Newspaper Page Text
164
Mm the Ailte.
Money at Interest.
It is twenty-five years since my little story
began, and I wonder what made me remem
ber it today! Nothing in the surrounding
circumstances, 1 am sure ; yet, in the midst
of this crowded city, while the streets were
yet full of light and life, all at once I thought
of that gray, cool evening, the silent sweet
ness of the lonely garden, and the plaintive
cry of some lost lamb on the mountains. My
uncle had gone nearly two hours before to
see a dying child in the village ; but the twi
light lingers long in the northern latitude,
and, so, though it was nearly ten o’clock, 1
put on my hat and sauntered down to meet
him. I had not far to go, but I was astonished
to find him accompanied by a young man
known as “ Dark Harry Henshawe.” Both of
them seemed to be under great emotion, the
doctor took my hand silently, and young Hen
shawe neither raised his eyes nor opened his
mouth. 1 knew that he had a very bad name
in all the country side, and that the shadow of
a great crime hung over him, therefore my as
touishment was still greater when he followed
my uncle into his study, and, after remaining
there a few minutes, went away again with
out speaking a word to any of the family.
“Well?® said aunt Mary, “alter that,
what'?’’ 7
“ Uncle, to supper, I suppose ; Derhaps he
will explain.”
But he did not, until prayers wore over
and the servants were in their room ; then
he told us that Harry had demanded money
from him on his way home, in a way
which lett no doubt as to his intentions.
“ What did you do, uncle? Did you give
him money ?”
“ I said, ‘No, no Harry ; what I have on
me is not worth the taking : but if you will
walk beside me, and tell me all your trouble,
I will lend you enough to make a man of
you again.”
Aunt Mary looked injured, and her knit
ting needles spoke for her.
“ Don’t be grieved, wife! The lad has
been driven to destruction by false accusa
tions, and he is innocent; upon my word, I
intend to help him to prove it.”
“ How ? By anew trial 1”
“No; by anew life. I have lent him SIOO,
and he has gone to Texas.”
“ Not a very good reformatory school, I
should think.”
“ Where God directs the discipline, every
school is good. Come, wife, be hopeful and
charitable.”
Next day I heard from aunt Mary some
thing of the young man’s history. Three
summers ago, he had formed the acquaintance
of a gentleman who, partly as a tourist and
partly as a sportsman, had spent several
months in the in the neighborhood. For
many weeks their friendship had been a mar
vel, then either familiarity bred contempt or
jealously kindled hatred. They quarelled
openly and furiously. Three days afterward
the body of the stranger was found terribly
mangled at the foot of Barrow’s Clitf, and
Harry was arrested for the murder. He
was eventual acquitted lor want of evidence,
but he found everyone’s face dark and every
one’s heart hard against him ; not even the
woman he loved believed him innocent, and
he suffered keenly from that negative punish
ment, which is more grievous than many
stripes, fie sunk lower and lower, and the
previous night in a drunken brawl had struck
to the ground one of his companions. Not
caring to undergo the imprisonment; and
suspense, which would be the result, he stop
ped my uncle and demanded money to flee
With. He got it, and also something far
better, “for every gift of noble origin is
breathed upon by hope’s perpetual breath.”
I thought, at intervals for a few weeks
dark, reckless face, which had looked ‘into
my life for a moment and then he passed, as
1 supposed, forever into the shadow land of
memory.
Twelve years afterward, I found myself one
hot day in August sailing up the Buffalo bayou,
a beautiful lagoon in southeastern Texas. Up
the nairow stream, darkened by its arcade
of live oaks and magnolias, we slowly made
our way. The hot perfumed air, the unreal,
spectral look of everything, gave me the
sensation of dreaming. On all the crew
and passengers a kind of hushed tranquility
had fallen, broken only by the slow laboring
of the engine, or the lazy thud of some ali
gator taking the water. I noticed now, for
the first time, how silence is intensified by
sympathetic numbers; then it iscomplete, “a
loneliness to be felt,” but the soul bathes in
such stillness, and hears in it “something which
throws antiquity itself into the foreground.”
It lasted lorg ; but, just as 1 was beginning to
feel it oppressive, we came to an opening in
the dense foliage, and a clear, strong voice
said, “ Wake up, stranger! this is the battle
field of San Jacinto.” Then we gathered
round him while he told, in words that moved
the heart like a trumpet, the old story over
again. How the land was sick with tyranny,
and could be cured with nothing but blood.
And the trees parted more and more, and
the moon shone full on the speaker, suddenly
there came to iny remembrance the cold,
fresh northern air, the solemn mountains and
the misty moorlands, and I said “ Harry
Henshawe!” *
“ That is my name, madam. Pardon me
if-I forget yours.”
“You never heard mine, but you will re
member Oarsbrook, and the old man whom
every body called Dr. Will.”
Then he took my hand and kissed it, just
as I had seen him kiss my uncle’s, when they
stood together in the dying daylight, the sa
viour and the saved. When we were alone,
he told me his subsequent history—there
was nothing remakable in it, he had hired
-himself to a large stock raiser, but had pros
pered so welt that now he himself owned a
fine ranch and quite a patriarchal number of
horses, cattle, and sheep.”
“Are you married ?” I asked.
“ No, no !” he replied sorrowfully, “An
nie turned against me in my trouble, and
I’ve been afraid to trust another woman.”—
After a few minutes’ silence, he added, “My
home is in the far West, beyond San Antonio
and it is hardly likely we shall meet again.”
“ But the eternal future is before us. If
we part here, which way do you go?”
“ Heavenward, madam, I trust,” —and he
looked into nay face with a grave but happy
assurance.
“ My uncle’s loan is paid, I suppose ?”
“ The end of the first year saw the princi
pal paid; the interest I pay regularly to every
poor miserable fellow 1 see. If 1 say a word
of promise to some despairing wretch, I tell
him that is what Dr. Will said to me ; and
if 1 help him with a few needful dollars, 1
say, * That is the interest of what Dr. Will
set me on my feet with and it ; s very seldom,
madam, the gift goes to the bad, for every
unselfish gift prospers.”
“ Dr. Will would be a happy man if he
pould see and hear you to day.”
“ He will be happy enough when we both
stand before God, and I say, ‘I was going to
hell, and this good man stopped me, he did
not pass by on the other side and leave me
with the irreparable.’ ” There were tears in
both our eyes, when, after a short pause, he
went on : “And the good did not stop with
me; on my way back, I met other weary
and sinful souls, and 1 stopped them; and so
there isquite a little company walking heaven
ward that would have been going the other
way but for Dr. Will’s SIOO. Nay, there
are some, I honestly believe, safe there al
ready, and so when his time comes, he will
find friends there—-friends made by the mam
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX AND SOUTH-WESTERN BAPTIST: ATLANTA, GA„ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19,1871.
mom of “ unrighteous, who will receive him j
into everlasting habitations.”
When we parted, I felt so kindly to him |
that 1 said, “ Farewell, Harry ! You see I
call you by your Christian name.”
And he smiled rather sadly, and answered,
“So I think Christians should call one an
other.”
1 think to day of that solemn parting by
the garden gate, when the young man made the
vow he kept, and the old man blessed and
cheered and helped him ; and I try to im
agine that blessed meeting when the souls
those precious words and that SIOO saved
come, in the garb of those shining ones, to
welcome the old man home; and 1 know
there will be rejoicing among the angels, and
better than all, the Master’s assuring thanks,
‘A Thou didst it unto me.” —lllustrated Weekly.
Little Faces.
Little faces, little sunbeams,
Shining stars in sorrow’s night;
Little lamps are brightly burning
With the rays ot hope’s fair light.
Little skies all brightly tinted,
Changeful as an April day;
Little brooklets ever sparkling
Where joy’s sunbeams ever play.
Little gardens, where love wanders
Like a hungry bee fur food ;
Where ten thousand nameless beauties
Shimmer in each wanton mood.
Little mirrors, bright reflecting
Gleams of joy or deepest woe;
Fields where, ’mid mirth’s sunbeams dancing,
Little shadows come and go.
Little charades, strange devices,
Seeking oft our love to win,
By their strange attempts at hiding,
Showing all that dwells within.
Little books forever open,
Which, who will, may ever read,
By their artless, simple teaching
Preaching to our deepest need.
Five out of One Shell.
There were five peas in one shell ; they
were green, and the pod was green, and so
they thought the whole world was green, and
that was just as it should be! The shell
grew and the peas grew; they accommodated
themselves to circumstances, sitting ail in a
row. The sun shone without, and warmed
the husk, and the rain made it clear and trans
parent ; it was mild and agreeable in the
bright day and in the dark night, just as it
should be, and the peas as they sat there be
came bigger and bigger, for something they
must do.
“Are we t« sit here everlastingly ?” asked
one. “I’m afraid we shall become hard by
long sitting. It seems to me there must be
something outside; I have a kind of inkling
of it.”
And weeks went by. The peas became
yellow, and the pods, also.
“All the world’s turning yellow,” said
they ; and they had a right to say it.
Suddenly they felt a lug at the shell. The
shell was torn off, passed through human
hands, and glided down into the pocket of a
jacket, in company with other full pods.
“ Now, we shall soon be opened,” they
said ; and that is just what they were waiting
for.
“ I should like to know who of. >us will get
farthest!” said the smallest of the five.—
“Yes; now it will soon show itself.”
“ What is to be will be,” said the biggest.
“Crack!” the pod burst, and all the five
peas rolled out into the bright sunshine.—
There they lay in a child’s hand. A little
boy was clutching them, and said they were
fine peas for his peashooter; and he put one
in directly and shot it out.
“Now, I’m flying out into the wide world ;
catch me if you can 1” and he wa.s gone.
“ I,” said the second, “ I shall fly straight
into the sun. That’s a shell worth looking
at, and one that exactly suits me.” And
,nr ;
E —,-r tfll go to sleep wherever we arrive,
said the two next, “butwe’ll roll on all the
same.” And they certainly rolled and tum
bled down on the ground before they got into
the pea-shooter; but they were put in for
all that. “We shall go farthest,” said they.
“ What is to happen will happen,” said the
last, as he was shot forth of the pea-shooter ;
and he flew up against the old board under
the garret window, just into a crack which
was filled with moss and soft mould ; and the
moss closed round him ; there he lay a pris
oner, indeed, but not forgotten by provident
Nature.
“ What is to happen will happen,” said he.
Within, in the little garret, lived a poor
woman who went out in the day to clean
stoves, chop wood small, and to do other hard
work of the same kind, for she was strong
and industrious, too. But she always re
mained poor; and at home in the little gar
ret lay her half-grown daughter, who was
very delicate and weak : for a whole year
she had kept her bed, and it seemed as if she
could neither live or die.
“She is going to her little sister,” the wo
man said. “ 1 had only the two children, and
it was not an easy matter to provide for both,
but the good God provided for one of them
by taking her home to himself; now I should
be glad to keep the other that was left to me;
but I suppose they are not to remain sepa
rated, and my sick girl will go to her sister in
heaven.”
But the sick girl remained where she was.
She lay quiet and patient all day while her
mother went to earn money out of doors.—
It was spring, and early in the morning, just
as the mother was about to go out to work
the sun shone mildly and pleasantly through
the little window and"threw out its rays across
the floor, and the sick girl fixed her eyes on
the lowest pane in the window.
“ What may that green thing be that looks
in at the window ? It is movingin the wind.”
And the mother stepped to the window
and half opened it. “O !” she said, “on my
word, that is a little pea which has taken root
here, and is putting out its little leaves. How
can it have got here into the crack ? That is
a little garden with which jou can amuse
yourself.
And the sick girl’s bed was moved nearer
the window, so that she could always see the
growing pea; and the mother went forth to
her work.
“ Mother, I think I shall get well,” said
the sick child in the evening. The sun shone
in upon me to-day delightfully warm. The
little pea is prospering famously, and 1 shall
prosper, too, and get up and go out into the
warm sunshine.
“ God grant it!” said the mother ; but she
did not think it would be so ; but she took
care to prop with a stick the green plant which
had given her daughter the pleasant thoughts
of life, so that it might not be broken by
the wind; she tied a piece of string to the
window-sill and to the upper part of the
frame, so that the pea might have something
round which to twine when it shot up; and
it did shoot up indeed—one eould see how it
grew every day.
“ Really, here is a flower come 1” said the
woman one day; and now she began to cher
ish the hope that her sick daughter would re
cover. She remembered that lately the child
had spoken much more cheerfully than be
fore, that in the last few hours she had risen
up in bed of her own accord, and had sat up
right, looking with delighted eyes at the little
garden in which only one plant grew. A
week afterward, the invalid for the first time
sat up for a whole hour. Quite happy she
sat in the sunshine; the window was opened,
and outside before it stood a pink pea blos
som fully blown. The sick girl bent down
and gently kissed the delicate leaves. This
day was like a festival.
“ The Heavenly Father himself bas planted
that pea, and caused it to prosper, to be a
joy to you, and to me also,|my blessed child!”
said the glad mother ; and she smiled at the
flower as if it had been a good angel.
But, about the peas. Why, the one who
flew out into the wide world, and said : “Catch
me if you can,” fell into the gutter on the
roof, and found a home in a pigeon’s crop;
the two lazy ones got just as far, for they,
too, were eaten up by the pigeons, and thus,
at any rate, they were of some real use ; but
the fourth, who wanted to go up into the sun,
fell into the sink, and lay there in the water
for weeks and weeks, and swelled prodig
iously.
“ How beautifully fat I’m growing!” said
the pea. “I. shall burst at last; aud I don’t
think any pea can do more than that. I’m
the most remarkable of all the five that were
in the shell.” Ajnd the sink said he was right.
But the young girl at the garret window
stood there with gleaming eyes, with the
roseate hue of health on her cheeks, and her
thin hands over the pea blossom, and thanked
Heaven for it.
Only a Pin.
Only two or three days ago, ail overseer
in the mills found a pin which cost the com
pany about three hundred dollars.
“Was it stolen ?” asked Susie. “ I suppose
it must have been very handsome. Was it
a diamond pin ?”
“ Oh, no, my dear ! not by any means. It
was just such a pin as people buy every day,
and use without stint. Here is one upon
my dress.”
“ Such a pin &9 that cost three hundred
dollars !” exclaimed John. “ I don’t believe
it.”
“ But, Mamma says it is a true story,” in
terposed Susie.
“ Yes, I know it to be true. And this is
the way the pin happened to cost so much :
“You know that calicoes, after they are
printed and washed, are dried and smoothed
by being passed over heated rollers. Well,
by some mischance, a pin dropped so as to lie
upon the principal roller, and indeed became
wedged into it, the head standing out a little
way from the surface.
“ Over and over went the roller, and round
and round went the cloth, winding at length
upon still another roller, until the piece was
measured off. Then another piece began to be
dried and wound ; and so on, until a hundred
pieces had been counted off. These were not
examined immediately, but removed from the
machinery, and laid aside.
“ When, at length, they came to be in
spected, it was found that there were holes
in every piece throughout the web, and only
three quarters of a yard apart. Now, in
each piece there were from thirty five to
forty-five yards; and at twelve cents a yard,
that would count up to about five hundred
dollars.
“ Os course the goods could not be classed
as perfect goods ; so they were sold as rem
nants, at less than half the price they would
have brought had it not been for that hidden
pin.
“ Now, it seems to me, that when 'a boy
takes for his companion a profane swearer,
a Sabbath-breaker, or a lad who is untruthful
and a little girl has for her playmate one
who is unkind or disobedient, or in any way
a wicked child, they are like the roller which
took to its bosom the pin. Without their
being able to help it, often the evil influence
clings to them and leaves its mark upon every
body with whom they come in contact.
“ That pin damaged, irreparably, forty
hundred yards of new print; but bad com
pany had ruined thousands of souls for whom
Christ died. Remember, ‘one sinner destrov
eth much good ;’ therefore avoid evil compan
ions.”—Child's Treasury.
A Resolute Boy.
A little boy nine years old, a member of
the “ Band of Hope,” was at a dinner party;
a short time ago, and those present wanted
to test the strength of his principles. A half
sovereign was put into the bottom of a tum
bler, which was'then half filled with ale.
“ Now,” said they, “if you’ll drink that
jou shall have what is at the bottom.”
“ No,” replied the noble little fellow, “nor
a dozen half sovereigns shall make me break
my pledge.”
“ Surely the 4 root of the matter’ ” was in
him. That noble child will make a noble
man.
Late Hears.
Our evening engagements are far too numer
ous, and our parties are too much of the na
ture of public meetings. They have lost all
domesticity and simplicity, to say nothing of
the cost of them, which is itself a care.—
They are so "late as to extend far into the
night. The injurious results of scanty rest
are obvious. They take two apparently oppo
site, but really related forms—excitability
and exhaustion. We are fearful and fatigued;
hyper sensitive and subject to ennui. We
are exquisitively sensitive to pain and discom
fort on the 6ne hand, and uucommonly hard
to please on the other. Neither moralists
nor physicians have much control over the
faults of our social life. We can only point
them out. The remedy for them rests with
the public. Will a few influential people,
who want easily to do au enormous amount
of good, dare to initiate a few changes in our
social arrangements in the direction of sleep
and Bimplic : ty ?—London Lancet.
Bears Helping Bach Other.
A gentleman was once making inquiries
in Russia about the method of catching bears
in that country. He was told that, to entrap
them, a pit was dug several feet deep; and,
after covering it over with turf, leaves, etc.,
some food was placed on the top. The bear,
if tempted by the bait, easily fell into the
snare.
“ But,” he added, “ if four or five happen
to get in together, they all get out again.”
“ How is that?” asked the gentleman.
“ They form a sort of ladder by stepping
on each other’s shoulders, and thus make their
escape.”
“ But how does the bottom one get out ?”
“Ah! these bears, though not possessing a
mind and soul such as God has given us, yet
can feel gratitude ; and they won’t forget the
one who had been the chief means of procur
ing their liberty. Scampering off, they fetch
the branch of a tree, which they let down to
their poor brother, enabling him speedily to
join them in the freedom in which they re
joice.”
Sensible bears, we should say, are a great
deal better than some people that we hear
about, who never help anybody but them
selves.—The Carrier Dove.
Honesty.
In a little town, five miles from St. Pe
tersburg, lived a poor German woman. A
small cottage was her only possession, and
the visits of a few shipmasters, on their way
to Petersburg, her only livelihood. Several
Dutch shipmaster* having supped at her
house one evening, she found, when they were
gone, a sealed bag of money under the table.
Some one of the company had, no doubt, for
gotten it, but they had sailed over to Cfon
stadt, and the wind being fair there was no
chance of their putting back. The woman
put the bag into her cupboard, to keep it un
til it should be called for. Full seven years
however elapsed, and no one claimed it; and
though often tempted by opportunity, and
often by want, to make use of the contents,
the poor woman’s principles prevailed, and it
remained untouched.
One evening, some shipmasters again stop
ped at her house for refreshment. Three of
than were English, Mid the fourth a Dutch
man. Conversing on various matters, one of
them asked the Dutchman if he had ever
been in that town before. 4 Indeed I have,’
replied he ; I know the place but 100 well;
my being here cost me seven hundred rubles.’
4 How so V 4 Why, in one of these wretched
hovels, I once left behind me a bag of rubles.’
‘ Was the bag sealed V asked the woman, who
was sitting in a corner of the room, and
whose attention was aroused by the subject.
“ Yes, yes, it was sealed, and with this very
seal here m my watch-chain.’ The woman
knew the seal instantly. “ Well, then,’ said
•he, 4 by that vqu may recover what you
have lost.” it, mother ! No,no;
lam rather too old to expect that; the world
is not qtfite so honest; besides, it is full
seven years since I lost the money :—say no
more about it it always makes me melancholy.”
Meanwhile, the woman slipped out, and si
lently returned with the bag. “ See here,”
said she, “ honesty is hot so rare, perhaps,
as you imagined ;” and she placed the bag on
the table.
Wkt Jfnulxg jlrtol
Praise Offered by Children.
We came, we come, with load acclaim,
To sing the praise of Jesus' name;
-With joyful itarts and smiling face
‘ the throne ot grace,
And lowly igyj to offer there,
From infant- If ns our humble prayer
To-Run wbtf-tflept on Mary’s knee,
A gentle clAd as young as we.
We the song to swell,
To Him who loved our world so well,
That, stooping from His Father's throne.
He died to c>aim it as His own.
Ob, thus maji we in heaven above
Unite in praises and in love;
And still the angels fill their home
With joyful cry : “ They come, they come!’'
Holding the Attention.
A man who undertakes to drive a team
of gay colts, four in hand, in a narrow road,
with quicksand on one hand, and a precipice
on the other, and with numerous other vehi
cles passing and repassing, would run some
risk if, every two or three minutes, he had
to drop the reins in order to look into the
guide book. Yet this is precisely what the
teacher does who undertakes, Question Book
in hand , to teach a class of young children.
The “ guide book ” should be thoroughly
mastered before coming to the class. The
first condition of success, in holding the at
tention of such a class, is to be prepared to
teach without a book. The teacher, equally
with the driver, needs to have all his wits
about him. Every time he looks jato his
book, either for question or answer, he' drops
the reins. It is uot a question of dispensing
with the use of these books. They are very
useful, both to teachers and scholars, in thfe
preparation of the lesson. But when it
comes to the actual recitation, all books should
be laid aside, and the two parties, scholars
and teacher, should look each other in the
face, and have a free and uninterrupted inter
change of thought about the lesson, just as
they would talk about any other subject of
common interest. Very likely, in conducting
a lesson in this way, some questions may be
forgotten, or the questions may not be put in the
precise order in which they occur in the book.
Very likely, too, in such a process, new ques
tions may be started,snd new trains of thought
suggested. So much the better. A careful
study of the questions as they are in the
book having been secured by the preparation
needed the recitation itself will be all the more
profitable for this very freedom arid latitude
in the actual question and answer in the class.
For teacher and scholar to go through the
business of question and answer, book in
hand, is just as absurd as it would be for
people in a pardpr to talk together by means
of note-books, ontTreading out of a book some
question about* your health, or tfle state of
the weather, or the latest bit of gossip, the
other reading his answer out of another book
duly indexed for such a purpose.
1. Teaching without books. —The first rule,
then, for holding the attention of a class, is
to make the recitation strictly conversational,
and, in order to do this, to have the lesson so
thoroughly at the teacher’s command that all
books may be laid aside. So important is
this rule, and so complete are its workings,
that few other rules are needed. Some other
points, however, may be named.
2. The Teacher's Position. —lt is not un
common to see ITclass occupying a semi-cir
cular bench, and the teacher seated close in
near the two or three scholars who oocupy the
middle of the forum, while those to the right
and left, at the extremities of the semi circle,
are entirely beyond the reach of the teacher’s
eye. They are, in fact, almost behind him ;
if he turns to the right to catch the eyes of
those on that side, he loses entirely the sight
of those on the left. This is a small matter
to make a rule about; yet the absurdity of
the practice of half the teachers we see malfces
it necessary to 9»y, in so many words, that
the teacher who wants to hold the undivided
attention of his class, must place his seat so far
back that he can, without turning round front
right to left, have all his scholars ail the time=
in his eye.
3. Something for every scholar. —Whoever
is in the habit of riding outside by the driver,,
will notice that be has his reins adjusted to
suit the character and temper of the different.
horses. The line which holds a free, impetu
ous horse is buckled in a few spaces shorter
than the others, s4 that his impetuosity can bo
kept in check. To another horse who is
more indolent, and who needs urging rather
than restraining, vr freer rein is given. By
all these nice adjustments, the driver is pre
pared to keep hisrteam well together, and to
get a due amount of work out of each, iustead
of throwing the whole upon one or two. So
in every class there are two or three spirited
scholars who will answer all the questions,
unless the teacher takes means to prevent it.
There is a stronger temptation to let things
take this course. It is so easy and pleasant
to have some scholars to depend on,
and the lesson seems to be going on so finely
while these brigfcXones give such prompt and
intelligent all the questions put.
But the object teacher is to benefit all
his scholars, andhold the attention of ail;
and this cannot be dqne unless all take part
in the exereisfc. He must learn, therefore, to
hold a tight rein on some, and give a slack
rein to others. If he has certain scholars who
are dull of compreßension, or slow of speech,
or timid, let him have in reserve for such,
certain easy questions which they cannot well
avoid answering. Let every one feel that he
is sure to be called upon for something, and
that he may be called on at any moment, at
any new turn of the conversation, and the
probabilities are, that his attention will not
wander.
4. Skipping abouL —Connected with the
last mentioned rule, yet deserving separate
mention, 19 the caution not to go round the
class in any regular order while hearing a les
son. Doing so is offering a bribe to one
end of the class to Be* inattentive while you
are questioning the other end. Pass rapidly
and irregularly from one part to another,
keeping your eye going as wel l as your tongue,
and be sure to ask a question of any one you
see wandering.
5. Determined to have it. —Some teachers,
like some drivers, have-a hesitating, irreso
lute way about theta which children, as well
as colts, are quick to recognize. It is not
neoessary to bluster or to say, “I will” and
“ you must.” Arrogance and assumption
only provoke opposition. Yet excessive
meekness is not the proper attitude of the
teacher. He should understand that if he
fails to get the attention, he fails totally; and
having this conviction, he should determine
in his own mind that he will have attention.
The very presence of this feeling in his mind
will show itself in his face. It will be written
all over him. It will say, plainer than words,
to every scholar that approaches him, Here
is one who has something to say to me, and
l must attend to him. —Sunday School limes.
Teach Coreectly.
As just views of God lie at the foundation
of all religious truth, and, of oonsequence,
of all true religion, it is important that the
young pupil should be aided in forming, so
far as his capacity will allow, a true idea of
God. If false ideas of sternness and severity
are associated in the youthful mind with the
character of God, it may affect unfavorably
his religious character for life.
Mr. L. was not instructed in religious
truth when a child, but when he was about
twenty years of age, he was converted, and
became a zealous and energetic Christian man
His father was a harsh, unsympathizing man.
He had no loving and tender associations
with the term “ father.” His associations
with that term were of an opposite character.
For many years, to his great grief, they af
fected his views of the character of God the
Father. How important that the child’s first
conceptions of God be correct.
The man of logic may ask, what can a
child know about the Infinite ? He can know
a great deal. If the simple facts of Scripture
be set before his mind, in a proper order, he
can learn much. God designed that he should
learn much, and has made revelations of him
self in keeping with that design.
It is important that the facts illustrating
the character of God, should be set before
the young mind in their natural order. We
always have respect to the order of adaptation
in presenting truth of any kind. We do not
give the young student in arithmetic a prob
lem in division before he has been tanght to
read numbers. If you wish to give one a
knowledge of the teachings of the New Testa
ment, you would not begin with the Epistle
to the Romans. So there is an order in
which the facts pertaining to God’s character
should be presented. The judicial commands
of God to the Jews to destroy the Canaanites
are not the first facts that should be presented,
for the mind is not in a condition to under
stand them. God i9 love, and the portions
that represent him as our loving, holy Fa
ther should be the first subject of attention.
The idea of his love and justice can be il
lustrated without reference to his severity.
These remaks are not made in consequence
of any sympathy with the present tendency
on the part of many to ignore the vindicatory
justice of God. The children should be taught
that he is the avenger of sin; but this truth
should not be presented as the first item of
knowledge respecting him “ who so loved
the world that he gave his only-begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in him might
not perish, but have eternal life.” —The Na
tional Sunday School Teaoher.
Three Questions.
There are three questions that every teacher
ought to put to himself as he takes his place
in the class whose immortal interests are, for
the time being, committed to his care :
1. Have I made diligent preparation for
this interview with my class, in studying the
lesson, and seeking to get at the true spiritual
meaning of it?
2. Is my heart prepared with sweet com
munion with my Lord, to speak His blessed
truth to these perishing souls ?
3. Have I faith that what I utter in His
name will be blessed to their good ?
Unless these questions can be honestly an
swered affirmatively, what hope can the
teacher have, however 41 gifted” in the pos
session of eloquence, learning, a 44 taking”
way with the yourig, oh what ndt, as respects
special adaptation to the business of instruc
tion, of succeeding in the great work—the
main work—of leading his scholars to
Christ ?
But in regard to these points, it may be
observed that a kind of diligence may be ex
ercised which profits nothing. It is not
enough that the teacher should ransack com
mentaries for various opinions in regard to
the lesson, or hunt up a large assortment of
references, or make ready a series of illustra
tions to aid. his expositions. All these are
well, if not carried to an extreme; but it
should be borne in mind that a great many
curious speculations may be indulged in re
specting almost any portion of Scripture—
particularly the “drapery” of parables and
narratives which contain references to ancient
customs, laws, and so on—which are really
of little value in any case, and worse than
valueless when they take time which should
be devoted to enforcing the spiritual truth
taught in the passage. The one great thought,
in all preparation, should be—How can 1 use
the incidents of this lesson to impress the
truth—that precious truth which is able to
make wise unto salvation—upon the minjls
and hearts of my scholars? The profoundest
research, the most labored effort to illustrate,
will be work thrown away, as far as regards
the real business of the Sunday school, unless
they are used simply as a means to an end.
Seek, then, to get at the spiritual meaning of
the lesson, and make it the effort of the hour
so to present it, as that each scholar may be
led to think not of various old customs, of the
meaning of words, or any other incidental
matter, but of his soul’s salvation. Happy
the teacher who can so use his opportunity,
and the class blessed by his ministrations.
Not less important to success in the work,
is the preparation of heart suggested in the
second question. From the closet to the class
should be the motto ol the Suuday school
teacher. He who would be wise in winning
souls must rely much on prayer; for it is
through that channel that he must draw the
rich supplies of grace essential to the doing
of good work. Earnest prayer will give that
fervency of spirit, that sympathy with the
impenitent, that patience, that hopefulness,
that assurance heavenly aid, which will
make the teacher’s power oye/rhie class well
nigh irresistible. Without it, uo natural gifts,
no acquired knowledge,can be made effectual
to the salvation of souls; with it, eveu the
humblest acquirements are sometimes bless
ed beyond expectation.
And to these must be added faith. Every
word spoken should be uttered in the spirit
of firm trust that He who is able will give it
effect in the hearts of the listeners. Surely,
if every teacher felt his soul all aglow with
such a faith, there would be less of that light,
unnecessary talk on all hands which is now
too often heard in our schools.— S. S. Work
man.
Illustrative Teaching.
That illustrative teaching is growing in
popular favor is evidenced by its growing use
in our public and Sabbath schools; and, by
the way, the uniform testimony of history
attests this truth, that wherever teaching is
rescued from its sefish aristocracy to a broad,
humanitarian institution, just as far does the
study of life and nature go and grow together.
In the grand old Hebrew economy this was
especially seen ; every parent being a divine
ly commissioned teacher, and ordered to pre
sent, not the simply abstract rule of right and
wrong, but its practical working iu the past
history of their fathers. And Hebrew teach
ing abounds in illustrations, comparisons,
parables, so that the books of which they are
composed are, and have ever been, the de
light, the consolation, the enlightenment of
even the humblest minds, until uo other
works can compare with them for the hold
they possess upon the Christ-loving heart the
world over. What would have been the ef
fect, if, instead of the pathetic history of Jo*'
seph, we had only the cold philosophy of hiß
wonderful life? Had King David merely
sung of abstractions, instead of comparing the
Lord to a loving and careful shepherd, would
a multitude of humble souls have taken to
themselves the infinite consolation of those
words? And what cold blooded soul would
have omitted the glowing comparisons of
Isaiah ?—National Sunday School Teacher.
Stonewall Jackson’s Sunday School.—
A visitor will be struck, on Sunday afternoon,
at the crowd of negro boys and girls wend
ing their way to the Presbyterian church in
Lexington, Va. If he goes he will see a col
ored Sunday School, superintended by Col.
J. T. L. Preston, Professor in the Virginia
Military Institute. If he asks about the school
he will be told : 44 This is Stonewall Jackson’s
old school.” This colored Sunday school was
organized by Stonewall Jackson when he was
Professor in the Virginia Military Institute.
He took the deepest iuterest in its success
(never going to it or from it without earnest,
secret prayer,) and when called into the army
he expressed himself more loth to leave his
Sunday school than any of his other public
duties. His interest continued to the day of
his death, and he was never known to write
a letter to Lexington without making special
inquiry after his colored Sunday school.—
Lexington ( Va.) Letter.
Interrupters. —An honest old lady who
belonged to the shoddy family was asked
how she got along in Europe when the peo
ple spoke French, or German, or Italian.
44 O.” said she, 44 we always had an inter
rupter. ” I know a Sunday school that al
ways has some interrupter. 1. The libra
rian, going about distributing books, is one.
2. The secretary, picking up statistics, Is an
other. 3. The over-sociable superintendent
is worse than all 4. Except, indeed, we
count the most annoying of all interrupters —
the itinerant Sunday school speech-maker.
The Sunday School. —The Sunday school
releases no parent from the obligation to
train his offspring in the Scriptures. In in
stances beyond enumeration; it stimulates,
and guides, and helps the parental effort. If
in some strange instances, ignorant and care
less parents feel absolved from the parental
effort by this auxiliary of modern times, there
are contrary instances, ten-fold more numer
ous, of parents and families who, from the
connection of their children with Sunday
schools, have first become awake to the duty
of instructing them, and first learned the bes
methods of performing it.— James W. Alex t
ander.
Being Useful.
I will tell you, Allan, how a little child
can be useful:
He can pick up a pin from the floor.
He can play with his little sister.
He can tell mamma when baby cries.
He can reaeh the stool that she may put
her foot on it.
He can hold the cotton when she winds it.
He can teach a little child his letters.
And he can make his mother happy by
being good.
SHARP <& FLOYD,
(SUCCESSORS TO GEO. SHARP, Jr.,)
WHITEHALL STREET, ATLANTA, GA.,
Manufacturing and Merchant Jewelers, Watch-
Makers, Silversmiths, and Engravers.
We Do First Class Work.
We sell only First Class Goods.
We sell the Diamond Spectacle.
We believe it to be the best in use.
We Keep the very Best of Workmen.
We have a large stock of Fine Jewelry.
We have the Latest Styles.
We have a large stock of Diamonds.
We are legitimate Diamond Dealers,
We have a large stock of Wutcbes.
We sell at Small Profits.
We buy our goods for Cash. *
We buy them very low.
We sell them low as the lowest.
We have more Solid Silver Ware manufac
tured than any Jeweller in Georgia.
We Engrave all our Ware free of charge.
We have a motto—Quick Sales, Small Profits.
We guarantee every article sold.
We guarantee all oar work.
We make Gold, Silver and Bronze Medals.
We want to tarnish every Fair in the State.
We can make Premiums for Fairs.
We know that we can m ike them at a less price than
any house in Georgia.
We can make Premiums, then, as low as any House
in the United States.
We oannot, shall not be excelled in Finish, Price or
Quality.
We shall not be undersold.
Give us a fair trial. SHARP & FLOYD.
2543—66—25 t
IMPORTANT NOTICE
JL TO
CONSUMERS OF DRY GOODS.
All Retail Orders amounting to S2O and Over Delivered
In any Part of the Country,
Free of Express Charges.
HAMILTON, EASTER & SONS,
QF BALTIMORE, HD.,
In order the better to meet the wants of their Retail
Customers at a distance, have established a
SAMPLE BTTF^PTA-U,
and will, upon application, promptly send by mail full
lines of Samples of the Newest and most Fashionable
Goods, of FRENCH, ENGLISH and DOMESTIC MAN
UFACTURE, guaranteeing at all times to sell as low,
if not at less prices, than any house in the country.
Buying our Goods from the largest and most celebra
ted manufacturers in different parts of Europe, and
importing the same by Steamers direct to Baltimore,
our stock is at all times promptly supplied with the
novelties of the London and Paris markets.
As we buy and sell only for cash, and malce no bad
debts, we are able and willing to sell our goods at from
Tan to Fifteen Pee Cent. Less Profit than if we gave
credit.
In sending for Samples, specify the kind of goods de
sired. We keep the best grades of every class of goods,
from the lowest to the most costly.
Orders unaccompanied by the cash, will be sen t 0. O. D.
PROMPT-Pa YING WHOLESALEBUYERS are
invited to inspect the Stock in our Jobbing and Pack
age Department. Addiess
HAMILTON, EASTER St, SONS,
197, 199, 201 and 203 West Baltimore Street,
2525 —2575 Baltimore, Md.
JJKBUCKEYE BELL FOUNDRY,
VjW Established In 1837.
M UHPa Superior Belle for Churches,
V fißjg2S|A Schoola, etc., of Pure Cop-
WVm (Ep|B ■_ per and Tin, fully war
jKLM&mmL ranted, and mounted with
IK ■ ' our latent Improved
Notary Hangings, the
vajtouze?tift7*‘
Ciadniti,
gj4(J—9o—soi
THE STEWART COOK STOVE.
WITH HUMPING GRATE.
LATEST IMPROTE.iiENT! BEST IN THE WORLD;
MAWCPACTUBRD BT
FULLER, WARREN & CO.,
TROY, N- Y.
The Stewart Stove, which has been in use for more
than a quarter of a century, and by its economy aud
complete adaptation to the wants of the kitchen,[has
maintained an acknowledged superiority over all other
stoves, is now introduced to the public with all the
modern conveniences of Front Draft, Ash Drawer
aad Dumping Grate. The Flues have also been
enlarged and improved, so as to ensure an excellent
Draft at all times, and still to retain in the Stove its
unrivalled economical features. No stove has ever yet
been made to do as much work with as little fuel as the
Stewart. The following brief summary is the result
of One Day’s Work, recently accomplished at Glo
versvtlle, N- Y., with one Stewart Stove:
Baked 415 pounds of bread, half a bushel of po
tatoes, 5 apple pies. Roaßted 73 pounds of beet.
Boiled 1 barrel of water; also, 17 Ballons heated to
150 degrees. All this with one coal fire , not a particle
of coal being put into the stove alter the fire was start
ed in the morning. Those in wantof Cook Stoves will
secure the most economy by procuring the best. The
Stewart Stoves are for sale in nearly every town and
city throughout the United States.
FULLER, WARREN & CO.,
Exclusive Manufacturers,
Troy, N. Y.
_ . I 58 State Sh, Chicago, 111.
BranchJHouses • go River St, Cleveland, 0.
The Warren Double Oven Cooking Range
the most perfect operating Range in the market and
the Lawson Hot Air Farnaces, the very best for
beating Churches, Public Buildings, and Private Resi
dences are also manufactured and lor sale by
’ FULLER, WARREN A CO.
Kgr Descriptive Pamphlets famished on application.
BUSINESS CARDS.
A. CONSTANTINE’S
Persian Healing Soap.
Patrntrd March 18, 1867.
FOR THE 70ILET, BATH AND NURSERY
This Soap has no equal. It preserves the complex
ion (air, the shin soft, flexible aod healthy. It removes
all dandruff, preserves the hair soft and silky, and pre
vents it from falling off. It cures Pimples, all Diseases
of the Scalp and Skin, and is a GOOD SHAVING
SOAP. Agents wanted. Office, 48 Ann St., New York.
Ask any dealer for A. A. Constantine’s Soap.
2582 —t
JTIRBT PREMIUM
Awarded at Cotton States Fair, Augusta,
a lil R y\|
THOMASVILLE FAIR, AND ALL SOUTHERN
FAIRS WHERE EXHIBITED,
1870.
THE SXISrGKEIR/
MANUFACTURING COMPANY,
AT THE WORLD’S FAIR
Constituted by the homes of the people, received the
Great Award of the Highest Sales, and have left all
rivals far behind them, for they sold in 1870, One Hun
dred and Tweqjy-seven Thousand Eight Hundred and
Thirty-three Machines.
The Singer Manufacturing Company
sold over the Florence Sewing
Machine Company 110,178 Machines.
Sold over the Wilcox A Gibbs' Sew
ing Machine Company 98,943 “
Sold over the Weed Sewing Machine
Company 92,881 “
Sold over the Grover A Baker Sew
ing Machine Company 70,481 “
Sold over the Howe Machine Compa
ny 52,877 “
Sola over the Wheeler A Wilson
Manufacturing Company 44,605 “
It is the most simple and easily regulated Machine
now in use.
The shuttle gives an even tension from the full to the
empty bobbitr.
Makes the most durable, elastic and smooth stitch.
Stitching the softest muslin without drawing it into
the feed, and from that to heavy cloth or leather with
out changing the tension, making it capable of a greater
range ot work than any other Machine made.
We use the straight needle, and it will do more and
finer work than the curved needles.
The work moves from you instead of sideways, which
is much easier to manage.
For speea and ease ot operation it is unequalled.
Our machinery is all protected from dust.
Our corder, tucker, gatherer, quitter, trimmer, fring
er, binder, hemmer, braider, feller and embroidery at
tachment, are simple and easily used.
We have the best of silks of our own manufacture at
wholesale and retail, of all co'.ors and numbers.
We will place the Singer in your family for a trial
with any machine you may wish to try with it.
The sales of our New Family Sewing Machine is
steadily increasing, showing its popularity.
The new No. 1 Machine, for Tuilors and Boot-makers,
is the best in the murket.
Examine before purchasing.
Are now sold on easy terms at the Atlanta Agency.
K. T. SMILLIE, Local Agent.
Corner of S. Broad and W. Alabama streets.
Agents wanted everywhere.
Silk Thread, Needles, Oil, etc., always on band.
Stitching neatly done. H. D. HAWLEY,
General Agent for Georgia, South Carolina and Florida.
Pincipal Distributing Offices.
182 Broughton Street, Savannah, Ga.; 197 King
Street, Charleston, and the Atlanta Office.
Local Officrs:
J. H. Bramhall, Columbus, Ga.
A L. Clinkscales, Macon. Ga.
E. H. Sumner, Augusta, Ga.
E, C. Hough, Rome, Ga.
Satterfield, Byron A Cos., Cartersville, Ga.
E. H. Bloodwortb, Barnesville, Ga.
S. F. Wilder A Son. Forsyth, Ga.
Mallard Brothers, Tbomasville, Ga.
Mrs. B. E. Johnson, Bainbridge, Ga.
Montgomery k Shaw, Araericus, Ga.
Geo. A. Peek, Jacksonville, Fla.
And in almost every county, our Machine is now
ully represented.
Anyone ordering a Machine from reading this ad
vertisement, please state it when ordering.
2541—2591—50 t
TRAVELERS’ GUIDE.
WESTERN AND ATLANTIC RAILROAD CO
B. W. Cole, Superintendent , Atlanta.
Night Passenger Train — Outward.
Leave Atlanta 10.30 P M
Arrive at Chattanooga 0.16 A.M
Day Passenger Tiain — Outward.
Leave Atlanta 6.00 A.M
Arrive at Chattanooga 1-21 P.M
Fast Lene to New Tori — Outward.
Leave Atlanta. 2.45 P.M
Arrive at Dalton 7.53 P.M
Night Passenger Train — lnward.
Leave Chattanooga 6-20 P.M
Arrive at Atlanta 1-42 A.M
Day Passenger Train — lnward.
Leave Chattanooga 5 30 A.M
Arrive at Atlanta 2.20 P.M
Accommodation Train — lnward.
Leave Dalton 2.25 A.M
Arrive at Atlanta •• 9.10 A.M
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
8. K. Johnson - , Superintendent , Augusta.
Day Passnger Train.
Leave Augusta 8-®0 A.M
Leave Atlanta 7.10 A.M
Arrive at Augusta •••• 5.40 P.M
Arrive at Atlanta d-20 P.M
Night Passenger and Mail Train.
Leave Augusta 8-15 P.M
Leave Atlanta 5.30 P.M
Arrive at Augusta 3.45 A.M
Arrive at Atlanta 6-40 A.M
Athens Branch Train leaves Union Point daily,
Sunday excepted, at 1.15 P.M., arriving at Athena at
4.36 P.M. Leave Athens at 9.15 A.M., arriving at
Union Point 12.50 P.M. On Monday and Tuesday
nights, a train leave* Union Point at 2.20 A.M , arrives
at Athens 5.15 A.M.; leaves Athens, ti P.M., arriving
at Union Point, 11 P.M.
Washington Branch. —Train leaves Washington
at 10 A.M., arrives at Barnett, 11.30 A.M.; leaves
Barnett 2.15 P.M., arriving at Waahiußton at 4.10
P.M. Os Monday and Tuesday nights, Indies Wa»h-
Ington’ttt 16.20 P.M., arriving at Barnett, R at night.
Leaves Tiarnett, 1.50 A.M., arrives at Washington,
3.30 A.M.
Macon and Auousta Railroad.— Train leaves
Camak. 12 40 P.M., arriving at Milledgeville Junction
4.20 P.M.; leaves Junction at 6.15 A.M, arriving at
Camak, 9.25 A.M. Connects Augusta with South
Carolina, Charlotte, Colombia and Augusta, and
Augusta with Savannah Railroad.
ATLANTA AND WEST POINT RAILROAD.
L. P. Grant, Superintendent, Atlanta.
Day Passenger Train— Outward.
Leave Atlanta !••••• 7.10 A.M
Arrive at West Point 11.40 A.M
Day 'Paeetnger Train—lt ward.
Leave West Foint 12.46 P.M
Arrive at Atlanta 5.00 P.M
Night Freight and Passenger—Outward.
Leave Atlanta 7.00 P.M
Arrive at West Point 10.45 P.M
Night Freight and Passenger—lnward.
Leave West Point 3.00 A.M
Arrive at Atlanta 10.07 A.M
NASHVILLE AND CHATTANOOGA RAILROAD
J. W. Thomas, Superintendent, Nashville.
Day Passenger Irain.
Leave Nashville 9.30 A.M
Arrive at Chattanooga 4.20 P.M
Leave Chattauooga 3.45 A.M
Arrive at Nashville 1-30 P.M
Night Passenger Train.
Leave Nashville P.M
Arrive at Chattanooga 4.30 A.M
Leave Chattanooga 8.00 P.M
Arrive at Nashville 5 00 A M
Night trains run daily j day trains run daily, Sun
days excepted. , n A.
Both trains connect at Chattanooga for Home, At
lanta, and all principal Southern oities.
Selma, Borne and Dalton Ball road.
DAT PAS* CITHAI* —MOSTH.
Leave Seim a. B:*6 n m
KIOBT PASSBHOSB TSAI*—SOUTH.
Leave Dalton
accommodation tea in.
Leave Borne -1:« p.m.
Arrive at Borne 1.4# P-m.
The accommodation train runs from Borne to Jacksonville
dally, Sunday* exeeptad. The through passenger train only
will be run on Sunday.