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___ VOYYtV.'Y.
A GUAM) 01,11 POEM.
Who shall judge a man from mannei'3 ?
Who shall know him by his dress?
Paupers may be fit for princes,
Princes fit for something less.
Crumpled shirt and dirty jacket
May beclothe the golden ore
If the deepest thoughts are feeling—
Satin vests could do no more.
There are springs of crystal nectar
Ever welling out of stone,
There are purple buds and golden
Hidden,crushed, and overgrown;
God, who counts by souls, not dresses,
Loves and prospers you and me,
Whilo he values, thrones the highest,
But as pebbles in the sea.
Man, upraised above his fellows,
Oft forgets his fellows then;
Masters, rulers, lords remember
That your meanest kind are men;
Men by labor, men by feeling,
Men by thought, men by fame,
Claiming equal rights to sunshine,
In a man’s ennobling name.
There are foam-embroidered oceans,
There are little weed-clad rills :
There are feeble, inch-high saplings,
There are cedars on the hills;
God, who counts by souls not stations,
Loves and propers you and me;
For, to him, all vain distinctions
Are as pebbles in the sea.
Toiling hands alone aro builders
Of a nation’s wealth or fame;
Tilted laziness is pensioned
Fed and fattened on the same;
By the sweat of others’ foreheads,
Living only to rejoice,
While the poor man’s outraged freedom,
Vainly lifted up its voice.
Truth and justice are eternal,
Born with loveliness and light,
Secret wrongs shall never prosper
While there is a sunny right;
God, whose world-heard voice is ringing
Boundless love to you and me,
Sinks oppression with its titles,
As the pebbles in the sea.
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
BY REV. T. DeWITT TALM4GE
[The Sermons of Dr. Talmage are publish
ed in pamphlet form by Geo. A. Sparks,
48 Bible House, New York. A number
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SOLICITUDE.
.‘A wise son maketli a glad father; but a
foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.”
—Proverbs, x,, I.
In this graphic way Solomon sets
forth the idea that the good or evil be
havior of children blesses or blights the
parents heart. I know there are per
sons who seem to have no especial in
terest in the welfare of their children.
The lather says: ‘‘My bay must take
the risks of life. If he turns out well,
all right; if he turns out ill, he will
have to bear the consequences. He
has the same chance that I had. He
must take care of himself.” A shep
herd might just as well thrust a lamb
into a den of lions and say: “Little
lamb, take care of yourself.” Nearly
all the brute creation are kind enough
to look after their young. I was go
ing through a woods and I heard a
shrill cry in a nest. I climbed up to
the bird’s nest and I found that the old
bird had left the brood to starve. But
that is a very rare occurrence. Gener
ally a bird will pick your eyes out
rather than surrender her young to
your touch. A lion will rend you if
you come too near the whelps; even
the barnyard fowl, with its clumsey
foot and heavy wing, will come at you
if you approach its young too nearly,
and God certainly intended to have fa
ther and mother as kind as the brutes.
Christ comes through all our house
holds to-day, and He says: “You take
care of the bodies of your children and
the minds of your children; what are
you doing for their immortal souls?”
I read of a ship that foundered. A
lifeboat was launched. Many of the
passengers were in the waters. A
mother, with one hand beating the
wave and the other hand holding her
little child out toward the life-boat,
cried out: “Save my child!” And
that impassioned cry is the one that
find an echo in every parental heart in
this house to-day. “Save my child!”
That man out there says: “I have
fought my own way through life; I
have got along tolerably well; the world
has buffeted me and I have had many
a hard struggle; it don’t make much
difference what happens to me, but save
my child.” You see I have a subject
of stupendous import, and I am going
as God may help me to show the
causes of parental solicitude, and then
the alleviations of that solicitude.
The first cause of parental solicitude,
I think, arises from theimperfection of
parents on their own part. We all,
somehow, want our children to avoid
our faults. We hope that if we have
any excellencies they will copy them;
but the probability is they will copy
our faults and omit our excellencies.
Children are very apt to be echoes of
the parental life. Someone meets a
lad on the back street, finds him smok
ing, and says: “Why, lam astonished
at you; what would your father say if
he knew this? Where did you get
that cigar?” “Oh, I picked it up on
the street.” “What would your fath
er say, and your mother say, if they
knew this?” “Oh,” he replies, “that’s '
nothing; my father smokes!” There:
is no one of us to-day who would like]
to have onr children copy all onr exam
ples. And that is the cause of solici
tude on tho part of all of us. We have.
! so many faults we do not want them
copied and stereotyped in the lives and
characters of those, who come afier us.
Their solicitude arises from our con
scious insufficiency and unwisdom of
discipline. Out of twenty parents there
may be one parent who understands
how thoroughly and skillfully to dis
cipline; perhaps not more than one out
of twenty. We, nearly all of us, are
on one side or are on the other. Here
is a father who says: “I am going to
bring up ray children right; my sons
shall know nothing" but religion, shall
see nothing bnt religion, and hear noth
ing but religion.” They are routed
at ti o’clock in morning to recite the
Ten Commandments. They are wak
ened np from the sofa on Sunday night
to recite the Westminster Catechism.
Their bedroom walls are covered with
religions pictures and quotations of
Scripture, and when the boy looks for
the day of the month he looks for it in
a religious almanac. If a minister
comes to the house he is requested to
take the boy aside and tell him what
a great sinner he is. It is religion
morning, noon and night. Time passes
on and the parents are waiting for the
return of the son at night, lt is 9
o’clock, it is 10 o’clock, it is 11 o’clock,
it is 12 o’clock, it is half-past 12
o’clock. Then they hear a rattling of
the night key, and George comes in
ami hastens upstairs lest he be accost
ed. The father says, “George, where
have you been?” He says, “I have
been out.” Yes, he has been out, and
he has been down, and he has started
on the broad road to ruin for this life
and ruin for the life to come; and the
father says to his wife, “Mother, the
Ten Commandments are a failure; no
use of Westminster Catechism; I have
done my very best for that boy; just
see how he has turned out.” Ah! my
friend, you stuffed that boy with relig
ion; you had no sympathy with inno
cent hilarities, you had no common
sense. A man at middlo life said to me:
“I haven’t much desire for religion;
my father was as good a man as ever
lived, but he jammed religion down
ray throat when I was a boy until I got
disgusted with it, and I haven’t want
ed any of it since. Then the discip
line is an entire failure in many house
holds, because the father pulls one way
and the mother pulls the other way.
The father says: “My son, I told you
if I ever found you guilty of falsehood
again I would chastise you, and I am
going to keep my promise.” The
mother says: “Don’t; let him off this
time.” A father says: “I have seen
s) many that makr mistake by,too great
severity in the rearing of their children,
now I will let my boy do as he pleases;
he shall have full swing; here, my son,
are tickets to the theatre and opera; if
you want to play cards do so; if you
don’t want to play cards you need not
to play them; go where you want to
and come back when you want to; have
a good time; go it!” Plenty of money
for the most part, and give a boy plenty
of money and ask him not what he
does with it and you pay his way
straight to perdition. But after a while
the lad thinks he ought to have a still
larger supply. He has been treated
and he must treat. He must have
wine suppers. There are larger and
larger expenses. After awhile, one
day a messenger from the bank over
the way calls in and says to the father
of the household of which I am speak
ing, “The officers of the bank would
like to have you step over a minute.”
The father steps over and a bank offi
cer says, “Is that your check?” “No,”
he says, “that is not my check: I
never make an H in that way; I never
put a curl to the Y in that way; that is
not my writing that is not my signature
that is a counterfeit; send lor the po
lice.” “Stop,” says the bank officer,
“your son wrote that.” Now the
father and mother are waiting for the
son home at night. It is 12 o’clock,
it is half-past 12 o’clock, it is 1 o’clock.
The son conies through the hallway.
The father says: “My son, what does
all this mean? I gave you every op
portunity, I gave you all the money
you wanted, and here in my old dayß I
find that you have become a spend
thrift, a libertine and a sot.” The
son says: “Now, father, what is the
use of your talking that way? You
told me to go it, and I just took your
suggestions.” And so, to strike the
medium between severity and too great
leniency, to strike the happy medium
between the two, and to train our
children for God and for heaven, is the
anxiety ot every intelligent parent.
Another great anxiety, great solici
tude is in the fact that so early is de
veloped childish sinfulness. Morning
glories put out their bloom in the early
part of the day, but as the hot sun
comes on they close up. While there
are other flowers that blaze their beau
ty along the Amazon for a week at a
time without closing, yet the morning
glory does its own work as certainly as
Victoria regia; so there are some chil
dren that just put forth their bloom,
and they close, and they are gone.
There is something supernatural about
them while they tarry, and there is an
ethereal appearance about them. There
is a wonderful depth to their eye, and
they are gone. They are too delicate
a plant for this world. The Heaven
ly Gardener sees them and lie takes
them in. But for the most part the
children that live sometimes get cross,
and pick up bad words in the street or
aro disposed to quarrel with brother or
sister and show that they are wicked.
You see them in the Sabbach-school
class. They are so sunshiny and bright
you would think they were always so;
bnt the mother looking over at them I
remembers what an awful time" she
had to get them ready. Time passes
on. They get considerably older, and
the son comes in from the street from a
pugilistic encounter, hearing on his ap
pearance the marks of defeat. Or the
daughter practises some little deception
in the household. The mother says:
“I can’t always be scolding and fret
ting and finding fault, but this must
be stopped.” So in many a household
there is the sign of the heart’s being
wrong, the sign of tho truthfulness of
what the Bible says when it declares,
“They go astray as soon as they be
born, speaking lies.” Some go to
work and try to correct all this, and
the boy is picked at, and picked at,
and picked at. That always is ruin
ous. There is more health in one thun
der storm than in five days of cold
drizzle. Better the old-fashioned style
of chastisement, if that be necessary,
than the fretting and the scolding which
have destroyed so many. There is al
so the cause of great solicitude some
times because our young people are sur
rounded by so many temptations. A
castle may not betaken by a straight
forward siege, but suppose there be in
side the castle an enemy, and in the
night he shoves back the bolt and
swings open the door? Our young
folks have foes without and they have
foes within. Who does not understand
it? Who is the man here who is not
aware of the tact that the young peo
ple of this day have tremendous temp
tations? Some man will come to the
young people and try to persuade them
that purity and honesty and upright
ness are a sign of weakness. Some
men will take a dramatic attitude, and
he will talk to the young man, and he
will say: “You must break away
from your mother’s apron-strings; you
must get out of that puritanical
straight-jacket; it is time you were
your own master; you are verdant; you
are green; you are unsophisticated;
come with me—l’ll show you the world,
I’ll show you life; come with me; you
need to see the world; it won’t hurt
you.” After a while the young man
says. “Well, I can’t afford to be odd;
I can’t afford to be peculiar; I can’t af
ford to sacrifice all my friends’ I’ll just
go and see for myself.” Farewell to
innocence, which once gone never fully
comes back. Do not be under the de
lusion that because you repent of 6iu
you get rid forever of it’s consequences.
I say farewell to innocence, which once
gone never fully comes back. O! how
many traps set for the young. Styles
of temptation just suited to them. Do
you suppose that a man who went clear
to the depths of dissipation went down
in one great plunge? O! no! At first
it was a fashionable hotel. Marble
floor. No unclean pictures behind the
counter. No drunken hiccough while
they drink, but the click of cut glass
to the elegant sentiment. You ask
that young man to go into some low
restaurant and get a drink, and he
would say, “Do you mean to insult
me ?” But the fashionable and elegant
hotel is not always close by, and now
the young man is on the down grade.
Further and further down, until he has
about struck the bottom of the depths
of ruin. Now he is in the low restau
rant. The cards so greasy you can
hardly tell who has the best hand.
Gambling for drinks. Shuffle away,
shuffle away. The landlord stands in
his shirtsleeves, with his hands on his
hips, waiting for an order to fill up the
glasses. The clock strikes twelve—
the tolling of the funeral flushes in the
young man’s cheeks. In the jets of
the gaslight the fiery tongue of the
worm that never dies. Two o’clock in
the morning, and now they are sound
asleep in their chairs. Landlord comes
around and says: “Wake up, wake
up ! time to shut up !” “What!”
says the young man; “time to shut
up !” Push them all out into the
night air. Now they are going home.
Going home ! Let the wife crouch in
the corner and the children hide under
the bed. What was the history of that
young man ? He began his disipations
in the barroom of the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, and completed his damnation
in the lower grogshops on Atlantic
street. Sometimes sin even comes to
the drawing-room. There are leprous
hearts sometimes admitted in the high
est circles of society. He is so elegant,
he is so bewitching in his manner, he
is so refined, he is so educated, no one
suspects tho sinful design; but after a
while the talons of death come forth.
What is the matter with that house?
The front windows have not been open
for six months or a year. A shadow
has come down on that domestic hearth,
a Bhadow thicker than one woven of
midnight and hurricane. The agony
of that parent makes him say: “Q ! I
wish I had buried my children when
they were small.” Loss of property?
No. Death in the family ? No. Some
villian, kid-gloved and diamoned, lifted
that cup of domestic bliss until the
sunlight struck it, and all the rainbows
played around the rim, and then dash
ed it into desolation and woe, until the
harpies of darkness clapped their hands
and all the voices of the pit uttered a
loud “Ha, ha!” The statistic has
never been made up in these great cities
of how many have been destroyed, and
how many beautiful homes have been
overthrown. If the statistic could be
presented, it would freeze your blood
in a solid cake at your heart. Ourgreat
cities are full of temptations, and to
vast multitudes of parents these tempta
tions become a matter of great solici
tude.
But now for the alterations. First
of all, you save yourself a great deal
of trouble. O ! parent, if you can early
watch tho children and educate them
for God and Heaven. “The first five
years of my life made me an infidel,”
said Tom Paine. A vessel puts out
to sea, and after it has been five days
out there comes a cyclone. The vessel
springs a leak. The helm will not
work. What is the matter ? It is not
seaworthy. It never was seaworthy.
Can you mend it now ? It is too late.
Down she goes with 250 passengers
into a watery grave. What was the
time to fix that vessel ? What was the
time to prepare it for the storm ? In
the drydock. Ah ! my friends do not
wait until your children get out into
the world, beyond the narrows and out
on the great voyage of life. It is too
late then to mend their morals and their
manners. The drydock of the Chris
tian home is the place. Correct the
sin now, correct the evil now. Just
look at the character of your children
now and get an intimation ot what
they are going to be. You can tell by
the way that boy divides the apple
what his proclivity is and what his sin
will be, and what style of discipline
you ought to bring upon him. You
let that disposition go. You see how
he divides that apple. He takes
nine-tenths of it for him
self and gives one-tenth to his
sister. Well, let that go, and all his
life he will want the best part of every
thing and he will be grinding and
grasping to the day of his death. Peo
ple hurl their scorn at the life of Lord
Byron. Lord Byron was not half so
much to blame as his mother. The
historian tells us that when her child
was limping across the floor with his
unsound foot, instead of acting like
any other mother, she said: “Get out
of my way, you lame brat!” Do not
denounce Lord Byron half so much as
you denounce his mother. All the
scenes in Venice, all the scenes in
Greece, all the scenes of outrage when
ever he went, an echo of that bad
mother’s heart and that bad mother’s
life.
Two young men came to a door of
wickedness. The one entered. The
other turned back. Why ? Difference
of resolution, you say. No. The one
had a Christian influence; the other had
no pious training. The one man went
on his evil way. He entered and went
on. No early voice accosted him, but
the other heard a voice whose tones
may have died from the ear twenty
years before, saying, “Don’t go there,
don’t go there !” Ithinkitwas almost
the first time I ever made a religious
address-it was in Dr. Bethune’s church;
it was an anniversary of the Young
Men’s Christian Association. I came
in from my village home, and I remem
ber nothing of that anniversary except
that one of the speakers that night
said: “Many years ago, two young
men stood at the door of the Park
Theatre, New York. They were dis
cussing whether they had better go in
or not. There was an immoral play
to be enacted that night. One of them
said, ‘I will not go in.’ The other said,
‘Don’t be afraid; let’s go in; who cares?’
The one who entered went on from sin
to sin, the terminus of his life delirium
tremens, with which he died in a hos
pital. The other man turned back,
came to Christ as his Saviour, entered
the Gospel ministry, and he stands be
fore you to-night. What was it that
stopped me at the door of the Park
Theatre, New Y’ork, so many years
ago ? It was a pressure of a hand on
my shoulder—the pressure of my moth
er’s hand.”
Begin early with your children. You
stand on the banks of a river and you
try to change its course. It has been
rolling now for a hundred miles. You
cannot change it. But just go to the
source of that river, go to where the
water just drips down on the rock.
Then with your knife make a channel
this wav and a channel that way, and
it will take it. Come out and stand
on the banks of your child’s life when
it is 30 to 40 years of age, or even 20,
and try to change the course of that
life. It is too late ! It is too late ! Go
further up at the source of life and
nearest to the mother’s heart, where
the character starts, and try to take it
in the right direction. But O ! my
friend, be careful to make a line—a
distinct line—between innocent hilari
ty on the one hand and vicious pro
clivity on the other. Do not think your
children are going to ruin because they
make a racket. All healthy children
make a racket. But do not laugh at
your child’s sin because it is smart. If
you do you will cry after a while be
cause it is malicious. Rebuke the very
first appearace of sin. Now is your
time. Do not begin too late. Remem
ber it is what yon do more than what
yon say that is going to effect your
children. Do not suppose Noah would
have got his family to go into the ark
ifhe stayed out ? No. His sons would
have said: “I am not going into the
boat; there’s something wrong; father
won’t go in; if father stays out I’ll
stay out.” An officer may stand in a
castle and look off upon an army fight
ing; but he cannot be much of an offi
cer, he cannot excite much enthusiasm
on the part of his troops, standing in a
castle or on a hilltop looking off upon
the fight. It is a Garibaldi or a Na
poleon 1., who leaps into the stirrnps
and dashes ahead. And yon stand out
side the Christian life and tell your
children to go in. They will not go.
But yon dash on ahead, you enter the
kingdom of God, and they themselves
will become good soldiers of Jesus
Christ. Lead if you would have them
follow. Have a family altar. Do not
with long prayers wear out your chil
dren’s knees. Do not have the prayer
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a repulsion. If you have a piano, or
an organ, or a melodeon in the house,
have it open while you are having
prayers. If you say, “I cannot con
struct a prayer; lam slow of speech
and never could construct a prayer,”
then take Matthew Henry’s prayer, or
take the Episcopal church prayerbook.
There is nothing better than tbit. Put
it down on the chair, gather your chil
dren about you, and commend them to
God. . Y’ou say it will not amount to
anything. It will, long after you are
under the soil. That son will remem
ber father and mother at morning and
evening prayers, and it will be mighty
help to him, it will be mighty rescue to
him. And above all, in private com
mend yotir children to God. Say;
“Here, Lord, I am—all my imperfec
tions of discipline and government—
here are these immortals; make them
Thine forever. The angels that re
deemeth us from all evil, blesß the lads.”
Are all your children safe ? I know
it is a stupendous question to ask, but I
must ask it; are all of your children
safe? A mother when the house was
on fire got out the household goods,
many articles of beautiful furniture,
but forgot to ask until too late, “Are
thechildren safe ?” When the elements
are melting with fervent heat and God
shall burn the world up, and the cry of
“Fire! fire!” shall resound amid
mountains and valleys, will your chil
dren bo safe ? Will your children be
safe ?
I wonder if the subject this morning
strikes a chord in the heart of any man
who had Christian parentage bnt has
not lived as he ought. God brought
you here this stormy morning to have
your memory revived. Did you leave
a Christian ancestry ? “O ! yes,” Bays
some man; “if there ever was a good
woman my mother was good.” How
she watched you when you were sick !
Others wearied. If she got weary she
nevertheless was wakeful, and the
medicine was given at the right time,
and when the pillow was hot she turned
it. And O ! then when you began to
go astray, what a grief it was to her
heart. All the scene comes back. You
remember the chairs, you remember
the table, you remember the doorsill
where you played, you remember the
tones of her voice. She seems calling
you now, not by the formal title with
which we address you, saying, “Mr.”
this, or “Mr.” that, or “Honorable”
this, or “Honorable” that. It" is just
the first name, your first name, she
calls you by this morning. She bids
you to a better life. She says; “For
get not all the counsel I gave you, my
wandering boy; turn into paths of
righteousness; I am waiting for you at
the gate.” O ! yes, God brought yon
here this morning to have that memory
revived,and I shout upward the tidings.
Angels of God, send forward the news.
Ring ! ring ! The dead is alive again,
and the lost is found !
The Newer Arithmetic.
A woman placed four pounds of cold
meat and eight ounces of bread before a
tramp. At the end of twenty minutes
how much was left?
A young man, by swearing off on
cigars, tobacco and beer, saved thirty
cents a day for six months. How many
frog suppers would this give him at
$8 per supper?
It costs S2OO for a young lady to
learn painting, and she turns out two
landscapes worth forty cents apiece,
what is the net profit?
An Indiana girl trapped eighty-three
rabbits and sold them for thirteen cents
each. What was the sum total, and
how much did she have left after buy
ing her father a $lO overcoat?
A certain shaft makes 045 revolu
tions per minute, and a young man is
seized by the coat-tails and whirled
around for twenty-seven seconds. How
many revolutions does he make?
A man winks his eye an average of
30,000 times per day, and a woman’s
tongue makes 78,000 motions every
twenty-four hours. At this rate how
long will it take the man to catch np?
The average woman groans 125
times per hour when suffering with
toothache, while the average man ut
ters thirty-five cuss words every sev
enty seconds. At the end ot three
hours how far ahead will the woman
be?
A man in Richmond wound np an
eight day clock every night for thirteen
straight years. How much time, esti
mating three minutes for each wind,
could he have put in at hoeing corn
had he known what sort of a clock he
had?
Seven different mothers interested in
the heathen of Africa have twenty-nine
children between them. Five of the
children swear, three have been in the
work house, two have run away and
the police are after four others. What
is the remainder, and how much will
it cost to hire someone to wash their
faces and patch their clothes?
In a certain saloon are seven men.
A woman is seen crossing the street,
club in hand, and four of the men slip
over the back fence. Two thirds of
the remainder are struck five times
apiece by the club, and the other one
third is bit three times. How many
hits in all, including three broken de
canters?
Pittsfoed, Mass., Sept< 281878.
Sirs—l "have taken Hour Bitters
and recommend them to outers, as I
found them very beneficial.
Mrs. J. W. Tui.ler,
, Sec. Women's Venetian Temperance
tTnton.