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Notices and Devices.


Somebody sends US q slip cut from news
paper, and asks that other devices and crests
may be added from the reading or the mem
ory of our contributors.
{" An ingenious student has been investi-
eating the crests and notices of famous
French writer's, with this result: Victor
Hugo's device is Faire ct retalre; that of
Michelek the sWo words, Des allies. La
maritime adopted 'Spira, spera; and Alexan-
dre Dumas, line not at all 10 accordance
with ms jovisl temperament, Tout passe,
tout lasse, tout casse. Balzacs signet bore
the device RaisOn m Oblge;' and that of
Charles NOdier the commonplace emblem Of
heart trsns6xed, with the original explana-
tiou 'RAlson le veut Nourrit, the dramatic
author, adopted the significant words, 'Chut
chut Ohut! "
MoCoeyne's seal for his letters was the
figure of sun going down behind hill
Walter Scott is said to have used like EN-,
Olem; adding the Greek, 'the night cometh. ="
Calyins motto is said to have been " burn
for thee, accompanying the figure Of heart
all in flames. This be alternated with the
figure of heart with wings Outspread and
soaring. Martin Luther pictured two ham
mers crossed and standing with their iron
heads in the air. This came from the me.
chanical calling of his father, and ne en-
ployed the device as symbolic of work.
Maurice, son of William the Silent, at seven
teen years of age, took for his seal fallen
oak, with young sapling springing from its
root; and On this be placed the motto, "T'aa-
dem TT 8rcuLus arbOr." By-and by the
twig will become a tree. We remember that
one Christian printed in the corner of his let.
ser-sheet an anchor in ring, hope in eter.
nity and another used winged hour glass
stand on a cla8ped book, the time flies ana
the record closes.
We offer as good sign for somebody this
''a knop and flower" Can any one tel
as where it comes from, and what it means
Christian Weekly.
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Worldliness.

From the beginning until now, Gall that
is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the
lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not
of the Father, but is of the world" There
fore the Divine command is given: "Love
not the world, neither the things that are in
the world" And then We have a reason for
this requisition; "If any man love the world,
the love of the Father is not in him." But
Christians live in the world, are surrounded
by its influences and are consequently liable
to be overtaken by it, and to become more or
less subject to its power. 1t works quietly
and almost imperceptibly upon individuals
and churches, 80 that it accOmplisheS its pur-
poses before its victims are conscious of its
presence. Its progress and effects are we'll
illustrated in the following paragraph, which
we fad in one of our exchanges:
''In Brazil there grows common plant,
which the forest. dwellers call murderer. =
The slender stem creeps at first along the
ground, but no sooner does it meet vigor
Gus tree than, with clinging grasp, it cleaVes
to it, and as it climbs, at short intervals,
keeps sending out arm-like tendrils, that EN-.
brace the tree. AS the murderer ascends,
these ligatures grow larger and clasp tighter
Up, up it climbs, hundred feet, nay, two
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GRACES AND SUFFERING.

"Now no Christening, for the presen
seemeth joyous, but grievOus; nevertheless
afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruits o.
righteousness to them that are exercised
thereby"
GrieVouS chasteniug-peaceable fruits
how hard to keep them tied together-if we
only would not forget so often the compen
sation and the fortioris, We would not SO
often be foul with the slough of despond.--
For the hardest thing is to see the needs be
of present Sorrow ,yeven with our longings
fixed upon future attainment. Let US re.
buke our ubfath. by an illustration. When
last in Washington | saw, passing through a
crowded thoroughfare, cratewagon con.
tanning large deer. The poor, trembling
thing had had sorry time of it since it was
taken from its free aud silent greenwood, and
now its large liquid eyes were turned with
frightened, wistful look on the busy life hur-
rying past, and it showed signs of injury and
pain from its position and motion. l could
not help but think it was, in many respects,
fit symbol of mans journey through this
SorroWful world. There was a beautiful
park awaiting this captive, where nothing
but kindness and rest would be experienced;
no teasing dogs nor hunters bullet; and yet
as saw it, it wss terrified and bewidered,
all unconscious of its pleasant destiny, and
that this temporary discomfort was part of
the plan in which its pleasure was involved.
We are not much less ignorant and fearful
so much as to the lesson of patience, taught
by a recognition Of the unavoidable discom-
forts, by the way that eventuates 10 rest and
peace; but there is positive blessing involved
in these sorrows cf ours that this fact does
not illustrate.
Spiritual graces are born and matured IN
unaccOuntabIe suffering. How could faith,
which walks not by sight and meekness,
which is the gracious product of irritating
CONTRADICTION and patience, which tows from
submissive suffering, all be wrought in US, if
We could understand just at the time.
Hugh Miller found that only those mus
cles were pearlbearing that were in the cen.
tre of the Scottish streams, where they were
bruised or pierced by the rolling sticks and
stones that the current drove against them,
the confusion producing secretionS that crys-
tallized into pearls, and that the largest
pearls were found to have 10 their centre,
when broken, some foeeign substance, which
the muscle, to relieve itself of it's painful ir
ritation, had covered over with its smooth
aud beautiful nacre, converting thus into
jewel that which it could not eject. Can We
not, by Gods grace, transmute these irrita
ting chastisements Of ours into something
which will soften their harshness, and make
their jewels meet to lay before our dear
Lords feet ?--Presbyterian.
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TAKING COMFORT.

The dream of mortals is of time coming
when cares shall cease to infest, anxieties to
oppreSs, every wish be gratifsd, and they
shall stake solid comfort"
Many waste all their lives in the vain pur-
suit of this dream, which, like the will-o' the
wisp, leads them sad chase over the bog
and fen and morass, eluding them to the
last. A few Thoughtful souls arrive season.
ably at the wise conclusion that not in this
world will the time ever come when, without
any dregs of bitterness, the chalice pressed
to our lips will be of full comfort only. We
must take the bitter with the sweet as we 20
along.
Contentment is not an outward growth
Its roots spring from the very depths of the
soul, and are nourisbed as we'll by rain as by
sunshine, by sorrow as BY joy. When once
one has resolved within himself to take life
as it is and make the best of it, then he may,
even in tribulation, take comfort, though the
majority of people do not prefer to take it in
that form.
The delights of lite, like pleasant weather
throug b the year, are scattered all along the
way, and unless we enjoy them as they come,
the opportunity once past never returus. 1t
is all very we'll to provide for rainy day,
but that man is very foolish who allows him
self to be soaked by drenchng rains that he
may save his umbrella for some future storm.
Pleasure taking is not nearly so much pro
vided for among earnest, intense, energetic
American people as it should be. We live
altogether too mucn in the future, too little
in the present. We live poor that we may
die rich. We get all ready to be happy, and
when we are quite ready, iufrmity or dis
ease or death steps in and the chance to take
comfort in this life is gone. five only could
be content to se,ze upon the little pleasures
that lie just outside, and often within our
daily pathway, they would make large sum
total at the end of the three score and ten.
Far too many of US scorn pleasures that are
cheap and near and within our grasp, and
complain because we cannot have such as
are costly and remote and inaccessible. But
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New York's 0belisk.

We have noticed expressions of regret
that the "Needles" should be taken away
from Alexandra. But we must remember
that they were originally erected in Heliop-
oils (the On of the Bible) in the sixteenth
century, before Christ then, in the first CEN
tury of our era, transported 130 miles from
that city and set up in front of the C@sa-
rum, the temple which Alexandria erected
to Augustus Cae,ar. This temple has utter
ly vanished from the earth, and the obelisks
are as completely sundered from their asso-
Citations as that in Paris. And Egypt is still
rich in obelisks. Among the ruins of San
the Zoan of the old Hebrews--in the Delta
lie no less than ten, all overthrown and some
shattered. At Heliopolis an obelisk sixty
eight feet high, which was four centuries old
wnen Moses was born, still stands erect. In
the temple of Llxor there is one of seventy
FIVE feet in height, the mate of that in Paris.
Karnak possesses four, two of which are nine
cy-twO feet high; aud in the granite quarries
at Assouan hes supreme monolith of ninety
FIVE feet, which appears to have been left
there on account of flaw in the stone. All
Vn0oO n00P "n0ii Va iiSino' PioOeo, anu Vn0i iuino
of the ages recorded in their inscriptions lie
around them. The obelisk which we shall
receive has height of seVenty-one feet, with
base of seven feet seven inches square,
Its base is the se.gray granite of Assouau,
the ancient Syene. If placed where no fire
can reach it, it ought to last for many CEN
turies In our climate.
We know-we do not guess, but we abso-
lutely knOw- that the eyes of Moses and
Aaron have looked upon it, doubtless read
its hieroglyphic columns; that Rameses the
Great (Sesostris) had mis- kingly banner
carved upon it; that Darius, Cambyses, Al
exander the Great, the Ptolemies, Julius
Cesar, Cleopatra, Mark Antony, and Au
gustus knew it; that it was equally known
and beheld of Pythagoras, Herodotus, and
Strabo that long procession of the most
illus rious characters of the Middle Ages has
passed before it, from the days of Clement
and Anastasius to those of Don John of Aus
tria and, finally, that it was the first herald
of Egypt to Napoleon and Mohammed Ali
New York Tribune.
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James Brown of New York.

The death of this eminent banker, after q
long and useful life of eighty-seven years,
has been previously noticed Of his liberal
ity the ". Y. Observer says:
While it would be difficult to designate
any well-conducted charity or public enter
prise in this community with which the name
of James Brown was not associated, those who
have been most intimate with his habits tes.
tify that the largest amounts has been dis
tributed in juiicious help to numerous PEN
soners, through series of years, in syste-
matte appropriations never announced to the
public, He hath dispersed, he hath given
to the poor" His charity was egualled only
by his modesty, and his dislike of all osten.
tation. At the time of his death he was the
senior elder of University Place Presbyte-
rian church, formerly under the pastoral care
of the late Rev. Dr.. Potts, and now since the
union with it of the Mercer Street church, of
Rev. DR.. Booth.
Many who live to extreme age are subject
to dependency through fear that they have
outlived their usefulness. The old age of
good man is blessing to the whole commu.
nifty. Many have been and will be benefited
by the example of Mr.. Brown, who have
never known him intimately. His spotless
integrity, so unquestioned that his name could
be trusted throug hout the world, was not
merely the means of his own financial sue
cess, but has been and will be lesson and
light of immense value to this commercial
community, in days of notorious frauds and
dishonesties and distrusts. The highest eu-
logy on such man, is that his example was
public bene6. and his death public be.
reavement."
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Self-Denial.

When Agassiz visited Oxen, the great
German naturalist, the latter showed to the
young student his laboratory, his cabinet, his
magnificent library, and all his varied and
costly scientific apparatus. At length the
dinner hour approached. Oxen said to
Agassz, " Sir, to gather and maintain what
you have seen uses up my income. To &C.
complish this l have to economize in my
style of living. Three times in the week We
have meat on the table. On the other days
we dine on potatoes and salt. l regret that
your visit has fallen on potato day." And
so the naturalist, with the students of Oxen,
dined on potatoes and salt.
In the charming biography of Mr.. Tick.
nor one meets many similar instances, in his
intercourse with the scholars of Germany
He found men of worldwide fame living
with the utmost frugality, that they might
devote time and means to scientific research.
This is Self.denial; it is denying the lower
self for the sake of higher. And can any
one fail to honor and reverence it
And what is Christian self.denial? 1t is
denying a lower self for the sake of the
highest impulse man is capable Of, love to
man, love to Christ.
Do not the times call US to this? On
every hand there is suffering; and yet there
is ample means. If the people of God were
willing to do, for the sake of Christ and His
cause, the very thing that Oxen did for the
sake of science, would there be any lack?-
National Baptist.
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TIE DAY OF PENTECOsT.


WOndrOus the day, of ancient days the crown,
When. all with one accord, Chrst's own wert
waiting;
Some it may be- with weary hearts debating,
"WAen viii his blessing, promised US, come DOWN.
Some sad weak hearts, afraid to trust the promise
Some striving, praying" Lord, forget US mott
Though in thy trial thee we all forgot,
Master, withhold not now thy presence from US u
None, in that dread hour, looked for brighter glory
Than they had known with him in Gahlee;
Though all had seen him from the grave set free,
Solving in light the old prophetic story.
But then came down the rushing mighty wind,
Filling with awe the house where they were sitting
Tongues as of FIRE, words to all hearers fitting;
Power every soul with heavenly cords to bind
"Oh come that day once morep' hear men pray.
o tsithless men did BE one day foretellP
Was it for that he bore the pangs Of hell
To bless his own one single passing day.
What say The prOphets2 ''In those latter days
will pour out my Spirit upon all"
Wonders in earth and heaven shall befsll;
Young men shall prOphesy, and old men praise!
Why are our days not sll one Penteeost2
Heaven oveIaows with blessings o dead earthl
He calls, who bade dead Lazarus come forthi
Children of God, come forth to save his lost
Come, then, with one accord of prayer and praise;
Wait upon God, with faith that he is true;
Ask him, "What wilt thou, Lord, that weshall dO?'
Then may all days be PentecOstal days.
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Vol. l3.---NO. II.

if we would only magnify the little things
that make life pleasant as We do those that
make it unpleasant, the cup of our JOY would
continually overflow. We complain of cloud
and storm, but do we rejoice in the Sunshine
and fair weather? We grieve at the cold
ness of friend, but do we value fully the
fidelity of those who remain true? We count
the hours when sickness prostrates US, but
how many days of health pass utterly uu-
noted and without thanksgiving? We mourn
passionately for the dead, while we neglect
the living whom tomorrow we may weep as
dead. 1t ia we'll for US to heed the saying of
the wise man: "There is nothing better than
that man should rejoice in his own works;
for that is his portion; for who shall bring
him to see what shall be after him ?"--N Y.
Tribune.
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The BEAUTY OF QUIET LIvEs.-It is said
that when ThOrwaldsen returned to his ma
tive land with those rare and wonderful
works of art which have made his name i'm
mortal, chiselled with patient toll and glow
ing inspiration, in Italy, the servants who
unpaCked them scattered upon the ground
the straw which was wrapped around them.
The next summer fowers from the gardens
in Rome were blooming in the streets of Co.
penhagen, from the seeds thus borne and
planted by accident. So Christ's lowly, quiet
workers unconsciouSly bless the world. They
come out every morning from the presence
of God and 60 to their business or their
household work. And all day long as they
toll they drop gentle words from their lips,
and scatter little seeds of kindness about
them; and tomorrow flowers from the garden
of God spring up in the dusty streets Of
earth, and along the hard paths of toll on
which their feet tread
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hundred, if need be, until the loftieSt spire is
gained and fettered. Then, as if in triumph,
the parasite murderer) shoots a huge wery
head above the stranged summit, and thence
from the dead trees crown scatters its seed
to do again the work of death. Even thus
has strangled more churches than
ever persecution broke"
Presbyterian Banner.
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A Poem and its Author.

Toe short poem entitled "The Unfinished
Prayer" has of.en been published, but tn
authorship has been until lately unknown
1t was FIRST brought out in the Presbyterian
Inder, of Mobile, and is the production o.
Mrs. E H. M,rse, recently of Prattvllle
Ala. She had written it for friend in Chi
cago, without intending it should reach the
public eye. Her brother, the Rev. J. K
Hszen, now S cretsry of our Presbyterian
Publication Committee, saw the poem among
his sisters papers and requested the priVi-
lege of publishing it.
We give the poem, adding fifth verse,
which seems to have been dropped out, but
which was in it as it came from it's. author
THE UNFINISHED PRAYER.
snow l lay -" repeat it, darling''-
" Lay me, lisped the tiny lips
Of my daughter, kneeling bending
O'er her folded finger tips.
"Down to seep"-"To Sleep" she murmured,
And the curly head bent low;
81 pray the Lord" gently added
g You can say it all, know
"Pray the Lord the sound came family,
Fainter still" my soul to keep;"
Then the tired head fairly nodded,
And the child was fast asleep.
But the dewy eyes half opened
When elapsed her TO my breast,
And the dear voice softly whisper I'D
Mamma, God knows all the rest"
o, the trusting sweet confding
OF the child-h heart Would that
Thus might trust my Heavenly Father;
Him who hears my feebest cry.
What mission it is to make known the
Bible. We sound again the harp of David,
and put to our modern lips the golden trum-
pet of Isaiah; we speak again with Paul in
the jostling streets of Ephesus or of Corinth,
or under the matchless temples of the Acrop-
oils; we speak with Moses, fresh from the
thunder and lightnings of the mount, and
with his face yet shining with CLEAN from
The glory Of God; yea, reverently We may
Jay it, We speak again with the Lord himself,
1t the well-side, at the supper, from the cross
IN which he died, frsm the throne on which
ne reigns-when we send this Bible around
;he world DR.. Storrs.
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LET the work of God be written in the
heart, and that which is written there will
remain.
The New York herald., 1877-11-22
ARUNDEL CASTLE.


Most of the home life of the newly
welded pair will be at the fayorite ducal
seat Of the Duke of Norfolk.
Most ancient and one of the most famous in
England is Arundel Castle:.-"The ancient
keep of the Fitzalans and Howards, which
frowns majestically over the purling Arun
and commands not only the Channel and
the South Downs. with the seaboard of
Bognor and Littlehampton, but the very
spire Of Chichester and the distant Isle Of
Wight"
arundel CASTLE" said a recent English
writer, els, indeed. one Of the noblest and
most imposing relics OF feudalism within
the limits of these four SEAS 1t is compar-
able only to Windsor, to which, indeed, it
bears a sort of cousinship. AS fortress it
was strong enough to resist in the stormy
days Of the Great Rebellion an investment
by Waller, who reduced the gallant garrison
by famine, among the number being no less o
parsonage than the erastian Chillingworth.
HOME OF MANY TRADITIONS.
The traditions Of many centuries linger
in every stone Of its massive and marvellous
architecture, and it is the repository as well
Of some Of the rarest art gems in Great
Britain. Among q hundred works of the
most celebrated artists there is chiefly con-
spicuous the great original Vandyke-the
portrait of Charles la grave, sad, yet
wonderfully tender face" In the noble
cious and curious may be found, such
curiosites Of literature as the "Legenda
Aurea of Jane of Burgundy" date 1880;
"The Genealogies of the Howards;" book
Of sovereign recipes, by Feckonham, last
Abbot of Westminster; a book of devotions
in Ms. Of Qucen Elizabeth, the first folio
Of shakespeare, "Somainc Sainte," which
belonged to Marie Antoinette, and Curl
osity of literature in the shape Of a letter
from Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, TO
his steward. Henry Dyx, just previ-
ous TO his execution by order of
Elizabeth. In room adjoining the
library is portrait of Arundel the art col
lector. with his wife, by vandysc. He is
gazing earnestly upon a model of the globe,
aud pointing to Madagascar, an island
wnich-so runs the story-he thought of
colonizing on the Utopia principle. In this
room also is portrait Of the poet Earl of
Surrey, with the arms of England by his
side. He was beheaded for his audacity in
quartering them with those of the Howards,
so they may be said to form his indictment.
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A GALLANT RACE.

"a courtly, gallant and chivalrous race,
says writer, shave these same Howards
proved themselves from generation to gem
Grafton. An Earl of Arundel acted in Ben
Jonson's sMasque of Hymen' when it was
acted at Court"
Another Earl distinguished himself in
the Lords by passage at arms with Lord
Spencer. Said he, '.When these things you
speak of were doing your ancestors were
keeping sheep" Whereupon my Lord
Spencer retorted somewhat weakly. though
to the point, "When my ancestors were
keeping sheep yours were plotting treason. :"
Perhaps this may have been true in the
however, the Towards have nicely equi-
poised loyalty to their Church and to the
throne.
MODEL LORD.
The last Duke was a strong liberal, but
then he lived in days before the education
difficulty had cropped up, and he was
withal so modest nobleman that he
declined the Garter on the ground that, as
Premier Duke and Hereditary Earl Mar
shal, he had honors enough. His son has
already won golden opinions. The good
folk of the old town which is the appanage
of his castle will tell you that he is the best
of sons, the least pretentious Of landlords,
and will doubtless prove himself the wor-
thiest of bridegrooms. Neither is he the
less worthy of honor in Protestant eyes for
being SO good Catholic. He has built q
splendid church for the retainers Of his own
creed, and menAoutside the Roman pale re-
spect him for his thoroughness.