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am glad you are here at last never wanted t.
see anybody here as much as you Did you bring
your Bible with you suuireYn
T. NO, SAID he, Z" came away in q great hurry
lhueed, had no thought of coming at all, bu
was seized III moment when had no expecta
uon OF oeing summoned away, and was brought
mere against my will; do not sec how wa.
wanted here" ..'. - "
| h. why you were wanted2 You were wanted
that you might see tie fruits of yout doinp5. the
end OF your labor; and that you might feel the
hres you have kindled for the souls YOU have de-
| stroycJ. You have come to your own place, and
| you VIII know what it is to be agent of the Devil
on earth, anu his slave in hell | am glad YOU
are here"
Whiie this wretched woman was raving and
cursnS, troop of spirits rushed into the internal
tavern, and whom should the astonshed publican
oehoid but the company who had been at his tav-
crn IN Kingston his day before; and among them
nc the head were the two who he had driven away
lfom ms door, after they had become so drunk
that he could bear them DO longer. In they came.
reekins with the fumes OF the still, and raging
with the madness Of the bit; ; aud as they entered,
they gave thres cheers for tic landlord, that made
the whole region OF darkness rug with horror
/, " Why, you are here before us, cried one of
them. -
Caught you too !" said another.
Ihis Is the place for yon and your business"
ouil make money here aad get pay in your
own coin," said another
And SO they went on jcering him until his
wrath was kihdied beyond measure, and he began
to storm in reply. And then they laughed
Why, you can't hurt ,s now We have as
good right here as you and if YOU wish to have
tail to yourself, We only, wish you could. But
you sent US here, and now we must have yosr
company"
The squire sunk down with shame and remorse
lie saw his own work. These were his victims.
once they Were his neghbors, honest, industrious
men, until they began to frequent his house, and
thGn they grew worse and worse, till they became
quarreisome, noisy protane, sabbath breaking
men, and now they were in hell, and he among
them where he deserved to be-
Then the spirits of all the men whom he had
murdered by selling rum, came thronging around
him, and he wished that hs was blind so that he
could rot see them, deaf that he could not
near them; but when he shut his eyes he could
see them still, and he couli hear them when his
ears were stopped. lt was terrible to the poor
wretch, and he shrieked with agony; and "a he
shrieked he awcke!
The verse he had Just read about ,lrunkards
had mold Of his imagination, and away he had
Decn borne to the regions Of dark despair And,
as ne awoke, the memory Of his dream was all
fresh and terrible. 1t was some time before he
could persuade himself that il was a dream. He
had been asleep perhaps hour, and the scenes
through which he had passed were impressed
upon his mind indeliby. They were written there
with pen of fire.!
Though 1t was "a dream, it was truth he had
seen aud heard; and he knew that this lesson was
tor his warning and counsel
The landlord took his lamp, now burning dimy,
and finding his way from the bar-room went TO
bed, but not to sleep. There was no rest for him
that night. He tossed upon his pillow, till his
IN Nuaa dad 4. l.
to know what was the matter. He told her the
te rible dream he had in the blr.room, and con-
fessed that he looked upon it as the voice OF God,
that had come TO warn him to cease from his
wicked work in which he was engaged, that of
making drunkards, and shutting them out of the
kingdom of God
" have told you hundred times" said his
wife, " that this business was a wicked one, and
that | wished you would give it up IL is An
awful thing 70 think Of that We are killing our
neighbors and sending them down TO hell Let
US shut up the tavern, aud DO something else for
a living. For my pars, / would rather starve than
than live by mlking drunAards"
And have thought that il must be bad
business that does no good and certainly leads
many to poverty, and, ii there is any truth in n
dream, that leads them to hell. ] ave half n
mnd to take Gown the sign, and never s,ll another
drop Of liquor"
And ! have thought that II mus be 4 bad
business that does no good, and cert ,inly leads
them 10 he'll. | have half a mind to AXE down
the sign, aud never sell another drop OF liquor"
DO, Mr.. Ball, DO give It up. Here's the farm;
we can get living from that; and III work my
fingers oil, il you will only quit the bar"
And, after some further deib ration of this sort,
II was mutually agreed that there should be no
more tavcrn-keeping in the house. and this reso-
luton having been once taken, the landlord and
his wife went to sleep, and slept till very late
hour ia the morning
And, when the sun up, the squire stirred
himself about the house; he waited quietly for his
breakfast, summonng his family TO worship which
he had seldom found time 10 do before, and
stepped into the barroom to get h7 Bible. But
just as he entered, be heard loud knocking at
the door.
81 say, squire, are you sick to-day Why don't
you Opcn the door"
The landlord raised the window, aud throwing
open the window, put his mead out and said:
ave are not sick exactly, but We are sick Of
selling rum. This tavern doesn't 90 any morS"
Thi. disappointed customer was frightened
why, squire, you're crazy" he vcntured to
say.
Not so crazy as you think" said toe land.
lord; i've learned lesson at last, and have
come to the conclusion that making dunkards s
10 business for me n all.
And 80 hc did lie took down his sign hat
day, and saved his soul from any Gucthcr guilt in
the damnation Of his fcow.mcn Christian Par.
ior Magazine
a gentleman conyersiug with lady friend
short time since claimed thai ho could parodize on
the hoop question, ANY verso she might choose to
repeat. She sccording!. ,harscd the following
verse from the Old Sexton;
Nigh to grave that newly made
Leaned sexton old on his earth-worn spade
His work done, and he paused to wait
The funeral train through the open gait;
relic Of by-gone days was he,
And his locks were as white as the lOamv sea-
And these words came from his lips 50 thIn,
" gather them in! gather them in!'
Whereupon tho graceless fellow took his pencil
and thus wrote on a scrap Of newspaper lying
by
Nigh 10 a church thai newly made,
Stood lady fair a9i thus she said
Too bad too bad here must wait
While they measure lie breadth of this open
gate:
All its only NINE by SIX | see
Too narrow too narrow alas for me-
" ! cant get n-l can't get in
CURIOUS FACTS FROM IlISroRF The CheValier
D'Aubigne, who ficd to England during the French
revolution of 17qS and for a while lived there in