and so must be the division of one's money which pleases Him best. 'It is His right,' the dear matron said one day, 'to have a tenth of our all; and after that if we spare more, we can call it a gift., She gave us a tithe-box, and tho very first money I earned, all my own, I put a tenth in it. Since then I always have a little to give to the Lord's work, though it grieves mo that it is often only a few cents, when hundreds of dollars are needed. Cut I remem- ber the matron's saying that it is wicked to fret about that; we must pray the more for bis blessings on the little." "But how do you manage to live, Maggie? Do you have anything left for yourself?" "Oh, yes! I earn money by work- ing in different ways—sewing, and helping sick ladies like you; and what is left after I count out the tenth seems to go so far in buying what I need that I always have enough." "So your matson thonght that everyone should give a tenth to the Lord, Maggie?" "No. ma'am," was the quiet "ans- wer. "She did not say we ought to; she did not think of it in that way. But she said that, like the other plans the good Lord has made for our every-day living, it is really all to make us good and happy. We are glad when wo once begin to give in that way, and in tho nine- tenths which we keep are blessed of Him with tho one He accepts; so it is lifted above being ordinary money, and docs us far more good." My mind was busy with these sweet words long after Maggie had left me; and the question came: if she can give out of her pitiful poverty, what is my excuse? Yep, I saw clearly now. I had been all in tho wrong, and a stumbling-block to my husband. So, in the evening, as we sat cosily by tho fire again, both happy in my returning strength, I said to Dennis: "I have learned a lesson which makes my illness a blessing, doar. Shall I tell you of it?" And I told him of Maggie's ministering to my soul, as well as to my body, and showed him a little box on which was written "Tithes." Dennis did not speak at first, but a glad look 6hono in his eyes, and he clasped my hand very tenderly. "Tho Lord's hand is in this, Clara," he said at last. "Wo will pledge a tithe of all God ever gives us over this little box, won't we?" The first bit of money went inside the lid that very night, and a new content came into both our hearts. Any day has an added pleasure when Dennis and I sit tiJe by side to count out the tenth and put it safely away. There is no more trouble about money for missions. We soon found that we could afford a modest scat in tho church, and straightway felt at home there as never before. It would be a half truth to say we never miss that money. It has brought us a blessing. Though we arc not rich, and probably never will be, wo are content, which is far bet- ter, and need to fret about matters no more. "O Dennis," I said the other day, "how well worth heed- ing this suggestion of yours has proved!"—[Interior. Not every soul can extend its influence right and left, but every soul can extend its progress upward. "It's a small piece of ground," said a householder of his building lot, "but I own all the way up."—[San- day School Times. When the battle of Corioli was being won through tho stimulus given to the soldiers by tho impas- sioned vigor of Caius Marcius they mourned to see their leader covered with wounds and blood. They begged h:m to retire to the camp, but with characteristic bravery ho exclaimed: 'It is not for conquer- ors to be tired!" and joined them in prosecuting tho victory to its bril- liant end. Such language might well become the Christian warrior. Ho is tempted to lie down and rest before tho conquest is complete and tho triumph thoroughly achieved; but his conquests should but stir him with holy zeal and fire him with a sublime courage, that ho may be faithful unto death, and then receivo a crown of life. Geocge Marsh, who was mar- tyred in the rein of Queen Mary, in a letter to some friends at Manches- ter, wrote: "The servants of God cannot at any time coino and stand befoie God, that is, lead a godly lifo and walk innocently before God, but Satan cometh also among them, that is, he daily accuseth, findcth fault, vexeth, persecutcth, and troub- leth the godly; for it is tho nature and property of the devil always to hurt, and do mischief, unless he be forbidden of God; but unless Gjd doth permit him he can do nothing at all, not so much as enter into a filthy hog." A Christian tradesman bethought him that he had never spoken to a certain regular customer about his soul, though tho man had called at his shop for years. He determined to plead earnestly with him next time he came in his way. Then teas no next lime; his customer died suddenly, so that ho caw him no more. Pill, brief or long, my granted span Of life with love to 1 hec and man; Strike when Thou wilt the hour of rest, But let my last days bo my best. — mittier. RANDALL Leafier in fine millinery, art goods and photography, 30 EAST HURON ST. HENRY RICHARDS, r»* —DEALER IN— HARD WOOD LUMBER, 4«COAL,^ Hard and Soft Wood. No. 9 Detroit Street. o FOR FIRSTC DRESS GOODS, TRIMMINGS, Carpets, Mats, Etc. CALL ON WINES & WORDKN. No. 20 SOUTH MAIN STREET. CALL ON COODYEAR nney out of the jaws of death we arrive a second time at Albt-rt Nyanza to find Emin Pasha and Jephson prisoners in daily expectation of their doom. "Jephson's own letters, will describe his anxiety. Not until both were in my camp and the Egyptian fugi- tives under our protection did I be- gin to see that I was only carrying out a higher plan than mine. My own designs were constantly frus- trated by unhappy circumstances, I endeavored to steer my course as lirect as possible, but there was an un iccountable influence at the helm. I gave as much goodwill to my duties as the strictest honor would compel. My faith tint the purity »f my motive deserved success was firm, but I have been o mscious that the issues of every effort were in other hands. "Not one officer who wns with me will forget the mis- ries he endurt-d. Yet every one that started from his home destined to march with the advance column and share its won* derful adventures is here today sound and well. "This is not due to me. Lieut. Stairs was pierced with a poisoned arrow like others, but oth-rs died and he lives. The poisoned tip came out from undtr his heart 18 months after he was pierced. Jeph- son was four months a prisoner with guards with loaded rifles around him. That they did not murder him is not due to me. "These officers have had to wade through as many as seventeen streams and broad expanses of mud and swamp in a day. They have en- dured a sun that scorched whatever it touched. A multitude of impedi- ments have ruffled their tempers and harrassed their hours. They have been maddened with the agonies of tierce fevers. They have lived for months in an atmosphere that medi- cal authority declared to be deadley. They have faced dangers every day and their diet has been all through what legal serfs would have declared to be infamous and abominable, and yet they live. "This is not due to me any more than the courage with which they have borne all that was imposed upon them by their surroundings, or the cheery energy which they bestowed to their work, or the hope- ful voices which rang in the ears of a deafening multitude of blacks and urged the poor souls on to their goal. "The vulgar will call this luck, unbelievers will call it chance, but deep down in each heart remains the fei-ling that, of a verity, there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in common philosophy. 5 THE HOME. A Httle Wt of Patience Often makes the sunshine come; And a little bit of LnVe Makes a very happy home; A little bit of Hope Makes a rainy day look gay; A little bit of Charity Makes glad a weary way. Our Fireside. D. H. CRAIK, It may be under palace roof, Princely and wide; No pomp foregone, no pleasure lost, bo wi-h denied; But if In tn aih the diamond's flash Sweet, kind eyis hide; A p'easant place, a happy place, Is our fireside. It may be 'twixt four lowly walls, No show, no pride; Where s< rrows oftimes enter in, But ne'er abide. Yet if the sits I cside the hearth, H« lp, comfor.t. guide. A blessed place, a heavenly place, Is our fin side Bindiug Off. "The expression is a domestic one. It is connected with knitting needles and crochet hooks, which are being vigorously plied just now for the Cbristmas season. When the young lady who has crocheted a beautiful afghan with which to surprise some of ber male friends on that morning bas made one of its stripes of the requisite length, her work is not completed till she has ''bound it off." It is an application of the hook on the last row, which prevents it from ravelling out. Without it, a little tension on the end of the yarn would pull out the labor of weeks. The process is a suggestive one. "It is worth while in life to bind things off, to take those stitches which shall secure to us permanently the fruit of previous labor. A good deal of onr work is constantly un- ravelling for want of this process. It is so in intellectual culture. Hours and weeks may be spent in the ac- quisition ot a language; but the habit of reading or speaking is not kept up, and in a comparatively short time it ravels out. The woman who gives up her music on marrying, when perhaps she has most need of it, finds her facility soon unravelling at a rapid rate. In intellectual ac- quisitions, we cannot, unfortunately, lake a few stitches at the end of our studies, and be sure that henceforth they will be permanently ours. The method of 'binding off,' so far as the memory is concerned, is repeti tion and review. A few minutes each day may thus preserve to us some possession of memory or facil- ity or power which is worth retain- ing. It is equally true with moral effort. To 'bind off" is simply to clinch the nail, to furnish a holdfast, to drive home a conviction, to settle a cause upon a solid foundation, to embody a principle in an institution where it may have permanent value. How many men are there who spend years in the acquisition of money, and then, at their death, let their fortune ravel out, frittered away among a lot of quarrelling heirs, when they might have 'bound off' and retained forever the moral and beneficent value of that fortune by generously investing it in some noble enterprise! Such a gift, when bound on earth, is bound in heaven. Be sure you engage in some work which is worth doing, and that you seek to prtserve those results which are worth preserving. Every man and woman has this opportunity to lay up treasures which shall not fade."- The Christian Register. Courtesy At Home. It i* Rohert Browning who says: "Ah, the little more, and how much It is! And the little less, and what worlds away." Ptrhaps a careful consideration of the following would help us to the "little more:" "Probably nineteen-twentieths of the happiness yon will ever have you will get at home. The independence that comt s to a man when his work is over, and he feels that he has run out of the storm into the quiet har- bor of home, where he can rest in peace with his family, is something real. It does not make much differ- ence whether you own the house, or have one little room in that house, you can make that little room a home to you. You can people it with such moods, you can turn to it with such sweet fancies, that it will be fairly luminous with their pres- ence, and will be to you the very perfection of a home. Against this home none of you should ever trans- gress. You should always treat each other with courtesy. It is often not so difficult to love a person as it is to be courteous to him. Courtesy is of greater value and a more royal grace than some people seem to think. If you will but be courteous to each other, you will soon learn to love each other more wisely, pro- foundly, not to say lastingly, than you ever did before."—Selected. "A German, whose sense of sound was exceedingly acute, was passing by a church a day or two after he had landed in this country, and the sound of music caused him to enter, though he had no knowledge of our language. The music proved to be a piece of nasal psalmody, sung in the most discordant fashion, and the sensitive German would fain have covered khis ears. As this was scarcely civil, and might appear like insanity, his next impulse was to rush into the open air and leave the hated sound behind him. "But this I feared to do," said he, "lest offense might be given. I resolved to en- dure the torment with the best for- titude I could assume, when lo! I distinguished amid the din the clear, soft voice of a woman singing in perfect tune. She made no effort to drown the voices of her compan- ions, neither was she disturbed by their noisy discord, but patiently and sweetly she sang in full, rich tones; one after another yielded to the gentle influence, and before the tune was finished all was in perfect har- mony." It is in this way a quiet and pure life brings other lives un- der its gentle sway. It uses no word of protest against-prevailing discord, but sings on its own sweet songs of obedience and faith and joy until others feela nd thrill with its power." 6 OUTLINE LESSONS. For Church Clauses. ARRANGED BT REV. J. H. AVANN, B. D. THIRD SERIES.—SEVEN LESSONS ON BIBLE TRANSLATIONS. First Lesson. I-TTI8TORY OF THE TEXT. 1 Language of the Old Testament. The Old Testament was written in Hebrew ex- cept about three-fif'hq of Daniel and one- third of Ezra, which was written in Chal- dee. Hebrew was the language of the Jews before the Babylonish captivity. After their return they used the Chaldee and this was the language of Palestine at the time of Christ. Chaldee is very simi- lar to Hebrew, both belong to the Semitic family of languages and they are very simple in their construction. 2. Language of the New Testament. The New Testament was written in Greek, ex- cept Matthew, which was first written in Hebrew. The Greek belongs to the Asyran family of which Latin and the languages of modern Europe are also members. It is the richest, the most precise and the most philosophical of human tongues. 3. Ike Original Manuscripts. The original writings were upon *papvrus. They were in large capital letters, without chapters, verses, punctuation or spaces between words. The Hebrew and Chaldee were also without vowels. These auto- graph copies have long since perished. The oldest "manuscripts that have reached us are upon *vellum. 4. Copying the Scriptures. The Jews held their sacred books in awful reverenre. Copying tbem was a religious work. The copyist was required to bathe his whole body before beginning and to put on a pre- scribed costume. Every letter was made separately and the slightest mistake would cause the destruction of the whole copy. 5. The Masoretic Text. The Old Testa- ment manuscripts remained in their simple consonant form until about five hundred years after Christ, when learned Jews, called "Masoretes, introduced the vowels We have no Hebrew manuscripts except copies of those that paised under their hands. The oldest now extant were made about a thousand years ago. 6. Cursive Manuscripts. Cursive hand- writing, that is, the use of small letters with only occasionally a capital, came gradually into use in the ninth century. Punctuation, accent and separation of words were introduced about the same time. Manuscripts written in capitals are called unci ils and those written in small letters cursives, 7. Chapters and Verses. The division of both the Old Testament and the New Testament into chapters was made by Cardinal Hugo Carensis. in 1250, for the sske of a concordance he was prenaring. The Old Testament was divided Into verses by Rabbi Mordecai Nathan, in 1431. The verses in the New Testament were made by Robert Stephanus. a printer, in 1551, while riding on horseback from Lyons to Paris. II-INTRODUCTION TO I THES8AL0NIAN8. 1. The Church at Thessalonica. Paul, in company with Silas, Timothy and Luke,, visited Thessalonica while on his second missionary tour. Many "proselytes ac- cepted the gospel. This excited the < nvy of the Jews and an angry mob drove him from the city. 2. Occasion of the Epistle. Deeply con- cerned for the converts, Paul sent Timothy back to learn their state, and passing on to Athens and thence to Corinth, he there anxiously awaited his coming. Timothy came in a few months and reported perse- cutions heroically endured. Paul then wrote to them his first epistle. 3. Contents of the Epistle. The epistle consists of a glowing account of their his- tory since receiving the gospel, earnest ex- hortation to sanctification and consolation from the second coming of Christ. DAILY READINGS, ACTS XV-XVII, I TJIEBS. I-IV. MKMOKY VERSES, REVIEW. Second Lesson. I-THE GREAT MANUSCRIPTS. Three manuscripts of the New Testa- ment on account of their great age are worthy of particular study. 1. Ihe Vatican Manuscript. This was written in the first half of the fourth cen- tury, that is, within 250 years of the death of the last apostle, and hence is over 1,500 years old. It contains the New Testament complete as far as Heb. ix: 14, an i origin- ally included all of the Septuagint (see the next lesson). The letters were carefully retraced in the eighth century, but the original lines can still be seen. The manu- script was placed in the Vatican library at Rome in the fifteenth century-, but nothing is known of its previous history. It has been zealously guarded by the papal authorities and not until quite recently has it been accessible to scholars. It was pub- lished in *fac simile in 1868, under the auspices of the pope. 2. Ihe Sinaiiic Manuscript. This is about the same age as the Vatican manu- script. It contains all the New Testa- ment complete, and also the epistle of Barnabas and a part of Hermas, to- gether with the greater part of the Septua- gint. Prof. Tischendorf traveling under the patronage of the Czar of Russia, while stopping at the monastery of St Catherine at Mount Sinai, in 1844, noticed some leaves of vellum set aside for lighting a fire. He detected at once their great an- tiquity and found upon examination that they contained a part of the Septuagint. These leaves he retained and soon after published. The great manuscript of which they formed a part was discovered by the professor in the same monastery in 1859. At his request it was presented to his patron, Alexander II, and is now in the imperial library at St. Peteisberg. Afac simile was published in 1862. 8. The Alexandrian Manuscript. This belongs to the first part of tne fifth century. It is bound in four volumes the first three containing the Septuagint and the fourth the New Testament complete and the epistle of Clement. It was presented to Charles I in 1628 by Cyril Lucar, patri- arch of Constantinople. Cyril brought the manuscript from Alexandria when he was transferred from that *see to Constan- tinople. Nothing is known of its previous history. It is now in the British Museum where it was placed at the formation of that library in 1853. This was the first great uncial that was critically examined by scholars. It was published fac simile in 1786. II-INTRODDCTiqM TO II THE88ALONrAN8. 1. lime and Place. Paul's second let- ter to the Thessalonions was written a few months after the first while Paul, Silas and Timothy were still at Corinth and like the first it was sent in the name of them all. 2. Occasion. The vivid description of the glorious appearing of Christ to judge the world in the first epistle made a deep impression and a rumor was started that another letter had been received declaring the advent was at hand 3. Contents. The Thessalonians are praised for their firmness in persecution, assured of justice at the coming of Christ which however is noi at hand. Idlers are charged to become industrious. III-DAILY READINGS, I THE88. V, II THE88. I-III, ACTS XVIII, I COR. I-II. MEM- ORY VERSES, ITHEB8. V: 12-18. Third Lesson. I-VARIOUB READINGS. 1. * Integrity of the Manuscripts. There was great demand for the New Testament in the first centuries and copies were rapidly multiplied and widely spread. Any general mutilation or corruption of the text was impossible. Over 1,700 manu- scripts of the New Testament, complete and incomplete, are known to scholars and they are in better condition than any other ancient writings. 2. Minor Differences. Without a series of miracles mistakes in copying were sure to rise. The total number of variations is very great. The majority of them, how- ever, are of no importance; being varia- tions in spelling or the use of different words of like meaning. Comparison will in nearly every case make clear the original reading. 8. Omissions. Sometimes the copyist in looking up would see the last word that be had written in a different line and thus be led to omit a number of words; or he might think faster than he wrote and thus make omissions. 4. Interpolations. Transcribers often wrote comments, pious ejaculations and liturgical formulas on the margin of the manuscript. These were sometimes in- advertently copied into the text by a sub- sequent copyist. The doxology of the Lord's prayer. Matt, vi: 18, is not found in either of the great uncials. It is borrowed from Solomon's prayer at the dedication of the temple, I Chron. xxix: 11, and prob- ably crept into later manuscript in this way. 5. Attempted Corrections. Sometimes transcribers attempted to correct the manu- script they were copying. Meeting a rare word or an obscure expression they would conclude that some earlier copyist had made a mistake, and they would attempt to restore the original reading. 6. Rule* of Criticism. Textual criti- cism is a great science. 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Edward Bellamy was born in Chi- copee Falls, Mass., March 26, 1850; was educated at Union college, but was not graduated; was admitted to practice law in 1871; for several years was assistant editor of the Springfield, Mass., Union; was also editorial writer on New York Even- ing Post and founder of Springfield Daily News; is now a contributor to various magazines. His published works are "Six to One, a Nantucket Idyl," (1877), "Dr. Heidenhoff's Process," (1879), "Miss Ludington's Sifter," (1885), and "Looking Back- ward," (1888). He says that when he began writing his "Looking Back- ward," he had no idea of attempting a serious contribution to the move- ment of social reform. The idea was of a mere literary fantasy, a fairy tale of social felicity. Origin- ally the date of the story was 3000 A. D., and the romance was of an ideal world, instead of, as finally, a nation. After many recastings, the Btory became the vehicle of a defi- nite scheme of industrial reorganiz- ation, the scheme having worked it- self out in the mind of Mr. Bellamy while he was trying to fashion his fairy romance. The Queen Isabella Association of Chicago has issued an address to the women of the world announc- ing that Harriet Hosmer, the sculptor, has been engaged to exe- cute a statute of Isabella of Castile, to be unveiled at the coming World's Fair. Eliza Allen Starr, it is also stated, has written a sketch of the famous Castilian Queen, the pro ceeds of the sale of which are to be devoted to the building of an Isa- bella Pavillion at the fair, wherever held. "Be not simply good, be good for some thing."—Th or eau. "A stone that will fit in the wall will not be left in the way."—Old Proverb. Wise and Otherwise. "What b-e-a-u-tiful peaches!" said an old lady, as she stopped at a stall in the market, and admired a basket of early peaches. They were covered with pink gauze, and looked very tempting. The old lady bought the peaches and took them home. The next day she appeared at the stall and showed the stall-keeper a small piece of pink Det. "Do you keep that kind of veiling for sale?'' she asked. The stall-keeper told her that he did not. "Well," she said, "when I got them peaches home they were small and sour and green; and I thought, if I could get some of that stuff that made them look so pretty and plump in the basket, I'd wear it myhelf. If it would improve me as much as it did the peaches, folks would think I'd found the Elijah of life." Herb are a few bits of informa- tion gathered in our own schools and those of sister cities: The temple on the Capitoline hill in Rome was dedicated to three deities, Jupiter, Minerva and Don Juan. Greece after the death of Codrus, was left in a state of arnica. King Alfred escaped from his enemies in the guise of a pheasant (probably an effectual disguise). The king of France arraigned the Knights Templar on a charge of sacrilege and immortality. Dido, a queen of Phoenicia, went to Carthage and bought as much land as could be enclosed in a bull's eye! The other day at church a gentle- man with a very pink, bald head, having only a slight fringe of hair about it, sat in front of a little four year-old. It was a new and deeply interesting sight and on her return home she said, "Mamma, what do think! I saw a man with his head all bare/ There were only just a few hairs around it—they were saying: "Ring around the rosy, Bottle full of posy, Hush, hush, hush, hush 1 We've all tumbled down." "Longevity? I should say long- evity did run in the family," said Mrs. Spriggins. "Why, John was six foot two, Bill was six foot four, and George he had more longevity than any man I ever see. He was six foot seven if he was a foot."— [Harper's Bazaar. A Boston lady went to call on a friend the other day. She was met by the mother of her friend, a zeal- ous believer in faith-cure, who said apologetically, but cheerfully: "My daughter has a belief in a boil, and can't come down." Teacher (in a Chicago school,) "We hear a great deal about the World's Fair in 1892. Now can any boy tell me what that is to com- memorate?" Boy, (promptly,) "The discovery of Chicago." A touching obituary notice was that published in an eastern paper, which began by suggesting comfort to the bereaved family with the tender question, "Is there no barn in Guilford?" Almost as peculiar was the re- port of a ministers's meeting in which one of the ministers moved that a fund be established "for the benefit of deceased indignant min- isters!" A little three-year-old came run- ning in from the field exclaiming, "I saw a pansy and was going to pick it, and it was a butterfly and it flied away." Man with an only son, "What kind of scholars do you turn out at this institution?" Principal, "Those who won't study."—[New Haven News. Teacher, "Name some of the most important things existing to- day which wrrr unknown on" htin- | dred years ago." Tommy, "Us." 13 MISSIONS. Goes down in de gloomerin' meadows, Whar de long night rain begin; So be le's down de ba's ob de sbeepfol', Callin' sof " Come in! come in!" Call in' sof "Come in! come in!" Den np t'ro de gloomerin' meadows, T'ro de col' night rain an' win', An' up t'ro de gloomerin' rain paf' Whar de sleet fall piercin' tbin, De po' los' sheep of the shespfol' Dey all comes gadderin' in; De po' los' sheep ob de sbeepfol' Dey all comes gadderin' in. —The Century. Wi were greatly interested not long since in hearing hdw one American gentleman had lowered "de ba's ob de sheepfol'." That gentleman was Gen. S. C. Arm- strong of Virginia, principal of the Hamilton Normal and Agricultural Institute, who has been making a tour of the northern states with gome of the students of the Insti- tute. From their reports we cull the following items: "The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute stands on the shores of Hampton Creek, a little below the town of of Hampton, Va., two and a half miles from Fort Monroe, on an estate of one hundred and fifty acres, once known as 1 Little Scot- land,' and during the war known as Camp Hamilton," where many thou- sands of sick and wounded Union soldiers were cared for. The first slaves bronght to America were landed a few miles off on the James river; here the earliest English civilization on^ this continent was established, and here it first came into contact with the Indian race. During the war, Hampton, Va., was regarded by the freed men as a a city of refuge. Here they were first set free, and here the first school for the freedmen was estab- lished among them. Hampton In- stitute was op-ned with fifteen scholars in April, 1868, on a manual labor basis, under she auspices of the American Missionary Associa- tion. In June, 1870, however, the institute received a charter from the General Assembly of Virginia, and thus became an independent cor- poration. It is devoted still to Christian education, but is conducted in the interest of no sect. Its ob- ject is to train teachers of the Negro and Indian races by an edu- cation of the head, hand and heart, that shall make them industrious and self-reliant Christian workers. In Hampton's twelve workshops and on her farms, both Indians and Negroes are taught carpentry, black- smithing, wheel-wrighting. harness making, painting, printing, shoe- making, tailoring, wood and iron work generally, and various house- hold industries. The school now numbers 663 scholars, of whom 133 are Indians. Last year the colored students earned $50,146.37 in the different industries, which very nearly paid the expenses for board and clothing. The board and cloth- ing of 120 Indians at $167 apiece per annum is given by the Govern- ment, the other thirteen Indian pupils are on charity. Tuition to all pupils is provided by gifts. Each scholar's tuition being about $70 per annum. The school is open the entire year with an attendance of about 300 boarders in the summer. The "work students" labor on wages ten hours a day, and for eleven months of their first year, study from 7 to 9 o'clock at night; then enter the normal, or three years' English course, aud study four days each week, working two. J. E. M. In the discussion now rife re- specting missionary methods there is a growing emphasis laid upon the potent influence which emanates from the lives of good, true men and women, living as missionaries among the heathen. It is not the mere preaching of the gospel which is winning the world to Jesus, but also the embodiment of that gospel iu action and character. True as this is universa'ly, it is more and more apparent in the foreign field, especially in those where there are instructions to the preaching of the gospel. In Corea, for instance, where our missionaries have had an entrance only since 1882, and where to-day not.all restrictions are yet re- moved, much reliance is placed upon these silent forces. A missionary writes from there recently: "We are not preaching or teaching Chris- tianity except by an example which we hope may be worthy of the Christian name." Such leaven as this will in time permeate all heathendom.—[Congregationalism Secretary Strong of the Evan- gelical Alliance, at its recent annual meeting said: "All the needs of civilization center in those of our cities where two-thirds of our immi- grants settle, where the spirit of caste is stronger and where, there- fore, the antidote of applied Chris- tianity is most necessary. I do not believe there is a city in the land that has not enough good men and women to save it. Men of old said, "Here am I, send me;' to-day it is, 'Here is my check, Lord, send some one else,' and too often the check is at last withheld." Menny people spend their time trieing to find the hole whare sin got into the world; if two men brake through the ice in a mill pond, they had better hunt for some good hole tew get out, rather than get into a long argument about the hole they cum to fall in.—[Josh Billings. De Massa ob de Sheepfold. BY 8. P. MCLEAN- De Massa of de sheepfol' D*t guard de sheepfol' bin, Look out in de gloomerin' meadows, Whar de long night rain begin; So he call to de hirelin' shepa'd, "Is my sheep, is dey all come in?" Oh! den says de hirelin's shepa'd, "Dar's some, dey's black an' thin, An' some, dey's po ol' wedda's, But de res' dey's all brung in, But de res' dey's all brung in." Den de Massa ob de sheepfol' Dat irnwrH the aheenfol' hin_ 14 YOUNG PEOPLE. A Rare Kind of Gold. BY BERTHA A. ZEDI WINKLER. "Do stir yourself, BetBy, and get the school in order. I hear the lady herself will be there to see the child- ren, and select a likely girl from the neighborhood to assist Miss Light- heart in. her charge of them. No doubt many will present themselves as 'likely.' A little salary in connec- tion with the honor of being a teach- er will be a great consideration with many a poor family. It would with ours, I know. And I wish, Betsy Boggs, you would stir, and be a lit- tle more self-asserting. You are big enough to be seen, I'm sure, and might be doing something better than handling brooms and dust- brushes,—and helping these young, mischievous boys at the school out of scrapes, or into them for all I know. They are after you, anyway, as if they had gold to pick off'n you." So far was this from being the case, however, that the janitress of the charity school laughed at her own remark, and Betsy, her bound girl, hurried off with a keener sense tban ever of her hard lot, and the absence of attraction from her homely and scantily-clad person. The most important figure in her little world was the philanthropic lady who had started and maintained a sort of sewing and industrial school for teaching the small boys and girls of that indigent neighborhood the ways of usefulness, and of keeping out of the slums. She had only seen her twice; but her benign face and generous acts were an ever accom- panying influence in Betsy's life, and were reflected in her own help- ful sympathy for the children. What was an unusual thing for Betsy, she was absent when the jan- itress opened the school for the child- ren, and great was their consterna- tion at this discovery; for on this special oocasion they had depended more than ever upon Betsy's putting the finishing touches to their toilets as they entered, and giving them the ones for correct behavior, and answers to questions the great lady was in the habit of putting to them. Now, without Betsy at the door, they filed in most reluctant and for- lorn-looking. One little fellow had his cap on crooked, another forgot to take it off inside, a third had his shoe-strings loose, a fourth had a lot of dirty strings and gimcracks dang- ling from his pockets, some had soiled faces and some soiled hands, for whom Betsy's floor-rag might have done hasty service, and all looked more or less at a loss' how to use their wits should the lady on the platform address them. She had arrived with a number of persons interested in the work. Some solicitous parents were also there to watch proceedings, and among them stood a number of young girls as anxious candidates for the office of assistant teacher, when Betsy ap- peared, breathless and flushed, at the half-open door, and beckoned to one of the children. At sight of her there was a stir and murmur of "Betsy, Betsy," throughout the school, which changed^ into wide-eyed surprise as the girl she had called moved up the aisle and handed the lady a huge bouquet of wild flowers. "Thank you, my dear. This is very beautiful and thoughtful of you and your school-mates. It must have taken you quite a while to col- lect so many," said the lady, touched by their artless way of showing regard. "It—it's from Betsy Boggs," re- plied the girl confusedly, but with a sturdy determination to put the credit where it belonged. "She does just such things to us when we are sick, and I—I hope you are not sick," she added, with a vague notion that she must say something suitable and proper. The old folks laughed, but the lit- tle ones thought it was just the right thing to say, and wished they could do half as well should their turn come to speak to the lady, who, concluding that Betsy was one of them, scanned the numerous faces as if she would single out and encour- age the backward girl into showing herself, while all the time Betsy was safely screened outside the door, tremulous and flushed with delight. She longed so much to take the lady's hand, and be spoken to by her. In fact, a secret wish had crept into her heart for that position as teacher, that she might be associated with her in the same work. But not for worlds would she have stood in competion with girls so much better known, and perhaps worthier, than she. Poor Betsey, the sweeper, dreamed a delirious dream, she knew. But, somehow, that gentle voice in there always brought it. And she opened the door again slightly, that she might not miss a sound of her voice. "Well, my little friends, your teacher tells me that you are often unruly, and not so apt at learning what she would have you. Now, perhaps you do not always under- stand her, or she doesn't quite un- derstand you at least; I will believe no worse of you. So I am going to give you some one you all know and like, and who is at the same time capable and helpful to you in every way. To do this, I want you to help me select your f uture teacher, and, when she is selected, to follow her instructions in every particular. 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Ann and Ann Sta, DEAN M.TYLER, PHYSICIAN. H P 8, and he sung out Amen. On the horn he could blow as well as most men, So his horn was exalted in blowing Amen. But he lost all his Wind after threescore and ten, And here with three wives he wait's till again The Trumpet sh ill arouse him to sing-out Amen. * * * # From a lombstoue in Ireland :— Here lies the body of John Mound, Lost at sea and never found. * * * * From a cemetery near Cincinnati :— Here lies , who came to this city and died' for the benefit of hi* health. * • * * The following is from a tombstone in Oxford, New IT impshire :— To all my friends 1 bid adieu; A more sudden death you never knew: As I was leading the old mare to drink, (She kicked and killed me quicker'n a wink. THE ELEFUNT. Teacher said we must all write" on the elefunt, and we musent ask our fokes wh:it to say. There is two kinds of elefnuts. White ones and dirty white ones. One you pray to an one you don't. Le ist weays teacher s iid there was sacred ones, and them in the circus aint that kind. I know, for they eat peanuts, and Miss .Spears says its vulgar to eat peanuts. So they ain't sacred. When aunt Kate came here last summer Pa said he had a white elefunt on his hands. I asked her where it was and she got mad an went home. My! but I remember now going to the barn with pa! It seems as if a boy couldent say what old folks say very well. Elefunts are big, and when 1 crawled under the tent to see one he rapped with his trunk. The door man said it was a judgment, but it seemed to me as if it was the elefunt, I can't write write any more. * * * * A fai.se flag aloft means a rotten keel bi low. Publish Your Own monthly local CHURCH PAPER IT WILL BRING = gIMKITl'AL gOOP*— By its monthly visits a pastor can make known his wishes to every member of the church. By its regular visits those who are Indifferent to the appointments of the church may be reminded of their obligations. gOCIAl, . 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FOR FULL PARTICULARS APPLY CHUKCH AND SCHOOL PUBLISHING CO., DETROIT, MICH. 15 THE EFFECTS OF COFFEE. Medical opinions on the dangers of the use of coffee have not been lacking. But its long as both men and women will insist on depending upon the stimulating effect to carry them through daily duties, it is not untimely to reiterate such admoni- tions as are contained in the following taken from "A Berlin physician has been investigating the effects of coffee on working people near Essen. Many of them consumed over a pound of coffee in a week; and some men drank considerably more, besides beer and wine. The leading symptoms were profound depression of spirits, and frequent headaches, with insomnia. Strong coffee would relieve this, but it would soon return, the muscles becoming weak and trembling, and the hands trembling when at rest. The heart's action was rapid and irregular, and dyspepsia was also present. The face became sallow, the hands and feet cold, and an expression of dread and agony settled over the countenance. Acute inflammations were liable to appear. Melancholy and hysteria were present in all cases. To be bold against the enemy is common to the brutes, but the prerogative of a man is to be bold against himself. To conquer our own fancies, and our own lasts, and our ambition, in the sacred name of duty—this it is to be truly brave and truly Strang; for he who cannot rule himself, how can he rule his crew or his fortunes ?—C. Kiiujsley. A Hood Rkply.—"What an insignificant "little thing you are!" said a Puddle by the w .yside to a Raindrop, as it splashed into it one morning. "Per- il ips so," slid the Raindrop, "but I reflect as much of the sky as I have room for, and the bosom of the proudest lake can say no more!" HELPFUL HINTS. A recent advertisement contained the following: "If the gentleman who keeps the shoe shop with the read head will return the umbrella of a young lady with whalebone ribs and an iron handle to the slateroofed grocers shop, he will hear of something to his advantage, as the same is the gift of a de- CI > O ceased mother now no more with the name engraved upon it."—Exchange. At a Scotch fair a farmer was trying to engage a lad to assist on the farm, but would not finish the bargain until he brought a character from the last place, so he said, "Run and get it, and meat nu at the cross at four o'clock." The youth was up to time, and the farmer said, ''Well, have you got your character with you?" "Na," replied the youth, ''but I've got yours, and I'm no' comhr." —Exchange. An absent-minded German professor was one day observed walking down the street with one foot continually in the gutter, the other on the pave- ment. A pupil, meeting him, saluted him with: "Good evening, Herr Professor. How are you <" "I was very well, I thought," answered the pro- fessor, "but now I don't know what's the matter with me. For the last half-hour I have been limp- ing." FOR BIBLE STUDY. HELPFUL FOR Pastor HKLPFUL FOR Superintendent. ........ HELPFUL FOR Teachers HKLPFUL FOR Scholirs A helpful, useful and valuable book to all lovers of the Bible THE QRflNb OLD BOOK. AFTER twenty or thirty years of a religious life, its glories seemed so much more full than when its Verses and Chapters and Books were first read, one need never expect to pick up the Bible and under- stand the whole truth at a single reading. They were to hear, read, mark and inwardly digest the Scriptures before they might even adequately under- stand them."—Dr. Taylor. Tastely Bound, Including Memorandum, 50 cents. Send Postal or Express Order or 1 cent Stamp. H. LEONARD WILTON. PUBLISHER. DETROIT, M/OH. 3 COUNTING THE JEWELS. THE king of one of the Asiatic countries—so reports a recent writer—causes all the royal jewels to be displayed before him twice a year, that he may handle them, count them, aDd gloat over their splendor. A certain portion of them belong, as is the case in most monarchies, not to the king person- ally, but to the crown. He cannot sell them, nor give them away, a fact which may be supposed to lessen materially his enjoyment in handling them. A Christian woman who died lately at a great age, and who had carried to the last days of her life a happy heart and a singularly gay temper, thus explained the mystery of her unfailing cheerfulness: "I was taught by my mother when a child to reckon each morning before I rose the blessings God had given me with which to begin the day. I was not simply to say, "'When all Thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view, I'm lost, In wonder, love, and praise,' but I was to count the mercies one by one, from the neat and serviceable shoes that covered my cold feet to the sunlight shining on the hill-tops. My school friends, my play, my fun, my mother's kiss, the baby sister in her cradle—all these I learned to consider separately, and of every one to say, ' He gave it to me.' "This practice taught me the habit of thankful- ness. It kept my heart nearer to Him, kept it light and happy. These everyday blessings were not to me mere matters of course, but special, loving touches from His paternal hand. No pain or sorrow could outweigh them." We all have a store of richer jewels than the heathen king; and, unlike the crown regalia, these jewels are our own, given to us by our Father. How many of us mutter over, as the day begins, some perfunctory words of thanks which mean noth- ing? How many number their mercies, tasting the delight and joy of each, and out of glad hearts thank- ing the Giver? And how many quite forget to think either of them or of Him? It is not the deed we do, Though the deed be never so fair, But the love that the dear Lord looketh for, Hiddcn'with holy care In the heart of the deed so fair.—Christina Rossetti. We cannot always be sure when we are the most useful. It is not the acreage you sow, it is the mul- tiplication which God gives the seed, which makes up the harvest. You have less to do with being suc- cessful than with being faithful. Your main comfort is that in your labor you are not alone; for God, the eternal One, who guides the marches of the stars, is with you.—C. H. Spurgeon. THOUGHTS ON BANK. Rank is a great beautifier.—Bulwer. It is better to sacrifice rank than liberty.—Ypsi- lanti. Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still they are chains.—Ruffini. The preposterous distinctions of rank render civil- ization a curse.—Joanna Webb. To be vain of one's rank or place is to disclose that one is below it.—Stanislaus. Birth, rank, and fortune, are not incompatible with genius and taste.—Goethe. Rank may confer influence, but it will not neces- sarily produce virtue.—L. Murray. Rank may give a man a high position, but it cannot make him a gentleman.—S. Purchas. The worship of title and rank is one of the weak points of the English character.—Eliza Cook. Whenever men of rank are ill-disposed their evil dispositions stain that rank.—Pliny. . , He who weds a wife of higher rank and nobler blood sinks into nothing, lost in her superior splendor. —Euripides. There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all.—Shenstone. Rightly do those teach who admonish us that we should be the more humble in proportion to our high rank.—Cicero. It is not rank or dignity of position that makes men ; true rank is that excellence of character that shows itself in actions of probity and virtue.—Jas. Ellis. 4 "GOD KNEW THE BEST." IF wc push Bjar the gates of life, And stand within, and all God's workings see, Wc could interpret all this doubt and strife, And for each mystery could find a key. But not to-day. Then be content poor heart! God's plans, like lilies pure and white, unfold*. We must not tear the close-shut leaves apart, Time will reveal the calyxes of gold, And if, through patient toil we reach the land Where tired feet, with saudals loose, may rest, When we shall clearly know and understand, I think that we will say, "God kne w the best." —M. R. Smith. So many little faults we find. We see them; for not blind Is love. We see them; but if you and I Perhaps remember them some by and by They will not be Faults then—grave faults—to you and me, But just odd ways, mistakes, or even less, Remembrances to bless. Days change so many things,—yes, hours,— We see so differently in sun and showers. Mistaken words to night May be so cheri hed by to-morrow's light, We may be patient for we know There's such a little way to go. The clouds have a silver lining, Don't forget; And though he's hidden, still the sun is shining; Courage! iDstead of tears and vain repining. Just bide a wee, and dinna fret. —From "The Beautiful Gate." ST. PAUL AT THE TOMB OF VIRGIL. BY THK BKV. TRYON EDWARDS, D. D. PUTEOLI, now Pozzuoli, was the most sheltered part of the Bay of Naples, and the principal port of Southern Italy. It was once a place of great resort on account of its mineral springs, and noted also as the landing-place of the Egyptian grain-ships which brought to Rome their cargoes of wheat, the arrival of which was always an occasion of great inter- est, as described by Seneca and Suetonius. From one of these grain ships, in the year a. d. 61, there disembarked a troop of prisoners whom the Procurator of Judea had sent to Rome under the charge of a centurion of the Augustan cohort or band. Among them, under guard and in chains, was the Apostle Paul, who, in his right as a Roman citizen, had appealed from Festus to the Em- peror at Rome, whither he was now going, attended by Luke and ArUtarchus, hid loving disciples and friends. Allowed as he was by the centurion, he remained for seven days at Puteoli, where he was warmly received by the Christians of the place, as afterwards he was met at the "Market of Appius" and the "Three Taverns" by the delegation of disciples from the imperial city. While delayed at Puteoli, if we may believe an exceedingly touching and beautiful tradition, Paul went up to the tomb of Virgil, who was buried there, and wept at the thought that the great poet had died without the knowledge of Christ. Dean Stanley, in his wellknown sermon on "Christian Missions," after showing how Christianity seeks to make men purer and nobler and better, alludes to Paul's deep sympathy with this aim, and then remarks: "It was a fine touch in the ancient Latin hymn which described how, when the Apostle landed at Puteoli, he turned aside to the hill Pausilipo, to shed a tear over the tomb of Virgil, and thought how much he might have made of that noble soul if he had found him still on earth." He then quotes the hymn, which is as follows: "Ad Maronls mausoleum Ductus, fudit, super eum Pise vocem lacrymae; Quantum, dixit, te fecissem, Si te vivum invenissem, Poetarum maximet" The condensed phraseology of the lines, which reminds one of some of the most concise and strik- ing of the odes of Horace, scarce admits of a literal translation of its impressive and touching thought. But a free paraphase may, to the English reader, give some idea of the original:— "On his way to Nero's court, When delayed a time in port, At the tomb where Virgil slept, Paul in thoughtful sadness wept; Wept, that he of world-wide fame, Should have died ere Jesus came! In his musings unexpressed, This the thought that swelled his breast: 'Oh! that I had found thee living, In the light the Cross is giving; Could have seen thee, from above Taught to know a Saviour's love; Then, with love to Christ supreme, Thine had been a nobler theme, And tby harp, in loftiest lays, Down the ages rolled His praise!' Thoughtful and sad, Paul from the hill went down, To Rome, to prison, to a heavenly crown!" —Christian Age. Industry.—An hour's industry will do more to beget cheerfulness, suppress evil humor, and retrieve your affairs, than a month's moaning. 8 UNION YOUNG PEOPLE'S SERVICE. SUNDAY EVENING, Jan. 11, the first of a series of union meetings, under the direction of the Young People's Societies of the Presbyterian, Con- gregational, M. E., and Baptist Churches, was held at the M. E. Church. A vast audience was in attend- ance, and a number of interesting, brief addresses, were made by representatives of the different socie- ties. EXCHANGE OF SERVICE. lie pea ting the arrangement of last year for mutual assistance in special meetings, the pastor of this church went to Zanesville, O., to aid his brother, Rev. J. C. Carman, in special meetings, following the week of prayer, the latter supplying the Ann Arbor Baptist pulpit, January 18. We are to have the assistance of the Zanesville pastor whenever the interest warrants special meet- ings. CHURCH NOTES. Ernest Conrad is in business in Brooklyn, N. Y. Miss Mat Estev has been seriously ill of pneu- monia. Mrs. Lois J. Wright is with her son in Albion this winter. Miss Genevieve Storms is now Mrs. N. P. Jacobs, of Chicago. Miss Louise Cady is teaching at Crystal Falls, in the Upper Peninsula. Mrs. Goodyear's sister, Miss St. James, of De- troit, has been visiting her again. An unusually large subscription was taken for Foreign Missions, Sunday morning, Jan. 11. Did you help? Dr. Haskell has had a marked improvement in his physical condition, and is able to be about the house again. Mrs. E. R Chapin and son of Durand, visited Ann Arbor last month, to the great pleasure of their many friends. Our Young People's Society has now a reading room open in the church parlors on Sunday after- noons. Misses Carrie Britten, Martha Tenney, and Lena Austin, spent the holiday vacation from teach- ing, with their families in Ann Arbor. The pastor delivered two lectures last montk before the Theological Seminary at Rochester, N. Y., on the subject of "New Testament Preoedent." Deacon A. Tucker and Brother H. B. Dodsley, who are compelled by business to be away dnring a large part of the year are at home for the winter. The arrears in church expenses have not yet been brought up. Have you paid up your subscription to date? Have you subscribed all that you possibly oould? Professor Knowlton, Dean of the Law Depart- ment, has suffered severely from rheumatism and double work, the latter a frequent ailment with our busy professional men. Mr. John Hodge, son of Deacon Hodge, with his wife, spent two or three weeks at Ann Arbor, this month, on a visit from Omaha, Neb. Mr. Hodg« rendered admirable assistance in our service of song on two Sabbath mornings. Oh, for more sympathy with the natural world, and then we should always take a lesson from the most fleeting circumstances, as when a storm came down upon England, Charles Wesley sat in a room watching it through an open window, frightened by lightening and thunder, a little bird flew in and nestled in the bosom of the soared poet, and as he stroked it and felt the wild beating of his heart, he turned to his desk and wrote that hymn which will be while the world lasts: Jesus, lover of my soul, Let me to thy bosom fly, While the billows Dear me roll, While the tempest still is nigh. HEAVEN'S DECREES. God never would send you the darkness, If He felt you could bear the light; But you would not cling to His guiding hand. If the way were always bright; And you would not care to walk by faith Could you always walk by sight. 19 WHAT IS A GOOD BOOK? AGOOD book is one that interests you. One in which the bright rather than the dark side of life is shown. One that makes you feel how mean are the small vices of life and how despicable are the great sins. One that glorifies virtue in woman and honor in man. One in which the good are rewarded and the wicked are made to suffer—suffering by the by, that may be of the conscience—or in a more material way, a reward given either on earth or promised for the future. One which convinces you that this world is filled with good men and good women. One that breathes forth the goodness of a Creator, and reBpecis His all-governing laws. One that makes you feel that you are meeting real people—people who elevate your thoughts as you associate with them. A good book is one that you remember with pleasure, that when the dull hours come you can think of with interest and feel that there are people with whom you have a most interesting acquaintance, who are yet only characters of the imagination. A good book is one that tells in good English, the story it has to; sees no necessity for using for- eign words, and does not quote from the Arabic or the Sanscrit, as if the author had written it with an Encyclopaedia Britannica beside him. A good book is one that we want when weary of the people of the world; that we can read out loud and discuss; that we can hand to our daughters that it may give them pleasure, and which will only be a Bteppinir-stone on the road of taste, not only to better and nobler books, but to better and nobler lives. That is a good book—and, my friends, there are hundreds of them.—Ladies' Home Journal. BEADING. Two things are necessary in perusing the mental labors of others, namely, not to read too much, and to pay great attention to the nature of what you do read. Many people peruse books for the express and avowed purpose of consuming time; and this class of readers forms, by far, the majority of what are termed the "reading public." Others again read with the laudable anxiety of being made wiser; and when this object is not attained, the disappointment may generally be attributed either to the habit of reading too much or of paying insufficient attention to what falls under their notice. Blackby. OUR IMAGINED JO VS. To lose a joy that has formed the subject of our dreams, to renounce a whole future, is anguish more aoute than that caused by the destruction of happi- ness, however great, that has been actually enjoyed; for is not hope better than recollection? The reflec- tions which suddenly arise out of such a ruin are like a shoreless sea; we may, for a time, swim upon it* bosom, but in the end our love must drown and perish. And it is a fearful death; for the feelings are the brightest portion of our existence. This partial death produces in certain organization*, whether they be strong or delicate, fearful havoc, the offspring of disenchantment, of defeated hope and cheated passion. Balzac. THE FUTURE LIFE. There is something truly grand in the spectacle- of a man in the enjoyment of health, prosperity, and reputation, looking forward, nevertheless, to a future life with hope and thankfulness. Far more admira- ble, however, is the spectacle of him who feels thie- hope and thankfulness, not by reason of dissatisfac- tion with the world, but by reason of its ministry to him of wisdom and delight. "The fact," says a great and original writer, "that the sky is brighter than the earth, is not a precious truth unless the earth itself be first understood." Despise the earth, or slander it, fix your eyes on its gloom, and forget its- loveliness, and we do not thank you for your languid or despairing perception of brightness in Heaven. But rise up actively on the earth, learn what there is in it, know its color and form, and the full measure and make of it, and when, after that, you say, "Heaven is bright," it will be a precious truth, but not till then. Lbo Grin don. That which is best in our hearts, never comes forth from them.—Larmartine. DESTINY. Strange that destiny should of^en come thus, creeping like a child to our very doors; we hardly notice it, or send it away with a laugh; it comes so- naturally, so simply, so accidentally, as it were, that we recognize it not. We cannot believe that the baby intruder is in reality the king of our fortune?, the ruler of our lives. But so it is continually; and since it is, it must be right. Mrs. Craik. Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy, and he that iiseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laz- iness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes- him.—" Poor Richard." f 18 EMI?I,EMS OF THE APOSTLES. THE artists of early times, having no knowledge of the features of the Apostles, used some signs to designate them which might always be recognized. For this purpose frequently a symbol of the holy man's martyrdom was used. The emblem of St. Peter, a large key or keys, is readily explained as referring to the words of Christ to Peter (Matt, xvi: 19), "And I will give unto thee the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven." A book is also used in some portraits of St. Peter, but with probably no more significance than to indicate his calling as a teacher of the Holy Word. The emblem of St. Paul was a sword and a book, the latter to indicate his calling as a teacher, the former to remind the beholder that he was beheaded with the sword. That of St. Andrew was a cross like the letter X, because he was crucified on one of this shape; that of St. James the Great, a sword, in token of bis beheading, or somtimes a pilgrim's staff, as he was a great traveler, and is thought to have journeyed all over southern Europe. St. John is mostly represented in mediaeval pictures with a cap and a winged serpent flying out of it, St. Bartholo- mew with a knife, St. Philip with a long staff whose ■upper end forms a cross, St. Thomas with a laver, St. Matthew with a hatchet, St. Mathias with a battle -ax, St. Simon with a saw, and St. Jude with a club. HOW MEN SALUTE IN FOREIGN COUN- TRIES. It is common in Arabia to put oheek to cheek. The Hindoo falls in the dust before his superior. The Chinaman dismounts when a great man goes 4 S. STATE STREET, A Good Assortment of Gentle- men's Furnishings Always in Stock. Shirts, Ties, Gloves, Umbrellas, Baseball and Tennis Goods. C. E. GODFREY, Truck and Storage. TELEPHONE 82. OFFICE, 46 N. 4th Avenue. - - PATRONIZE - - BASSETT BROS.' PHARMACY, 46 STATE ST. Prescriptions a Specialty. Bicycles Adopted by the U. S. Goveraeut. THE FAMOUS WARWICK. Solid or Cushioned, Tired Wheels. All Sizes, All Styles, All Prices. Send or Call for Cata- logue at I I W. WASHINGTON STREET. M. 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Speak your word of loving kindness Ere the ears are shut and barred; Look with love before death's blindness Hath that glance of duty marred. Do all deeds humane and tender Now some darkened life to cheer; Flowers but mock the tardy sender When too late laid on the bier. MAXIM. GAZE not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee; if thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou lust after it, it destroys thee; if virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory; it is the wise man's boon-fire, and the fool's furnace.—Qnarles. LITERATURE. "What do we not owe to the pen and printing press?" Literature may be regarded as a noble interpreter between naturally opposing spheres of life, and as sanctifying and elevating the past. It brings before our notice instances of noble self-denial- and asserts the dignity of mankind, demonstrating often that rank is but the guinea stamp, and proving, by examples from life, everything is possible to per- severance and self-reliance, allied with caution, pru- dence and self-control. It takes and keeps alive within us a full-hearted interest in the main currents of life and opinion, a ready sympathy for all that is strong and genuine in individual character, and a willingness to serve the weak and suffering, and to make it evident to those who, because of their ele- vated position, are not en rapport with the baser conditions amid which they live, that their true in- terest is bound up in the elevation of all—at least, to a level where intelligent obedience to law is possible for them. Such an interest as this is one of the main elements of literature, and should be of everyone, according to his power, to awaken and to sustain. The drama and novels also have their value, espe- cially to business men, who have to stifle their sym- pathy during the day, in drawing attention to the sufferings of others and making ub grieve; even if it be fictitious distress, it must humanise, soften and purify the soul.—Piatt. THE POWER AND ART OF MEMORY. Let the reader consider seriously what he would give at any moment to have the power of arresting the fairest scenes, those which so often rise before him only to vanish; to stay the cloud in its fading, the Jeaf in its trembling, and the shadows in their changing; to bid the fitful foam be fixed upon the river, and the ripples b.e everlasting upon the lake; and then to bear away with him no darkness or feeble sun-stain (though even that is beautiful), but a counterfeit which should seem no counterfeit—the true and perfect image of life indeed. Or rather (for the full majesty of such a power is not thus suffi- ciently expressed), let him consider that it would be in effect nothing less than a capacity of transporting himself at any moment into any scene—a gift as great as can be possessed by a disembodied spirit; and suppose, also, this necromancy embracing not only the present but the past, and enabling us seem- ingly to enter into the very bodily presence of men long since gathered to the dust; to behold them in act as they lived, but with greater privilege than ever was granted to the companions of those transient acts of life—to see them fastened at our will in the gesture and expression of an instant, and stayed on the eve of some great deed, in immortality of burn- ing purpose. Conceive, so far as is possible, such power as this, and then say whether the art which conferred it is to be spoken lightly of, or whether we should not rather reverence, as half-divine, a gift which should go so far as to raise us into the rank, and invest us with the felicities, of angels.—John Raskin. To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends, or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censure of the one, or the admonitions of the others.—Diogenes. Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self- love; would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.—Lewis Wallace. If the young man knew, if the old man could, there is nothing but would be done.—Italian Proverb. When faith grows weak, all virtues are weakened; when faith is lost, all virtues are lost.—St. SignorL If thou wouldst be borne with, bear with others. —Fuller. We increase our wealth by lessening our desires. Bk slow to promise and quick to perform. 6 MYMN CLASSICS. "JESUS, LOVER OF SIT SOUL." THIS hymn is acknowledged to be the most gen- erally accepted and beloved of all Christian hymns. It is said that one day, in the year 1740, Charles Wesley was sitting at his desk in his room, when a little bird pursued by a hawk flew into the room, and took refuge in his bosom. The poet took up his pen, and wrote these immortal verses. Henry Ward Beecher, when speaking of his father's love for this hymn, once said: "I would rather have written that hymn of Wesley's, 'Jesus, lover of my soul,' than to have the fame of all the kings that ever ruled on the earth. It is more glor- ious. It has more pdwer in it. I would rather be the author of that hymn than hold the wealth of the richest man in New York. He will die. He is dead* and does not know it. He will piss, after a little while, out of men's thoughts. What will there be to say of him? What will he have done that will stop trouble, or encourage hope? His money will go to his heirs. In three or four generations, everything comes to the ground again for redistribution. But that hymn will go on singing till the last trump brings forth from every land the children of God, and then it will mount up on some lip to the very presence of God." Some one has compiled a list of eminent men who were known to repeat this hymn when dying. Theo- logians and scholars of every creed are on this list. Dr. Herrick Johnson gives an incident of his hos- pital work during the war. He came upon a drum- mer-boy who was wounded unto death. "What can I do for you, my brave fellow?" "Sing ' Jesus, lover of my soul.'" A wounded soldier lying near took up the words, and began to sing them ; while the drummer-boy, too weak to sing, repeated them as his dying prayer, and while they were on his lips, his soul took its flight to the bosom of Jesus. In the winter of 1872, a Christian worker in New York visited Bellevue Hospital. He was urged by the attendants to see an English sailor in one of the wards, who was near death and unable to speak. The good man leaned over his bed, and softly repeated this hymn in his dull ear. There was no sign that the dying man heard the blessed words, and the visitor went away. About midnight, however, the sailor aroused, and with a clear voice said,— "Jesus, lover of my soul, Let me to Thy bosom fly;" and continued until he had repeated the entire hymn. He then added other verses of hymns, and suddenly died. "Who can tell," says Duffield, "how great a bridge had been thrown by those familiar words across the gulf of memory, and how great a comfort they may have brought to his dying hour?" A lady in Norwich, England, went to hear a fam- ous preacher at the Tabernacle. She was in great distress of mind, and had determined to attend divine service once more; and she intended, if she obtained no peace, then to drown herself. The first hymn that the preacher announced was, "Jesus, lover of my soul," which so startled her, and suited her con- dition, that she supposed that "he had made this hymn for her sake," for she was sure some one had informed him of her state of mind. As a result of this experience, she was hopefully converted. One beautiful evening in the summer of 1881, a party of Northern tourists formed part of a large company gathered on the deck of an excursion steamer sailing down the historic Potomac. A gentle- man who has since gained a national reputation as a singing evangelist, had been delighting the party with his happy rendering of familiar hymns, the last bting that petition so dear to every Christian heart, "Jesus, lover of my soul." The singer gave the first two verses with such feeling and emphasis as thrilled every heart. A hush had fallen upon the listeners, which was not broken till a gentleman made his way from the outskirts of the crowd to the side of the singer, and said,— "Keg your pardon, stranger; but were you actively engaged during the late war?" "Yes, sir," the man of song replied, "I fought under Gen. Grant." "I did my fighting on the other side," continued the first speaker, "and am quite sure I was very near you, one bright night, eighteen years ago this very month. It was much such a night as this. If I am not mistaken, you were on guard duty. We of the South had sharp business on hand, and you were one of the enemy. I was selected by the commander, because I had a reputation as a 'sure shot,' to creep near your post of duty. The shadows hid me. My weapon was in my hand. As you paced back and forth, you were humming the tune of the hymn you have just sung. I raised my gun, and aimed it at your heart. Then out upon the air rang the words,— 'Cover my defenceless head With the shadow of Thy wing.' Your prayer was answered. I couldn't fire after that, and there was no attack made upon your camp that night. I felt sure, when I heard you sing this even- ing, that you were the man whose life I was spared from taking." The singer grasped the hand of the Southerner, and said with much emotion: 8 A HAPPY NEW YE Alt TO YOU. AHAPPY New Year! Oh. sach may it be! Joyously, surely, and fully for thee! Fear not and faint not, but be of good cheer, And trustfully enter thy happy new year. Happy, so happy! Thy Father shall guide,' Protect thee, preserve thee, and always provide! Onward and upward along the right way Lovingly leading thee day by day. Happy, so happy! Thy Savior shall be Ever more precious and present with thee! Happy, so happy! His Spirit thy Guest, Filling with glory the place of His rest. Happy, so happy. Though shadows around May gather and darken, they flee at the sound Of the glorious voice lhat saith, "Be of good cheer!" Then joyously enter thy happy New Year. —Frances Ridley Havergal. THE GOLDEN OINTMENT. A FAIRY 8TOET. LITTLE Lily was playing one fine summer evening in the garden of her mother's cottage. At the end of the garden grew a beautiful apple tree, under the shade of which was placed a seat made of roots of trees. This seat was raised so high, by being put on top of a daisy covered mound, that anyone who sat on it could look over the trim hawthorn hedge and see what was passing on the high road. Here sat Lily busy with her doll. She had dressed it in a spotted muslin skirt, a blue silk bodice, and a straw hat with pink ribbons, and a white lace veil, all of which she had cut out and shaped and sewed and trimmed herself, for she was a very active, neat- handed little thing. She showed the doll everything that could be seen, pointed out the wind-mill and the steeple of the church and the blue hills in the distance. Then she told it a long story about a fairy who lived in the inside of a walnut shell, and used to frighten people out of their wits by buzzing in their ears like a wasp. She then laid dolly across her knees and told her to go to sleep, and sang her a lullaby. This is what she sang:— "Naughty baby, go to sleep, Little eyes must no more peep; Soundly rest, my dear wee thing, And a pleasant song I'll sing. Look no more at these blue skies, Darling dolly, close your eyes; Quiet he and soundly sleep, While a careful watch I keep. Now, while Lily was hushing her doll with this Bong, what should she see coming driving along the road but the queen's own carriage. In front of it rode two mea all decked out in purple coats, blazing with gold lace, with cocked hats on their heads, and long white feathers. They rode on great horses with silver- mounted saddles, and had swords dangling at their sides, which kept up a tremendous clattering. Behind these royal servants came the carriage, drawn by four horses with jingling harness, and driven by a fat, red faced old coachman in a yellow wig and three cornered hat. In the carriage sat the queen, leaning back on a crimson velvet cushion, and all covered with gold and diamonds. Two ladies were with her, as grand as pea- cocks, and one or two lords beside the carriage, with their noses up in the air, and far too high and mighty to look at the ground. Behind the coach stood a pair of long footmen in red, like a couple of hollyhocks, and then two other fellows came bumping away on horseback. There was a famous prancing and rumb- ling as they all swept past, and they left huge clouds of dust behind them. Now little Lily stopped her song and forgot all about her doll, in staring with all her eyes at the queen, and the horses and all the grand folks. When they had passed she did not sing again; in fact, she was no longer in a humor for singing. She was busy thinking how much she would like to be a queen, and ride about in carriages, and live in a grand palace, and have plenty of servants. The foolish little thing got down from her seat and went dreamily along the garden walk, her head hanging down and her finger in her mouth. The poor, forgotten doll had tumbled down, and was lying with its head on the ground and its feet in a gooseberry bush; but Lily never saw it—she was quite miserable, thinking about the queen, and wishing she were one. Now, as she was so occupied, suddenly a fairy stood before her. She looked like a very little, old grandmother, and had a funny, puckered face and a long nose. She was dressed in a black silk dress, and had a white cap on her head. '•My dear child," cried the little old thing, "what makes you look so glum? What on earth's the matter with you?" Lily looked up at the voice, and then stood silent, for she did not like to tell what she had been thinking about ''You were singing as merry as a lark a little while ago, weren't you?" said the fairy. "Yes," replied Lily. "And you stopped after the queen passed?" "Yes," answered Lily again. "And the reason is, because you have been wishing you were a queen, and had a much grander house and 1 PKOGKESS. THE friends of prohibition have obtained some sig- nal victories from the supreme court of the United States, in a series of decisions of the utmost importance, by which the application of prohibitory laws to the manufacture and sale of liquors has been thoroughly established as a principle in no wise in conflict with the constitution of the United States. It will be worth while at this time to recall these decis- ions. 1. License by the United States to carry on the wholesale liquor business in any state does not give power to carry on such business in violation- of the laws of the state. 2. A state may pass laws prohibiting the retail of intoxicants without a license, and providing restrictions in the granting of such a license. 3. Restrictive and prohibitory state legislation is not contrary to the fourteenth amendment. 4. Companies for the manufacture and sale of liquors have no greater rights than individuals possess, and are not exempt from restrictive or prohibitory state legislation. 5. State prohibitory laws, as police regulations, are not repugnant to the constitution of the United States. 6. Brewers or distillers may not claim compensa- tion for property because it has diminished in value by reason of state prohibitory legislation. 7. States have the full right of prohibiting the manufacture of intoxicants, whether for home use or for exportation to other states. 8. States, under the Wilson act, may deal with liquors imported from other states precisely as though they were not so imported but produced at home. These decisions constitute a wall of strength to the cause of prohibition. They are principles enunciated by the highest court of the land, and will stand as long as the constitution, of which they are the inter- pretation, shall stand.—The Independent. WHICH 8IDE HE IS ON. Rev. B. F. Mills, the evangelist, who recently con- ducted a successful revival at Elgin, 111., took occasion at one of his meetings to refer to the liquor question as follows: '' I would like to give a little sermon on temper- ance, and I would like to make it so plain that every- body could understand. Sometimes a person will in- sult me by asking which side of the temperance or pro- hibition question I am on I Which side am I on? Well, you go to the drunkards and thieves, and^ burg- lars and gamblers, and saloon keepers and makers of the accursed stuff, and find out which side they are, and then put me down on the other side. As you go down to that wretched hovel, where that poor woman, worse than widowed, sits with her worse than orphaned babe at her breast, her heart's blood dripping away drop by drop, put your ear down close to her heart, and hear which side she is on, and then put me down on her side. Why is it that these accursed saloons exist in Elgin today? Because men worship the god that tavors hades. Sup- pose a man should come here today and take one of your fairest and brightest children, and by making a few passes over it convert it into an idiot, the whole community would be after him. Millions of dollars would not induce you to license him to do such a thing if he could do it in ten minutes, and it is only a ques- tion of five years, or possibly ten or twenty, and you will allow him to do that very thing, and for only a paltry few hundred dollars. THE LITTLE MAID FOR ME. I know a little maiden, Whom I always see arrayed in Silks and ribbons, but she is a spoiled and petted little elf, For she never helps her mother nor her sisternor her brother; But, forgetting all around 'ier, lives entirely for herself. So she simpers and she sighs, And she mopes and she cries, And knows not where the happy hours flee. Now let me tell you privately, my darling little friends, She is as miserable as miserable can be, And I fear she's not the little maid for me. But I know another maiden, Whom I've often seen'arrayed in Silks and ribbons, but not always; she's a prudent little elf; And she always helps her mother and her sister and her brother, And lives for all around her, quite regardless of herself. So she laughs and she sings, And the hours on happy wings Shower gladness around her pathway as they flee. Now, need I tell you privately, my darling little friends, She's as happy as a little maid can be? This is surely just the little maid forme. —Harper's Young People. Golden are those who, being born philosophers, will only be content with truth exactly considered; silver are those who, politicians by nature, are content with opinion and probability.—Tasso. Why are we made proud and puffed up by the wisdom of this life which is so similar to darkness, when in that other—the true life, though called by mortals death—our wisdom will resemble the purest light ?—Tasso. 4 GOOD IN THE LOCKET—BETTER IN THE SOUL. AYOUNG girl, loved by all who knew her, on ac- count of her rare sweetness of disposition and lovable character, always wore about her neck a little - locket which nobody was allowed to open. None of her companions ever knew what was in it, until one day, when she was down with a serious illness, one of them was granted permission to open it. She did so and saw engraved there: "Whom having not seen I love." That was the secret of her beautiful life. The love of Christ in her heart had developed in her char- acter "the image of the Saviour." "IN THE MIDST OP LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH." This sentence, in our Burial Service, is supposed to be from the Bible. It is derived from a Latin anti- phon, said to have been composed by Notker, a monk of St. Gall, in 911, while watching some workmen building a bridge at Martinsbrucke, in peril of their lives. It forms the ground work of Luther's Antiphon De Morte. Brethren in Christ, to holier things The simple type apply; Our Qod Himself a temple builds, Eternal, and on high, Of ransomed souls; their Zion there, That world of light and bliss; Their Lebanon, the plaoe of toil, Of previous moulding, this! Lord, chisel, chasten, polish us, Each blemish wash away; Cleanse us with purifying blood, In spotless robes array; And thus, Thine image on us stamped, Transport us to that shore, Where not a stroke is ever felt, For none is needed more. —The Shadow of the Rock. Joined to Christ in mystic union, We Thy members, Thou our Head, Sealed by deep and true communion, Risen with Thee, who once wert dead— Saviour, we would humbly claim All the power of this Thy name. Make Thy members every hour For Thy blessed service meet, Earnest tongues and arms of power, Skillful hands and hastening feet, Ever ready to fulfill All Thy word and all Thy will. —F. R. Havergal Pray for whom thou lovest; thou wilt never have any comfort of his friendship for whom thou dost not pray. Yes. pray for whom thou lovest; if uncounted wealth were thine,— The treasures of the boundless deep, the riches of the mine,— Thou couldst not to thy cherished friends a gift so deep impart, As the earnest benedictions of a deeply loving heart. —The Changed Cross. TRUTH AND LIFE. To be selfish is to be ignoble.—Haweis. There is nothing in which men more deceive them- selves than in what they call zeal. —Addison. A man who is not ashamed of himself need not be ashamed of his early condition.—Daniel Webster. It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.—Saadi. A man's strength in this life is often greater from some single word, remembered and cherished, than in arms and armor.—H. W. Beecher. The true aim of the highest education is to give character rather than knowledge, to train men to be rather than to know.—Mark Hopkins. It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthful; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade.—Henry Ward Beecher. The nearer our Savior drew to His glory, the more humility He expressed. His followers were first His servants, and He their Master; then His disciples and He their Teacher; soon afterwards they were His friends, and He theirs; straightway after His resurrec- tion and entrance into an immortal condition, the)' were His brethren; and, lastly, they were incorporated into Him and made partakers of His glory. — Bishop Hall, 1580. There are men who cannot know of a need in all the world without its taking the shape of a personal appeal to them. They must go and do this thing. There are such men who seem to have a sort of mag- netic attraction for all wrongs and pains. All griev- ances and woes fly to them to be righted and consoled. They attract need. They cannot sleep at Troas but the soul of Macedonia finds them out, and comes across, and begs them, "Come and help us." We must all be thankful to know that there are such men among us, however little we may feel that we are such men ourselves; nay, however little we may want to be such men.—Phillips Brooks. 5 THE J. T. JACOBS CO. 27 and 29 Main street, In their Mammoth Double Store, Nave the Best Goods for the Least Money. Everything in the line of Clothing, Hats and Caps. GREAT CUT IN OVERCOATS. RENTSCHLER, PHOTOGRAPHER Cor. Main and Huron Street*. STATE STREET. GOODYEAR & ST. JAMES. Dry Goods and Notions. POPULAR GOODS AT POPULAR PRICES. 18 S. MAIN STREET.; DEAN Sc CO., 44 South Main Street. Prepared Coffee, 12Ji cts. per lb.; Prime Roasted Rio Coffee, 20 ots. per lb.; very Best Roasted Rio Coffee, 23 cts. per lb.: Best Roasted Maricabo Coffee, & cts. per lb.; Best Roasted Java Coffee, 30 cts. per lb.; Best Roasted Mocha, 35 cts. per lb. We have the latest machinery for clean- ing and roasting Coffee. EBERBACH & SON, PHARMACISTS. TOILST POWD6RS, Toiletine. Bloom of Roses. DRYGOODS, CLOAKS, DRAPERIES, CARPETS, FANCY GOODS, Wholesale and Retail. Largest Stock In Washtenaw County. Ivl&otc 8c Schmidt. Painters and Decorators. DEALERS IN PAINTERS' SUPPLIES. 38 E_ WASHINGTON STREET. For Men's Furnishing Goods GO TO GHAS. SPELLER & CO., 20£ 8. STATE STREET. Ann Arbor Savings Bank, ANN ARBOR, MICH. Capital Stock, $50,000. Surplus, $ 100,000. Assets, $750,000. A General Banking Business Transacted. Exchange on all the Principal Cities Bought and Sold. 3DTD PCilT interest is allowed on Deposits in the Savings rLn OCR I. Department. CHRISTIAN MACK, Pres. W. D. HARRIMAN, Vice-Pres. CHAS. E. HISCOCK, Cashier. 11 grasshopper legs. Hard to fit. Take a twenty-four, I do. Remember all the measurements, 'most twenty- four breast, fourteen collar; twenty nine long, twen— Say, there, Dick, let that bat alone, 1 tell you! Yes, mother, I'm going in a minute—didn't I tell you so (impatiently)?—soon's I settle Sue, here, for nabbing my ear." "What are you laughing at. uncle Harry?" 'Oh, nothing much! Just thought what a chance it was for the recording angel to take your measure— that's all." Jimmy went on about his errand, and when he got back it was high bed time and a little past; so after the usual amount of teasing to wait just another game, and grumbling at the injustice of sending a boy to bed before it was dark, when all the other boys in the town could sit up until ten, he stumbled up the stairs in a very bad humor. He got out of his clothes, but how, no one but a boy in a bad humor and a hurry to have it over can tell. How he was to get into such a tangled criss- cross muss the nest morning was another puzzle. "Blessings on the man that invented sleep!" would have been a very appropriate motto to tack on Jim- my's bed that night; for, embraced in its arms, he soon forgot Dick s felonious intentions on his bat, the pending settlement with Sue of the "nabbing" case, and the ill-humor of the last moments, aroused by his sense of ill-treatment, and was living again the proud moments in the merchant tailor's room, where the soft, handsome folds of the "pin-check" goods were being admired, and the hum of the tailor's voice, as he said, '' Open your vest, please; now lift your arms, so; stand straight, please: fourteen, twenty-four, that will do," etc., rang in his ears. Presently it became indistinct and confused. Then it began to ring out again with new distinctness: "Stand straight, please. Humph! Very much shrunken calves, these. One, two,—only two errands for mother today, and a good deal of growling over those. Open the vest, please. Thirteen breast meas- ure. Small heart inside; cold and selfish; wants every- thing for himself. Some boys, with generous hearts, measure twenty-five. Stand straight, please! Nino- teen high; good deal of baby yet; whines and pouts like one. A boy with sense and manliness enough to take things reasonably ought to measure thirty." By this time Jimmy was tumbling and rolling at a precious rate. Great beads of sweat stood on hi« brow, and something suspiciously like groans broke from his lips. "Pretty crooked, shriveled specimen this! Hard to make his robe look decent at all Got in by the skin of his teeth." You would have thought Jimmy was trying to put himself through a knot hole, he shrank into so small a ball in one corner of the bed. "Cut a sorry figure before the throne. If he'd only thought as much of how his spirit grew as having a «ell shaped bod—" A long, low, gurgling sound came from under the bed-clothes, which were gripped tight in both Jimmy's fists. Tiptoe, tiptoe came footsteps down the hal>, and a light gleamed along the wall and shone into Jimmy's face. "Oh, how it shines! Let me go away—away back, please, Mr. Recording Angel! I'm so un—" "Jimmy, Jimmy! Wake up! What's the matter, boy?" "Oh! Mr. An— Why, uncle Harry! I'm so glad! 1—I guess I've been dreaming; but 1 tell you it was mighty natural. Don't go vet!" ''But what about the recording angel?" ''Why, don't you know what you said last night about—about—" "Taking your measure, eh? As good as Smith's?" '•No; but I mean to make it so, uncle Hany."— Reformed Church Messenger. OUR MENAGERIE. We have a whole menagerie At our home I declare. For yonder comes a little chap As hungry as a bear; And T have heard the youngster say. When on an errand sent, "I'm just as tired as a dog," And doggedly he went. It is but seldom that he cries, I'm willing to confess, And seldom would you care to hear His signa's of distress; For like the "mighty monarch'' who In forests love to reign, This autocrat of ours will roar With all his might and main. As sly as any fox is he When mischief is about; As innocent as any lamb When you would find him out; Aad when correction's rod. perchance, You'd have the urchin feel. He wriggles out of Wisdom's way As slippery as an eel. But there are days when order reigns Supreme within the house; No doors are banged: the child appears As quiet as a mouse; Till of a sudden through the bars Of silence he will bolt, And scamper up and down the street Like any other colt. We never know just how or when Occurs the change we see; Now he is slower than a snail, And then a busy bee. But when a whole menagerie We're anxions to enjoy. We open wide the outer door, And introduce that boy. —Exchange. 14 LOOK ABOVK. IP, in a hurrying tide of strife, The weary, toiling march of life. Some angry hand with passion rife, Some cruel foe, Deal on thy shrinking heart a blow— Then smile ar.d look above, For God is love. Or, harsher yet, if some dear lip Should let the careless answer slip, In the dear heart its fierce tongue dip Harsher than foe, And deal thy loving heart the blow— Then smile and look above, For God is love. And if the world seems dark and drear, Thou long'st to feel thy rest is near— Lay down thy rube of doubt and fear, Trust thou in God And be thy dark road bravely trod, Smile thou and look above, For God is love. DEEDS BETTER THAN WORDS. EVERY man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action; and that while tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of life, permanent goodness is an achievement and a quality of the life. Fine words, says one homely old proverb, butter no parsnips; and if the question be how to render those vegetables palatable, an ounce of butter would be worth more than all the orations of Cicero. The only conclusion of a man's sincerity is that he gives himself for a principle. Words, money, all things else, are comparatively easy to give away; but when a man makes a gift of his daily life and practice, it is plain that the truth, whatever it may be, has taken possession of him. From that sincerity his words gain the force and pertinency of deeds, and his money is no longer the pale drudge 'twixt man and man, but, by a beautiful magic, what erewhile bore the image and superscription of Csesar seems now to bear the image and superscription of God. It is thus that there is a genius of goodness, for magnanimity, for self-sacrifice, as well as for creative art; and it is thus that, by a more refined sort of Platonism, the Infinite Beauty dwells in and shapes to its own like- ness the soul which gives it body and individuality. — J. Russell Lowell. THE LIFE TO BE- Life appears to me too short to be spent in ani- mosity or registering wrongs. We are, and must be, one and all. burdened with faults in this world; but the time will soon come when we shall put them off in putting off corruptible bodies; when debasement and sin will fall from us with this cumbrous frame of flesh, and only the spark will remain—the impalpable prin- ciple of life and thought, pure as when it left the Creator to inspire the creature; whence it came it will return, perhaps to pass through gradations of glory, from the pale human soul to brighten to the seraph. It is a creed in which 1 delight, to which I cling. It makes eternity a rest, a mighty home, not a terror and an abyss. Besides, with this creed revenge never worries my heart, degradation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice never crushes me too low. I live in calm looking to the end. —Charlotte Bronte. BOOKS SHOULD BE WELL CHOSEN. There is a choice in books as in friends; and the mind sinks or rises to the level of its habitual society— is subdued, as Shakspeare says of the dyer's hand, to what it works in. Cato's advice, "Consort with the good,'' is quite as true if we extend it to books; for they, too, insensibly give away their own nature to the mind that converses with them. They either beckon upward or drag down. And it is certainly true that the material of thought acts upon the thought itself. Milton makes his fallen angels grow small to enter th3 infernal council room; but the soul, which God meant to be the spacious chamber where high thought and generous aspirations might commune together, shrinks and narrows itself to the measure of the meaner com- pany that is wont to gather there, hatching conspiracies against our better selves. We are apt to wonder at the scholership of the men of three centuries ago, and at a certain dignity of phrase that characterizes them. The}' were scholars because they did not read so many things as we. They had fewer books, but these were of the best. Their speech was noble because they lunched with Plutarch and supped with Plato. We spend aj much time over print as they did; but instead of communing with the choice thoughts of choice spirits, we are willing to become mere sponges satu- rated from the stagnant goose-pond of village gossip. —J. Russell Lowell. THE QUALITY OF PLEASANTNESS IN HUMAN NATURE. Mr. Lowell somewhere relates that Dr- Holmes once called his attention to a line on an old tombstone, over a woman's grave, that read "She was pleasant," and quoting this in his address at the meeting in Westminster Abbey, in commemoration of Dean Stan- ley, he emphasized the all-embracing importance of this quality of pleasantness in human nature. And rightly. To have that temperament which makes one's personal presence an influence of sunny cheerful- ness and of happy serenity is a gift whose value exceeds that of any special and particular talent that art or literature can comprehend. The man who Puts what he hath of poetry into verse And leaves none for his life is not the man who covets for a friend. IB THOUGHTS FROM JOHN RUSKIN. HE art-gift is the result of the moral character of generations. Floweks have a fixed power of enlivening or ani- mating the senses and heart. Inordinate excitement and pomp of life make you enjoy coarse colors and affected forms. One person differs from another primarily, by fine- ness of nature, and secondly, by fineness of training. Children should be taught to be gentle through entreatings of gentleness, and honorable trusts. Good taste is an agreeing with the habitual sense which the most refined education gives to the whole mind. At youri own will you may see in a gutter in the street either tne refuse of the street or the image of the sky. The pictures of Tintoret are the most precious articles in Europe, being the best productions of human industry. Children should laugh but not mock, and when they laugh it should not be at the weaknesses and the faults of others. The alternate suction and surrender of Charybdis means the unreasonable spending of what is un- reasonably gathered. Every right action and true thought sets the seal of its beauty on person and face; every foul thought its seal of distortion. Nature intends that a provident person shall be richer than a spendthrift, and the utmost efforts of socialism cannot prevent it A consistently just and a consistently unjust person can be rightly distinguished at a glance, and if the qualities are continued by descent there arises a complete distinction of race. To receive pleasure from an evil thing is not to escape from, or alter the evil of it, but to be altered by it; to suffer from it to the utmost, having our own nature made evil also. NEGLECT. From the very nature of salvation it is plain that the only thing necessary to make it of bo effect is neglect Hence the Bible could not fail to lay strong emphasis on a word so vital. It was not necessary for it to say how shall we escape if we trample upon the great salvation, or, doubt, or despise, or reject it. A man who has been poisoned need only neglect the antidote and he will die. It makes no difference whether he dashes it on the ground, or pours it out of the window, or sets it down by his bedside and stares at it all the time he is dying. He will die just the same, whether he destroy it in a passion, or coolly refused to have anything to do with it. And so as a matter of fact probably most deaths, spiritually, are gradual dissolutions of the last class rather than the rash suicides of the first.—Drummond. Many people have their own God; and he is much what the French may mean when they talk of le bon Dieu—very indulgent, rather weak, near at hand when we want anything, but far away out of sight when we have a mind to do wrong. Such a God is as much an idol as if he were an image of stone.—Hare. The new theory that drunkenness is a disease is already quite generally believed to be true. Whether or not it is true or false, there can be no question as to the good results to patients who have undergone treatment for drunkenness as a disease. As results are more valuable than opinions or arguments, it is idle, at present, to do more than seek for results. Dr. James E. Albee, of No. 427 Third avenue, De- troit, has, beyond any question, achieved wonderful triumphs in hU gold cure treatment of alcoholism and other disease generating habits. We speak thus emphatically, because those results in the person of over 50 cured patients are available right here in Detroit. There are men and women who are willing and seem to find pleasure in telling their stories of degradation, misery and ultimate release from the bondage of habit. Dr. Albee, who is medical direc- tor of the International Gold Cure Co. of Detroit, is also the discoverer of the treatment used by that company. He made the discovery after varied and extensive experiments upon himself—in fact he studied medicine with a view to discovering a cure for drunkenness, which, he was confident, was a disease, and his experiments covered all phases of habit-disease. That the treatment is reliable and permanent, is being verified daily at Dr. Albee's office, and all persons seeking relief in that direction are warmly welcomed. Dr. Albee is not a visionist and not a pretender. He makes no claims he is not able to verify, but he does predict that as his cure comes into more general use, it will do much toward working a revolution in the liquor traffic. Snrely and most sincerely we trust his prophecy may prove correct. 8 KOCH & HENNE, FURNITURE, CARPETS, Oil Cloths and Draperies. Ordered Work and Repairing a Specialty. Undertaking Promptly Attended to. 56 AND 58 S. MAIN ST. m. m. SEHBOLT, CITY LAUNDRY 4 North. Fourth Avenue. THE PLACE TO BUY Pictures, Frames, ART GOODS AND MILLINERY, And Have Your Photograph Made. E. F. MILLS 3 told to pay attention to what is ) d of us by friends or enemies in the at of passion, or that we are to re- ■ -ruber that many a true word is -jken in jest. One of the gravest •usations that this maiden aunt ngs against the sterner sex is that . cctlya woman finds them in the mg and does not acquiesce in all •ir doings she is declared unbusi- •slike, and, if she does not believe t louble-dealing, she has no idea of /iness tact, finance, diplomacy, or '' -itcvor name may happen to be -en to "every man for himself and "I for us all." She bases her ac- ntion largely upon the following > erience. Mr. Smith, a church-member and a most respectable-looking man, brought for her inspection one day in her younger days a remarkably fine- looking animal as candidate for the im- portant position of family horse. Her father was ill in bed, the mother never meddled in such matters, and it devolved upon the eldest daughter to settle upon the buying. The ani- mal was a beauty, and arched his head and pranced in a way to con- quer the most obdurate feminine heart as he walked up and down for inspection. How was she to be sure that all was right? She felt herself helpless indeed. Just then the hired man stepped up and whispered in her ear, "Miss Ruth, that horse will go lame in a few days. Ask Mr Smith to show you his hind feet, and tell him they are tender." Mr. Smith was just then in the distance leading the horse, the latter prancing and tossing his head in the most approved style. Upon his return my aunt re- quested to see the mooted hind feet. They were, of course, raised for her inspection, and, as she surveyed them with an air between that of a horse jockey and a veterinary surgeon, she exclaimed, "Why, Mr. Smith, he's got tender feet!" The would-be sales- man looked at her in breathless as- tonishment for a moment, then ex- claimed, with the most disgusted air imaginable, "Why, Ruth Miller, the trouble with you is you're no business women!"—Christian Union. Home Amusements. An ingenious person who is much with children invented a little game for them which she called "The Ma- rionettes." This game will call for the help of good-natured elder sisters, perhaps, but, after the children have tried it once or twice under her guid- ance, they can very easily play it themselves. Let the sister tell some well-known story, "Little Red Riding Hood," "Puss in Boots," "Dick Whit- tington," or any other of the dear old tales or fairy stories will do. Take the distressing story of "Red Riding Hood," for instance, and let one of the children take the part of the grand- mother, a rollicking, sturdy child should play the wolf, and a third should be Little Red Riding Hood herself; then, as the sister slowly tells the story, let each of the children act his part in pantomime, adapting the language, to suit the different dispo- sitions of the children. Red Riding Hood can have a cape or shawl (pre- ferably red) draped around her arm,, after having said good-bye to her anx- ious mother. As the story goes on the wolf should appear, got up as fier- cely as the means at hand will permit and the final catastrophe can be made as terrific as possible. "Cinderella" will lend itself to this sort of treat- ment excellently; and, as it affords an opportunity for all the children to take part as guests at the famous ball, will make a most interesting play when there are a number of children to be amused. With a little tact and pa- tience, anyone who has charge of the children can keep them contented and entertained for hours at a time. A child's imagination can invest even the most commonplace things and events with romance and reality. A paper cap and the yard measure will turn the fretful little lad into a proud soldier-boy. An apron fastened on securely will make a fine train for the princess. The fairies can be supplied with wings of newspaper, or a e-carf or veil pinned at the neck and fastened at the wrist. A whellbarrow or box will make the most elegant coach in the young people's eyes. Of course, some children are very much easier to amuse than others. The delicate, nervous child has neither the strength nor the inclination to enter into his stronger brothers' sports. 'God Our Father." This is the last and completest sfinition of God. It is the Christian ea of God. If we ask the sages of itiquity who God is, they have no in- lligent answer—only a ruler some- here iu the universe. Modern phi- sophy simply replies, he is the pow- • that makes for righteousness, atural science says, he is the first ^eat cause. Pantheism answers that od is Nature. Heathenism points to >ds many. Agnosticism has no iswer. The seers of the Old Testa- ient picture him as an Holy King iated upon a throne of justice. But the gospel includes in its an- aev all that can be true in any of lese and also reveals him as a per- inal interest in the humblest man, ) whom all men may come, not only s a Creator and Law-giver and Judge, ut as a Father. It reveals God not only to the reason ud the conscience, but to the heart, nd is a picture not only of the char- ctor of God teaching us that God is j us what we are to our children — nly in a larger and fuller sense, as e is greater than we are,—but also avealing the-soul's relation to God 3 one of filial love and affectionate mst. This conception of God was ot born of human philosophy or poe. :y, but is the special revelation made j the world in Jesus Christ, and out- ide of the gospel is not to be found. The idea of the fatherhood of God Bpresents him in the analogy of hu- lan fatherhood as the author of our eing, the supplier of our wants, the efender of our lives, the law-giver ir our souls, our teacher in eternal hings, our refuge in human weak- est, our final home in the soul's [estinies.—Dr. Smith Baker. It is expected that a solid Christian Endeavor special train will be run roin the pacific coast to the Mon- tval convention. Three cars will prob- bly go from California and one each rora Oregon and Washington. The ast must look to her laurels or the /est will outstrip her in Endeavor ntornriso. Two Kinds of Sorrow. Who that has ever observed care- fully the faces that meet him on the crowded city street, or any .public thoroughfare, lias failed to notice the large proportion of sad, discontented and unhappy faces among the passing throngs. Every shade and degree of unhappiness, perplexity, sorrow and distress, can be noted during the shortest walkalong any city thorough- fare. Among them, however, will al- ways be found two types of faces that reveal clearly the characters of which they are the indices. They are fnces that are equally marked by lines that indicate deep suffering, and yet they convey to the beholder a totally dif- ferent impression. Underneath the deep impress of sorrow one shows patience, serenity, peace, resignation, benignity; the other shows discon- tent, rebellion, envy, often hatred and malevolence. One has an expression that tells of sorrow and suffering pa- tiently borne by a spirit that seeks relief in fleeing to the Highest for refuge and strength and consolation; the other tells of sorrow rebelled against, of disappointments that have soured the spirit, of losses that have warped and embittered the nature. The one is the sorrow that leads to God and to life, the other is "the sor- row of the world thatworketh death." Theologians and philosophers are equally baffled in their attempted ex- planation of the necessity and uses of sorrow. Never this side the veil can mortal expect to be able to "Justify the ways of God to man;" but as to the effect of sorrow upon human character there can be no ground for dispute or question. Some natures are elevated, purified and en- nobled by sorrow; others are shriv- elled, warped and embittered. In some, sorrow arouses and deepens the sympathies, broadens the charity, and softens and purifies the whole nature. All the graces of the spirit seem to take deep and abiding root in the heart just softened, and as some of the most wonderful and beautiful flowers burst into full bloom only in the night, so do these graces bloom and dispense their fragrance in the darkness of affliction, convincing us that, as in the case of the night bloom- ing plants, some wonderful divine im- pulse is behind these manifestations, the result of some secret communica- tion of the divine power and life. On the other hand it is equally ap- parent that "the sorrow of this world worketh death." All those sorrows that come from the disappointment of worldly ambitions, from inability or unwillingness to exercise self-denial or to submit patiently to the inevita- ble crosses of life, from failure to curb the temper and the tongue, from envy and strife and self-seeking, from crushed vanity and unattainable worldly desires, all these constitute the sorrow of the world. It finds no alleviation in anything that the gos- pel has to offer; it knows nothing of the comfort that the resigned and sub- missive heart receives from the Divine Comforter. It has none of the sup- porting, inspiring, strengthening ele- ments that the Christian heartlone can know. And so we see that\sor- row, according as it is receivedVis either "a saviour of life unto life, o* death unto death."—The Interior. ^ "To live for Christ is far better than cursing the bonds of railroad, or the stock of a bank, or listeniug to- the hum of the wheels of the mill. A single shake of the telegraph wire may unsettle a man, and make a rainy day for him and a heavy heart. It is well worth while for a man to have before him as a dream a fine country seat, a garden, quietness, a splendid position in the city; but if that is all he has got, what little satisfaction it will be to him when he comes to that time when he will go upstairs and say, 'I am not very well to-day; I guess I won't go to the offce;' and the next day, 'Perhaps you had better go for a doctor.' He lies with his face to the wall; and all the great stores he has built, all the great activities that have felt the touch of his fingers, fade out of his eyes, and he thinks of the other shore, and of what treasures he has laid up beyond the stars. I tell you, then, young men, we want something more than the things of the present life. "What a splendid picture that is of Mr. Gladstone going into the little Church and reading the lessons! Is he less great because he believes in God and because ho witnesses for his name? "I think the greatest wreck of all in this world is the loss of a young man. When he goes down, the world is poorer than for anything else that could be lost."—John Wanamaker. / SHORTHAND f\ND TYFBWRITINC Every young lady and gentleman should learn Shorthand an Typewriting. Any one with only ordinary ability can master the al in from four to six months and command a salary of from $50 to $ld per month. Graduates assisted to good paying positions. Write f< full particulars to THE STENOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE, - - ANN ARBOR, MICK MRS. H. S. WEAVER MILLINERY OPJ< NING, March 29 30, 31, 1893. Will open with a full line of MILLINERY Ladies' Toilet Articles, Ladieai Fine Muslin Underwear. G-IVE ZMZIE GJLJLJL,. FOR SCHUH & MUEHLIG, HAEDWAEE, PLTJMBI2STG Steam and Gas Fitting', Furnaces, Mantels and Grates. 31 flOTJTH MAIN STREET. J. rttLLER 46 S. Maim St ANN ARBOR MICH. THINGS MUSICAL CALL UPON 51 South Main Stroot, PALAGR BAKRRY 27 T.&ttt Washington Street. Everything First Class ROGERS & MARCHANl M. M. TUTTLE, Ice Cream and Confectioner 48 S. STATE STREET. LADIES' »md GENTS' ^jf""! O E MISSES* and CHILDREf STATE STREET J. R. BOWDISH & GO. 32 South State Stret. . - . u a u g a ;i E. B. HALL'S, - 2 W. Huron St. YOU WILL Fl ALL DS AT M. M. SEABOLT, 4 North Fourth Avenue. THE PLACE TO BUY pictures, F-"ame5- Frt (i°°d5 and fflillinery And Have your Photograph Made. GOODYEAR & ST. JAMES, Dry Goods arid Dotion? POPULAR GOODS AT POPULAR PRICES 18 South Main St. is hard to find, but we manufacture one that cannot in- jure either the teeth or gums. Price 25 cente. Try it. ALKINS' PHAR MAY. ^ I IIIIIIUIIWII IWIIIIWIW Ann Arbor S^v^qs Banl,' ANN ARBOR. MICH. Capital Stock, $50,000. urplus, $150,Oti Assets, $1,CCO,000. A General Banking Business Transacted. Exchanges on all the Prinr how greatly the world may have >pored him, his real life always lies advance. The passion for perfec- >n is the sign of the noblest kind of aracter, and it is this possession bich breeds what has been called liviue discontent." It _is not rest- ssness nor rebellion, but the feeling jit ono must always be doing and *ing better. This is the feeling of ;e great artists; no achievement tisfies. There is always the intense ;sire to do something still better; id it is this desire and the steady jalization of it, rather thau any r«c- »nition or reward, which gives life s zest and its interest. After Shake- wire has written his thirty-four lays, he is still unsatisfied, because ? feels that he has but inadequately [pressed his thought, and that there •e depths in his nature which he has it sounded, as there are depths into hich his plummet has sunk but a ttle way. The man is greater than is work, and the passion for perfec- on stamps his work, supreme as it , with an element of inadequacy, i) great artist was ever yet satisfied ith what he had done. If he were itisfiod he would not bo a great artist, t is the dissatisfaction which indi- ates the presence of the larger —Christian Union. There lies on our table, from the Century Company, a little book with the above title, which is so naively spiritual, so charmingly unconven- tional, so delightfully audacious, that we should like to lay it on the tfibles of all our readers as a New Year's gift. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world! Why not? All that is in the world is not of the Father! Why not? Rather, says our author, love the world and the things that are in the world; love the world of nature — earth and sky and sea, gardens and flowers and fruit; love the world of man, his thoughts, his feelings, his "books, his music, his amusements; and love them more and more. The glory of the world passeth away! Truly. But the dandelions are not less beautiful, nor less to be anticipated before they come, nor less to be enjoyed while they are here, be- cause they remain so short a while. This world is a good world, and a beautiful world, goodin youth, better in old age; good in joy, better in sor- row; good in solitude, better in society, and best of all to him who sees God in this world, bringing good out of evil and making the world his own. Not to flee from the world, not to live discontentedly in the world, not to shut one's eyes to the glory and one's heart to the joy of the world, not to think that this is the devil's world, but to know that it is God's world, and the beauty is God's and the joy is God's and the life is God's; and through the joy and the beauty and the life to see God, and draw nearer to God, and prepare others to see him and draw nearer to him, and so pre- pare one's self and others for a still greater beauty and still deeper joy in that which the Infinate love has in store for us: this message, borrowed from this little book, we repeat as our New Year's homily to our readers.— Christian Union. A lady, who in her girlhood was discouraged by her lack of beauty, but lived to become a leader of soci- ety, with a host of sincere and loving friends, told the following story of the incident which give her hope and inspired her to usefulness: "If I have been able to accomplish anything in life, it is due to the words spoken to me in the right season, when I was a child, by an old'teacher. I was the only homely, awkward girl in a class of exceptionally pretty ones, and, being also dull at my books, became hte butt of the school. I fell into a morose, despairing state, gave up study, withdrew into myself, and grew daily more bitter and vindictive. One day the French teacher, a gray haired old women, with keen eyes and a kind smile, found me crying. "What is the matter, my child?" she asked. 'Oh, madame I am 60 ugly!' I sobbed out. She soothed me but did not contradict me. Presently, she took me to her room, and after amusing me for some time, said, 'I have a present for you,' handing me a scaly, coarse lump covered with earth. 'It is round and brown as you. 'Ugly,' did you say? Very well. We will I call it by your name, then. It is you! Now, you shall plant it, and water it, and give it sun for a week or two.' I planted it and watched it carefully; the green leaves came first, and at las^ the golden Japanese lily, the first I had even seen. Madame came to share my delight. 'Ah,' she said, significantly, who would believe so much beauty and fragrance were shut up in that little, rough, ugly thing? But it took heart when it came into the sun.' It was the first time that it ever occurred to me, that in spite of my ugly face, I, too, might be able to win friends, and to make myself be- loved in the world."—The Christian Herald. :i RRNTSGHLblR Photographer CORNER MAIN AND HURON STS 'BLAKE Sells the b»st Picture Frames iu *> the city for the least money. W. 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Any one with only ordinary ability can master the art in from four to six months and command a salary of from $50 to §(100 per month. Graduates assisted to good paying positions. Write for full particulars to HE STENOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE, ANN ARBOR, MICH Lost. . May Mount, of New Orleans, rmed a Keeley Help Club which isting the sympathy of many nent people in that city. Among irkers we notice the name of E. L. Saxon, who at a recent lg recited the following beauti- ginal poem which describes an nt in her young motherhood, while sitting with her baby in ms an aged man tottered and side her gate:— LOST. ) the world, and its old sweet ways in its wilds of woe and sin; sef ul thoughts of his sober days, s drowned in the revel's din. ield and pity! None else can save poor lost wretch from a drunkard's ;rave. s: he is drunk; but I pity him so, he is friendless, and poor, and old; warm; the rain will not chill, I mow- re the same if freezing cold. a lying prone and helpless there, beating rain on his long, thin hair. it his foul and bloated lips, is hands—so shameful and sad to ee— t the little white foot on my knee; iw that a mother, tender and true, I the lost one's life when a baby, oo. :ers twine in my darling's hair, e the summer rain falls soft and till; it the poor old wanderer there, weep, despite my will; i for the mother who bared her ■reast, II that form to its childish rest. the ringers were as tender as mine toyed, like mine, with his golden air, was golden, I see the shine faded splendor there, lere is the hand and dear white reaet, soothed him once to his infant 3St? ttle eyes, so blue and deep, ittie hands, so plump and fair— e close the one to a dreamless leep, 'old the others, where *ver shall move on earth again; see them with such shameful stain. a of earth, when we rear our sons such loving and tender pride, tie we know where their feet will ray. i paths of the world so wide! nerciful hand that holds a screen t the baby days and life's closing one. The Sun of the Years. The art of making friends, like the art of making money, is a common gift distributed by the fairies with liberality to the children of men. But the art of keeping friends, like the art of keeping money, is a very rare gift. To keep friends is a fine art. To be able to hold the ideal while perceiving the humanity of a friend; to be patient with the mistakes of to-d«y because of the wisdom of yesterday, which forecasts wisdom for to-morrow; to tolerate moods; to sink one's very love out of eight for a moment rather than have it shocked or disturbed by sur- face conditions, requires rare self-con- trol. Yet the one who possesses the art of keeping friends does all this. The cause of the severance of friend- ship is sometimes so superficial as to be childish. The action of the mo- ment often obliterates, even when it contradicts, the knowledge of years. Impatience and selfishness are respon- sible for much of the loss of happiness that necessarily results were friendly relations have been disturbed. Too often there is a surface appear- ance of intimacy, where a foundation is lacking to justify this appearance. Words of endearment are too often counterfeit coins. A nature of integ- rity is very apt to lose faith when once confidence has been shaken, and the result is that from observing de- ceitful attitudes in the circle about him, one begins to doubt the integrity of those whom he holds dear. Friendship is a dear and precious gift—the one that most ministers to life; without it life is barren. Two conditions are necessary for its pre- servation—Truth and faith. Very of- ten a little forbearance would preserve that which is often held too lightly. Said a wise woman one morning, dis- cussing the cloud no larger than a man's hand that had arisen between herself and her friend, "I tell you the trouble is that the doing of one wrong thing often wipes out the record of the ninety-and-nine right ones. That is the difference between God and man. What we should do is, not to draw our conclusions from the one act, but from the knowledge of years. That would not only be righteous but natural." It is not the sudden freak of nature that scientists accept as nat- ural ; they draw their conclusions from governing Jaws; and so it is with hu- man beings—all move in obtdience to the law of their being, and that which arouses the antagonism of the moment is not the result of those laws, but the result of a sudden disturbance which a little patience would enable us to understand and often forget.— Christian Union. Men long for riches as they long for food. They crave love, they crave fame, they crave power, they crave knowledge, they crave silver and gold; and they live and die with their cravings unsatisfied. Many a man who lias given his life to the pursuit of material wealth has died in want. This is the story of the alchemists of old, who devoted themselves to a search for the secret of turning all things to gold. There was one Gab- riel Plattes, for example, who gave long years to this study, and wrote a book on the subjeet, more than two centuries ago. He told how he had at last succeeded in making pure gold; but before he could avail himself of his discovery, he "dropped down dead in the London streets for want of food." There is a longing that shall be satisfied, but it is not for gold. "Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."-S. S. Times. Church sickness must be consider- ed as one of the religious diseases of our time. It means that a large number of people have ecclesiapho- bia. The bitterness which marks the alienation from our churches may be seen in the expressions of scornful criticism and reproach indulged in by socialistic and labor reform lead- ers. Such sentiments are pretty sure to secure a full measure of applause. And this simply means that the church is not fulfilling its duties to- ward that class of society in which it first originated. Equally manifest is the indifference about church-going in a different straum of society. Locomoter ataxia takes possession on Sunday of men whose legs are perfectly usable every other day in the week. Indeed, on Sundays they are available for a picnic, but will not walk toward church. We see no cure for it all except a new revival in the church itself—an attempt, with t urning conviction, to proclaim to the world that Christianity relates to the life that now is, that it is vital and essential to the redemption of human society. The church need stand none the less for the great eternal things it has stood for; but there are eternal things this side of the grave as well as on the other, and justice, righteousness, and love are some of them.-Christian Register. RRNTSGHLRR Photographer OOjtNER MAIN AND HURON ST3. M. W. BLAKE Sells the best Picture Frames in the city for the least money. 10 W. Hun St. J. A. POLHEMUS LIVERY HACK AND SALE STABLE Rates reasonable. We make a special effort to p'ease. Give me a call. North of Post Office. Picture Frames made to Order. Furniture Repaired and Refinlsbed W. G. DIETEBLE Dealer in Fine and Low-Priced Furniture, Parlor Suits, Bedroom Suits, Easy Chairs Special attention given to Undertaking. 37 S. Main Street, - - - ANN AEBOK, MICHIGAN. BEST GRADES OF HARD AND SOFT - COAL - g M. STAEBLER"S.- Phone. No. 8. 11 West Washington St. 1'HAKMAGISTS Ladies' use our Specialties. Concentrated flavoring Extracts. High tent Bicarbonate of Soda. 9!) per cent Cream of Tartar. E. V. 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'The billows, yester eve so dark and wild, Wave strangely now— A calm upon their brow— Like that which rests upon a cradled child. ) The sky was bright, and every single star, . With gleaming face, Was in its place, x\.nd looked upon the sea—so fair and far. J And all was still—still as a temple dim— When low and faint, As mourner's plaint, Died the last note of Vesper hymn. >i -A bark slept on the sea, and in the bark :t Slept Mary's Son— The only One— Whose face is light where all, all else is dark. I His brow was heavenward turned, His face was fair, He dreamed of me. ~ On that still sea— {The stars He made gleamed through His hair. And lo! a moan moved o'er the mighty deep. ; The sky grew- dark! The little bark "Felt all the waves awaking from their _ sleep. "••e winds wailed wild, and wilder billows - beat; The bark was tossed: Shall all be lost? but Mary's Son slept on, serene and di sweet. Che tempest raged in all its mighty wrath, — The winds howled on, "* All hope seemed gone, _j Vnd dnrker waves surged round the bark's lone path. y\m sleeper woke! He gazed upon the 7 deep— ,N He whispered: "Peace! l0, \ Winds—wild waves, cease! Je still!" The tempest fled—the ocean — f*(l asleep. \ —Vonahoe's Magazine. The Magic of a Face. One is sometimes tempted to be- lieve that personal beauty must be the one supreme blessiug, so many are the nostrums advertised, so al- luring and numerous are invitations to try this, that, or the other infalli- ble preparation warranted to restore a faded complexion, to remove facial blemishes, or to defy Time's effacing fiugers. "Beauty is its own excuse for being," but does the desire to possess beauty excuse these specific modes of obtaining it? and is it really obtainable by any such devices? The longing for outward loveliness must be innate, for at every period of the world means have been sought to make or mar the visage in accordance with crude or artistic ideas of at- tractiveness. In that cruel interview where my Lord Hamlet uses harshest words to the artless Ophelia, he says: "I have heard of your paintings too, well enough. God has given you one face, and you make yourselves an- other." A gentle Quakeress, guile- less of plagiarism, once modified this accusation in a way that robbed it of all malice and made it a wise and helpful thought. To a young niece who was bewailing her own lack of beauty she said, tenderly, "The good Lord gave thee plain features, but he left it to thee to make thine own ex- pression." The girl took her lesson and learned it thoroughly, and now that the graces of her amiable char- acter illumine her face, none ever think of it as plain. Her great wealth —and riches too often serve as a cloak for unloveliness of mind or person— is entirely lost sight of in the afflu- ence of noble womanly qualities, while her cultivated intellect and affection- ate disposition give to her face that charm which is lacking in features. Faultily faultless, icily regular, splen- didly dull." Bishop Levering, when asked how t came about that the Moravians were I o noted for their seif-denial and ac- n-ity in missions, replied, "When . ga converts join the church, we try 'j get them to realize that they are ., .uing a great missionary society." 1 —Missionary Review. ... The Scottish Mission to Lepers in ndia is extending the work to China ■find Japan, and changes its title ac- —ordingly to Mission to Lepers in In- ia and the East. Several medical lissionaries, some of whom have een doing general medical mission- xnry work for some time, are now to 'ork directly for lepers under the Section of this society. Hindoos show their piety in build- ing hospitals for mosquitos, snakes and scorpions, but allow their wives and mothers to die a dog's death when attacked by disease, rather than ex- pose them to the touch or even the gaze of a physician. — Missionary Review. Sickening accounts come of deso- lating slave-raiding in the region lying to the north of Lake Nyassa. Arabs are the accursed actors, and their plan is to surround a village by night, place a warrior at each door, order the inmates out, spear the men and boys, and capture the women. Of the latter, 300 were taken in a sin- gle village.—Missionary Review. The Golden Rule tells of a society of Christian Endeavor among the police of New York City. Its mem- bership at present is about twenty- five, fifteen of the number being ac- tive members. One of the ablest native preachers in the Foochow Conference, though offered $50 a month to enter the con- sular service, refused, preferring to continue preaching with but 83 a month.—Missionary Review. A proposition is being agitated to celebrate the nineteen hundredth year of the birth of Christ by an in- ternational congress at Jerusalem. The pope is to be asked for his co- operation in enlisting influential mem- bers of his church. Russia seems determined to quench the light of the gospel. The new law for the suppression of Stundists pro- vides that their children be baptized in the Greek Church, and be placed under orthodox clerical guardians. The graves of Stundists are to be kept apart from the orthodox, and the passports of these Christians are to be so marked as to show the sect to which they belong. The third Decennial Conference in India, which closed the old year and opened the new, opened in Bombay December 29th, last. Between six and seven hundred missionaries, rep- resenting more than thirty societies, were present They were from the borders of Thibet, the wilds of Brit- ish Bhutan, from the jungles of San- thalia, Berars, Sauthern, Central, and Northern Incia. — Missionary Re- view. Speaking of education in India, Rev. James Johnston says in the Mis- sionary Review, that among the 135,- 500,000 men of that country, only one in nine can read and write, and of the 128,500,000 women, barely 173. The census gives 360,000 natives who can read and write in English. For the training of the young, the public and private institutions number 138,054, and the pupils, 3,682,707. As a result of the Russian perse- cutions of the Jews, it is reported that 30,000 of them have joined the Greek Church, and are kept apart from their former co-religionists, lest they apostatize. The Missionary Re- view speaks of a Moscow merchant who has become godfather to 400 such converts. He proposed to remember in his will every one who should cer- tify to having received the sacrament once a year, and only two have thus far reported themselves. J J- THE COMMERCIAL AND STENOGRAPHK INSTITUTE OF ANN ARBOR, - - MICHIGAN, Is as thoroughly equipped as any school in tl West for giving- complete courses in all Commerci Branches, Shorthand and Typewriting. Attend this school and you will get all you ps for. There is no better place in the country to attef school than at this great educational center. Tuition rates reasonable. Living expenses kn Write for large circulars containing full particular COMMERCIAL AND STENOGRAPHIC INSTITUT ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN. Tired Mothers. A little fellow leans upon your knee, Your tired knee that has so much to bear; \ child's dear eyes are looking lovingly From underneath a thatch of tangled hair. ['erhaps you do not heed (he velvet toucli Of warm, moist fingers holding yours so tight; V'ou do not prize this blessing over much; You are always too tired to pray tonight. Jut it is blessedness. A year ago I did not see it as I do today. kVe are so dull and thankless, and too slow To catch the sunshine till it slips away. Vnd now it seems surpassing strange to me That while I wore the badge of mother- hood, did not kiss more oft and tenderly i The little child that brought me only I good. ;\.nd if. some night when you sit down to rest, . You miss this elbow from your tired knee, f his restless, curling head from off your breast, This lisping tongue that chatters con- 6 stantly; "f from your own the dimpled hands have slipped, And ne"er will nestle in your palm again; Z the white feet into the grave have _ tripped, ; I could not blame you for your heart- ache then. Svonder that mothers ever fret _ At their children clinging at their gown, r that the footprints, when the days are wet. Are ever black enough to make them frown. I could find a little muddy boot, 'Or cap or jacket on my chamber floor; d I could kiss a rosy, restless foot, And hear it patter in my house once _ more; ^ I could mend a broken cart today, To-morrow make a kite—to reach the "*. aky- lere is no woman in God's world could ] say me weeds produce a surprising rinbev of seeds. A single plant of \.rslane has been known to produce ^ 800, the thistle 95,366, and the jl jtain 42,200 seeds in a single sea- • One of the lost arts has been re- . .rered in the nature of a cosmetic flich was used by the Egyptian — ncesses and ladies of rank nearly 00 years ago. It brightens the , >8, imparting to the iris a golden sen. The stuff was found on the Doe of a princess mummy and ana- •• ed. Pine oil and pine cones are now be- ing imported from Norway to be sold as disinfectants against a possible cholera scare this summer. The cone is placed in the mouth of a sort of lamp, and the latter contains the oil. A wick communicates with the cone, and this is sufficiently porous to per- mit the odor of the oil to escape. Pine oil is much used in Italy as a disinfectant in cases of Roman fever. Its penetrating odor is unpleasant to most persons, though some learn to like it. During the last few years Prof. Barnard of the Lick Observatory has been engaged in photographing in de- tail the Milky Way. When the plates are finished, which will not be for three years, it is expected that the facts revealed by them will revolu- tionize the old conceptions of this re- markable phenomenon. The text books declare that the Milky Way probably contains 20,000,000 suns; but Prof. Barnard estimates that the camera will record the presence of at least 500,000,000, with the certainty that there must be a still larger num- ber which are not visible. Christ's Friendships. Christ had tender human friend- ships. He loved that little home at Bethany. Christ was not opposed to common sense. He was the soul of it; he did not make wild and fruitless charges upon society; he did not throw himself at the face of the hier- archy , he fell in with existing insti- tutions. He was no stoic; he loved the joys and felt the ills of life . He was no suicide ; he did not exhaust his' strength fruitlessly, nor give him- self up to martydom till he knew his time had come . He was a whole man, walking in all the breadth of human life, and the glory of his life was this: that wdierever he went, whether at the synagogue, or at a wedding, or dinner, or fishing party, or a storm at sea, or at the custom-house steps, he there upheld, with a glorious decision and dignity and grace, God's own humanity — the genuine, heavenly thing, as it is where it is rooted in God, pure as a lily, and strong as a cedar of Lebanon . And wherever across the pathway of this divine manhood there stood up to oppose its influence any worldly sham, and dev- il's lie, any beguiling temptation, any form of false humanity, he accepted the gage of battle at once, with all its consequences. He showed his colors and pointed both by words and deeds to the God who was overhead. For the love of God and humanity he bore his cross and that is what we are to do. O, it is not the world that we are to have! Christ did not hate the world. God does not. How could he when he gave his Son for it? No! it is the world, in false relations, stand- ing in its own light. It is not earthly pleasure, but earthly pleasure di- vorced from heavenly good ; it is the creature usurping the place of the Creator, turned into a shadow instead of a divine token.— Rev. J. H. Deni- son, D. D. The intelligence which comes to us from Turkey indicates that the intol- erable oppression of Christians by the Turkish authorities continues to grow more severe. Our readers recall the imprisonment of G. N. Shishmanian, as well as others who are of our own brethren. This seems to be only a part of a general purpose to perse- cute the Armenian race and at the same time to assail the mission schools which have been established among them. Last spring there were riots, mission buiidings were burned, Armenians were assaulted and driven from their homes. The Turks have been compelled by our government to indemnify the missionaries for the buildings burned, but there seems to be no relief for the poor Armenians who are only citizens of Turkey. At Marsovan and Csesarea in Asia Minor, on the most trivial charges, and on fictitious testimony, seventeen persons have been condemned to death, six to fifteen years' imprisonment, eighteen totermsof imprisonmentvarying from seven to ten years, and fifteen acquit- ted. Among those condemed to death are the two professors, Thoumayan and Kayayian, of Anatolia College; and one of the six condemned to the longest term of imprisonment is the pastor of the Protestant Church at Gemerek, not far from Csesarea. This is serious business. Those who know the men declare their faith in them, and deny absolutely that they have been in any way guilty. The papers on which the prosecution relied are affirmed by the prisoners to be abso- lute forgeries, and those acquainted with Turkish courts of justice know perfectly well what a farc° they are in any case where Moslem is pitted against Christian. There seems to be no way of relief, unless the Turkish government is intimidated by the vig- orous protests of the foreign powers. Some one, whose identity isa.secret, has made Rev. Fr. H. A. Adams, of the Church of the Redeemer in V New York, the recipient of a life incohie of $4,000 a year. - Forgiveness. Austria and Turkey were fighting, and the chances of war for a time fa- vored the Turks. An Austrian gen- eral of high rank fell into the hands of the Turkish leader. He was closely confined, treated with gross indignity, and even subjected to torture. One dark night the Turkish stronghold was surprised by the Austrians, and in a few hours the Turkish leader found himself in the same dungeon in which he had so cruelly confined the Austrian general. In the morning the heavy tramp of the guard was heard by the Turk. His thought was, "I am to be led out to execution." He hastily drank a few drops of poison which he had concealed upon his person. The door swung open, and his jailer told the bewildered prisoner that he was free. "Too late! too late! " exclaimed the Turkish leader. I die, but I die a Christian, not a Mussulman. I never knew what forgiveness meant before." It is every Christian's duty to show the world that Christ's teachings rule our lives, and that we are ready to forgive even as we have been forgiven. To Be Remembered in the House. It is better to be silent than to say unwise or unkind things. Do not boast of birth, wealth, in- fluential frieuds or bodily prowess. Remember that a servant is a man or woman, and will appreciate treat- ment as such. A compliment, to be appreciated by any sensible person, must be prompted by sincerity. Never urge another to do anything against his desire, unless there is danger before him. Never enter an appartment occu- pied by another person, except the common rooms of a dwelling, without knocking. Do not constantly refer to expe- riences or honorable positions which may have been enjoyed. Always give preference to elders, visitors, those of superior position, and those who are weak or ill. Do not forget a kind word to each member of the family on parting at night, or a pleasaut greeting on meet- ing in the morning. Donot deprecate the gift which you give nor laud immoderately that which is received. In each case it is the sentiment which prompts the of- fering that is vastly more precious than what iB offered. A Comprehensive, Tiny Volume. A complete translation of Dante's "Divine Comedy" was exhibited at the Paris exhibition of 1882, the vol- ume being so tiny that it measured less than half an inch square. It comprised 14,328 verses and was con- tained in 500 pages. Signing with the Cross. Signing with the cross was first practiced by Christians to distinguish themselves from the pagans. In an- cient times kings and nobles used the sign of the cross, whether they could write or not, as a symbol that the per- son making it pledged himself by his Christian faith to the truth of the matter to which he affixed it.—De- troit Free Press. Christ is risen! Faith is our foun- dation, hope is our anchor, death our harbor, Christ our pilot, and heaven our home—and we are safe.—Bishop Taylor. "It is my deep conviction, and I say it again and again, that if the Church of Christ were what she ought to be, twenty years would not pass till the story of the cross should be uttered in the ears of every living man."—Dying words of Simon H. Calhoun. Mission work in North Africa is rapidly increasing. Eleven years ago there were no Protestant missions there. The North Africa mission now has seventy-six missionaries, mostly women, scattered from the Atlantic to the borders of Asia. In Algeria, however, the French Government has shown decided opposition to the Evangelical work, by serving a notice on the missionaries to leave that country. The effort seems to be di- rected against both Swedish and English missionaries. While the completion of the Congo railway is looked forward to with the deepest interest by the missionaries of that region, as an aid to transpor- tation of men and supplies, they feel the greatest apprehension as to the result upon the liquor traffic. On the line as far as built, the ravages of fire water are described as already fear- ful. "It does sometimes seem so hopeless to work amoug a people like this!" exclaims a writer in Regions Beyond; and he adds that the na- tives about him are completely de- based and besotted by drink. It is ouly because "all things are possible with God" that he has courage. The close relation existing betwei cleanliness and Godliness appea afresh up in Alaska, where in t| schools "pencils, papers, pictun hardbread, combs and soap have bei given as prizes for punctuality ai diligence."—Missionary Review. "We are a hundred years behii the opportunity that God has ma for us in India. If we should douk our missionary force in India to-mc row, we would not be able to gath the ripe fruit that is waiting for there."—Dr. G. F. Pentecost. The wife of Rev. J. G. Paton, t missionary to the New Hebrides, on wrote home that the wonderful trari figuration of a New Hebridean sa age, even in the expression of 1: face, after he has become a Chnstii is worth laboring a lifetime to w ness—Selected. A Buddist priest in Japan, coi paring his faith with Christian^ emphasizes the peculiar strength the latter in the words: "The pe sonality of Christ is the magnei power of Christianity." It would well for every Christian preacher keep this ever in mind.—Oospel All Lands. "I will place no value on anythii I have or may possess, except in i lation to the Kingdom of Christ, anything I have will advance the i terests of that Kingdom, it shall given or kept, as by keeping or gi ing it I shall most promote the glo: of Him to whom I owe all my hopt both for time and eternity. M grace be given me to adhere to this —Early resolve of David Livin stone. It was the saying of Voltaire th Christianity would not survive t nineteenth century. But what h the nineteenth ce*.tury not done f Christianity? It has sent the Gosj: anew into all the world. It has gat ered in the islands of the South ai shaken the mighty Pagan faiths India, China and Japan! It h stirred up its missionaries from t far West to preach the old faith Egypt and in Palestine, and whe the disciples first received the Chr tian name! It has devoted its noble children to face death for Christ the depths of Africa, which Voltai never heard of, and has even e. ployed the press in Ferney that h printed his own works—and it m be this very prophesy—against t the gospel, to publish in new tongi the oracles of God.—Dr. Cairns, i G&CTRAli PLANING MILL Manufacturer ami dealer In Sash, Doors, Blinds and Mouldings. DETROIT STREET. ANN ARBOR, MICH. S. R. DLlHRK, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, OFFICE, HANGSTERFER BLOCK. Telephone 134. Hours,!! to 11 a. m.,2 to 7 and 7to8 p.m. Subscribe for THg HDD HRI30R RSGISVSR ^he Pesole's Baoer, Only $1.00 per year. 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