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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1883-02-21
Home Missions.
BY RICHARD NJ 'ILwAINE, D. D., SECRETARY.
Financial.

BY RICHARD NJ ILWAINE, D. D., SECRETARY
Financial
The receipts for January, 1883, as com
pared with the same month of last year
are:
1882. 1883. Gain.
sustentation, $500 Ga 1921 SO $8,42l 90
Fund, 61o Sc 1886 80 1,o85 "a
Gain during the month, 1907 80
The receipts for the ten months from
April l to January 81 are as follows:
1872. 1929 Gain.
sustentation. $1o,45o Is 1851 10 $6,161 Of
Evangeistc
Fund, 1888 Ga 13,477 AZ 1858 70
Gain during ten months, 1924 10
Three thousand FIVE hundred dollars of the
monthly increase is to be accounted for bv a
legacy Of 50 900 from lady of Missouri, and a
special gift Of $500 by gentleman in Mary
land. There were also number of Individual
donations, aggregating several hundred dollars
An encouraging number of ladies societies and
Sabbath schools have also made generous con-
tributions, and it is hoped that many others will
send in their quota Of help at an early day.
Fewer churches have contributed than is usual
during January, which is accounted for by the
rainy Sabbaths which prevailed. 1t is, on the
one hand, to be regretted that so many of the
contributing churches seem satisfied with slight
efforts and very small collections, and on the
other to be reioiced at, that some congregations
notwithstanding the untoward weather have
far surpassed anything ever done for this cause.
Were it not invdious, names and amounts might
be given in illustration.
| 1t will perhaps not be indicate to state that
the church which has, for years, in the support
of this cause, stood among all others, as Saul
among the prophets" has this year maintained
its position by trebling its January Offering
! Others have, perhaps, done as we'll in proper
! tion to means and membership. We hear Of a
number, heretofore considered among the most
| liberal, which have doubled, trebled, OF
quadrupled their collections Of last year, and OIL
one or two which have given nearly ten times as
much az last year. But these are comparative
! ~ few, and Just serve to show what can be done
when earnest, practical interest is aroused. il
is hoped that their example will provoke Others
to like zeal. If this spirit we're generally pre-
valent, all we ask for the current year could ye
be raised before March 81. 1t will be remem
bered that our effort is to obtain
One Hundred Thousand Dollars
for the two branches Of Home Missions o
this $69,911 80 is yet lacking But two month
of the fiscal year still remain and will suffice
if all the friends Of the cause will 90 to work
Perhaps three-fourths Of all the churches whcl
have forwarded collections, can afford largely Il
increase them. Then not more than one-sixtl
Of the churches have as yet sent in their collec
tons Let each one of these see that a liberia
amount is secured and forwarded Then YER
few Of the ladies societies and Sabbath school
have done anything for this cause. Whateve
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1883-02-21

EVERYTHING is relative in this world.
We talk about anything as venerable in
this country if it is two centuries old.
But in England they laugh at us, and
point to the Tower and Westminster Alb
hey. At Windsor Forest they will point
you to an oak 1000 years old, which was
an old tree when William the Conqueror
set sail from st. Valery in the year l066.
If you go to the south of Europe, they
will show you in Rome the Basilica Of
st. John Lateran founded by Constan-
tine, with the proud inscription over its
doorway om,ni,tn wbiS ct orbiS eccIesiaruna
mater ct caput. But even the ruins OF
pagan Rome seem as of yesterday when
we stand on the banks of the Nile or on
the edge of the, Syrian desert where the
ALBANIA bursts through the chain of the
Anti-Libanus, and where dwelt nearly
four thousand years ago that "Eleazer
Of Damascus" the steward of Abraham.
The venerable British oak at Windsor
ceases to appeal to our imagination when
we visit Southern Asia and stand be-
meath the Bo tree of the sacred city OF
Amarapura, in Burmah, which was plant
ed, according to Sir James Emerson Ten
net, in the year 288 B. c., and which is
additionally held to be branch of the
identical fg-tree under which Buddha
reclined at Urumeleya when he under
went his apotheosis.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1883-02-21

How many there are who live in the
world with no stomach for it's vanities-
knowing its hollowness and its sting
who would cry with the poet Gin that
exquisite Ode to Nightingale):
That might drink, and leave the world unseen
And with thee fade away into the forest dim:
Fade far away. dissolve, and quite forget
What thou among the leaves hast never known
The WEAKNESS, the fever, and the fret
Here, where men sit and hear each other groan ;
Where palsy shakes few, sad, last gray hairs,
Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and
dies;
Where but to think is to be full of sorrow
And leaden-eyed despairs.
Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,
Or new Love pine at them beyond tomorrow ="
Most men who think feel this, and yet
do not act. How different is the strain
of the apostle" Rejoice-and again
say, rejoice" For we know that if our
earthly house Of this tabernacle were dis
solved. we have a building of God, a
house not made with hands, eternal in
the heavens"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1883-02-21

AT the late meeting of the New York
and Brooklyn Congregational Associa-
ton (the one from which Mr.. Beecber
recently withdrew three churches with
drew, and it is stated that in six months
fifteen ont of twenty-five churches have
seeded. The N. Y. Christian AdUocate
observes, that after its treatment of Mr.
Beecher's doctrinal views, the association
could no longer retain any church whose
reputation for evangelical soundness was
OF any value-and hence its disintegra-
ton.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1883-02-21

"AND as it is appointed unto men
once to die, but after this the judgment "
We cannot see any intervening gap
here for a second probation. Death
Judgment, this seems to be the order.
At death each mans work seems to have
fnality stamped upon it. Those who
aatter their imaginations with the pleas
ing thought of second chance" bet
high on a poor hand.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1883-02-21

THE PRINCESS OF WALES, like the
prime minister, is a pronounced high
churchman. Brought up a Lutheran,
she is now Ritualist. Her chaplain at
Sandringham is also high, and when
in London, always attends Ritualistic
church. As we remarked last week there
is a great deal said about how to reach
the poor with the gospel, but it is an
equally difficult problem, often, how to
get at the rich.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1883-02-21

II you will take a marble and drop it
into the neighboring mill-pond, the dis
turbance produced will give you about a
correct idea Of the disturbance your death
would create in the mill-pond Of human
ity in which you are daily swimming
around under the impression that you
are big Injun.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1883-02-21

Rev. LYMAN II. ATwATER, D. D.
LII. D., Professor of Logic and of Moral
and Political Science at Princeton Col
lege, died on Saturday last. Dr. Atwater
was at one time one of the editors of the
Princeton RevieaO under the old manage
ment.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1883-02-21
ECCLESIASTICAL NOTICES.

East Hanover Presbytery will meet at Ash
land, Hanover county, Va on Tuesday, April
10th, at P. M. W. A. CAMPBELL, s. G.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1883-02-21

TOMORROW, as our readers know, be-
ing the fourth Thursday in February, is
the day set apart by the General Assem-
bly, as a day of special prayer for the
youth in our institutions of learning.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1883-02-21

The Presbytery of Fayetteville stands adj
journed to meet at Montpelier church. Robson
county, N. c., on Wednesday, April 9th, at IL
A. M. ]. 2. MCPHERsoN, S. Clerk
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-04-26
HOW WATCHES ARE MADE,

1t will be apparent to any one, whowill
examine SOLID GoLD WATCH, that aside
from the necessary thickness for engray.
ing and polishing, q large portion of the
precious metal used, is needed only to
stitfen and hold the engraved portions in
place, and supply the necessary solidity
and strength. Thesurplus gold is actual.
ly needlss so far as UTILITY and beauty are
concerned. In JAMES BOSS PATENT
GOLD WATCH CASES, this WASTE Of
precious metal is overcome, and the SANK
soLrpIrY AND STRENGTH produced ut from
one.t third TO one half OF the usual cost OF
solid cases. This process is OF the most
simple nature, as follows: plate OF nickle
composition metal, especially adapted to
the purpose, has two plates Of SOLID GOLD
soldered one on each side The three are
then passed between polished steel rollers,
and the result is strip OF heavy plated
composition, from which the cases, backs,
centres, bezels, &C, are cut and shaped by
suitable dies and formers. The gold in
these are sufficiently thick to admit OF oil
kinds OF chasing, engraving and enamel
ing; the engraved cases have been carried
until worn perfectly smooth by time and
use without removing the gold.
THIS Is THE ONLY CASE MADE
WITH TWO PLATES OF SOLID GOLD
AND WARRANTED BY SPECIAL GER.
TIFICATE.
For sale by all Jewellers Ask for Illus.
trated Catalogue, and to see warrant.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-04-26

..See me suffer when be " sekl Tak'
care Of mo when he's dead Well. gnes'
not: and II ! can't. ] can get another
There's plenty of EN-. And they needn !
bother themselves when I'm SEX either
N want 10 he sick and suffer. its none o.
their bn siness: especially after all the sui
FERNS I've had when aiu't sick, because
Of their carryin's-oo. And you needn'i
sy 10 make me believe is's oil right either
kasv what i. rs TO live with man that
iinss 50 ssny lodges that be don't neve'
lodge ct tsS.s. and that signs hi. name
Yours truly. Ssuusl Smith. NJ. NJ, l. o.
r., X. o. b. X. ofF.P OF H., OF II. A.
III. IP.K. ok, n. a g.. L. Z. T., IL
Err, r. l. p. X. y. T.. Ass"
.oh. that's a harmless ampselIsat,' re'
marked the lawyer.
She looked him square in the aga sat
said. q do Lalieye you're . jiner your
self
He admitted that he VA 10 . certain 81
tent, and she arose and said: II wouldn't :
have thought ii. A man like you. char
man OF q Sabbath School, and superinfen'
tendent Of the Republicans' It's enough
to make woman take pizen. ButI don't
want anything Of you. / wsnt lawyer
that don't belong to nobody or nothin'. "
And she bolted out OF the Office and asked
where Squire Crane kept.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-04-26

THE SOUTHERN ''GAroR. "A writer in
the Contiuent says that six thousand baby
alligators are sold ia Florida every year,
and the amount Of ivory, number OF skins
and quantity Of oil obtained from the older
members Of the Saurian family are sufiic-
lent to entitle them to high place among
the prodcts OF the state: The hunters sell
young "gators" at twenty-five dollars per
hundred, and dealers at seventy-fye
cents each. Live alligators two years old
represent to the captor fifty cents each
and to the dealer from two to five dollars,
as the season Of travel is at its height or
far advanced. A Aten-foot alligator is worth
ten dol ars and one fourteen feet long
twenty-five dollars to the hunter. while
the dealer charges twice or three times
that price. The eggs are worth to the
hunter fifty cents per dozen, and to the
d dealer twenty-five cents each. The dead
alligator is quite as valuable as the live
one, for a specimen nine feet long, and
reasonably fat will net both branches ol
the trade as follows The hunter gets $3.50
for the oil, 81 for the skin and $40 for thu
head, making total of Sl650. The deal.
er gets 81. 80 for the oil, "a for tho skin,
and S25 for the head, making total o.
S36. so. The value of the head is ascer.
tained by the number and size Of the
teeth. Dealers mount especially fine
specimens OF the skull but the greater
number have no other value than that ol
the ivory they contain.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-04-26

TnE Boys or vrRMoSr--The following
story Is told by gentleman who in hi'
younger days attended the Kimball Union
academy at Meriden, n. II. The aoade-
my is not far from the line which sepa.
rates that state from Vermont. and the
Young men and women who are educated
thero are mainly from these two states,
With general good feeling and occasional
iy warner attachment between the boys
aud girls OF the Granite state and those
from Vermont, there was not little gen
eral rivalry, and sometimes sharp sparring
aud trials OF strength With or between the
two. Independence day, 1874 the stu
dents celebrated with picnic in the
woods--a collation., songs. speeches and
toasts. The writer had occasion to re-
member 1t, for it was the Rrst and only
time in his life that be ofiiciated as toast
master. After tbs regulation toasts were
read and responsive apesehes made volun-
teer speeches we're called for. A Green
Mountain boy, who, by supposition. bad
not met with success in his wooing OF q
Granite state girl, sent up the following
toast:
"The girls Of New Hampshire Their
hearts are harder than their native rocks. y
This brought down the house Tor the
Qroye) and it WAS some minutes before a
response could be called for. But it came
promptly, and from New Hampshire
girl, thus: "The boys Of vermont-green-
er than their native hills"
The applause was tremendous and more
than one hundred sons and daughters OF
New Hampshire Including the toast mas
teri se1ned convulsively to clasp that
ready wiaAAd and truth-loving sister to
their deliglAsf bosoms.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-04-26

The chiei engineer Of this establishment
il under obligations 70 Charles u, Day,
representative % Adam Forepangh, CIR
enscr aud mcnagist for hcaniiial painting
in oil aud yellow ocher Of l.allA Rookhs
departure from Delhi, New York. The
foreground Of this sumptuous work OF art
is occupied by an elephant with an old
coverlet over him aud smokehcase on
his bach, Ia which on woven hair mat
trsss can be seen Miss Rookh looking ss
though she had lo.i somebody. In ifoni
Of the smoke house is young damsel
sitting on her knees on onshion and
with fan is keeping the flies and mos.
quitocs ofi the heroine Out on the bow
OF the elephant, right over his night cap,
which IL tied on with a twoinch rope,
with tassels two feet through and eighteen
feet long, is a red muzxled chap who is
evidently the pilot Of the elephant.
Down on the elephants ribs "a . soahold
on which are four more OF the ewdack
hands we take them 10 be, Behind this
are four more elephants clad in smoke
houses, with the hired girls in, and in
front and around isa regular delciam be.
mems Of tigers, goats, lions, ballet girls
and other horrible objects.
We have never been TO Delhi, although
it ts only a few miles away, in Delawaro
county, and consequently we are impres.
sed with the architecture and general
build Of the place One Of the houses on
the lefthand side Of tho street is built
after the early Kent style, having tho bay
window in the third story, and the celler
on the roof The court house in tho rear
Of the picture is fine looking building.
the roof being covered with carbunckles
and warts, with couple Of shot towers
over the iron, gate. n Miss Rookh want
ed to leave Delhi it was all right for her
to go, and we presume the picture pre-.
senis exactly the way she did it, but now
il we were going to leave Delhi, We should
do differently, We should pack our other
shirt and pair Of socks in a piece OF
wrapping paper, and go down to the depot
and stand in with the brakeman on the
local freight to dead.head us to Coopers'
town, Albany or Binghamton, or where
ever we wanted to 60, and il we couldn't
do that we'd walk Miss Rookh might
better have gone on the cars, for then she
could have firted with drummer from
New York or Syracuse and enjoyed her
self and now oil she can do is to try and
mash one OF The deck hands on the ele-
phant, and when she gets that done 1t
isn't much Of mash after all. Mr.. Day
will please see to this, aud il Lalla has to
! depart from anywhere after this, we hope
/ he will arrange it more comfortable foi
her.
Me. Forepaugh will show bis show in
this part of the state, dnring the summer
and we .shall endeavor to see Lalla and
talk it oyF with her. - Marathon Ind
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-04-26
The Panama Canal.

The general impression respecting the
Panama canal seems to be that II is
mythical scheme contrived by do Lesseps
and his Gallic confederates TO tickle the
fancy Of their mercurial snd conhding
countrymen and to serve tho end OF spec
ulation on the Paris bourse. That there
is any serions purpose behind the opera
tions OF the managers, or any resolute aud
sytematic effort to carry out the ostensibie
purpose Of the canal company is either not
known or not credited whes stated The
newspapers have contained conflicting re
ports as to the status of the company. and
the extent OF its operations These reports
have been exceedingly rose-tinted on the
side OF the French, and adversely critical
and deprecatory on the part OF the Amer
leans especially. A report recently made
By an officer of the American navy, an ex-
perienced engineer. sent to inspect the op-
erations OF the French company, gives an
intelligible and apparently an impartial
account OF the condition and extent OF
present operations. and evidence OF an
earnest purpose for the future The van
guard OF the construction party arrived on
the ground two years ago. In the time
which has since elapsed preparations COM
mcnsurste with the magnitude and diff.
Guilty OF the undertaking have been COM
pleted. The route Of the canal from
shore to shore has been located, and
pathway three hnudred feet in width has
been cleared. Kaarses at the termini
have been built, workshops all along the
line erected aud equipped with machinery
and villages for the enp aeers and work
men. It il expected tho machine dig
ging on the canal proiser will be com
menced ut the opening of the dry season.
The report OF the officer also shsws consld'
cradle progress in four sections iRhhe ac-
tual work OF excavation l,y manual labor
besides the other preparatory work noted
above, and the constructs, OF reservoirs
and railways with engines and rolling
stock for carrying off the refuse. In one
OF these sections, the high 'st point on the
route, the excavation exten DIS to tho full
proposed depth Of the canil. About ive
thousand men arc now employed constant
ly. Do Lesseps has announced that n
expects the canal will be completed II
1888, and the entire cost is placed at on'
hundred and twenty million dollars Boil
OF these estimates the engineer thinits vii
be exceeded. But it is plaiE tha.t the
work is going steadily and resolutely Tor
ward under systematic and thoroughgoi %
management, with ample means presel
and prospective.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-04-26
Al sen.

One does not seem to have really got
out OF doors till he goes to sea- On tue
land he il shut in by the hills or the Tor
ests or more or less housed by the sharp
lines Of his horizon But at sea he finds
the roof, taken oil. the walls taken down.
He is no longer in the hollow OF the earth s
hand but on its naked back. with nothing
between him and the immensities. DE IS
in the great cosmic out.of doors; as much
80 as il journeying to the moon or to Mars.
An stronomic vacuity surrounds him;
his only guides and landmarks are stellar;
the earth has disappeared; the horizon has
gone; he has only the sky and its orba
left This cold, viti eous, blue-black
liquid through which the ship plows II
not water, but some denser form OF the
cosmic ether. He can now see the curve
OF ths sphere which the hills hid from
him; lie can study astronomy under i'm
proved conditions. II he was being borne
through the interplanstary spheres on 81
immense shield, his impressions would
not perhaps be much different. Hewoult
fiji the same vacuity. the same blank o.
negative space, the same empty, indefi
mite, oppressive outof-doors.
For it must be admitted that voyag
at sea is more impressive to the imagna
tion than 10 tb 10 actual sense; the world j
left behind; al | standards Of size, Of magni
tude, OF dish nee have vanished; the nni
verse has d sindled 70 little circle 0
crumpled water that journeys with yo'
day after day and TO which yon seen
bound by some enchantment The sk.
becomes shallow. close-ftting dome, o
else q pail OF cloud that seems ready TO de
sceud upon you You cannot see or real
ize the vast and vacant surrounding
there is no thing 10 define il or set II of
Three thor lsand miles Of ocean space ar
less impre ssive than three miles bounde'
BY rugged mountain walls. Indeed th
grandeur Of form, OF magnitude. Of dis
tance. Of proportion. etc. are only upo
the shore A voyage across the Ailanii
is ten . sy sail through vacancy. Their
! is no sen sible progress; you pass no hret
points. Is IL the steamer ths. ls moving
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-04-26

Tho other day baggage wagon brough,
a trunk 10 the Union depot which vas Ia.
belled;
Dynamite within smash lyon darcr
The trunk was cleaely followed by
young man who bad abou, seven minutes
10 set his check aud catch the train
When he presented bis ticket aud asked
for check tho baggage mssterrsplied,
This trunk can't SO As baggage"
"whyg
'The conlenis are dangerous You1l
have to remove i from here al once, or Ill
make you trouble
''But therc is NO dynamite wiilnn ="
There is tho warning
.Yes, but that was for a joke on tho
baggage smashers
"Ycung man, railroad never Jokes.
Get that trunk ont Of here.
Come, old fellow. II was only IN fun.
ontrcalcd The smart Aleck. have oaly
four minutes 10 catch the train"
III you do not remove the dangerous
trunk shall have 10 call M officer" was
the firm reply.
Il tell you 1t is not dangerous
'Lct me inspect IT.
This was grudgingly accccdod TO, and
nothing more dangerous than four shirts,
which sadly needed washing, were discov-
cred. by this time the train had depart
cd, leaving the Joker with eight hours on
his hands, and as the trunk was rclocked,
be was handed the scrapcr with the foi'
lowing advice.
young man, it might be safer for yog
to label yourself with something like;
.Perishable delay You are evident
~ too ripe for this section. Now scrape
that sign of, or the trunk can't 80. DE-
troll Free Press
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1883-04-26

A ScRIr1uRAL DINNER Several Brook
lyn preachers Of various seoss, haye 2
union, and recently one member gave the
Others dinner. The bill Of fare was neat
ly printed as follows;
"what ye shall eat, or what ye shall
drink, Matt. vi; 25) "spread cloth of
blue and put thereon the dishes. the
spoons, and the bowls and covers, Numb
iv: ~
Soup -Esaus "Rcd pottage,' Z Gen. Savs
30a 'Broied Fish" Luke xiv Az
Roasts --"Fat.ed Calf" luke xv' 800
Roast Lamb and Bitter Herbs, (Ez xii: 81
Vegetables THE Cucumber" Numb.
ri: 1914 Bitter Herbs" (Ex, xii 81
"Olives," mi u:l5D "Husks,' luke ~;
16)
Dessert -Mish.mish, "Apples Of Gold,
PROV. XIV: IL
CONNECTIONS -Damascene.
Drinks--wat Judges iv; l90 Sherbet;
Coffee.
One waitress was dressed like woman
OF ancient Athens, and another was as
Roman, the man servant was arrayed IN
"a coat Of many colors," like Joseph's s
Mish.mish is dish Of Palestine, made OF
rice apricots. Damascene, from the same
region is made Of figs, raisins. walnuis,
and slmonds. chopped together and
pressed. Tts oriental sherbet was Of or
ange juice and altar Of ropes. Tlp pess
is profoundly Impressed with the idea that
this is pretty good union to belong to,
for there is nothing like object ttaching'
- Vor Popuh.