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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-06-15

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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-06-15
Entertainments at the Seminar,

On Tuesday evening the various
classes of Morgantoyn Female Sem
mary gave a musical and literary en-
tertainment in lieu of the usual clos
ing exercises of that Institution.
The exercises consisted of essays, Sc
lect readings and music, both vocal
and instrumental The school hall
was crowded with select and very
appreciatice audience, which gave ex-
preston to its appreciation of the nu-
merous performances by frequent APP
plause. All present seemed to enjoy
the exercises and everything passed
pleasantly. We append the pro-
gramme as executed on that occasion
Chorus - Vacation Song" = Juvenile
Glass.
Essay-Miss Eta Boyers.
Reading-"The Fields''-( Ruskin) -Ro-
sa Larkin.
uet-Instrumental-" and Peas
ant"-Misses Susie Moore and
Hattie Lyon.
Essay-Miss Ida Maple.
lteading-"The Watcher on the Tower"
L Carbohydrates Lulu Dorsey
and Minute Vance.
Instrumental Solo-"Silver Spring.
Miss Susie Moore.
Recitation-Miss Hilda Ingalls,
Keading-"The Influence of Scotland
and Her Songs-(Allan Cunning
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School Work. was discussed by G.
+. G. Conn. Remarks and criticisms
by ID. T. c. Farrow, G.. w. Archer
and j. G. Jordan.
4ru Singing. Discussion oftopic,
The Use and Abuse of Modern Sun.
day School Singing" by S. n. Rogers,
followed in remarks and criticisms
by ID. +. c. Farrow and L. 5. Lyon.
5rH. Song. Conference. News from
the Sunday Schools, as follows: Har-
mony Grove, NJ. J. Knox; Forks of
Cheat, f. w. St Clair; Fairview, f.
Lanham; Ebcnezer, G. Brown; Pleas
ant Hill, Jas. Pixler; Morgantown,
J. 2. Shafer; Independence, J. Ford ;
Zoar, Jno. Henry; Palatine, G. +.
Conn.
6rH. Adjourned. Bcnediction by
y.
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Secretary
Ordination Council.

Closing prayer by f. S. Lyon.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-06-15

Some one says we cannot pay our
subscriptions; that we are too poor
and no money is to be had. Are we
bankrupt? No. Have we anything
out of which to make the money to.
pay subscriptions? Yes, plenty. We
have iron, coal, lime, timber, cross
ties, glass sand and all the natural
elements of wealth, worth nothing
now it is true, but only for want Of
railroad. Build the road and all this
undeveloped wealth will be made
available and added to our resources,
thus placing our ability to pay be-
yond all doubt. We shall not be
poorer for building this road. Our
money will not go abroad, but will be
spent at home; will be put into circu-
lation here and with it the money
which the Pittsburgh capitalists have
contracted to expend with us in max
ing the road. For all this expendi-
ture we shall have the road, which
with its rolling stock will be subject
to taxation, and with the wealth
brought into the District by the in
ducements held out by the road, and
the development of our resources, the
burden oftaxation will be very light.
The railroad will be built.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-30
Here and There u Gem.

HAPPINESS is neither within us nor with
out us-it is the union OF ourselves with
God.-Pdscdi.
WHILE it is so undesirable that any man
should receive what he has not examined,
far more frequent danger is that OF flippanl
everence.-GOethe.
TnAT may be right which is not pleasant,
and that pleasant which is not right but
Christ's religion is both, There is not only
peace in the end OF religion, but pace in the
way.-Henry.
HEART work must be Gods work. Only
the great Heart maker can be the great
Heart.breaker, If | love him my heart will
he filled with his spirit and obedient to his
mmands.-Bdrier
AN old man was dying who had long
served Christ, when one asked him Can
you rest a little now, father p " Dear child
he said, lit is all rest for the everlasting
arms are underneath me-
WITHOUT faith in Christ there can be no
salvation for any sinner This is the ex-
clusiyeness of the gospel; but with faith in
Christ there is salvation tor all, of whatever
sect or name this is charity. SchaaJ,
THERE are number of religious people
who, like yagrants, seem inclined TO try and
get to heaven by by-road, so as to escape
paying the turnpikes, attending sometimes
one place and sometimes another never doing
much and never being asked for much
| Spwgeon.
THERE is no class IN society VINO can Sc
! i'll afford 10 undermine the conscience OF the
community, or TO set 1t loose from It's moor
ings in the eternal sphere, as merchants
who live upon confidence and credit. Auy
thing which weakens or paralyzes this, is
taking beams from the foundations of the
merchants own arehouse.-Beecher,
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Coherent Truth.

A necessity for systematic construction OF
explicitly defined dogma, eminently impor-
tant in this age of general disintegratlon, Is
found in the unparalleled power OF CO.
herent system of truth TO resist pressure
from without. This is property which
distinguishes systems of truth and systems
of error. A system of error, when once un-
derrnined in its radical principles, must col
lapse at once by very force OF the general
conference of the parts. But an articulate
system of truth, on the other hand, rooted in
fact, touching history consciousness at every
point, and braced together by the reciprocal
support ol every part, has proved to be irwin
chile An apparently overwhelming pres
sure at any one point leads to reaction, ill.,
duced by the elasticity of the coherent parts
OF the whole. In the face of the deluge OF
aggressive unbelef we are invited by not a
few sentimental friends to disembarrass our
selves of the encumbrance of system IN order
that each man OF MS may escape with some
dislocated fragment in his grasp. From
their slowly dlssolving islands OF halt-truths
slowly dissolving according to their own
yociierous afIirnation-they call us to leave
the old continent which has survived the
commissions of ages, because bound together
aud buttressed by the primary granite rocks
of Gods truth entire, They fear the con
tinent will break down of its own weight,
while they hope that their soft, undulating
islands will escape destruction by yielding,
/ il not overlooked because of their insignlh-
canoe. Whether this policy of preserving
the truth by means of its disintegration be
urged upon us by subtle enemies or by silly
friends, we intend TO refuse it utterly. We
viii maintain the whole truth to be the only
pure truth, and the whole truth to be tn,
truth as a whole-a complete system divinely
revealed in all its parts, and invincibl'
through the comprehension Of all the part
in the whole,--Dr. A. 4. HOige's InauguDd
/ address,
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Two Rivers-.-Their Lesson.

The Rhone, as it issues from the lake of
Geneva and rushes on its arrowy flight, is
the most beautiful of rivers.-green as an
emerald, yet as clear as clearest glass SO
that the pebbles on the bottom where it is
twelve feet deep are as distinctly seen
as if they were lying at ones feet The
Arve-a river of about the same size, and
flowing for some distance nearly parallel
with the Rhone and but little way from
it's dirty stream, carrying with it the
wash of the mountains and the mud of the
valley About two miles below Geneva
these two rivers unite, and flow together
toward the sea. But-though joined in one
channel-they are still for several miles al.
most AS distinct as when they occupied their
separate beds. The beautiful Rhone keeps
its green clearness on its own side of the
channel, while the Arve flows as turbid as
ever, from the middle to the further shore
So two discordant characters thrown to-
gether by circumstances, often maintain
each its own peculiarities aud neither is
the wicked sanctitied by the just, nor the
righteous contaminated by the unfortunate
association. In many family the goddess
husband goes his own worldly way, while
the pious wife lives only nearer the cross
because she cannot enter into her husbands
heart. But some miles below the junction,
the river rushes into chasm beneath a
mountain. When it issues on the further
side it is one river called the Rhone, but in
character the Arve. The emerald lost, the
purity gone, it is just common river alter
the common pattern-opaque and muddy
from shore to shore. SO, often-so, gener-
aHy-" evil communications corrupt good
manners" A few days ago went, with
friends, to the junction, to see the famous
uniting without commingllng of waters.
The rivers were both unusually low within
their banks, and TO our surprise the Arve
was very nearly or quite as clear as the
Rhone. They met and we're not to be dis
tinguished in their common channel. My
friends who had been there very often, as
sured me that they had never seen it SO
beiore-that to them it was phenomenon
as strange as the ordinary appearance would
have been TO me. All 1t was not the first
time that muddy character has appeared
! temporarily as clear and fair as the purest.
Even Satan sometimes appears as an angel
OF light. 1t will not always do to judge by
present appearances Wait until the rains
come. "When atilction or persecution aris-
eth, Immediately they are offended" 1t
must be a sad character, indeed, which is
not amable when its possessor has his own
way. Aud it must be a very bad man who
cannot conduct himself respectfully for a
little while-especially if he have his own
purpose TO serve in so doiug. Let those who
may be tempted to decide hastily in regarc
TO lifelong companionship remember thai
even the Arve is not always muddy
Irdueler IN Genera.
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Don't Stimulate The Young.

If you give tn a healthy man of twenty,
who has never tasted it, either, a cup of tea
or coffee, it will keep him awake all night.
If you give to one who has never drank fer
mented or distilled liquors glass of beer,
wine, or weak whiskey and water it will
make him more or less dizzy, aud perhaps
give him headache. Ii you persuade one
who has never smoked to try cigar, it will
probably uauseate him, and for time make
him severely sick. Now, what is the con-
clusion from these facts Simply that tea,
coffee, fermented and distilled liquors aud
tobacco are IN their nature medicinal; are,
in brief, drugs, and that at least while the
body is growing, while he still has a supera-
bundance OF vital lorce, it does not need
either the preseryative properties OF tea or
coffee, or the dlgestiye and tonic ones OF
wine, beer or brandy, or the soothing one of
tobacco, to keep it Ia health and well-being;
but that, on the contrary, when the youthful
system is in its natural state and either is
offered it, disturbance, more or less pro
nounced, is the result. What terrible re-
sponsibility, then, do not mothers and ia.
| thers incur who IRON baby yhood allow theil
! little children to drink tea aud coffee,-uay
before the little things think of asking fol
it, tempt them To sip 1t out OF their own
] tt.aspnOu
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There were many ideas entertained by the
Puritan settlers of New England that hap
PLY were not bequeathed to those who came
after them, but in fixing proper relations be-
tween parents and children. and in parental
government generally, it would have been
better To have preserved some of the inflex-
ibility of discipline that distinguished them.
The youth of the present have their own
way too much. No obedience or respect is
exacted from them by father or mother in
many instances, and they grow up selfish,
overbearing and sometimes dangerous. The
case of the boy in Maine who a year or so
ago killed his father because he was angry
with him, is probably familiar to all. The
Ither day father in New York was obliged
to complain of his son on account of the
boys repeated thefts. When the youth had
Deen sentenced he turned to his father and
old him that a. soon as he got ont of Jail he
would blow the top of his head Off" A few
lays since a young man IN high station in
Brooklyn tried to murder his wife. He was
neither intoxicated or insane. The only
trouble was that he had always been per-
nitted to have his own way, and the groove
Of seltishuess and petty tyranny to which he
had been allowed to shape himself led but in
one direction, and he considered any means
even shot guns and bowie knives-iustifi.
able in revenging himself upon those who
opposed in the slightest his wishes or course
If life. Children need checks, direction and
rood influences. A wel-governed child is
IN the grand ma aiorty of cases sure to grow
into a respectable man or woman but the
noblest natures may be blighted unless the
weeds of unframed propensity are kept
down.-BOStDn Post.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-30
Cure for Gossip.

Adopt this rule Let all who come to you
with stories about mutual acquaintance
know that you intend, as soon as your
duties allow, to wait upon the parties
spoken of disparagingy and repeat just what
was said, and who said it, Still better, take
out your memorandum.book and ask the
party to allow you to copy the words, so that
you can make no mistake. You viii have
to do this probably not more than three
times. 1t will fyamong your acquaintances
on the wings of the gossips, and persons
who come TO talk against other persons IN
your presence will begin TO ieel as If they
were testitying under oath. But you ask,
"Will it not be mean to go of and detail
conversations :" Not at all when your in
terocutor understands that he must not
talk against an absent person IN your pres
enoe without expecting YOU to convey the
words TO the absent person, aud the name oi
the speaker. Moreover, what right has any
man or woman TO approach you aud bind
you to secrecy, and then poison your mind
against anotherY Ii there be any difference
in your obligations, are you not bound more
TO the man who is absent than the man who
/, present II you eau thus help TO Kill
gossip, it will not matter il you lose friend
or two; such friends as these, who talk
against others TO you, are the very persons
to talk against you TO them Try our rule
We know it to be good, We use it, 1t i,
known in the church of which We are pastor
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cMorai ard Reiigions.
THE LAST HYMN.

The sabbath day was ending in a village by the sea-
The uttered benedicion touched the people tendery,
md they rose to In the glowing lighted west
And then hnstened to their dwellings for Gods blessed boon
OF rest
u they looked across the and storm was rag
ing therei
aetcespirt moved above the-te wild spirit Of the air
and ashe and shook and tore them till they thundered
groaned and boomed,
And alas for any vessel in their yawuug CULTS entombed
Very anxious were the people that rocky coast of Wales
Lest the dawns Of coming morrows should be telling aw-
ful tales,
when had spent ~ passion, and should east upon
the shore
B of wreck and swollen victims as it had done heretofore
with the rough winds blowing her. brave
strained her eyes,
And she saw along the biows large vessel fall and rise
OF did not need prophet tell what the end must be-
For no ship cond ride safety that shore such sea-
Then the plying people hurried their homes and
thronged upon the beach
o for the power to cross the waters and the pcrshng
to reachi
Helpless hands with sorrow, tender hearts grew
cold with dread,
And the ship, urged by the tempest to the fatal rock
shore sped
She has parted In the mdde o. the half of her
down,
Godhave mercy heaven far those who drown
o when next the white shocked looked with
the sea,
Only one last cnging figure the spar obe
Nearer the trembling watchers the wreck tossed by
the wave
And the man sl clung and footed, though power
earth could save.
Could we send him short message2 Here's trumpet.
Shout awayH
Twas the preachers hand that took H. and he wondered
what To say.
Any memory of his sermong firstly Secondly An, no
There was but thing In the awful hour Of woe
shouted through the trumpet, Look to Jesus Can
you hear|'
And "Ay,a ay, sir" the answer c'er the waters loud
and clear.
Then they listened "Ile Is singing Jesus. lover my
sou:"
And the winds brought hack the echo "while tho
waters rol;'
strangel indeed it Ia hear him. till the storm Of life
is past"
Singing brayey from the waters 90, my soul
at last"
He could have no other efuge Hangs my helpless soul
Thee;
Leave ah leave inc no"Ghe singer dropped into
the sea,
And the watchers looking homewar through their eyes
with tears made dim.
Said lie passed to be with Jesus in the singing of that
hymn" Selected
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1878-01-30
The HOmesick Mount.

We are told that in the peighborhood of
Interlaken there is prominent point, though
not of great height, called the " Heim0eh
Fluh," which means the Homesick Mount
1t is so called because it is generally the last
spot which the traveller visits before leaving
that part of Switzerland, and at a time
when his thoughts are turned homeward. 1t
commands a view of the whole valley of lu-
teraken, with its cultivated fields and pas
lures and picturesque villages and lakes in
the cup of mountain walls, and beyond the
Jungfrau, and other mountains, which never
dofi their caps of eternal snow. 1t is beau
tiful to look upon, but the heart of the
tourist is not there. He is thinking of
friends and loved ones, and his own coun
try. 1t is the Homesick Mount. And Sc
they to whom faith makes the invisible
most real may have their moments of up
lifting, stand on some lleimweh Fluh,
some Mount of Homesickness, aud, Will,
they acknowledge all the beauty, all tn,
glory, all the gadness OF the world, thei
hearts are not here; this sight does not en-
thrall them, for their faces are turned to
ward home. They dwell in the Land o
Promise as in strange countrywide
X dHen
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"There's Dust on Your GIasses.v

] don't often put on glasses to examine
Naty's work but one morning not long
'ince did so upon entering room she had
neen sweeping. did you forget to open
the windows when you swept, Katy?" in
luired this room is very dusty" " | think
here is dust on your eyeglasses, ma'am,"
she said modestly. And sure enough the
eyeglasses were at fault, and not Katy. |
rubbed them off. and everything looked
bright and clean, the carpet like new, and
Katy's face said--I'm glad il was the glasses
md not me this time. This has taught me
good lesson, | said to myself upon leaving
the room, and one ! shall remember through
life. That evening Katy came to me with
some kitchen trouble The cook had done
so and so, and she had said so and so. When
her story was finished, said smiling "There
is dust on your glasses, Katy rub them off.
you will see better" She understood me
and left the room. / told the incident to the
children, and it is quite common to hear
them say to each other, "Oh, there's dust
IN your glasses" Sometimes | am referred
TO, Mamma, Harry has dust on his glasses
can't he rub them off 2" When | hear a
person criticisiug auother condemning per.
maps a course of action he knows nothing
about, drawing inferences prejudicial to the
person or persons think rightaw there's
dust on your glasses" rub it off, The truth
is, everybody wears these very same glasses,
only the dust is little thicker on some than
on others, aud needs harder rubbing to get
it off. | said this to John one day, some
little matter coming up, that called forth
the remark "There are some people wish
would begin to rub, then" said he. "There
is Mr. So and So and Mrs. So and So, they
are always ready to pick at some one, to
slur to hint, | don't know, | don't like
them 81 think my son John has wee
bit on his glasses just now he laughed and
usked, What is body to do ?" Keep
whether others need it or not" 81 will"
he replied. think as family we are all
profting by That little incident, and through
ife will never forget the meaning of
d" There is dust on vour glasses. ."-Mdud
Manning IN the Observer.
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VEGETINE b
Purif1es the Blood, Renovates
and Invigorates the
Whole System.
ITS MEDICAL PROPERTIES ARE
Alternative, Tonic, Solvent.
and Diuretic.
ITS MEDICAL PROPERTIES ARE

vEGETINE made exclusively the juices of care
fully selected barks roots and herbs and strongly con-
crnraed that will eecully eradicate from the system
every tant OF Scrofula, scrofulous Humor, Tu'
mors Cancer, Csncerous Humor, Erysipeias'
salt Rheum syphiiitic Diseases, Canker' Faint
ness at the stomach and all diseases that arise nom
impure blood. Sciatica, Infiamnatory and Chronic
rheumatism, Neuralgia. Gout. and spinal Com
plnints can only efectually cured through the blood
For Ulcers and Eruptiye Diseases of the skin
Pustuies, Pimples, Blotches. Boils, letter
.caIdhead, and Ringworm. yEGElINE has never
failed to effect permanent cure
For Pains In the Back. Kidney Complaints
Dropsy, Female Weakness, Leucorrhosa, hiisini
from internal liberation and uterine diseases and Gen
II Debility, vEGErlNE acts directly upon the cause
of these complaints II nyigoutes and strengthens tm
whole system, upon the secretye organs alys nfa
nation, cures liberation, and regulates the bowels
For Catarrh, Dyspepsia, Habitual Costiveness,
Palpitation of the Heart, Headache, Piles, Ner
yousness, and General Prostration of the 'er
yous system, medicine has ever given such poriec
snisfnction a. the yEGErlNE. It purihes the blood
all of the aud Possesses controlling powe
over the nervous system.
The remarkable cures effected by NEGETlNE have in
dnued many physicians aud apothecaTies whom we know
10 prescribe and use II In their families
In fact. YEGEtISE the best remedy yet discovered
for above diseases, aud Is the only reliable BLOOi
PURIFIER yet placed before the public
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Remembrance.


A Highlander told me how the year before
ne had gone back to the glen he had left
nalf century ago, where no man knew
him or remembered him. But" said he,
" heard of one woman alive, up the glen,
whom | had thought well of as lassie, and
She of me, III shy way; still, You see we
had no troth between us TO make things sure,
aud so the strain OF time aud distance broke
the thread. | settled down hereway and
the memory of it was all but dead, until |
heard her name. Then said, will go up
the glen and see her. | wondered whether
she had also lost all track of me for it was
rather sad to b. left out in the cold this way
She came to the door, d white-haired woman,
so altered it was hard to mind her at all
She looked at me i'll wondering way, gave
one sharp cry and said, John, is that you
after all 2 | asked her, after while, how
she knew me; and she answered, The heart
never forgets, John; don't you mind what
good friends we were saw the laddit
and heard him speak when | saw your fac,
and heard your voice." Memory, flashing
out into remembrance, had made old thing
new for her, as she sat in the near neghbor
hood OF that inheritance in life, where there
is no marrying or giving in marriage, bu
where men and women shall be as angels o
God.-ROber COiuer