Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-24

necessarily have a different history and
produce different effects from all other
books. "By their faults ye shall know
Them" The scriptures do not shrink from
this test. The apostle declares that the
design of inspiration is thoroughly to fur
nish the man of God unto all good works."
And in this he only repeats the testimony
of other scriptures. The entrance of Gods
word gives light; and light is the syno-
hymn of knowledge, of purity, of comfort.
and of Joy. 1t makes manifest whatever
it touches; it quickens all forms of life; it
reveals all beauty; it transforms the cloud
into rainbow. Gods word is light.
In tho torture chamber Of an ancient
German castle, now being repaired, one of
the famous steel maidens has been discov
erod, old and rusty. It is hollow statue,
just large enough to receive full grown
man inside. Itopens right and loft with
hinges at the back. Steel spikes long and
sharp, line the inside. When the victim was
placed inside, the door was slowly shut and
the spikes gradually entered his flesh. Two
were so fixed as to strike his eyes and an
other, by the refinement Of cruelty made
the shortest and therefore the last to do its
work, pierced his heart. The machine was
placed over trap door through which the
body fell into a machine where it was
ground tobits, to drop into the riverbelow.
The figure WILDE sent to the Berlin muse
UNI.
S1R GARNET WoLsELEY thinks evidently
that the fame of the Egyptian campaign
was something well worth handing down
to his Posterity, as he now calls himself
"Lord Wolseley of Egypt" OF the other
twelve military commanders who have
been made peers during Victoria's reign
some have been content to associate their
peerages with places where they have
property, as Sir Colin Campbell, who be-
came Lord Clyde Of Clydesdale. Others
identified their titles with the actions that
won them, as Sir Robert Napier, who is
now Lord Napier of Magdalia. But none
of them, nor even Nelson, nor the sIron
Duke" aspired to be known by the name
of an entire great country, as the victor of
Tel-el-Kebir has done.
R. L. STEVENSON tells the following
story. 1t is too good not to be retold,
whether it is imaginary or not: A friend
of his, Welsh blacksmith, was twenty
five years old and could neither read nor
write, when he heard chapter of robin
son Crusoe" read aloud in a farm kitchen.
Up to that moment he had sat content.
huddled in his ignorance; but he left that
farm another man. There were day
dreams, it appeared, divinesday dreams,
written and printed and bound, and to be
bought for money and enjoyed at pleasure.
Down he sat that day, painfully learned to
read Welsh, and returned to borrow the
book. It had been lost, nor could he find
another copy but one that was in English.
Down he sat once more, learned English
and at length, and with entire delight,
read 'Robinson."
STURGEON: What we need is help-help.
powerful, efficient, constant: we need
very present help in trouble. What a
mercy that we have it in our God. Our
hope is in Jehovah, for our help comes
from him. Help is on the road and will
not fail to reach us in due time, for he who
sends it to US was never known to be too
late. Jehovah, who created all things, is
equal to every emergency; heaven and earth
are at the disposal of him who made them;
therefore, let US be very joyful in our in
finite helper. BE will sooner destroy heaven
and earth than permit his people to be
destroyed, and the perpetual hills them
selves shall bow rather than he shall fail
whose ways are everlasting. Weare bound
to look beyond heaven and earth to him
| who made them both. It is vain to trust
the creatures. It is wise to trust the Gre
ator.
UNBRoKEN companionship with Jesus is
the great privilege of the devout believing
Christian. The reality of Christ's pres
ence with us is made known to US by his
own unqualified statement. He did not
say, Ito! am with you Away, SO long as
you maintain sensible evidence of it, or
SO long as I see worthiness in YOU"
Nothing of the kind. He said, "Lo! am
with you alway;' and we dishonor him by
refusing to accept his precious meaning.
Observe, here is not the revelation to the
believer of mere possibility, but of a
present actual experience. We have no
right to Observation-Disclosures is unbelief.
This is not hasty and unwarranted as
| sumption, neither is it mere deduction
Of the human misunderstanding. His
word, 81 am with you," is so plain that
the Child may receive it, and it is SO fire.
quently repeated in manifold scripture
forms that one may we'll marvel that the
heart is slow to accept it.
The London Pail Mall Gazette is au-
thority for several interesting statements
in regard to the buried city of Pompeii.
Not more than two-6fths of the buried city
have as yet been laid open by the excava-
tions. The first excavation was made in
174S, since which $50 human bodies have
| been found. From 1873 to 1881 about one
| hundred bodies were found. 1t is not nov
thought that the lava stream reached the
city. but that it was buried by binding
storm of ashes. Many by responding to
| the first alarm had time to make their