The New York herald., 1876-09-03

was rich, said a Christian merchant who had lost
everything consumable In the great hre IN Chicago,
when was rich 1 had God in everything; and now
am poor have everything in God What picture OF
soul-rest and trust such a sentiment conveys And
thus il that religion sweetens every cup, ghtens
every burden relieves every and gives garments
Of praisesor the spirit of heaviness.
The value OF grandmother was never 30 real to us
until the other day, when we heard OF conversation
that took place between two young urchins one OF
whom had broken pitcher mt the well and was uos
ting home crying "why do you cry SO, johnny"
asked the comrade OF the little fellow. Cause
cause" sobbed Johnny "when get home mother'H
lick me for breaking the mug. " "what !" said his
companion, haint you got no grandmother liv ng a.
your houses" .No," was the reply. "well," l have,
and might break two mugs and they daren'ti lick me- "
wha, little boy would be without grandmother after
thiss
little Swedish girl, while walking with her father
on starry night became absorbed IN contemplation
OF the skies Being asked what she was thinking oil
she replied, al WAS thinking II the wrong side OF
heaven is glorious what must the right side DC
Exactly II the glimpses that We catch here OF the
summer land unseen a!ord us such glory and Joy
what must II be to be theref A little American miss,
watching tho sunset glory one evening. remarked 10
her father that there must be naughty people up IN
heaven, because God gathering up rods the crm
son sreaks OF expiring day. TO whip them Beaut'iu'
innocent child thoughts how they gather In men,
orys secret chambers the after years awakening In
the soul love akin to heavens purest love-
Tho late Sunday School Assembly at Chautauqua
Lake must have been highly entertaining gathering,
If half what Rev. T. X. Beecher writes about 1t was
connected with It, There were, he says tho North
Carolnians' the 'Ceveland Corneists" Al itinerant
trio of men singers; an indefinite number OF dis
tinguished speakers from abroad" chime OF oeisa all
the time, at least elk oraons or sermons every oay
with twice talks tucked in between; DOUBLE triple
Quadruple meetings, housed and vigorous; excursion
parties ut reduced rates" coming ashore every day
from six steamboats, to whistle when aspeaker or
singer getting of particularly nice thing; forty
rowboats to let two steam launches three sailboats
SWINGS croquet grounds, news stands, Ice cream
counters, soda, Lemonade peanuts and some days as
high rs 5000 people,-and all gathered around this
nucleus of 15o or 200 Sunday school workers."
The bows OF Detroit seem to be going down hill In
their morals Of late and thero is great need OF New
York missionaries being sent among them On re-
cent Sunday one OF those youthful politicians and
future observed aged citizen standing on
q corner gaping and yawnng and very seriously
remarked to him. "Bctier no. open your mouth too
wide "Whyf" was the surprised query. BECAUSE"
continued the SLY young urchin, there's law agn
opening saloon Sunday" He did not wait or the
next remark
Science will probably never know how much It has
by Harriet Marneau dying in 1876 Instead of ISL
Five years ago she had bcqueahed her head 10 med
cal friend for scientific purposes but later she
recalled the bequet not because her opinion to the
Importance OF scientific observation such subjects
had changed but merely because OF q change of cir
cumstances in her individual case
There are several distinct kinds of Second Adventss
In the United States None OF them very numcr-
GUS As distinct bodies they dwindng away be-
cause their many past failures in fixing the time for
Christ TO como again. They have TO a great extent
given up tho aftcr prophetic dates for that event.
and one sect Of them. the Seventh Day Adventists
learning wisdom from the past while they do not
throw away the prophetic periods, believe they are
to be understood; they believe also that those peri
DDS have correctly interpreted, and that they
have all terminated; SO that have data
from which 10 respecting definite time for the
Lord TO come This sect, which numbers s. .o22 men,
bers enrolled in 339 churches and minstered to By
sxty-nine ordained cergymen and seventy six hcen-
tia,es, will hold camp meeting in grove near the
city OF Rome, n. Y, on Thursday next The sect
has no settled pastors and the churches must carry
on their work without them, while the ministers
loft free to propagate their from city to city
throughout the land. During the summer months
they carry forward their work by Of large tents
forty to sixty in diameter About fifty Of these
now in use. BY plan OF systematic benevolencc the
churches about $40, 900 year. They have pub
fishing house, missionary educational and tract So
cietes. They organized as separate body IN 1s44,
after the great disappointment. when 30 many OF the
white -robed fraternity who expected to be taken up
like Elijah were left below like the baser sort Of
mortalS