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Afterwards.

In 1924, the Rev. Mr.. Wilks, a popular
preacher in London, preached sermon from
the word afterwards" as his text. | do
not know what was the train of thought pur-
sued by the preacher, but the singular Incl
dent is adapted to suggest some useful
thoughts. 1t should lead us to consider the
consequences of our actions. 1t should lead
us to ask what will come afterwards, when a
certain course of conduct is pursued.
You may now be disposed to mental in
dolence. You may feel disinclined to per-
form the tasks assigned you by your teach
ers. You may desire to spend your time in
pursuit of amusement Consider what will
happen afterwards, if you do SO. You will
have very weak and ignorant mines. The
mind cannot be strong, unless it works.
What modification to your friends to have
you grow up weak-minded, ignorant mau !!
You may be inclined to follow your own
inclinations, without regard to the feelings
of others. You may think it great thing
to have your own way. No doubt the in
diligence of self-will is, for the moment,
pleasant, but afterwards, very unpleasant
consequences will follow. You can have no
friends if you do not regard the feelings of
others. How can any one be happy, if there
are none who love him2
You may be tempted to violate your con-
science, that is, to do wrong. Sin may be
pleasant for a season, but atterwdrdsSit
biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an
adder.
When called on to repent of your sins
and to secure the salvation of your soul,
you may feel inclined to defer the great
work to a more convenient season. You
may, for time, hush the accusings of con-.
science, and you may grieve away the Spir-
it; but afterwards there may be no place for
repentance. Some, because they are young,
think they have long day of grace before
them; but it is not SO. Many are cut of
in their sins while they are in the bloom of
youth.
The writer well remembers painful Illus
trationS of this truth which have occurred
within the reach of his own knowledge
When about twelve years old, he was con-
versing with a companion of the same age
on the subject of repentance: 81 shall re-
pent, said that young companion, 81 never
mean to sin away my day of grace" A
very few months afterwards, he met with an
accident which suddenly deprived him of his
reason, and hurried him to the grave. The
green hillock that covered his remains has
long since sunk into hollow, and the moss
has gathered on the grave-stone. His soul
still lives
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The Work in Our Day.

| certainly think it is but simple justice
to the ministry to own that they are the
workers of our day. In day when multi
tudes are clamoring for eight hours, nothing
of this sort comes from them. They are in
slant in season and out Of season, -and-turn.
their hands to greater variety of work
than perhaps any other members of society.
Yet in one respect they labor at disadvan-
tage; they are slow to avail themselves of
that division of labor which works kindly
and advantageously in almost every depart
ment of life. The time was when neces-
sity was laid upon the minister to do every
thing he must do it, or it would not be done.
What a striking example Of this was the
Rev. Dr. Henry Duncan. Soon after his
settlement at Ruthwell, finding his parish
toner's in danger of famine from their ina
bility to buy food at famine prices, he or
dered from Liverpool cargo of Indian corn,
which through trusty agent he dealt out
to his people, in quantities suited to their
wants, at cost. Comparative comfort and
plenty soon reigned among them. When
the French invasion was threatening, he
drilled his men to arms; and wrote martial
songs for them. When peaceful times re-
turned he matured for them the plan of
Savings Bank. He was fertile in expedients
for promoting their welfare.
In our day, the great want is not so much
of an extraordinary preacher, as of leader
skillful in training well instructed, and also
less instructed men, to do good, and freely
to give what they have freely received
There is much less danger that men will
miss heaven through inability to appre-
ciate subtilties in theology, than that they
will fail because of unwillinguess to work
for Christ. We want ministers skilled to
expose the fallacies behind which church
members seek to evade their obligations to
do good to allmen. We want them to show
our young men and women how they may
so plant themselves behind the truth as to
avoid all appearances of immodesty. Here
is one of the almost insuperable hindrances
of many young person; that he does not
see how he can speak of Christ and his sal
walton to one who is equal in age, perhaps
older than himself, without seeming to claim
some superiority where no such superiority
could possibly be recognized. Let such an
one learn by repeated endeavors to stand
behind the truth. Thus for example, the
youngest among us may lawfully, that is,
most modestly, and properly, cite a verse
which has interested, encouraged, or strength
ened him. If it has given him an impress
sion of Gods greatness or goodness, of his
willingness to save and sanctify-he will do
we'll freely to speak his impression, and
share it with any who may need it. Prac-
tice makes this easy. One needs to be ac-
customed to the sound of his own voice en-
ployed in the Masters service. Did you
never hear yourself speaking of and for Je-
sus? No wonder then that you shrink from
it. But, dear friend, don't delay to take
up your work; for every days delay will
tend to make that burdensome which was
to be delight Congregationazist
and Recorder.
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Tricks of Manner.

The Saturday Reuiew of late date has
an article on 'Tricks of Speech and Man
ner," which contains many suggestive
thoughts. These individual peculiarities, as
we call them generally, are, we believe,
much more common in this country than in
Europe. The complete repose of manner,
or thorough accord between the movements
of the mind and of the body, which is the
highest mark of good breeding, is really
quite rarely seen. This is perhaps owing
to the intense life which Americans, as a
general thing, lead, and the small amount
of time and attention which they devote to
rendering themselves what the Saturday
Review calls " fine ladies and gentlemen.
1t is just as well, however, to attempt to
overcome all personal peculiarities which
make one less agreeable to ones friends, and
there are few tricks of speech or of manner
which may not with care be avoided.
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To the Children of the Sabbath Schools.
LETTER FROM REV. B. HELM.
HANcHOu, May u, 1869.

HANcHoU, May u, 1869
Me- Young Friends: If any one of us
were with you now, 1 feel sure you would
wish to know, not only how this people wor-
shipped and what kind Of temples and idols
they have, but also how they live, what kind
of houses they have, how the little boys and
girls look, etc. So, if you will just think
you are on this side of the world, and viii
walk out in the city with me, | will tell you
about the things we see-nOt all of them, for
they are too many, and some of them might
make you laugh out.
AS we go out of the door, the first thing, of
course, which we see is the street. If it is.
the first Chinese street that you have seen,
you must not be too quick and say, "Why,
you live in an alley" For it is one of the
large streets, two or three miles long, and
broad. 1t has no wide brick pavements on
either side with shade trees; for, if it had,
there would be no middle. Neither has it
wide carriage,way, for there are no wagons
or carriages or street cars. Then, what is
it?" "How broad IS broad street in
China?" 1t is about twelve or fifteen feet
wide; but the narrow ones are only about FIVE
or six feet in breadth. 1t is paved with
small stones, while in the centre there is
fiat stone walk, from one to three feet wide.
Under this is the sewer for the water of the
street. On this walk, men, ponies, donkeys,
and pigs travel. On the side of the street is
the trash and dirt from the houses, waiting
till some one shall see fit to carry it away.
In China, you find great deal more dirt
than on the nice sidewalks in America, and
yet less than perhaps some persons think.
But Hanchou streets are clean when COM
pared with Shanghai and some other places,
We next see two kinds of houses, the large
and the small, as in America; but how diff
ferentl On this side is straight white
washed wall, from fifteen to thirty feet high,
rising perhaps from the corners by two or
three steps to the highest part This wall
hides all the roof. But the roofs are all
alike, and we shall see another In this
wall are no windOws-only one door. 1t is
some 100 or 200 feet long, which tells us it
is the house of some rich man. But let us
look in moment. As you enter, there is
small room around the door made of plank.
1t has no use that we can see, except to
have another door, which, ike the front one,
is shut and barred at night. Beyond this is
the court-an open place without roof, but
having fine stone pavement. Here are large
water jars, called "kang8," which hold about
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Oatmeal as Food.

An exchange says: If mothers would
have their children grow up clear-eyed and
comely, with frames of bone and not of
cartilage, with transparent compilations in
stead of muddy ones, with full and we'll
rounded limbs instead of scrawny ones, then
do not always set before them bread of fine
flour and highly-seasoned meats, but give
them four or five times week breakfast
of oatmeal mush. Do you say that they
don't like it? Perhaps you don't know how
to prepare it properly. The Scotch method
of preparing oatmeal or rather one of the
methods) is to make thin mush, little
thicker than Cruel, and the boiling should
continue three or five minutes mot more)
after the thickeningis finished. This, eaten
with sugar or milk alone, or with syrup, is
highly palatable, and is generally liked by
children whose tastes are not vitiated.
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Oregon Lumber.

The lumber resources of the State of Ore
gon are abundant. Dense forests of the
finest fir, spruce and cedar grow upon the
coast range and along the banks of the Co.
lumba river and its tributaries as far up as
the Dalles. There is an inexhaustible sup
ply of the finest and best quality of timber
at the mouth of the Columbia river, and
back of the town of Astoria is the most mag
nifcent forest of spruce and yellow fir than
is to be found anywhere on the Pacific coast.
Nature has done everything to make the
forest of timber along the Columbia, source
of great profit to the lumberman; the finest
of timber being handy to shipping, and as
there is fine water power on all the small
streams emptying into the Columbia, lumber
can be manufactured very cheap. The bot
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Damp Cellars.

The Builder quotes from the remarks of
a Mr.. Stetson, before the American Insti.
tute, the following on damp cellars: cit does
not always happen, however, that a house
with a moist foundation is an unhealthy
house. know house in New England
which is built over spring of clear water,
and the health of the inhabitants of that
house has always been remarkably good. If
[ wished to render that house malarious,
will tell you how would do it: would dam
up that spring so as to have stagnant water
in the cellar; [ would plant trees all around,
so as to prevent the light of the sun from
ever reaching the house, and would build
high and tight fences all round, so as to cut
off all circulation of air. Then 1 think l
should have succeeded in making the house
unhealthy.
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Onions.

An agricultural writer says: "I cannot
say, if | were counsel of the realms of cpl
cures, l should permit the passport of these
inhabitants of the garden into good society
at all; although the proper dressing gives
them, as it does human adventurous, consid-
cradle assistance in taking desirable posi-
tons. But being of the most republican
faith, 4. e., that the good of the masses
should ever be the paramount consideration
with the good citizen, l place onions at the
very top of the list of large families edible.
These bulbs are not only popular, healthy,
nutritive, but absolutely medicinal I have
known inveterate dyspepsia cured by the
use of raw onions as daily tonic, and on
philosophical principles. They have the
same exciting influence on the coats of the
stomach that they have on the eyes, calling
out gastric juice as freely as they do tears
from the visual organs. For poultices they
are invaluable"
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Samuel Rutherford.

Rutherford was a model minister. He
was "always preaching, always praying, al
ways visiting the sick, and always studying
the word of God" No saying of his more
famous than this to his people, "My witness
is above, that your heaven would be two
heavens to me, and the salvation of you all
as two salvations unto me-.
His last hours were glorious. On his
dying bed he cried out, go for arms to EN-.
brace Him? O for well-tuned harpw AS
the enrapturing vision of heaven broke upon
his failing eyes he exclaimed, GLORY, glory
d'Oelleth IN LmmanueFs land" With this
shout of triumph on his lips he passed
through the gate into the city.
These dying words of Rutherford have
been wrought into sweet poem, a part Of
which was repeated by the late DR.. James
Hamilton, of London, in his last moments
The sands of time are sinking,
The dawn of heaven breaks;
The summer-morn I've sighed for,
The fair sweet morn awakes;
Dark, dark hath been the midnight,
But dsy-spring is at hand,
And glory, glory dwelleth
In ImmanuePs land!
Christ, he is the fountain,
The deep, sweet we'll of love
The streams on earth I've tasted, ----
More deep I'll drink above;
There is an ocean fulness
His mercy doth expand,
And glory, glory dwelleth
In Immanuers landl
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"Lean Hard. -

Child of my love, lean hard,
And let me feel the pressure of thy care;
l know thy burden, child; shaped it,
Poised it in mine own hand, made no proportion
In its weight to thy lmGided strength;
For even as laid it on said,
81 shall be near, and while she leans on me
This burden shall be mine, not hers:
SO shall keep my child within the circhng arms
OF mine own loyer' Here lay it down, nor fear
To impose it on shoulder which uphOlds
The government of worlds. Yet closer come;
Thou art not near enough; viii embrace thy care
So might feel my child reposing on my heart.
Thou lowest mel know it. Doubt not, then;
But, loving me, lean hard!
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twenty-six, and watermelons of eighty pounds.
and has grapevine fifteen inches thick and
bearing sixty-five hundred pounds in one
season. Her men are the most enterprising
and audacious; her women the most self
reliant and the most richly dressed, and her
children the stoutest, sturdest and sauciest
in all the world"
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Central 4resbptulan,
A GEM.
fla pilgrim has been Swallowed
D. t.n.. H. 1 hn,-, rnrcnd

IT. pilgrim has been Swallowed
BY tree that have nursed;
Ifa cup of clear cold water
have raised to lips athirst;
If I've planted one sweet flower
By an else too barren wayi
IF I've whispered in the midnight
One sweet word to tell of day;
If in one poor bleeding bosom
Ia wOe-swept chord have stlled;
If dark and restless spirit
with hope of heaven have filed;
five made for hfe's hard battle
One faint heart grow brave and strong
Then, my God, thank thee, bless thee,
For the precious gift of song.
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tom land along the river are also covered
with thsk growth of vine, maple, alder, &C.
dar, ash nd cotton-wood.-Aha California.
DISON'i ANTIDOTE.

DISON'i ANTIDOTE.
beg to oil particular attention to the fact that
Riso,s Sovereign Tobacco Antidote,
is prepared My by
JOHN w. RISON, Apothecary,
No. 228 Corner Main and Sd Sts., Richmond.
Price so cots.
A trial is al that is asked, and if it does not de-
stroy the desre for tobacco the mOneg 'oa~ De re-
funded. Asevidence of the merit OF my prepara
ton, please otice the certificates OF persons wei
known who lave used it.
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GENERAL INSURANCE AGENTS.

Office 1914 Main street,
first door east of the Post Office, under Messrs
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property Of all kinds in the city country, insured
against loss or damages by fire at the lowest rates
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From SUPERINTENDENT ORPHANS HOME,
TUsKEGRE, Ala, Jan. Dist, 1852
JOHN W. RISON, ESQ.,, Richmond, Va.
Dear Sir: l have used one box of your Tobacco
Antidote," and for the sake of experiment, made
the attempt to chew piece of Tobacco, and found
it rather loathsome than pleasant.
Very respectfully, A. R. HOLDERBY.
de 16-tf
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THAT thou may st injure no man, dorelike be,
And serpent-like, that none may injure thee.
CoWPER.
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TESTIMONIALS.
FROM PassT PIEDMONT LIFE INSURANCE Co.,
Richmond, January 9Th, 1863.
JOHN W. RISON, ESQ.
Dear Sir, Knowing many who are slaves 10 the
use of Tobacco would like to quit it, would recon-
mend your "Antidote' as a sure remedy. | certify
to its efficacy, because, after having used tobacco
for fifteen years, was enabled to quit it without
Inconvenience after using your "Antidote," and
have now no lesire or taste for tobacco.
w. G. CARRINGT0N.
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MAYEsvILLE, S. c.. Dec. 2sth, 1868.
| certify that have been using Rison's Tobacco
Antidote for two weeks, and find that the prepare
ton will certainly overcome the desire for chewing
Tobacco. therefore cheerfuly recommend all who
earnesHy desire to abandon this filthy and health
DESTROYING practice, to use the 'Antidote,' and
they will find it comparatively easy matter to over
come the habit. ]. A. MAYES, M. d.
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A GREAT REDUCTION IN THE PRICE OF
~ GOOD TEA

Twenty per cent. Saved by Buying Tea at J. q. AN.
thongs Tea Store, corner of 9th and Main SITS.
Good Oolong at only 81 per pound; best, $1.5O;
Japanese, S1.25; BEST $1.50; English Breakfast,
$1.25; best, $l.5O; best Gunpowder, S2.25; second
quality, 50. Superior Roasted Coffee-the best in
the city. Bakers Chocolate and Cocoa at so cents
per pound. sept 16-1y
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SPEECH OF gACHARIAH SPICER

Or the question, (which enjoys the
greatest amount of happiness, the bach
elor or the married man ."
Mr.. President and Gentlemen, rise
to advocate the cause of the married
man, And why should | not? /
claim to know something about the in
stitution-I do! VIII any Gentleman
pretend to say do not? Let him ac-
company me home. Let him confront
my wife and seventeen small children,
and decide.
High as the Rocky Mountains tow
er above the Mississippi Valley, does
the married man tower above the bach
elor. " hat was Adam before he be-
came acquainted with Eve? What
but poor, shiftless, helpless creature?
No more to be impaired with his af-
ter self than a milIdam to the roaring
cataractsof Niagara. tApplause.l
Gentlemen, there was time, blush
to say. when was a bachelor; and a
more miserable creature you could hard
ly expect to find. Every day / toiled
hard, and at night came home to my
comfortless garret-no carpet, no fire,
no nothing. Everything was in a
clutter and In the words of the poet
Confusion was monarch of all he surveyed y
Here lay pair of dirty pants, there
lay pair of dirty boots, there lay a
dirty play-bill, and there pile of dir.
ty clothes. What wonder i took ref
uge at the gaming table and the bar
room. i found it would never do, gen.
tlemen, and i'm lucky moment vowed
to reform. Scarcely had the promise
left my lips, when knock was heard
at my door, and in came Susan Simp-
kins after my dirty clothes.
"Mr. Spicer," says she, 81 have
washed for six months, and haven't
seen the first red cent in the way of
payment. Now would like to know
what you are going to do about it,"
felt in my pocket book! There
was nothing in it, and Iknew it well
enough.
'tMiss Simpkins," said /, Its no
use denying it, l haven't got the
stamps. / wish for your sake that I
had"