Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-01-08

SUNDAY READING.

The BIBIE-In the poem just published
under the name of Miriam, Whittier pays
the following tribute to the best of books:
We search the world for truth We Gull
The good, the pure, the beautiful
From craven stone and written scroll,
From old flower-felds of the SOUL
And weary seekers of the best.
We come back laden from our quest,
To find that all the sages said,
Is in the book our mothers read;
And all our treasure of old thought
In his harmonious fulness wrought,
Who gathers in one sheaf complete
The scattered blades of Gods sown wheat
The common growth that marketh good
His all-embracng Fatherhood"
THE DYING SoLDIER.-''Pu Put me down"
said a wounded Prussian at Sedan to his
comrades, who were carrying him; put
ME down do not take the trouble to carry
me any farther / am dying"
They put him down and returned to the
field. A few minutes after, an officer saw
the man weltering in his blood, and SAID
to him. ''Can 1 do anything for you"
"Nothing, thank you"
"Shall [ get YOU little water 2" said
the kind-hearted officer.
mo, thank you, 1 am dying" =,
lis there nothing / can do for you? Shall
/ write to your friends?"
II have no friends that you can write TO.
But there is one thing for which would
be much obliged. In my knapsack you
will find Testament; will you open 1t at
the 18th chapter of John, and near the end
of the chapter you will find q verse that
begin with Peace Will you read it?"
The officer did so, and read the words,
Peace leave with you, my peace i give
untoyou. Let not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid
THANK you, sir,' said the dying man.
Il have that peace: am going to that
Savior God is with me; l want no more.
These were his last words, and his spirit
assembled to be with him he loved.
A PROBLEM TO SoLvE.-A young man
who had graduated at one of the first col
leges, and was celebrated for his literary
attainments, particularly his knowledge
of mathematics, settled in a village where
q faithful minister of the Gospel was sta
toned. It wasn't long before the clergy
man met with him in one of his evening
walks, and, after some conversation, al
they were about to part, addressed him al
follows:
'I have heard you are celebrated fo
your mathematical skill | have problem
which wish you to solve"
"What is it?" eagerly inquired the younj
man.
The clergyman answered with solemn
tone of voice, "What shall it profit ma
if he should gain the whole world, and Jos
his o,On sOut$"
The youth returned home and endeal
ored to shake off the impression fastene
on him by the problem proposed to hin
but in vain. In the giddy round of plea!
ure, in his studies, tie question still fore
DIV returned to him, "What if gain til
whole world and lose my own soul ?"
resulted in his conversion, and his becon
ing an allie advocate and preacher of tn
Gospel he once rejected.
The Episcopalians are erecting beaut
full church in Salt Lake City, from funds
it is believed, furnished principally b
Christians in New York and Brooklyn
The dissentcrs from Brigham Young al
also building q fine lecture room within
square of the new church. The Methods
are trying to purchase land for the sam
purpose.