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"DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
of ezolution.
[Preached nt Lakeside, Ohio.]
Text: “The statutes of the Lord are right.’’
Psalm xix. S.
O’d books go out of date. When th?y were
—ritUu they discussed questions which were
being discussed; they struck at wrongs which
have long ago < ead, or advo ated in-ritu
ti»ns which e cite notour interest. Were
thev books of history, the la.ts hare been
gathered from the imperfe t mass, better
and more luridly presented. Were
they books of poetry, they were interlocked
w th wild mythologies, which have gone up
from the face of the earth like mi ts at s in
* lS< » Were they books of morals, civili,ati< n
will not sit at the feet of bari arism, n< ither
jo we want ISappho, Pythagoras and
Tully to teach us morals. H hat do tho
masses of the P®°Pto care now lor the
pathos of Simonides, or the sar asm of Men
ander. or the gracefulness of Philemon, or
the wit of Aristophan *s? Even the old b-.xiks
we have left, w it la a few exception -. have but
very little effect upon our times Books are
human: they have a time to be born, they
•re fondled, they grow’ in strength,they ha/e
a middle life of usefulness; then comes old
ace; they totter and they die. Many of the
national libraries are merely the cemeteries of
the dead books. Some of them live 1 flagitious
lives and died deaths of ignominy, borne
were virtuous and accomplished a glorious
mission. Some went into the ashes through
inquisitorial fires, homo found their funeral
pile in sacked and plundered cities, borne
were neglected and died as foundlings at the
door of science. Some expired in th? au
thors study, others in the publisher’s hands,
fiver and anon there comes into your pos
sesion an old book, its author forgotten and
itfusefulness done, anti with leathern lips it
seems to tay: “1 wLh I were dead.” Monu
ments have been raided over poets and phi
lanthropists. Would that some tall shaft
might Le erected in honor of the world's
buried books’ The worlds authors would
make pilgrimage the. eto, and poetry and lit
erature and science and religidti would con
sc-;rat: it with the.r tears.
Not so with one old book. It started in the
world's infancy. It grew under theocracy
and monarchy. It withstood the st rms of
fire. It grew under prophet’s mantle and
under the fisherman's coat ©f the apostles: in
Rome, and Ephesus, and Jerusalem,and Pat
mos. Tyranny issued edicts against it, and
infidelity put out the tongue, and Mohamme
danism from its mosque-; hurled its anathe
mas, but the old Bible still lived. It crossed
the British Channel and was greeted by
Wickliffe and James I. It crossed the At
lantic and struck Plymouth Rock, until like
that of Horeb it gushed with blessedness.
Churches and asylums have gathered along
its way, ringing their bells and stretching out
their hands of blessing; and every Habbath
there are ten thousand heralds of the cross
with their hands on this open, grand, free
old English Bible. But it will not have ac
complished its mission until it has climbed
the icy mountains of Greenland; until it has
gone over the granite cliffs of China: until
it has thrown its glow amid the Australian
mines; until it has scattered its gems among
tho diamond districts of Brazil; and all
thrones shall be gathered into one throne,
and all crowns by the fires of revolution
shall be melted into one crown, and this
Book shall at the very gate of heaven have
waved in :he ransomed empires. Not until
then will this glorious Bible have accom
plished its mission.
In carrying out. then, the idea of my text
—“The statutes of tho Lord aro right”—l
shall show you that the Bible is right in au
thentication; that it is right in style: that it
is right in doctrine; that it is right in its ef
fects.
1. Can you doubt the authenticity of the
Scriptures? There is not so mu h evidence
that Walter Scott wrote “The Lady of the
Lake;” not so much evidence th?it Shake
speare wrote “Hamlet;” not so much evidence
that John Milton wrote “Paradise Lost” as
there is evidence that the Lord God Almight v,
by the hands of the prophets, evangelists arid
apostles, wrote this book.
Suppose a book now to be written which
came in conflict with a gr eat many things,
and was written by bad men or impostors,
how long would such a book stand ? It w> >uld
be scouted by every body. And I Jay if that
Bible had been an imposition; or if it bad not
been written by the men who said they wrote
it; if it had been a mere collection of false
hoods, do you not suppose that it would have
been immediately rejected by tho people? If
Job, and Isaiah, and Jeremiah, an I Paul,
and Peter, and John were imposters they
would have been scouted by generations and
nations. If that book has come down through
fires of centuries without a scar it is because
there is nothing in it destructible. How
near have they come to destroying the
Bible? When tn *y began their opposition
there were two or three thousand copies of it.
Now there are two hundred millions, as far
as I can calculate. These Bible truths, not
withstanding all the opposition, have gone
into all languagt s—into the phdosophic
Greek, the flowing Italian, tne grace
ful German, the passionate French, the
picturesque Indian, and the exhaustless
Anglo-Saxon. Un '.er the painter's pencil
the birth and crucifixion and the resur
rection glow on the walls of palaces; or, un
der the engraver’s kn fe, speak from the
mantel of the mountain cabin: while st mes,
touched by the sculptor's chisel, start up into
prea h ng apostles and ascending martyrs.
Now, do you not suppose, if that Book ha I
been an imposition an 1 a falsehood, it would
not have gone down under these ceaseless
fires of opposition ?
Further, suppose that was a great
pestilence going over the earth, and hundreds
□f thousands of men were dying of that j esti
lenee, and some one should find a medicine
that cured ten thousand people, would not
every body a knowle Igo that that must be a
good medicine ' Why, some one would say:
“Doyou.deny it ? There have been ten thou
sand people cured by it” I simply state the
fact that there have 1 een hundreds of thou
sands of Christian men ami women who say
they have le t the truthfulness of that book
and its power in their souls It has cured
them of th* worst leprosy that ev r < ame
down on our earth, namely: the leprosy of
sin. And if I canpoistvou to multitude••
who say they have felt the power of that
cure, are you n>t reasonable enough to ac
knowledge the fact that the*© must be some
power in the me licine? Will you take the
evidence of millions of patients who have
been cured, or will you t ike the e video e of
the skeptic who stands aloof and confesses
that he never took the ire licine?
That Eib’e intimates that there was a city
called Petra, built out of solid rock. Infidel
ity scoffed at it: “Where is your city of
Petra?” Buckhardt and Laborde went forth
in their explorations and they came upon
that very city. The mountains stand around
like giants guarding the tomb where the city
is buried They find a street in that city six
mile; long, where once flashed imperial
pemo, and which echoed with the laughter
of ligh’.-hearted mirth on its way to th?
theatre. On temples fashioned out of col
ored stones—some of which have blushed
into the crimson of the rose, and some of
whi h have paled into the whiteness of the
Ulv—aye, on • obimn, and pediment, and en
tablature. and statuary, God writes the truth
of hat Bible.
The B ble sa s that Sodom and Gomorrah
were destroyed by fire and brimstone. ‘ Ab
surd.” Infidels year after year said: “It is
positively absurd that they could have been
destroyed by brimstone. There is nothing in
the elements tn < au e such a shower of death
as that.” Lieutenant Lynch—l think he was
the first man who went out on the discovery,
but he has been followed by many others —
Lieutenant Lynch went out in explo ation
and ca i.e to the Lead S a,which,by a convul
sion of nature, has overflown the pla-e
Wuene the cities once stood. He san ; hs
fathoming line, and brought up from the
bottom of the Dea 1 Sea great masses of sul
phur. remnants of that very tempest that
swept Sodcm and Gomorrah to ruin. Who
was right, the Bible that announced the
detraction of those cities, or the skeptics
who for ages scoffed at it i
The Rib*© «*»vs then* was a city call-d
Nineveh, and that it was three days’ journey
around it a ,nat it should be destroyed by
tire and water. Absurd,” cried out hun
dreds of votees for many years; “no < ity
was ever I udt that it ' would tnk • three
(lavs’ journey to go abound. Besid* . it
could not b* destroyed by fir? an 1 witer:
the / are antagon st c elements.” But L iv
a d. B »tta and Keith go out. and l»v their
er.pl ali ns tiny fin*, that city of Nineveh,
and they te 1 us that by they own experi*
meat it is three days' journey around, ac
cord ng to the old es.i mate of a day’s jour
nev, and that it was literally destroyed by
fire and water—two antagonistic elements
a . Q l ,? c *.ty having been inundate Iby
t.'o Liver Tigris, the brick material in those
times 1 eing drie I clay instea i of burn •<!,
w hile in other parts they find the remains of
the lire n heaps of charcoal that have be?n
excavated, aud in the calcin'd slabs of
gy: sum. \\ ho was right, the Bibls or in
fidelity?
Moses intimat 'd that they had vinevards
in Egypt “Absurd.” cried hundreds of
voices; “you can't raise grapes in Egypt: or,
if you can. it is a very great exception that
you can rais» them.” But the traveler goe*
down, and in the underground vaults of
Eilithya he finds painted on tho wall all the
process of tending the vines and treading
out the grapes. It is all there, familia Iv
sketehed by people who evident’y knew all
about it. and saw it all about them every
day : and in those underground vaults there
are va es still incrusted with the settlings of
the wine. You see the vine did grow in
Ervpt, whether it grows there now or not
Thus, you s?e. that while God wrote tho
Bible, at the same time He wrote this com
mentary, that “the statutes of the Lord are
right,” on leaves of rock and shell, bound in
class nf metal, and lyinr on mountain table
and in the jeweled vase of the sea. In authen
ticity and in genuineness the statutes of the
Lord are right.
2. Again, the Bible is right in style. I know
there a- ea great many people who think it
is merely a colie’tion of genealogical tables
and dry fa ts. That is because thov do not
know how to read tho book. You take tho
most interesting novel that was overwritten,
and if you commence at the four hundredth
page to-day, and to-morrow at the three
hundredth, and tho next day at the first
page, how much sms* or interest would you
get from it? Yet that is the very process
to which the Bible is subjected every day.
Au angel from heaven realing tho Bible in
thnt way could not understand it. The
Bible, like all other palaces, has a door by
whi h to enter and a door by which to
go out. Genesis is the door by which to go
in and Revocations the door to go out.
The Epistles of Paul tho Apo-t’c are merely
letters written, folded up and sent by post
men to the different Churches. Do you read
other letters the way you read Paul s letters?
Suppose you get a business letter, and you
know that in it there are important financial
propositions, do you read tho last page first,
and then one line of tho third page, and an
other of the second, and another of the first?
No. You begin with “Dear Sir,” and end
with “Yours truly.” Now. hero is a letter
written from the throne of God to our lost
world; it is full of magnificent hopes and
propositions, and we dip in here and th 're,
and we know nothing about it. Besides that,
people read the Bible when they can not
<lo anything els \ It is a dark day and they
do not feel well, and they do not go to busi
ness, and after lounging about a bit they
pick up tho Bible—their mind refuses to en
joy the truth. Or they come homo weary
f rom the store or shop, and they feel, if
do not say, it is a dull book. While the Bible
is to be read on stormy days and while your
hea l aches, it is also to be read in tho sun
shine aud when your nerves, like harp
strings, thrum the song of health. While
your vision is clear, walk in this paradise of
truth,and while your mental appetite is good,
pluck these ( lusters of gra e.
I am fascinated with the conciseness of this
Look. Every word is packed full of truth.
Every sentence is double barreled. Every
paragraph is like an old banvan tree with a
hundred roots and a hundred branches. It is
a great arch; pullout one stone and it all
comes down. There has never been a pearl
diver who could gather uo one half of the
treasures in any verse. John HaJsebach, of
Vienna, for twenty one years every Sabbath
expounded to his congregation the first chap
ter of the Book of Isaiah, and yet did not get
through with it. Nine-tenths of all the g «<>d
literature of this age is merely the Bible
diluted.
Goethe, the admired of all skeptics,had the
wall of his house at Weimar covered with
religious maps and pictures. Milton’s “Para
dise Lost” is part of the BiLie in blank verse.
Tasso's “Jerusalem Delivered” is borrowed
from the Bible. Spenser’s writings are imi
tations from the Parables. John Bunvan saw
in a dream only what Saint John had s en
before in Apo alyptic vision. Ma aulay
crowns his most gigantic sentences with
Scripture quotations. Through Addison’s
“Spectator” there glances in and out the
stream that broke from the throne of Go I
clear as crystal. Walter Scotts let
characters are Bible men and women
under different names, as Meg Merri
lies. the Witch of Endor. Shakespeare's
Lady Macbeth was Je ebel. Hobbes stole
from this Castle of Truth tho weapons with
which he afterward assaulted it. Lord Byron
caught the ruggedness and majesty of his
style from the pro; he -des. The writings of
Pope are saturated with Isaiah, and he tin-Is
his mo-t sue essful theme in the Mes-iah.
The poets Thompson and Johnson dipped
their pen> in the style of the inspired Orien
tal. Thomas Carlyle is only a splendid dis
tortion of Ezekiel; and wandering through
the lanes and parks < f this imperial domain
of Bible truth, J find all the great American,
English, German, Spanish. Italian poets,
painters, oratorsand rhetoric ? ns.
Where is there in the world of poetic de
scription anything like Jobs champing,
neighing, pawing, lightning-footed, thunder
necked war horses? Dryden s, Milton s, Cow
per's tempests are very tame compared with
David’s storm that wrecks the mountains of
Lebanon and shivers the wilderness of
Kadi h. Why, it seems as if to tho feet of
th se Bible writers t.ic mountains brought all
th ir gems, an 1 the seas all their pearls, an 1
the gardens all the r frankincense, and he
spring all its blossoms, and the harvests all
their wealth, and heaven all its gr an Lmr. and
eternity ad its stupendous realities an i that
since th rt n poets, and orators, and rhetoricians
have been drink ng from exhausted foun
tains. and searching for diamonds in a realm
utterly rifled and ansacked.
This book is the hive of all sweetness. It
is the a -mory of all well-tompere 1 weapons.
It is the tower containing the crown jewels
of the universe. It is th? lamp that indies
all o’her lights. It is the h »me of all ma es
ties and splendors. It Is the marriage ring
that unites the celestial and terrestrial, wh le
all the clustering white-robed denizens of the
sky hovering around rejoice at the nu tials.
This book—it is the wreith into which are
twis'ed all garlands: it is the song into which
are struck all harmonies; it is the river into
which a’*e poured all the great tide* of halle
lujah; it is the finnament in which suns and
moons, and stars and constellations, and uni
ver-e and eternities wheel »n 1 blaze and t i
umph. Where is the yo ng mans sml
with any music in it that is not st r. ed with
Jacob’s lament, or Nahum's dirge, or Habak
• kuk s dithyrambic, or Paul s inarch of tho
resurre ‘tion. or John’s anthem where the el
ders with doxology on their faces rcs.uon 1 to
the trumpet-blast of the Ar hangel as he
stands with one foot on the sea and the other
foot on the land, swearing by Him that liv
eth forever and ever that time sha 1 be no
longer?
I am a’»o amazed at the variety of this
Book. Mind you, not contra h t;6n or col
lision, but variety. Just as in the song you
have the ba->so, and alto, and soprano, and
tenor they are not in collisi' n with ea h
other, but come in to make up the harmony.
So it is in this Book: there are di Jerent j a”ts
of this great song of redemption. The
prophet c >mes and tak*s one ■ art and the
evangelist another part, and the ap sth* an
other part, and yet they all c »rne into the
grand narmony—“the song of Mo es ar d the
Lamb.” If God had inspired men of the
same temperament to write this Book, it
might have been monoton .us , but David,
and Isaiah, and Pet r, and Job, and E v»kiel,
and Paul and John were men of di erent
temperaments, and so, when Go I inspired
. them to write, wrote in their own style.
Go I prepared the b.x>k for all classes of
paonle. For instance, little children would
read the Bible, and God knew that, so he
allows Mathew and Luke to writ* sweet
stories about Christ with the doctors of the
law. and Christ at the well, and Christ at the
cross, so that any little child can understan I
them. Then Gixl knew that the aged people
would want to read tho book, so He allows
Solomon t> ompa t a world of wisdom in
that Book ofPro.-erbs. God knew that the
historian would want t> r al it, and so Ik*
allows Mose* to give the i I.iin R.ate nent of
th» Pentateuch. God knew that the poet
would want. to re td it. and so ho allows
Job to picture the Heavens as a curtain,
and Isaiah, the mountains ns weighed in
a balance, and tho waters as held in the
hollow of the Omnipotent han I ; and God
touched David until in the latter part of
Jk* I’salms he gathered a great choir
standing in the galleries ab »ve each other —
iw astandman in the first gallery; above them,
hills and mountains: above them, tiro and
hail and tempest; al*ovo them, sun an
moon Kt id stars of light: and on tho highest
gallery arrays the hosts of angels; and
then standing before the great choir, reach
ing from the depths of ear h to tho heights
of Heaven, like the lea ter of a groat orches
tra. h * lifts his hands, crying: “Praiso ye the
Lord! lx»t everything that hath breath praise
the Lord! And all earthly creatures in
their s >ngs.and mountains with their waving
cedars, and tempests in their thunder, and
rattling hail, and stars on all their trembling
harps of light, and angels on their thrones,
r sponi in magnificent acclaim: “Praise ye
the Lord! Tx?t every thing that hath breath
praise tho Lord!”
God knew that the pensive and complain
ing world would want, to read it, and so he
inspires Jeremiah to write: “Oh. that mv
head ware waters and mine eves fountains of
tears!” God knew that the lovers of tho
wild, the romantic an I tho strange would
want t * read it, so He lets Ezekiel write of
mysterious rolls and winged creatures and
flying wheels of tire. God ’ repared it for all
zones—for tho Arctic an 1 Tropic, as well as
for the Temperate Zone. Cold-blooded
Greenlanders would find mu-h to interest
them, aud tho tanned inhabitant; at the
Equator would find his passionate nature
b >il with the vehemence of Heavenly truth.
The Arabian would real it on his drome
dary, and tho Lanlander seated on the swift
sled, and tho herdsman of Holland guarding
the cattle in tho grass, and the Swiss girl re
clining amid Alnine crags. O, when I soe
that the Bible is suited in style, exactly
suited, to all ages, to al! conditions, tn all
lands I can not help repeating the conclusion
of my text: “The statutes of tho Lord aro
right. ”
•’>. I remark again: Tho Bible is right in its
doctrines. Man, a sinner; Christ, a savior
the two doctrines. Man must come down—
his pride, his self righteousness, his wurldli
ness; Christ, the Anointed, mustg » un. If it
had not been for tho setting forth of the
Atonement Moses would never have de
scribed the Creation: prophets would not
have predicted; apostles would not have
prea hod. It seems to me ns if Jesus and
the Bib’o were standing on a platform in a
great amphitheater, as if the prophats
were behind Him throwing light for
ward on His sacred person, and as if
the apostles and evangelists stoo I before Him
like footlights throwing up the r light into
His blessed countenance, and then as if all
the earth and heaven were tho applauding
auditory, the Bible speaks of Pisgah and
Carmel and Sinai, but make; all mountains
bow down to Calvary. Tho flocks led over th ?
Judean h Ils were emblems of “the of
God that taketh away the sins of th * world ;”
and the lion leaping out of its lair, was
an emblem of “the lion of Judah’s tribe.”
I will in my next breath recite to yo i the
most wonderful sentence ever written:
“Th's is a faithful saying and worthy of all
acceptation, that Christ Jesus camo into tho
world to save sinners.” No wonder that
when Jesus was born in Bethlehem Heaven
sympathized with earth, and a wave of joy
dashed clear over the battlements and dripped
upon the shepherds in the words: “Glory to
G 1 d in tho highest, an I on eart h peace, good
will toward men.” In my next sent mce every
word waighs a ton: “God so loved the world
that He gave His only begotten Sou. that
whosoever believeth in Him should not
perisli. but have everlasting life.” Show me
any other book with su h a doctrine—so high,
so deep.so vast!
4. Acain: the Bible is right in its effects. I
do not care when* you put tho Bible, it just
suits the place. You put it in tho hand of a
man seriously concerned about his soul. I
people often giving to the seri nis soul this
and that book. It may very well: but there
is no book like th a Bible. He reads the Com
mandments. and pleads to the indictment,
“Guilty.” He takes up the Psalms of David,
and says: “They just describe mv feel
ings.” He flies to good works; Pa il start*
him out of that by tho announce nent: “A
man is not iustifiod by works.” He falls
back in his discouragement: the Bible starts
him u > with tho sentences: “Remember
Lot's wife,” “Grieve not the Spirit,” “Flee
the Wrath to Come.” Thon the man in de
spair begins to rrv out: “What shall I do?
Where shall I go?” and a voice reaches him
saving: “Come unto mo. nil ye who aro
weary and heavy ladon, and I will you
rest.”
Take this Bible and place it in the hands of
mon in trouble! Is there anybody here in
trouble? Ah, I might better ask aro there
any here who have no ver been in trouble?
Put this Bible in th * hands of tho trouble 1,
You find that as some of the t>est berries
grow on tho sharp *st thorns, so some of tho
sweetest consolations < f ho gos v‘l grow <»n
tho most stinging aTlicti >n You thought
that death ha I grac elvo ir child ()h no!
It v. a onlv tho II aven’v ->he >hord taking a
Jamb -ifof th • co 1 L Christ Lent o er vou
as vou h'dd the ohil 1 in vour lan and putting
His arms gently ar mnd th little one, said:
“Os su h is tho kin :do n of heaven.”
Put rhe Bible in th” s *hnol Palsied bo the
hand that wou’d tek* the B bln from the col
lege and the s ‘honl. Ediica o only a man’s
head and you make h nanin i lei. Edu ate
only a man’s hea-t and von ma' e him a
fanatic. Educate thorn l oth together, an 1
you have the n blest work ->f Go I Anebi
cated mind • ithout mo -al nrinc'n'e, is a hln
without a helm, a rushing -a l t ain wi h »ut
brakes or reversing -od t > 'nntrnl the s* L
Put the Bible in the fa nily. There ♦ li*sont h *
table, an unlimdel newer. p n ygamv and
uns riotu al divorcearo prohibited O a-o its
are kind and fa th'u’ 'hdl en pol te and
olxylient Domestic sorrows les-ened by be
ing divide 1 jnvs
plied. Oh fa her, ohm *ho” tak n d <wn that
long-nerle ted B b’e and r°a 1 it v nir-’o' <:s
an I let your children read t' ’hit the R bln
on tho »a l-train and on shteb ard, till all
parts of this lan’ an 1 a'lnthw ’an Is hall
have i s linin' at on. Th** hour the ios
tho veil nf hea hen wor hi » and »n the face
of this day's sun smokes th** h'o d of human
sacrifice. Give the n the Bible. Unbind that
wite from the funeral niyo. for n > other sac
rifice is nee In 1 s : »r*e the blxxl of Jesu;
Christcleanseth from all sin.
I am preaching this ‘«-m n because th ,r e
aro so many who wo ild have vnu b'ditvc that
th ‘ B ble is an oti-la- d sh ho k an 1 obs > '**'*,
It is fre her an i more
that vestnrdav ame out of th© r©at riblish
ing house*. Make it your guide in life and
your pillow in ’o'th.
After th* battle of Richmond, a (teal
soldier was found with his ha dl ingnntho
open Bible Th? sum '’o- ! n e:t< h*d ea»en
the flesh fr m the hand h tth * sk l“t m fin
ger lav on the > ds: “Y a. ♦hnu ’•h Iw i k
thr >’i'fh the 'al ey n*th« S -alow of Death,
T will sea-no e jl. so- Th m art with rne:
Thv rod an I Thv steff 'hev eom r u-t a.”
Yes. this hnok will be- in vnur la*t lays,
when you turn awn - f om 11 other b o :s. a
s >lace for v nr soul. Pe-ha -it will be your
mother’- Bible: n-rhan* th* one gi ven younn
your weddin" day. i*s cove - nnw worn nut
and ite 1 a* fa ’<• ! wth •'•"* but it/- bright
promises w 11 'a h unon the onening gates of
Heaven.
“How preHons is the B >'>k divine.
Bv mmirotten gi’’*n:
Brig't a« ** 1 -mo shine,
To guide our souls to heave >.
“This lam-', through nJ! ‘he tedious night
Os life, «ha’l guide our w«v,
Till w* b-'hol I Hearer light
Os an e e nal dov ”
(HILI)KENS’ COLUMN.
The nntterlly an,t the Bee.
"If the weather is fair,”
Faid the butterfly, jaunty and free, —
“If the weather is fair,
"I’ll R ■» danee in the meadow there!”
"Aud I,” said the prudent l>ee,
"W ill be early at work, you will see, —
If the weather is fair!"
—Edith M. in St. Xich i'ns.
Talking Birds.
That starlings can be taught t > speak
is an old, old story, coming down to us
from ages musty with years, and present
experiences are often confronted with
those of long ago, uncomfortably sug
gesting that there is really nothing new
under the sun.
Pliny, that aged, learned gentleman of
literary tastes and elegant culture, de
lighting in bird song and flowers, tells
us that starlings were taught to utter both
Latin and Greek words for tho amuse
ment of the young Ctusars, and indeed
from other sources we learn of
their great cleverness in the use of
speech.
Tire late Princess George of Saxony
taught a favorite starling to whistle the
student song “Gaudeatnus igitur.” Her
success was a source of never ending de
light to children, who in summer were
often invited to the royal aviary.
Old Bronze.
“It’s the strangest thing,” said Jessie,
with wide-open eyes.
“And my Howers will never grow” said
Ruth, shaking her head ruefully.
It was strange. Out in a corner of tho
garden was a rockery. On the rockery
was an iron basket made to hold Howers.
Ruth had planted in the middle of it a
white lily bulb. All around the edges '
she had put morning-glory seeds. She |
wanted the vines to droop over the sides
of the basket and run down upon the
stones.
Every day the children visited it and
found that something was doing mis
chief. It was very plain that the seeds
and the bulb were trying to do theirduty,
for many and many a tiny shoot came i
peeping above ground. But the earth
about them was scratched and the tender
green stalks broken down and with,
cred.
And it kept on day after day I
“It must be rats,” said Jack.
But nothing else in the garden was ever
touched.
“Couldn’t be frost, could it?’ asked
little Nan.
They all laughed, for the geranium and
pansies were smiling up in the sunshine.
Old Bronze was the largest cat they
bad. Jack had named him long ago,
not because he was bronze colored, but
because Jack knew that bronze was some
kind of a color, and thought it sounded
well.
There lay old Bronze on the basket.
It was just the time when the afternoon
sun shone on it. He probably found the
warm earth a very comfortable bed.
They all laughed, and Jack said: “I’ll
fix him!”
He got the watering hose and aimed at
Old Bronze, while Hurry ran to turn on
the water.
“Oh, don’t!” cried Ruth. “Poor old
fellow I—-he didn’t know any better.”
“But he must be taught a lesson,” said
Jack, very firmly. “Now, scoot!”
The cold water came with a dash, and'
Old Bronze “scooted.” With one long,
dreadful mi-aw-w-w-w-w 1 lie sprang off
the basket, flew over tho flower-beds and
did not stop until he was in the top of
the tallest tree.
“Poor Old Bronze!” The little girls
petted and coaxed and fondled him
when he came down. He hud learned
his lesson well, for he never so much as
looked at the basket again. And tho
lily grew and was soon looking around
her like a queen. The morning glories
crept down and wandered softly over the
stones until, before summer was gone,
the rockery looked like a bank of flowers.
Our Litt e Onee.
The Itineranl Cyclone.
The great objection to cyclones seems
to be that they insist on rooming around
the country. No damage has yet been
reported from a cyclone when it was at
home attending to its own business, but
just as soon as they commence to stir
around the trouble begins. Even the old
heavy-weight cyclones appear to be
harmless when stationary, but when
travelling from one part of the country
to another, they move with such evident
haste and manifest disregard for the
consequence, that they are far from
popular along the route they may take.
If the government could do something
about shutting them up, especial y dur
ing the night, the country would appre
ciate it.—Estelline, (Dak.,) Bell.
Costly Flowers for Ealing.
The eating of fl >wers is a nineteenth
century reality. Crystalliz/id violets at
a pound arc the very latest things in
confectionery. Candied rose-leaves are
also very popular. Girls like to eat flow
ers and will pay as high as $lO a pound
for some of the more exp-naive kinds.
They are all brought from France, but
with the growth of favor for things
American, we shall doubtless soon see
a beginning of the flower-candying in
dustry in this country and the girls will
begin to munch crystallized pumpkin
blossoms and Johnny-juinp-ups.
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