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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1877-12-26
Joy in Heaven.

1t was thrilling scene when our fellow
citizen, DR.. Sayer, exhibited to q large au.
dience of distinguished persons in London,
his method of treating disease of the spine.
Taking child that had not used its feet for
years, he placed it on the stage, and treated
it where all could inspect the process. In
half an hour it walked. The spectators were
in tears, and cheered, almost weeping. The
distinguished surgeon himself was 80 deeply
agitated that it was many moments before he
could speak. The following day he visited
the hospital and exhibited his method before
great number of physicians, whose enthu-
siasm knew no bounds, as they witnessed the
almost miraculous results.
If such sympathies were stirred by the
healing of the body, if such joy was occa-
stoned by the cure of mere temporary dis.
ease, what must be the enthusiasm of heaven
when the Christian succeeds in winning q
soul from death Perhaps none of US on
earth can picture it even in fancy. We are
still clouded by sin. The wisest mortal can
not begin to estimate the loss of the immor-
tai spirit. The most holy being on earth
CauuOL hUuOT olu do III ueecTVeb. 1u6 uOet
vivid Imagination cannot conceive the wretch
edness of the lost or the bliss of the redeemed.
But those who have passed on before US, to
whom the mysteries of eternity are unveiled,
who are freed from the imperfections of time
and sense, and who see the Saviour in all
His loveliness, must feel more deeply than
we the miserable condition of the impenitent,
and the great victory which is gained when
one sinner turns from the error of his ways.
And We shall join them if We are faithful
Then, if we have snatched others from de-
struction, shall we know for the first the full
Significance of what we have been permitted
to do, and we shall be overwhelmed with
gratitude that we were so highly honored.-
We shall esteem the salvation of single
soul worthy the effort of life; and if it
have cost US suffe:ings, we shall rejoice and
remember them as the means Of such great
blessings.- Watchman.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1877-12-26
FoR TIE CENTRAL PREssYrER1As.
SOME PROBLEMS IN ECCLESIASTICAL
ARITHMETIC and CHRISTIAN ETHICS.

Problem l. Suppose church agrees to
pay its minister a certain fixed salary, say
one thousand dollars per annum, payable
weekly by Sabbath collections-snd suppose
the payment falls short FIVE dollars each week
How much does that church owe its minis
ter at the end of the year And if the au-
thOritiss expect the minister not to claim the
arrears, are they not expecting and forcing
him to contribute SO much to the support of
their pastor q! And if he lives through the
year, does he not contribute it by enduring
the discomfort and priVatiOn the loss will en-
tail upon him3 What would be thought in
commercial circles of such transaction as
this? There are many churches which have
had experience in proceedings of this sort,
which can probably give solution to the
prOblem-yet simple and easy of answer as
the question seems to be, there are not many
which would not be afraid to grapple with it.
Problem II. Suppose church where au
arrangement similar to the above exists,
should pay out of the Sabbath collections,
first of all, all its Incidental expenses, such
as fuel, lights, and sections hire, and then, if
there be any deficiency, should make their
minister bear it--In such church, how
much more valuable are the sections services
reckoned than those of it's pastor! Is there
any Calculus which would enable US to ar
rive at the number of churches in the habit
of levying this sort of black mail upon their
pastors, or which would give US the true
character of such procedure?
Problem III. Where more than one half
of the members of church contribute moth
ing to its various missionary and benevolent
enterprises, is it fair to report what comes
from few as having been given BY all--es
pecially when those who do not contribute
are under the same obligation, and are fully
ss able as those who do? And how far dOeI
the custom in this regard, tend to encourage
the cOyetOus, negligent and close listed il
} their criminal disregard Of duty and breacl
. of promise? This problem is the more in
Q terestiug from the fact, that nothing is NOR
common, than for those members of a Churcl
: who contribute nothing, to look with cOmpla
? cency upon the amount given by scar church
|. and make it q matter of self graduation.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1877-12-26

A LESSON.

o heard ye the bird song this morning,
So joyous, so fresh, and so bright?
1t ripples as drops from fountain,
And sparkles like stars in the night.
Notes soft and low, sweetly blending
With warblings ecststie, are heard.
Oh.who did imagine such rapture
Could dwell in the breast of bird
Was ever a measure so joyous,
So filed with impsssioned delight?
How happy if we could but catch it,
And stay the sweet melody's fight.
Again and again tbs repeated,
From morn till the close Of the day,
Though the wind is so cold and chilling,
And Of sunshine there scarce is q ray.
Have birds more blessings than mOrtals
That they should be happier than wei
Or mercies are numbered by thousands,
They have but nest, and q tree.
Have birds more lclsdOm than mortsls:
More trust in the sweet promise given?
Is this tender love but for sparrows,
Have 0s no kind Father in Heaven?
We strive to attain what we cannot,
Of tomorrow, the burden we bear.
They, earoling sweetly, despair not,
And pick up the crumbs without care.
This the lesson of life, if we learn it;
Glad songs of devotion shall rise,
As we gather the sweet crumbs of comfort,
And trust to the God of the skies.
N. NJ.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1877-12-26

Problem w. Where any of the above
mentioned practices are considered just and
equitable-HOw long can such church ex'
pect to enjoy the blessing of God,-and how
much may it be supposed to grieve his Holy
Spirit? The key to this problem may be
found in the Old and New Testament Scrip
lures, passina, yet it is almost entirely over
looked by the parties concerned, and very
few have the courage to apply it when found.
SPHINX.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1877-12-26

GoD from the very beginning set aside the
Sabbath day as day of blessing 1t was on
the first day of the week (the same day lie
rose from the dead that Jesus revealed him.
self to the two disciples, and made their
hearts burn within them. 1t was the same
evening He came and stood in the midst ol
His disciples, and said, peace be unto you, y
and breathed on them, saying, Receive ye
the Holy Ghost;" and it was eight days
after next Lords day. He again revealed
himself to them.--M Cheyne.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1877-12-26

No MAN must go to heaven when he dies
who has not sent his heart thither while he
lives. Oar greatest security is to be derived
from duty, aud our only confidence from the
mercy of God through Josus Christ. Bishop
Wilson.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1877-12-26

THERE is a beautiful precept which he
who has received an injury, or who thinks
that he has, would for his own sake do we'll
to follow: "Ercuse half and forgive the
resi-"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1877-12-26

ONCE read q wrong, bad book, and the
mischief it will do you can never be repaired.
God has given US the choice of learning both
good and evil, but He has not given US the
choice Of forgetting
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1877-12-26

RELIGION should promote g courteous and
obliging temper toward all.
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-23
Men and Women.

The late General Changarnier inscribed his
preference in an album as follows: Plays, the
pantomime; architecture, a.barrsck; music, the
cannon; politics, government of mutes
NJ Gatayes, writer. dandy, and professor of
the harp is dead. Madame Recamier was one
OF his pupils. His home was the most sneu-
larry furnished, his rooms being carpeted with
the skins of his favorite horses and the walls
ornamented with the heads of his pet dogs, be-
sides choice collection of ancient wsrlike in
struments, sc.
Romance outruns civilization. Spotted Tails
daughter Shonkoo. or the RED Road, loved
Lone Elk, young brave. Two sisters of char
ity persuaded Spotted Tail to give them his
Child and bring her up in a convent Shokoo
said nothing, but at night she eloped with the
darling Lone Elk, who pacifed the old gentle
man by the gift Of pony.
The New York Sun has heard of young en-.
lishman who is handsome, q perfect linguist,
graduate of Baliol College, Oxford, an accom-
plished gentleman; and in spite of it all, serves
well in the capacity of butler in wealthy New
York family. Did any one ever know of o
more beautiful instance of genius rising superb
or to. circumstances? Few young men similar
ly endowed could retain in adversty the proud
spirit of butler.
Ex-senator Samuel c. Pomeroy of Kansas,
the venerable Subsidy Pom" has taken to the
stage, and is playing through Missouri with
Jane Coombs as Matthew Standisn, tho
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-23
The Louisiana Commission.

1uo IUutSEduh CORNERSTONE
President Hayes evidently finds it impossi-
BILE to arrive at satisfactory conclusion as to
the situation in the state of Louisiana and
has consequently determined to seek more
light through commission of gentlemen in
whom the country has full confidence, sent to
that state to investigate, The testimony pre-
sented to him since his Inauguration has been
of the most conflicting character. On the
one hand it has been contended that it was
only necessary to withdraw the troops from
Louisiana and the Packard government
would fall and everything become peaceful
and serene, the whites and the negroes enjoy
ing their full rights and neither being perse-
cuted by the other. The friends of Packard
have claimed, however, that his government
was respected everywhere outside of New Or
leans and the buildozed parishes, and that it
only needed recognition by the administra-
ton to give it full control throughout the
state. Packard, it is evident, has no inten-
tion of yielding up position to which he
claims he was legally elected, without strug-
gle, and the Nichols government has also
manifested determination to stick.
The President is as firmly resolved as ever
upon the liberal policy foreshadowed in his
inaugural, but he is just as firmly determined
that the black man shall not be shorn of any
of his rights and he does not intend to sacri-
fee them for mere quiet. 1t is his desire to
reconcile the races not to allow one to domin-
ate over the other, and to carry out this plan
it is necessary to move with the greatest
caution and not to act except upon the fullest
information. The Southern conservatives
were expecting that Wednesdays cabinet
meeting would result in an order for the
withdrawal of the troops from Louisiana and
do not attempt to conceal their dsappoint-
ment that such was not the outcome of it.
On the other hand the Southern Republicans
hoped for a recognition of the Packard gov
ernment and their disappointment is not less
than that of Nichols supporters. The upshot
of the meeting was that the status quo should
be preserved for the present and futher infor-
nation sought. The country will doubtless
accept this result as an indication of de-
sire on the part of President Hayes to do
nothing rashly. The question presented is
most difficult one and its determination af-
fects great interests and great principles.
When it comes it is to be hoped it will be
such that all patriots can cheerfully accept,
and that it will prove happy and final solu-
tion of the Southern problem.
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-23

ACCORDING to the London Ne,gs' cores
pondent at Rome the Jesuits are seriously
meditating an attempt to restore the tempor-
al power Of the Pope. Father Beckx, Gen
eral of the Jesuits, warmly espouses the
project, and the Catholic societies in Austria
and Germany have pledged themselves to CO.
operate. One essential feature of the plan
is that the next conclave is to be held in
Rome, so that the New Pope may be pro-
claimed a prisoner, like Plus. Cardinal Sim
eoni approves and supports the plan, and the
Pope has himself written letters to the EN-
peror of Austria, the King of Belgium, Presi
dent MacMahon and ex-Queen Isabella. A
series Of express instructions have been issued
from the Vatican to avoid collision with civi
authorities, but at the same time to keep up
pressure on the Catholic powers to obtain
their adherence to crusade for the resusci-
tation of the Roman question. The Vatican
has obtained lists of volunteers prepared to
serve under the Papal flag, and large sums of
money have already been deposited in France
and England.
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-23

THE style of economy adopted by the last
Democratic House is well illustrated by the
fact that scores of witnesses, many of them
of small means, supenaed by its committees
and who paid their own expenses to Wash
ington, cannot get their pay because the ap.
preparation is exhausted. By this swindle
the House saved the country about $4,000,
while at the close of the session it raised the
salaries ofits committee, clerks, messengers
and other officials without a word of protest
from Holman even. This kind of economy
which makes liberal presents and leaves just
debts unpaid is the species which the last
House is proud of.
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-23

A WOMAN in Allentown, Pa, has con-
eeived novel plan of killing off the Republi-
can party. The only trouble about the
scheme is that it requires the active assist
ance of the Almighty, which the young lady
cannot depend on. She wants it to rain
powder for three days and then lightning to
strike the powder and kill every Republican
in Washington. She hasn't patented her
method and doubtless the Democrats can get
it for nothing.
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-23

THE committee of the Massachusetts legis-
lation to which was referred the report of
the railroad commissioners on the Boston 6
Maine strike have presented two reports.
Both agree in favoring the passage of laws
maxim g it penal offense to offer violence to
railroad employees to compel them to join
strikes, or to obstruct or ipjure locomotives
or to refuse to draw any cars or species
Of freight when in the employ of the corpora
tion. The reports disagree as to the time
when it shall be lawful for an engineer to re-
sign his position and refuse to drive his en-
gine. The majority report proposes the Sc
we're doctrine. that when any two or more en-
gineers having dispute with the corpora
ton refuse to start out their trains from their
first point Of departure, they shall be liable to
imprisonment The minority report propo-
ses the milder rule, that engineers shall only
be thus liable when they abandon their trains
at points short of their schedule destinations,
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-23
TERMS $500 PER ANNUM, IN ADvAN CT.

THERE are 10000 or 10000 miners at work
in the Black Hills and only about fifty are
mining successfully, while an hundred and
fifty or so are making a living and the rest
are either living on these two hundred as
thieves, gamblers Or rumselers, or else are
suffering privation and want. Men at the
East who are meditating becoming Cresuses
by trip to the Black Hills had better pause.
They are much more likely to become pau
nars
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-23

THE proposition for the city of Boston and
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to fur
nish the requisite balance to redeem the Old
South meets with considerable opposition.
A remonstrance has been presented to the leg
islature and though it does not contain many
names they are all those of men of influence
and weight. The saving of the Old South
seems to prove one of the most difficult un-
dertaking the citizens of Massachusetts, ever
undertook
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-23

SAN FRANCISCO is fast getting into control
OF rings. The debt is growing rapidly and
the streets are infested by desperadoes, who
are daily becoming bolder in their outrages.
1t is proposed as a remedy to form a peoples
party which will nominate honest and capa-
bic men fer office without regard TO politics.
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-23

THE argus in its new born zeal for civil
service reform wants post-masters, U. S.
attorneys, collectors, marshals &C., elected
by the people. 1t thinks the country would
be better satisfied. The true inwardness of
this view lies in the fact that the Democrats
under this arrangement might secure post
masters in few towns in the state, or as the
argus puts it, it would more evenly divide
the offices between the two parties Had
Tilden been elected the argus would have
endorsed this plan all the same, doubtless.
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-23
THE PRESS
FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 2s, 1877

We do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations The name and address of the writer are III
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nicatons that are not used
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-23

The unhappy man who has been lured all
winter to take chances in lottery for a
chamois-oyster drowned in a bushel of hot
peppered milk, at fifty cents plate, is no SOON
er rejoicing in his emancipation from church
sociables than the pious ladies of the congrega-
tion begin to plan strawberry festivals. A lady
who is considered an authority on such subjects
writes to the Chicago Tribune that this springs
fashion 10 short cake will have more sawdust
than usual in it, and will be cut bias and
trimmed with one berry to the piece. The
most fashionable tint will be two shades of SAL
eratuS yelloW-Chicdq0 Tribune
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-23

Ladies' dresses says a fashion magazine,
twill fit tighter than ever this spring. but
really, it is hard to see how this is to be accom-
plished. The only possible way appears to be
to initiate the poor artist who painted beauti-
full pair of stockings for his grisette, and it is,
doubtful if this plan could be applied success
fully in producing an entire dress There's no
telling what the modistes may do, though.
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-23
Cap and Bells.

Sometimes we catch faint glimpses, in our stIlest
midnight dreams,
Of angels swinging censers, waiting mist-wreaths
oer blue streams"
Then the vapory vestals vanish and the censes pale
and pass,
And we catch glimpse of fairies bringing lager /,
blue glass
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-23

Fascinating, but frivolous Fair One-"What
pity your husband doesn't have plate glass
put on his pictures, as some people do" Host
ess-"You think it makes the picture richer in
tone?' Fascinating Fair Ons-'I don't know
about that but one can see ones self in chem
at least"
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-23

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate couDtersigned by Stanley Il.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials Of every person claiming to represent our
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-23

A Cincinnati dentist has theory that it is
absolutely necessary to keep the patients
mind occupied. When he lifts the victim by
stubborn tooth and canters round the room
with him, it seems to fulfil the requirements
of his theory
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-23

A Cambridge paper says of this years Har-
ward crew. Progress is evident, but No.4 has al
most awkward habit Of wagging bis left ear on
the recover This is vicious trick which would
undoubtedly cause disturbance in the boat; and
unless he can correct it before the river opens,
the ear must be sacrificed
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-23

An English savant says that dazzling wall
papers engender the most dreadful disorders.
What is true Of them is also true of the young
man of the period, and the persistant use of
large checks for trouserings, impossible figures
for necktes and dazzling designs for shiitiugs
should be made a capital offense. "That fellow
makes me sick, is no longer an affectatiou.
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-23

A photographer who can make a mole on
lady's cheek appear like dimpls in her pic
ture has achieved the highest standard of his
profession.
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-23
WANTS..
WANTED.

a lady Assistant Teacher for the West
"A brook High and Grammar School. Applica-
tions received until April LIST. Term to commence
April 9Th.
Address, stating education, experience references
&C., o. A. COBB,
Supervisor of Schools,
mh22d1w Wesbrook, Me.
The Portland daily press., 1877-03-23

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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-10-18
HER ANSWER.

All day long she held my qaeeaaoo .r.-~.-'s--as''
---------------~----1n her heart tt
shunncdfny eyes that cras,a,tn anewer, Y
81 $50 3e::S u
'should1 leave tomoorrows-eariye
o.':3r,'eet.'s'! lSsss 49,. Isl
While a cold hand gripped ny heart strings,
- sriitsos ';:sanes, -aHSM them last, .,7g
st Il l egf s''n l'ten3f 1 l'"' 's?
Trcmblod in the eyes that Watched her TIL ii
Y9j:As she stole i Jill
Up the stairs with measured footsteps.
,fsysiA ,ytrssoO zs8nt ahe taIne1tS
Where lamp II brazen bracket
Brightly burned
showed me AL the g1inting IiPples
vci,eata1Js r. v;5tsts .sed eA5 a t19'lditt o'
~Glimmerlng where
Curved her tT Pe ref siR .9Se ssst W
Toward me from the dusky railing
euaaYA BIZ, : ga or Where she leant.ot!i
Ah ny 1evs 70 One .hit 81 h. "a, Eaapdsr'
Slowly lifts the rose that ns.tles,. .3'1I
Breathes she Id ii hoarehX ses*eF, 80
And Lows nh,e.SSsagc soft,y datsei. ''>> 4
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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-10-18
- That Poor, Pale:F Faced Boy.

Detroit Free Press.
Tie other day {. poor, pale faced boy
of twelve summers or so visited several
streets in the northern part of the city
with hand-cart full of small musk
melons, the largest being hardly larger
than a sickly baby's head: Leaving his
hand cart at the curbstone he would take
melon in his hand and knock at q door
and say to the LADY,, ....... ,.....
"Please, ma'aln, I'm poor boy trying
to get money to buy school books, and
won't you buy this melon for nickel to
help meP' ,-...:..~...., ...,> go. ~
Very few refused to purchase, and the.
boy may have sold a whole wagon-load
for all that any one Of the purchasers
know to the contrary. In every place
where he sold a melon he shortly
returned, and, holding out a lead nickel
on his palm, he plaintively observed:
If you please ma'am that was bad
nickel you gave me, and will you please
give me another in place Of it2'' ,+..5 ...
Naturally, enough, each one complied,
and in most cases the boy was allowed to
retain the bad coin as we'll. In this way
his melons netted him 10 cents apiece
and he introduced one of. the sharpest
little tricks Of; the day: ;,;.: -: -, T.:
The careless cuss rusheth through the
darkness towards the door and stubbeth
his cigar against the panel thereof;
whereas the prudent man cautiously