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8 Joy Cometh in the Morning. BY WM. cnLI.EN 15BYAXT. Oh, deem not they are blest, alone, tVhose lives a peaceful tenor keep ; Far God, who pities man, hath shown A blessing for the eyes that weep. The light of smiles shall fill again The lids that overflow with tears; And weary hours of woe and pain Are promises of happier years. There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night, And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light. Nor let the good man’s trust depart, Though life its comuioß gifts deny ; Though with a pierced and broken heart, The spurned of men, he goes to die. For God has marked each sorrowing day, And numbered every sacred tear, And heaven’s loug age of bliss shall pay For all Ilis children suffer her#. Tlio Sleeping Hero. Cold shines the moon upon the slumbering plain, Where, wrapt in peace, the hosts of freemen lie; No sound of war, of conflict, or of pain, Breaks the repose that reigns in earth and sky. Low on his couch the patient hero lies, Dreaming of homo—its scenes of past de light ; Clear to his vision forms of beauty rise, Beaming like stars upon the brow of night. Ah, sleeping hero ! little dost thou deem How short thy rest; tor 10, the foe is nigh ! Ere morn awakes, thy ready sword shall gleam, And not in vain, though, soldier, thou must die! Cold is the bed t iat stranger Tiands prepare ; Dimmed are the eyes that long shall weep for thee ; But, soldier, while for Freedom men shall dare, Thy noble deeds thy fadeless crown shall be. Modern Elijahs. —lt is not well always to look on the shady side of affairs. There are men who came into existence under a shadow, and the shadow has dogged their lives, and all that is bright, and pure, and beautiful, takes the sombre hue of their own fancies. Their religion consists in bemoan ing the evils of the world, in lamenting the gradual decadence of good, and in regard ing ail home evils and foreign complications as signs of the times. They are the Elijahs who retire irdo the. wilderness of their own Contemplations, saying, “ I, even I, only am left,” unconscious that, all the time there arc not only the seven thousand who hav* not bowed the knee uutoßaal, but that mul titudes arc everywhere obeying the Gospel call. They ore tkc Jonahs sitting under the gourds of their own security, amazed that the judgments of God do not descend on a guilty world. These hypochondriacs are seldom found among the earnest workers j who seek to leave the world better than ■ they found it, but among those who see its j evils and sit by with folded hands. — Th* "Work of Grace in the Heart.— A writer on the new birth, says : “ Often God does his great work in sin- j uers’ heart so stdl and gently that nobody j can tell just when it was done. They often ; doubt it themselves wonder whether there can be the new heart —they arc afraid they have made sotse mistake. Especially when some young Christians speak ot a sud den change, it makes others say, ‘ If that is the way we have to be converted, I can’t be a Christian.' Now 1 want to clear up that trouble; sometimes a change in fueling is as quiet as the sun’s going over our beads at twelve o’clock ; it makes no noisff at ail, but the shadow begins to fall the other way. The fruits of godliness begin to appear, and the rescued soul is enabled to say, “ Where as J Was blind, now 1 see.’ ” Weight of Heaven lx Bodies. —One of the most interesting ol the results oi as tronomy is the” accuracy with which the weight of heavenly bodies is ascertained. The mu.- sos Jupiter is found to be more than 322, and less than 323 times the mass of ibis globe—so accurately has this work been accomplished* The nja-s of the sun is 330,55' times greater than that of the earth and moon, and i 00 times greater than the united masses of all the planets. The planet Saturn is composed ol nutter only half a a heavy as water. Mercury is heav ier than quicksilver. “Words, words, words!’ says Hamlet, disparagingly. But God preserve us from the destruwiv* power of words ! There are words which can separate hearts sooner than sharp swords. There are words whose stings can remain in the heart through a whole life. Therefore, think always before you speak, and speak in love, or besileut. THE ARMY & NAVY HERALD. Fr*m the Southern Presbyterian. Lights and Shadows of a Southern Home. .. • A SCENE IN THE REVOLUTION OF 1864. The sun was sitting calmly in the dark pine forests of Georgia on a bright winter evening, and the inmates of a sweet South ern home were preparing for rest from the cares and toils of the day. The merry tink ling of the cow bell added its notes to the pleasant sounds, as each animal was return ing to the full stalls awaiting their coming. Little children were feeding their pet kids, and the servants afier finishing their tasks for the day were merrily singing and whist ling, as though no care troubled them. Within the house sat an old lady reading the evening lesson for the day, and beside her sat the mother of the children. They both had anxious faces, for their loved one was far away, exposed to the dangers of the battlefield, and news had come that the ene my was approaching. Suddeuly sound broke the stillness of the evening air; not the thunder of Heav en, but the far worse worm of human wrath was approaching. Yell succeeded yell, and that quiet home, and those defenceless wo men were soon surrounded by three hun dred cavalrymen with drawn sabres in their hands. The mother and daughter Hfied their hearts in pray'er and met their fate. The old ludy T met the vandals at her door, and asked them their bidding. “We will soon show you,” they replied, and pushing her aside rushed into the house. Then be gan their work of fury and destruction. Iri a short time thousands more of the dreaded enemy advanced, and the next day fifteen thousand of Slocum’s corps were t ire guests of that home in the woods. A glorious vic tory to Northern arms can be recorded of that day. Two noble Southern women faced the 2Uth Federal corps, and surrendered to them almost every article of their clothing, ail of their provisions, and everything valua ble in their home. Front cellar to attic, from stable to kitchen the rubbers flew. Nothing was too sacred Idr their vile touch. From tke highest officer to the lowest pri vate the work of robbery went on. Flames soon rose from the gin house, and but for a merciful change in the wind, their dwelling would have goie too, but lie who “stayeth the rough wind in the day of his East wind” spared them a home. In the midst of-that fifteen thousand men to their honor be it spoke*, there were feur kind hearts, who did what they could to prevent the work of wreck and ruin, and said “had they known the war was to be waged against helpless women and children, they would never have enlisted in such a cause.” The next evening what a different picture presented itself in that homo, 'flic few cat tle which escaped the vengence of the foe, were lowing for food. The faithful servants were shivering with cold and hunger, for their philanthropic deliverers had saved them from all further care-of their food and clothing. The young mothers eyes over fi .wed with tears as her hungry children begged for bread, which had been seized from their very bands. The eldest of the children cried because her pet goats lay dead at her feet. The old lady was mute with agony. Id he could hear the loss o! food and clothing better than the treaurcs of her heart. One little trunk, she sacredly open ed, once in a year, as it contained letters written by the partner of her young days, whose hand had long since hi in slili in death. Only on their wedding day this trunk was opened. Now its contests were scattered to the winds. Bui worse than this, the sa cred family Bible, was ruthlessly thrown Guto a pond of water, and tears of agony at this sight burst from that widowed heart. There had been recorded her marriage vows. There her iufant babes’ life and death had been told, for the Savior kindly sheltered these lambs in His »wu fold, long years ago. In that book too were recorded the death of her dearest earthly lore, ami of a gentle daughter, u-hom God had mercifully taken to that land where “no thief approueketh, neither moth corrupteth.” All these treas ures of her life were dashed from her in a few short hours. Here my picture is completed. W omen of Georgia, henceforth with your nursery rhymes, tell your children what their sires have suffered at the hands of Northern foes. The mothers form the nation, and by the torch that has burned our dwellings, by the robbery that lias taken from us our food, ! by the river of bloo-d that flow from the 1 Potomac to the Gulf of Mexico, whose only J echo is the wail of widowed and orphaned i hearts; by the death of the aged, who went ■ to their graves mourning for their sons; by i the prisoners who have languished and died 1 in Northern dungeons, by the shattered limbs of our brothers, by the destruction of our churches, by the desecration of our Bi bles, teach your children never, never to form a union with a people who would crush them back to their mother dust, and as sure ly as there is a God to whom “ vengeance belongeth,” so shall our oppressed nation yet be free. Debor ah. — -o- Angels, Ministering Spirits. Spurgeon remarks as follows upon the 15th verse of Ist Ezekiel —“ And when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels lifted up:” These living creatures I believe to be angels; and the text teaches us that there is a connection between Providence and an gelic agency. I do not know how to ex plain it; 1 cannot tell how it is; but I be lieve angels have a great deal to do with the .business of this world. In times of mira cles and wonderous things, there was an angel came down and slew the first-born of Egypt: and an angel cut off the hosts of Sennacherib. Augelsdid mighty things in those ancient days. My firm belief is, that angels are sent forth somehow or other to bring about, the great purpose of God. The great wheel of Providence is turned by an angel. When there is some trouble which seems to stop the wheel, some mighty che rub puts his shoulder to it. and hurls it a ruond, and makes the chariot of God s Pro vidence still go on. Angels have much more to do with us than we imagine. Ido not know but that spirits sometimes come down and whisper thoughts into our ears. 1 have strange thoughts sometimes, that seem to come from a land of dreams; and fiery visions that make my soul hot within me. Sometimes I have thoughts which 1 know come from God’s Spirit; some which are glerious, and some that are not so good ns those which the Spirit would have put there, but still holy thoughts; and often attri bute them to angels. I have sometimes a thought which cheers me in distrpss; and was not the angel sent to strengthen Christ in the garden ? How do you think the an* gel strengthened him ? Why, by putting thoughts into Christ’s mind. Tie could not in any other way; he could not strengthen him by a plaster, or by any physical means ; but by injecting thoughts. And so with us. There was a temptation which might have led you astray; but God said “Ga briel, fly ! there is a danger to one of my people ; go and put such a thought into bis soul, that when the danger conies lie will say, “ Get thee behind me Satan, I will have nothing to uo with sin.” We have each of us a guardean angel to attend us; and if there be any meaning in the passage, “In heaven there angels do always behold tile face of my Father which is in heaven,” it means that every person Ims a guardian spirit, and every Christian has some angel who flies about him, arpl holds the shield of God over bis brow; keeps his foot, lest he should dash it against a stone ; guards him, controls hi*, manages him; injects thought, restrains evil desires, and is the minister and servant of the Holy Ghost to keep us from ‘in, and lead us to righteous ness. Whether 1 am right or wrong, I leave you to judge ; but perhaps I have more angelology in me than most people. I know my imagination sometimes bus been so pow erful that I could almost, when T have been alone at night, fancy I saw an angel fly by me, and hear the horse hoofs of the cheru bim as they dashed along the stony road when I have been out preaching the word. However, I take it that the text teaches us that angels have very much to do with Sod’s Providence. For it says, “ And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them ; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.” Let us bless God that he has made angels ministering spirits to minister unto them that are heirs of salvation. ..<!>.« Washington’s Hying Words.- —When George Washington bequeathed to his heirs the sword he had won in the war of Liberty, he charged them, “Never to take it from the scabbard but in self defence, or in de fence of their country and her freedom; but that, when it should thus be drawn, they should 'never sheath it or give it up, but prefer falling with it in their hands to the relinquishment thereof” —words says an em inent Englishman, the majestv and simple eloquence of wli%li are not surpassed in the oratory of Athens and Rome Let. every soldier of the Confederacy en grave those last words of Washington upon his heart. Let them he inscribed in letters of gold upon the Capitol of every Confeder ate State. Let the pulpit proclaim them ; let the mother learn them to her children ; let them be blazoned on every banner ; ring in every trumpet cull, and flash fron every sword.” A Glorious Thing. —Men of the world are sometimes ashamed to pray, and unwil ling to be seen in a praying circle ; but they only proclaim their spiritual ignorance and t blindness. The following paragraph indi- ' cates wisdom and discernment : “As John Foster apriroched the close of life, and felt, his strength gradually stealing away, he remarked on his increasing weak ness, and added, “ But I can pray, and that is . a glorious thing ! ’ Truly a glorious thing; more glorious than an atheist or pan theist can ever pretend to. To look up to an Omnipotent Father, to speak t* Him, to love Him, to stretch upward as an infant from the cradle, that he may lift His child in his everlasting arms to the resting of Ilis own bosom ; this is the portion of the dying Christian. lie was overheard thus speak ing with himself- —‘ O death where is thy sting? O grave where is thy victory? 'I banks be to God, who giveth victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.’ The eye of the terror-crowned wms upon him.” An Arab Mode of Cursing.— A Frenchman, residing in one of the Oriental cities, while once watering some flowers in the window, accidentally filled the pots too profusely, so that a quantity of water hap pened to fall on an Arab who was below bas king :n the sun. 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