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The W in n in g of fla rg a re t.
T H E TORCH O F REASON, SILV ER TO N , OREGON , D E C E M B E R , 15. 1898.
we are to b e ‘looking for th at bless- puzzling things about the coining j her bear’s paw over Turkey and
ed hope, and the glorious appear- of the Lord. But then I know the C hina, and G erm any and E ngland
Aitii.AHET D onaldson walked
t jie greHt ( ;(,d an<j onr gav. j U(ige of a jj t j,e e a r(h will do right.
and France and Spain, all w atching
up the garden path, and ¡or j epug C hrist’. D is a ‘blessed W e shall not be left to go astrav ;
like so m any hungry wolves, ready
an expression oi weariness hope,’ and will l>e a ‘glorious ap- but the honest seeker after tru th
at the first possible o p p o rtu n ity to
and sorrow spoke from face and at- ppa rjng.’ J wonder will these old will l>e led into all tru th .”
join in the scram ble for territo ry
titude. G randm a watched her from Fvep gee th at d ay oj days?”
(]oeg not iook ag ¡f lbe m il-'
W ar has alw ays been a terrible
her low chair by the window. She
“ O grandm a!” exclaim ed B ertha, lennium were com ing very soon,”
thing, but the w ar th a t is ahead of
entered the room, and did not seem «how can you talk so? I should said M argaret.
“ My heart is fair-
us, th a t statesm en declare in ev ita
to realize that any one was there, he frightened out of my wits if I ly broken in looking on the terrible
ble, will be som ething u n p aralle l
but sat d o w n by th e ta b le , drop- thought the coming of the Lord was troubles in the world. In the last
ed in the history of the world. If
ping her face into her hands, as if neHr W,IV) |hftt meang (he ep(J ()f few yearg we
hearfJ of
there is anybody left after the war
in great perplexity or pain
1, he world, doesn’t i t ?”
knee’s, earthquakes, famines and
is over, m ay be there will be a
“ W hat’s the m atter, my b a .r n ? ’
..j, meang (he
()f f ||, H<>rrow r(|morg of
thousand years of peace. The world
questioned grandm a.
IIaH tbe and evil, and the coming of all th at night my blood ran cold hearing
will need it in order to replenish its
world gone ill wi ye the d a y ? ’
ig beautifui aIld bonny
H e lh a t S titt W ilson lecturing on the a P-
in h a b ita n ts.”
“ O grandm a, it goes ill with me is clothed in the wedding garm ent p allin g social problem th a t con-
“ Well, I am weary of the whole
every day! Everything is a great of Chrigt,H rig h teousness need nev- fronts the world.
The S tundists
th in g ,” sighed M argaret. “ I know
m ystery to me, and I seem like a er fear for his coming. It will only have been banished in Russia to
th at inventors seem to be inspired
poor bird beating ,ts wings against mean to such the entering in to the S iberia; th e A rm enians have been
with diabolical ingenuity in devis
t e wires o a < age in a yam at- rnarrja gH Sl,pper of the Lamb. It slaughtered by the Turks; the I n
ing im plem ents of destruction. One
temp to
m
l erty of spirit. , wjjj onJy fu rn jgh the chariots of dians have starved by the m illion;
would be led to conclude th a t men
i God to conduct us to the palace of the Chinese have engaged in terri- were m ade by a God of h ate to
over/
the king.” said Mrs. Donaldson.
rible m assacres; the Jews have been hate on
an o th er.
I look to
“ W hy, bairn, ha ye lost your!
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B ut’ n)am a. suppose vou are ; driven from country to country in ward the fu tu re with dread, and I
hold on God and his word?”
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more interested in getting a dress pitiful persecution; fearful disasters know th a t statesm en fear th a t there
“ G randm a, 1 have never b e f o r e .
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4 Ito appear at M argaret’s wedding bv land and sea have desolated the th reaten s the world one of the
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than
one
far
away
in
heaven;
then
world;
Cuba
has suffered untold bloodiest w ar storm s th a t ever
o f my
m v troubles
Iron!» ph is
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fin d n
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of
th at f. I Pan
can find
no o
what will become of you?”
miseries, arid our own country has burst upon men.
G randm a savs
harm ony in God’s word, and the
“ Bertha, do not talk in this light been plunged into bloody w ar.”
th a t God is love, and th a t he is
story of Jesus seems to me like a
way. No wedding garm ent of earth
“ T alking of suffering in the long-suffering.
I can h ard ly see
priest’s story only.”
with the
it Peem8
seems to
to me
me how he can forbear to put an end
“ O my bairn! is it possible th a t can he com
? 7 pared
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" heavenly world,”
’ said R alph,
p n ’ “ ,l
, h a ’ come to .h i. state of dark- ^ r m e n t th a t was purchased w ..h | th a t the poor are the most wretch- to all the sorrow and strife of the
ye h a’ come to this state of d a r k
the precious blood of C hrist. It is ed victim s. Look at any large city world. But there, m am a, come the
ness?”
w hiter than any fuller of earth can where the homeless, friendless, out-
“ Y es,grandm a. Ralph has ta lk white it. My h e a rt’s desire for y o u ,! cast masses are pouring in. Tene- m issionaries, and Mr. McClaren is
with th em .”
ed his doubts to me, and showed
B ertha, is th a t you m ay become one rnent houses are fairly stuffed with
me the inconsistency of those who
“ McClaren is a m an th a t I p u t
of th e king’s guests, and don the classes whose condition is alm ost
profess to he C hristians. The long,
little confidence in,” said B ertha.
spotlses wedding garm ent. W ith- indescribable for hopelessness. I
cruel history of the world itself
“ W hatever has brought him with
out it you m ay well trem ble at the saw sights in London that cling to
seems to say that God, if there is a
these m issionaries? He alw ays re
thought
of
the
com
ing
of
the
Lord,
me
like
a
nightm
are.
The
rich
are
God, cares naught for his creatures.
m inds me of the text, ‘O Israel, thy
lest you he found naked before getting richer and richer, and the
I was down in the city today, and
prophets are like th e foxes in the
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poor,
poorer
and
poorer.
Looking
the people’s faces seemed full of un
desert’; for he is alw ays finding new
Ah, well, m am a, I do not think a t the social world alone, one can
rest and trouble.
Poverty •* and
holes through which to crawl out
it
will
come
in
my
day.
1
intend
hut
conclude
t
hat
some
terrible
rev-
w ealth were side by side, and the
of the conclusion of an honest a r
co n trast was too painful. The pa to live a long, m erry life, and then j o p tio n m ust take place. The his- g u m en t.”
pers teem with reports of m urders, repent when I get old. In this way tory of the past prom ises th a t a
( to be continued .)
atrocities and crimes, of famines, I can have this world and the next bloody revolution is at h an d .”
“ Everybody seems to feel th a t we
pestilences and wars, and even the t0° ’
Get all the happiness you can ,” are on the eve o’ some great crisis,”
A Good Book.
church is lull of pride, vanity and
said R alph, as he entered the room. : sajd grandm a.
selfishness. And there’s no tru th
A untie F atte.— ’Ere is a good
“ If people could learn th a t right
“Yes, but it’s not the coming of
in anything or anybody.”
book, Willie.
“ And so, mv bairn, h a ’ I so poor- living is the only way to happiness the L o rd ,” said B ertha; “ for has
W illie (suspiciously).— Do you
ly represented my God that ye can t h / V W° Ul<1 R° ° n th r ° W aWay their there not alw ays been poverty,trou-
say these word* before me?”
¡0 < s“ I^rstitions, and the world ble, pestilences, famines and na- m ean a hook worth reading, or o n
“ n ara.-H.vu
- .4 4 I wou,d 8000 be free> for a11 g°od i ional d i tficult ies ? It looks to me ly a S unday school book?
I have confidence in, it Is vo.H , ^ « 0 rance " b ' u “ 7 7 ' * 7 ™ "’ M8
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it* ignorance.
But w hat is it you ring trg e th e r in this world. The
Had a Dim Idea.
You are true, but we cannot believe
are so earnestly discussing?”
question is, W hich is the stronger?
alike.
H ush, there is some one
1 he com ing of the Lord, said One would be a frightful pessim ist
“ W h at was the cause,” asked the
coming. Don’t breathe a word of gra n d,n .,
to think th a t evil would overcome su p e rin te n d e n t, “ of the E g y p tian
my trouble, dear grandm a.”
“ W hat lord?” asked Ralph.
good. I belive th a t we sh all soon plagues?”
“ Oh, it’s y o u r m other and sister!
1 In* Loid Jesus ( hiist, who was gee the golden age again.
You
“ I guess they d id n ’t boil the wa
How long they have been out this once despised and rejected of men, know th a , lhey h ave long talked of
te r,” ventured a little girl in the
afternoon! So ye ha’ come at last,” hut who will some day come in a rb itra tio n .
W ars cannot last in fan t class.
said grandm a, as they entered.
great power and glory, to b e a d - iong. No doubt the old world will
“ 5 es,” said Mrs. Donaldson,“and mired by all who ixdieve.”
never take up arm s again. The
Not Good in Figures.
we have had a strange, glad expe
Oh, well don t trouble yourself dream of Tennyson is about to be
rience. We met a m issionary and about the coming of the Lord! You fulfilled, when he says;
One night a little boy who had
his daughter at Mrs. Brown’s, know that according to the ortho-
reached the m u ltiplicatio n table in
where he was holding a Bible read- dox faith the m illennium m ust first ‘“ T he w ar d ru m th ro b b ed no longer, the course of his education was sit
th
ttle —
Hags
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— were
—
■ - — furled,
ing, and I invited them to spend come. Of course you ail know that In th and
e p a rlia m e n t of m en, th e federation ting anxiously over a paper of fig
of th e w orld’. ’’
the evening with us. They seem to I have little faith in the orthodox
ures, when his m other came along
he devoted C hristians; and, grand doctrine, hut rath e r b e lie v e th a t
I II*’’ Io
“ That
is » a ■ poet’s farev , t blllt
sure and said, “ Jo h n n ie, do you find
,„a my heart heals with joy as I the world will go on as It has done enough,” said R alph. ” W bv, child. your arith m etic very hard ?”
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“ 5 es, indeed, m am a, I do,” was
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most „troctous,
atrocious, his reply. “ It was so awful h ard
• I ha’ been thinking
“ I n a t’s so,” said grandm a, inedi- death-dealing weapons for nothing? th a t I prayed to God to help me,
<»f his coining today; for I read in tatively.
“ The m illennium must All Europe is arm ed, as they say,
but he’s made th ree m istakes a l
1,1,18 this morning where it says* come first, I suppose. There are i lo th e teeth. T here’s Russia with ready I
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