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MOTLEY, THE HISTORIAN.

The Christian IntelHgencer pays a just
tribute to the memory of the historian Mot
ley:
To those among us who cherish with pride
the memories of their fathers in the Neither
lands, he rendered service that can never be
forgotten. Oar knowledge of the history Of
the origin of the United States of the Neither
lands had become indistinct and vague We
cherished recolections of the most general
character of the men and women of the ia
therland, of their suferings, their Self.sacri-
fees, the aieges they endured, the battles
they fought, the institutions they founded.
The Prince of Orange was to US almost as
the hero of legend, so much had time and
distance done to becloud and efface the mem
DRY Of annals among the most honorable and
most thrilliDgly interesting on the records of
humanity. Mr.. Motley put the men and
their achievements before us, not in outline,
but in full, particular, accurate statements,
concealing none of their imperfections, or
faults, or failures, but portraying their vir-
tues with loving hand. We like honest
history, the plain truth, and have no taste
for shamG and exaggerations. We respected
and honored Mr.. Motley because he wrote
honestly and impartially of our fathers, con-
cealing none of their imperfectionS or mis-
takes. To-day we mourn that the pen, on
which interests and hopes so dear to US have
depended, has fallen from the hand that will
never take it again. One year ago We heard
that our historian was partially disabled by
stroke eff paralysis, but the medical skill Of
the present day SO often relieves and almost
cures for the time this malady in its earliest
stages, that we had hoped that he would live
to complete the series of noble volumes by
presenting a History of the Thirty Years
War. The period was, perhaps, not the most
important, but was certainly the most brill
liant of the long conflict. We now must be
content with fragment, and we trust that
it will be given to us just as it was left by
the hand of the master.
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COLLECTIONS.
The General Assembly has appointed the following col.
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For Sustentation On the first Sabbath in January.
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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
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TENDER.
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The Assembly recommends TO the churches that they
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and that the thus collected be appropriated
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V. 40. The new GENTLE converts now car
ried the glad tidings into all the surrounding
country of Asia Minor. Saved themselves,
they we're anxious to save others, and so 1t
ought to be with converts everywhere
" Praise the Lord, all ye nations. d"
V. so. These "devout and honorable wo-
men" were Gentle proselyteS of high rank
who were more intolerant to the new faith
than the Jews themselves, as is generally the
case with ''proselytes." By the aid of these
men and women of high rank, the Jews ex'
PEELED Paul and Barnabas from the city.
V. 81. In accordance with Christ's COM
mand, Mark vi: IL, they "shoOk off the
dust of their feet against them" viz; cast oil
all further responsibility about them, and
went to Iconium. This was city at the foot
of Mount Thaurus, about ninety miles south
east from Antioch, and an important town.
and centre in the early ages of the Church
V. 50. The Christians at Antioch were
filed with rejoicing because they were 6llec
with the Holy Ghost, and in Him were
strengthened for duty and for trial. Se'
Matt. Y: 1912.
Practical LESSONS.
In this lesson we have the reception of th'
Gentiles, the resisting of the Jews, and tn
regeneration of the believers.
And the effects o. .shss preaching Of tn
gospel were "unto the Jews stumbling
block, and unto the Greeks, fOoliShnes8, bu
unto them which are called, both Jews an
Greeks, Christ the power of God and tn
wisdom of God"
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Side by Side. Z"
more San.

We are informed that "side by side" were
about the last words spoken by the late
Fletcher Harper. He uttered the three beau,
tiful monosyllables in just moments pause
in his delirium, as he witnessed his wifes un-
failing ministration; but had he enjoyed a
perfectly clear and painless hour he could
not more fifty have crystalized both the mar
velous beauty of his domestic life, or the
charm and unity of his long business career.
We are aware that it is quite the fashion
nova, days to be little skeptical concern
ing the last words of men of character and
achievement. For our part, the more we
compare such expressions with the men who
have spoken them and the lives they have led,
the more minute and subtle seems the cor
respondenee. We are willing to admit bit
of fancy, if you please, in the Interpretation
of such final words by admiring friends; but
let your polar critic apply his tests with all
possible vigor, and there will still be a strange
residuum that ha can do nothing with. Had
the calm and majestic Goethe ever written
line more like himself, or uttered to his last
intimate friend Eckermann sentiment more
like the searching soul of eighty-three years
than when, in his last moments, he asked the
attendant at his bedside, in quaint little
Weimar, to open the windows and let in
more light?" The windows were opened,
and into the broad light the great spirit went.
Christian Union.
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Tn g Three Fishers.


Mr.. Kingley's song of "Tbree Fishers
was not the mere creation of bis Imagination,
but the literal transcript of what he had seen
of "men who work ed and women who wept,
while boy in the fishing village of Clovelly,
and his father was the clergyman of the par
ish; and such was his sympathy with the
fishermen that when the herring feet put to
sea, he would hold short religious service
on the quay.
The hardy men and boys, and their anx'
iouS mothers, and wives, and sweethearts
would join in singing the Prayer Book YER
sion Of the 121st Psalm:
Then thou, my soul, in safety rest
Thy guardian will not sleep.
Sheltered beneath the Almightys wings
Thou shalt securely rest"
The Psalm was sung as only those can
sing who with stout hearts go out, because ii
is their duty, to face danger and stare al
death.
1t was one evening after being wearied
and worn out by the days work and trials
that Kingsley wrote the song which repro
duces the scenes of his youthful days:
"Three Fishers went sailing out in the West
Out in the West as the sun went down."
| Youths Companion.
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Aunsehula &3ntds.
WHAT SHALL WE DO 2"


CBy Mrs. L. c. WILTON, in June Vide Aloake
A mother sat stitching and stitching away,
1t rained, and her boys were indoors at play,
When one of them came and leaned on her chair,
And said with a touchingly wearied-out air,
"Weve played every play in the world that we know
Nol0, what shall we do?'
Before poor mamma had chance to reply,
The rest of the little ones gathered close by,
And the sum of their troubles all seemed the same
ssWe wish that we knew some wonderful game;
We've been sailors and soldiers, and fought battles
Now, what shall we dO?'
Mamma thought for moment, then gaily replied;
% Build a palace of blocks with portico wide,
And play that the owner had money to spend,
And wanted to decorate rooms without end,
And ordered some pictures painted by you.
That's what you can do.
''Now, each take pencil and paper, and draw
The most wonderful thing that ever you saw;
A lily, a sunset, shore, or a sea,
A gorgeous winged butterfly chasing bee;
Or-three little boys that are saying, like you
Now, what shall we do?"
The frightened up children took pencils in hand,
CAS- amateur artists, you'll all understand)
And worked at their pictures until it was plain
The funny gray clouds had forgotten to rain;
And mamma had a rest mot long one it's true,)
From " whaashall we dO?"
q
o sweet, patient mott - in this earnest way
You are doing Ife's wo while your little ones play
You are fashioning SOU that hereafter shall rise,
Gods beautiful angels, nged, to the skiesi
And Heaven makes y to yOur "What shall W
do"
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The Sofas.

The "Softas," Of whom mention has often
been made as the most turbulent of the war
spirits in Constantinople, is name applied to
all persons attached to the Turkish mosques
or places of worship in any capacity what
ever, but more especially designating the stu
dents who are initiated in the upper branches
of religious instruction in the mosques, and
who, like the fellows of an English univer-
sity, constitute corporation long after the
completion of the learned pursuits. Some OF
them supply candidates for the Offices Of
priests and high priests, but the larger part
of them hang as loosely upon society as ward
politicians. In the time of Mahomet they
were poor men who slept in the mosques and
had a sheltered bench outside; hence they
we're called "men of the bench" If there
were any similar class in this country they
would be called ecclesiastical "tramps." AT
present the Softas are said to form large
and influential class in Mohammedan society.
Their number in Constantinople is estimated
at from 10000 to 10000, and their success
in controlling mobS by appealing to religious
fanaticsm is said to be very great.-Badi
more San.
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neat and clean.
"Well, one Sunday somebody coaxed Jack
into the Sunday School, and after the oohooi
was opened the superintendent came TO the
seat where Jack was and asked his name
The boy was shy and did not answer ana
another boy said, Oh, he's Dirty Jack.
"Jack was very angry, but the gentleman
said, kindly, I am going to give this boy
his real name. shall call him Joints a
splendid name, for it was the name of the
one whom Jesus loved best when He was on
earth
"Jack didn't come to school the next Sun
day, his father in drunken fit had given
him black eye, but two weeks after the
same gentleman was walking near jacks
house and saw him playing with some boys
He walked up to them, and shaking hands,
said,
"Why, John, my boy, how dye do?
wish you would walk little way with me-
CHOW, that boy was SO pleased to be re
membered and to be called by decent name
that it made him wish he was more worthy
of such kind friend. He began to try au(
keep his face and hands clean, and then haf
to comb his hair to match, and then MI
clothes looked so bad, compared with hi
clean hands, that ne never rested till ne hat
earned money enough to get some decen
ones; and now that John is grown up n
says that he might still be Dirty Jack if i
hadn't been for that kind gentleman remem
bering his name"
"Well, mother, I won't think the nam
chapters of no use after this. I'll Salute
you, mother, and run off. "
Phil ran out to his play, but his mothe
often noticed after that, that he was careful
to send his love to Uncle George, or kin
message to an absent school mate, and kne'
the lesson had not been lost.
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Since LoUs teaches yOy.
CHAPTERS FULL OF NAMES.
BY HOPE LEDYARD.


The children had come to read their morn
ing chapter with mamma. Philip, as usual,
came last. Not that Philip did not love to
read his Bible; he liked to get his mother
all by himself and read over the chapter
about Naaman the Syrian, or talk about Jo-
seph's history; but the regular morning
chapter always seemed to interrupt some
plan of Philips. He would just have his
dog (gho was being "broken" to driVe) har-
messed, or he would be making boat when
his sister would call,
"Phi mammals waiting to read"
On this morning want to tell you of,
Philip felt quite put out at being called, and
every time his turn came to read he had to
be told the verse.
"Philip," said his mother, when the read
ing was over, swat a moment; l want to
speak to you. Ny boy, you did not pay any
attention"
"Well, mother, what's the use? The
chapter was full of nothing but hard names.
I don't see the use of reading Salute Rufus,
and lot of other fellows with such dreadful
names"
."Dear, even if you don't see the use,
you ought to read the chapter carefully and
reverently, because it is Gods Word. But
that chapter has taught me lesson this
morning, SO you see it is of use"
"Tell me, mother; 1 always like chap
ter you've talked about"
AS you each read over those names of
different men and women, thought how a
true Christian ought to try and remember
bis friends-remember them by name send
kind messages to them. Paul, who had the
care Of ali the churches, did not forget Ru-
fus and his mother, Philologus and Julia
AS you read Greet Mary, who hath bestowed
much labor on US, felt ashamed to think l
had sent no message to poor sick Mary Reil-
", who was such faithful servant to me
years ago. Just few kindly words of love,
in letter; the mere mention of ones own
name gives great pleasure sometimes, and we
are all too apt TO forget these little things.
Don't you know, Philip, how you always
want to know whether Uncle George says
anything about you in bis letters p
81 declare, mother, l never thought of it
I s'pose then we ought to try to remember
folks names?"
"Ye8, my con. l am quite sure that
Christian who remembers names we'll will find
it a great source of good. 1 know boy
whose whole life vas changed because kind
Christian gentleman remembered his name.
The boy was called Dirty Jack by the other
boys in the village. Poor fellow he could
hardly help being dirty, for his father drank
and his mother was very shiftless, careless
woman, that had never taught Jack to be
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them not, for of such is the kingdom OF
God" Then he took the dear little crea-
lures in his arms and blessed them.
As Jesus liked the little children when he
was on the earth, so he likes them now IS ne
sits at the right hand of his Father in heaven
and looks down over all the world and sees
every little boy and girl in it. Oh, should
they not like Jesus -Reliqsous Herald.
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A FRIEND sends US the following anecdote
to illustrate the bitterness which may some
times exist between good men, from their
strong religious prejudices:
When the Seeding and Relief Churches
of Scotland united, most of the good people
of that country regarded it justly as great
triumph of the spirit of Christian brother
hood, that two bodies so nearly allied to each
other, and containing many of the most pious
and worthy men of that day, should come
together and become one. But some looked
upon it with bitterness which they could
not conceal, as was shown in the following
conversation between two worthy members in
Dumfrieshire, who we're discussing the union.
One of them remarked to the other, she
thocht it was a wrang, and that nae guild
wad ever come frae it; and it grieved him
SUR to think that the cody folk of Loeb
marten wad have to sit at the table of the
Lord with the blackguards of Lockerbie. :"
The other, shocked at the intense bitterness
of his friend, replied that cit certainly was
a great pity that the cody and blackguards
should sit together; but if he had read his
Bible Alright, it was the blackguards of Lock
erbie, and not the godly of LOchmarten, that
Christ had come into the world to save.-N
7. Evangelist.
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From Littell,s Living Age.
MATTHIAS.

And the lot fell upon Matthias. "-ACTs i: 20.
Called out to Gil the traitors place,
To bear the news of saving grace,
Shed forth upon our fallen race;
Called forth, the wanderer home to lead,
Called forth, the flock of Christ to feed,
To sow on earth the heavenly seed
D blessed lot, and yet below,
Scarce aught beside his name we know,
On whom did God this grace bestow.
We know not where for God he fought,
What wondrous works by him he wrought,
What nations of Christ's love he taught.
Then never deem it cause Of shame,
If none on earth inscribe thy name
Within the book of worldly fame.
If Of Gods chosen holy saint
We only see the outlines faint,
What right have we to make complaint?
If he who doth in secret see
Approve our work, small need have we
Of earthly fame or eulOgy,
Grant only, Lord, that in thy sight
We walk as children Of the light,
And meath thy banner bravely fight.
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The LAST Bangkok Advertiser is rejoicing
that the Siamese people are to have the whole
Bible translated into their language, and says
that this fact opens up new hopes for these
people. 1t is in hopes that the whole nation
may be supplied with Bibles in the vernacu-
lar, at the earliest possible moment. In the
same article the advertiser refers as follows
to the Importance of woman's missionary
work: "We need Christian women. They
must be had. Grant that the schools we can
gather of girls are small. They are more
important than colleges with hundreds of
pupils and many learned professors, in an
enlightened country. If we succeed in rear
ing single girl who loves the truth, loves
God, and really and truly worships him in
telligbly, who hates false ways, and keeps
out of them, she becomes light in a dark
place, and nucleus for coming generations.
A good woman may become the mother of a
Christian community.
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The "wicket-gate'' of the "Pilgrim's Pro-
gress' is commonly represented as garden
gate or turnpike. gate; but Dean Howson
says the term denotes a small doorway cut
out of large-door; and concealed behind a
tree at the west end of Elstow church, is just
such small doorway in the broad, wooden
surface of the great door. Through this
lowly opening Bunyan must often have passed
when boy; and. if it were simply drawn
and engraved, he believes We should have a
correct picture of that which was before Bun
vans Imagination when he described the
early steps of Christians pilgrimage"
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EUROPE is 'how taking surprising guam.
tity of American fruit. The purchases have
amounted to over $2,50O,0O0 worth since
last June, compared with 100000 in the
same period the year before. Dried apples
figure largely in this movement. This coun-
try has exported over 100000 pounds of
them since last June, as compared with 522,-
900 pounds the previous year. This new
addition to the trade of the United States is
due to invention, which has occupied itself
of late with improved methods for drying,
preserving and transporting fruit. The great
est progress has been made in the way of
dryers. Within year some notable inven-
tons in this line have been perfected which
are great acquisition to the resources Of
the country. The fruit dryer bids fair here
after to be as much of necessity to every
farming community as the cider-mill and the
cheese factory.
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DR.. JEssUP writes from Beyroot to the
". York Evangelist that the Christian pOpu-
lation of Syria is in great danger from the
outbreaks of Mohammedan fanaticiSm. The
Moslems "regard the Christians as friends
of Russia, and hence traitors to their coun-
try"
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