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No human word can express the
whole even of human love, or the bur
den of human sorrow. Whist then?
Shall men be like the Gagged eagle, that
beats out its brains on the bars OF Its
cage? All! no. He can go ipto the
closet and speak to God if he can not
express all his feelings there, there are
proanings which can not be uttered
that God hears. God is felt after.
One hour of solitude passed In sim
cere and earnest prayer, or the conflict
with and conquest over single pas
sion or bosom sin, will teach US more
of thought, will more effectually awak-
en- the faculty, and form the habit OF
reflection, than q years study In the
schools without them.
He that unduly fears man, cannot
truly fear God and he that lives
mnch in the fear of God, will not re-
ksrd overmuch what man can do unto
him; the want of faith lis the root OF
all such fear, which becomes less and
less, as faith gathers strength and In.
creases in the soul.
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those lessons have impressed, improv'
ed, and influenced our being.

A mans besetting sin is the one that
Jumps with his inclinatiOns. Does
he love mirthfulness? Then he must
he careful lest he run into excessive
levity. and play the harlequin. He
will be tempted to make jests OF sacred
things. A minister ought not to be a
monk but neither should he be q 90
cial comedian. Does man love ease ?
Then he always interprets those provi-
dences in his own favor which allow
him to shirk hard work and swing In
his hammock. Does he love flattery
and eclat? Then he Is tempted to
seek applause, and to imagine that he
is serving God when lie is only burn
ing incense on the altar of self-wor-
ship. The worst enemy is the one
which wears an honest disguise.
Look out for selfishness. 1t is the
"old Adam" lurking behind every
hedge. It will always keep pace with
you if you give it the upper hand:
Keep no league with 1t; for Christ
will never abide in the same heart
with that subtle and greedy tyrant.
A Christian is never safe, never
strong. never true to Christ, unless he
is constantly "collaring'' every sinful
and selfish passion, and forcing it into
unconditional surrender.
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A Strong Character.

1t is the close Of a sermon by Rev.
Mark Guy Pearse, in st. James Hall,
London. Dec. 16: ,.
I heard Of man, some years ago,
who occupied o position of great re-
sponsibility and Influence as manager
Of one of the companies in England
AS study bit of honesty as ever God
made. A merchant called upon him
one day, anxious to sell some steel,
and quietly set down before him q roll
of notes amounting to $500. "What
are these?" asked the manager, taking
them up. "Ohw exclaimed the mer-
chant, in an undertone, "if you will
be good enough to accept them with
the compliments of the firm." Then
it flashed upon the good man that 1t
was a bribe. Crumpling the notes to-
gether as 80 much waste aaper, he
flung them out of the office door, and
said, Indignantly: "Sir, II you are
not gone after them In one minute, l
will kick you there W
That is the Christianity for the nine
teenth century--that resoluteness In
the soul, in the hand, aye-and Is In
the foot, too, if need be! The Christ
ianity of Jesus Christ is a power
stronger than the power Of money.
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It is a cruel thing to send boy out
into the world untaught that alcohol
in any form is fire, and will certainly
burn if he puts it into his stomach.
It is cruel thing to educate boy In
such a way that he has no adequate
idea of the dangers that beset his path.
It is q mean thing to send a boy out to
take place In society without under.
standing the relation of temperance to
his own safety and prosperity and that
of society. The national wealth goes
into the ground. If We could only
manage to bury it without Its passing
thitherward in the form of . poisonous
liquid through the infiamed goaies ..
our neighbors and friends. But this
great. abominable curse dominates the
World. The more thoroughly we can
instruct the young concerning this
dominating evil, the better 1t will be
for them and for the world. y
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TURPENTINE.-Afte housekeeper
fully realizes the worth of turpentine
in the household, she is never willing
to be without supply Of it. 1t gives
quick relief to burns; it is an excellent
application for corns it is good for
rheumatism and sore throats, and il is
the quickest remedy for convulsions
or fits. Then it is sure preventive
against moths; by just dropping a
trifle in the bottom of drawers, chests
and cupboards, it will render the gar
ments secure from injury during the
summer. 1t will keep ants and bugs
from closets and store-rooms, by put
ting few drops in the corners and
upon the shelves; it is sure destruc-
tion to bed-bugs, and will effectually
drive them away from their haunts, if
thoroughly applied to the joints Of the
bedstead in the spring-cleaning time,
and Injuries neither furniture nor cloth
ing. A spoonful of it added to a pail
of warm water is excellent for clean
ing paint. A little in the suds on
washing day lightens laundry labor.
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FRANKLIN IN LoNDON.-When q
youth Franklin went to London, en-.
tered a printing office, and inquired II
he could get employment.
"Where are you from?" Asked the
foreman. America" was the reply.
"Ah," said the foreman, from Amer.
ca! A lad from America seeking en-
ployment as printer! Well, do you
really understand the art of printing
Can you set type?"
Franklin stepped up to one of the
cases, and in very brief space Of time
set UP the following from the first
chapter of John:
Nathaniel said unto him, Can any
good thing come out Of Nazareth
Philip saith unto him. Come and
see.'"
1t was done so quickly, so accurate
ly, and contained delicate reproof Sc
appropriate and powerful, that it al
once gave him character and standing
with all in the office.
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Pennies as Legal Tender.

A gentleman went to the STAMP
window of the post office in a neigh
boring city and called for 100 one cen>
stamps, rendering in payment 100 one
cent pieces.
"rhose are not legal tender in any
such amounts" growled the STAMP
clerk. II refuse to accept them"
You do, eh ?" answered the gentle.
man. "Well, give me one stamp" al
the same time showing out a penny
The stamp was forthcoming.
"Now, give ME a stamp" He got IT.
"Another stamp"
"Now another"
"See here" said the clerk. "hoW
many stamps do you want? You are
Keeping twenty people waiting" ,
"Oh, T always keep within the law
responded the gentleman. Another
stamp, please. Pennies are not lega
tender in large amounts. Another
stamp"
And he showed out his pennies ant
purchased stamps one at a time till ht
rot his hundred. But the clerk was
cured. Pennies are legal tender at hi:
window in barrel lots.
Wushin0tOn Post.
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A Good Experience.

Christians might avoid much trouble
and inconvenience if they would only
believe what they profess-that God Is
able to make them happy without any
thing else. They imagine that II such
a dear friend were to die. or such aud
such blessings were to be removed. !.
they would be miserable; whereas God
can make them q thousand times hap
pier without them. To mention my
own case, God has been depriving me
of one blessing after another; but as
every one was removed, he has come
and filled up it's place and now, when
T am q cripple aud not able to move. l
am happier than I ever was in my lifs
before, or ever expect to be; and II I
had believed this twenty years ago. l
might have been spared much ankle
ty
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DIR. Jno. Edwards says, in st. Louis
Advocate, that the Methodist preacher
of to-day is as unlike the Methodist
preacher of fifty or sixty years ago as
hKentucky Jeans" is unlike the fine,
costly fabrics worn by gentlemen and
ladies at the present day. What ne
says of the sermons applies to other
denominations
my observation Is at fault If there is
not too great tendency, just now, to
the repression of emotion in preach,
ing, and to the chastened indulgence OF
the imagination in word painting,
which is akin to object teaching, The
Methodists are in danger of losing
their hold on the masses by the ten
dency of the pulpit OIL didactic, scho-
lastic, scientific, cast-iron preaching.
We need fresh infusion of the ola,
fervid, glowing, earnest, soul-stirring
preaching that distinguished the best
and most successful class Of Methodist
preachers fifty years ago.
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There is scarcely character more
inaccessible to the gospel than man
thus chasing the phantom of wealth.
There is no form of worldliness more
enthralling, and no form of worldli-
ness less frequently rebuked by. the
pulpit. We were glad to see, how
ever, that these frenzied boomers were
not given up entirely by those whose
business it is to preach the gospel.
One brave man lost his life by expo
sure trying to save +s; s1me ne OF iss;an .sem
ary who had followed them up and
died in a tent at Guthri. He had an
unpromising parish. He died for it,
and thus testified that he loved his
Lord as much as the excited multitude
loved lucre-that he believed in the
gospel as much as they loved gold.
He lived and died hero.
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The Press.

The click of the pistol has given
way to the click Of the printers type,
which is a far more telling weapon
the cannon being re fashioned into the
rotary press invisible piercing swords
of thought and Damascus blades ! OF
Sympathy are fighting the worlds bat
Ties in these days, and ere long the
Monograph shall declare a universal
armistfce on the basis Of better un-
derstading, and the uninfiamed Drains
of the next century shall welcome the
woman's flag as universal peace.
tract from .Address By Frances II.
1rIlZ12.l..
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Seeds,

We are sowing, daily sowing,
Countless seeds OF GOOD and i'll.
Scattered on III" level low.land,
Cast upon the windy hill:
Seeds that sink in rich. brown furrowS,
Soft with heavens gracious rain,
Seeds that rest upon the surface
OF the dry, uuy iClding plain.
Seeds that fall amid the stiffness
OF the lonely mountain glen;
Seeds cast out in crow dcd naccS,
TrOdden under foot Of men;
Seeds by idle hearts forgotten.
Flung at random in the air;
Seeds by faithful SoulS remembered,
Sown in tears and love and prayer.
Seeds that lie unchanged, uuquickencd.
LifeleSS on the tccming mold;
Seeds that live and grow ard flourish
When the sewers hand is cold:
BY whisper sow we blessings.
BY q breath we scatter strife:
In our words and looks and actions
Like the seeds of death and life.
Thou who knoweSt all our weakness,
Leave us not to SOW alone!
But thine angels guard the burrows
Where the precious grain Is SoWn,
Till the fields are crowned with glory,
Filled with mellow, ripened cars,
Filled with fruit of life eternal
From the seed we Sow in tsars.
Check the forward thoughts and passions
Stay the hasty, needless hands;
Lest the germs of sin and sorrow
Mar our fair and pleasant lands.
Father, help each weak endeavor,
Make each faithful effort blcSt,
Till thine harvest shall be garnercd,
And we enter into rest.
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However q man is gifted, whether
for active enterprise, or for thought, or
for charity, there lies around MIN 9
world of opportunity. So far behind
are we socially, morally, intellectually,
that one might he forgiven II he sup
nosed the world was made but yester'
day and nothing had yet been done
Does no ambition fire us to, help the
despairing, starving, sinking people
aronnd MS? If a few more years be
added to our life, would we not strive
to nut something right, to sweep out
some little corner, to awaken some
soul to see and rejoice in the growing
light?
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To the Christian Readers of the Mes
senper OF Peace.

spend many sad hours in my lonely
widowerhood, in my retired chamber.
But, though lonely, 1 am not com
fortress. I have four very good chill
dren near me, and 1 am hopeful in re-
gard to another world-a world where
love and joy and "peace and happi,,
ness" will be eternal; where all OF
Gods people will be united in love
and peace forever and ever.
Dear friends, have favor to ask OF
you. 1 wish for you to take postal
card and write your place of residence,
and time of the year, and then write a
passage of Scripture, and sign your
name. Such cards which you may
be pleased to send me | shall read
often. and they will be comforting and
edifying to me as long as | may live
in this world, which cannot be many
years, as I now am seventy-four years
old. May the God of love and peace
be with you, and may we all meet in
that holy world where "love lsJoy
forever"
Your Friend,
John Hemmenway.
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RED JACKET AND THE MUSTARD

RED JACKET AND THE MUSTARD.
Red Jacket, the famous Seneca chief,
was once invited together with some OF
his followers to a set dinner at Au-
burn, New York. Roast beef, turkey
and venison were served up at the ta-
ble. Opposite Red Jacket and his
friends sat white man, who used
some mustard on his beef and then
pushed it over to the Indians, who had
never seen any before. Being all imi-
tative person, Red Jacket put q good
Tablespoonful with a piece of meat
into his mouth, but said nothing as
the tears came into his eyes. Another
Indian then took some also, and aske d
Red Jacket what made him cry.
"Well," he answered, ~ was thinking
of an Indian who died the other day."
and then he turned to his companion
who had just eaten the mustard and
asked in turn why he cried, too.
"Oh," was the reply, II was sorry
(crying) because you didn't die when
your friend did,"
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FORGETTING.

Let it be observed that real progress
in spiritual things Is often hindered by
q morbid disposition to dwell upon
past deficiencies. 20, if I had not
done this; if had only chosen anoth.
er way of dealing with the foibles and
weaknesses of others; if had given
more thought to the higher and less to
the lower interests of life, it might
have been so much better now," said q
conscientious, unrestful, repining
mother, deeply anxious on account OF
her household.
If all this is only All effort to find
rest of soul by awakening the sympa-
thy of others in our behalf, nothing
will prove so painfully fruitless. or If
this be only an effort on our part to ex-
punge the record of former guilt, the
whole teaching of the Bible Is against
us. For any thing that, diverts our
thought for one moment from the only
ground of present salvation-Chrlst
and His merit -is q fatal delusion.
The forgetting those things which
are behind" is a necessary condition OF
successfully reaching forth unto those
things which are before" Dismiss,
therefore, anxious, harassing thoughts
of what you might have been, or may
have been. Start anew, at the present
momeut, in the name and strength OF
the Almighty. An upward, shining
pathway invites you to "press toward
the mark for the prize of the high cal
ling of God in Christ Jesus" Re.
member that the "prize" is not for
such as have trusted that their lives
have been righteous" but for those
only who have placed all their hope
sin Christ Jesus"
mo longer forward nor behind
/ look In hope and fear;
But, greatful, take the good | hna,
The best OF now and here"
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Success in SelfCuIture.
MACY.

We are commanded by the inspired
Scriptures to add to faith virtue, tC
virtue knowledge, to knowledge tenn
perance, to temperance patience, to pa
tience godliness, to godliness brotherly.
kindness, to Observation-Disclosures chari
ty. The command is given because
we have power to obey the command,
and he who will set a watch upon MN
self. lust as he sets a watch upon his
worldly possessions, will grow into vir'
tue and obedience, into the thought
full and truthful. We are not to be
mere machines; we are to be men, do
ing every needful work with the man
Illness which is every mans birthright.
Culture indeed, or that culture which
is worthy of the name, has to do with
the man, the development Of the man,
and has little to do with the spirit OF
getting and boarding for its own sake.
4 field or q stone or house may never
be possessed, and yet q developed in
tellipence. q cultured and subdued
heart, which will outweigh in real
worth the gold mines of Peru, may be
owned. That which a man really pos
sesses is that which is within him
that which is without him is subject
to accident, and if possessed to-day
NAV not be in existence tomorrow.
The spirit, however, the mind, and
the affections of the heart, cultured,
improved, and perfected, may 60 on
progressing througout eternity to still!
higher culture and perfection. When
the end has come, and for us in this
world there is no more thought or cul.
ture, that which will be all important
will be, not what we have owned and
enjoyed in this life. but what we are,
and what we have become; what the
lessons of life have taught US, and how
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The divine love of the Saviour is
shown quite as much in the way he re-
ceives gifts from US as in the way ne
bestowed them upon US. He never re-
fused the humblest offering. The
thanks of the leper, the loaves and
fishes of the little lad, even the sponge
soaked in posca held up to him on the
cross, were all accepted. Whatever
men had to give he stood ready to
take and use, very often to multiply
and enlarge, until, like the loaves In
the wilderness, they feed great throng
Here is thought for the discouraged
Christian.
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Dr. RIDGE has made an importan

DR.. Ridge has made an important
cypcriment. He took bacteria, put
ting some into glasses of cold water
and some into others with cold water
and certain quantity of alcohol. He
found that the alcohol greatly assisted
the growth of the bacteria. The ac-
ton of bacteria upon tissues is of a
very destructive nature, and not con-
structive; and alcohol is OF the series
of destructive agents and aids the ac-
ton of the bacteria. So when man
exposed to the infections of typhus fe'
yer or cholera takes little brandy, in
stead of the alcohol enabling him bet
Ter to resist infection. it actually pre-.
parcs the soil for the development OF
the dangerous organisms.
London alliance NcUS.
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It is often supposed that the only
opportunity that a man has to show
his modesty, is when he has done some
great or good thing, for which he has
been praised, or is at least deserving OF
praise. But just as much may one be
modest when he has blundered, or has
done something questionable, or that
is worthy of censure. Then it is that
one is most tempted to rise up and as
sert himself, to declare his superiority
of Judgment, or taste, or knowledge.
Modesty is always ''candle to &.
merit" whether that merit be in a
right or successful performance, or
whether it be in good-spirited accept
ance of adverse criticism or censure.
S. s. Times.
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IT. has been we'll said that ''it speaks

It has been we'll said that 'it speaks
i'll for trade when its prosperity is de.
stroyed by the success of the Gospel"
The Gospel, when it succeeds, makes
men better and purer in morals ana
any business which is practically muir
ed by such improvement, is certainly a
bad business. Apply this test to rum,
selling; and the proof is absolute that
the business itself lives and thriVes
upon the corruptions of society.
Make men temperate in their habits,
and the saloon keepers would have 10
shut up their shops for want of busl-
ness. If no other reason.
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II. ia one Of the most dufficult things

It is one of the most dufficult things
in the world to establish on q paying
basis any newspaper which appeals to
the moral. side of humanity. AS a
rule, religious newspapers sink one or
two small fortunes before they come to
be self-supporting. Some of the good
brethren who have the editorial bee
buzzing in their bonnets will be stung
ne of these days.
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Some things flower invisibly, and
hide away their fruit under thick foil.
age. It Is often only when the winds
shake their leaves down, and strip the
branches bare, that we find the best
that has been growing.
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When Christ came into the world
peace was sung: and when he went
out of the world, peace was bequeath-
ed.
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Virtue and trade are the best por-
tiOns for children.
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"Does this train 60 to City Hall? ?"
"Yes'm."
"Sure it don't 60 to South Ferry?'
"Yes'm. Hurry, please"
"Kin I git a seat in the kear"
ayes. All aboard"
Do you think it will he safe ?"
"Certainly. Hurry up"
"You don't believe it'll run off the
track" -.
mo. Get on now or get off, I say |"
"Hold on minutes there likely
to be burglars or pickpockets aboard ?"
"Dono. Lemme close that gate"
"Think there's any buddy with con-
taeious disease in the kear?"
mo. Look here, old lady, do you
want to 90 down town"
30, dear, no. Ijust want to tell the
folks about it when get home"
Exchange.
Mrs. Briggs-You can't get 'em in
the pen, can you? w
MIR. Briggs-No. The pesky little
things. There they 60 again.
Those pigs remind ME of you' john
Why?
Because they'd rather run round
everywhere else than 90 home.
Mrs. Salstonstall (of Boston, Mass. J
Tommy, will you have piece OF
pie? ~
Tommy Beaconstreet (who is taking
dinner out )-Yes'nl, and l trust that
your apportionment will he common
surate with my esteem for yourself.
The true art of being agreeable is to
appear well pleased with all and ra-
ther to seem we'll entertained with
them than to bring entertainment to
them. A man thus disposed, perhaps,
may not have much learning nor any
wit; but if he has common sense and
something friendly in his behavior, 1t
conciliates mems minds more than the
brightest parts without this disposi-
tion.-Addison.
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AcoUAINTED.-Iti is a very simple
process for children to become ac-
duainted with each other, if they are
left to their own devices. This is the
way it comes to pass:
"Why, I did not know that you and
that little girl had got acquainted yet, "
said Roxbury father to his six year
old son, who came in from a walk on
the adjoining lawn with the tiny
daughter of the new next door neigh,
Dor.
"Yes, Clara and ] have been quaint,
ed lots of days." said the very small
boy. or
"What did you say to her first"'
asked the father.
"Oh, Clara spoke to me first. She
came down by the chicken-house, and
asked me how many prayers l say
nights, and I told her; and then /
asked her how many prayers she says
and she told me, and then were
'quainted. ."-Boston Record.