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The Peasant and the Rose.

A peasant at the foot of the Alps was one
day led to accompany an old friend up the
mountain side as far as they could climb
There he lighted on beautiful rose, such as
be had never seen before. twas 50 delicate
ia color. And be was surprised to fad on
examining it, that it had no thorn, like the
roses that grew in the garden below.
"Ah, said he, "this is a prze-a rose
without thorn. Why that's what folks
have been wishing for ever so long. Now l
shall have something none of my neighborS
will show the like of. 1t is small, but care
and culture can do much for size"
To all this his friend said nothing. With
no little labor the peasant dug up the plant
and carried it carefully home. That very
night he tore up his best double rose, his
wife'8 favorite flower, out of the bed before
the door of their cottage, and planted this
one in it's stead,
"The soil is SO good there" he said, cit
is sure to come to perfection.
So he watched it and watered it till his
proper work was getting to be neglected.
And his wife began to hate the sight of the
bush, and said so to her husband one night
as they sat together in the lamplght.
And next morning, when the peasant ex.
amined his rose more closely than ever, he
found thorns beginning to grow upon it, and
at once accused his wife of winking at a
jealous neighbor carrying away the prize and
putting worthless rose in its stead. But
he would not be defeated He set out that
very day to climb the mountain and seek for
another thornless rose; and, having found it.,
after much labor, he came home and pulled
out the suspected bush, and planted this one
in its place. Aud again he watched and wa
tered, till his poor wife lost all patience with
him and threatened to tear up the rose-tree.
And in few days thorns appeared once
more. There was no peace in the house any
longer. The man spent nearly all his time,
while the wife worked harder and harder for
their daily bread, in seeking for thornless
roses on the mountain-and he nearly filled
his garden with them and the neighbors
laughed as he went about early and late wa
tering them. Aud when at length autumn
came, his beds were filled with stunted, thorny
bushes, which he was ashamed to look upon.
Now he remembered his old friends silence
when he found the first rose on the noun
tain, and he set off to have his opinion
His friend listened patiently and then said:
"My dear friend, there's no good in trying
to train Alpine dwarf roses, and but little
good arguing with man who fancies he
has made discovery and will outstrip all his
neighbors. Let US beware of such vanity.
1t was there you erred at the first, and see the
trouble it has brought you into. Experience
is dear school mistress, but right down
good one Go home and kiss your wife and
set out your old roses again"
The peasant shook his old friend heartily
by the hand, and went home humbled in
heart, and never sought after thornless roses
more.-Good Words.
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BLIND LITTLE ELSIE.
BY SIDNEY DAYRE.

Blind little Elsie sat at the door
OF her mothers cottage, lOwly and poor;
A pretty thing to look at was she,
I'm sure, if you saw her, you d agree;
The mild wind straying
And gently playing
Over the curIs of golden hair,
While the sunshine bright
With its rosy light
Kissed her little cheek, round and fair.
She was sitting
knitting, knitting,
Aud sang Ike bird, for her heart was light
As the happiest lark in its beavenward flight,
Weaving her gay thread in and out
As quickly her needles played about
While little gray KIT,
Just to frolic bit,
Tossed the ball with her snow-white feet,
And she laughed as she drew it back to her seat.
What makes you so gay,
Little daughter, to day?'
The gentle old pastor said walking that way,
For look on your poor little darkeaed eyes
In sadness, and then a glad surprise
Comes Ger me 10 see the happy smile
Which lives on your features all the while;
But I grieve that the beautiful things of light
Are shut from our bonnie Elsie's sight;
The perfumed flowers, the poisoning trees,
The ripping brook and the birds aud bees,
The flying clouds aud the sunset glow,
Are things the little one cannot know
dis kindly voice was plying, sad,
But Elsies answer came quick and glad;
"In all these things, though my eyes are blind,
Something belonging to me l find;
The waving trees
And the hum of the bees
Are brought to me by the soft, warm breeze,
knoE the brook and birds to me
Sing sweeter, because 1 cannot see;
The clouds, It's true, have never been mine,
But catch every ray of the warm sunshine;
And my heart is always full of good cheer
AS day by day l am knitting here
Bright little socks for baby toes,
Mittens to shield when cold wind blows,
Gray socks for fathers toiling feet;
What could 1 do if l could not kna ?''
Mother more tenderly cares for me
Than for all the rest, who have eyes to see,
And fathers hand is laid on my brow
More gently than anywhere else, know,
And every friend
Has a willing hand
Aud a sohened voice, which / understand
Means love and sympathy, all for me
How could ever saddened be?'
" But, child, we read in the Holy Book,
OF Him who, by only a touch or look,
Could cure the sick, the lame and the blind;
Is it not hard that to-day we find
No prayer can move that power above
To touch thine eyes with finger Of love? ~
All, no ." with a sOfsned voice said she,
" For he knows best what is good for me;
II de thought right He would do it, know,
For my Sunday School teacher told me so
The old man laid his hand on her head,
And, more in reverence than blessing said,
"Oh, child t5y light is all heavens own"
Then murmured, sob, Lord, in passing on,
Out Of the mouth Of babes like these
Hast Thou perfected Thy highest praise.
Nec York Observer.
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to try, like Baxter, never to speak of Weighty
soul concerns without his whole spirit being
drenched therein.
A Parable.

a Parable.
Mr.. Leupolt, in his narratives of mission
airy work at Benares, India, gives an instance
of caViller silenced by an effective parable;
Among the cavaliers there was Moham-
medan, who, under pretence of requiring in
formation, disturbed us a good deal The
information which he required was an ex-
PLANTATION of the Trinity. When he first
came I argued the point with him, but,
though he had nothing to reply, on his re-
turn he always asked the same question
again. At last declined arguing the point
with him any longer, and as he appealed to
the people l settled the dispute by para
bic. Of late he has been silent nearer.
The parable is substantially as follows
A fatal disease is devastating the kingdom
every remedy applied by the people proves
Intellectual The king therefore deviSes a
specific, and commissions several physicians
to administer it to the dying people. But a
learned man, uncOncerned about the people
urges upon one of the physicians to give hiu
information about the king and his mysteri
Gus existance. The physicians complies with
the request, and spends his time in explain
ing inexplicable mysteries; meanwhile hi
patients die. The king, hearing of this
sends for the physician, and addresses hin
thus "Sir, what is your commission ~
Answer "To administer the specific to TIT
sick" "Did you do it ?" "Please, your
Majesty, no for learned Moalvi required
information about your Majesty's existenc,
and life, and in giving that had no time tt
administer the medicine" "What then be
came of the people?" Answer: "They
died" Hearing this the king looked upor
the man with indignation and said. "What
you saw the people dying around you, yo'
had the remedy, and knew that there wa
no other by which the people could be cured
and yet you spent your time in conVersini
about mysteries far beyond your cOmprehen
sion? The people indeed, died in their sins
but you are guilty of their death, and thei
blood rests upon your head away, there
fore, with you" "Now say my friends
did this fellow not deserve death?" 81
did" was the exclamation of some. But
continued, "What is the meaning of thi
parable ?" "You need not explain this,
said young man, :" its meaning is plain
Instead of disputing about the Trinity yO
wish to preach the Gospel, for we are tn
dying, and the Gospel iS the remedy
"YOu are right" said l, and opening m.
New Testament and pointing to it, said t
my opponent. "here is my commission, it i
to preach the gospel. The people are dyini
and l must administer the specific. H
tried once or twice more to interrupt US, bu
the people said, " Silence, they have to ad
minister the medicine"
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How Plants are Fed.

Prof G. Jones, of London, in a recent
lecture, gave the following account of the
method in which plants take up and assimi.
late the food that is furnished them by GER
tain kinds of manure.
"Plants have the property of absorbing
the ammonia, and then recombining the nj.
trogen, and converting it into the substance
of which the plants are composed. Wheat
cereals are converted into gluten and albu
men, and peas and so on into substances
slightly differing from albumen. 1t is
very curious fact with respect to the assimi-
lation of nitrogen by plants, that some are
converted into gluten, albumen, or legumen,
while others are turned into deadly poisons.
Morphia, strychnia, and belladonna are all
heterogeneous compounds, so that nitrogen
might form an element of food or poison, &C.
cording to the disposition of the plants
Ammonia is very soluble in water. The
extent of the solubility of ammonia in water
is 600 times its bulk, which means that one
cubic inch of water will absorb six hundred
cubic inches of gas ammonia. This is an
important fact in agriculture. Ammonia
has great affinity for acids, and when the
two substances are mixed, great heat is de-
veloped, and clouds of the resulting salt "
are obtained. By taking a jar, moistenng
the inside with hydrochloric acid, and plac
ing it over dish containing ammonia, clouds
of salt ammoniac will rise and fill the jar.
1t is customary for manufacturers of soluble
guano to add ulphuric acid to the raw ma.
terial for the purpose of fixing the ammo
MIA. Peruvian guano contains ammonia,
sometimes carbonic ammonia. By adding
sulphuric acid they fix the ammonia, and
there is at the present time an excellent ma
nure of that description, sold under the name
of Ammonia fixed Peruvian Guano. 1t
does not smell, and farmers are deceived.
and reject samples of manure for this reason.
There could not be a greater fallacy. If
they take a sample of Peruvian guano, in
which the ammonia has been fixed by the &C
ton of sulphuric acid, and combine it with
liquid potash, they will get the smell of am
monia directly. This cannot be done, how
ever, when nitrogen does not exist as ammo
MIA but as animal matter. These manureS
are just as good, although less direct in their
action upon plants Ammonia is found in
small quantities in the atmosphere from one
to forty parts in million parts of air, and
it is this circumstance which renders rain so
nourishing for vegetation. Atmospheric
ammonia is formed by the union Of the nitro
gen of the air with the hydrogen of the aque-
GUS vapor, the union being brought about by
means of electricity. The rain which de-
scends during electric disturbances is thus
the richest in ammonia.
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Home Training.

I" Train up a child in the way ne should
g" is heavens injunction, and one meritiDg
the solemn consideration of every parent
In training the child it should ever be re-
membered that it is the possessOr Of a three,
fold naturs-is is physical, and iDtsllec
taal, ana a moral being. Thus endowed, and
thus sent into the world, it is important that
this threshold nature be cultivated, in order
that there may be a proper growth.
Carefully must the health of the child be
watched over. Proper food must be admin
istered, adapted to the growth of the intel
lect. And above all, the moral nature,
which assimilates to the Deity, must be ten
derby nurtured. Now, in order that the
lambs may be properly fed, there must be
RICH: training and nurturing at home
There the work must commence. Just as
the potter has the clay placed in his hands,
which he moulds and fashions into brick, so
parents have placed in their hands the ma
terial from which, by divine help, they are
to mould the future men and women of the
church and world.
And upon mothers (maybe not wholly de
wolves this moulding process, the maturing
and upbringing of the lambs at home. To
render them successful in this work the
Scriptures present US, with beautiful ex-
ample Of a devout, modest home life of a
cody woman, we'll worthy of imitation
Eunice was indeed a successful mother, of
whose history little is known. Married to
a heather, an uDgodly husband, an offence
for which she probably suffered both at the
hands Of God and man, her work in feeding
and training the young Timothy must indeed
have been arduOus and performed oftentimes
amid great difficulty. Still she persevered !;
and all parents may well be encouraged by
her brilliant success to copy her example of
deyout faithfulness.
Now, there are just two points in her his
tory to which Paul calls attention-her own
unfeigued faith and the training of her boy
in the familiar knowledge of the Holy Scrip
lures. Here, then, is the grand secret Of
success in feeding the lambs.
If you wish to nourish and strengthen
your children to faith in God, then there
must be cultivation of faith unfeigned,
within your own hearts. No other method
will serve the purpose, for halEbeheving
parent cannot train child to a whole-heart-
Ell faith. And possessing this faith, the
work is commenced at the right end, as well
as at the right time. Eanice did this.
From a child, literally an infant, she spoke
to Timothy of the Holy Scriptures. When
but a child carried in her arms, the unfeign-
ed faith of that mother led her to operate
upon bis spiritual nature, long before he was
able to understand the words that fell upon
his ears.
By her government, her prayers, her ex-
ample, her plain and simple instruction, the
character Of Timothy was moulded, and he
became an eminent disciple of Christ. Thus
did this cody women succeed in the home
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training of her boy, and accomplished her
arduous task, leaning on the arm Of divine
strength.
The whole duty of parents in this matter
may, then, be summed up or stated in few
words. If you wish the lambs to be cared
for and fed, then you must teach we'll, rule
well, live well, and pray well. Teach your
children the truths that God has taught US
in bis word, STOPPING down until you become
very little child beside your little children.
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