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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, TUESDAY. MARCH 25.1884- TWELVE PAGES.
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OUR STORY CORNER.
SEALED UNTO HIM
A STORY
EARLY DAYS OF MORMONM
By JOAQUIN MILLER.
AUTHOR Of ???aOHOS Of THE tllBBAS,??? ???TUB
DAB IT If,??? ???NF.MOB1Z AND BIMZ,??? ZTO.
cHAPrER in.
A LOST WOMAB.
As day began to blossom dimly on tha
peaks, as if they were mighty flowers in a
garden kissing heaven, we came to another
little willow-lined stream, crossed it and
silently drew the wagons in a little circle in
the shelter of the large ' leaning willows and
nnyoked the patient and weary catt.c.
It bad been nearly dark a long time. The
darkest hour which always precedes day had
covered all things for the lost few miles. If
wasonlybytheaid of the friendly Indian,
who led tbeoxen at the head of the advance
team, that wo had been able te find our way
to this camp. Tbe women and children of
course were asleep in the wagons. The men
plodded along patiently and kept very still.
The long, black, haunting box that had
crept down from out the long, strong grass
and had drawn on and over the white shore
of ralt, following stealthily, silently, certain
ly as a shadow, had not been seen for hours.
And even then it was far in the rear. The
???alt and the sand were heavy and deep. The
man at last, even giant as be was, must have
had bard work to move bis barrow here.
Surely he bad broken down, sickened maybe
???"died, let us hope," whispered one to an
other of tbe terrified little band as they un
yoked the tired cattle and tamed them ui
the banks of the willow stream, watQhei
them and kept them close to tbe willows so
that they might not be seen by the Danites.
The members of the little party, as light
descended upon the dark waters,found them-
selvs still close to the banks of tbe glittering
lake. They bad traveled in a sort of crescent
around an arm on the north end of the sea.
The camp was a pleasant one. The little
island with tbe three trees was not so very
far away. It lay almost between this camp
and the one they had left tbe night before.
Tbe solitary rock, with its horrid association
of a dead body in chains, waa suggestively
near???too near. No one spoke of this as the
light came down and revealed it. Yet all
thought of it. Tbe willows broadened and
the valley widened up this little ilvulet and
the grass was rank and abundant. Quail
were heard here piping in the dewy grass. A
flock of prairie hens flew overhead and set
tled down within near gunshot. But no man
thought of raising his gun. The report would
possibly bring the unwelcome guest, the
ghostly shadow, whom all were hoping, as
they prepured their breakfast, keeping the
smoke subdned, hud gone down in the sea of
salt.
One of the men who were watching the
cattle declared that he saw a wild creature in
the willows. Suddenly, and before it wsa
quite yet dawn, Nettie Lane, now a terrified
and half naked woman, crept into camp.
What a sigbtl Woods were not abundant
here. These willows were the only kind of
protection in which any fugitive might And
???heller the whole region around, And here
she had beon hiding, living ou berries, sleep
ing in the willows, in the tall grass, waiting,
praying for some ono to come that way with
whom she could trust her life and that which
is more than life to woman.
No need of questions or of answers now.
The dead body and its companions in chains
down by the black rock which rose from the
lake by the little island, how silently told
the whole terrible story. The two mute and
sullen Danites that had galloped past spoke
to the man by the coflln and disappeared;
the silent men that followed and searched
and searched the rank grass and willows, and
looked in every direction for eomo one, need
not open their lips now. All understood the
whole terrible tale.
???They had been judged, and were not.???
The tragedy bad taken place, or rather the
murders had been committed, on thla very
stream and not far from this very spot, as
some blood aiains a little way up tne stream
still bore testimony.
Everything, of coarse, of vslne had been
taken; ???they had bean judged and were not.???
??? r waa confiscated to the church.
Their property waa confiscated to tbe church.
How the girl had escaped she hardly knew
herself. And indeed no one asked directly.
You do not understand ?
Well, when you reflect that no one could
trust his neighbor, yon will comprehend why
no one apolto above a whisper now; and you
will not he surprised that she waa not pressed
to tell her tale. Words are not the moat elo
quent things to tell a story with any wsy.
Even the children hnddied together in groups
as they crept out of the wagons, and under
stood, and were silent as Indians.
The girl sat down by the water, well con
cealed. and ate some bread. Then after a
while, with the help of some pitying women,
she combed out her long splendid black hair
and tied It up with a riboon. She waa even
then strangely beautiful.
The men kept looking np and down the
stream as if naif expecting the Danites to
dash in upon them from almost any quarter
at almost any moment. A steephigb hill rose
abruptly before us. To move on with the girl
and so escape by sudden flight before discover
ed???this was a doubtful experiment, and yet
some wanted to try it at all hazards. It seem
ed that if wo contd climb that ridge that rose
steeply before us, and drive straight amt
steadily ubead till we came to Green river,
we might escape. Anyway we were too terrified
to remain here. Things were packed up, the
weary oxen again yoked, and all was ready
for an advance.
???Una thing to our advantage, the old spy is
off tbe track anyhow,??? said a woman to her
husband aaahe handed him his ox-whip.
The man looked at her, crooked bin thumb
just a little down the stream toward the lake,
and said nothing. Tbero sat the singular
man composedly by tbe side of hia coflln,
quietly reading a book as usual, and munch
ing a morsel of dry bread.
Just when he had come no one knew. Per
haps he had passed the little party in the
night by a shorter path, known only to him
self and his Danites.
However, it was all important that no one
should seem alarmed at bis presence; and
then what else could be done? All was now
ready for moving on. We could not atop
now without showing fear. At the last mo
ment the girl, between two women, and quite
concealed by their shaw is, crept into a wagon
with a party of children. Tne little train
stretched itself out and began to start brave
ly up the hill toward the west. The leader
???topped, threw up a hand! And there on
this hill, right across the dim road, a party of
horsemen suddenly drew rein.
???Dinileh!???
It was whispered???this one word, and that
only by the women. The train which bad not
fairly started was stopped, the children came
out of the wagons. The girl even came out,
and there was no concealment of any kind.
This was best and honest. These people were
not prepaired or disposed to tight. The first
impulse of an American is to fight when
wronged or in peril, no matter what tbe odds.
But when hunted down, awed into submis
sion by this semi-religious lot of madmen???
these Guiteaus???it was quite another matter.
Eren a larger party. I am sore, bad s ood still
and waited the approaching Danites as this
party did.
There was but one question. Had the girl???s
besu'y saved her, or had she escaped by
chance and skill? Would her beamy save
her now? Not likely. She knew too much
now tolive. , , , ....
Tbe party of armed and long-haired horse
men rode down the hill toward the cam],
against the rising sun, very leisurely now.
Their long desperate search was over. The'
knew at a glance from the hill that the fugi
live was with this party; that wo were tryinf
to yet out with all speed at thla unnatnra
hour to aave her by flight.
Tbe girl's first impulse was to dash into the
thicket again. But the was weak and wretch
ed. Better to die where she stood. She put
her hands to her throat, her breaat, as if feel
ing about in a wild way to know where they
would strike her with tbier long knives as
they leaned from their saddles. Sho"seemed
choking, and could hardly breathe. The
world was passing away. Her head sank on
her breast. She waa eilently waiting to
die.
[TO be cobtihus o.J
???Cqpyitjbted by C. H. Miller,
SOUTHERN SILHOUETTES-
A Pea Picture ef "l'?? o llob??? end Ilia faithful
Male.
Jam.s R. Cable in tbe Chicago Currort.
Cane, cane, cane; blue of stock ??uu sieen of rib'
boned leaf, bowing and fluttering in the summer
breeze like water fowl in the bath. Overhead a
cloudlow azure that seems not altogether overhead,
but aho brooding over the outlyiugearth
Ills uiutuauu uniuiif, ???X'"'
mocking birds bespeak their guileless joys in such
medleys of harmony as man's most tenacious mem*
ory never held obedient to its call.
Furrows of close growing caue blades part and
meet again in quick but irregular succession, end,
and, guiding both, grey, gtfrzly. droll, hearty
??? Undo Bob."
They arc a pair???that mule and he.
Apparently tbe fiercest of enemies, at times,
they art* the closest of friends; ior on the whole
plantation, none but Uncle Bob dares cross that
mule???s ambitious back. Many a furrow htva they
turned together; manv a time in tho quickly told
hours of tho night these two hare traveled home
ward when only ltock. the mule, W'i sober. No
night so dark or way so slippery but Rock???s tiny
hoofs wonld patter unerringly along tho home
ward road, with n??ver tho slightest disobedience
of the many pierced old head gear' Bob call a
* 1 brivel??"
Others than Bob mlgbt hold the plow with Rock
before the beam, but Bob must lead him to his
hands, and with the handles grasped by any one
to whom the inner recesses of mulish eccentrici
ties has never been revealed, the ' stubbornglebe???
was vacillation extreme compared with fixedness
f that mule at tbe welcome wagging of tbe noon-
ell's creaking tongue. ^ ,
But it is not Hock but Undo Bob who is now
under consideration, though the dainty-hoofed
creature of unstinted ear pours forth his miserere
leaning his despondent head upon the topmost bu
of iho barnyard gate. The gray old negro, hob ???*
wearily to bis cabin when the sun is down,
book of many chapters. Tragedy, comedy and
farce spread their sentences and paragraphs along
tbe pages of bis life. .
in the enactment of life's counterfeit on histri
onic boards I have seen tendered portraiture of
love and sympathy greeted with laughter In the
stead of scalding tears. So. too, thcro are those to
whose shallow sense tho old uegro is but a thing
for merriment alone. Bat though woe wore plen*
tiful in his experience, the world might laugh at
his own imsglniiigs or mope in dreary quiet, yet to
it his book is never opeued by his baud.
Heldom.ludced.dooe he open it at all. Sometimes
when memory bring* it aud lays it before him, ho
rests his broad black hind upon
Its cover; but whether he looks
within or pushes the volume bovond his
sight, no rcprlut of its contents ever appears on his
wriukled face. Uls evening meal concluded, from
a crack iu his log cabin's wall ho ufltes his veteran
Ipe with it* ratio root stem cut in tho swam be
hind the cabin. It is filled or partly filled with the
renutns of a former using; a coal from the broad
hearth relights It. and to him it becomes tbe cal
umet forbidding further combat between him and
conquered recoileeions.
From under the rickety bed In the cornor he
draws his old violin, and, responding to the old
mm's dauclng elbow, down to the floor, under tbe
sjanty furniture of the room, swinglug from Joists
overhoad among tbe fishing tackle aud strings of
pepper dangling from them, up and down, rouud
. removes her pipe from
her toothless mouth, ejaculating with beaming face:
T???d rudder hych d???llicea ???o dat dan t'eat.*???
Huch Is tho Ilf j of Unclc Bob in brief.
Year after year its routine has been as a path be-
. ween high walls, with no roliovlug sweep of land-
Neaps bright whore sight might wander and bring
back refreshment to the starved intelligence; a road
avoided by righteous oncouragcmout; whoreuu a
* *??? was a* the bird, alighting but to fly
??? ouce alarmed. aud frequented*-lotto
by foot pads of evil suggestions and persussion,
accompanied by tumbling clowns of indiscretion
aud Ignorance.
Ou there surroundings - Uncle Bob has scarce
turned his eye because of tho benumbing drudgery
of his daily tarks. What wonder that lu this same
. -- ones
I the sun of
uplifted knowledge!
Yet his life is not to him ono of utter misery.
The fires of tragody once roaring round him
burned themselves out. leaving but a little hoapof
cold ashes almost bidden benesth dead leaves of
circumstance, and Bob is the favorite plowman,
the most skilled fiddler, tbe best fisherman, the
shrewdest hog thief and the hardest toper of all the
region round. _
POINTS ABOUT PEOPLE.
???Schools and tools,??? writes Agent Rlordan,
will civilize the Indians.???
Child.!, of the Philadelphia Ledger, walks
ton miles a day, it is said, for exercise.
Dr. Talmaok???s tabernacle had a total reve
nue of 120,327.69 last year. Uls salary Is 812,000.
Mr. BruROEoir,the eminent,English Baptist
preacher, bas been left a largo fortune by the lato
Mr. Joseph Pool, of Leicester.
Tub Itev. Dr. A. B. Earle, the well-known
Bapitst evangelist, bas during his more than fifty
years of Borneo preached about 21,000 times.
It is sad to think of, but there are authentic
advices ihst tho Belmonts aud Asiors, of New
York, do not speak to each other as they pass by.
In London rosebuds are to be tho fashion
able embroidery, and rosebud satin will be used
f >r trimming. The princess of Wales set the fashion,
???Profkshor??? Biiihkro, who has frequently
exhibited himself in New York as a swimmer ana
diver, is tho latest candidrte for suicide by tho
Niagara method. Ho is In traiuingiu Ragland now,
Uls aald. intending next summer to emulate the
fate of Captain Webb.
At Norforlk, in England, a fortnight ago,
there was a wedding at which tbe officiating clerg
yman was s geutleman 96 years of age. He has
held tbe living he now holds for 71 years. It Is
bilieved that ibis tenure of a pirisn is unequaled
lor length in tho history of the English church.
Miss Fanny Davenport is said to be carry
ingthe Bunting system of starvation to a very fino
and thin point. She eats a cracker and drinks a
small glass of sour wine for her dinner, and at a
late supper absorbs two ouuces of lean beef or mut
ton and a spsonful of wine jelly. This may be
called tho heroism of deplotiou, and Fanny expects
in another six month- to get ethereal enough to
slip into another of Bernhardt's rolea without ruf-
llitig it.
General Gordon, the commander of tbe
Eugllsh forces in Egypt, thus expresses his views as
a future life: "I think that thla life is only one
a scries of lives, which our incarnated part has
lived. I have little doubt of oar having pre-existed,
aud that also in the time of our pre
existence we were actively employed. 8o. therefore,
I believe in our active emoioy meat in a future life,
and like tbe thought. We shall. I think, be far
more perfect in a future life, and indeed go on to
ward perfection, but never attain it.???
Db. Wilbkupjrce, the late bishop of Win
chester, while staying once in a country house, re
tired to bis room to write letters. When he had
finished he rang his bell to see about their trans
mission to the post, A little serving maid appear
ed who had beep specially drilled always to ad
dress the risbt reverend guest as "my lord,???
was rather flustrated accordingly. To ??? *
making particular |:.qoiriHi wno
) was to be Intrust-
timid courtesy,
boy!???
Prod ably tbe only persona in this country
who attended Napoleon's funeral at fit. Helena are
two men now living within one hundred miles cf
each other, in Michigan???Francis Martin, of De
troit, and William J. Palmer, of Battle Creek.
Palmer was a British soldier on duty there, and
supposes blm??elf to be the sole survivor of the
K ry. He Is now fit year* old, and quite deaf, but
snt?? memory unimpaired. Marlin happened to
visit the Maud with bis uncle, who commanded a
ship, a few hours after Napoleon died, and. as a
salt blew the vessel out to sea while they were on
???bore, both were compelled to stay until after tbe
funeral.
TALMAGE???S SERMON.
THE ADVANTAGE OF A LOVING
AND CHEERFUL SPIRIT.
Thera l. Nothin. Here De.lr.ble Tban ??? rioe.nt
Disposition, and Without It W. Cannot bo
Happy Ourselres Nor Moke Others
Hopp,-A Spirit of Oentleneeo.
The following sermon preached by the Rev.
T. DaWitt Tslmage in tbe Brooklyn Taber
nacle illustrates the advantage of a loving
and cheerful spirit as exemplified in Christ???,
life. Tbe subject waa announced as ???Tbe
Disposition of Christ.??? Dr. Talmage chose
tbe text??? Philippians it., 5: ???Let this mind
be in you wlfich was also in Christ Jesus.???
There is nothing more desirable, he said
than a pleasant disposition. Without it we
can not be happy ourselves and we can not
make others happy. When we feel that we
have been vexed and hare lost our temper, or
have been impatient under some light cross,
we wake up to new appreciation of proper
equipoise of nature. We wish that we had
been born with self-balance. We envy the
bearing of that man who is never thrown in-
to perturbation. We live under the feeling
that as years pass along our character will be
mellowed and ripened, and wo will become
more Belf-controllable, forgetful of the fact
that an evil left in our nature uneradicated
grows to more offensive proportions, and that
a transgression not cast oat may become the
grandfather of a great generation of iniquities,
It is possible to have our dispositions all made
over gain. Because we do not believe this our
dispositions do not improve. A man says
???I am irascible and I can???t holp it;??? or ???I am
revcngefnl aud I can't help it,??? or ???I am im
pulsive and I can???t help it." You can help
it. We may have our dispositions made over
again???evil uprooted, right implanted. If it
is ever done at all, my friends, it will be by
having the disposition of Jesus Christ set
down in the midst of onr nature.
In the first place, tho spirit of Jesus was a
spirit of gentleness. I know that sometimes
Ho made wrathful ntterancs against tho hy.
pocrite and tho Pharisee, but for the most
part His words and His demeanor were gen
tle, and loving, and kind, and patient, and in
offensive, and pleasant When you consider
the fact that Ho had an omnipotence with
which He might have torn to pioces the aa-
sailers of His character, it makes His gentle
ness seem more remarkable. Littlechildren
who always shy off from a rough man, rushed
into His presence and clambered on Hia knoe
until people had to tell them to stand back.In
valids, so sore with disease that they shudder,
ed to have any one come near them, asked
him to put His hand on their wounds; itwas
so very soothing. There was not a mother,
with so sick and delicate ababe, that she was
afraid to trust it in tho Savior???s arms. His
footstep was so gentle it would not wake np
tho faintest slumber. Some rough people
hustled a had woman into His presence and
said: ???Denounce her row! Blast her! Kill
her!??? Jesus looked at her and then looked
attheasssilantsandsaid: ???Let him that is
without sin cast tho first stone.??? When n
blind man sat by the wayside making a groat
ado because he had no vision, the people (old
him to hush up, that he was bothering the
Master; but Christ come where he was and
said to him: ???What wilt thou that I do un
to thee???? Gentleness of voice, gentleness of
hand, gentleness of foot. We all admire It,
though we may not have it. Tbe rongh
mountain bluff. Ilia great acarrcd headland
loves to look down into the calm lake at Its
feet, the stormiest winter loves to merge into
the sunshiny spring, and tba most impulsive
and precipitate nature must be attracted by
tha gentleness of Christ. The calmness of His
look shamed boisterous Qenessaret into
placidity. How iittlo of that gentleness yoa
and I have! Let us confess it. It is a ten
dcncy of out-door life to stroke our disposi
tiona the wrong way. The thunder of the
world's scorn soars the milk of human kind,
ness. The treachery, tho extortion, the Ig
nobleness of mean men take tbe smoothness
out of our tiatore, and we become auspicious
and hypocritical and stuck all over with nets
ties, and frowns come *n the brow, and harsh,
ness to the voice, the biufitneis to the man 1
nera. What an utter and almost universal
lack of gentleness! So that we do not know
how to talk to the alek, to the troubled, nor
care for the poor. We have our words of sym
pathy pitched on a wrong key. 7. had a sister
whose arm was put out of joiat, and the
neighbors canto, and thoy seised hold of tha
arm and pulled mightily, and palled till her
anguish was great, but tbe bone went not to
the socket. After a while a surgeon cams in
and with one touch it was ail right. So wo
gentle Christian soul comes along, and with
one touch tbe torn ligaments are healed and
the disturbed bones are rejointed. O, for
something of the gentleness of Christ! There
is more power m auch gentleness than in a
lifetime of high pretension. Tbedew of one
summer night does more good tban ten Cir-
ribcau whirlwinds.
Still further: The spirit of Christ was a
spirit of self-sacrifice.. No young man ever
had opening before him brighter opportuni
ties than opened before Christ. If He bad
chosen to follow a worldly ambition He
might have gained fortunes of wealth in the
time He spent tending the sick. With his
mwer to attract men and popularise Himself,
fe might have gained any ofileial position.
No orator ever won such plaudits as He
might have won from sanhedrim andaynago-
gue and vast assemblages on the seaside. No
ihysieian ever acquired such a reputation for
lealing power as Christ might have acquired
if He bad performed His wonderful cures in
the presence o( tbe Roman aristocracy. I re
cite to you these things to abow you what Paul
meant when he said: ???He pleased not Him-
self,??? and to show you the apiendor of His
self-sacrifice. ' No human power could have
thrown Christ into the manger if He bad not
chosen to go there; no Satanic strength could
have lifted Christ on the cross if He bad not
elected Himself te the torture. To save our
race from the raspings and turmoils nf its
guilt He faced tbe aorrows of earth and the
woes of hell. All motherly, fatherly, filial
self-sacrifice paling into nothing before this
extreme ot divine generosity. (Suppose you,
my hearer, by a straight coarse of conduct
could win a palace, while by another course
of conduct you might advanlage your fellow-
men, bat finally would have to come to assas
sination???which would yon choose, the palace
or assassination? Christ chose the latter. Ob.
how little self sacrifice we have! What is it?
Why, jt is taking from my comfort and ad
ding to yours. It la walking a long journey
to save you from fatigue. It is lifting a heavy
weight in order that you might not be pat to
the strain. It is Hie substruction of my ease
and prosperity that there may be an addition
to your ease and prosperity. How little of that
spirit any of us have! Two little children, on
a cold day, were walking down the atreat;the
boy with hardly any garments at all, and tbe
girl in a coat that she had ontgrown, and tha
wind waa so sharp aba said, ???Johnny, come
under my coet.??? He aaid, ???It is too short."
???Ob,??? she said. ???It will stretch." But tbe
coat would not atretcb enough, so she
took it off and pnt it on tbe boy.
That wsa self-sacrifice. Tbrre waa Christ
taking off his robe for you and me, beggared
for eternity without him. When the plague
was raging in Marseilles, and they were dying
by scores and hundreds from it, tho collage of
surgeons decided that there must be a post
mortem examination in order that they ui'gbt
know bow to meet and arrest that awful
disease. And there was silence in the coilega
of surgeons till Dr. Guion rose aud aaid, ???I
know it is certain death to dissect oneof those
bodies; but somebody must do it, and I shall.
Iu tbe name of God and humanity I will do
the work.??? He went homo, made ont his will
then went to tbe dissection, accomplished it,
and in twelve hours died. Tbat was self-
sacrifice that the world understands. Oh. the
more wonderful sacrifice of tbe Son of God!
He walked to Ernmaus. He walked from
Capernaum to Bethany. He walked from
Jerusalem to Calvary. How far have you
and I walked for Christ? His head ached,
hia heart ached, his back ached for us. How
much have wo ached for him? Let us look
over all the years ot onr life and see the
paltry list of onr self sacrifices. Not ono deed
in my life or in your life worthy the name
Still farther: Tne spirit of Christ was a
spirit of humility. The Lord of heaven and
earth in the garbof a rustic! Ho who poured
all the waters ot tbe earth out of his hand???
the Amazon, the Euphrates, the Mississippi,
the Ohio, the St. Lawrence???bending over a
well to beg of a Samaritan woman a drink!
He who spread out tbe canopy ot the heavens
and set the earth for His footstool, lodging
with one Simon, a tannerl He whose
cheiiots the winds are, walkingwithsore feet!
Jostled as though Ho were nobody! l'un-ued
as though he were a criminal outlaw! Nick
named! Struck at! Spit on! Hushing the
tempests, and yet sitting down without any
assumption in the cabin by the disciples, os
though He had done no more than wipe the
sweat from bis brow in his father's carpen
ter ahopl Taking the foot of death off the
heart of Lazarus and breaking tlw shackles
against the grave-month, and vet walking
home with MaryandMartlia.as though He were
only a plain citizen of Jerusalem going out to
stay the night in tho stfrburban villago of
Bethany! Omnipotence under n country-
min's garb! Walking in common sandals,
ssated with pnbliesns and sinnera! Ob, the
humility of the Son of God! How iittlo you
and I'have of it! W?? gather a few more dol
lars than other people have, or we get a little
higher social position than some one else 1ms,
and how we strut, and want people to know
their places, and cry out, ???Is not this great
Babylon tbat I have bail t for tho might of my
majesty and for the honor ot my kingdom ????
Wonld to God that wo might get something
of tho humility of Chriitl Still farther: The
spirit of Christ waa aspiritof prayer; prayer
on the mountains; prsyer in Gethseiuiuo;
prayer on the lake; prayer among the tick;
prayer on the cross!
Why, you can not mention the nam
Jesus without being obliged to think of
rsyerl Prayer for little children: "I thank
hee, O Father, Lord of heaven and oar:h,
that Thou but hid these things from the wise
and prudent, and hast revealed them uuto
babes.??? Prayer for His friends: ???Father, 1
will that they be with me where I am.???
Prayer for Hia enemies: ???Father, forgive
them; they know not what they do.??? Prayer
fornll nations: ???Thy kingdom come.??? How
little of that spirit yon and I have. How soon
our knees get tired. Wno is there that for
ten minutes can keep hia mind awey from
tbe store sad the olllce and the shop, and
concentrate it in supplication? Where are
the vials full of odors which are the prayers
of the saints? O, wo want more prayer in
the house, more prayer in the parlor, more
prayer in tho social circle, more prayer in the
church, more prayer in the legislative hall,
more prayer among the young, more prayer
among tho old I Lord, teach us bow to pray.
We have not tested its powers yet. The very
moment when tbe diet of Nuremberg were
signing the edict that gave deliveranco to
Protestants, that very moment Martin Luther
was kneeling down in bis p ivato room, pray
tbe accomplishment of tho object,
t any communication between the
diet of Nuremberg and the room where Mar
tin Luther was praying for that grand accom
pllshment, Martin Luther rose from bis knees
with a shout, rushed out into the street, and
cried: "Wo have got tbo victory; the Pro
testants are freo'??? That was prayer getting
thonuswer straight from tbo throne. We
need to prayjike Daniel, with our face to
ward the HWy City. Wo neod to pray liko
tbe pnblicau, smiting ou our hsart. We need
to pray like Paul: ???Ob, wretched man that
lam, who shall deliver me???? Wo need to
pray like fitophen, gaziog into heaven. We
need to pray like Christ, who first emptied
all tbs life-blood out of hia heart, aud then
filled that heart with tbe sights and thegroans
and the wants and the agonies of all genera
tions,
Still further: The spirit of Christ was tha
spirit of work. There vis notalszy moment
in nil His life. Whether He was talking to
tbe fishermen on the beaoh, or preaching to
the sailors on the deck, or addressing the rus
tics amid tbe mountains, or spending the
Sommer evening in tbe village, He was al
ways busy. Shaving in tbe carpenter???s shop!
Helping the lame man to walk without a
crutcbl Curing tho child's fits! Providing
rations for a hungry host! Always busy Hu
was. The hardy men that pulled out the not'
from Oennesiaretfali of floundering treasures;
the shepherds who buuted up tbe grassy plots
for their flocks to nibble at; the shipwright
thumping away In tha dockyards; the wine
makers oi En-gsdi, dippiog up the juice from
tbe rat and pouring it into tbe goaukliis???
none of these were half so busy as He whose
bauds and head and heart were all full of tbe
world???s work. From the day on which He
stepped out from tho caravansary of tha Beth
lehem to the day when He aet His crosi In its
socket on tbe bloody mount, Itwas work,
work, work, all tbe way. It is not so with us;
uot so with you; not ao with me. We want
the burden to bu light If we are to carry it;
tba church pew soft if we are to ait in it; the
work easy if we are to perform it; tha sphere
brilliant if we are to move in It; the religious
aervlce short If we era to aurviva It. Oo the
way to heaven, rock tu, fan ns, sing us to
sleep, dandle on the tips of your fingers, hand
us up out of this dusty world toward heaveu
on kid gloves and a silken aunaliade! Let tbe
martyrs who waded the flood and breasted
tbe fire get oat of tbe way while thla colony
of tender-footed Brooklyn Christiana come up
to get their crown I Ub, for more of that bet
ter spirit which starts a man heavenward, de
termined to gat there himself and to taka
everybody else with him. Busy in the pri
vate circle, busy in tbe Sabbath school, busy
in church, busy everywhere for God and
Christ and heaven, O, Christian soul, what
has Jesus done against thee tbat thou bast
betrayed Him? Who gave thee eo much
riches that thou canst afford to despise tbe re
wards oi the faithful? At thia moment, when
all tha armiei of tbe earth, and heaven, end
hell, are plunging into the conflict, how can
you desert tbo standard?
I have shown you that tba spirit of Christ
..??????aspiritof gentleness, aspiritof self-sic-
rili-e, aspiritof humility, aspiritof prayer,
a spirit of work???five points. Will yeu re
member them? And yon are ready for the
tremendous conclusion of tbe apostle: ???If
any man have not tbe spirit of Christ, he is
noue of Hia.??? Overpowering ???tmienient!
Who can stand before It? Not i, not yon;
and yet this subject-ought not to throw any
Christian into a despairing mood. Tunugu
wa are all well aware of tbe fact that we have
not these traits of character gs Christ had
them, yet I think we have the seeds planted
in our sonla, and tha barveat after awhile
will come. Glory to God. you have tbe bless
ed beginnings in yonr nature, and, though
you are painfully aware day by day of your
shortcoming!, it is your earnest prayer.
Give me tola spirit of Jaanai" Aim high!
wonld not aay one discouraging word to
ou. I really think you have some of Ilia
avorable symptoms of a complete and eter
nal recovery from this malady of ain. Watch!
Fray! Study! Compare! On toward tbe
prize! Sheath not your sword till yon have
gained the last victory I Higher and higher
nil you reach the celestial hills! Crowns
radiant and immortal for all tba victors, but
eternal death to every deaerter!
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urinary organs.???
DR. KING*. In compiling his dispensatory, hat
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