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On the changing shore of tine;
wjdwaSiCrgini — ’
And the Church a fsJ&Lmr
“Come give me your hand,” cried the merry
“Nay, walk with n
nrtJlSc?kl
h»W Utc cxuaaivcly deranged.
by »U pr non*, oU
s2l the World, with a kindly i .
“The road I walk U a pleasant road,
And the sun shines always there;
You path la thorny and rough and rode,
And mine Is broad and plain;
[y road is pared with flowers and dews,
And yours with tears and |>*In.
The sky above me is always b
tMoTh5' n I.ij£uuI!i!Vuki^I 1 ^*
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• e ». Dyow*3«»«, Deptcuioa of Spirin, etc.
»*U Uneorr* likes of wine, but la noli
toxlcatlng beverage.
No want, no toil 1 know;*
The aky above you is always dark;
«•— •-*«- a Jot of woe;
Is abroad, fair one,
f Ton Uva eaten anything hard ot
rnUon. f fed heavy afier Bali, or idee^.
• at nlghi take a dace and yon »dl be rdicvoL
me and Doctor** Iillla will be saved
by always keeping the Regulator
[y path, you see. Is abroad, fain
OBSSBteiiffSi
To travel side by side.”
f^ahjrly ' the Church approached the
_nd gave him her hand of snow.
The old World grasped it and walked along
“ ’ * ig in accents low,
dress Is too simple to please my taste;
1 give you pearls to wear,
elvetsand silks for your graceful
And diamonds to deck your hair.
Eft.a
The Church looked down at her plain white
nd then at the dazzling World,
I blushed as she saw his handsome lip
ith a smile contemptuous curled.
'I will change my dress for a costlier one
Said the Church, with a smile of grace;
Then her pure white garments drifted away,
And the World gave her in plac
Beautiful satins and shining silks,
And roses and gems and pearls;
_a *---—L..a *~t r Vrigh* ’
World;
build yo
Carpets of Brussels and curt vim of lace,
* 1 furniture ever so fine.”
built her a costly and beautiful house;
. indid it was to behold
Her beautiful daughters and
Gleaming in purple and gold:
And fairs and shows in tl
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* “Itters, will do, must be gath -red
it has done. It has effected rad-
«« .n thousands of eases of dv*
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‘And walk with me this way,”
ut the good Church hid her snowy hand
And solemnly answered “Nay,
will net give you my hand at all,
And 1 will not walk with you;
to endless death;
Your words art afl untrue.
FROM -THE EARTH TO THE
STABS—CELESTIAL DIS
TANCES.
Diameter of the Earth—Moon’
Distance—San** Distance—-
Planetary' Distances.
Aa there is now an increasing inter
est on the subject ofaktronomy, mani
fested by nearly all claaaee of people,
it may hot be amiss to explain, in a
popular manner, the means by which
Your lot Is a
r her forehead her bright hair fell.
a thousand ci
Crisped
Tour house is too plain,” said the proud
-ild World;
li build you one like mine;
the astronomer, begianihg with a known
terreatial unit of pleasure, advances,
step by step, throngll the celestial spa
ces nntil he can determine the distan
ces of the fixed stars.
' P1AMETFE- OF THE KABTH.
The first problem, taking a mils as
._ie nnit of a measure, is to ascertain
the diameur of the earth. The gener
al form of theearfb is that ot a globe,
and a section of the globe is a circle.
A circle passing thrixigh the poles, of
the earth'is'a meridian. ‘ Latitudo is
reckoned on a* meridian, there being
90 degrees from the equator to either
pole, and 3G0 degrees in the entire cir
cumference.
By repeated surveys of the earth'i
surface, it has been proved that the
length of a degree is between G9 and
70 English'statote miles. Taking the
first, number, the circumference of the
earth is approximately found by the
following proportion: 1 degree is to
300 as GO niles is to 24,840; hence the
about 7,900 miles. This
number is a little too small;
accurate determination is* 7,925 0
moos’s distance.
Having found the earth’s diameter,
i now proceed to find the distance of
e moon. This body is comparative
ly near to us, and if it is viewed at the
* by two obser
star^and. relates only to its apparent
it is the general belief of astrono
mers that diversity in apparent bright-
nesrf in the fixed stars is chiefly caused
by their difference ot distance rather
than by their i difference in intrinsic
splendor; .a atar of the first magnitude
being nearer to us than a star of the
second.
,It is only within a short time that
the distances of some of the fixed stars
"have been determined. The process by
which they have been ascertained is
similar to that by which the distance
of the moon trom the earth is obtained;
follows; Suppose in January
> dwelt
die,' and r this hiredTs^
TABERNACLE SERM0N8. MSS&SS@9&^E<XJ52Si
Sharon, aonwJUj jf the Talley, aomer
BT BET. T. DeVOT TALMICK
jeart since I found the Lonl. and I
[The OHM, ot Dr. Ttlnttn JV. paMUb* iMjallrf thi, rooming, in jour
- ’ In pamphlet fans bv Geo. A. spark* presence^ ta t^ll how sweet He has
Bible iloose^New York. A number been to my bouI. . Since *hat time I
in? fersifiTUs
observer on the earth marked the
position in the heavens .of one of the
nearest fixed stare, in reference to an
other remote star, and in Jnly made an-
His sore side, but He ,
with me by day and by night. It is
grief of my life that 1 have so had-
THE FLORAL GOSPEL. ly treated Him, hut He has never lot
■My beloved is unto me as a bed of spices, “ e 8°* J 1 , ha«.been the Bame story all
as sweet flowers.”—Solomon’s. Song,. the way through—faithfulness on His
*°> 13 - . . part, unworthiness on mine. I, have
Solomon’s Song is considered, by not had such Christian experience
other observation on the same stare;
Now, as the two positions of the earth
in Januaiy and July are the diameter
of the earth’s orbit' apart—namely,
186,000,000 milea—we might naturally
pxpeet that a. displacement would oc-
mapy ps fit only for moonstruck sen- 8 «me who sife before nie, to whom
by a voluplua- Christjiae been ihe'conqueror -- * v -
ry, a man crazed with a' fair maiden, white horse, or the bridegroom coming
book uufit lor family prayers and tor forth with iauterns aud torches, or the
churches. We must admit that the 8nn,of righteousnoss setting everything
• - nhlavn uritli * Wt.l, ii
the heavens of the first star in
respect to the second. This has been
found to be the case, in regard to sev
eral stars, but the displacement is very
small. The brightest star in the con
stellation of the Centaur ( Alpha Cen
taur) appears to be the nearest to us;
and its parallax, or displacement when
viewed from tho'sun ami earth, is com
puted: Suppose two lines to be drawn
from this star, one to the suu and the
other to the earth, and a third line also
drawn from their ends joining the
earth and snn, making a right angled
triangle. The angle between the first
and second lines is one second, the an
gle at the earth a right angle, earn! the
distance of. the earth from the sun is
known. We have now a sufficient
number oi known parts of the triangle
to complete the rest, as in the case of the
moon. One of these parts is the Jine
joining the sun and the ""
far apart from each other, it will j distance of the sun from the star
The
it appear at the same pli
the
200,000 t
And laughter and music and feasts w
i the pace that was meant for’prayei
had ci shljnwi news for the rich i
great,
_o sit in their pomp and pride;
While the poor folks, elad in their shabby
suits,
Sat meekly down outside.
The Angel Zt Mercy flew over the Church,
And whispered “I know thy sin.”
Then the Church looked back with a sigh,
and longed
To gather her childi
ut some were off to t
were off at the plajr.
To illustrate. If two persons, A
and C, placed at two adjacent corners
ol a room^were to look at a ball hnng
from the centre of the ceiling, A would
are it in a line with the opposite corn
er nearest to O, and C in the direction
of the opposite corner nearest to A.
The angular displacement of the ball,
caused by its being viewed from dif-
lions of miles
And whispered “1 k
u "i the Church ’“**•
ind longed
off io the midnight ball,
sre off at the plajr,
were drinking in gay saloons;
So she quietly went b
Then the sly wor'‘
And m
•Your cl
ivorld gallantly said to her.
ren mean no harm,
Merely indulging in Innocent sports,”
So she leaned on his proffered arm.
And smiled, and chatted, and gathered
flowers.
As she walked along with the World;
'"iteml”' J —** '
ferent stations, is called its parallax.
In like manner there is an angular
displacement, or parallax, of the
in the heavens, 'when viwed at the
same time from different points <
earth.
Suppose that from the same point
i the cartii,
author of it, Solomon, fora long time ablaze with light. With me.it has
had several hundred wives‘mop than been a RJQie quiet, a more nndsmou-
he was entitled to, bat he afterwards sjrativu .experisnct*—somethisg very
repented of his sin and God chose him quiet, but very sweet. To wliat'shall
some of the sweetest songs 1 compare it? I have it now: “Sly be-
about Jesus Christ that were ever loved is unto tne. as a bed of, spices,
written. Let me say that this mod- ®weet flowers.’’ •
criticism which we now hear ahont Again, I remark that- the flowers
what is called the immodesty of the orejre ore think of Christ because of
Bible comes with very poor grace from their brightness. Why, if a rainbow
morning had fallen and struck the
e« and stjack the platform, the
;onld not have been more radient.
how bright and how beautiful the
ble people there are books abominable, flowers, aiyl bow much they make me
■ery pun-minded man and wo- think of Chridt and His religion, that
which some of the
rcnch novels have in America come
»their fiftieth edition, and when on
i of the parlor tablet of respecta*
man, Solomon’s description of Jesus hrightenseverythingittouches.Bright-
Christ has a holy enchantment. Why. ens our life, brightens our character,
should we all the timo be hovering brightens society, brightens the church,
about a few violets in the Word of brightens everything, You who go
God, when there are so many azeleas with gloomy countenance pretending
and rhododendrons and fuchsias and you are better than I am because of
amaranths and evening primroses for yonr lugubriousncss, yon cannot cheat
the close of life’s day, and crocnscs for me - ^ou old hypocrite, I know yon.
the foot of the snowbank of sorrow, and Pretty case yon are for a man that pro-
heart’ s-ease for the troubled, and pav fesses to be more than the conqueror,
sion flowers planted at the foot of the It is not religion that makes yon
cross, and* morning glories spreading gloomy; it is the_ lack of. it. There is
under the splendors of daybreak? jusi as much religion in a wedding
While millions and millions of priceless
terribltvgulf were hurled.
“Tour preachers are all too old and plain,”
e gay World with
“They frighten my children with dreadful
Which I like not for them to hear;
They talk of hrlmcstone and lire and pain,
. -■ .l- * * —[idtess niftt*
Mentioned to ears polite,
uld not be
They talk of a place whic
Mentioned to ears polit .
1 will send you some of the better stamp,
_ ld Kty and Jastj
them that people may live i
heaven at last;
s merciful, gn *
Tender.true and kind;
Brilliant and gay and fast,
they list,
nd go to 1
Father is merciful. gre»
_ inder.true and kind;
Do you think he would take
” ;aven
leave the other behind?
lied her house with gay
Gifted and great and learned;
good,
child 1
So he filled her house with gay divines,
Gifted and great and learned;
And the plain old men that prenrhed the
Were out of berpulpit turned.
Tougivs to much to tire poor,” said the
World.
“Far more than you ought to do;
If the poor need shelter and food and clothes
Wh^r need it trouble you? ’
e your money and buy rich robe3.
AnAborees and carriages fine.
Andjtearb and jewels and dainty food.
And if you their love would win.
s they do, and walk I
That they are walking
hen the Chui
lier purse,
_jdgracefu . .
And simpered, “I've given
held tightly the strings of
And gracefully lowered her head,
nd simpered, “I’ve g 1 *
1*11 do sir, as you har
So the poor were turned from her door in
And she beard not th** orpl
Ifuli
_ nd she beard not th* orphan's cry;
And she drew her beautiful robes aside.
As the widows went weeping by;
“* of the World and the sons
Walked closely hand and heart.
And tl
And only the Master, who knoweth all,
Gould tell the t'
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Then the Church sat down at her ease, and
aid.
'I am rich and in goods Increased,
lines were drawn,
touch the earth and the other extend
ing to its center, and that a third line
was also drawn, from the earth’i
tre to the point where the first line
touches the earth’s surface. We have
now a right-angle triangle, and in this,
the angle at the moon (the horizontal
parallax), contained between the
first lines, can be readily comj
from observations. The angle at the
earth’s surface is a right-angle, and
the third line is the radions of the
earth. We now know enough of the
parts of the triangle to find the length
of the line drawn from the moon to the
earth's centre; in other words the
distance from the earth, which is, on
i average, about 298,600 miles.
sun’s distance.
In finding the distance of the son
urn the earth, we snppose, as in the
se of the moon, that two lines are
drawn from the same point in the sun
to the earth, oue to the earth’s centre
and the other touching the earth, and
that then a third line is drawn from
the centre of the earth to the point
where the second line touches the earth.
The angle formed by the second third
lines is n right angle, and the three
lines form a right-angled triangle.
The angle made by the two
drawn from the sun (sun’s parallax)
can be found by observations oh the
transit of Venns, and also by other
methods. Two angles of the triangle
are thus known, and one side, viz. the
radins of the earth; and from these
known quantities the distance of the
earth from the sun can be computed.
This distance is abont 83,000,000 miles.
We can just allude to another meth
od of ascertaining the earth’s solar dis-
e. It hrs been proved, by observa-
____ of the eclipses of Jupiter’s moons,
that it takes very nearly 498 seconds
if time for light to come from the sun
io the earth. It has also been proved
by means of different optical apparatus
that the velocity of light, per secohd is
186,305 miles, the possible error being
very small. Multiplying, therefore,
thin velocity by 498 we obtain the
earth's solar distance in miles. This
prodnet gives substantially the same
result as the first method.
As the mind cannot grasp the mean
ing of such vast numbers, astronomers
> adopt a different
than miles, namely,
the velocity of light. It takes a i
of light eight minutes and eight*
seconds to come to us from the sun
would take three and a half years
light to come from Alpha Centauri to
the earth.
The parallax of a small number of
stars has been determined, and their
distances obtaiued. One of the most
remote of this class is the star Sigma,
in the constellation of the Dragoo; the
light by which we now see it, started
from the star more than twenty years
before the battle of Banker Hill.
Bat the vast multitude ot stars have
parallax, so remote are they from
On this glorious' Easter morn, wheq n a burial; just as much religion
this honsc of God by loving and smile as in a fear. Thoso gloomy
sympathetic and Christian hands has Christians wo sometimes see are the
been so gloriously decorated, are we g>eople to whom 1 like to lend money,
eadv in affection and enthu- for I never see thW againl _ The reli-
of soul to cry oat in the words gion of Jesus Christ brightons our life,
of my text as written by Solomon: David was not any. better when ho
My beloved is like a bed of spices, as »ajd, “Opt of the depths of hell have
weet flowers?” Two weeks ago this I cried to thee, O Lord,” than when ,ho
Sabbath morning, in one of the cities said, “My. month was. filled, with
of the Sonth, there was a knock at my laughter, and ray tongue was singing.’ r
the'earth, and millions are at such in
conceivable distances that they are only
revealed by the aid of powerful tele
scopes. How, then, can we form any
of the space by which
paratedfroro them?
To solve this problem the astronomer
calls to his aid a certain optical law
i opl
B _ .... . 'nsity of light at dif
ferent distances from the luminous ob-
lating to the ii
dis-
d placed
i lamp will have
brightness; at twice the distance will
beone-fonrth as bright, and at
times the first distance, the bright)
ill be one hundied times less than it
that they should be given to me. “No/* ways are \rays of pleasantness, and all
saicLthe lad. “I wish to hand them in her paths' ire peace.”, I have found it
lyself.” and so he persisted, and 1 *o. Hundreds of yon have fonnd it i
glad he handed me a few wild 'Veil may they to-day plant a palm
flowers, and how much they meant for either end of the platform—this
him and how much they meant for me seeming to cry, “HoBanna!”^—that one
when 1 received them; and if I was so seomiug to.cry, “Hosanna!”
pleased by that gift of the poor lad
ho bad gatbeied the flowers out of the X thousandsacredsweets,
»ld of Georgia, do yon not think the Before we reach the heavenly .
Lord Jesus Christ, bone of our bone, , Or walk tbogolden streets.”
flesh of our flesh, heart of out heart, in Yes, I go farther and remark that
pleased when we offer these garlands? the flowers maks me think of Christ fie-'
I propose thix morning to tell yon cause they are restorative. Dil yon
why these flowers are symbolic of Je- ever carry a boquet of flowera
bus Christ. In the first place, I re- sickroom? Did yon ever put a bundle
mark, because of their sweetness. No «f flowers in a pale hand and then see
> the firs
posi
amfs.
Th
need of nothing, and naught to do
lilitles io which the leeble are so subject! g ut ^ laugh and dance and feast;”
For sale by all Druggists and Dealers And the sly Word beard her and laughed
his sleeve,
Skrd mockingly said aside,
~ “ h Is fallen, the beautiful Church
And her shame Is her boast and pride.”
The angel drew near to the mercy-seat,
And whispered in sighs her name.
And the saints their anthems of rapture
hushed.
And covered their beads With shame
And a voice came down through the hush
of Heaven.
From Him who sat on the throne,
1 know thy works, and bow thon bast
.Slid,;
That thon art naked, poor and blind,
And wretched before my face;
Therefore, from my presence I east thee ont,
And blotthy name from Its place.”
—Mrs. Matilda C. Edwards, in Ik
Christian Advocate.
If the superior being of the nniverse
would look down upon the world to
find the most interesting object, it would
be the unfinished, unformed «*hnrneler
of yonng men, or of young women.
Thou onghteet, therefore, to eall to
mind the more heavy suffering* of oth
ers, that thon mayest the more easily
hear thine own very small troubles.
And if they seem nnto thee not small,
beware lent thine impatience be the
cause thereof.
and pity, though they are not God bet
moldy a poor, week Imago and reflec
tion of Him, yet from him alone they
come. If thereto mercy in our beatta,
it enmes from the Fountain of mercy.
If tWa is the light of love in ns, it i a*
ray from the fall 8nn of love.
JMwwowiU.art* SATIWOCTW*.
rerr>*«n- r< rOCTS.Trepriator.
»AX.5IK0X:r.KX>.
The distance will therefore
trsely as the spnare root ol the brighf-
!88. This law applies to light eman
ating from a fixed star. Sir John
IIer8chel estimated that the apparent
brightness ol a star of the sixth magni
tude was 1 hundred times less than that
of a star of the first magnitude;
therefore follows that the former is
times further from us than a star of the
first magnitude.
Now it takes light three and s 'half
years to come to' the earth from
of the first magnitude, and hence it is
thirty five years, as a general rule, .in
traveling from one of the sixth magni
tude to the wth.
now can we judge of the distance of
srs which can only bo seen by meam
of the telescope?
of these di
Those who stand in the corridors you there is a time .when a bundle • of
inhale the redolence. The flowers may. decide the case. Just
from floor to ceiling is filled with the crisis of disease, and the patient is
the perfume. O. the sweetness of the doleful aud depressed, a bundle of flow-
orningflowers, symbolical of eis comes in and the patient is hopeful
object, by the unaided
eye, by means of the quantity of light
that comes through the pupil of the
eye and falls upon the retina. The pu
pil is abont one fifth of an inch in di
ameter, and if the number of rays that
enter it is very small, no object
seen, for no impression is made t
celebrated astronomer Kepler discov
ered that a singular relation exists be
tween the distance of a planet from the
and the time of ita revolution about
This relation is thus expressed—
that the squares of the times of revolu
tion are aa the cubes of the average
distances.
Now, the distance of the earth. froi
the snn is known, and also the time of
its revolution about it (one yeqr); and
the times of the revolutions of tne lar
ger planets, as far as Satnrn, have
been determined with great exactness
—within a fraction of a millienth part
of the whole amount. Uranus and
Neptune having been more recently
discovered, their timee of revolution
have been bat-approximately estima
ted, bat ere long will be determined
with equal exactness. Having these
values, the solar distances of the plan;
ets are easily cakalated. If we'wish
to obtain the solar distance of Mars,
for instance, we make the following
proportion: As the square of the time
of the earth’s revolution abont tbe
tun is to the square of the time of
Maria revolution, so is the cube of the
earth’s distance from the snn. The
first three terms of this proportion ai
known, and consequently the fourth.
In this way.be obtain the solar dis
tanees of the rest of the planets. There
are other methods by means of which
the distanees can be determined
rrKLUlB DISTANCES.
Tbe tUra are classified according to
their different degrees 'of apparent
brightness. The most brilliant
Christ! und convalescent. O! the flowers
■How sweet the name of Jesus sounds *“> very restorative, and they make
In a believer’s ears; think of Christ. 1 have been in t
It sooths hb sorrows, heals hb wounds, r#om after a C0Uba l tAt i uQ of physi
had been held, and they said there was
The name of Cesar means power. , 10 hope, and this grace of God sym-
The name of Herod means cruelty, bolized by the flowers, this grace of
The name of Alexander means con- Jesus Christ, lifted the son! as by
quest. The name of Demosthenes fliviue restorative. The hand of Christ
means eloquence. The name of Ben- j t t j, e .driest pillow;, the pard<
_ Christ is the strongest stimulus, the
of Howard means reform. Tbe comfort of Christ is the mightiest
ol Christ means love. Sweetest dyne, the salvation'oF Christ is th?
that ever melted from lip or Krkn deit restorative. There is
heart. As when you open an did neuralgia, there is not a consumption,
chest which has long been closed, the there is not a marasmus boi the grace
first thing that strikes you is the per- „f God will kelp. I have seen and
fume ot the herbs wrapped amid the yo0 have seen men made triumphant
clothing, so there are thonsauds of over disease by the power of this grace,
hearts hero this morning which, if this Wonderful restorktixe. Kero. hav.
opened, tlie first of all ^ would present j n g bedaubed the Christians of his day
of Christ. O! He is snch a w i t h' pfcbh and tar, aet them
panloner, such a trouble healer, light up his grqunds by nigbt; .but
grave i 0 mler than the crackling of the flames
i now the telescope comes to
aijl, for a beam of light whose diame
ter is that of the object-glass, or mirror,
of the telescope, Can bo concentrated
and made to enter the pupil of the eye,
and the quantity oflight which strikes
the retina is then increased, in the rati
of the size of the pupil. Thus with
inch object glass one hundred
tijnes more rays are collected than by
the naked eye. It is in this way that
stars invisible to tbe nnalded sight are
revealed by the telescope and with the
increased magnitude of the object-glass
(or mirror, if a reflecting telescope is
used) tbs ii^bt gathering power of the
instrament is increased. SiT William
Uerschel emploved in his 6tellar
searches a telescope whose mirror
of inch a size that, when all allowan
ces were made for lots of light,
brought to tbe retina 5,625 (75x7J
5,625 times more l%Bt than conld be
T* . .777 . . J, . W- -
received by the flaked^ eye. Thus,
cording to the law of intensity of light
jast given, if a star of the sixth mag
nitude was moved back in space seven
ty-five times its present {distance, i
would appear in this telescope as bright
star of tbe sixth magnitude to the
naked eye.
Amid the multitude of telescopi
•tars there are those which, when
viewed with such a telescope, appeal
only as bright as a star of the sixth
magnitude: they are therefore, seventy-
five times farther from as than a star
of the sixth magnitude, whose light
takes tlurty-five years to oome to the
earth. Bat the light of
remote stars would -take seventy-five
times as long ta reach aa; that is more
than 2,600 years! When snch
Is beheld in the telescope, it is
termed itar. of th, fir* magoltode.
thoeo next in brightoe» of tho .cconj
• SO on to the sixth.
rays .of light which started from the
atar abont the time ‘ that Sennacherib
threatened Jerusalem.
It is to be remembered that, in the
estimate of tbe distanotus of stars from
their difference in apparent brightness,
it is assamed that, among the remote
r this
shall we tell tbe beanty of His face
those who have
shall we tell the glories of His love
experienced
i fiM.bUsecd.yau. You know that
S&yEteJ™ /Mar.
P? wer * "pahk
toe trupii' Aad'sA ~ak 'a ' rtKtorativi
lit *U;baeksfiiiera. • wwt do I
moM!-. I mean that ma* who r, asfcl to -
[>r»7 but 4m, nqt.SF.W. ibow, ,..I bcao
that man who used to freqneut tlie- t
house of God, bov^ho seldom comes '
to the place of prayer.. ^. JtfcaiJ jW;
man who used to sit at the communipnt * 4,’
bnt who seldom takes the'Lord's cop. ’ •* f
Sliding back. It is a very expressive
word—backslider. Sliding back front
E >or father’s example, yonr mother’s
ve. Sliding back from God, sliding
back into darkness, sliding back to
ward an unblessed grave, sliding back
toward a precipice where the first ten
million miles downward is only a part
of the plnnge. In tbe country you were
professors. .You have made shipwreck
in town. Did the club blast yon? Did
fashionable life destroy yon? Did the
kind of wife yon married make yon
wordly? I do not know what it
bnt ypu sit here to-day and yon feel
von have no more religion than if yon
had dwelt in Africa and had never
door, and a second and a third knock, O! take that sprig of cypress
and a bundle of wild flowers was band- your coat lapel and put it in some__of
the door, and the promise was the flowers of Easter morning. “
O! murdered hoars. O! massacred
privileges. O! dead 1 opportunities,
come back this day, oome baok and
brjPin that, man’s ears; arouso him
from his horrible somnambulism, walk
ing as be does fast asleep within an
inch of his overthrow. O! this resto
rative power, you want it. “Restore
unto me the joys of thy salvation.”
Is that yonr prayer? It is mine. For
great sin, great pardon. For deep
’potent anrgeiy. "
wounds, or
■blind eyes, a divine ocnlistr For deaf
heavenly anrist. For the dead
. the upheaval of a great resnr-
I have to say that
these flowera especially speak o e . the
Lord of the resurrection. Resurrection!
The woman came to the Saviour’s
tomb and they dropped spices all
around the tomb, and those spices were
.the seed that began to grow, and from
them came all the flowera of this Easter
The two angols robed in white
Wk hold of the stone at the Saviour’s
tomb, and they hurled ,it with such
.violence down the hill that it crushed
the door of the world’s sepulchre, and
the stark aird the dead mast come forth.
•t how labyrinthine the mauso
leum, or how costly the sarcophagus,
however beautifully parterred the
family grounds, we want them all
broken up by the Lord of tbe Resnr-
jreetion. They most come ont. Fath
er and mother—they mast come out.
flasband and wife—they must come
Brother jmd sister—they must
ont. Our darling.children—they
most come ont. The eye that we clos
ed with snch trembling fingers mast
open again in the radiance of that morn.
The arms that we folded in. dost most
in an embrace of- reunion,
that washnshed ifiour dwell-
ng must be retuned. The form must
:ome up without its frailtieb, and with-' .
ling hail you opened how the cheek lluohed and how the
i than you breathed eyes flashed? Any doctor will tell
at ita imperfections,- and witllofit its-
fatigues. It mast come up. O! how.
long some of you seem to be waiting-
waiting for the resurrection, waiting,
and tor these broken hearts to-day I
make a soft, cool bandage out ot Eas
ter flowers. Two years ago, the nigbt
before Easter, I received an Easter
card on which there wu a representa-
i of that exquisite flower, trum-
P et creeper, and under it the words.
The trumpet shall souml and the dead
•hall rise.” There was es'perial reason
why at that time I should have that
card sent me, and I present the same
consolation to-day to all in this house,
•nd who has escaped? When Lord
Nelson was buried at St. Paul’
thedral, London, all England wav
stirred. As the funeral, procession
moved on, it moved amid the sobbing
of a nation. Thirty trumpeters stood
such a wonnd binder, such
breaker, that the faintest prondneia- , n a loader then the cursing of the
tion.oniie name this morning wnkena mob-, dmio thh song of ptiiso and tre
nil the odors of Iropicnl garden, nod „,oph from the martyrs. John limd
nil tho rodolenco of Lanier day, while ford, went oat in the preannoeof tbe '
yon cry ont in enthuaieam of lore: .trumentof torture which woe t<
•My belovod re unto me as » bed ol him to death, and they Mood by,
ipices, as sweet flowers.’ How shall pectiog he would retract and surrender
describe Hu sweetness to those ol religion; but when he
you who have never breathed it? How •trnmeut of torture which
*9 him to death he cried out,
it. How Christian now if I have never been be-
- ■»«-.— — -w.w — fnrit " A--*' *- -*l—
those who havs
the door of the Cathedral with musi
cal instruments in hand; and when the
illustrous dead arrived at the gates of
St. Panl’s Cathedral these thirty
trumpeters blew one united blast, bnt
the trumpets did not w-tke tho dead.
He slept right on. O, I have to tell
yon this morning that what thirty
trumpets conld not do for one man. one
trumpet will do for all nations. Timo
passes on. The clock of the world’s
history has struck nine, ten, eleven,
twelve, and time shall be no longer.
Tbe aichangel hovers. He takes a
trumpet. He points'it this way. Ho
pitta its lips to his lips, and he blows
one long, load; thnnderons, reverbera
ting resurrectionary blast. Look!
They arise! The dead! The dead*
Some come from the family sepulchre,
some from the city cemetery, some
from the country graveyard. This
sonl nnited to that body. This spirit
united to that body. Myriads of spit-
feeble eentimemnlity, this piece, the wild beneti o[ the Coliseum,
story of my text, which compares OI what aa example this whole conn-
Cbrut to the flowers? Ol no; I could try has recently had of the restorative
giveyouthe names of men who were power of thia religion of which the
far from sentimentalism Who were flowers are symbolic. Restorative in
overcome with the thought^of a^ Sa- long paiq and disease. Fifty years ef
Tionr’i eweetneas. John Edward,.’ a inr!illdUtii’ Caring' the ’piut' tew
cool logician, charged with many week* I was 1 in Wine seventeen Suttee
__ j. . -r- ol t]u 0- ,, ; [uw irony thrill-
things, \mt never charged with any
sentimentality, at tbe name of Jesns
sat down and went in joyfnl emotion.
Panl. a logician, nerves nntnoved in
the Medite^anean shipwreck, a gran-
ing sfettoB,! many :beautifal scenes, bnt
•nothing more impressed me than the
itic nature, shaking his fist in the gov
ernments of earth and the face of dark
ness, yet is overwhelmed at the story
of a Saviour’s sweetness—thrilled,
overpowered, crying ont: “All in all
is Christ; I am persuaded that neither
height, nor depth, nor length, nor
breadth, npr any other creature shill
Separate me from tbe Lord.” John
Knox, a most nnbending nature, the
lightning ot his indignation making the
queen to shiver and tbednehesa quake,
as far aa possible from all sentimenta
lism, is thrilled at tbe story of a Sa
viour’s love andis willing to die for
him. Solomon, aarronnded by all
palatial splendor, his ships going forth
on a vdyage of three years to bring
back the wonders of tbe world, bis
gardens afloat with myrrh aad frankin
cense, and arostle with tbe leaves of
trees brought from foreign landt> the
remains -of his ftnpendons {
found today by tbe traveller- ......
mon. seated ia his palace thinking of
Christ, the altogether lovely and the
altogether fair, as the.perfnme of ato-
matie woods floats in -the palace win
dow ana the area a of the royal gah-
obsequies at Atlanta when Gov. Ste
phens wai carried ont to his )a*t rest
ing place. * A tutu* who could say over
■and over egaia, “Myrtwo prayers; gen
tlemen. are the Lord’s Prayer and the
publican's.”; r Educating 121 young
men who otherwise would not have at
tained their education? A black man
wringing bit hands at the funeral and
saying to ny wife, “Ah! lew will miss
him a^ I piss him, for I expected to
have an .education. He told me I
ting perfnme. Put it in every poor
i’s window, plant it on every grave,
— ita leaves under every dying pil-
■w, twist in every garland, wave it io
should have an education. He told
I conld come and blacken the boots
of his gnests, and he would pay
•nd pay.me largely, and 1 conld lodge
around’the Governor’s mansion, and I
coaid -come ia and get my meals. He
assured me I abtaty. have an adtpp-
tion. Now I vrill not get it. t have
tost a great deal today/’ said the pool 1
blaCk man. Tbe last time I saw him,
by a acid eat and unintentionally: of
boarssy 1 surprised hfm ia his devo
tions, I saw him taUiag with God.
and I dared hot. speak. O! the restor-
stive power of this' religion' to him.
Evety day be arid be had a time devo
ted to oommanien with God, find be
•aid. “That is tbe way I koep^op un
der this sixty years of pain.” I do not
• ' _ j i__. o' r -li a
wonder that Georgia .robbed at those
-My beloTod is nit, mo ».• MmT .ko^nJonn.ol^oit, in Vinci I j had
spicps, as sweet flowers.- Ol rich tho privilege t.. commingle. Ido not hair to Its youthful color
and rare, and cxqniMte and everlas : won d er that good men all the world People with gray hair pi
over mourned his loss/. O! there is
ive power in the Christian re-
That is what holds me up,
rehabilitating themselves in radiant
forms ready for the -ascension. , The *
world barns. Bonfire of a great victo
ry. Ready now for tbe procession of
reconstructed humanity. Christ leads
on. All the battalions and all the na*-
tions of the Christian dead follow. Up
ward and away, on, on, on. Rank* of
the Lord God Almighty, forward, for
ward! Litt np yonr beads.ye everlast
ing gates, and let the conqueror*
Resurrection! Resarrection!
SciPO, N. Y., Dec. 1,1870.
t am the Pastor ot the Baptist
Church here, and an educated physi
cian; «ad i advise in many chronic
cases, i Over a year ago I recom
mended yonr Hop Bitters to my in
valid wife, who has been under medi
cal treatment of Albany’s best physi-
cians several years. Sbohas become;
thoroughly cured of her various com- .
plicated diseases by their use. We
both recommend them to oar friends,
many of whom have also been cured
Of their various ailments by them.
Kkv. E. ILAVakhkn-.
A little boy, on being asked his -
reason for chewing tobacco, promptly
replied, “To get the juice oaten it.”
Constrained' worship is .corporeal
—- e yZro.: (Iron
inanimate,' obscure and ‘ gloomy/
unconstrained worship, when i: ia gen
uine,, is spiritual, living, locid and joy
ful; spiritual, because there is spirit
from thi Lord in it; living, 1
there is life from the Lord in it; lucid,
because there is wisdom from the Lord
in it; and joyfnl, btoeanse there ia heav
en from toe Lord in it.
Mall’s ’ Hair RcnowCr renews,'
cleansed, brightens, and invigorate’!
the hair, and restores faded or gray .
I lu9tre;i ?
•r to use
tlie Uenewcr, rather than proclaim to
the world through their bleached
locks that they are becoming^aged^ ^
