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140 gm flee Repentance. , » •, * i A kitten’once to its mother said: " I’ll never more t be good ; But I’ll go and be a robber fierce, And live in a dreary wood, Wood, wood, wood, And live in a dreary wood.” 11. It climbed a tree to rob a nest Os young and tender owls, But the branch broke off and the kitten fell With six tremendous howls! Howls, howls, howls, With six tremendous howls! in. Then up it rose, and scratched its uose, And went home very sad; “Oh I mother, dear, behold me here, I’ll never more be bad, Bad, bad, bad, I’ll never more be bad.” Beauty. Beautiful faces, they that wear The light of a pleasant spirit, there It matters little if dark or fair. Beautiful hands, are they that do The work of the noble, good, and true, Busy for them the long day through. Beautiful feet, are they that go Swiltiy, to lighten another’s woe, Through summer’s heat or the winter’s snow. Beautiful children, if rich or poor, Who walk the pathways sweet and pure, That lead to the mansions strong and sure. Our Substitute—Our Saviour. It was a warm summer afternoon ; a lazy breeze stole through the windows of a little hot district school-house, lifting the white cur tains, and rustling the leaves of the copy-book that lay open on all the desks. Thirty or forty scholars of all ages were bending over their writing, quiet and busy ; the voice of the master as he passed about among the writers, was the only sound. But, though silent, this little light, hot school-room lias its heroes and heroines as certainly as the wider sphere of life. The bell rings for the writing to be laid by; and comes now the last exercises of the day, the spelling, in which nearly all the school joined. At the head of the class is a delicate little girl in a blue dress, whose bright eyes and attentive air show that she prizes her place, and means to keep it. Presently a word, which had passed all the lower end of the class came to Eunice. The word was privilege. “P r-i v, priv—i, priv —l-e-g-e-, lege—privilege” spelt Eunice. But the teacher, vexed with the mistakes of the other end of the class, misunderstood and passed it. The little girl looked amazed ; the bright color came into her cheeks; and she listened eagerly to the next person, who spelt it again as she had done. “Right,” said the teacher; “take your place.” “ I spelt it so,” whispered Eunice to her self ; tears springing to her eyes as she passed down. But, too timid to speak to the master, she remained in her place, inwardly determin ing soon to get up again. But her trials were not yet over. Many expedients had been tried in school to keep out the arch enemy of all teachers— whisper. At length the following plan was adopted : The first whisperer w r as stood upon the floor in front of the teacher’s desk. Here he acted as a monitor : as soon as he detected another he took his seat, and the next offender kept a sharp look-out to find some one to take his place; for, at the close of the school, the scholar who had the whisperer’s place was punished very severely—as the school phrase was, “ took a feruling ?” This plan appeared to operate very well; every one dreaded be ing found last on the floor; but though it se cured an orderly school, many of the parents and scholars doubted its justice. The boy who was on the floor when Eunice lost her place was an unruly, surly fellow, who had smarted for his faults often before ; and as school drew near its close he began to tremble. The instant Eunice’s whispered complaint reached his ear his face brightened up; he was safe now. And when the class was dismissed he said: “Eunice whispered, sir.” Eunice rose, and in a trembling voice re lated what she had said ; but the teacher saw no excuse in it, and she was called to take the place of the ungenerous boy who had told of her. Books had been put away; and the waiting school looked on in sorrowfulness as Eunice left her seat to take the dreaded punishment. She was one of the best scholars—bright, faithful, sweet tempered, and a general favor ite. Every one felt that it was unjust; and many angry glances were cast at the boy who was mean enough to get a little girl whipped. Overcome with shame and fear, she stood by the side of the desk, crying bitterly, while the teacher was preparing to inflict the punish ment. At this moment a tall boy stepped out of his seat, and going to the desk said : “Are you going to whip Eunice, sir 1 ?” “ Yes, I never break my rules,” the teacher answered. “We will nofsee her whipped !” said the boy in an excited voice; “ there is not a boy here but that one that would see her whipped ! Whip me, sir, and keep your rule if you must, but don’t touch this little girl!” The master paused ; the school looked on tearfully. “ Do you mean to say you will take her punishment ?” asked the teacher. “ I do, sir,” was the bold reply. The sobbing little girl was sent to her seat, without flinching her friend stood and received the punishment that was to have fallen on her. The school was dismissed, and the boys paid him admiration and praise for all he had suffered, while the grateful little girl blessed him from her heart for a noble and generous boy, who had saved her from the greatest shame and suffering. I said the little School had its heroes—and this was one of them. Do you not think this conduct admirable ? Now for the moral: The punishment received by this noble boy was Christ-like; it was one of suffering from his own free will, the punishment that was to have been borne by another. You see—do you not? —that this is just what Christ did, who bore our sins in his own body on the tree—the Saviour of men. What He suffered we can not know in this life; but God laid on him the iniquity of us all, which He willingly bore, to save us from eter nal shame and misery. With His stripes we are healed. How great the gratitude each of us owes such a friend! “ Down from the shining seat above, With joyful heart he led, Entered the grave in mortal flesh, \nd dwelt among the dead. O, for his love let rocks and hills Their lasting silence break; And all harmonious human tongues The Saviour’s praises speak.” Author of “ Home Thrusts .” Wanted* An honest, industrious boy. We lately saw an advertisement headed as above. It conveys to every boy an impressive lesson. “An honest, industrious boy ’’ is always wanted. He will be sought for ; his services will be in demand; he will be respected and loved ; he will be spoken of in terms of high commeno&tion; he will always have a home; will grow up to be a man of known worth and established character. He will be wanted. The merchant will want him for a salesman or clerk ; the master mechanic will want him for an apprentice or journeyman; clients will want him for a law THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST: ATLANTA, GA„ TH URSDAY, NOVEMBER 7,1867. yer; patients for a physician; religious con gregations for a pastor; parents for a teacher of their own children ; and the people for an officer. He will be wanted. Townsmen will want him as a citizen; acquaintances as a neighbor; neighbors as a friend; families as a visitor; the world as an acquaintance; nay, girls want him as a beau, and finally as a husband.. An honest, industrious boy ! Just think of it, boys; will you now answer this descrip tion ? Can you apply for this situation? Are you sure that you will be wanted ? You may be capable—are you industrious? You may be well dressed, and- create a favorable im pression at a first sight—are you “ both hon est and industrious?” You may apply for a good situation ; are you sure that your friends, teachers and acquaintances can recommend you for these qualities? Oh, how would you feel, your character not being thus established, on hearing the words, “can’t employ you?” Nothing else will make up for a lack in these qualities. No readiness or aptness for busi ness will do it. You must be honest and in dustrious —must work and labor; then will your calling and election for a place of profit and trust be made sure. i “ If You Please, Make Me a Christian.” I well recollect, in the course of my labors, a poor Hindoo youth, who followed me about the garden of the school, asking of me to make him a Christian. I said : “It is impossible, my dear boy ; if it is possible to do so at all, it is possible only through the Lord Jesus Christ to make you a Christian. Pray to him.” How well I recollect the sweet voice and face of that boy when he soon after came to me and said : “ The Lord Jesus Christ has taken his place in my heart.” 1 asked : “How is that?” He replied : “I prayed and said, ‘O Lord Jesus Christ! if you please, make me a Christian !’ And he was so kind, that he came down from heaven, and has lived in my heart ever since.’ ” How simple and how touching! “Lord Jesus Christ, if you please, make me a Christian !” Can you say that you have made a similar appeal in such a spirit as this poor Hindoo boy ? And can you say, my young friends, that Jesus Christ has come down from heaven to live in your hearts ? — Rev. Dr. Boaz. The Learned Pig.—A pig that had been taught every accomplishment by his master, was visited by an old acquaintance from the country, who expressed his admiration at the evident popularity of his learned friend, and congratulated him on his attainments. “ Your lot,” said the country pig, “is indeed a happy one; you are able to spell hard words, to count, and to play skillfully at cards. Yoji are the envy of your own race, and the admiration of mankind.” “ Alas!” said the other, “I am still a pig. I can not forget the delicious acorns in the wood, nor the roots and herbs of the field. I should like, above all things, the sight of a ditch, or a pool of muddy water. I might be pleased w ith the society and praise of man kind, were I not a pig.” True it is, that education does not imply a change of nature. A boorish man may be come learned, and yet be a churl. No men tal gifts or attainments can atone for or oblit erate radical defects of character. — Paul Per egrine. Schools and Dancing. —To-day a very poor woman came to me for assistance; her children were starving. By questioning, I found her to be the daughter of a dear old Methodist brother, long since gone to heaven, 1 hope. When I first became acquainted with Mary, she was a bright, beautiful girl, and a member of the Methodist church. To-day I inquired how she became so reduced, and alas! as I found, ungodly also. She said : “Pa sent me to school; the girls danced there. I pretended to go to bed, but often slipped off and danced with them. Pa charged me not to dance, and never knew that I did. Soon I cared nothing for religion or the church, but delighted in gay company. Finally I with drew from the church, and my way has been downward ever since.”— Episcopal Methodist. A Mother’s Prayers. When Samuel Budgett was nine years old, passing early one morning his mother’s chamber, he heard her voice in prayer, and he stopped to listen, for she seemed praying with more than common fervency. And who was she praying for ? What had sent her at this early hour to the throne of God ? It was for her son that this mother prayed. “ 0,” cried Samuel, “if my mother is so anxious for my conversion, how anxious ought Ito be for it myself!” It struck him to the heart. He went away by himself and began on that day to pray, with meaning in his prayers.” Jfaailf aul Jam. Trouble from Within. The passionate, ill-natured man lives always in stormy weather, even though it be the quiet of dew-fall around him; always wronged, al ways hurt, always complaining of some ene my. He has no conception that this enemy is in his own bosom, in the sourness, the un governed irritability, the habitual ill nature of his own bad spirit and character. I speak not here of some single burst of passion, into which a man of amiable temper may, for once, be betrayed ; but I speak more especially of the angry characters, always brewing in some tempest of violated feeling. They have a great many enemies, are unaccountably ill treated, and cannot understand why it is. They have no suspicion that they see and suffer bad things because they are bad, that being ill-natured is about the same thing as receiv ing ill treatment, and that all the enemies they suffer from are snugly closeted in their own evil temper. The same is true of fretful persons, —men and women that wear away fast and die, be cause they have worried life completely out. Nothing goes right: husband, or wife, or £hild, or customer, or sermon. They are pricked and stutig at every motion they make, and wonder why it is that others are permitted to float along so peacefully, and they never suffer ed to have a moment of peace in their lives. And the very simple reason is, that life is a field of nettles to them, because their fretful, worrying tempers are always pricking out through the tender skin of their uneasiness. Why, if they were set down in paradise, car rying their bad mind with them, they would fret at the good angels, and the climate, and the colors even of the roses.— Dr. Bushnell. Faber’s Lead-Peucils. Every school-boy in America has sdfcn lead pencils, bearing the name of A. W. Faber, but all do not know where they are made, the amount of labor bestowed upon them, or the difficulty of manufacturing a really good article. 1 visited yesterday, in the village of Stein, three miles from here, this famous manufactory, and perhaps a few historical’ notes in relation to it may not be uninterest ing to your readers. in the year 1760, Kasper Faber settled in this little village, and commenced the man ufacture of lead-pencils. During his life the quantity made was not so great but that the products of the week’s work could be taken on Saturday in a basket to Nuremburg and Furth for sale. His son, Anton Wilhelm, whose name the pencils now bear, did not in crease the business, and his grandson had little better success. On the death of the latter, in 1849, his son, the present proprietor, then twenty years of age, succeeded to the busi ness. This young man had then been spending three years in Paris, working at his trade, and devoting himself to improving the method of making pencils. Conceiving that he had made an important discovery, he returned home,and with the greatest difficulty, by mortgaging all the estate that had fallen to him, succeed ed in borrowing SBO, with which to commence business. He expended this small sum in making pencils according to his new method, which consisted in part in giving them differ ent degrees of hardness, a thing before un known, which he distinguished, as at present, by numbers. He took these to Munich and other cities, where they were tried by the best artists, who were so much pleased that they gave him very flattering certificates; but on returning home he found the proceeds of his SBO expended, and he had no other resource than to try the banker who had already be friended him. The banker on learning that he had not brought the money to pay his ob ligation, denounced him as a swindler, and sent him away. The young man, however, afterward succeeded, bv means of his certifi cates, in regaining his confidence, and received from him another small sunt. From that time he continued to enlarge his works and extend his business, until now over five hundred persons are employed, not in cluding a large amount of labor outside of the factory, making weekly 225,000 pencils. He has taken his two brothers into the business, one of whom has the management of a house in New York, to which the leads, ready for setting, are taken from here. He is now con sidered as a millionaire, and has been made Baron by the King of Bavaria, and given a seat in the councils of the kingdom. Such instances of success are not very uncommon in America, but they are so rare here as to be regarded as a sufficient ground for a grant of nobility. The cedar for the wood of the pen cils is brought from Florida, no other having yet been found suitable. The graphite is mixed with clay, and after being ground and moulded into the shape in which it is used, is subjected for several hours to a very great heat. The darker and lighter shades, and the different degrees of hardness, depend upon the amount of clay and the degree of heat to which it is subjected. Only the granular gra phite found at Borrowdale, Cumberland, England, is suitable for first-class pencils. Ninety-two sets of stones, about the size of common mill stones, are required to be kept constantly in motion to grind the leads for Faber’s works. There are many manufactories of pencils in and near this city, employing in all from 5.000 to 8,000 persons, and making over 220,- 000,000 annually. The Two Gifts. The collection of missions was being made at a church door. Up walked the richest man in the congregation, and laid a fifty dollar bill in the plate. The people admired the gift, and praised the giver. Directly after him there came a little pale, poor girl, meanly clad, with poverty written in all her looks, yet with a countenance full of sweetness, and a tear trembling in her eye, and sHe laid beside the rich man’s bill a single penny. No one no ticed or cared for her gift. But the Saviour saw it, and he accepted it, as far more precious than the rich man’s offering. Why? That morning the rich man had said to himself: “What shall I give to the col lection to-day for foreign missions? I must give a fifty dollar bill, for that is what will be expected of me. I wish my donation to be above all others.” That morning the little girl had been read ing her Bible, and as she thought: “If Jesus did so much for me, O, what can I do to show my love to Him ? There is to be a collection for foreign missions to-day, and I have only a penny : but I will give my penny for Jesus’ sake, and he will accept it from n?c, for I love him very much.” Then she ktfelt down and asked for a blessing on it. She said : “Oh my Saviour, here is a penny, which I will give to thee. Take it, Lord, although I am not worthy to give it, and bless it so that it may do good to the heathen.” Then rising from her knees, she carried it to the church, and modestly dropped it into the plate. Bear in mind, dear reader, that it is not only what we give but how we give, that makes the service acceptable. Receipt for Making Drunkards. Let the child nurse every time it cries, and when weaned it is more than half a dyspeptic. Now, as often as it cries give it a piece of bread and butter, or a lump of sugar, and at the age of three or four it will beaconfirmed dyspeptic. This constitutes a very important step towards drunkenness. At this age, thoughtless as usually is the the case, put a quantity of spice, cloves, cinnamon, pepper, nutmeg, ginger, and other like condiments, into the little boy’s vituals; increase the a mount as he grows older; and at the age of ten or twelve he will call for more. Give him all that he can stand without bringing tears to his eyes too often. At the age of four teen or sixteen he will conclude that the more such stimulus he can use, the more manly he is. (Pa, and Uncle, and cousin George, eat a great amount of it.) Now, if the boy calls for strong tea and coffee, and commences the use of tobacco, he may be considered safe on the road to ruin, and his mother has nothing more to do to bring it about, especially if her son is under the influence of some beer saloon, for the next step is rum, gin, whisky, and brandy. Reading at Spare Moments. Between the two courses of dinner there are about ten to fifteen minutes ; and I am accustomed to inject what I call a sofa course. As soon as the meat is disposed of, I rise and take a book, and sit either upon an arm-chair or a sofa, and read. When I returned last fall, I took up Froude’s History of England; and I was noticing to-day that I am now completing the third volume. I have not spent a moment upon this work except the spare time during my meals; and I have read the first two volumes, and two thirds of the third volume. And that is not all. Though 1 have read apparently under the worst cir cumstances, 1 think I remember what I have read in this way better than many books that I have read with laborious continuity. It is a small thing; but if I had followed that up all my life, the reading of this history is but a mere fraction of what I might have read. 1 know people say that we ought to spend these moments in social conversation; but I notice that I do not talk much, nor think much, as is apt to be the case with a man between meat and pie. But making daily use of these scat tered moments, I did master one, and two, and nearly three volumes.— Beecher. Remembering School Mates. A clergyman in Schleswig-Holstein, who was a student with the Count Bismark at Gottenberg, had a son who wished to get a situation in the Prussian Marine. This in duced him to write a letter in favor of his son to Bismark, though he scarcely hoped to get an answer. The difficulty with him was how to address the letter without displeasing the Count. Finnally he thought “ His High ness,” the propy expression, and sent off his letter. To the surprise of the writer, he re ceived an answer in a few days, of which the following is an extract: ‘You old block head, you; do you think I have forgotten the happy time when we studied and drank to gether at Gottenberg, and when we so often waited on each other ? and now how can you address me in such a foolish way? Please don’t call me again ‘His Highness.’ We will remain on the same intimate footing. Regard ing your son, send him to me. I will take care of him.” An Apt Rebuke. A little girl of five years lately learned the following verse to repeat in the Sabbath school: “ God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.” During the week she pricked her finger, which became so sore and inflamed that she cried bitterly with the*-pain. Her mother, annoyed by her cries, thoughtlessly told her that if she did not keep quiet, her finger might burst and blow the ruqf off the house. At first the poor child was greatly terrified at the thought of such a catastrophe, but a moment’s reflection convinced hes, of its impossibility, and looking at her mother through her tears, she said solemnly. “ Oh, ma! God is angry with you, for my says, ‘God is angry with the wicked every day,’ and you are wick ed, for you have told me a lie!" It is to be hoped that this affecting reproof from an innocent child may strike to the heart of this, and of every unreflecting, mother, who may read this simple sketch, and cause them to take heed to their ways that they sin not with their tongtfes. — Morning Star. Amusements. —“ It is a burning disgrace to the public that diversions now constitute the most popular evening’s entertainment that can be devised, which twenty years ago would have been indicted by the Grand Jury. That women can be found night after night to crowd in dozens, not to say hundreds, to embellish these sports of the brothel by their presence, and that without, so far as can be judged, a solitary blush of shafts, is one of the most melancholy, most pitiable, and most threaten ing signs of the tinned.**— Round Table. Equivocal. —The Waterbury American en dorses the statement which we have seen in some of the papers, as ‘strictly true,’ that ‘one of the Method istYsrethren in Waterbury, Ct., was lately giving in a religious meeting the experiences of himself and family, saying, among other things, tKat his first wife was a very good woman, but she sickened and died in a happy frame of ITiind, and he should be rejoiced if his present,partner would go just the same way !’ Abuse. —Plutarch,-}n his biographies, tells us that Cato, the Censor, being scurrilously treated byafellow whtf led a licentious and dis solute life, said to him quietly: “A contest be tween thee and me is very unequal; for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but jor my part, ’tis unusu al for me to hear it, ami disagreeable to speak lb. . Greatness. —The greatest man is he who chooses the right wtlfi invincible resolution; who resists the sorest from with in and without; who bears the heaviest bur dens cheerfully; whats calmest in storms and most fearless under menace and frowns ; and whose reliance on tsjath, on virtue, and on God, is most unfaltering.— Charming. jLi Not up to the Times. —What is settled in this world? Judge Holmes denies that Shak speare wrote “ Shaksgeare’s Plays,” and an English railroad offie|hl disturbs his reputa tion. He said to JoliU*G. Saxe, who eulogized the poet, “ Yes, he was a clever man, you know, for his day, you know, but not up to these times, you knoMj,” What Next? —The industry of the ladies in Paris surpasses belief. They dye—their hair ; they enamel—tlieir faces; they gild— their locks; they pmtit—their cheeks; and now they complexions!— Punch. 1 MAmuage.lilges -are celebrated on Sunday in ScoGvinw; few are that day in America! but in England it is the most popular day of the week for marriage, —32 per cent of the marriages being con tracted on that day. Christ. —As the Worst of my sins are par donable by Christ, s a are the best of my du ties damnable without him.— Beveredge. Educational. HIGH SCHOOL. The exercises of this School will be resumed the 2d Monday in January next. All the advantages of a thor ough and practical English and Classical education will be afforded. Weekly lectures on the Sciences, Arts, An cient and Modern History, and kindred subjects will be given for the benefit of pupils. The school will be fur nished with apparatus alibrary. Each pupil will be required to attend Sabbath School. Instruction in French if desired. Charges invariably in advance. For first session $150; for second session, slotUjn specie, or its equivalent in currency. Pupils must furnish their own bed linen, towels and Fghts. The locality of the place is healthy, and situated only a mile from Mayfield Depot. For par ticulars, address REV. J. W. ELLINGTON, Prin’pal. References, Faculty Mercer University; Hon. A. H. Stephens, Crawfordviile-J W. J. Nothern and Dr. C. P. Beeman, Mt. Zion, Georgia. Mayfield, Warren County, Georgia. [nov 22—ly. ny£ONROE FEMALE COLLEGE, FORSYTH, GA. Next session will open loth January, 1867. BO\ED w instruction: REV. S. G. HILLYER, I MRS. J. F. DAGG. REY. J. F. DAGG,- | MRS. BRANTLEY, PROF. R. T. ASBURY, | MISS S. J. HILLYER. Location healthy, instruction thourough, discipline parental, and charges reasonable. For further particular, address Prof. R. T. ASBURY Novls-2357 _ Secretary of Faculty. House-Furnishing Goods. QOUTIIERN BRANCH OF THE NA TIONAL STOVE WORKS, NEW YORK. 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