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Our dead —I cannot call them so,
The loved ones gone before —
A fuller life than this they know
Beyond the shadowy shore.
The Implements of earthly toil
Their hands have la'd aside,
To wield far mightier forces
In the realms where they abide.
Their eyes behold the glory of
The Lamb upon the Throne;
They catch the echo of His praise*
And it rings from zone to zone.
FLATTERY
SOME OF THE PHASES OF FALSE SENTIMENT
Araminta and Rosamonda—The Fol
lowers of Beauty and Wealth
—Evil Effect of Flattery at
Home.
Few people are proof against flat
tery, however broadly administered,
and more have been ruined by this
than on the one hand have been chill
ed by unsympathetic snubbing, on the
other heartened up to brave endeavor
by timely praise. Indeed there is just
this difference between the two de
grees of praise and flattery, that
whereas the former does thus hearten
up to brave and ever braver endeavor,
the latter checks self-culture and de
stroys future progress by making you
believe in attainment. According to
the flatterer, the goal has been won
and the great plateau of perfection
reached. There are no more dreary
distances to traverse, no more rugged
mountain sides to climb. The place
of “Rest and Be Thankful” has been
gained, and all that is needed now Is
to enjoy what you have and be grate
ful and glad fer what you are. Like
too many sweets, flattery ruins the
digest' - on and spoils (the taste foT
plainer and more wholesome food. No
one accustomed to it can take even
exhortat’en with a good grace; while
rebuke is an impertinence to be re
ceived as an insult and rejected as a
falsehood.
Money and Beauty
Men with money, and women with
beauty, are the two classes who are
treated with the largest and most
perilous amount of flattery. Where
the calf is fa.t pick’ngs abound, and
Larazus is glad of the crumbs which
fall to the ground when Dives cuts
the loaf. Lavish expenditure is
to be accompanied by a crowd of flat-
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THE HOUSEHOLD
A DEPARTMENT OF EXPRESSION FOR THOSE WHO FEEL AND THINK.
OUR DEAD
They know their dark Gethsemane —
Those dearly loved of ours;
But bravely strove to hide their cross
Beneath Life’s fairest flowers.
Now, methinks, the Lethian waters
Have borne their tr'als away,
And the sunlight of His Presence
Banished earth clouds dark and gray.
And the joys of eternal,
In the heaverly mansions fair,
Throughout the unending ages.
With our Saviour dear, they share.
THE GOLDEN AGE FOR WEEK OF SEPT. 11
terers, as crows follow the plough
man’s furrow; for where much flows
out something is to be caught, and
pleasure, at least, is to be had from
association with moneyed men who
spend freely, if a practical share in
the spoil itself is not to be got at.
Wherefore, flatterers gather around
the rich man as mites multiply in
the cheese, and too often he finds
that—
When the means are gone that
bring this praise,
The breath is gone whereof this
praise is made.
The only way in which can be
tested the sincerity of those who
flatter him now as if he were a god
is by the loss of the money which
attracts them. And if Timon of Ath
ens speaks tme the loss would be a
blessed one, so
Who’d be so mock’d with glory? or
to love
But in a dream of friendship?
To have a pomp, and all what state
compounds,
But only painted like his varnished
friend?
A Spoiled Child
No sooner aoes a pretty, fresh
young inai*e her appearance in
society man <uu conspire to natter ner
and rob ner 01 me very charm tney
praise. Now she is uneonsc.ous, de
void of vanity, considerate for others,
without egotism or self-seeking; in a
short time sue will be made the ex
act conti ary of this. She will have
have been flattered into self-con
sciousness, which is the first step to
van.ty; and that very quality of her
alertness will be lost in the cloud of
incense burnt to celebrate its charm.
She will have learned that she has
fine eyes, and every look, every ex
pression will have been chronicled
and detailed; she will hear that she
has fine hair, and she will learn its
exact shade in the sun and the depth
of its lustre in the shadow; and she
will be told of her creamy skin, of
her orettv mcv’th. of her graceful fig
ure, of her pweetT><»eg and mpld°p.li
ness and simplicity and modestv.
.And the consequence of all this wMI
he that c he vMll her 1co Ij -r *nd
v>nr g«d her at
prjooq t ?
f rneft f\P so !«*t. a~d
eho baiwymee or a Creature Os
art as if she were a paid actress on
the boards. She will spend hours in
arranging her hair so as best to show
its curl, its sheen, its length, its
thickness. Before this time she had
dressed it s'mply, by which all its
beauties were half revealed, half con
cealed; that beauty withourt lnten
t'on, which is the most beautiful
thing of all. She will spend hours- in
learning this trick of her head, that
act'on of her hands; this way of
standing and that way of setting; and
here again she will lose all the grace
of simplicity which first attracted to
her the baleful crowd of flatterers
who have destroyed what they so dis
astrously belauded.
Flattery at Home
It is not only from the world with
out that we gather the sweet poison
of flattery. We get quite enough at
times at home, and are taught to be
lieve that we are unique in our
graces. The brothers or affectionate
sisters are the cleverest and hand
somest and most promising of all the
golden youth of England; the sisters
to each other are the most beautiful
and most accomplished. Lina’s draw
ings are perfection; Nina’s voice
would be finer than Patti’s were she
to sing at Covent Garden; Mao’s
music is as good as Halle’s; no one
dances so well as Fay; L’lly has the
most splendid hair that can be seen
out of a show; and Milly has eyes
that would make the fortune of one
whose face was to be her fortune,
should chances to throw her into the
way of King Cophetua. So of all
they do and are —their work, their
play, their tempers, their brains.
Only when they get out into the
world and measure themselves
against others do they learn truly
what their own dimensions really
are. The loving flattery of home has
made them bigger and h ! gher in
every way, and the waking to the
bare truth is sometimes painful
enough. But, bad as is all this flat
tery from the outside, that wh : ch we
give to ourselves is the worst of all.
“L’amour propre est le plus grand
de tons es flatteurs,” says Rochelou
cault, and the Frenchman was rght.
If we were flatterded every day in
the week, aa.d yet did not accept as
true what we were told, it would do
us no harm; but when we beam to
flatter ourselves we have tumbled in
to the pit, and getfng out again is
the difficult problem, which not all of
us are able to master. We have to
be somewhat severely handled before
we can say that we have learnt our
lesson —of how to walk in safety, free
of flattery end its lures, and how to
avoid the p’tfalls of vanity resulting
therefrom. —London Que*n.
A sad story is told by a Pennsylva
nia man of a lad In his town who, like
many another boy, has been obliged to
wear the cast-off clothing of his
father.
One afternoon this lad was discov
ered in tears. “What’s the trouble,
my boy?” asked the man who tell*
the story.
“Why,” explained the youngster be
tween sobs, “pop has gone and shaved
his face clean, and now I s’pose I’ll
have to wear all them red whiskers.”
—Harper’s.
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Our language surely is abused,
And humbling always cb'ngs;
Tha’s why the biggest words art
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