Daily Republican., 1879-05-10
SUNDAY READING.

SUNDAY READING.
We met perambalators packed with
vegetab bles on their way TO market, and
men with the bamboo shoulder-pole,
linnumerable; ohe carried sixteen bar
rels, presumably empty, eight to each
end; snd another rose up frcm a well
with seventeen small kegs of water; if
one basket was full, baby, an UNI
brrlla, or q hat was sluug into the other.
Messengers meet us, parcel-post swift
as Mercury, and no better clothed; and
porters pushed their loads, and farmers
with broad hats pressed forward on bu-
siness to the nearest town; bands Of
pilgrims clothed in white, long staff in
hand, and wearing huge rosaries and
scallop- shell, with usually one that
had q bell about his neck TO keep the
rest from straying, would stop as he
went by.
Every one was good-humored, and
every one said, "Good morning."
("Ohaio'D, and the boys from school
courtesied low as they did the price Of
manners. Only the yellowrobed priests
looked at US askance, as if some evil
speech was in their heads. And all
lie way it seemed as if every one was
b mt on doing the opposite of what We
do at home. The cows had bells on
their tails instead Of on their necks.
The horses are clothed in Winter, the
men naked; the draught bullocks wear
straw shoes, carry an extra pair, and
leav. the worn ones untidily about the
streets; the horse stands in his stable
with his head from the stall, and when
he is brought out the rider mounts
him from the right; when acquain-
tances meet, each tenderly shakes
his own hand; people write down the
page and they kneel at dinner; the
tailor sews from him, the carpenter
planes to him; the teeth Of the saw
and the thread Of the screw run in the
opposite direction of ours, and their
locks turn to the left; the blacksmith
pulls the bellows with his foot, the
cooper holds the tub with his toes !;
house-contractors begin to build from
the roof !; gardens are watered with a
| little pail with wooden spoon, it is
not the nightingale, but the crow that
is their bird of love; the lamb is an
emblem of stupidity suicide is pleas
ure which has to be prevented by royal
decree: and is is compliment to be
called a goose.-Good Words.
TRouBLR.-All trouble is not borrow
ed neither is il the result Of depres'
sed condition of mind. How, then
shall we meet this real trouble, that is
the heritage of life across which sin
and death are evermore casting thell
shadows There are those who have
sought to battle alone with trouble
but out of every such trial, however
bravely borne, there comes only tht
sense Of loneliness and loss, which il
cheerless and without comfort, like q
stately palace with the lights gone Out
of its chambers, that once echoed ths
sound of happy voices, now silent az
the grave. There are others who try
to forget their troubles, after the man
ner of certain tribe of savages in AT
RIGA, who bury their dead in the silence
of the night, and then driving cattle
over the newly stirred earth, seek tt
obliterate every sign of the burial, ant
90 away, never to mention the name o
the departed.
Alas. when men try to overcome trou
h!-s in these ways, how futile are al
their efforts. In contrast, how blessed
is the hope and comfort which, in tn
day of trial, is revealed in the hear
that trusts God and flies to divin
sources of refuge and help! Our heav
enly Father does not keep his childrel
trom troubles. They often fall will
overwhelming severity upon them, bu
is always near to them, and in hi
own good time transmutes them int
blessings.
Every page, almost, Of the Bible, ha
,, word of cheer and comfort for thos
. in trouble. Happy Is that man who's
. life has verified, az so many have done
\ the words of the apostle '1ribulatio'
worketh patience; and patience, eS
perience; and experience, hope.' Thi
b is to have tho soul, taking root in tn
midst of earthly trial and trouble, bios
: som forth in the beauty and strengt
Of an immortal hope.-Eranqel.
WHAT Is TuH BIBLE LlXR! 1t Is lik
a large, beautiful tree, which bea'
sweet fruit for those that are hungr,
and affords shelter and shade for pi
grims ON their way to the kingdom
heaven.
0 1t is like cabinet of jewels and pr
cious stones, which are not only to
:" locked at and admired, but used an
y worn.
1t is like telescope, which bring
r distant objects and far off things of IL
Il world very near 80 that we can St
something Of their beauty and impo
tano..
1t is like a treasure house, stol
house, for all sorts Of valuable and US
full things, and which are to be hs
without money and without price.
1t 1t is like deep, broad, calm nowil
river, the banks of which are gree
and howery, where birds sing and laml
play. and dear little children are To-
ing and happy.
= The TALE BEARER.-There is prob
u bly, no person about any establishmel
r SO trying and disgusting as the tai
lie bearer, the scolder, the whi:perer, an
the fault-fnder. He maxi enemies
n his employer, and accom- iohes notl
Ing but misery to himself. We al