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HWHY WILL YE DIE 20

The manner in which multitudes of the
human family spend their lives, gives no
grounds for any hope that it will be we'll with
them, either in this world or in the next.
Some live as if there was no hereafter others,
as if God had no claims upon them, and, not
few, live as if their whole work was to in
suit the God that made them, and by whose
kind and indulgent providence they are daily
fed. To such God propounds the question :
"Why will ye die?" Ample provisions have
been made to save sinners of every kind and
character God has, at infinite expense, pro-
yided for the ransom of the sinner from the
condemnation that is in the law, and also for
the purifying of the sinner from the moral
filth and pollution of sin. Why will any
sinner in the midst Of such plenty, perish ?
Jesus Christ, the Son of God, died and made
an atonement, the Holy Spirit is able and
willing to sanctify the most sin-polluted wretch
of Adams race. If any are lost who is to
blame? The sinner himself Of this he is
conscious. In the Bible, and in the provi-
dence of God, he is exhorted to turn from his
sins. The only reason that can be assigned
why any are lost, is they will not come to
Jesus and be saved. They choose darkness
rather than light; they love sin more than
righteousness moral filth more than holiness
hence, they die because they will not be made
alive in Christ Jesus.
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Bag A woman should never, at any time
at home, among strangers or anywhere
else-sufer any familiarity from any one
There is class of men who travel extensive
ly, are business men, but are entirely unprin'
cipled and unfit for respectable female society
they let no opportunity pass to attempt ia
miliar acquaintance with females who are
obliged to travel without male escorts; you
can tell one of them in a moment by the stare
and impudent look he casts upon every wo'
man in omnibus, car, cabin or parlor. A wo'
man who will not suffer the least familiarity
from one of these well-dressed fellows, is very
soon left free from their annoyance. To be
openly and pointedly repulsed, very much
hurts their pride and vanity-the great stock
in trade of these men.
To be too familiar even with your own sex,
you will often see in them some fault or blem'
ish chat will cause you to think less of them
had not familiarity existed, you would never
have known. Too much familiarity in the
exchange of confidence, the communicating Of
secrets to one another, often leads to quarrels
and domestic difficulties. Never suffer your
self to be familiar, even with your best friends
to certain extent it banishes your own self:
respect.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-07

CLIMATIC RELATIONS OF DIEr-Meat and
fats, writer in Popular Science Monthly says,
repair the losses of the system much more
speedily than vegetable substances. The lat.
ter are suitable for the inhabitants of warm
countries who do not require to produce heat,
which the atmosphere supplies them with
abundantly. The inhabitants of cold regions,
on the contrary, whose accession of heat ought
to be as continual as energetic, are urged by
instinct to use meats and fats, which throw out
great heat in their combustion. For instance,
it is physiological necessity that the Lapps
should feed on the oil of cetacea, as it is he.
cessity for men of the tropics to consume only
very light food. The activity of respiratory
combustion and the kind of alimentation thus
vary with climate, so that there is always a
certain proportion maintained between the
thermic state of the surrounding medium and
that of the animal furnace. In like manner,
in the same climate, persons who perform
great mechanical labor must eat more than
those who put forth but little movement.
This fact, long ago observed, has received of
late the clearest and surest demonstration
Yet, perhaps. it is not kept sufficiently in view
in the management of public alimentation
Many examples prove the benefit that indus
try would derive from increasing, in all posi-
BILE ways the amountof meat used in laborer's
meals.
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Ghildreu's Department.
KNOWLEDGE OF NATTER.

The question might be asked, how do we
know there is anything in this world but our
selves? Whether this question is of much
practical Importance or not, it is very inter-
esting, and the investigation will do us no
harm. The only way we can certainly know
that there is anything in this world but our
lone selves, is by means of the senses, sight
and touch. If we were brought into this
world without the capability of seeing or feel
ing anything, but had the full use of the other
three senses, it is difficult to understand how
we could know that there was anything else
in existence but ourselves. We could see
nothing, hence we could have no knowledge
of color, of shape, form or size. We could
feel nothing, hence we could know nothing of
what is meant by the words hard and soft,
rough and smooth. We might hear sounds,
but could not tell where they came from; we
would be able to taste, but could not know
that the sensation was excited by anything out
outside of ourselves we could smell, but could
not tell whence the odor proceeded.
1t is true that after we gain knowledge Of
the external world by means Of the senses,
sight and touch, that we learn much about it
by means of the other senses. Sight and
touch must 60 before, and the other senses
follow after. 1t is scarcely possible to con-
ceive how miserable would be the condition of
a human being deprived of both these senses.
Perhaps such case has never occurred in the
history of the world. Persons are sometimes
born blind or deaf, and some it may be, des-
titute of the sense of taste but we never
heard of any one who could neither see nor
feel. Such creature would be little if any
better off than a tree or a sprig Of grass.
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SyMpAr11Y.-Sympathy isa delightful thing
to receive when one is sick or in trouble.
Some people require more sympathy than they
can expect to receive. For every little ache
or pain they require sympathy; if they are
too hot, they must be sympathized with; they
tell all their griefs and disappointments, and
ifthey do not seem as serious to their hearers
as they do to them, they complain they can
get no sympathy. A lady said to her hus-
band, the other day, "Oh, my dear, have
such fearful pain in my head" 81 know it,
my love-" answered her husband, "a "brute," ="
of course) "and you have apain in your back
and in your side, and you think you are going
to besick." "You have no sympathy for me, :"
Indignantly replied the wife. "My dear,
said her husband, 81 had an immense fund OF
sympathy, but you have overdrawn your &C:
count; 1 have used up all the sympathy |
could raise, on your terrible aches and pains,
and now 1 have none left" Before breakfast
was over, the headache had quite gone, and,
perhaps, the lady reflected that there was a
little in her husbands remarks. If you ask
people for sympathy too often, and on occa,
sions which are not serious, the supply OF the
real article is sure to run out and they give
you bogus substitute which is unsatisfying:
They say, "I'm sure I'm sorry" "Dear me-
and that sort of thing, and think, "Confound
the woman, she is always complaining" On
the other hand, those who rarely complain.
can, in most cases, find some one who will
give them real sympathy in their troubles
and, what is better, put them in way to re-
move them. Children are spoiled by being
sympathized with; they become querulous and
peevish 1t is better if child comes to you
to show scratch on its finger, to say, "That's
nothing it will soon be well" than to mourn
over "mammas baby" and kiss the finger
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"CONyENIENT SEASONS.v

Many of our race contemplate at some time
in the future, making their peace with God.
With regard to this thing they are in earnest.
The young and gay determine so soon as
they have drained the cup of pleasure, that
they will turn to God and live lives Of faith
upon the Son of God. Every one has some
particular period in the future at which the
change is to commence. This is, by univer-
sal consent, denominated the convenient sea-
son. Then it is supposed there will be no OBJ
stacles in the way. AT present, according to
their own decisions, "they cannot come"
To most who are thus proposing, this con-
venient season will never come. In all prob
ability every period in the future will be more
unfit for making preparation for eternity than
the present. Our hearts grow harder every
day, and our minds become duller and more
stupid every moment. Not few of the hu-
man family contemplate repenting and turn
ing to Jesus when they are prostrated upon a
dying couch. In all human probability the
great majority of such persons will be terri
bly, disappointed. A death bed is the most
inconvenient place, and the dying hour the
most inconvenient, to turn to God. All the
difficulties that attend repenting and turning
to God array themselves in deadly hostility
in that hour when the soul is about to bid an
adieu to the clay tabernacle.
The only season that can be called with any
propriety convenient season to make our
peace with God, is the present. Tomorrow
our bodies may be racked with pain and our
reason dethroned. Tomorrow we may, in
fear and terror fly to God but God may only
laugh at our fears and mock when our calam-
tiles come upon us. There is point, no one
knows where, when God says, "Let them
alone" To-day, Jesus says "Come unto me. ."
Tomorrow, he says, depart from me-"
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&eadiua fnr the Sabbata.
CONDUCTED. BY
REV. ROBERT LATHAM.
l0riginal.1
DEATH.

DEATH.
Sin brought death into our world, and sin
keeps it here. Had sin never entered our
world, there never would have been any death
and were all sin removed from this world, all
death would cease The reason there is no
death in heaven, is that there is no sin there.
Before God wipes away all tears from our
eyes, he washes away all sin from our souls.
All the evils of this world culminate in death.
All the miseries of the next world consist in
an endless death. The world of woe is land
of deep despair. The only sounds that the
inhabitants utter, are deep hollow groans,
bitter sighs- wailing and gnashing of teeth.
No one speaks word Of comfort to their
souls gnawed by remorsc. The pit of perdi-
ton is chamber Of death, without tear to
relieve the intense grief. Heaven is the re-
verse of this. 1t is place of life-endless
happy life.
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MARRIED L1FE.-This is good couns

MARRIED LIFE.-This is good counsel
from wife and mother:
81 try to make myself and all around me
agreeable 1t will not do to leave man to
himself till he comes to you, to take no pains
to attract him, or to appear before him with a
long face. 1t is not so difficult as you think,
dear child, to behave to husband so that he
shall remain forever in some measure hus.
band. I am an old woman, but you can still
do what you like; word from you in the
right time will not fail ofits effect; what need
have you to play the suffering victim The
tear of loving girl, says an old book, is like
a dew drop on a rose; but that on the cheek
of wife is drop of poison to her husband.
Try to appear cheerful and contented, and
your husband will be so; and when you have
made him happy you will become so, not in
appearance, but in reality. The skill required
is not so great. Nothing hatters man so
much as the happiness Of his wife he is al
ways proud of himself as the source of it.
AS soon as you are cheerful you will be lively
and alert, and every moment will afford you
an opportunity to let fall an agreeable word.
Your education, which gives you an immense
advantage, will greatly assist you"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-08-07

HEALTHFULNEss OF FRUITs.-Fruits and
berries at this season of the year are not only
precious luxuries, but great promoters OF
health. They act upon the liver, promoting
that secretion naturally which many are in
the habit of obtaining only by means of arti-
fetal medicines. They thus avert many a
disease resulting from torpid condition of
the liver. Another way in which they act
bene6cially is in the mechanical effect their
little seeds produce in passing through the
bowels, very much the same as the watering
of an irritated eye-ball when any hard sub
stance touches that delicate organ, and this
water, by dissolving the hardened contents OF
constipated bowels, keeps them in a healthier
state than any pill or purgative invented by
the apothecary There can be no doubt that
in the summer and fall seasons, people who
live mainly on fruits and berries and coarse
bread can almost ensure exemption from sick
ness while those who eat heartily of solid
meats and vegetables two or three times a day
are liable to all the diseases that flesh is heir
to.
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and say, "it's dreadful bad" By this course
you bring up children to be towards: Call
for sympathy when the occasion requires it,
but be careful not to make your calls too fire.
Guent, lest you overdraw the account.
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nI Those words, which to the believer are
divine promises, are to the unbeliever divine
threats. The cloud that stood between Israel
and the Egyptians shed light over the God
led hosts of Moses, but scattered dismay
through Pharaoh's armies
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EARLY PIETY.

1t is to be feared that too many think that
children are incapable of believing in Christ.
The impression generally prevails that a pro-
fession of religion should not be made until
the professor arrives at the years Of maturity.
This practice is founded upon an erroneous
principle. 1t takes it for granted that the
young do not need Saviour; or that they
are incapable of believing; or that they are
incapable of making an intelligent profession
of religion. Children need Saviour. The
babe not an hour old, cannot be saved with
out the attoning blood of Jesus Christ. Chill
dren at very early period are capable of ex'
ercising saving faith. There is no reason why
they may not love God, their heavenly father,
as soon as they love their earthly parents.
No good reason can be given why the little
child should not make public profession of
religion, and be admitted to all the privileges
of the church here upon earth. 1t is admit
ted, on all hands, that little children are, by
Gods grace and Spirit, made meet and fit for
the church triumphant. The greater always
includes the less. 1t is true that children
cannot comprehend much that is meant by
the words faith, repentance and new obedi-
ence; but this is no reason why they are not
fit to become members of the church. There
are many in the church who are men and
women in years, but only babes in knowledge.
The church is school. The ministers Of the
pospel are the teachers. Christ is the great
teacher. In this school provision is made for
beginners as we'll for the most advanced pu'
pills. The smallest and youngest scholar in
the school enjoys the same privileges as the
largest and oldest.
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sasA AS rule, the man who does most for
the church abroad, is the one who does most
for it at home. Lberalty in things pertain:
ing to the support and extension Of the gospel
is not going to stultify itself by a contradic:
ton. Home support and upbuilding, and
foreign benevolence and enterprise, are only
parts of the same work. The nearest and the
remotest field of the farmer is alike under his
care, though one is at his door and the other
out of sigh beyond the hill. So the mission
ary fields are ours as much as those in which
we have our daily walks, and God requires
that we shall have harvest from each.--
United Presbyterian.
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Be CHEERFUL.-Look happy, if you do
not feel so. Present a cheerful exterior,
though your heart and mind be troubled. New.
er wear face which, as Sidney Smith says,
"is breach of the peace" DR.. johnson used
to observe that the habit of looking at the best
ola thing was more to man than thousand
pounds a year, and Samuel Smiles observes
awe possess the power, to great extent Of
so exercising the will as to direct the thoughts
upon objects calculated to yield happiness
and Improvement, rather than their opposite.
In this way, the habit of happy thought may
be made to spring up like any other habit
And to bring up men or women with genu'
inc nature Of this sort, good temper and a
happy frame of mind is, perhaps, of even more
Importance, in many cases, than to perfect
them in much knowledge and many accom-
plishments."
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A STAGE.DRIVER,S REMINISCENCE.

Everybody in California knows, or ought to
know, or at least knows of Colonel Andrew
jackson Gambill, familarly called by his nu-
merous friends, "Jack Gambll' for short, in
early times pioneer packer of Trinity and
Siskiyou. Aware of the fact that the Colonel
had, in early life, filled the responsible posi-
ton of stage-driver in Tennessee and Ala
bama, the writer once asked him if he had
known Land Admirable Reside "Know
old Reside, Judge? Why, never knew
anybody else; he was trump, you bet p
Having struck a favorite theme, he contin-
ued II druv stage for the Admiral out of
Montgomery the whole Of the winter, and it
was mighty rough, 1 tell you. Thar had been
power of rain, equal to California, and the
roads were awful heavy; in fact, in some
plrces it was Just as much as four-hoss team
could possibly do to pull an empty stage.
Well, in addition to the regular mail under
lock and key in the leather bags, there was al
ways lot of canvas sacks filled with about
ton of documents and seeds, mostly the lat
ter, franked by Members Of Congress. I'd
start out about two o'clock in the morning
with all this deck-load making things awful
ly heavy. AS would be about startin' the
Admiral would take me one side and confden-
tally remark, Jack, you've got big load of
passengers, and tremendous large mail you
had better distribute the Congressional mat
ter as soon as you can.' All right says 1 !;
and sho's you're born, about mile out of
town, in crossing over creek swelled by the
late rain, overheard went every canvas bag.
They foated down stream and lodged in a
pile of drift-wood on a sand bar three-quarters
of a mile below. The water in the branch
fell early in the spring, leaving large pile
of loam about the drift pile, and as the warm
weather cum on them Congressmens seeds be-
gan to sprout, and by the middle of summer
you ought to have seen my truck patch. Thar
was pumpkins and squashes by the million ;
parsnips, carrots and all kinds of beets ruty-
beggars and other sorts of turnips. And
gourds runnin' all over the drift-wood and up
into the trees; you'd ought to have seen them
gourds The nggers from all the planta-
tions thereabouts was in clover. They cum
from all quarters and gathered gourds until
they couldn't rest. I 'spose you remember
the old saying, "A fool for luck, a poor man
for children, Frenchman for dogs, and a
nigger for gourds.' Well, Judge, the seeds
they gathered from that ere truck patch OF
mine that fall was scattered all over North
ern Alabama, and although my mode of dis.
tributing them thar Congressional documents
may not have been exactly according to Gun
ter, yet I consider it did the country at large
powerful sight more good.-San Francisco
CeH
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Woods Household Magazine

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s9- Truth is every mans concernment
every mans right, and every mans most ne
cessary possession. If every man be obliged,
as he will answer it to God, to possess himself
of truth, he must be free-free not only to
think, but to speak; free to 60 in quest of
truth free to bring it home, free to confer
with his fellows concerning it, and free to
impart what he has acquired.
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pa% One of Josh Billings maxims is "Rise
early, work hard and late, give nothing away,
and if you don't get rich and 60 to the devil
YOU may sue me for damages"
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