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Tabernacle Sermon,
A IUSOIH'RSK Vf
REV. T. DeWITT TALMAGE, ON SUN
DAY MORNING MAY 0.
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They Indeed a ureal multitude of tiehee end their
net brake —St. Luke v., 6.
Simon gndJiis apninnles had experb
enced, the nigEl IxHor* whnl the iteher
men cnll “poofr lifok.' Cbfist stepson
board the fishing smack, and tells the
Bailors to pull away fWm the
directs them again to sink the lie!,
Sure enough, vet*y fibfoi the net i full
of fishes, uhd the sailors begin to haul
liL So ldfgc ft school Of fishes was
taken that the hardy men begin to look
red hi the face 4s they pull and hardly
have they begun to rejoice at their suc
cess wht’h snap go.'S a thread o( their
riet, and snap goes another thread, so
there is danger not only ot losing their
fish but of Idling the ft#t< Without
touch cure as to how tlic/goktl tilts, or
hoty much 'Prfttcb is splaSited on deck,
the (Ishettnen rush about gathering up
the broken meshes of the net. (Jut
yonder there is a ship dancing on the
waves, and they’ hail it: *• Ship ahoy !
Bear down this way.” The ship comes,
and lioth fishing-smacks are filled with
the floundering treasures. “Ah !” says
someone, “ liow much better it would
have been if they bad stayed on shore
and fished with a hook and line, and
taken one up at a time, instead of hav
ing this great excitement and the boat
almost upset, and the net’ broken, and
having to call for help, ami getting sop
ping wet with the sea.”
The church is the boa*, the gospel,is
the net, society is-the sac. and a groat
revival is the whole*’school brought in
at one sweep of the pet, I have ad
miration for that until Wild £bes out with*
a hook and line to fish. I admire the
way lie unwinds the reel, and adjusts
the bait, and drops the hook in a quiet
(.lace on a still afternoon, and catches
here one and there one; but J like also
n big boat, and a larger crew, and a net
a mile long, and swift oars, and stout
tails, and a stitf breeze, and a great
multitude of souls brought— so great a
multitude that you have to get help to
draw it ashore, strain it) g the net to the
utmost until it breaks here and there,
letting a few escape, lint bringing tne
great multitude into eternal safety. In
other words, I believe in revivals. The
great work of saving men began with
three thousand people joining the
church in one day, and it will close
with forty or a hundred million people
saved in twenty-four hours, when na
tions shall be born in a day. But there
are objectifies to revivals/ People are
opposed to them-because the net might
get broken, |nd if*by the! pressure *f>f
souls it does not got broken, then they
take their own penknives and slit the
net. “They inclosed a great multi
tude of fishes, and the net brake.
It is sometimes opposed to revivals
of religion that those who come into
the church at such times do not hold
out; as lons as there is a "ale of bless
ing they have their sails up, but as soon
as strong winds stop blowing then they
drop into a dead calm. Hut what are
the facts in the case ? In all our
churches the vast majority of the use
ful people are those who are brought in
under "rent awakenings, and they hold
out. Who are the prominent men in
the United States in the churches, in
praver-meetings, in Sabbath-schools ?
For the most part they are the pro
ducts of great awakenings. I have no
ticed that those who are brought into
the kingdom of God through revivals
have more persistence and more deter
mination in t he Christian life than tlrose
who come in under a low state of re
ligion. People born in an ice-lionse
may live, but they will never get over
the cold they caught in the ice-house !
A cannon-ball depends upon the im
pulse witli which it starts for how far it
shall go or how swiftly, and the greater
the revival force with which a soul is
started, the more far-resounding will be
the executor.
But it is sometimes objected to re
vivals that there is so much excitement
that people mistake hysteria for- relig
ion. We must admit that in every re
vival of religion there is either a sup
pressed or a demonstrated excitement.
Indeed, if a man can go out of a state
of acceptance with God, or see others
go, without any agitation of soul, he is
fn an unhealthy, morbid state, and is
as repulsive and absurd as a man who
should boast he saw a child snatched
out from under a horse’s hoofs, and felt,
no agitation, or saw a man rescued
from "the fourth story of a house on
fire, and felt no acceleration of the
pulse. Salvation form siu and death
and hell into life and peace and heaven
forever is such a tremendous thing that
if a man p tells me he can look on it
without any, imitation, I doubt bis
Christianity. The fact is that some
times excitement is the most important
possible thing. In case of resuscita
tion from drowning or freezing, the one
idea is to excite animation. Before
conversion we are dead. It is the bus
iness of the church to revive, arouse,
awaken, resuscitate, startle into lile.
Excitement is had or good, according
to what it makes us do. If it makes
us do that which is bad, it is bad ex
citement ; but if it makes us agitate
about our eternal welfare, if it makes
us prav. if it makes us attend upon
. Christian service, if it makes us cry
unto God for mercy, then it is a good
excitement. It is sometimes said that
during revivals of religion great mul
titude's of children and young people
are brought into the church, and the v
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do not kuow what they are about. It
has-been my observation that the
earner |.ople come into the kingdom
of God the more useful they are, Rob
ert Hall, the. priilcc of Baptist preach*
ers, was converted at twelve years of
age. It U supposed he knew Whftt he
was about. Mathew Henry, the com
mentator, who did more than any mall
of his century for increasing the inter
est of the study of the Scriptures, was
converted at ehaven ypiura of age: IsA
hi'lla Grnhajrf, IfinA/al hi the C'hri#
thiV-church, wa* Ain orted at ton vbars
of age; Dr. Watts, whose hymns will
be sung all down the ages, was con
verted at nine years of age ; Jonathan
Edwards, perhaps the mightiest intel
lect that the American pulpit ever pro
duced was converted at seven years of
age. and that father and mother take
an awful responsibility when they tell
their child at seven years of age, “You
are too young to be a Christian,” or,
“ You are too young to connect your
self with the yhurch.” That is a mis
take irk long as eternity. If during a
revival two persons present themselves
as/amliftat.dsfor the church, and the
oue (s, te 11 y*ar of age. and the other
is forty years of age, I will have more
confidence in the profession of religion
of jlie one ten years of age than the
one forty years of age. Why ? The
one who professes* at, forty years of
age has forty years of impulse in the
wrong direction to correct; the child
has o ily ten years in the wrong direc
tion to correct. Four times ten are
forty. Four times the religious pros
pect for the lad that comes into the
kingdom of God and into the church
at ten years of age than for the mail at
forty. lam very apt to look upon re
vivals as connected with certain men
wkio fostered them, l’eople who in this
lay do not like revivals,, nevertheless
have hot words to express their admi
ration for the revivalists of the past,
for they were revivalists. Jonathan
E 1 ward's, John Wesley,George Whit
field, Fletcher, Gritlin, Davies. Osborne,
Knapp, Nettleton, and many others
whose names come to my mind. The
strength of their intellect and the ho
liness of their lives make inq think
tlief would got have; anything; to do
with that.jv.Uich wasephenpfaj. Oh!
it is easy to talk of revivals. A man
said to Mr. Dawson : “ 1 like your ser
mons very much, but the after'-meetings
I despise. When the prayer-meeting
begins I always go up into the gallery
and look down, and 1 am disgusted.”
“Well, said Mr. Dawson, “the reason
is you go on the top of your neighbor’s
house, and look down his chimney to
examine his fire, and, of course, you
get only smoke in your eyes.” Oh!
I am afraid to say anything against re
vivals of religion, or against anything
that looks like them, because I think it
mav be a sin against the Holy Ghost,
and you know the Bible says that a sin
against the Holy Ghost shall never be
forgiven, netth6r in this world nor the
world to come. Now, if you are a
painter and I speak against your pic
tured. do I not speak against you ? If
a revival be the work of the Holy
Ghost and I speak against that revival,
do I not speak against the Iloly Ghost!'
And who speaketh Against the lloly
Ghost, says the Bible, he slmll never be
forgiven, neither in this world nor the
world to come. I think sometimes
people have made a fatal mistake in
this direction. Many of you know the
history of Aaron Burr. He was one of
the most brilliant men of his day. I
suppose this country never produced a
stronger intellect, lie was capable of
doing anything good and great for his
country, or for the church of God had
he been rightly disposed ; hut his name
is associated with treason against the
United States Government, which lie
tried to overthrow, and with libertinism
and public immortality. Do you know
where Aaron Burr started on the down
ward road ? It was when lie was in
college, and he became anxious about,
his-soul; and was about to-put himself
under the influences of a revival, and a
minister of religion said, “ Don’t go
there, Aaron—don’t go there. That’s
a place of wildfire and great excite
ment; no religion about that. Don't
go there.” He tarried away. His se
rious impressions departed. He start
ed on the downward road. And who
is responsible for his ruin for this world,
and the world to come ? Was it the
minister who warned him against that
revival ? When lam speaking of ex
citement in revivals, of course I do not
mean derangement of the nerves, or
temporary insanity. I do not mean
the absurd things of which we have
read as transpiring sometimes in tiie
church of Christ. But I mean an in
telligent, intense, all-absorbing agita
tion of body, mind and soul in the work
of spiritual escape and spiritual rescue.
Now I come to the real genuine oh
jeetion to revivals. That is the cold
ness of the objector, it is the secret
and hidden but unmistakable cause in
every case—a low state of religion in
the heart. Wideawake, consecrated,
useful Christians are never afraid of re
vivals. It is the spiritually dead who
are afraid of haring their sepulchre
HARTWELL. (JA„ WEDNESDAY, MAY 1880.
molested. The chief agents of the
devil during a great awakening ar*
always unconverted professors of re-
Ugioa. As soon as Christ's work be
gins they begin to gossip against it.
and lake a pall of water and try to put
out this spark of religions influence,
and lh(,'y try to put out another spark.
Do they succeed ? As well when Chi
cago was oiv fire might sonic one have
gone out with a garden watering-pot
trying to extinguish it. The difficulty
is that when a revival begins in a
church it begins at so inriny points that
while you have doused one anxious soul
with a pail of cold water, there aro five
hundred other anxious souls on fire.
Oh! how much better it would be to
lay hold of the chariot of Christ’s gos
pel and help (mil it on, rather than to
tling ourselves in front of the wheels,
trying to block their progress. Be
will not stop the chariot, but we our
selves will be ground to powder. Did
you over hear that there was a conven
tion once held among the icebergs in
the Arctic ? It seems that the summer
was coming on, and the sun was getting
hotter and hotter, and there was danger
that the whole ice-field would break up
an flow away ; so the tallest and the
coldest and broadest of all the ice
bergs, the very king of the Arctics,
stood at the head of the convention,
and with a gavel of ice smote on a table
of ice, calling tor ecytvi ntkni to order.
But t ha-sun ktjK gmwing In iMpnait.v
of hoax, |tmd the south wind blew
stronger and and soon all the
ice-field began to grind up, iceberg
against icehery, and to flow away.
The first resolution parsed b/
vention
“ /uyf?Wi,: That wf abolish die sun.'*
Butt Tic sun would no* bcfn’mished.
The heat of the sun grew greater and
greater, until after h while the very
king (iIT tha iceberst? begun to 'perspire
undegjhc g(nw,-ofKltke smaller icebergs
fell I'Vcr, and the cry tvas : “Too much
excilfuientt Order 1 order!” Then
the whole, Jjodv, the whole iicljf of ice
heg£ Jo flow out, and a thousand voices
begun to nsk. jfWhen* lire wfc goitt" to
now? Whenggre we floating to 4 * Wo
will all breax !*'* fTv thistime
the icebergs had reached the Gulf
Stream, and tliev were melted ill the
bosom of the Atlantic Ocean. The
warm sun is the Eternal Spirit. The
icebergs arc frigid Christians. The
warm Gulf Stream is a great revival.
The ocean, into which everything melt
ed. is the groat, wide heart of the par
doning and sympathizing God.
But I think after all the greatest ob
stacle to revivals throughout Christen
dom to-day is an unconverted ministry.
We must believe that the vast, majority
of those who officiate at sacred altars
are regenerated ; hut I suppose, there
may float into the, ministry of all the
denominations of Christians men whose
hearts have never been changed by the
grace of God. Of course they arc all
antagonistic to revivals. How did they
get into the ministry ? Perhaps some of
them chose it as a respectable profession.
Perhaps some chose it. as a means of
a livelihood. Perhaps some of then
were sincere hut were mistaken —as
Thomas Chalmers said he had been
many years preaching the gospel before
his heart had been changed, and as
many ministers of the gospel declare
they were preaching and had been or
dained to sacred orders year? and years
before tbeir hearts were regenerated.
Gracious God, what a solemn thought
fur those of us who minister at the al
tar! With the present ministry in the
present temperature of piety this land
will never he enveloped with revivals.
While the pews on one side the altar
cry for mercy, the pulpits on the other
side the altar mint erv for inerev. Min
isters quarrelling. Ministers trying to
pull each other down. Ministers strug
gling for ecclesiastical place. Ministers
lethargic with whole congregations dy
ing on their hands. What a spectacle !
Aroused pulpits will makearoused pews.
Pulpits aflame will make pews aflame.
Everybody believes in a revival in trade
—everybody likes a revival in litera
ture; everybody likes a revival in art.
yet a great multitude cannot understand
a revival in matters of religion. De
pend upon it, where you find a man an
tagonistic to revivals, whether he be in
pulpit or pew, be needs to be regenerat
ed by the grace of God. I could prove
to a demonstration that without revivals
this world will never he converted, and
that in a hundred years without revivals
Christianity will be practically extinct!
It is a matter of astounding arithmetic.
Tn each of our modem generations there
are at least thirtv-two million children.
Now add thirty-two million to the
world’s population, and then have only
one or two hundred thousand convert
ed every year, and how long before the
world will he saved? Never, absolutely
never. Your common seuse will tell
you that as long as more are born into
the world than are born unto God, the
world’s redemption will never come.
Yet it is to come, and how is it to come?
I Through revivals. In time of war re
-1 cruitingstations are established. Flute
and drum are sounded, flags are run up
I and the more people who come and cn-
Devoted to Hart County.
list the better you like it It is war
now. Heaven on one side, hell on the
other. The church of GuAN merely a
recruiting station, and the greater (In'
multitudes who press in the better we
ought to be pleased. During our War
the President of the United states made
proclamation for twenty-five thoUsnnd
troops. Some of you remember the big
stir. But the King of the Universe tm
day asks for eight hundred million more
troops than are. enlisted, and we want it
done softly, imperceptibly, gently, no
excitement, one by one. You area dry
goods merchant on a large wale ami I
am a merchant on n small scale, and I
come to you and want to buy n thous
and yards r of cloth. Do you say, “ I
thank you; I’ll sell you a thousand
yards i' cloth, hut I'll sell you twenty
yards to-day, and twenty yards to-mor
row, aud twenty yards the next day, and
if it takes me six months, I'll sell you
that whole thousand yards; you will
want as long as that to examine the
goods, and I want as long as that to ex
amine the credit, and besides that a
thousand yards of cloth are too much
to sell at Mice?” No, you do unt say
that. You take me into the counting
room and in ten minutes the whole
transaction is consummated. The fact
is, we caibiut he fools about npyth'ing
but religion ! That very iiiprchant who
on Saturday afternoon sold me the thous
and yards of doth at one stroke, the
next Sablihth fu church will stroke his
heard ami wonder whether it would not
be better for a thousand souls to come
struggling along for ten years instead of
bolting in at one service. We talk a
.good deal about the good times that are
coming and about the world’s redemp
tion. How long before they will come?
There is a mail who saw live hundred
years. lime is a man who says two
hundred years. Here is someone more
confident, who.-says in fifty years. What!
fifty years? Do you propose to let two
generations pass off the stage before the
world is converted? Suppose by some
extra prolongation of hum up life, at the
end of the next fitly years you shall
walk from Fulton Ferry to South Bush
wick, and from Hunter’s Point to Gow
anus, and from the Battery, New York
to Central Park: in all those walks
you woyD, .got find pue person that you
recognized. tVnyr ATT dead, or so
changed that you would not know them.
In other words, if you postpone the re
demption of tlie world for fifty years you
admit that the majority of the two whole
generations shall go off’ the stage un
blessed and unsaved. I tell you the
church of Jesus Christ cannot submit
to it. We must pray and toil, and have,
the revival spirit,, and we must struggle
to have the whole world saved before the
men und women now in middle life de
part. “Ob 1” von sav, “it is too vast
an enterprise to beconducted in so short
a time.” Do you know how long it
would take to save the world if each
man would bring another? It would
take ten years. By a calculation in
compound interest, each man bringing
another, and that one another, aud that
one another, in ten years the world
would be saved—lß9o! Before this
organ is worn out it ought to sound the
grand inarch of the whole earth saved.
If the world is not saved in the n.exttcn
years it wilTbe the fault of the church
of Christ. Is it too much 4 tg expect
each one to bring-one? ttonmlof us
must bring more than one, for some will
not do their dply. I wqgit to biffig ten
thousand soul?'. Fsnnulaoo ashamed to
meet my God in judgment if, u'th all
my opportunities of commending Cli.ist
to the people, I did not bring ten thous
and souls. But it will depend upon the
revival spirit. The hook-and-line fish
ing will not doit, catching one here aud
another there. It will lx: by a great net
like that which was swung through the
lake of Gallilee till the net brake.
It seems to me as if God is preparing
the world for some quick and universal
movement. A celebrated electrician
gave me a telegraph chart of the world.
On that chart the wires crossing the con
tinents and the cables under the sea
looked like veins red with blood. On
that map I see that the headquarters of
the lightnings are in Great. Britain and
the United States. In London and New
York the lightnings are stabled, waiting
to he harnessed for some qui. k dispatch.
That shows you that the telegraph is in
the possession of Christianity. It is a
significant fact that the mail who invent
ed the telegraph was an old-fashioned
Christian —Professor Morse —and the
man who put the telegraph under the
sea was an old-fashioned Christian—
Cyrus \V. Field—and that the president
of the most famous telegraph c inpanies
of this country was an old-fashioned
Christian —William Orton—going from
the communion table on earth straight
to live home in heaven. What does all
that mean? I do not suppose that the
telegraph was* invented merely to let
us know whether flour is up or down, or
which (illy won the race at Derby, or
which marksman beat at Dollymouut.
I suppose the telegraph was invented
and built to call the world to God. In
some of the attributes of the Lord wt
seem to show on a small scale. For in
stauce in His loyc and Ilis kinduess
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But until of late foreknowledge, omnia
eionof, omnipresence, omnipotence, seem
ed to have I wen exclusively God's pos
session. God, deairing to mnk tin 1 rape
like Himself, gives us a species of fore
knowledge ill the weather probabilities,
gives ua a speeies of omniscience in tel
egraphy, giwe us a species of omni
presence in the telephone, gives us a s|ie
uies of omnipotence in the steam power.
Discoveries ami inventions all hbout us,
people are asking, what next? Wlmt.
next! I will tell you what next. Next
a stupendous religious movement. Next
the end of war. Next, the crash of des
potisms. Next, tin* world's expurga
tion. Next, the ('bristly domain. Next,
the judgment. What becomes of the
world a flier that I rare not. It will
have suffered and achieved enough for
one world. Lay if up in the dry docks of
eternity like an old man-of-war gone
out of service. Or, fit it tip like a Con
stellotion to entry bread of relief to
some other suffering planet. Or, let it
he demolished. Farewell dear old world
that began with Paradise and ended
w ith judgment conflagration.
Last summer I stood on the Die of
Wight, and had pointed out to me the
place where the Eiirviliuemink with two
or three hundred voting men who were
training for the British navy. You re
member when that training ship went
down there was n thrill of horror all
over iho world. Within the past few
weeks there is another training slop mis
sing:—the Atlanta gone down, we fear,
with all on hpard. By order.* of her
Majesty, Government vessels aro now
cruising up and down the Atlantic, try
ing to find that lost training-ship in
.aidcli there, were so many young men
preparing for thu British navy. Alas!
for tlfe lost Atlanta. Oh, my friends,
this world is only a training-ship On
it we are training for heaven. The old
ship sails up find down the ofeoan'of im
mensity, now through the dark wave of
the midnight, now tlirobgli the golden
crested wave of the morn, but sails on
and sails dn. After a while her work
will bo done, and the inhabitants of liele
ven will look out and find a world mis
sing. The erv will bo, ” Where is that
earth where Christ tailed and the hu
man race were-emancipated? Send out
fleets of angels to find the missing craft.”
Let them urnise up nod down thu out-au
jof eternity and they will see noth
! ing of her mountain musts or her topgal
lants of floating cloud. Gone down!
The training-ship of the world perished
in the last tornado. Oh ! let it not be
that she goes down with all on hoard,
but rather may it he said of her pas
sengers, ns it was said of the drenched
passengers of the Alexandrian corn-ship
that crashed into the breakers of Meli
tn, “They all escaped safe to land.”
The Iron-Hearted Lover.
In a big crowd of excursionists sit
ting on the City Hall, Chicago, steps
for a rest, the other dav, was a young
man of excellent length of legs, and a
girl with sixteen auburn curls hanging
down around her head. They had
scarcely settled themselves and locked
fingers when she cautiously observed :
“ I s’pose they have soda-water in
this town?”
“ I s’pose,” he replied, “but the last
thing afore we starter! I promised your
mother not, to let you drink any soda
water. It’s the worst filing in the
world to bring on consumption.”
“She was quiet for a moment,and
then, pointing to the left, remarked :
“ I see that Sarah is eating peanuts.
S’pose they,have peanuts in this town.”
“ Wall, yes; but your mother cau
tioned me the last t hing not to buy any
peanuts for von. The shucks arc apt
to git into your windpipe. The Queen
of Holland was choked to death in that
way.”
Pretty soon a man came along with
some fruit, and the young woman felt
obliged to say:
“ Them apples and pears look awful
nice.”
“Yes, they do,” replied the prudent
lover, “but I promised yotir mother at
the depot, not to buv any fruit for you.
Them apples look nice, but if you git
the toothache started on you, then the
whole evening is busted.”
The young man had just commenced
to take comfort again, when she inno
cently remarked :
“ When I came up here last summer
with Jim he bought me uiore’n two
pounds of candy.”
“ Yes, and what was the resn’t?” he
demanded. “ Yon fell down the cellar
that very week, and didn’t Jim have to
light out last winter for bustin’ in the
school-house door?”
She had got down to water, and with
considerable sarcasm in her voice she
inquired :
“ I can have a drink of water can’t I?
Mother didn’t say anything against
that did she?”
“ Wall, no, not exactly,” he slowly
replied : “ but she gin me an appealing
look as the cars moved off—same as U
say that it ought to be kind o’ warmisl
water, if any! You sot here and IT
borrow a dipper somew here.”
She “sot,” and it was all of an lion
and a half before he again succeeded ii
getting his arm around her.
•* COONSKIN."
Urtrvi’ Krn I’rtua
X pas-sunger train whudi lull lama*
ing, coming east, hist Monday, had
among. Jthe passengers a plain-faced,
sensible-looking girl about twenty year*
of #go, and a Udu-waiflted, siykJj -loqk
ing'iniing mat) a year or two.older.
No one would have mistrusted that
they ivory clopUig hiuj not thy young
man asked the conductor if there was
a clergyman the train. Thfcrd was
none, and the young man explained to
the passengers around him that he was
in a bud fix. lie had come down from
Until Township in a buggy, and he was
ijutt.o sure that,the girl's fatjier would
take the other road down to Chicago
Junction, and there board the Lansing
train and raise a row. lie was nut
much on a row, hut jet lie loved the
girl, and they were bound to marry.
If the old man conic alone lie thought
he could blntf him otr, but if Ids two
big son* crime along the scale wiadd b<*’
turned. He therefore wanted to know
of a man wearing a red woo leu shirt
and ononsfcin cap if he would stujid by
him.
•• You bet. I will 1" was the hearty re
sponse. “ I got my old gal by running
away with, her, and I’ll see you through
this if f never do any more good ! You
wouldn't he worth a cent in a free fight,
and now you go into the baggage car
and let me run this affair alone. I want
to be seated beside the ga! when the
old man comes in."
When the whistle blew for the Junc
tion', Coonskin changed places, and as
the cars halted he pot Ids artn tVohnd
Mnry and took one of her hands in Ids.
The old man and his two sons were on
hand, and they (died into the car pell
mell.
“ Here she is!” called the father, as
lie caught sight of the girl, and the
three made a rush.
“ Hun away with my— 1” began
the old man, but when lie saw tlid
st ranger beside her he checked himself.
“ Want anything of us ?” asked
Coonskin xs Ik* looked up.
•* Who are yon, sir ?’’
" I id going to lie your aou-iu-iaw in
less than hour ‘-eh ! darling ?”
He gave Mary a squeeze and Marv
looked happy.
‘‘Come along, Mary---coiue right
home with me !” ordered the fat her,
“ Let’s tnash the villain!” added one
of the sons.
“ But a head on him—let me get at
him shouted the other.
The father seized Mary and the sons
seized Coonskin. Then a red shirt
towered alofi , a pair of big fists began
working with a “ pop !” “ pop !” and as
fast as the trio got up they made for
the door. Coonskin followed, arms
and feet working like a trip-hammer;
and when the train moved off the father
sat on a’bo* with a big woolen mitten
held to his nose, one of the sous was
pulling loose teeth from his jaw, and
the other boy was groping his wav to a
snow-bank,
“ Now, then,” said Coonskin, as the
exultant lover returned, “ resume yer
seat, take her little hand in yours, ami
don’t calkerlate you owe me anything.”
“Say, Tom," said the girl, ” I'm
going to kiss him for that!”
“ All right, sis."
“ Wall, just as you feel,” said Coon
skin, as lie returned the smack, “ but I
want it. distinctly understood around
these parts, that when I see true love
on its wav from Lansing to Ilowell to
get, spliced I kin lick all the pursuing
dads in the State of Michigan !”
“Old Dominion.”
This term, which is so expressive and
significant to every Virginian, is said
to have had its origin as follows: Du
ring the protectorate of Cromwell, the
colony of Virginia refused to acknowl
edge his authority, and declared itself
independent. Shortly after, when
Cromwell threatened to send a fleet,
and army to reduce Virginia to subjec
tion, the Virginians sent a messenger
to (diaries 11., who was then an exile
in Flanders, inviting him to return on
the ship with the messenger, and bo
King of Virginia. Charles accepted
the invitation, and was on the eve of
embarkSng when he was called to the
throne of England. As soon as he was
fairly seated on the throne in gratitude
for and recognition of the loyalty of
Virginia, he caused her coat-of-arius to
lie quartered with those of England,
Scotland and Ireland, as an independ
ent member of the empire, a distant
portion of the Old Dominion. Ilencc
arose the origin of the term. Copper
coins of Virginia were issued even as
late as the reign of George 11., which
have on one side the coat-of-arins of
England, Ireland, Scotland and Vir
ginia.
Always know the exact meaning of
every word you use in conversation.
No woman was ever known io marry
a man whose first remark upon being
Introduced to her was about the weather.
An ordinary woman’s waist is thirty
inches around. An ordinary man’s
arm is about thirty inches long. How
admirable are thy works, Oh, Nature !
The first book published in America
was printed in the city of Mexico, De
cember 13th, 1640, and was used by
the Spanish pries s as an aid in con
verting the natives.
Rub a little oil or butter on burns
and cover with soda. This is for slight
burns, which many are always getting
in the kitchen. If the air is kept from
burns and cuts, they will heal rapidly,
for this reason burns are often covered
with glue.