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German Wives.

The culinary art forms part of the edu-
cation of the women in Germany. The we'll
to do tradesman, like the mechanic, takes
pride in seeing his daughters good house
keepers. To effect this object the girl, on
leaving school, which she does when about
fourteen years of age, goes through the cerc
mony of confirmation, and is then placed by
her parents with a country gentleman, or in
a large family, where she remains one or two
years, filling what may also be termed the
post of servant, or doing the work of oue
This is looked upon as an apprenticeship to
domestic economy. She differs from SER
want, however in this-sbe receives no wages !;
on the contrary, her parents often pay for
the care taken of her, as we'll as her clothing
This is the first step in her education as house
keeper. She next passes, on the same con
dtions, into the kitchen of a rich private
family, or into that of hotel of good repute
Here she has control of the expenditures of
the servants employed in it, and assists per-
Sonally in the cooking, but is always ad-
dressed as Miss, and is treated by the family
with Difference and confederation. Many
daughters of rich families receive similar
training, with this difference, however, that
they receive it in princely mansion or a
royal residence. There is reiguiDg queen
10 Germany at the present time who was
trained in this way. Consequently the wo-
men in Germany are perfect models Of
economy.
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Lcok After Your Scholars

II is good advice to give to Sunday School
teachers, Look after your scholars" Re-
gard these scholars as 50 many pearls that
are very previously to be taken care Of
A comparison of some Of our scholars to
pearls may provoke a smile; if they are
pearls, the setting is very poor. But be-
ing that has an immortal soul is worth car
ing for. Human pearls have flaws in them,
but there is a way of removing the imperfec.
tons Look after these scholars, because
the worst Of them is worth looking after
There are scma possibilities of good in any
one for whom Christ died. Look after these
scholars, becauss their attachment can hard,
ly be secured in any other way. 1t is com.
mon complaint # teachers that scholars are
irregular, and that frequently they drop out
of their classes entirely. But how regular
are these teachers 10 looking after these
scholars? How often nyst scholar be alb
sent before teacher gOes TO see what is the
matter? A good teacher FIll fud out the
trouble before the next Sunday.
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A Kings Reception.

COL G. c. Long, of the Egyptian army,
visiting with his family friends in st. Louis,
gives the following account of his reception
at the court of King NJ tesa, to which he had
penetrated with two attendants only.
My reception by this strange and mysteri-
Gus king was unique. Covering the hill-tops
that characterize the mountainous districts of
the lake regions were thousands of the PEG
pie of Uganda, assembled to welcome ''tbe
Great White Prince, as they called me-
King M tesa, surrounded by his courtiers
and harem, as / arrived, sent messenger to
ask me to appear before him and show him
the strange animal upon which l was mount
ed. l was riding the first horse that had ever
been seen in Uganda. At quickened pace
advancing toward the king and courtiers they
fl ed precipitately before me, while |, turning
my horse, reganed the hill from which had
descended, and, throwing my foot out of the
stirrup, in the act of dismounting, was sur
prised to see the people scatter in every d.
rection in dismay. | learned fcom the inter-
prefer that they had supposed, up to that
moment, that and the horse were one ami
mal-that / was kind of centaur. l was
presented the next day to the King-a tall,
graceful man, dressed in a flowing Arabic
robe, bound at the waist by girdle, to
which cimetar was suspended, and with
sandaled feet, who eyed my horse with af-
frighted glance and reiterated towards his
throne. PROSTATE bodies covered the en-
trance and floor of the hut. 1t was here
that the King held audience with his differ
ent Sheiks and chiefs, and the heads Of the
different branches of his government. The
ceremony ended in slight inclination of the
head of the King to his messengers, who,
unfolding from their heads neatly bound
cords, threw them around the necks of the
assembled throng at the door, and dragged
them, hallOuing and struggling, away to ar
executioner, who, as the fancy struck him,
had them poinarded or choked to death, OF
had their brains dashed out. This is sac
rifce which is made to all African kings.
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Annsrhn1a Nurds.
The Winding River.


Iu New England there are many factories
or mills. These mills are worked by opera
tives, who get so much an hour for their la
Dor. They depend upon this work for their
living. When the mills stop and they have
no work, great distress is the consequence.
I once knew boy, named William Redpath,
who worked in an establishment of this kind
By his wages he supported his mother and
his blind sister. One morning soon after my
acquaintance with him, he came to me, the
tears rolling down his cheeks, and took hold
of my hand
"What is the matter, Willie 2" said |.
go, sir, he replied, the boss told his
hands this morning that in months time
the mill must stop work; then l shall be out
of employment. What my dear mother and
sister are to do l know not.
It grieved him very much. l noticed
from that day on he grew more discouraged,
so that he even neglected his work.
"Wilie," said l to him, "why do you
grow downhearted before the time? Let me
tell you story. Oace l started from New
York in a steamer to go up the Hudson
This, you know, is beautiful river, but full
of turns. A little way from New York, high
rocky banks, called the Palisades, arise
Still further up hills nearly shut in the river
on all sides. About fifty miles or so farther
on we seemed to be running right into {
great mountain. why, thought |, 10
few moments we shall certainly be rocked.
But on and on the fac steamer went. Near
er and nearer came tho hill. thought tina
we were about to strike; but the river turned
on its course, and We steamed quietly pas
the hill, to behold before US long and beau
tiful passage.
$50 it is in life. LIT US 60 bravely on
Let us not, at least, give up before We en-
counter the difficulty. When the time comes
God, if we trus; in Him, will provide for US.
Attend to present du'je', and leave tb
rest to kind, Heavenly Fathers s. Us
st0r
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4asbauaty.
THE FARMERS WIFE.

The farmer came in from the field one day;
His languid step and his weary way,
His beaded brow, his snewy hand,
All showed his work for the good of the land
For he sows, sows, sows,
For he hoes, hoes, hoes,
And he mows, mows, mows,
All for the good of the land
By the kitchen fire stood his patient wife,
Light of his home and Joy of his life,
With face all aglow, and busy hand
Preparing the meal for her household band:
For she must boil, boil, boil,
And she must broil, broil, broil
And she must toll toll, toll,
ALI for the good of the home.
The bright sun shines when the farmer goes out,
The birds sing sweet songs, lambs frisk about;
The brook babbles softly in the glen
While he works so bravely for the good of the men
For he sows sows, sows,
For he mows, mows. mows,
and he hoes, hoes, hoes,
ALI for the good of the land.
How brskly the wife steps about within,
The dishes to wash, the milk to skim;
The fire goes out, the flies buzz about
For the dear ones at home her heart is kept stout
There are pies to make, make, make,
There is bread to bake, bake, bake,
ana steps 10 take, take, take,
ALI for the sake of the home.
When the day is o. er and evening has come,
The creatures are fed, the milking DONE
He takes his rest meath the old shade-tree,
From the labor of the land his thoughts are free:
Though he sows, sows, sows,
And he hoes, hoes, hoes
And he mows, mows mows,
He rests from the care of the land.
But the faithful wife, from sun to sun,
Takes her burden up that's never done;
There is no rest, there is no play
For the good of her house she must work away:
For to mend the frock frock, frock,
For to knit the SOCK SOCK sock,
/ And the cradle to rock, rock, rock,
All for the good of the home.
When Autumn is here with its chilling blast,
The farmer gathers his crops at last
His barns are full, his fields are bare
For the good of the land he ne er hath care.
While it blows blows blows,
And it SHOWS, SHOWS SHOWS,
Till Winter goes, goes goes,
He rests from the work OF the land.
But the willing wife till lifes closing.day,
Is the children guide the husbands stay
From day to day she has done her BEST
Until death alone can give her rest,
For after the test, test, test,
Comes the rest, rest, rest,
With the blest best, blest,
In our Fathers heavenly home.
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The Great Pyramid.

As supplement to the letter of last week
on the Great Pyramid, we add several items
furnished by Prof. D. E. E atom of Brooklyn,
who has made spe,ial study of this subject,
and is perhaps more thoroughly informed
upon it, than any man in the country. The
details which he gives with the exactness of
mathematician, impart additional interest
to the theory of Prof. Piazzi Smyth:
|. AS to the cubit, there are several cubits
of unequal length known among the ancients.
Even among the Hebrews there was differ
ence between the sacred and the profane.
Sir Isaac Newton made the sacred cubit Of
the Hebrewt=25 OF English inches, with es
timated error of one-tenth of an inch. Piaz
ri Smyth makes the Pyramid sacred cubi'=
25 OPS English inches, which falls within
Newton's limit of error, and differs from our
English inch by half a hars's breadth
II. As to the distance of the sun, Prof.
Eaton says: " l see by French magazine,
that the parallax of the sun deduced from the
late observations on the transit of Venus
gives a sun distance almost exactly in &C
cordance with the Pyramid distance But
only one set of obsEva,ions has yet been
worked up" The lie closes with " La
Grande Pyramss ~
III. AS TO the s4 6g of the circle Prof.
Eaton writes: "Thevmost accurate squar.
ing of the circle is found in the Pyramid it
self rather than in the Golfer. Tue height of
the Pyramid is to the perimeter of its base
as the radius is to the circumference Of a
circle. This gives 3.14159 nearly, for the
ratio Of diameter TO circumference of circle
the value now used by scientific men,
Again, take the Kings chamber, whose length
is 412,132 pyramid inches. Call every inch
a cubit a e., multiply by 25) and we have the
diameter of circle equal IN area to the
square base of the Pyramid.
These facts have very great interest es-
pecially to mathematiciaus, who are alike
amazed and puzzled to know where the
Egyptians got all that knowledge. Perhaps
if these ''wise men" of modern science would
pursue their investigations little farther,
they would fud, that as there were heroes
before Agamemuon, so there were men who
penetrated far into the secrets of nature thou
sands of years before the modern scientists "
were born N Y. Evangelist.
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Pastoral Calls,

Husband your strength for making and
receiving calls" said DR.. John Hall in one
of his late Yale Seminary lectures "On
Preaching" Some of the papers, says
contemporary, thought the statement face
tious, and so animadverted on it; but II
they had read further, or waited longer, they
would have understood the Doctor better;
for in subsequent lecture, in descanting on
the elements of pulpit power, he took occa-
sion to emphasize the necessity of giving
thought and study to the manner of making
and receiving pastoral calls. One of his IL
Illustrations was this: " DR.. Norman Macleod,
of the Barony parish, Glasgow, had immense
power as preacher to wOrkingmen. When
you heard him, as l did, you were most struck
with the sensible advice be gave them. But
back of his uuadorDed words lay the visits
he made at their homes, the counsels of their
clubs, and the organizations he built up for
their good" Concession was made as to the
difficulty of finding strength and time for
regular and extensive pastoral work; but at
the same time the Doctor urged that We
ought to give as Systematically of both these
things to pastoral work as to preparing for
the pulpit.
But what kind of "call3" shall these pas
toral visits be? We fad an answer in one OF
the papers. Comparatively small value do
we attach to these, as a mere parish formal
ity. The ''going from house to house,, uu
less it results in true acquaintanceship and
unwilling of the heart, is but wasted time
and effort. A pastor cannot aff,rd mere Cos
slipping calls. He had better be in his study,
or even off troutipg. But the calls that are
valuable, both to himself and to his people,
which will enable him to preach better, both
in the pulpit and out of 1t, are calls in which
the truest and deepest emotions of the soul
come to the surface. Therefore be frank with
your minister. Tell him your religious
thoughts and feelings plainly, clearly, hon.
estly. Through such call he will know
you better, understand your needs spiritu,
ally; be better able, aud far more likely, to
speak the sword in season" for your adVan-
tago. Slch coming together, too, Is just
as valuable as if it take place on the side
walk or in the cars. Some of the most
valuable ministerial calls ever made have
| have had for witnesses only the jolting seat
3 of wagon load, or the dusty beams of an
! old barn, or the steaming kettles of the
, kitchen stove, and apolOg d for looks " OF
a the unswept room; or the old wood pile,
? where we caught the man with his I" frock .
3 on, and 10 twinkle got our hearts together,
r for the moment thought only of the one fact
f of our being travellers to eternity together,
vino might help each other. Such pastoral
calls can never lose the gold out of them.
? Their memory will make heaven itself the
? sweeter. Would that we could make more
t of them An it takes two to make such
] calls as those. You must call on the pastor
the same time ne calls on yOu.-Churchman
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PTeghyterlan Churcn IN the united eIates.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
The General Assembly will at New Orleans, La,
the third Thursday of May, 1877, at II A. III.
CLERKS.
Rev. JOSEPH R. WILSON, d. D.. STATED CLEEK
REV. WILLIAM BROWN. D. D PERMANENT OLrsx,
The Stated Clerk is Ex oFYIOro the Treasurer of the
General Assembly.
TRUSTEES.
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JESSE H LINDSAY, Esq, SECRETARY and TREASURER.
Greensboro, N. O.
sUsTENTATIoN.
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rARr and TREASURER, Box SSl, Baltimore. Md.
FOREIGN MISSIONS:
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PUBLICATION.
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EDUCATION
Rev. JNo. N. wADDELL, ID. D., SECRETARY, Mem.
A. F. DOD, TRgAsURBR Memphis, Tenn.
Applications to the Executive Committee for aid are
first to be referred TO the appropriate Presbyera Exec
utve Committees for their approval and to be for
warded by them to the Assemby's Committees.
COLLECTIONS.
The General Assembly has appointed the following
ectons TO be taken up annually in all the churches
For sustentation: On the first Sabbath in January
For Publication On the first Sabbath in March.
For Foreign Missions: On the first Sabbath In May.
For the Relief OF Disabled Ministers and the Widows
and Orphans of Deceased Ministers On the first Sabbath
in July
For Evangelistic Work: On the first Sabbath in Sep.
TENDER.
For Education: On the first Sabbath In November.
In where il is highly inconvenient take up
econs these days. they shall be taken up
possible thereafter.
The Assembly recommends to the churches that they
adopt the apostolic plan of taking up weekly collections
and that the thus collected be appropriated
the above named Objects when necessary local OBJ
ecs in such proportion as the church session may decide
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What it is Costing Us

According to the census and the interna
revenue reports, the evil results of drinking
intoxicating liquors may be summed up al
follows:
1t is costing our people yearly expendi
ture of over 81, 50O0 900 900, all of which
might be spent for far more useful purposes
1t is making yearly 10000 confirmed
drunkards.
1t is sending yearly about $50 600 persons
to drunkards' graves, and reducing to want
and beggary 200 600 children.
1t is sending yearly to prisons 100 GOO
persons, and is causing large proportion OF
the loss of life on land and sea-
1t is converting millions upon millions of
bushels of grain, which God has given as
food to preserve life, into vile stuff that de.
stroys life.
1t is endangering the fair. and rich inheri-
lance left US by odrf flss45, ia fixing foul
blot on the fair name of America.
The above sum of money would pay off
our National debt in two years, or it would
furnish to the starving poor 22O, 600, 600
barrels of -four at 81 barrel.
1t would build 90 900 miles of railroad at
$50, 900 per mile.
1t would send a Bible to every inhabitant
of the globe.
1t would build 100000 dwelling houses or
churches at $4,000 each.
Itwould furnish 15O, 100000 suits of cloth
ing at $40 each.
There are 14O, 900 saloons in the country,
against 1913 600 schools and 1000 church
eS. Manufacturers and sellers of strong
drinks, $50, OO0-twelve times the number
of clergymen, four times that of teachers,
nearly double all the lawyers, physicians,
teachers and ministers combined.
In word, if Intoxicating liquors were
abolished entirely from our land, crimes,
poverty and misery of all kinds would be
greatly reduced, and our people sober, indus
trious and economical, would soon become
the most happy, wealthy and intelligent of
any in the world.
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waters flow on to the seattle GALAXY for
Science and the Bible.
BY THE EARL OF sHAFTEsBURY.

The thing to be lamented is, that the mo-
ment men of science get hold of fact they
instantly begin to set it in opposition to Gods
word. But the wanted fact" of Tuesday
often takes another shape on Wednesday,
and by Thursday is found to be no fact at
ALL The truth is that geology, as science,
consists mainly of probable guesses. "That
Geld of peat" Gays Sir Charles Lyell, "has
probably been 1000 years in course of for
nation" "No," replies friend of his own
10 published criticism, 81 think it quite
possible that it has only been 700 years in
growing" A piece of pottery is found in
the valley of the Nile, and geologist i'm
mediately argues that it must have lain there
more than 10000 years. But an antiquary
soon points out mark6 upon it which show il
TO be less than 2 600 years DID, Yet it is
upon guesses of this kind, which do moi
amount to tenth part of proof, that the
Lyells and Ovens and ColensoS venture bold
ly to assert that it is clear that Moses knew
nothing whatever of the subject on which ht
was writing. Just in the same spirit de
Bunsen and his followers unhesitatiDgly as
sert that the growth Of languages proves
that the world must be more than 10000
years old We refer thin to the confusion
of tongues described by Moses, which at once
dissipates theix - but that wal
a miracle" they reply, "aud we have made
up our minds never to believe miracle. =
Very we'll, gentlemen, there we must leav'
you; for men who make up their minds be
fore inquiriug are not acting like reasonable
beings. A dozen other little juntos are nov
at work in the same laudable fashion. On
set is quite certain that man was developed
out of an ape. Well, and what was the ap
developed out of? They do not know
Our comfort in all this is, that this il faeI q
will wear itself out like the Tractarian, O.
like the infdel fashion of the days of Boiling
broke. Men have been striving to get riC
of the Bible and its inconveDient moralit.
for nearly these two thousand years; bu
they were never further off from their en-
than they are at present.
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THIN PRAYER. MEETING.-Why do so small
proportion of church members attend pray
er-meetiDgs?
First, Because 50 large a proportion of
church members have no religion.
Secondly, Because so large number of
them were not trained when children to the
habit of going to prayer meeting.
If parents want their children to be spir
itual Christians when they grow up, and
make public profession of faith, let them take
them regularly to all the public services. of
the sanctuary, and to all the social prayer
meetings of the church, Transyluania Pres
byterian.
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THERE are pauses amidst study, and even
pauses of seeming idleness, in which pro.
cess goes on which may be hkened to the di-
gestiOn of food. In those seasons Of repOse,
the powers are gathering their strength for
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THERE are some men who, if left alone are
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are once thrust into the fire, they become
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TRUTH may be recognized in the spirit
when it is indistinctly seen by the intellect.
No false proof should be moved which tends
to good, until a true one is ready to re-.
place it,