The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-15

take the modest young man. Many man has
his 'alting done by hi Viie who always does
her oTn due share, aud does it well, 100. Many
dull man owes much of HIS position
m society 70 the ability of his wlIe.
| How queerly the differences of organiza-
| uons are that mate with each other See
maj htue, dumpy figure, scarce able TO reach up
70 the arm Of her husband. All, beauty is not
the iruest test Of womanhood Some OF our
noblest living women are those plain-iaced ones
so otten neglected; they do not have that fri
yolous, easily excited feeling some call love,
but their hearts well up a treasure of love too
often unappreciated. The best earthly gift God
can give 10 a man is the wealth OF a true wo.
mans love. Woe be TO that man Who can
trample upon the out-gushing love, the womanly
heart OF his wife, and daily trample down her
bner nature, until he kills her, and does a most
foul deed OF murder-postively, unuuestionably,
murder Did you ever meet persons who are
constltuuonally slow In conversation, who make
you, as IL we've count many bars of intervals be.
tween their words! Freaks OF memory furnish
oddities numerous enough 70 fill volumes. Who
mas not o'ten laughed AT friend who could not
call the name OF the person he wished to speak
OF OF TO introduce? Then there are some men
who think 1t manly to tyrannize, to domineer
over those who seem, for the moment, to be
under their CONTROL Is the man brave who
goes INTO restaurant and orders imDeriolsly
around the waiter who is endeayorlng to serve
MIN That man is not brave. We are brave
when we are able to overcome the ey tenden-
cies OF our own nature 1t is when we live in
duty TO God, without regard TO the temptations
OF life and Of poor humanity that we are truly
brave. God bless the liberal hearted men OF
wealth. VINO open wide their purse-strings to
help the poor the destitute, and the suffering,
There are men who hold a hiyh position in
society who are mean enough to steal berries
out OF basket blind girl is picking for her
sick mother. How contemplate is a CITY last
man, but far more contemplate is the country
fast man Poor, miserable, pit iul contempt
ible fools, who think they are uplifting them
selves above their fellows by their fopplsh
vulgar, boorish ways. Manliness, true ever
living example of manliness, is that shown by
the brave-hearted crew that, in the burning
frigate, cast lois as to who should escape in
the small, insufficient boats, by the officer who
alone in the world by himself forced his brother
officer having family at home, to take his
place IN the castingof boats And then two
hundred men gathered together upon those
burning decks, mantully waving adieus to the
meeting ooats, until the great explosion OF the
magazine sent them into eternity. Look at that
poor mortal who casts himself INTO the dissipa-
tons and vices of lite. See him presenting his
face, made in Gods image, to be stamped with
the lowest degradation OF life. man, wrecked
for life, with his forehead stamped with the
vllest marks that lower hun down to the level
of brute animals. He had met a lady who was
said to do nothing but eating, sleeping, knitting,
WI WIN an occasional visit to church. He knew
OF her past lite, and if she was a specimen of
q human vegetable, God send us many more of
the same. Sixteen years before she had been
lett widow with six young children, the
Youngest years old She had trained them nm
TO usefulness Two are working in the mission.
ary fields OF Africa. One OF them is living under
the sod OF Gettysburg. Her youngest-her dar.
llne-feH in the fights of the noble Army of the
Potomac. Her two daughters are teaching the
contrabands. Oh, if our dollfaced damsels and
purposeless young men could only understand
what motives govern the people who, like her,
have done the work of God IN this world There
is nothing on earth that can guide man through
lie but perfect trust in God, in our Saviour
Jesus Christ, and an earnest endeavor to work
out His will. Up, young man, to your duty that
God calls you to do in the years OF life now
before you.