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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, TUESDAY. MARCH 25.1884- TWELVE PAGES. 3 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! A TRIUMPH OF SKILL Ofee's Prepared from Select Fruits that yield the finest Flavors. Have been used for years. Be come The Standard Flavoring Extracts. If ono of Greater Strength. None of such Perfect Parity. Always certain to im part to CaUcs, Puddings, Sauces, the natural Flavor of the Fruit. UANDFAGTUUED BV STEELE & PRICE, Chicago, 111., and St. Louis, Mo., s??l*n *??f I. o pul In T??ul Of Mi. Dr. Prka???a Cmn B*kU| Powder, aid Dr. Prlw'i I'erfunea. WE MAKE NO SECOND TRADE COODS. torpid bowels, DISORDERED LIVER, _ and MALARIA. From tlieao source* urine three-fourths of tho diseased of tho humttn race. 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Addrem the Pesoody Medletl Inutimb*. nr Dr. W. H. Parker. No. 4 Ruliiueli a'reet ti'iston, Mt**., wbomavb*cn*??anl??Ml on a???l cinca*eA rtq.'.lriug iklllat-d < xp-rl'!i ????? ???. C&mni ??? S???d k ???' J *???- caus tbit have b- til ri tno vk other phjktciaua a sk*q(s)i ??? sled Buceerafiilly wi instance of failure. LA DIES I a'if giiCfo* SHOPPING rariiatk Mtraat. Mew lark. (A, SMITH???S EXTRACT OF MAY FLOWER, The Cap Sheaf of the Chemist'?? Skill. The Groat Romody for all Disoasos of tho Bladdor and Kldnoys. This Rtmeily has stood the lest of time, has been weighed in the scales of public opinion, and to-day has an army of men, women and children, who ever their own signatures bear testimony to its curative properties. Some have be;n cured of Diabetes, some of Bright's Disease, some of la* flaramation of th; Bladder, some of Catarrh of the Bladder, some of Incontinence nf the Urine, some of Leucorrhfca, or Whites, somo of nains in thb Back and Loins, some of diseases of tne Prostate Gland. For all Dl ??oa4CB arisingfrom a til rented Strife of the lltndder and Kidney?? t this Jlemedy at and?? without a rival. Without a rival in the number of cures effected; without a rival in the nurity of its composition; without a tival in number of bottles sold. The annual sale of Smith's Kr'tract of May Flower ex ceeds the sales ol all other Kidney Remedies com bined. DR. ELI IVES, says: " That in many aggro- rated cases, where Huchu had failed to produce my benefit, May Flower has effected a speedy Cure.??? DR. J. II. BIRD, says: "I have found May Flower to be a remedy for all Kidnc) complaint?, hr superior to Buchu or Juniper.'' DR. H. F. MARTIN, says: "May Flower act. more promptly in all diseases of the Bladder ami Kidneys, than any remedy which has come under my notice.??? DR. BENJ. H. LONG, says: "I have found May Flower exceedingly beneficial in my treat ment of fetnntes. DR. VINC. D. HUYVETTER, says: "With, out doubt May Flower is destined to work a revo lution in the treatment of disealer peculiar to the urinary organs.??? DR. KING*. In compiling his dispensatory, hat paid a merited tribute to this remedy. See page 396 King???s Dispensatory. A number of authorities might be quoted, but there are none more eminent than the name! above. In addition to these authorities, a living host of 60,000, whose certificates are on file In the office of the proprietors of thia remedy, bear tesCb mony to its tHrturs. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUG6ISTS. Manufactured only by S. B. SMITH & BR0., Covington, Hy. If you are afflicted, send your address toS. 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