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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-05-18
WOMEN IN LITERATURE.

Many years ago lady's entrance
into literature was hailed either with a
fiorid compliment or cold sneer. No
such reception is given her nowadays.
In past generations Jane Austen and
Miss Edgeworth, Fanny Burney and
Miss Martiuean had shown that in sew.
erai kinds Of fiction women could do at
least as well as men. In the case OF
Miss Austen's stories it is doubtful
whether they have ever been surpassed
as faithful reflections of English mid
die class life. Anthony Trollope, a few
years ago, also essayed TO draw English
society exactly as it is; but though he
attained fair measure OF success, II Is
very doubtful whether Pride and Pre-
judice and the rest will not live
after Barchester Towers and its
like are forgotten. Then, while no
analyst OF human nature so keen as
Thackeray, aud no literary caricaturist
80 full of genius as Dickens, has ever
emerged from the ranks OF women
writer's, it is certain that, with the ex'
ception of those great novelists. GeoI 81
Eliot had q truer insight into humanity
and noblsr touch than any male
writer Of the last half century. She
would certainly stand third to Thsck
cray ard Dickens, while some would
place her second among the three. y
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-05-18
CHE LEADETU ME"

In navigating the sea of human ex-
istepce. we receive our best light from
The stars. When asked by Henry w..
of France. if he had seen the comet
the Duke of Ava replied, II have so
mnch 10 do on earth, that i have no
time TO study the Heavens. IL he had
taken time TO ascertain the will OF Goo
rather than that of Pope or Emperor,
the Duke would have refralned
from some Of his bloody campaigns,
and have left better record OF HIM
self on the page of history. Worldly
care Is poor excuse for neglect OF
heavenly teaching. The mariner loses
no time in taking his reckoning by the
stars. rather is this the expedltious, as
well as safe. way to port. Inc man
scrnpulously attentive to the duties OF
religion is most surely guided wisely IN
the path of worldly duty; for, para
doxical as it may seem. the surest way
70 understand this world Is to look
directly up into heaven. Our sure
l;oht comes from above; our reckoning
i by the throne Of God.
Men never understood the GEOGRAPHY
of This world until they came v u by
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-05-18

way Of the heavens. After travelling
over every foot of it. man did not un-
derstand the earth. He thought it q
great plain with the stars above it. The
astronomer dreamed the stars were
globes, and this dream was the first
flash of light on our mundane
problem. If the stars be planets,
our world must be as one of
them. SO the direction came from
above. as must ours also, in the practi-
cal affairs of this life. We cannot
guide our own course, and our neigh
bors are no wiser than ourselves. In
the most momentous questions Of our
existence, vain is the help of man: and,
so far as we have been able to observe,
the teaching Of infallible popes is as lit
tie reliable and helpful as any other.
Upon our obscure course through the
world the true light falls from heaven.
He alone who made, can guide u.s.
lions Herald.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-05-18
OUrEAGES ONJEWs.

Il Is peculiar fact once again illus
trated. In this game of battledOor and
shUttlecock between government and
people. the Jew is always the
first to suffer. If the government
seeks to Cypress the people. it always
begins with the Jews. If the people
seek to beat back the restraints of law
and order, aud break forth in mad riot
and uurestrained license against pro-
perty and persons, it is again the jew
who is first attacked.
The Jew. through this unenviable
position which he occupies, has really
become the barometer of a natiOn's civ
iization. If he is oppressed by govern
ment or people, it means hot only that
an injustice is wrought against him
bat that the whole nation is in peril.
Where the Jew rises, is free and I'M
lrammelled in his rights, there will be
found the fullest freedom. the broadesl
enlightenment. the most general CON
tentment. Jewish Exponent.
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and his wife were badly matched. Two
such high strung, impulsive people
could not be expected to draw calmly
the burden of life. Like two FESTIVE
horses, when one goes forward the
other rushes back, and who can say at
which door the fault lies that the bur.
den is not carried.
To sum up: Carlyle was man deeply
in earnest, loving the truth better than
all else in life; hating. really. bitterly
hating, shams and falsehoods, believing
that in him lay the truth, and that It
was his duty to put it before the
world-to give us light and keep it
always burning. so that if We walked
in darkness we should do so know
lngly.
Infinitely pitiful of the blindness Of
mankind, and correcting it sometimes
with a tender. but most often with q
harsh hand. Dyspeptic, savage, wild.
not to be bound by any conventiouali'
ties. daring anything, conscientious to
morbidness ia his work. he is among
the first in the first-class OF writer's of
the English language.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-05-18
rur rARAnlr or HAPPINESS.
a rich mans eoodiy son did go

a rich mans eoodly son did go
Ai0r 10 nud true happiness.
lie tracked the treasures OF tho snow.
And Indus tracked. The stormy stress
of hill-set seas. the peace OF palm-sct plain
tic searched and eager searched; vet search.
od inNin.
The hundred battered battle gales
~ IhchcS. tho storied temple door
or Derhi. oinclc OF fatcs
or sacrcd shripc or holy store
%! healing Things Dee saw; yet day nv day
Grew care upon him Ike a mantle gray.
san bad hc houors. Oft and great.
for gooiiy was his heart and keen
His wit and generous his state.
Aud much hiS eager eyes had seen.
Yet happiness Cemc not: and over all
iiis WAYS and days there ever lay pail.
And he grew frcttcd: came TO feel
lhni utc had bounded him. he said
An. cursed oi Godr His heart grew steel
Ana stone; and bitter grew his bread
\ iaN'. outWcrn. hC turned him, with a sigh
20 seek his chndhood's home and cherries
die.
And There ne SAT him. an apart.
moody. selfish, sullcn Thing.
} en-, 4od had given him heart
Far hlck hut hc bad sought 20 bring
True happiness unto himself alone:
80 cod insieqd hnd given him "a stone.
Onc day child passed whore ne sat
Mid his ancestral wood and moancd
The barefoot thing did start thoreat.
And siarfinf tcN. lie gruigiug grOaucd
some selfish word. The while he stopped and
bore
Ihe bleeding waifto his own stately door
And OBJ. The rising sun he knew
ihHt enN Hu- "il his after days,
Ills pcut suul Widcncd tlil 60 grew
20 reach, as reach the dear suns rays.
All ihinta fnnt lay about. before.
Nui W3l.c d hc uut for happiness once more.
joaquin Miller, In the Independent.
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RELIGION AND THEOLOGY.

IL is "A fashion nowadays among GER.
tain religious teachers. and particu-
larly among men of glowing minds
and high power of rhetorical ex-
preston, to emphasize the difference
between theology and religion. They
talk slightingly Of dogma, and exalt
emotional apprehension and bonviction
at It's expense. We suppose that thirty
years ago this wonld have been called a
feminine way of regarding Christian
ity. Theology is religion reasoned out:
dogma is the formulation in language
of that reasoning. To talk slightingly Of
dogma Is seriously speaking to evince
an Intellectual attitude which is abso-
lutely pitiable. To talk slightiDgly Of
dogma is to talk as if the ipse dixit of
the talkeT were alone orthodox. IL ar
CUES not only arrogance, but ignorance.
1t is only our languid interest in spec
ulation, said the late Aubrey
Moore. "or a phiistine dislike Of meta
physics that makes such an nnintelli-
gent view possible The only way TO
treat dogma is either to accept it and
hand it on, or else to restate ii in such
terms as shall command the assent of
universal reason. Unfortunately those
who speak disparagingly of dogma are
sometimes those whose studies have not
seriously engaged them in its origin
and authority, and who will not equip
themselves philosopbically for its ana
lysis. They much prefer to exercise
what George Eliot calls ''the right Of
the individual TO general haziness.
particularly as haze reiracts the light
into dazzling colors. andsglitters while
it couceals and misleads. -The Church
man.
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EDWIN AIiSOLD.

1t is perhaps tribute that the editor
of the London Telegraph would dis
claim, but it is merited tribute all the
same, to say that the interest of his
poetry and the quality that has secured
for it its currency, is not so much poet
ical as Journalistic" The little poems
that first attracted attention to his name
and especially the best known of them.
that beginning He who died at Azan,'
attracted attention by their Oriental
flavor rather than of their poetical pow.
er. THE Light of Asia" by far the
best known Of all his works. and
that upon which his poetical reputation
chiefly rests, appeals distinctly TO our
curiosity with regard to Buddhism. 1t
i, really lin the nature of news" ana
the readers whom it has found, though
many of them may have supposed them
selves to be "disinterested lovers OF
poetry" TO repeat MATHEW Arnold's
we'll worked phrase. were really read
ing for the sake Of informing them
seIve. Disinterested lovers of poetry do
not need to be told that there is wide
difference between the two states of
mind and between the literary works
that appeal to them respectively.
If one examines himself, there is
not much difficulty in discrimina-
ting. in the presence of any gwen work,
TO which it appeals. The Rubaivat
of Omar Khayyam. for example, is a
product of a society widely remote from
our own in space and time, and con-
yeys more or less information about
the manner and customs of the Persians
in the twelfth century of our era. But
no reader worthy to read the book at
all ever dead it in order to acquire this
information. Its interest to him Is pc
etic purely-that is to say, is both lite
rary and human. 1t deals in the spirit
and with the skill of poet with prob
lens that are as old aud as new as hu-
mainly itself, and that have arisen in
every age and in every country. There
is no question of acquiring knowledge
about the Orient. The question that
does arise, and that is not very easy Of
solution, is whether the poet one is
reading is really Khayyam or Edward
Fitzgerald.
A question of this kind arises also in
the works of Sir Edwin Arnold, al.
though neither in bis Oriental investI-
gations nor in his verses. of which the
scene il more familiar, does he appear
as professed or as a real translator.
Neither, however, does he appear as an
individual. and individuality is one of
the qualities that distinguish poet
from an accomplished versitier. Every
poet who is read beyond his own gener'
alton has a style OF his own, and the
poems by which he is loved and remem'
cered are such as no other
poet could have written. We
search these volumes in vair
for anything that is quite the authors
own, either in thought, in expression
or in music. 1t is sometimes said to bt
a mark of high poetry that it cannot b
psrodied. We should rather say tha
it is a mark Of true poetry that it Gar
be parodied. The parodist would hhv'
insuperabls difficulties with the verAei
of Sir Edwin Arnold, and would lopl
in vain for some characteristic, salient
| and personal mark Oh which to fast4n
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In spiritual life there must be work.
or there can not be growth. There Is
no such thing as going 10 Heaven on
fowery beds of ease, or without having
something to do, and doing it. Before
a man can find his life he must first lose
if. A good many churches and Chris
tan bodies are being made spiritually
paralytic because their leacers do not
understand this fact. They undertake
TO carry all the load and do. all
the work Themselves. This will
not do. The whole body must
be occupied The most successful leader
is one who is really leader, and not a
pusber: the one who plans, and then
get others to execute, The pastor who
does all the praying, and preaching
and singing, visiting and giving him
self will have a dead church. 1t won't
do for the preacher or the leader to
have all the religion. any more than IT
will DO for the head to have all the
blood. Thousands Of churches and
Sabbalh-schoUls and prayer meetings
and classes are furnishing because the
leader does every thing himself, and
won't give nybody else chance. A
correspondent brings this matter clear
Nv to light by a scrap of his own ex-
perience. He says:
soon after % revival in our church,
years ago, was appointed class lead
er. I was so full OF zeal for the glory
of God and for the spiritual growth OF
every member that nothing seemed too
hard Tor me to undergo. was all the
time visiting and giving spiritual al
vice. | wanted 10 labor more abund'
autly than they all. | was ambitious that
my class should Outrun all the rest, and
Tor this / worked with all my might. In
the class meetings | did most OF the
talking myself. and would insist that
everybody else should be brief. | was
continually exhorting them to be more
Jealous, and lecturing them for their
shortcomings; but nspite OF all dld the
class seemed to be continually declining
i'm spirituality, instead of rising. This
erieved me great deal, but | didn't
know what to do. was as blind to the
real truth as Bartimeus was TO the light
of day. At last | brought the matter
before the class. told them OF my
anxiety. and requested free expression
on the subject. Could any one tell
where the trouble was2 One brother
had the courage to stand up and point
ont the truth. He said | had
heen TO blame for it all, because
of my over-zeal. l had robbed
them by not giving them chance 10
follow the prornptings of the Spirit
Others indorsed what he said, aud
was made TO see my error, ano
turn from i t. From that day there
was change for the better, ano
the class at once took higher sPiritua
ground. hope other class leaders VIII
read and profit by this experience
Ram S Horn.
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have been provided for that purpose.
So when we have taken OF the "bread
OF life, all we have TO do is to call our
spiritual powers into exercise. and leave
the principles of spirit-life free to fur
nish the force which is needed for our
spiritual life.
We display great deal of unattended
distrust of God by constantly watch
ing TO see whether he will be able to
care for that which we have committed
TO his keeping, and we display dis
gushing seltishness by constantly talk
ing about what we have done and at
tanned, and what we hope for as the re.
ward for the great services which we
have rendered to our Lord by confess
ing him before men. 1t is not mucn to
be wondered at that those who thus
live should live such meager, un-
satisfactory lives; and that when
they forget the motive by which
they are actuated, as they often
do. they should allow the worldly
influences to overcome these. and the
things Of time and sense TO be the ones
which shall govern them: but when
one is actuated by the higher. manlier.
OWNER motive of serving God because
it is right to do so, and because it is the
greatest dignity and honor to which
God can call any one, then these lower
influences will find no place in his life
II one will live from principle, he will
live well and happily. satisfying the
highest demands Of his intellectual,
moral and spiritual nature, and having
the blessed Spirit always in his heart to
counsel, console and help him; and the
future will be assured. and will be
glorious, because the rewards will have
come through the operation of correct
principles Rev. II. j. Smith, in Pitts
burg Advocate.
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The revival we need is not only re-
vival of sounder scriptural preaching
but a revival Of Christian living. We
have had quite suFfeit of the religion
which luxuriates in the devOut fervors
of the prayer-meeting, which sings
sweet hymns, applauds sweet sermons
and then goes straight oil to It's money
grasping. and its plCasure-seekiug and
its psnderings TO self aud stu. God
forbid that we should speak lightly Of
true spiritual emotion. but the Chris
tianitv ,-hich Christ demands Is some
thing deeper than song. or sermon
or a statement. It is the holy and num-
BILE imitation Of Himself.
The revival. then. which we need is a
revival of the religion which Keeps
Gods commandments; which tells the
truth and sticks To its promises, which
paws one hundred cents to the dollar :
which cares more for a good character
than for a fine coat; which votes at the
ballot.box III the same direction that II
pravs: which denies ungodly lusts. and
which can be trusted in every stress Of
formation. \ revival which Will
sweeten our homes, and chasien our
press, and purify our politics, ana
cleanse our business and commerce
from roguery add rottenness, would be
a boon from heaven. 4 revival which
will bring. not only a Bible knowledge,
but a Bible conscience to all, IS what
the land is dying for. The world S
sorest want to-day is more Christ-hke
men and women. The preaching 1t
needs is. more sermons III shoes.-Se-
lected.