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DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON.
4W ISLAND VISION.
Pr Talmaff® pteacueu oeioro an overflow
Ing audience at the Thousand Islands, the
peopb flocking from all the surrounding
country. Fully 7,050 persons w.re present
<nd listened with rapt attention to the rever
and gentleman.
Texts: “I, John, was in the Isle that is
called Patmos.—Rev. i., I'. -‘And the twelve
gau-s were twelve pearls. Rev. xxi., 2L
•‘Sabbath finds us among tho Th msand
Jslanis ot the St. Lawren-e,” began the
preacher. ‘‘Amid the enchantment ot the
scenery some ot us are like Paul when ho
sa d -Whether in the body or outof the body
I cannot tell ’ Not having road the geologist e
account ot how this legiou was formed] I
may surmise that after tliu St. Lawi once be
gan its majestic roll these is ands wore
dropjied into it out of the heavenly land
-1 ape. Islands above us, islands below us,
islands all aroun 1 us. lam reminded how
rail h the islands of the woi 11 have ha Ito do
with sacre.l and pofane h story. Llba.
from which Napokon started for his
last struggle; and St. He era, where
be ended it; Island of Guernsey,
where the great soul of \ ictor Hugo dialed
in exile until republicanism in France drove
ba k despotism; Isle of Borneo, where
A'ioniram Jud on stood, a flaming evangel;
the island of Cc* Ira. where Garibaldi
rested after th > emancipation of Italy; island
of Cypres>. where Barnabas preached:island
otMe.ita, on whi< h Paul was shipwrecked,
and. last of all, but mightier than all aud
more impressive than all, the island of
Patm s, of which my text speaks, and trom
which St. Johu. the exiled Epheeian Gosiiel
fcer. saw the twelve pea line gates. If God
will help us we can, from the e Thousand
Isles on this Sabi ath morning, see the same
glittering porta s.
“Our subject speaks of a great metropolis,
the existence of which many have doubted.
There has been a vast emigration into that
citv, but no emigration from it. so far as our
natural vision can descry. -There is no such
city.’ says the undercut astronomer. ‘I have
etood iu'higb towers w.th a mighty telescope
and have swept the heavens, and I have
eeen spots on the sun and caverns in the
moon, but no towers bare ever risen on
my vision, no palaces, no temples, no
shining streets, no massive wall. There
is no such city.’ Even very goal people
tell me that Heaven is not a matjrial organ
ism, but a grand spiritual fa -t, and that
the Bible descriptions of it are in all cases to
be taken figuratively. I bring in reply to this
what Christ said, and Ho ought to know: ‘I
go to prepare,’not a theory, not a principle,
not a sentiment, but ‘1 go to prepare a place
for you.’ The resurrected body implies this.
If my toot is to be reformed from the dust it
must have something to tread on. If my
hand is to be reconstructed it mast have
something to handle. If my eye. having gone
out in death, is to be rekindled. 1 must have
something to gaze on. Your adverse
theory seems to imply that the resurrected
body is to be hung on nothing, or to work in
air, or to float amid the intangibles. You
may say: If there be material organisms,
then a soul in heaven will be cramped aud
hindered in its enjoyments; but I answer:
Did not Adam and Ev e have plenty of room
in the garden of Eden? Although only a
few miles would have described the circum
ference of that place, they had ample room.
And do you not suppose that God in the im
mensities can build a pla e large enough to
give the whole race room, even though there
be material organisms?
“As a conquering army, marching on to
take a city, comes at nightfall to the crest of
a mountain from which in the midst of the
landscape they see the castles they are to
capture, and rein in their war chargers and
halt and take a good look before they pitch
their tents for the night; so now, coming as
we do on this mountain top of prospect, I
command this regiment of God to rein in
their thoughts and halt,and before they pitch
their tents for the night take one good, long
look at the gates of the great city. I want
you to examine the architecture of those
gates. Proprietors of large estates are very
apt to have an ornamented gateway. Some
times they spring an arch of masonry; the
posts of Ihe gate flanked with lions in
statuary; the bronze gate a representation of
intertwining foliage, bird-haunted, until the
hand of ar. hitectural genius drops exhausted,
all its life frozen into the stone. Babylon
had a hundred gates, so had Thebes. Gates
of wood and iron and stone guarded nearly
all the old cities. Moslems nave inscribed
upon their gateways inscriptions from the
Koran. There h ive been a great many fine
gateways, but Christ set his hand to the work,
and for the upper city swung a gate such as
no eyes ever gazed on untouched of inspira
tion. With the nail of his own cross he cut
into its wonderful traceries stories of past suf
fering and of gladness to come. There is
no wood or stone or bronze in that gate, but
from top to base and from side to side it
is all of pearl. Not one piece picked up
from Ceylon banks and another piece from
the Persian Gulf and another from the island
ot Margarette; but one solid pearl picked up
from the Leach of everlasting light by heav
enly bauds, and hoisted and swung amid the
shouting of angels. The glories of a'abaster
vn-e and porphyry pillar fade out before this
gateway. It puts out the spark of feldspar
and Bohemian diamond. You know how one
little precious stone on your flnger will flash
under the gaslight. But. oh, the brightness
when the great gate of heaven swings, struck
tlii ' ugh and dripping with the light of eter
nal noonday.
-‘Julius Coesar paid 125,000 crowns for one
pearl. The government: of Portugal boasted
ot having a pan ia ge t :an ai>.. . Vivo
patra and Philip .I. ria.zL-.l the world’s
vision with precious stones B ir. gather all :
these to.;eth!r an 1 lift them and add to them
all the wealth of the pearl li-hi-rics and set
thru iu the panel of one do r and it does u >t
equal this magnificent gateway. Au Al
mighty baud bowed this, string this, polish 1 .
this. Against ths gateway on the one side
dash all the splendirs of earthly b auty. :
Against this gate on the other sdo beat
the surges of eternal glory. Oh. the
gate! the gate! It str.kes an inlinito charm
through every one that passes it. On- step
this side of that gate and wo are ] a ipers.
One step the other side of that gnte and we
■re kings. The pilgrim of earth, go ng
through, sees in the one huge pearl all hit I
earthly tears in crystal. O gate of light,
gate of peail, gate of Heaven, for our weary
souls at last swing open.
When shell these eyes thy heaven-built walls
An 1 pearly gates behold.
Thy bulwarks with sal cation strong
And streets of shining gold?
‘T want you to count the number of those
Rates. Imperial parks and lordly manors nre
apt to have one expensive gateway an 1 the
othe;-s a:e ordinary; but lookaroun i at these
entrance! to heaven and count them. One,
two, three, four. five. six. seven, eight, nine,
ten, eleven, twelve. Hear it a’l the earth an 1
*ll the heavens: Twice gale.-! I admit this
g rather hard on sharp sectarianisms. Ic a
Presbyterian is bigoted be brings his West
teins er Assembly • ath chism and be mak, s
• gateway out of that, and he says to
the world: “You go .h ough there or stay
•?t If a Methodist minister is bigoied he
Plants two posts and says: ‘Now you must
crowd in between those two posts or s'a?
J«t' Or perhaps an Epis-opalian may say:
Here is liturgy out ot wh: h I mean to make
• gate; go through it or stay out.' Or a Bap
test may say; ‘Here is a water-gate; you go
through that or you must stay out.' And so
u> all our churches and denominations there
•re men who make one gate for themselves
•nd then demand that the whole world go
through it. I abhor this contra' -ted ties- in
jel'Kious '’tews. Oh. small-souled mm. When
•id God give yon the contract for making
Rates? I tell you plainly I will uot go
to-hat gate. I will go iu at any one of the
twelve gates I choo.se. Here is a man who
*®ys: ‘lean more easil/ and more closely
approach God through a prayor-lsook. I sac:
My blotter, then use t'ie pra.er-book.’
Here i> a man who says: *1 believe there is
only one mode of baptism, and that ts im
mersion.’ Then I sav: ‘Let m.» plunge you '
Anyhow I »ay: Away with the gate ..f
rough panel and rotten ]iostsand rusted !at< h
when there are twelve gates and they are
twelve jiearls.
“A great many of the churches in this day
•re being doctrine! to death. Tn-v hive
been trying to find out nil al.out G.-l s do
crees, and they want to know who a e elected
to be saved and who are reprobated tn be
damned, and they are keeping on tlis ussing
that subject when there aro milliousni s..uls
who ueou t> na • e luj crum n.i .c r.u_n: at
them. They sit counting the ni: über of
teeth in the" awbone wu.i wu-a , -n
slew the ITiili t m-s. Th y sit mi the iaacd
and toe a vessel going to piei-es in the
Otting, aud instead of getting into a Io it
and pulling (or the wreck they sit dis u«iu j
the di ferent styles of oarlocks. God in
tern led us to know s-'iue tlwngs ami intended
us not to know others. 1 have heard scores
of sermons e : puinat .ry of Go I’.s decrees but
came away m ,re - •rplevcil then 1 went. The
only result of such d.s Mission is a gr. a - fog.
Here are two truth, whi h uro to conquer
the world: man, a sinner; Christ, a savior.
A :y man who adopts these two theories in
his religious belief shall have my right baud
in warm grip of Christian brotherhood. A
man comes down to a river in ti ne of
freshet. He wants to get across. He has to
swim. What does he do? ’ The first thing is
to put off his h«avy apparel and drop every
thing he ha; iu hands. Ho mast uo
empty handed If he is going to the
other bank. And I tell you, when
we hare come down to the river ot
death a-id find it swi t aud ra Ing wo will
have to put olf all our se t .riaunr. aud lay
down our cumber-o ne cree i. and e upty
banded put out tor the other shore. HVlmt,’
sa . you, ‘would you resolve all the Christian
Chun h into onokiuil ofcliurchi Would you
make all Christendom worshin in the sane
way. by ths same forms?’ Ob, no! You
might ai well deiide that nil people -hall eat
the same kmd of foo.l without ref .‘l ence to
api et.te, or wear the same kind of a qairel
«ithout reference to the shape of their bo ly.
Your ancestry, yo ir te np rament, your sur
roundings, wid decide whether you go to
this or that church aud adopt this or that
policy.
“Notice the points of the compass toward
whi h these gate i look. They are nit on on.s
side or on two sides or on three si les, but on
four sides. This is nolaaiyof mine, but a
dis-tinct announ ement. Un the north three
gates, on the south threo gates, on tae east
three states, on the west three gates. What
does that mean? Why, It means that an
nationalit.es are included and it doos not
make any ditteren e fro n what quarter of
the earth a man co nes up; if his heart
is right there is a gate o-en before
him. On the north three gates. That means
mercy for Laplau.l and Siberia and Norway
and Sweden. On the south three gates. That
moans pardon for Hin lostan and Algiers and
Ethiopia. On the east three gates. That
means salvation tor China and Japan and
Borneo. Cu the west three gates. That
means redemption for America. It does not
make any difference how dark-skinned or
how pale fa ed men may be, th y will find a
gate right before them. These plucked
bananas under a tropical sun. These shot
across Ru san snows behind reindeers.
From Mexican plateaus, from Roman < am
pana, from Chinese tea-fields, from Holland
dike, from Sc. tell Highlands, they come,
they come. Heaven is not a monopoly for a
few precious souls. It is not a Windsor Cas
tle for royal families. It is not a small town
with small population, but John saw it and
ho noticed that an angel was measuring it,
aud he measured it in this way and then he
measured that, and whichever way he meas
ured it was I,5<W miles, so that Babylon and
Thel.es, and Tyre and Nineveh, and St.
Petersburg and‘Canton, and Pekin and
Paris, and London aud New York, and all
the dead < ities of th.i past and nil the living
cities of the present added together, would
not equal the census of that great metrop
olis.
“While I speak an ever-increasing throng
is passing through the gates. They are going
up from Senegambia, from Patagonia, from
Madras, from Hong Koug. ‘What!’ you say,
‘do you intro luce all the heathen into glory?’
I tell you, the la t is that the majority of the
people in those climes die in infancy and the
infants all go straight into eternal life, and
•o the vast majority of those who die in
China an I In iiiv the majority of those
who die in Africa, go straight into the
•kies-they die in infancy. One hun
dred and sixty generations have
been Lorn since the world was
treated, an Iso I estimate that there must be
15,000,000,001) children in glory. If at a con
tent 2,000 children sing, your soul is raptured
within you. Oh, the transport when 15,000,-
0)0,0)0 little one. stan 1 up in white before
the throne of Go 1, their chanting drawing
out all the s upendous harmonies of Dussel
dorf and Leipsic and Boston! Pour in
through th i twelve gates, O ye redeems 1,
banner-lifted, rank after rank, saved
battalion after saved batalion, until all
the city of God shall hear the tramp,
tramp! Crowd all the twelve gates.
Room yet. Room on the thrones,
room in the mansions, room on the river
bank. Let the trumpet of Invitation lie
•ounded until all earth’s mountains hear the
ahi-ill blast and the glens e-ho it Let mis
•ionaries tell it in pagoda, and colporteurs
Bound it aero s the Western prairies. Shout
it to the Laplander on his swift sled, halloo
it to the Bedouin careering across the de -ert.
News! news! a glorious heaven and twelve
gates to get into it! Hear it, O you thin
bloodel nations of eternal winter!—on the
north three gates. Hear it, O you bronzed
Inhabitants panting under equatorial heats—
•n t he south three gates.
“Anil heaven being male up, of course the
gates will be shut. Austria in and the first
gate shut; Russ.a iu and these -ond gate shut;
Italy in and the third gate shut; Egypt in a-id
the fourth gate shut; Spain in aud tile filth
gate shut; France iu and the sixth gate shut;
England in and the seventh gate shut: Nor
way in and the eighth gale shut: Switzerland
(n aud the ninth gate shut: H.n lostan in
tn I the tenth gate shut; Siberia in and the
eleventh gate shut. All the gates ate cloved
but one. Now let America go in, with all
the islands of the sea and all the other na
tions that have caile lon God. The caolives
all freed; the harvests all gathered; the na
tions a 1 saved—the flashing splendor ot tnis
last pearl Legins to move on its hinges. Let
the mighty angels put thoir shoulders to the
gate aud heave it to with silvery dang. ’Tis
done! Itthumiers! The t well th gate shut!
“I want to show y..u tho gnte-Lee >er.
There is one angel at each one ol these gates.
You say that is right. Os course it is. You
know that no earthly palace oriat’e or
fortress would be sate witlio.it a sentry ; a“-
ing up and clown l.ynizhtan l by nay, n i l
if there were no dek uses before In a en an I
the doors set wide open with no one to guard
them, a’l the vicious of earth would go up
after awhile and all the abandoned oi bell
would go up after awhile, and heaven
instead ot being a world of light and joy
and peace aud blessedness would be a
world of darkness and horror. So lam glad
to tell you that while these twelve gates stand
open to let a great multitude in th re are
twelve angels to keep some people out.
Robespierre cannot go through there, nor
Nero, nor any of the debauched of earth wiio
have not rejiented of their wickedness. If
one of thete nefarious men who despised God
should come to the gate, one of the keepers
w uld put his hand on his shoulder and push
him into outer darkness. There is uo place
in that land for thieves and lia‘‘S, a- d de
frauders, and nil those who disgraced their
race and fought against their God. If a
miser should get in there he would pull up
the golden pavement. If a house burner
should get in there he would set fire to the
man-ion. If a libertine shoidd get in there,
be would whisper his abominations standing
on the white c <ral of the sea-b -ach. (Inly
those who are blood-washed and prayer
lipp dw 11 get through. O lay brother, if
you should at last come up to one of the
gates aid try to get through, and you had
not a pass written by the crushed hand of
the Son of God, the gate-keeper would, with
one glance, wither you forever.
‘ There will be a pas .word at the gate of
| heavem Do you know what that password
I is? Here comes a crowd ot souls up to the
i gate and they say: ‘Let me in; let me in.. I
j was vety useiul on earth. I endowed col-
I leges, I built char, has and was famous for
my chanties, aud, having done so many
w n lorful things for the world, now I coma
up to get my reward. A voice from
w thin says: ‘I never knew yoa’ An
other great crowd comes up and
they try to get through. They say;
were highly honorable on earth and taeeorth
bowe l very lowly lietorous. Wo were hon
ored on aarth, and now we come to get our
honors in h aven.' And a voice from with
in aivs: ‘I never knew you.’ Another
erow 1 advances au 1 says; 'We were very
moral people ou earth -very moral indeed,
aud we ornne up to get appropriate recogni
tion.' A voice answers: ‘I never knew you.’
“After a while I see another throngap
proa, n the gate and om seems to l.e »;xikes
mauforali ihe rest, a’thoiuh their voices
•ver aud anon cry ameu! am-aI This one
stands at the gate aud says: ‘!wt me in. 1
was a wanderer from God. I deserve to ''ie.
I have come up to this place not liecause 1 de
serve it, but bivause 1 hav* heard that there
Is a saving power in the blood of Je-ua' Tim
Jatekeeper says: ‘That isthe imssword, Jesus'
mus!’ and they pass in and they surround
the throne and the cry Is: ‘ Worthy Is me
Lamb that was slain to receive power mi l
riches aud wisdom and strength and honor
and glory and blessing.’ Ob, when hca en
Is all done and the trooi»of Got! shout: The
castle is taken!’ how grand it "ill lie if von
and I are am ng them! B’eised are all they
who enter in through the gates into the city.’’
The Imagination.
The imagination is in no wise the neg
ative to, or, in a sense, the opposite to
the practical in man, as has been fre
quently i s-uined. On the contrary, man
has no other mental power which has per
formed n tithe of the service that has
been rendered for him by his imagination.
He has no more practical sense than
this.
Every first labor had first to bo outlined
cd, planned, drawn, and understood by
the imagination. Calculation is simply
an adjunct to the imagination. Be it hut
or palace, its dimension, plan, purpose,
and material has first to be considered by
the imagination.
The proudest ship that ever plowed the
ocean first existed in the mind of its pro
jector.
The engine that mocked the wind and
the waves and moved that ship against
all the combined powers of nature was
evolved in man’s imagination.
So with monumental pile, city, street,
work of art. railroad bridge, or fortress
for defense—each was imagined and de
veloped, and planned by the imagina
tion.
The home, the proudest work of man—
the best result of his labor, is also the
work of his imagination. He thought it
all out beforehand, and there it stands,
proud or humble, a grand triumph of his
imagination.
*.ot only are these ponderous, river
spanning, world-encircling works of man
the product of his imagination, but the
multitudinous tributes to human knowl
edge termed books, the calculations of
mathematics, the demonstrations of ge
ometry, astronomy, and navigation arc
understood and mastered only through
the imagination. The imagination is
so nearly the human understanding that
the understanding, stripped of imagina
tion, becomes very feeble.
Since writing the above we cam ■ upon
the following lines, written forth ■ jVsm)
England Journal of Education, and they
are so fully in accord with our own views
that we copy them:
“General Grant attributed his success
in battles largely to his power of pictur
ing a scene. He was thoroughly posted
on the topography of the country, and
had the whole field of battle from Vir
ginia to Mississippi so clearly before his
mind that he could picture to himself the
whole scene, ponder in fancy over stru
tegic points, and so hold the field in mind
that it gave him a thorough and exact
knowledge of the forces with which he
had to deal. Teachers can hardly appre
ciate this picturing power too highly.”
Chicago Ledger.
The Newspaper in the Cars.
Sometimes a man throws his newspa
per down on the seat and leaves the car.
Each man tbit has r.o paper wants it,
and each man would grab it if alone and
unobserved. The m.-fti who appears to
be looking out of the window in the op
posite direction is the man who sees
that pap r more di-tinctly than any one
else; and he being the man who seems
Iss interested in it,is ieally the man who
warns it most. As soon ns that paper is
thrown down it I c oms an object of in
terest. The m.ui who never buys or read
a newspaper wants it, and wants it
badly. The man sitting next to it looks
slraight and doesn’t seem to know any
thing alout it. But he is just quivering
with excitement. He is wrought up to
the h'gh'st pitch, and is prepared to grab
tor that paper just as soon as the man on
the other side of it makes a single at
tempt. Just at this period a man s t ing
op, osit“ ti.e paper gives it a sharp, ex
cited loo'., uist as though he had scan
his n unc | rioted wrong. Then he gives
another sharper look, and his eyes snap
with c . < it “in nt, and he readies over
and | i< l;s up the piper to see if helis
ri“ht. You can tell by the way he
handles it that he never paid for it; aid
he gradually gets it up ir. front of kis
face and turns it at intervals, and is as
much at home with it as if it were his
own, and th- other men look at him as
being largely porcine in his nature.
Dreaming of Thee.
“Well, Bob >y,’’ said young Fiathedy
as th former ent Ted the store, “what
can Ido lor you this morning? And how
is everyth rig up at the house:”
“All right. I guess. I heard si-ter
Clara ted ma that ihe dreamed about you
last night.”
“Is that so?” whispered I'eath ulv,
bending over the counter. “And what
did your ma say ?”
“She sai 1 that Clara mnst have ea rn
something what didn't agree with her 1
want to get a spool of No. GO cotton ind
a do en bone collar buttons.”—A'ew iork
Sun.
A Case of Downright Cruelty.
Amanda “Reginald, I understind
you have been circ.d iting the report that
we are engaL'ed, around loa n.”
Reginald— “Ai d so we are my dcir.”
Amanda —“5 ea, I know , but it actins
as though a n an who cared for my ful ire
happiness ought n >t to say anything tint
will prevent m ■ marrying sotae geed
r?‘in.” — 7 id-Eits.
“Hello, Mr. President, there’s a man
here says you promised to make him Con
sul to Chimborazo.” “Tell him to grt
married and he won’t want to go abroad”
CHILDREN’S tOLLMN.
Ihqulur >*€?■•
Some years ago 1 owned a horse,
( writes a correspondent of the St. Louis
tiWx-Dcmccrat), with which I undertook
to drive to a neighboring town over tho
hills in the winter. A spot of hidden ice
suddenly tripped her, and for u time it
I was impossible for her to get up. But,
I by ellorts that entirely exhausted me, 1
I finally got her on foot again. She never
I forgot it. My approach to the stable
| was invariable welcomed by cordial
| neighs; and, that not sutlicing, she
would put her head affectionately on my
I shoulder or under my arm.
On one i ccasion my pet Morgan called
I me, while I was engaged fifty rods from
the barn, with loud and persistent calls
that 1 instantly understood meant trou
ble. Going hastily to the stables, 1
found the cows had broken down a door,
ami were capable of doing mischief. As
soon ns I approached the horse gave a
satisfied whinny, followed by a long
sigh of relief, and went to eating very
I quietly.
A Youiitf Nobiemnn.
In an elegant palace-car entered a
weary-faced, poorly-dressed woman,with
three little children—one n babe in her
arms. A look of joy crept into her face
as she settled down in one of the luxu
rious chairs, but it was quickly dispelled
as she was told by the conductor to go
into the forward car.
A smile of amusement was seen on sev
eral faces ns the frightened group hurried
out to enter one of the common cars.
Upon one young face, however, there
was a different look.
“Auntie,” said the boy to the lady be
; side him, “I am going to carry my basket
I of fruit and this box of sandwiches to
i that poor woman in the next car. You
; are willing, aren’t you?”
He spoke eagerly; but she answered:
“Don’t be foolish, dear; you may need
them yourself. And perhaps the woman
would not want them."
“No, I do not need them,” he answered,
decidedly. “You know 1 had a hearty
breakfast. The woman looked hungry,
auntie, and so tired, too, with those
three little children. I’ll be buck in a
minute. I know mother wouldn’t like it
j if I didn't try to be kind to those who
i are in trouble.”
Auntie brushed a tear from her eye
aftar the boy left her, and said, audibly’,
I “Just like his dear mother.”
And a minute later, as the conductor
i passed the mother and three children,
he saw the family feasting as perhaps as
they had never before.
“God bless his dear little heart,” said
the poor mother, and so say we.
I
A Wonderful Kcmcdy.
Any young folks who are suffering
from the same complaint as the little
prince in the accompanying anecdote, are
recommended to try the same medicine.
It costs very little, and is sure to effect a
cure.
Once on a time there was a king who
■ had a little boy whom he loved very
much. So lie took a great deal of pains
to make him happy.
He gave him beautiful rooms to live
in, and pictures and toys, and books
without number. He gave him a grace
ful, gentle pony, that lie might ride
when he pleased, and a row-bout on a
lovely lake, and servants to wait upon
him wherever he went. He also provided
teachers who were to give him the knowl
edge of things that would make him good
and great.
But for all this the young prince was
not happy. He wore a frown wherever
lie went, and was always wishing for
something that lie did not have.
At length one day a magician came to
the court. He saw the scowl on the boy’s
face, and said to the king:
“I can make your son happy and turn
his frown into smiles. But you must pay
me a good price for telling him the se
cret,”
“All right,” said the king; “whatever
you ask I will give.”
So the price was agreed upon and
paid, and then the magician took the boy
into a private room. He wrote some
thing with a white substance upon a
piece of white paper. Next he gave the
boy a candle and told him to light it
and hold it under the paper, and then
see what he could read. Then he, went
away.
The boy did as he had been told, and
the white letters on the paper turned into
a beautiful blue.
They formed these words:
“Do a kindness to some one every
day.”
A Surprising Occurrence.
Smith: I never was more surprised in
my life than I was last night.
Jones; Indeed! What was the cause?
Smith: As I was passing along the
treet two ladies came to the door of a
house, one evidently tin- hostess, as she
had only a shawl wrapped around her
head, the other a visitor. Ah they
ri arhed the bottom of the steps the visi
tor said: “Well, I’ve had a very pleas
■int time. Good-night, Mary,” and the
other said: “Good night, Mehitable,”
and so they parted.
Jones; What, without another word?
Smith: Without another word.
Jones: H’in! I •guess they were men
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