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VOLUME IS.

words can these be" he exclaimed. 81
think / have heard them before, where
could it be?" After pause-"Oh, it was
at St. Paul's in London; the minister read
them from the bible What and do the
scriptures say, Pray without ceasing p
oh, what a wretch | must be to have lived
so long without praying at ALL" God, who
at first caused him to hear this passage,
now caused it to spring up in way, at a
time, and with power peculiarly his own.
The poor fellow now found the lightning
of conviction flash on his conscience-the
thunders of his law shake his heart-and
the great deep of destruction threaten to
swallow him up. Now he began for the
first time to pray; but praying was notall.
"Oh," said he, eff l had bible or some
good book" He rummaged his chest
when in corner he espied bible which
his anxious mother had, twenty years be-
fore, placed in his chest, but which till
now, he had never opened. He snatched
it up, put it to his breast, Their read, wept
prayed; he believed, and became a new
man.
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inner and spiritual life; becoming to the
clay enveloped forms of friends standing
round their failing bodies, they see already
as through mist, the brother beings who
are to be everlasting companions-some of
whom may be already welcoming their
coming Their hearing waxing dim, and
unconscious to the melody of beloved vol
ces whispering in their natural ears, they
can become aware of y sweeter music, sung
by more exquisite voices still, of the below
ed who have gone before them; in fine dy-
ing unto earth, they are becoming alive
unto heaven. Does this not fully and
worthily explain thesolemn scenes thou
sands of death beds ?-visions of spiritual
visitants ministering to the dying; resplen-
dent light surrounding glorious beings
who cast no shadow; gorgeous scenery
bright with never fading beauty voices
thrilling in tenderness; music mysterious
in harmony; the recognition Of dear tamil
lar faces, fondly loved in the by cones; Oh
the foreknowledge which some have re
ceived of the exact moment of their de
parture! There are few families who have
not some tale of this kind to tell, some ties
timony to add to this proof of the contig
uity of the spiritual world.
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The Vision OF the Dying.

There is in human history an unwritten
chapter, which is yet thronged in mysteri-
Gus incidents half fearfully remembered by
their witnesses. All who have stood be-
side the bed of the dying, must have been
thrilled with singular testimonies that the
dying are conscious of the presence of 9TH
er than mortal visitants.
Is it not grand and consolatory convic-
ton, that when christians are passing away
from their earth work to their eternal
homes, then the alternating links that
chain consciousness to time and day are
melting away. one by one, and their con
seriousness becomes, by the gradual enfran
chisement of a lingering death, more and
more spirituall Thus sinking to sleep al
to earth, they are awaking to heaven
growing unmindful of the lower and out
ward existence, they are arousing to thu
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Horse Shoeinq,

EDS. RURAL AMERICAN Il believe the
farming community should be instructed
in that branch of business, as well as in
any other, as it constitutes a part Of their
occupation but the most of them entertain
very erroneous ideas as regards shoeing.-
They want the shoe to remain on the foot
about three months, and some farmers are
not satisfied if they do not stay on longer.
Another curious idea is. they want the heel
of the shoe to extend out beyond the foot
so far that the heel of the foot does not
rest on the shoe at all; but the right way is
to have the shoe continue round with the
foot clear to the heel, so that the foot will
bear an equal proportion of weight of the
horse at the heel. | do not think the nails
should be driven up over three-quarters of
an inch high, and in summer, think cast
iron toe corks are better than steel, as cast
iron does not weaken the shoe, while steel
cuts the shoe about one-third off. think
shoeing horses in our country is about as
important as warm stables and correct
feeding VIM. d. G.
Glenn, n. Y.
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God Seen in His Works,

While the celebrated MungO Park was
travelling in Africa, he was often taken
prisoner, and robbed, and sometimes mar
rowly escaped with his life.
On one occasion, he records, that he was
driven almost to despair by the pitiable
state to which he was reduced; alone in an
unknown wilderness, without food, clothes
or shelter, and too ignorant of the locality
even to attempt his escape. for fear of
plunging into still greater perils. He was
hundreds of miles from the nearest Euro
pean settlement, and to crown all, it was
in the very height of the rainy season, the
heavens were overcast with blackness, and
torrents of rain beat pittilessly about the
poor travellers unsheltered head.
But just as he was about to give up all
hope, and, in despair, to stretch himself on
the ground to perish, he spied, at little
distance, a beautiful moss in full bloom.
The whole plant was but three or four in
ches in height; but the work of an Almigh-
ty hand was plainly visible in the forma-
ton of its perfect roots and slender stems,
from which shot forth tiny branches, deck
ed with emerald leaves and bright crimson
blossoms, whose slender petals were glist-
ening with the pearly drops of the recent
shower. As the despairing traveller gazed
in admiring wonder, a voice seemed to
whisper, "God is here, even in this wilder
ness, and the tiniest flower, hidden away
from the eye of man, is still his care. How
much more the creatures he has formed in
his 'own image and likeness and endowed
with a spark of Immortality that shall sur.
vive the wreck Of all things material"
Thus admonished, Park reused himself
from his apathy, and resolved to cast him.
selfupon the care of the loving Father OF
all, and 60 forward with renewed courage
Unaided, save by the unseen hand he hac
invoked, and fed by the roots and berrie.
the same Fatherly hand had planted il
the wilderness, he travelled day after day
through that trackiess desert, hitherto un
trodden by civilized man, until at length
he reached place of safety.
Did that little foweret bloom in vain il
its wilderness home? or was not, rather
every tiny twig and leaf and blossom riff
with a loving lesson of Gods goodness t
the creatures he has formed? Who woul
, not trust in such Father, such Friend
who paints the lily, refreshes the droopin
) flower with the pearly dewdrop, feeds tn
young ravens when they cry, and gave h
only, well beloved Son to save us from tn
power Of evil, and take us to bloom forevt
in the cloudless skies and eternal sunshir
of Heaven.
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Skim-Milk Calves.

The general impression is that calves in
order to do well must have all the new milk
they will eat. But here is case "to the
contrary Notwithstanding The pair Of
Devon grade calves that drew the first pre-
MUM at the New England Fair are owned
by Ward Parker, of Merrimack. They
were taken off the COW at the age of four
days, were learned to drink, and were fed
the skim-milk of two cows, with shorts and
good hay, and kept in the barn all sum-
mer, and on the third day of September
they weighed ten hundred and fifteen lbs,
and their girth is four feet and six inches
Their age is six and half months.
At late meeting of the Little Falls
Farmers Club Mr.. Willard said his obser-
walton led him to believe that it was better
to have one large pasture than 20 alter
nate from one to another The feed wa:
more uniform and the results more salts
factory. 1t was thought that it would TAKE
in Herkimsr county from one acre and
half to two acres of pasturage TO keep on,
COW. In some very fine pastures, an acr,
would suffice. Mirror and Farmer.
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Richness of Sow'S Milk.

Once a Week has the following: Eve
ry body knows the value Of milk as liquid
food for the young and weak; but every
body does not know that Of all milk, that
from the SOW is the richest and most nutri-
tious. 1t contains fifty per cent more of
solid constituents, such as butter, cheesey
matter, and sugar, that does the tactical
produce Of the cow This is shown in a
recent analysis by professor Cameron, Of
Dublin. He appears to be only the second
chemist who has examined the secretion.
Curiously, the sow's is generally absent
from lists of milk analysis; the reasons,
doubtless, being the difficulty of securing
specimens. Your porcine mother strenu-
ously resists the appeals of the fairest Of
milkmaids, beauty cannot induce or dex-
terity compel her to yield drop Of hel
ofspring's legitimate food even for the
benefit of science. So, unless these scruple.
can be overcome, there is little chance o
the rich diet coming to market"
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Lice on Hoes.

In answer to a recent inquiry for a rem
edy for lice on hogs. allow me to say that
I have had an experience Of twelve years
with breeding hogs The past five years
I have used the following, which Will clean
off the lice in two days Pat about one
gill Of kerosene oil into an old dish, and
with paint brush or old wooden rag rub
the oil up and down the back Of the ami
nal and behind the fore leg and on the
flank. Be particular about the last two
places, Tor it is where the lice deposit
their eggs, which, if not destroyed, will
hatch out in about five days. If it be a
black hog, these eggs can be plainly seen,
being about the size Of a timothy seed and
lying close to the skin fast to the hair. Nc
one need fear to use the oil freely, as II
will not injure the hog in the least. Hot
water will not kill these lice, for l have
seen them crawl after the hog haC
been scalded in barrel after being butch
ered.-R. WOODRUFF, in Rural Ne5g York
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Private PRAYER.

In the morning the mind is calm; the
temptations OF the day have not beset you;
the duties of the day have not filled your
mind and begun to vex you. Before you
60 to the duties of the day, to its cares and
anxieties and temptations, begin the day
with prayer. Temptations you certainly
will meet; trials of virtue and patience
will oyertake you; and many times before
night you will need the aid of your Faith
er to shield You. Go to him and ask his
counsel to guide you, his power to uphold
you, his presence to cheer you, his Spirit
to sanctify you. Then you shall have
done what is equivalent to half the duties
of the day. when you have thus engaged
his care and assistance And when the
evening comes, when you have done the
duties of the day, the body is wearied and
the mind is jaded, when the world is shut
out by the shades of night, when you come
to look back and review heday, when you
see how many DEFICIENCIES have marked it,
how many impertections still cluster ar
ound you, how many sins stare you in the
face, how little you have done for yourself
or for others, or for God, the day past.
then Is the hour for prayer. 1t will be
sweet to feel that you have one to whom
you can 60, and who will hear you; one
who will forgive you, if you are penitent
and ask in the name of Jesus Christ; one
who will accept your evening sacrifice, and
give you strength for the morrow, and giro
you with his righteousness. This hour, il
rightly improved, will be like the cheering
countenance of most beloved friend
Take care that nothing comes between 20,
and these hours devoted to God.-Dr
| TDJJ
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The Christian Union on the Future of
Eurnnn

We shall not attempt to lift the curtain
which conceals the future, or even to pre-
mise the probable near events. Prussia has
emerged in mid-Europe like amountaln in
the sea- and disturbed the level Of the ad-
iacent waters. But we believe that her
mission is one of peace not war. We do
not believe that the German people will
care for conquest. They will build now a
great nation into that unity for which the
best spirits of her race have been longing,
and striving for hundreds Of years. If let
alone they will dwell at peace. It is not
likely that after Sadowa, Gravolette and
Sedan, they will be eagerly molested. Yes
terday France inspired Europe; and every
nation was wasting its life blood in military
expenses. Glory built on force was the
rage.
Today Prussia predominates. We may
expect to see armies melting away, mer
content at labor, states building up theil
people by education and by thrifty indus
try. The Lord has instructed the headshiI
of Europe to a people whose race & mission
it has always been to develop freedom, in.
telligence and pure spiritual religion!
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The Poisoned Robe.

Among the stories which have come
down to us from the old Greeks, is one
which tells us that Dejanira, the wife of
Hercules, once sent her husband a close
fitting robe dipped in poison, on pretence
of preserving him from evil Hercules,
knowing nothing of the power of the pois-
on, put it on, and for awhile felt no i'll eff
fects. But soon the poison began to work,
and sharp pains ran through his whole
body. And now he strove to pull off the
robe, but in vain; it chung fast to him or
fly means Of his great strength he tore
away piece of it, the skin and flesh came
with it, and at last the poison ate into his
very yitals, so that he died. He had been
strong enough for almost anything else,
but he was not strong enough to tear off
that garment. 1t was an easy matter to
put it on, but not so easy to take it off.
Now, this is not a true story, Of course );
it is fable but as many Of the old fables
had a meaning in them, it has seemed as
if this poisoned garment might have been
intended to show the power of bad habits
They are easily begun, and the boy or girl
does not at first feel the evil of them; but
after they have practiced them awhile, and
begin to feel the sting, then they family
and vainly try to get rid of them, but they
cling too fast to be got rid of.
Swearing and lying are such poisoned
garments. Either is easily and thought
lessly taken up; it grows upon the boy or
young man, until, from the single oath or
falsehood, his whole conversation becomes
one stream of evil. But let him begin to
feel the folly Of it, let him even become a
changed man, and then see how his gar
ment sticks to him, and how hard it is to
overcome it.
Intemperance is such garment. Fol-
awhile it does not seem to injure those who
indulge in it; but before long it begins tC
pierce them with thousand stings. Their
If one try to tear away the habit, with wha
fatal force it clings. And if by the grac,
of God and the power of strong will h,
rends it away, how it is like the dividing
asunder of soul and body. How terrible
the pangs of the drunkard who strives t.
overcome his evil ways. Take care. boys
that you do not put on garment lik
this.
While there are some, who, by the grac
Of God, do overcome, and rid themselve
with fierce struggle from the destroyin
venom Of evil habit, the greater numbe
either sink under it without an effort, Of
after some vain attempt to tear themselve
away from it, give up strife for whic
they are not strong enough, and in whic
they are constantly overcome, and sink an
die, destroyed by the fatal poison. Oh
never, never take up habit, any hab
which either must destroy you, or whicl
if you do finally wrench yourself ava
from it, will leave its deadly marks an
scars upon you all your remaining days 9
earth.
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The Pilgrims Faith.

The Pilgrims were great men because
they were men of faith. They believed in
God, in truth and duty, as more real and of
more concern to them than houses, & lands,
and physical comforts and by believing
and obeying these unseen and eternal real
tiles, they were enabled to achieve great
things.
1t is part of their faith, moreover, and
so of their greatness, that they did not de-
liberately plan, or consciously devise all
the great and magnificent results which
have come from their landing and history
on these shores. This fact deserves to be
pondered, for there is a deep and wise les
son contained in it. The wisdom of faith
is not human but a divine wisdom which
is above the understanding ofits possessor,
as the power of faith is above his human
will and this was the wisdom of the Pill
grims. 1t is fact Of history that our po-
| litical institutions, the republican form of
/ government, and the democratic liberty of
this nation have grown out of these prin-
ciples of religious liberty asserted by them
and embodied in their ecclesiastical polity
yet in coming to this country they had nc
political designs whatever. They did not
propose to themselves, or so much as dream
Of, laying the foundation Of a great repub-
lie. "Their end was religion, simply and
only religion. Out upon the lone ocean
feeling their way cautiously, as it were
through the unknown waves, exploring il
their busy fancies and their prayers, the
equally unknown future before them, they
as little conceived that they had in thei
ship the germ of a vast republic, that il
two centuries would command the respec
and attract the longing desires of the ma
tions, as they saw with their eyes the lone
ly wastes about them whitening with tn
, sails, and foaming under the swift ships 0
that republic, already become the frs
, commercial power of the world"
But what they did not design, God de
E signed for them and by them. The grea
lCSulIo NAlCH nave lOllON6u luGlI 6llltl
prise, were contained potentially in thei
principles and deeds, if not in their inter
ton, as the oak is contained all invisibl
and potentially in the small acorn, whic
. is itself unconscious of so grand a resu
to spring from it. Faith is kind of il
stinct or instructive wisdom which work
greater things than it purposes or knows
o at the time; like that marvellous instint
by which the bees build their comb in til
] hive according to the strictest rules of g
ometry, though not by any geometric SC
ence known to the bees themselves. III
reason and wisdom of God is present i
them as an unconscious power (unconsciou
to themselves) which they blindly ODE,
SO Gods wisdom and providence is presel
as latent power working in and throug
e those who live and act by faith and Ii
c result is as much above their individu.
# wisdom as it is foreign to their purpose
e Somewhat in this manner it was that OF
e institutions were present in the fathe
;, and founders of our history.
s. "They builded better than they knew
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Mananement of Apple Orchards.

think the apple tree has more vitality
than any other tree except the black locust
and willow. | have sixteen acres in or
chard, trees set forty feet apart, and some
kinds in few years more will lap together.
prefer setting in the fall, taking great
pains in doing SO. Next spring, cut each
tree back to where | want it to form its
head, varying from two to four feet; some
varieties grow more upright than others,
and tree of that kind let start its base
in two feet of the ground. The next year
| cut back in the spring, after the sap
starts, one-halfthe previous years growth,
cutting forward of bud that is turned out
or down. The next year, / cut the tree
back one-third, carefully keeping the wa
ter sprouts off the body, for have none
anywhere else. never cut the roots al
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" PRAY Without Ceasinq."

A sailor who had been long absent from
his native country, returned home, flushed
with money. Coming to London, where
he had never been before, he resolved to
crafty himself with the sight of whatever
was remarkable. Among other places, he
visited st. Paul's. 1t happened to be at
the time of divine service. When careless
ly passing, he heard the words, 'Pray
without ceasing," uttered by the minister,
without having any impression made on
his mind by them. Having satisfied his
curiosity in London, he returned to his ma
rine pursuits, and continued at sea for sew
en- years, without any remarkable occur
renee in his history. One fine evening
when the air was soft, the breeze gentle
the heavens serene, and the ocean calm
he was walking the deck, with his feeling
soothed by the pleasing aspect of nature
when, all on a sudden, darted on his minC
the words, 'Pray without eeasing." "Wha
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Good Reasons Against Profane Swear


Rev. Thomas Lightbody thus states
them:
l. 1t is sinful. Profane swearing is pro-
hibited by the Most High as plainly as
murder. From Sinai the words were ut
tered, ''Thou shalt not take the name of
the Lord thy God in vain" Abiding to
oaths in common conversation, the Savior
says, "Swear not at all"
II. 1t is vulgar. The practice gives pain
to all but the most abandoned. at is, -
says Washington, ga vice so mean and low
that every person of sense and character
despises it."
III. 1t is inexcusable. He whose tongue
is vibrating with oaths will generally adj
nit that his conduct in this respect is al
together indefensible.
". 1t is injurious. The profane swearel
is curse to the community, for he bring,
down upon it the judgments of heaven
Because of swearing" says the prophet
"the land mourneth."
V. 1t is Improbable. The man guilt.
thereof is as fish caught by a hook II
which there is no bait attached. He is
volunteer for Satan. He works for tn
devil and finds himself"
| VI. 1t is dangerous. "The Lord will no
hold him guiltless who taketh his name il
vain" The words of the profane sweare
may as he says be ''but wind" The wind
however, is one that blows towards hell.