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Z.M’CORD&SON j&.\; igriasta, O-corgrla. <f>rer & Commission Perrluuiis NO, 904 BROAD STREET. W AT< !I EH ! WATCHES ! " ( mu m-Uiutf Wiiiiltmu Hl*m Wluiiitif ftuiii i all ), mi of |t iimoniL, WtttrWe Mini Jiti4ry, Av Vultlivi nir4 Jttitii) Wmj Wifftiiih'tl. WM. KfJJIVVLUJKBT, • Q r ftf §fe4 llnlhioili Mi.. GEORGIA. HOME JOURNAL: GREENESBORO. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 10 1886. —EIGHT PAGES. DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON. WHAT IS TO BECOME OF OUB CHILDREN f Text: “Seeing that bis life is bound up In tho lad’s l:le.’—Generis xliv., SO. These words were spoken by Judah, as do scriptiva of th) tenderness and affect:, n will, h Jacob felt toward Benjamin, the youngest sou of that patriar. hul (uiinly; but they aie words jus; as appreciate to ir.nuv a parent in the. Lore —since “his life is bound up in the lad’s life." I have known pareuti who teemed to hatebut tittle interest in their children. A father says: “My sou must look out tor him-elf. If he comes up well, all right; if bo turns out badly I cannot kelp it. lam not responsible for bis I ehav ior. He must tike tin sane risk iu life that I took." As well might the shepherd throw a lamb mt > a den of lions ami ih-n say: “Little lamb, look out for yourself!’’ It is genera’ly the case that even th • beast looks alter its young. I have gone through the woods on a summer s day, and 1 have heard a g: oat outcry iu a Lira’s nest, and I bave climbed up to see what was the matter. I lound cut that the birds were starring and that the mother bird bad gone off not to come back again. But that is an exception. It is generally the case that the ohi bird will pick your eytsout rather than let you tome nigh its brood. Thu lion will rend you in twain if you approach too loarly the whelps; the fowl in the barnyard, clumsy-footed anti heavy vriugod, liics fi -rcc ly at you if you ccme too n ar the little group, and God intended every father and mother tube the protection and the kelp of the child. Je-us comes into every dwelling and says to the father or mother: “You have been looking after this child’s body and mind; the time has coino when you ought to be looking alter its immortal soul.” X stand before hundreds of people with whom the questiou morning, noon and night is: “What is to be come of tnechild! What will be its history? Will it choose paths of virtue or vice? Will it accent Christ or reject Him? W’horu will it spend e.ernity?” I read of a vessel that foundered. The boats wore launched; many of thepa-sengers were struggling in the water. A mother with one hand beat the waves, and with the other baud lifted up her little child toward tha life-koat, crying: “.Save my child I Save my child!” Tlio impassioned out ry of that mother is the prayer of huudi eds of Cbi is tian people who sit listening this morning while I speak. I propose to show some of tho causes ot parental anxiety, and then how that anxiety may be alleviated. I Bud the first cause of parental anxiety in the iucfllrieney and imperfection of parents themselves. \Y r e have a slight hope, all of us, that our children may escape our faults. We hide our imperfections, ana t hink they will steer clear of them. Ala-., there is a poor prospect of that! There is more probability that they will choose our vices than choose our virtues. There is something like sacred ness in parental imperfections when the child looks upon them. The folly of the parents is not so repulsive when the child looks at it He says: “Father indulges in it; mother indulges in it; it can’t be so bad. ’ Your boy, ten years of ago. goes up a buck street smoking his ci gar—an old stumn that he found in the street—aud a neighbor accosts him and says: “What are you doing th s for? What would your father my if ho know it;” The boy says: “O, father does that himself!” There is not one of us this morning that would do libeifttely cljosse tiqit bis children should in all things follow hw example, and it is the consciousness of imperfection on our part as parents that raukes us most anxious for our childre \ Wo me also distressed on account cf the unwi-dom of our dsciplina an l instruction. It re iuires a gi eat deal of ingenuity to build a bouse or fa-hiou a ship; but more ingenuity tr. build itc cf a ' hubs character, and launch it on the great ccean o. time-ana eternity. Where there is one parent UiLt see r;s quiltlied for the work, there seem to be twenty patents who miserably fail. Here is a father who says: “Jly child shall know nothing but religion: he shall hear nothiug but religion; ho shall sea nothing but religion. ” The boy is aroused at 0 o\ lcok In the morning to recite the Teu Commandments. He is awakened oir the sofa on Sunday night to sea how much he knows of the Westminster Cat echism. It is roligion morning, noon aud night. T’assagesof Scripture are plastered on the bud-mom wa'l. lie looks fortbe day of the month in a religious almanac. Every minister that lomea to the house is told to take the toy aside, aud talk to him, and tell him v hat a great sinner ha i3. Alter a while the boy ccino.i to that period of life when he is too old for chastisement, and too young to know and feel the force of moral principle. Father and mother arc sitting u ■ for the lioy to come home It is nine oVio kat night— ton o’clock— it is twelve o'clock—it is half past twelve, and they h ar the l ight key jinglo in the door. They say he is coming. George goes very soltly through the hall, no; iiig to get up stairs before ho is a-costed. Tho lather says: “George, where have you been.” “Been outl” Yes, ho has Ixen out, and lie has been ftown, and he is on tho broad road to destruction, for this life aud the life to come. Father says: “There is no use in the Tta Commandments; tho Catechism seems to me to lo an utter failure.” Ah. my friend, you make a very great mistake. You stuffed that child with religion until he could not digest it; yon made that whi b is a joy in many households au nbhorrem ein yourst A inau in mid-life said to me; “I can’t become a Chris' inn. In my father’s home I got such a prejudice against religion I dot T vkant any of if. My father was one of tbs best men that even lived. blit ho bad such severe notions about things, and ho amine l i eliglou down mv throat, until 1 and m’t want any of it, sir.” There have been some who have erred in that direction. There are ho:i>eholJ where mother pull* ouo way ami fattier i ulls the ether. Father gays: .\ly son, I told you the ttrst time I caught you in a falrehooi 1 I would c hastise you. and now la>■ g dug to do it.” Mother save- "Don t; let him off this tima” lnsome fatuities it i~ all s el ling an l fretfulne** with theihitd: from Monday mo ciiig to Satur day light it is that stvle of culture. The boy is j i deed at, auit picked at, and picke t ot. Now you mi_ht better give one sound chastisement and kavo done with it. than to indulge in the perpetual sc ddiageud fretful no R, There is mmehtaltU incmegood thuu derstorm than in three or four days of cold drizzle. Here is a pnrout who says: “1 will not orr on tin side that parent has erred iu being too strict with li g children. I will let miiie do as they please. If tiny want to com ■in to prnve.a, tiny caa: if they want to play at card-, t oy < an; they con do anything they pica; —there shall he no liindram e (Jo it! Here aro ti> ksts for the opera and theatre, son. Taka x our triends wit li you. Do what ever you desire." One day a gentleman coats in from the lank to his Dither's ofihe, and •ay*: •■They want to se s you over at the l>v>k a minute.’’ lat her gi e* into the bank. Th i cashier says: ‘la that v. ur chackf’ Father looks at it and says: "No, 1 never gave that cho-k; I never ir-s* a ‘t’ in that way; 1 never " nko the ■ u’l to a ‘y’ in that way. It Is not my check; that’s a forgery. Send Tor the |k dicer “Ah," nays the raider, ‘don’t he ko quick; your non did that!" The fact was that the boy ha 1 becu out in dhiipatitig circle*, ’and t-'ii and flfty dollar* went in that direction, mid ho had bo-n treated and be ha 11 treat others, an l the boy felt he must ha'• t.*><i to keen Id i.so'f in that circle. That night the father sits u.> for the son to com# home. It I* ' o’clock lx* foio ho emue* Into the hilt. Hi coni '* lit wry much Hush* I, hi* • yes gUting ami hi i lucuth o tensive, haifi -r ihvs: ’My eon, bow can you do ant I have oivnn youi vary thing you wanted* 4evert thing toiugke you coni (. ra'le aal liap y, out nowliiui in pv Id afa. that you .-.tea "twndtbiift a I l* i t.ue aid a ill cni.itid. The WH save: I ■ iw. father, "I *’a the it ncfyo c I■' lag hi Uat way ! Vo* lohl me I night hove a j yotsl ihn.i mui t* go It. Ihi s loan inn on y. ur m-igedl il, lliut a'd ” And • > ne nan nt i ll "li oie side ant en-.'tier | fa eut ei I* mi Ike other, ead how In sir ke ,aha op io il in l.nlwaoii evenly and ton gusei leniency, mil ttalu "Uf * ns n 4 I M 1 kht.os for iwi 11' i*. il l taltll end l-lls# 111 liiaveu is a aiineliou ehidi aylU'e. every Hi e>h liu my n.* o.gil a IVh.ie ue Iliany g> id l"' H a 4 ail nan h iv* !• lot, il i M .1 a I■ a a* .1. . 14 *mi n>,* and oie the i*t 'r. i) f our the a v ae4 Iks ai oi* y of mU i-lnd Of tfulWU.lo oil A ai > let nt I aeitety o’lsn a*l# f* a ei aia If i|.|c, t <f .in* |tol* a • li* l i. j a.l*i ifcuj IU, U IMu I ill t skid up a* tut U>4 f mj fuUMeii*••■*• •• .eut , ' iy toria lisps. Then ere son-.# people who take fifty, fifty or sixty years to dev.lop Then there are little chikirea who fiat their beauty on the vision and varish. They are uioruing-g’orles that can not stand the g'arn of the hot aeon sun of trial. You have all known such little chil dren. They were pale: they were ethereal; there was emnething very wonderfully deep in tbo eye: they bad a gentle foot and soft band, and something almost supernatural in their liehavfor— rra.ly to be wafted away. Yo i bad such a one in your yousehnld. Gone cow’ It was too delicate a plant for this rough world. The heavenly gardener -aw it and took it in. IVo make splenild Sun day-school books out of such children, but they almost always die. I have noticed that for the most part, the children that live sometimes get cross, and pick up bad wonls in tbe street, and quarrel with brother and sister, aud prove turn Ist ikably that they are wicked—as the Bible says, go ing astray from tbe womb, speaking lies. See tbe little ones in the Sabbath class, so sunshiny and beautiful, you would think they were always so, but mother, seated a Jiltle way off, looks over at these children and thinks of the awful time she bad to get - them ready. After the boy and girl come a little further on in li’e. the mark of sin up.) them is still more e. i lent. The son c iinss iu from a pugilistic encounter in the streets, bearing the marks of a defeat. The daughter prac ti es positive decent ion. and tbe purentsavs: “Wbat shall I dot I cant always be oorre ting and scolding, and yet these things muat be stopt el” It is espe cially sid if tho parent sees his own faults copied by tin child. It id very hard work to pull up a nettle that we our seft-es planted. We remember that the greatest fraud that ever shook the banking houses of tho country, started from a boy’s de-option a good many years ago; aud the gleaming blade of the murderer is only another blade of the knife with which the boy struck at his comrade. The cedar of Lebanon, that wrestles with tbe blast, started from seed lodged in tho side of the mountain, and the most tremendous dishonesties of the world once toddled oit from the era He. All these things make parents anxious. Anxiety on the part of parents also arises from the consciousness that there are so many temptations thrown all around our young people. It may be almost impossible to take a castle by siege-straightforward sie-e—but suppose in the night there is a traitor withiu, aud ho goes dotvu aud draws the bolt and swings open the great door, and then tho castle falls imraodiatly. That is the trouble with the hearts of tbo young: they have foes without an 1 foes within. There are a great muny who try to make our young people oelievo that it is a sign ot weakness to be pure. * The man will toss his head and take dramatic attitudes, and tell of hs own indiscretions, and ask the young man if to would not Ike to d>thi same. And thoy call him verdant, and they say hois green and unsophisticated, and won der how ho can bear the Puritanical strait jacket. Th y tell him he ought to break from his mother’s apron strings, and they say: “I will show you all about town. Come with nie. You ought to see the world. It won’t hurt yon. Do as you please: it will be tho making of you.” "After awhile the young min says: “I don’t want to be odd, nor can I afford to sacrifice these friends, and I'll go aud see for myself.” From the ga’es of hell there iroei a shout ot \ ictory. Fare well t) all inno.-ence—fare-well to all early restraints favorable to that innocen o which once gone, never comes bae c. I heard one of the best mea 1 over knew, seventy-five ?-ears of age. giy: “Sir. God hasforgiven mo or all the sins of my lifetime, I know tbnt; but there is ono sin I committed at twenty years of age that 1 never will forgive my.-elf for. It sometime, come; over im over whelmiuglv, aud it absolute!/ blots out my hope of heaven.” iOH-rf *a?\ji flSar it. Flow many traps there are set i6f on:-young people! That is what makes parents so anxioui Here are temptations for every form of dissipation and every stage of jt. The young man, v hen he first goes into donation, is very paiUeq- Jar where ho goes, it must be a ,l “ hotel. He "ouH not he tempted into these eoruef ft-usances, with red-stained glass aud a mug of boar painted on the sign board. Yon ask the young man to go into that pla e and lie would say : “Do you mea-n to insultme;” No; it must be a marble-floored bairocm. There must be no lustful pictures behind the counter: there must bo no drunkard hiccoughing while he takes his glass. It must lie a place where ele gant gentlemen come in and click their cut glass and drink to the announcement of flattering sentiment. tut the young man cannot always find that kind cf a place; yet ho has a thirst and it must oe gratified. The down-grado is steopsr now, and he is almost at the b itt'im. Horo they sit in an oyster cellar around a card table, wheo2ing, bloated and bloodshot, with cards so greasy you can hardly tell who lias tho best hand. But novel- liiind; th -y are only playing for drink. S-huTeaway! shuf fle away ! Tne landlord stands iu his sliirt sleeses with hands on his hips, watching the game and waiting for another call to fill up the glasses. It is the hot breath of eternal xvoe that flushes that young man’s cheek. Iu iho jets of gaslight t see the shooting out of the fiery tongue of the worm that never dies. Tho clock strikes Id; it is the tolling of the bell of eternity at the burial of a soul. Two hours pass on, and they are all sound asleep in their chairs. Landlord says: “Come, now, wake up; it’s time to shut up.” They look up and say: “What:” “it’stiras to shut up.” Bush them out into the air. They are going home. Let the wife crouch in the corner, and tho children hide under tbo bed. They ore going home! What is the history of that young man! He began his dissipation at trie Fr.th Avenue Hotel, iod completed his damnation in the worst grog-shop in Navy street. But sin even door not stop here. It comes so the door of th 9 drawing-room. There are men of leprous hearts that go into the very oest classes of society. They are so fascinat ing—they have such a bewitching way of altering their arm. Yet the poison of asps is under the tongue, and their heart is hell. At first their sinful devices are hidden, bat after % while they begin to put forth their taions ot death. " Now they begin to show really what they are. Suddenly—al though you could not have expected it, they were so charming iu their man ner, and so fas, iuatiug iu their address—sud denly a cloud, blacker than was ever woven of midnight or hurricane, drops unon some domestic circle. Tboie is agony in the pa rental bosom that none but the Lord God Almighty can in-asure—nu agony that wishes that the children of the household bad been swallowed by the grave, wliou it would be only a loss of body instead of a loss of soul. What is tho luatt.-r with that household? They have not had the front wind nvs often in six months or n year. The mother’s hair suddenly turned white; father, ho low-cheoxed and bent over prematurely, goes doxvn tho street There has been no lie ‘til in that family—no loss of property. Has madness seized upon the ti? No! no! A villain, kid-gloved, patent leathered, with gold cha n and graceful manner, took that cup of dome,tie bliss, elevuted it high iu the air until tin sunlight struck it, anil all tho rainbows and meed about tbe brim, and th ti dashed it down in desola tion and woe, until all the harpies of dsrkuesi clapp il thnlr hands with glee, aud all the voices of hill uttered a loud ha! ha! Ob. there are scores aud hundreds of ho nes that have 1-oen blasted, and if tho awful stat sties could lie fully sot liefore you, your b’.ood would freve into u solid cake of ica at the heart. Ik> yo a wond-r that fathers and mothers -iro mix lout about tlioircUildion.ainl that they nsk thoiuselve* the queslioox day and night WLat is to become of them I What will lie their dcathiy f 1 shall devote the rest of my remarks ti alluvial ion ot parental anxiety, let ino aiy to yon. as pirant*, Hint a great dual of tint anvi -tv udl lie lilted if you wII be-In eirly wiiti\u tr i blhhen. Tom Paine-ail: '‘The Hr lln eyes riot my I'fe i becaiua an In lid-1." A vee* and gone out to a*a; it has lieeit five day* out A storm como* on it .il snrliigi nh'ah'.tbe hlm will not work'.everything U out of order. W ha' U the unit crl The ship I* not s.'anurthv Hud never sat It i*a |*ir tpiui to Mid it o and now. Fader the fuiy of th* si-ru the ve*ti gue* down, with two bundled and lifiy |** * ngcr*. to a wut*ry grave 'I In limeto nuke t'iaa’ii|i acawoitky w* in ihu dry and" k, Iwfor# il staita l. Ala* fur u*. 11 w i wait until ear cMhti ou get out into ike woli i tolme we lr> • > tiring u|W them ilia tistfti* ip o of t'iiriade ro ll lon t I 141 vise iha dry 4" k of the Christian h*ne I* the p)*<a *d ar* ae an* t* IH id'ia for u e'ole and f< n*avea In Us** w-if I, und** ilia etona ‘4 si a awl I. opU'hnt. ft wdl Iw to. lata fo U*e and ieediii dal* om 4**‘lfa ah* ho i nil kld *ha I letioihTil f tala* -windher r*) a'i t*> g"i>* oo i# tenun ms V i I'll b| la* *•} a itiltd dividesaa al l *4 whai it* lota** h.** fw* 11# V i*i on tit in •*| •. lie go s* If Itw all iiat a nip i# dtm*k af* n * ingtfn Jfcfts thtuait >*•• if l.c ak-iii I Uil U* Hfks* l.v 11* ef everything. 1 stood in n house In one of the Long Inland villages, and 1 saw a b-eu tiful list, and I said to the owner: “That is a very fine tree, but what a curious crook there is iu it!” “Yes.” said be, “I plautel that trie, and when it was a year old I went to .sew Tutk and w-orkel as a me chanic for a year or two, and w hen I ca ne Lack I found that they hod allowed some thing to stand against the tree- si it has always had that crook” And an I thou ht it was with the influence upon children. If you allow anything u> stand in tbe way of moral influntice agamst a child on this side or that side to the latest day of its life on earth aud through all eternity" it will show the pres sure. No wonder Lord Byron was bed. Do you know his mother said to him, whn she taw him one day limping a-ros-s the floor with his uusouiid foot: “Get out of iny way. you lame brat!” What chance for a boy like that? Two young men come to tbe door of sin. They consult whether they will go in. Tha one young man goes in and the other retreats. O, you say. the last ha-1 better resolution. No, that was no’ it. The first young man had no early good influence: the last had tieen piously trained, and when he stood at the door of sin discussing the matter, be looked around as if to see someone. and be felt an invisible hand on his shoul der, saying: “Don’t go in; don’t go in.” tV uoie baud was it? A m tbe hand, fifteen vears ago gone tc dust A gen tienian was telling me of the fact that some years ago 'there were two young men who stopped at the door of the Vark Theatre, in New York. The question was whether they should go in. That night there was to be a very immoral play enacted in the Park Thea tre. One man went in; the other stayed-out. The young man who went in, went on from sin to sin, and through a crowd of infinities, and died in the hospital, of delirium tremens. The other young man who retreated, choso Christ, went into the Gospel, and is now one of the most emhient ministers of Christ in this country. And the man who retreated gave as his reason for turning back from the Thea tre that night, tha- there was an early voice within him, saying: “Don’t go iu! don’t go in’” Aud for that reason, my friends, I lielieve so much iu Bible classes. But there is something better than the Bible class, and that is the Sunday-school class. I like it because it takes children at an earlier point; and the infant class I like still better because it takes children before they begin to walk or to talk straight, and puts them on the road to heaven. You can not begin too early. You stand on the bank of a river flowing by. You cannot stop that river, but you travel days aud days toward the source of it, and you find after awhile where it comes down dropping from the lock, anil with your knife you make a course in this or that dire tion for tho dropping to take, and you decide the course of the river. You stand and see your children’s characters roll ing on with great impetuosity and passion, and you cannot affect them. Go up toward tho source where the character first starts, a id decide that it shall take the right direc tion. and it will follow the path you give it. But 1 want you to remember, oh father! oh mother! 'hat it is what you do that is going t) affect your children, and not what yon say. You tell yourchilreu to become Christians while you are not, and they will net. Do you think Noah’s family would nave gme Into the aik If ho hail not gone in: They would say: “No, there is something about that beat that is not right; father has not gone in. You can not push children into the kingdom of (iod; you have got to pull them in. There has been many a general iu a tower or castle looking at his army fighting, but that is not the kind of a mail to arouso enthusiasm among his troops. It is a Garibaldi or Na poleon I. who leaps into the stirrups, and dashes into tho eonilict, aud has bis troops following him with wild huz/a. Bo you cannot stand off in your iinoeuitont s'ate, and tell your children to go ahead, iuto tho Christian life, and have them go. You must yourself dash into tho <■ conflict: yon must lead them 7.7’’ ■* *Do you Yiiow that t->n tbehi lo go. _ J - -Ml, chi’c all tho iustnfciioDs you give toy„_ dren in a religious direction goes for nothing unle-sycu illustrate it in your own life? The teacher at the school takes a copy-book, writes a specimen of good writing across the top of the page, but he makes a mistake in one letter of the copy. The boy comes along on tha next line, copies the top line, and makes tho mistake, ana if there be fifteen lines on that page they will have the mistake there was in the copy on the top. The father has an error iu his life—a very great error. The son comes along and copies it now, to-mor row, next year, copies it to the day of his death. It is what you are, not so much what you teach. Have a family altar. Let it be a cheerful place, tho brightest room in your house. Do not wear your children’s knees out with long f rayers. Have the whole exercise spirited. f you havo a melodeon, or an organ, or a piano in tho house, have it open. Then load in prayers. If you cannot make a prayer of your own, take Matthew Henry’s Frayers or the Kpiscopal I’rayer Book. None better than that. Kneel down with your little ones morning and night, and commend them to God. Do you think they will ever get over it? Never! After you a r e under the sod a good many years, there will be some powerful tempta tion abound that son, but tho memory of father and mother at morning and evening prayers will have its effect upon him; it will bring him back from the path of sin and death. But I want you to make a strict mark, a sharp, plain line between iunocent hilarity on thn part of your children and a vicious proclivity. Bo not think your boys will go to ruin because they make a racket. A glum, unresponsive child makes the worst form of a villain. Children, when they are healthy .al ways make a racket. I wantyou, at the very first sign of depravity in tho child, to correct it. Do not lau bbecause it is smart. If you do, you will live to cry because it is mali cious. Bo not talk of your frail ties lightly in their presence, thinking they do not understand you: they do understand. Do not talk disparagingly of your child, making him feel that he is a reprobate. Do not say to your little one: ‘‘You’re the worst child I ever knew.” If you do, he will be the worst man you evor knew. Arc your children safe for heaven! You can tell better than any one else. I put to you the question: “Are your children safe for heaven!’’ I heard of a mother who, when the house was a-flre, in tho excitement of the occadon, got out a great many of the valuable things—many choice articles of fur niture—but <lil not think to ask until too late: ‘•ls vny child safe!” It was too late then. The flames linl encircled all; the child was gonel O, my dear friend, when seaaad land shall burn in the final conflagration, will your children be safe! 1 wouder if what 1 have said this morning has not struck a chord in someone in the au dience who has a good father and mother, but who is not yet a Christian! Is that your history! Do you know why you came here this morning! God sent you to have that mem ory revived. Your dear Christian mother, how she loved youl You remember, when vou were sick, now kindly she attended you; the night was not tjo long, and you never asked her to turn the pillow but she did itl You remember her prayers also; you re member how some of you—l do not know where tho man is in the audience—hew someone lyre broke his mother’s hoart You remember her sorrow over your way ward in'**; you remember the old piaco where she did you so many kindnesses; the chairs, the table, the door-sill where you played: the t lie- of her voice. Why, you can think them back now, Though ttw were borne long ago ou the air, they coinn ringing through your pul to-day. calling you by the first name. You era not “Mr. to hor; It U iuit vur plain, flr l name. Is not this the time wh a her urn vent will he answered! Do vou not think that (Jo I sunt you in to day to have that memory of her revived! If you should come to Christ tliii morning, antd ail the throats of Iteoven tho gliddeit of them would Iw vour Christian pa "unt* who a a in glory waiting for your rejeninUuu Angel* of Ood. shout tUudd ugJ. Cut lost has come let 'k a/atu; the deal U allvel King all the tsdie of heaven at the Jubilee I It lug! Itiugl l'HMiltle. "Don't you think Jenny la a hum' ll glrl'"ukcl Manila of Daunt. 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