Christian herald., June 16, 1882, Page 9, Image 9

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CHRISTIAN HEHALD
-flexible law’ for mercy on- the For in this land of heaven’s peculiar a single qualifying, mitigatory Still must ye wait the foe, but still re­
tire
grace
Htembling culprit at the bar-. When
feature, it may step thè headlong
Till
all our wealth is lapt by this sweep,
The heritagj.of Nature's noblest race ;
the little dimpled pink fingers There is a spot of earth supremely current of this sweeping calamity.
ing fire,
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reach up to touch her cheek with
I rejoice to read in the daily record Prepared'for flight, but doomed to fly
blessed,
the velvety touch .of love, like the A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, of the crimes arid casualties in our
in vain, .
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rod of Moses, they open a fountain Where man—creation’s tyrant—casts young, flourishing metropolis, every Hell pursues her votive stupid train,
aside,
day accounts of horrid deaths, Trust ye that God a valiant foe shall
that will How on forever. AIL ’
His sword’mnd scepter, pageantry and
chase
other earthly,friends may fail, but . —pride,
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the mother will be true ; the white- While in his softened looks benignly of the highest social standing, to
• race ?
blend
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souled.child she has fondled on her
the insatiate blood-thirsty traffic. The day shall come, the great avenging
The
sire,
the
son,
the
husband,
brother,
•bosom may become the hardened, •
It must be met now, by the people f day,
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friend.
besotted criminal, deserted of men
of this generation, by ourselves, When all their proud glories h^the
dust shall lay,
and hunted dbwn by outraged jus-.- .llyre „woman reigns ; the mother, men true to the natural instihct of
When
Rum’s great power and Rum’s
• daughter, wife,"
tice; but in tho presence of her
self-preservation; women, imbued
self shall fall,.
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Strews with fresh flowers the narrow
measureless, abounding love, he
with
the*
noble
spirit
-of
salvation
And
one
prodigious
ruin
swallow alL”
way of lifo.
- • stands transfigured into an angel In dhe -clear heaven of her delightful have to fight this hydra-headed-
(Concluded next week.)
Innocent or guilty, lie is still hef
eye,
monster now ; no inoro procrastina­
Whittier’s Childhood.
An 4ngel guard of loves and graced lie; tion, no palliation now. Do I stand
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child, • arid • there
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' " extent of the sacrifice she would Around her knees domestic duties meet,- herb as the accuser of one man
A
little
boy
in
Pennsylvania
re
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And fireside pleasures gambol at her
make in order to save him. Jt is
urging his condemnation ? No, no, cently wrote (tr the poet Whittier,
feet.
....
the one earthly rock to which Where shall that land, that spot of- 1 am the advocate of humanity, of asking him» how he spent his days
humanity ean anchoi^'^ver y th i n g
earfh be found ?
/' yourselves, your homes, your hus­ when he was a boy; and Whittier
Ait
then
a
matt
?
a
patriot.?
look
else was wrecked at the fall iri'i
bands,’your noble boys, your very wrote in reply ;
aroun I.
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Eden; this pure, and priceless
lives. If yog do not arrest this
'‘My Dear Young
heritage came with a divine bene- O thou shalt find, however thy footsteps hidious fiend. inhU headtong career,. think at the age,of which thy^not
as an aftergift with mother-,1 That laud thy coiintry,’.^md that spoi l^rcwell to the virtues of our inquires I found about equal satis
And so strongly has its con-
country. If this inundating flood faction in our old rural home, with
thy homo.”
,
frolling p<iwers been felt, -that
ll‘~iic<‘, it is "easy to perceive that, of intemperance be "permitted to the shifting panorama of the sea­
philosophers have written and more than we have cared to admit? flow, or the Worship of. God abari- sons, in reading the few books with-
. __pocts sang. JLl'heTaiid thuLrockA -¿lie powe r too v et throw' irrtemper-' -+k»ntHlr the -Sabliatli profaned—-Uo- -4n my reach, and dr eaming of so nii?
the cradle is the hand that rocks ance lies with the mothers, wives, instruction of children neglected, thing wonderful and’ grand some­
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the world.”
sisters, and high-minded, God-fcar- farewell to the tender arid reciprocal where in the future. Neither
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But while she seems - busily... en­ [ ing, humanitarian,, large ¿hearted, endearments, without which mar change nor loss had then made me
gaged dispersing these merciful
wholes sold cd" Women. They must riage is but a consecrated curse. If realize the uncertainty of all earthly-
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ministrations; she is constantly I jq readied and stirred, before we oaths are to be violated, patriotism things. I felt secure in my moth­
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acting out another drania^in an­ can hope for ultimate and werma- ignored, laws disregarded, friend­ er’s love, and dreamed of losing
other part of the human arena, pre - ncrtCtriumph, and who can do this ships betrayed, humanity trampled;- nothing and gaining much. Look­
senting a phase.even more trustful, better than women themselves ?
national and individual honor ing back now, my chief satisfaction
more benignly beautiful, culminat-
I rejoice to know that this im­ stained, and if a legislature of is that I loved and obeyed my .par­
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ing in more lasting benefits, and, if portant work is being done by a fathers and husbands will legalize ents and tried to make them happy
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possible, greater achievements. thorough system of personal effort, such miscreancy, and give a passport by trying to be good. That I did
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Earth cannot reveal a lovelier vision and, I trust, that within the next to invade their consecrated homes, not succeed in all respectsy- that I
than a dutiful, loving wife, blessed- five years every woman and child blight the peace, hopes and lives of fell very far short in my good in­
with virtue, encompassed by affec­ in the land will be reached, with' their sisters, wives and daughters, tentions, was a frequent cause of
tion, beaming with celestial beauty, firm grasp find womanly devotion farewell to all that yet remains to sorrow.
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the light of every eye, the charm of to the temperance cause. When our beloved America. The hand
“ I had at* that time a veiy great
every heart, she moves in a sphere this much is gained, victory will.be that opens the door of our homes, thirst for knowledge and little
of cloudless, chastity,’cheered by her easy and certain. A better genera­ our sanctuaries, to this ruthless1 means to gratify it. The beauty of
own warbling song, of love, circled tion will come into power; men invader, is the hand of death un outward nature early impressed
by the scintillating splendors she ' will be raised up under the im­ barring the gates of pandemonium, me"; and the moral ancT”f>pirituaI
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casts all round hei. Heaven’s mcM proved system who will not sell and letting loose i^pon our land the beauty of the holy lives I read-ofc-—
precious gift, earth’s fairest flower, their country that was bought with crimes and miseries of the region of in the Bible and other good'books,
listen to these enchanting lines :
And our also affected me with a sense ofjny
the precious blood of their valiant everlasting torture.
“There is a. land, of every land the
J’atliers, ennobled bv their-mothers, valiant sons, the bulwark of our own falling short and longing for a
pride,
With every good
Beloved by heaven o’er all the world and endeared by their wives, for liberties, the pityful object of the better state.
wish for thee, I am thy sincero
beside ;
thirty pieces of silver; politicians prophetic poet:
J o H
W HITTIER.”
Where brighter suns dispense Bcrener will not barter the privilege to do “ ’Tia for the polluted guilty souls to fr ie nd,
light,
wrong, and make their cduntry a
dread,
Nothing On Earth so Good.
And milder moona imparadise the night;
party to the crimes that follow, Whose crimes sit heavy on her perjured
A land of beauty, virtue, valor, truth,
Certainly a strong
inion, said one
head ;
Tim£-tutored age, and Iove-fcxalted under the high-sounding title' of Shame to your country, scandal of your of our reporter
om the following
was detailed by
r. Henry Kaschop,
youth.
National andx State Finances,”
kind,
with Mr. Geo. E. filler, 118 Main St.,
The wandering mariner, wliree eye ex- which are emphatically nothing Born to the fate ye well dtsorved to this city : I suffered so badly withrheu-
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plores,
matiHm in my leg last winter, that I
short of the price-blood of their
find.
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The wealthiest isles, the most enchant­ fellow' countrymen paid in by the Our-sons, our matrons shacklod in ser­ was unable to attend to my wolk, being
completely helpless/ 1 heard of St.
ing shorcB,
vile chains,
Jacobs Oil and bought a bottle, after
licensed rum-selh r.
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Views not a realm so beautiful and fair,
Our
dead
inebriates
strew
the
mournful
using which I felt’greatly relieved.
*1 am glad that the crisis^has
Nor breathes the spirit of a purer air ;
With the «so of tho second bottle I was
• plains,
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Iu every clime the magnet of his bou .1 1 come at last. I am glad that this Confused and panting thus, tho hunted completely cared. In my estimation
there is nothing on earth so good for
fright-
Touched by remembrance, trembles to case exhibits before us such
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deer
rheumatism as St. Jacobs Oil. It acts
that Pole ;
I fui atrocities; unmarked as it is by Falls as he flies, a victim to his fear,
‘ like a charm.—Worcester, Maes, Spy,
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