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THE HOME COMINQ.
We must get home—for we haze been
away
So long it seems forever and a d:ty!
And, u, so very homesick we have grown.
The laughter of tlx world is like a moan
In our tired hearing, apd its songs as
vain,—
We must get home —we must get home
again.'
We must get home: It hurts so, staying
here,
Where fond hearts must be wept out
tear by tear.
And where to wear wt lashes means, at
best,
When most our lack, the least our hope
of rest —
When most our need of joy, the more our
pain— .
We must get home —vvu must get home
again!
We must get home: All is so quiet there:
The touch of loving hands on brow and
hair— ,
Dim rooms, wheren the sunshine is m io •
mild— » . ...
The lost love of the mother anu the
child
Restored In restful lullabies of rain.-
We must get home —we must get home
again!
We must get home, where, as we nod and
drowse, , .
Time humors us and tiptoes through the
house, . . „
And loves us best when sleeping baoy
wise, ,
With dreams, —not tear-drops—brimming
our clenched eves—
Pure dreams that know not ta.nt n)r
earthly stain —
We must got home —we must get home
again! . , _
We must got home: and, unremembering
there
All gain of all ambitions otherwhere.
Rest —from the feverish victory, and the
crown ,
Of conquest whose waste glory weighs us
down — ,
Fame's fairest gifts we toss ba< k wi..i
disdain —
We must get home—we must get home
again! , ....
—James Whitcomb Riley.
POVERTY SHORE
COURTSHIPS.
Course of True Love Smooth and
Expenses Down to a
Hinimum.
“When I was a boy,” said Wildcat
Perkins,-"nobody along Poverty Shore
ever heard ot' this new disease they
call race suicide. Instead of having 10
wait to let a g'irl chase him down and
get him in a corner and compel him to
marry, every young man used to go
hunting for ihe girls as much as the
girls hunted the men, and the result
was that almost everybody got mar
ried right away and went coasting or
raised farm crops to help in making a
H v j n n
“'‘Ufa, —=
"The reason why so many young
men got married when I was young
was *that it did not cost more than a
chap was worth to go courting. If
he had a good pair of boots, a white
shirty and a clean worsted comforter a
young man could court a nice girl all
winter at a cost of not more than -3
cents a week.
"I’ll tell you how 'twas doue —that
is, how I used to do, and I’ve been mar
ried three times, and ought to know.
"The old man, for that is what we
called the girl's father, used to pro
vide most everything needed in the
courting line in those old days. He
furnished the front parlor and the ker
osene lamp and the open fireplace and
he sawed and split the wood that was
burned in the fireplace all through the
courtship. And he furnished the girl.
"The fellow used to drop around af
ter milking on Sunday evenings, and
after he had taken supper with the
family and talked for a time with tho
old man about the price of cordwood
and the prospects for a heavy run of
salmon the next spring the girl would
light the parlor fire and call him in to
help her eat apples and look over the
family photograph album, inside of
which were the pictures of all the fel
lows she had entertained since she was
14.
"Naturally Sunday evening was the
regular time set aside for courting pur
poses, but after the young man had
become acquainted and got the run of
the house there used to be meetings
called for special purposes two or three
times a week. As a rule the youjig
couples did not sit up so long at tin
informal meetings as they did at the
Sunday sessions, though sente of them
held until after midnight.
"All the young man had to do was to
sit back on the sofa and eat the old
man’s apples and warm himself by the
old man’s wood and let his money ac
cumulate until he had enough to start
housekeeping. There were no theatre
parties or Welch rabbits cooked in
chafing dishes, or boxes of chocolates
in those days to keep his mind away
from the business in hand and steal
away all the change he could earn.
The old man gave a continuous free
blow out from the time the girl asked
her first beau into the house until
they went to call on the minister, after
which no favors were shown on ac-'
count of kinship.
“As I recall the events now I think
the chief expense I went to in 4 win
ter's courting at any time was buying
popcorn to carry to the girl. When I
had greased my boots and combed my
hair iu a Boston twist with a long
parting down the back of my head. I
dropped into the grocery story am!
bought three ears of lady finger pop
corn for five cents and put them in
my coat pocket and went to call.
“And she was just as glad to see me
and smiled so sweetly when 1 came in
ai the front door stamping the snow
from my boots and carrying those
1 three cars of corn in my pocket as she
would have been if I had arrived with
two colored waiters bringing hot birds
and cold bottles. It was my opinion
that the work of popping the corn did
more in bringing two fond hearts to
gether than anything else which took
place during the courting.
The fireslace had to be filled up
with the best hardwood, and this had
to burn down to great glowing heaps
o? coals before the shelled corn could
be put in the popper. And then while
•he girl was agitating the wire popper
over the ceals, an i the firelight was
shining on cue siu3 of her face into
her eyes, and the young man was shell
ing more corn for the next filling, the
corn would begin to pop—first a little
snap here and another there, ahd then
the discharge of a whole battery of
white cornflakes all at once, followed
by the mu filed sound of a general erup
tion inside the popper', by which time
the job was finished and the corn was
ready for fine salt and the butter.
“No matter how dignified a young
mm may try to be, he can’t keep it up
if he is popping corn with a nice girl
above a hot fire in a room where they
two are the only spectators. I am not
given to digging into the reason of
things; but no natural young man can
pop corn with a nice girl all winter
without popping the question.
“It is the cheapness as well as the
simplicity of the custom which appeals
strongest to men who are naturally
economical. In looking over my ac
•ounts I find that it cost me just G. r *
cents to court my first wife during
ihe winter previous to our marriage at
Easter.
"My second wife cost more, but this
wa ■ due to the fact that she had a
younger sister who v. as unmarried, and
who used to butt in when she smelled
the scorched popcorn. I did not court
my third wife with popcorn, because
she had lost her teeth and could not
bite the hard kernels while she was
waiting for the dentist to finish her
new set; but we got along very nicely
by treating ourselves on roast apples
and milk, which were not at all ex
pensive. seeing that the old man furn
ished the raw material.
“I’ll bet a gallon of hard cider to a
new axe handle that if I were a widow
er now and should start in courting by
the old popcorn method I could marry
the best girl in the neighborhood in
side of six months. —New York Sun.
UNDERGROUND BANQUET.
How the Founding of the Leadville
Mining Camp Was Celebrated.
“On the first day of the present
month I was a guest at one of the
most remarkable dinners ever given,
“remarked Judge A. \V. Rucker, the
brand now Congressman from Den
ver.
“This banquet was held 1,000 feet
below the surface of the earth in the
chamber of a mine on the outskirts
of Leadville. The chamber, which
had been transformed into a magni
ficent dining room, was about 40
feet wide by 70 feet long and had a
lofty roof. A kitchen had been im
provised and a clever chief got up
a dinner for 300 people that none of
the swell hotels of New York would
have repudiated. The guests were
nearly all ‘seventy-niners,’ that is to
sav, pioneers in the old days of 1789,
when Leadville’s fame as a greater
producer of the precious metals at
tracted the attention of the world.
“The feast was given in commemo
ration of the birth of the mining
camp, and those who made merry
were the adventurous souls who fig
ured then.
“On the day of the function we
rode to the mouth of the tnnnel,
where we made our descent into the
bowels of the earth through a fierce
blizzard, one of the worst I ever saw
in the West. Getting in the big cage
that took us down the shaft to this
queer banquet hall far below Lead
ville and the surrounding towns, we
landed in a brilliantly lighted room
that was as inviting and serene as a
tropical isle. The contrast between
it and the storm through which the
party had come was curious in the
extreme, bnt it added greatly to the
joyousness of the occasion.”—Balti
more American.
Man to Be Envied.
“I can’t understand my husband,
doctor. I am afraid there is some
thing terrible the matter with him.”
"What are the symptoms?”
"Well, I often talk to him for half
an hour at a time and when I get
through he hasn’t the least idea of
what I’ve been saying.”
"Don’t worry any more about your
husband. I wish I had his gift.’’—
Stray Stories.
Cruel to Hubby.
“What’s that you are so busy writ
ing? Y'ou’re regularly perspiring over
it.”
“My wife is giving an address on
‘Woman’s Rights’ tomorrow', and I
am preparing it for her.” —Lustige
Blaetter.
THE PULPIT.
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON DY
THE REV. R. W, M’LAUGHLIN.
Tlicmc: Truth, Service, Action.
Brooklyn. N. Y. —In the Clinton
Avenue Congregational Church the
preacher, Sunday morning, was the
Rev. R. W. McLaughlin, of Grand
Rapids, Mich. His subject was:
“Truth, Service and Action.” Among
other things he said:
It is said that the masterpieces of
literature are rarely, if ever, t'qe pure
creation of literary skill, but are us
ually suggest’d by some well nigh
forgotten and seemingly incidental
event of the past. It is also said that
in the writing of such literature four
factors are essential, namely: Time,
location, characters and sequence of
events. And these four conditions of
literature are found in this historic
statement of fact as recorded in the
sixteenth chapter of Acts. It is a
seemingly unimportant statement,
containing ten names, whose only
significance is in what once was or
may have been, rather than in what
now is. And the four factors are
here.
Location—the Phrygian region and
the shore line of two continents, at
points marked on map as Troas and
Philippi. Time—the middle of the
first century, while Caesar is still on
the throne and the empire .rules the
world. Characters -An unnamed
man, a devout woman, a ventriloquist
maiden, a group of selfish traders, a
male magistrate, a frightened jailor
and Saul of Tarsus. Sequence of
events —to show relation of Phrygia
to Troas and Troas to Philippi, which
relation reveals the power of truth as
it gains possession of one life and
through that life disturbs and trans
forms the world.
And in the writing of the story
based on these well night forgotten
names, there might be three chap
ters: Phrygia, or loyalty to the
truth. The narrative states that Paul,
starting forth on his* second mission
ary journey, desires to enter the rich
qnd populous province of Asia, but is
.forbidden by the Holy Spirit. Mov
ing forward, he comes to the strange
province of Bethynia. and is again
forbidden to enter by the Spirit of
Jesus. And so hedged to the south
ward and northward, he journeys
westward until he reaches the shore
line of the Mediterranean at Troas.
And this historic statement of fact,
with Paul as the commanding person
ally, suggests mystery enough for
the greatest story. What does it
mean? A man, apparently as free as
the wind blowing over the Phrygian
highlands, yet not free. It certainly
means that here is a man not free.
He hears a voice, though he cannot
see the form of the one speaking,
even as a bird’s song is heard, though
it is unseen because hidden by the
foliage. And this voice is for him the
voice of truth. It is called in one
verse the Holy Spirit, and in another
verse the Spirit of Jesus, but by what
ever, name called, it means only one
thing, and that is the truth of God
reaching for his inner life. And as
the truth of God it is authoritative.
And more than this, it is final; au
thority for truth is always final to
the honest man. And as final author
itative truth it has power to send him
out over the highways of the Roman
Empire with sublime abandon. And
this is chapter one in every earnest
life—allegiance to the truth. A will
ingness to follow the truth wherever
it may lead. It may close Asia and
Bethynia and drive one on to Troas,
but not until a man is willing to say
It fortifies my soul
To know that whether I perish,
Truth is so—
Is he able to write chapter one in the
Book of Life.
Troas—a vision of service. As is
true of every good story, chapter two
begins where chapter one ends. Paul
enters Troas, meets an unnamed man,
has a vision in the night, in which
he sees on the distant shores of
Europe a person pleading for help. It
would be interesting were it possible
to interpret the feelings of this man
as he enters Troas. Its picturesque—
ness, located on a bluff overlooking
the Aegean Sea, across whose blue
gleam could be seen in vague outline
the shore of Europe, and its com
merce. The tangled spars at the
docks, and the heavily Indexed, gaunt
camels in the streets, and J.s historic
reminders. Not far away the tomb
of Achilles and the marble throne of
Xerxes, and the remainder r.f Homer’s
genius in “the ringing plains of windy
Troy.” But of more interest still, the
people crowding the streets. And out
of the crowd there comes one to enter
the circle of Paul’s friendship. Is it
too much to think of the two men
sitting on the bluff during the hours
of the day and conversing about the
deep things in life? But the con
versation ends as darkness comes
down upon the earth. The men sep
arate, and Paul, reaching his lodg
ings, is soon lost in slumbew. And in
his sleep he dreams, and sees the
friend of the afternoon, noy standing
yonder in Macedonia, an-} pleading
with him to help. And is chap
ter two in every earnest lLe.
Allegiance to truth iv. Phrygia
leads to a vision of service in Troas.
For truth is more than an abstract
idea, or a major and minor premise in
a cold syllogism. Truth is a gleam,
a suggestion, an illumination. It
fires the intellect and kindles the im
agination.
Philippi—region of action. In
Philippi Paul finds Lystra and her
household. Soon he meets a ventril
oquist maiden owned by a group of
selfish traders, denounces their busi
ness; is seized, beaten, thrown into
; jail. In the night he sings and prays.
And then follows the story of the con
version of the jailor and Paul's free
dom the next morning.
mt
Sunbati-^cfTopf
INTERNATIONAL BESSON COM
MENTS rOR JULY P 3.
Subject: Paul’s Second Missionary
Journey—Athens, Acts 17:16-34
—Golden Text: John 4:24
Commit Verse 20—-Commentary.
TIME.—A. D. 52. PLACE.—
Athens, Mars Hill.
EXPOSITION—B The Uni inown
flod Made Known, 22-29. Paul had
improved such opportunities of
preaching the Gospel as were open to
him—the synagogue and the market
place (v. 17) —and now he is brought
before this celebrated gathering of
philosophers and university profes
sors of Athens. He has no new Gos
: pel for this distinguished throng,.but
! with divinely given tact he introduces
| it in a new way (vs. 24, 25, 28). Paul
i begins with what aonears like words
I 'of approval, not with words of criti
cism. (See Am. R. V.). He would
win the favor and attention of his au
dience before calling them to repent.
People will listen patiently to the
sharpest rebukes and sternest calls to
repentance if you first win their confi
dence and favor by words of kindness
and praise. “To an unknown God.”
There is something very pathetic and
touching in this. There are many to
day who are reaching out blindly to
ward a God of whose existence they
have a vague apprehension, but of
whose name, character and person
they have little clear knowledge. But
there is no need that God be unknown
(Jno. 1:18; 1 Jno. 5:20; Jno. 14:9:
2 Cor. 4:6). It is of the highest im
portance that we know God (Jno. 17:
2). It is our own fault ff we do not
know Him (Rom. 1:20-22. 28; 2 Cor.
4:4). It was an apt stroke upon
Paul’s part to begin with this well
known object in their own streets,
and thus to lead on to the great truths
with which his soul was filled. “God
that made the world and all things
therein,” etc. Paul would carry with
him the nhilosophers in his audience,
and at the same time bring in new
and higher thoughts about God, and
step by sten lead them face to face
with God Himself, and make them
feel their personal responsibility tq
Him. He would lead them to see that
God not a mere philosophical
conception, but a person against
whom they had sinned, and who was
now calling, “Repent:*’ The very life
we live, the breath we breathe, abso
lutely all we have, is His gift. Every
thing thus given should be used for
Him. Wesliould draw every breath for
Him. “He made of one every nation
of men,” Do we believe this? Do we
really believe it? Do we believe in
our kinship to the negro, the China
man, the Hindoo? “That they should
seek God.” This was God’s great and
gracious purpose in the making of the
nations and appointing their seasons,
and the bounds of their habitation.
How little the nations have fallen in
with this benevolent purpose of God
(Rom. 1:28). It is of the highest, im
portance to men that they should seek
God (Amos 5:4, 6; Ezr. 8:22; Prov.
28:5: 2 Chron. 26:5; Ps. 34:4, 10;
Ps. 69:32; 1 Chron. 16:10; Lam. 3:
25; Heb. 11:6; Ps. 119:2). He is
not difficult to find for those who seek
Him with the whole heart (.Ter. 29:
13). “He is not far from every one
of us.” How absolute is our depend
ence upon God. No life, no motion,
no existence outside of Him. This
being so, there can be no peace in our
souls until our wills are absolutely
surrendered to Him and our affections
absolutely centred in Him. Paul ao
proves the sentiment of Greek
poet. Aratus. But while all men are
God’s offspring, they are not all truly
children (Jno. 8:44. 47: 1 Jno. 3:10;
Matt. 13:38; Gal. 4:4-6; Heb. 12:8;
Eoh. 2:3). Those only are children
of God who receive Jesus Christ (Jno.
1:12. R. V.). Those who are led by
His Spirit are sons of God (Rom. 8:
14: Gal. 3:26, R. V.).
11. God's Command to All Men
Everywhere, Repent. 30-34. Paul is
now reaching the point toward which
all this time he has been so skilfully
steering. It was an unexpected cli
max to these theorizers. Many of
them had been delighted with the
sublimity of Paul’s conceptions, with
the deftness of his logic, with the apt
ness of his quotation. They were all
ears: their guard was down: and he
struck a stunning bltrw just at the
right moment. God’s one call is “re
pent” (comp. ch. 2:38; 3:19; 20:21;
26:20; Matt. 3:2: 4:17; Luke L3:5;
15:30; 24:47). This was God’s one
cry also, through Old Testament pro
phets, “turn ye.” This same cry
needs to ring out to-day. Men are an
apostate race. Notice whom God
commands to repent, “all men every
where.” Notice when He commands
it, “Now.” Notice why, “Because He
hath appointed a day in which He will
judge ths world.” etc. There is a
judgment coming. People mock at
this truth to-day, but God has given
assurance of it unto all men by the
resurrection of Christ from the dead.
It is impossible for any candid seeker
after truth to examine the evidence
for the resurrection of Christ without,
being satisfied that Jesus really did
arise as recorded in the Gospels. But
the resurrection of Christ Jesus in the
past points with unerring finger to a
judgment by Christ Jesus in the fut
ure. “When they heard of the resur
rection of the dead some mocked.” A
very common way of trying to dis
pose of unpalatable truth. But it
never works, and truth is never any
the less true because yon sneer at it.
Many are trying to modernize a
Christianity that has never changed
and is as unchangeable as the ever
lasting hills.
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Have you ever noticed how many
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about everything they possess, even
to '.heir ancestors, who are not a bit
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