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There lms boon n tendency In nil lands and ftgos to sot apart certain days, places and oo- casions for especial religious service, and to think that they formed the realm In which ligion was ehielly to net. Now* While holy (lavs ntvd holy places have their use, they can hoveY he a substitute for continuous exorcise Of faith and prayer. In other words, a man cannot be so Rood a Christian on Sabbath that he can afford to ho a worldling all the week. If a steamer start for Southampton and sail one day In that di rection and the other six days sail in oilier directions, how long before iho steamer will get to Southampton? Just ns soon as the man will get to heaven who sails on the Sab bath day toward that which is good, and the other six days of the week sails toward the world, the flesh and the devil. You cannot eat so much at the Sabbath banquet that you (‘an afford religious abstinence all the 1‘ost of the weolc k Genuine religion Is not spasmodic, docs hot go by fits and starts, is not nit attack of chills and fever—now cold Until your teeth oliutter, now hot Until your bones ache. Genuine religion marches oil steadily up steep Mils and along dangerous declivities, Its eye ever on the everlasting hills crowned With the castles of the blessod. I propose, so tar as God may help mo, to show you how we may bring our religion in to ordinary life and practice it in common things—yesterday, to-day, to-morrow. And, in the first plaoo, l remark, w° ought lo bring religion into our ordinary conversa tion. A clam breaks, and two or throe vil lages are submerged, a South Amorloun oarthquako swallows a oily, and people be gin to talk about the uncertainty of human life, ami in that conversation think they are engaging In religious service when there may bo no religion at all. I have noticed Hint in proportion as Christian experience is shallow nun talk about funerals and death- bods and bourses and tombstones and epi taphs* If a man have the religion of the gospol in Its full power in his soul, he will talk chiefly about this world and the eternal world and Very little comparatively about the inslgnfl- cant pass botweon this and that. Yot how seldom it Is that the religion of Christ is a welcome thomo ! If a man full of the gospol of Christ goes into a religious circle and be gins to talk about sacred things, nil the con versation is hushed, and things become ex ceedingly awkward, As on a summer day, the forest full of song and chirp and carol, mighty chorus of bird harmonies, every branch an orchestra, If a hawk appears in the sky, all the voices are hushed, no I. have sometimes seen a social circle that professed to be Christian silenced by the appearance of tho groat theme of Go l and religion. Now, my friends, if wo have the religion ot Christ in our soul, we will talk about it in an exhilarimt mood. Jt is more refreshing than the waters, it is brighter than tho sun shine, it gives a man Joy hero and prepares him for everlasting happiness before the throne of God. Ami yet, if the thomo oT religion bo Introduced into a olrclo, every thing isoilenoed—silenced unless perhaps an agod Christian man in the cornor of tho room, feeling that something ought to bo said, puts one foot over the other and sighs heavily and says, “Oh, yes ; that's so 1 ’ My friends, the religion of Jesus Christ is not something to bo groaned about, but something to talk about and sing about, your face irradiated. The trouble Is that men pro fessing the faith of tho gospel nro often bo inconsistent that they are afraid their con versation will not harmonize with their life. Wo cannot talk tho gospel unless we 11 vo tho gospol. You will often find a man whoso en tire life Is full of inconsistencies lining his conversation with such expressions as, “Wo are miserable sinners,” “The Lord help n “Tho Lord bless you,” interlarding their conversation with such phrases, which are more canting, and canting is tho worst kind of hypocrisy. If a man have tho grace of God in his heart dominant, he can talk religion, and it will soom natural, and men, instead of being re pulsed by it, will bo attracted by it. Do you not know that when two Christian people talk as they ought about tho things of Christ and heaven God gives special attention, and He writes it all down. Malaohi ill., 10, “Then they that feared the Lord talked one to the other, and tho Lord hearkened and heard, and a book of remembrance was writ ten.” Hut I remark again, wo ought to bring tb religion of Jesus Christ into our ordinary employments. “Oh,” you say, “that’s a good theory for a man who manages a large business, who has groat traffic, who holds a gweat estate—it is a grand thing for bankers and for shippers—but in my thread and nee dle store, In my trimming establishment, In my insignificant work of life, you cannot apply those grand gosplo principles.” Who told you that? Do you not know that a faded leaf on a brook’s surface attracts God’s attention as certainly as the path of a blaz ing sun, and that the moss that creeps up the side of tho rock attracts God’s attention as certainly as the waving tops or Oregon pine and Lebanon cedar, and that the crackling alder under a cow’s hoof sounds as loudly In God's ear as the snap of a world s conflagration, and that the most insignifi cant thing in your life is of enough impor tance to attract the attention of the Lord God Almighty? My brother, yon cannot bo called to do any- thing so insignificant but God will help you in it. If you are a fisherman, Christ will stand by you as Ho did by Simon when lie dragged Gennesarct. Are you a drawer of water? He will bo with you as at the well curb when talking with the Hamaritan woman. Are you a custom house officer? Christ will call you as Ho did Matthew at tho receipt of custom. Tho man who has only a day’s wages in his pocket as certainly needs religion as he who rattles tho keys of a bank and could abscond with a hundred thousand hard dollars. And yet there are men who profess tho religion of Jesus Christ who do not bring the religion of tho gospel into their ordinary occupations and employ ments. There are in tho churches of this day men who seem very devout on the Sabbath who far from that during the week. A coun try merehunt arrives in tills city, and he goes into tho store to buy goods of a man who professes religion, but has no grace in his heart. Tho country merchant is swindled. He is too exhausted to go home that week ; he tarries in town. On Sabbath he goes to Borne church for consolation, and what is his amazement to find that tho man who carries around tho poor box is the very one who swindled him. Hut never mind. The deacon has his black cout on now and looks solemn and goes home talking about that blessed sermon I Christians on Sunday. Worldings during tho week. That man does not realize that God knows evsry dishonest dollar he has in his pocket, that God is looking right through tho iron wall of his money safe, and that tho day of judgment is coming, and that “as tho par tridge sittotb on eggs and hateheth them not, so he that getteth riches and not by right shall leave them in tho midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.” Hut how many there are who do not bring the religion of Christ into their everyday occupation. They think religion is for Sundays. Suppose you were to go out to fight for your country in some great contest, would you go to do tho battling nt Troy or at Springfield? No, you would go there to get your swords and muskets. Then you would go out in tho face of the enemy and contend for your country. Now, I take the Sabbnth day and the church to be only tho armory Where we are to get equipped for the great battle of life, and that battlefield is Monday. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and JJaturday, “Antioch,” and “at. Martin’s” ( much If JFVmm Is of behind Tho Sab- only 24 1. a great Ipuld have if I could niton, if l 'ork to do, all that romance it of life, the world. Ohungod m at Ash ing sticks, ro tho omi- nnd a Ver- il tho an Oread pany and “Old Hundred” are wo do not sihg all the wool little account if we online the counteratvd behind tb' bath day is of no value hours* . ‘‘Ghf’ says pome one. sphere, I would do tbntfei lived in the time of Martin**! have boon Paul’s travolijT had some great and rosotil thou I should put into up you say.” I must admit nml knight errantry lia Thoro is but very litt le of Tho temples of Rouen hi into smithies, Tile olasslJji land 1mA been out up i"* Tho musos Have retreat, grant's ax and £ho truppei monter might go ovor tile, Hooky monutnius and s6o. nor a Sylph. The groves \Vhoro tho have boon out up for flie„ who is looking for great scones for notion will yot, there are Alps to . Hollesponts to swim, am mon life. It is absuru fo would serve God if you lr you do not serve Him would not on a large sc stand t he bite of A mldgo, dilro tho breath o f n hMj “ Our national governV belittling to put a tax or. buckles and a. tax oil shtfj taxes do not amount aggregate to millions ant 1 Ami } would have you, oj: a high tariff on every on t ion that comes through y. not amount to much iu si the aggregate it would hi spiritual strength and sr A hoe can suck honey and if you have the gnu heart you can get su which would otherwise A returned missionary t< pany of adventurers, rp were stung to death by 1 region at certain season 1 earth strewn with tho ca by insect annoyances, prepared for the groat trj conquer these small tto Suppose a sold lor s ho a skirmish, and there a —l won't load my gun \ some groat general ej man is a coward and w< any sphere. If a mail country iu a skirmish Waterloo. And If you _ out against tho Binglo-hdridod misfortunes this life you would npT.be faithful when great disasters wJthJgflhol* thundering artillery camo rolling down over Iho soul. Tills brings mo to another point. Wo ought to bring tho rollgRm of Jesus Christ Into our (rials. If we have a bereavement, If we lose our fortune, it some great trouble blast liko tho tempest, t)ton wo go to God for comfort, but yestordav^u tho little annoy ances of your store or tjnfoe. or shop or fac tory, orbanking house, did you go to God inort? You dld itOt. ied to dwell nd tho man xs and groat them. And id there are are in oom- saythat you rent sphere, all scale, you f you onunot could you on es not think it tax on 'he individual but in the of dollars, itlan man, put ice ami vexa- This might oases, but ia revenue of ition. of a nettle, God In your s out of that s and nnuoy. e that a oom- ip tho Ganges, hat infest that C have seen tho »s of men slain way to get of life ia to fray, “This Is only bly U few enemiea JUt Until I got; into jngomont.” That gl bd a coward in not servo Ills bo will not in a fuot faithful going Bio ns ( rout < fonly bios My friends, you of tho Lord Jesus nary trials of you? ..> fortunes, you have yf your voxations. “Ol shape my character. to take the religion I into the most ordl- u havo your mis- xioties, you have say, “they don’t I lost my child, since 1 have lost my properly, I have been a very different man troin what I was.” My brother, '.t is tho little.'nano^ >.nco3 of your life that are souring £our disposition, clip ping your moral chara-otor and making you less and less of a man,. You go into an artist’s studio. You see him making a piece of -eoulpturo. You say, “Why dou’c you strike harder?” With ills mallet and his ohlseY he goes click, click, click I and you can hardly boo from stroke to stroke that there laany^mprossion made upon the stone, and yot IhoDvork is going on. You say, “Why don’t youetrlko harder?” “Oil 1 ’ he replies, “that Would shatter the statue. I must make Jt in this way, stroke by stroke.” And ho continues on by week and month until after awhile every man that ontors the studio is fascinated. Well, I find God donling with somo man. He 1h shaping him for t ime and shaping him for eternity. I sny, “0 Lord, why not with one tremendous blow of calamity shape that man for the next world?” God says, “That’s not the \yay I deal with this man ; it ia stroke after stroke, annoyance after annoyance, ir ritation after irritation. and after awhile ho will be done and a glad spectacle for angois and men.” Not by ono great stroke, but by ton thou sand little strokes of misfortune are men fitted for heaven. You know that large for tunes can soon bo scattered by being paid out In small sums of money, and the largest estate of Christian character is sometimes cntlroly lost by these small depletions. We must bring tho religion of Jesus Christ to help us in those little annoy ances. Do not say that anything is too insignificant to affect your character. Jills may sink a ship. One luolfer match may destroy a temple. A queen got hor death by srnolllng of a poisoned rose. The scratch of a sixpenny mill may give you tho lockjaw. Columbus, by asking for a piece of bread and a drink of water at a Franciscan convont, came to the discovery of a now world. And there is a great connection between trifles and im mensities, between nothings and every- thlngs. Do you not suppose that Go 1 cares for your insignificant sorrows? Why, ray friends, there is nothing Insignificant in your life. How dare you take the responsibility of say ing that there is? Do you not know that tho wholo universe is not ashamed to take care of one violet? Isay; “What arc you doing down thoro in tho grass, poor little violet? Nobody knows you are here. Are you not afraid nights? You will dlo with thirst. Nobody cares for you. You will suffer; you will perish.” “No.” says a star, •‘I’ll watch over it to-night. ,{ “No,” says the cloud, “I’ll give It drink,” ‘No.” says tho sun, “I’ll warm it in my bosom.” And then the wind rises and comes bending lown the grain and Bounding its psalm through the forest, and 1. say, ‘Whither away, O wind, on such swift ing?” and it answers, “I am going to cool io cheek of that violet.” Ami then I see pulleys at work in the sky, nn I tho clouds i drawing water, and I say, “What are you ing there, O clouds?” They say, “Wo are awhig water for that violet.” And then I look down into the grass, and I say, “Can it be that God takes care of a poor thing liko 1 the answer comes up, “Yes, yes. God clothes the grass of the field, and He 1ms | forgotten me, a poor violet. Oh, my friends, if the heavons bend down to such in significant ministry as that, I toll you God is willing to bond down to your care, since He is jusl as careful about tho construction of a spider’s eye as Ho is in the conformation of flaming galaxies. Plato had a fable which I have now nearly forgotten, but it ran something like this : lie said spirits of tho other world camo back to this world to find a body and find a sphere of Work. Ono spirit came and took the body of a king and did his work. Anothcrsplrit camo and took the body of a poet and did his work. After awhile Ulysses came, nml ho said: “Wiiy, all tho fine bodies are taken, and all tho grand work is taken. There is nothing left for me.” And some one replied, “Ah, the best ono has boon left for you.” Ulysses said, “What’s that?” And tho reply was, “The body of a common man, doing a com mon work and for a common reward.” A good fable for the world and just as good fable for the church. Hut, I remark again, wo ought to bring tho religion of Jesus Christ into our ordinary blessings. Every autumn the President of tho United States and tho governors make proclamation, and we are called together in our churches to givo thanks to God for His goodness. Hut every day ought to bo thanks giving day. Wo take most of'tho blessings of life as a matter of. course. Wo have had ton thousand bleedings tnis morning for which wo have not ihanke 1 God. Before the night comes we will have a thousand more fliesstng^ you will nover think or mentioning before God. We must see n blind man led along by his ddg before yr& leant what a grand thing it is Id lmvo ttno‘8 eyesight* We must see a man With at. Vitils’S dance before We leant wlmt it grand thing it Istd havo tho tiso of our physD cal energies. We must see sonio soldier crippled, limping along on hid crutch Or his empty contsleevo pinned up. before we learn' what a grand thing it Is to have tho uso of all our physical faculties. In other words. wo are so stupid that nothing but tho misfor tunes of others can wake us up to an appre ciation of our common blessings. We get on board a train and start for Bos ton ami come to Norwalk bridge, and the draw’ is off and crash! goes the train. Fifty lives dashed out; Wo escape. Wo come homo in great oxcJtrimorlt and call oul* friends around us, and they congratulate us and we all knell down and thank God fur our escape while so many perishod. Hut to morrow morning you get on a unin of cars for Boston. You cross that bridge at Nor walk ; you cross all the other bridge ,; you got to Boston in safety. Then you return homo. Not an accident, not an alarm, No thanks. In other words, you scorn to he morograte ful when CO people lose their lives and you get off than you are grateful to God when you all get off and you have no alarm at all. Now, you ought to be thankful when you cs* ••ape ft-om accident, but moro thankful when they all escape* In (he one case your grati tude is somewhat selfish; iu tho other it is more like What it ought to lu\ Oh, these common moreies, these common blessings, how little we appreciato them and how soon we forget them! Like tho ot grazing, with the clover up to its eyes, like the bird picking the worm out of tho furrow — never thinking to thank God, who makes the grass grow and who gives life to every living thing from the animalcule) in tho sod to the seraph on tho throne. Thanksgiving on the 27tli of November, in the autumn of the year, but blessings hour by hour and day by day and no thanks at all. I compared our indifference io the brute, but perhaps I wronged the brute. I do not know but that among its other instincts it may have an instinct by which it recognizes tho divine hand that foods it. I do not knovr but that God is through it holding commu nication with what wo (’all “Irrational crea tion.’ The cow that stands under the wil low by tho water course chewing its cud looks very thankful, and who can toll how much a bird moans by its song? The aroma of the flowers smell liko inoonso, and tho mist arising from tho river looks like tho smoko oT a morning sacrifice, On, that wo Were as responsive! If you were thristy and asked me i'or a lrlnk and l gave you this glass of water, your common instinct would reply, “Thank you.” And yet, how many chalices of mercy wo get hour by hour from the hand of tho Lord, our Father and our King, and we do not even think to say, “Thank you.” Moro just lo inon t han wo aro just to God, Who thinks of thanking God for the water gushing up in tho well, learning in Gm ondo, laughing over the rocks, pattering in the shower, clapping its hands in tho sea? Who thinks to tlmnlc God for that? Who thinks to thank God for the air, tho fountain of life, tho bridge of sunbeams, the path of sound, the great fan on a hot summer day? Who thinks to tlmnlc Clod for this wonderful physical organism, this sweep of vision, tills chime of harmony struck into tho ear, this crimson tide rollingthrough arteries and veins, this drumming of the heart on the march of Immortality? I convict myself and I convict overyone of you while I say these things, that wo are unappreciative of tho common mercies of life. And yot If they were withdrawn, the heavens would withhold their rain and tho earth would crack open under our fcot, and do3olftllon and sickness and woo would f,t:fi!c across the earth, and the wholo earth would become a placo of skulls. Oil, my friends, let us wnlco up to an ap preciation of tiio common mercies of life. Let overy day be a Habbath, every meal a sacra ment, every room a holy of holies. Wo all havo burdens to boar; Jot us cheerfully boar thorn. We all havo battles to light; let us courageously fight thorn. if we want to die right, wo must live right. You go homo and attend to your little sphere of duties. I will go homo and attend to my little sphere of duties. You cannot do my work ; 1 cannot do your work. Negligence and indolence will win the hiss of everlast ing scorn, while faithfulness will gather its garlands and wave its sceptre and sit upon ! Us throne long after tho world lms put on j ashes and eternal ages Iuiyo begun their i BILL ARP’S LETTER. The Si1ng Makes One Forget All Ollier Troubles for (be While. TIioio is one good t hi bv a boo. It mule s yot IT h for a litllo while. I I thcHu bumblcbt oh for 'I renew. <1 my youth. Ti it k big thing lo fight take mv cuftfli The bra’ ig about getting slung forget nil o her trou- iiv-■ bad lots of fun wilh e last few dnya and it no hum when I thought “'idler jackem” and lth the other till march. Mummies ns Hrlc-a-brac. Ji; is estimated that tho number of bodies embalmed in Egypt from B. O. 2000, when mummification is supposed to havo been first practised, to A. D. 700, when it ceased, amounts to '120,• 000,000. Homo Egyptologists, who extend the beginning of tho art to a much earlier date, estimate the num ber of mummies at 711,000,000. These mummies nro very productive to tho Egyptians. The modern traveler tint content to collect merely beads ftiul funeral statues and such small game. Ho must bring homo nn ancient Egyptian. Tho amount of business dono of late years in this grim kind of bric-a-brac has been very considerable. Mummies, however, aro expensive hobbies, only to be indulged in by the wealthy. From $000 to $500 was at one time the average price of a full- sized specimen, while from $50 to $00 was asked for n baby,—Hew York World. China’s Literary Prodigy. The marvelous child mentioned in the Chinese classics who, nt four years old, was able to recite tho 000 verses of tho Thing poetry as well ns the Ancient Book of Odes, has boon eclipsed by nn infant prodigy of tho same age, who lias presented himself at tborecout licentiate examinations in Hong Kong as a candidate for literary honors. Tho P’unyu Chehsien personally ex amined this tiny candidate, and found that tho child could write a conciso essay on the subject that had been given him, although, ot* course in an infantile scrawl, it is observed by a local commentator that it now remains only for tho Literary Chancellor to “pass” tho prodigy ere ho can be styled as “having entered tho portals of the Dragon’s gates”—that is, ob tained the degree of “.Siu-ts’al,” or licentiuto.—London News. t b.»y wan tiio lijggofit fool would Htuv al llio lioln tiio kmjy-t mid thresh nil tho leaven . IT of his brmh and got HtmiK before ho hut. adored. I him not that hrnvn now, and I fight with exceeding cau tion, hut J Inivc killed over iwohumlrul in two dnvH and fought fair and Kqimro. My woapon i* a cruni pan an I 1 tie •■ ’t in com ngandiRoimr, hut they crowd mo Beiru timo8 and my nntici attrac cd attention urn ng t o neighbors, for they can bo • mo iu the upstairs piazza and ono good lady inquired it - Mnj >r Aip wm subj. t?: mills. Tho boos uoillO out when the weatlu r- I oarding j iiiH the fi or and my repeated a«- !'’au 1*h havo Hindu them mad generally. Up lo thb time they have slung < v ry number of tlm family, even to tho lit.do grandchild who lives with us, and I am going to exterminate them if it takes all summer. We tried hot water ter,but it will m t reach Ihom. Just think of that poor , it Me child g ing round with one eye closed and afraid sho will lose tho othor one; and Mrs. Arp’s head is all Bwellod up with two bumps 'hat a jdm liologifl! couldn't diagnose. Wo can’t eit in (lie downstairs piazza wilh any security. It is a biegor thing right now than bimetal- I sm or fruo coinage nr tlm tabernacle mooting. In fact, it is a relief from politics to fight bees and study them ill the books. I wish tho odi- to»N would hold tip awhile and go to tho woods and fight yeller jack, ts or wasps or hornets and got stung a f w times. It would bo a ro- bef to tho country and I have heard that snolt alin h are good for rheumatism or any nervous affection and I knew that it takes tho conceit • nit of a man for awhile. My hook bh\h that Iho proper namois “bum blebee," bill there is no humility about these at my house. 'I hero are from 70 to 800 in a colony and bo I know 1 have nearly whipped iho fight. They live only olio HUimnor and never lobuild iu 'ho same place. Tho books say thero aro three kinds -the nut-oils nml tho carpenters and the diggers, but what they aro good for I •bulk know unless it i'n to mako a man more willing to quit this world and prepare himself for another If there wero no snakos and tar- iiiitulns and stinging things and deadly conta gions and demagogues and thievos and fusses wo wouldn’t want nnolh r world. Tho little honey boo is a trump and a wonder from stem to Htei n. it is good to ruminate about their wisdom and mall and their govern ment Just th.nk of ono queen being tho mother of 20,000 and controlling thorn all moro absolutely than any human mother controls hor children. Ju t. think of 10,500 wo kers and only 50 > drones in a colony. Those drones aro tho gem lemon, and remind you "f our g- n- 1 lemon loafers and swells who ret about on tho niazzos < f 1,ho hotels and watch the girls goby. But iho drones don’t enjoy thomsolvos but a month or two. The queen gels tired of them and gives her orders and then Iho masaacro of j Hi. Bartholomew begins. In an hffTJrs time ‘ overy ono is slain—stung to death by tho workers, and their puffy, bloated caroasRos dragged out and tumbled on tho ground. i Then) is no litt)<- tiling in nature moro won derful than the honovcomb that those little workers make. Its mathematical construction giv. s the most space wv\\ tho least enclosure, tho a roll i d lop and bottom of overy coll, tho i (xact and uniform thickness of every division an.I tho wisdom shown in shaping tho who'o storehouse lo suit tho shape of iho hive, is, hid. cd, marvelous. Then there is tiio division of iho workers into brigades and regiments and 1 companies, vomo to gat hor honey, sonic to Hiftlco wax, roino to build tho cells, some to stand guard, sumo to wait on iho queen and bo her escort as she moves around, and a wholo regiment to keep their wings going liko revolv ing fans and supply fr< ah air in tho hivo, 'That fan business makes tho humming that is heard in tho liivo day and nigLt. Jt is Iho flutter of 11m wings of tho fanners. How in tiio world thoy do ovorything in tho dark is a wonder to mo. J was talking to my friend, Mr. Hussey, about it on the train Homo time ago, and bo told mo oonlkb niially that ho was experimenting io pen if ho couldont cross honey I.- es with lightning bugs and get up a boo that o mid hi o how to work at night or in tho dark. Ho hns applied for a patent on the idea, but " bother no lms sucei cdo i or not in his experi ment I have not heard. Ho was v. ry sanguine, 1 j and tho only trouble, ho sai l, was about tho | cross finding room in the tail for iho fireworks : and tho sting too. But Mr. Bussey is an ongi- | neor on tho Btu to road and knows what ho is I about, I ho sling of a beo is said to bo the most per- ! f< ot war weapon over invented. It is exquisite ’ in ilH mechanism. It is u hollow tube, and yet iho point, of tho finest cambric needle is im mense when compared with if. Under tho microscope the sting is perfect in its shape and MoothneHs. ho much so that tho point is al- m st invisible, whereas tho point of tho nee dle under tho same glass looks liko a great rough crowbar wilh roams and ruts and ridges all over it. This is tho differouco between tho works of God and man. And yot tho Humo Al mighty hand that made tho little beo with his wonderful instincts and attachments mado the uni verso—tho boundless, limitless universe , where there aro stars to bo soon bv tho Lord j Hobs tolescopo, whoso light takes 00,000 years 1 to reach us. Oontemplato that for a moment, I yo litllo conceited minds who think it smart to ray, “I don’t belli vo m Go I. J uni an agnos- | tic.” Hixly thousand years for tho light to j reach us, and Lord Boss said that tho star was in the near edge of the uni verso. Light travels I through spaco about 100,>00 miles in a second of time, which is moro than ten billions of miles in a day. Then count it for a year and tin n for 60,000 years and give it up. Wo may well exclaim, “Lord, what is man that Thou art mindful of h m.” It i swell for us all to stop little while now and then and ponder upon Queen Victoria leads a busy alfe, do- spito the number of ministers and ser vants she lias. During the summer sho drives down from Windsor Castle about 9 o’clock and breakfasts at Frog- more, usually in a tent on tho lawn. After breakfast the Queen does her morning’s work in another tent, all dispatches, letters and boxes coming down to her from the castle. During tho morning two mounted grooms are kept riding between Frogrnore and the castle with messages and letters, and about 1.30 tho Queen drives back in time for kmclmon. tho works of i to tho confines of that spirits unfettered by tho But L must up and fight son; ho* h, for ono has just stung th lolling over in Iho gi nor. Bill A in*, .u A more lmmblo- dog, and he i» in a tumultuous man ia Const i tut I on. A nice iokdi.v new departure in postage stamps lms just been made by Belgium. 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