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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 20, 1882)
« • OîîîtîsTtAKr iÌKÌtAi-b. 10 --------- -, — . . _~ ................ — _________ , I ....------ X — . — Are You a Man ? Family Circle. One day a young man was teas ing a little girl, when she, becoming tired of him, exclaimed, quite impa tiently : ,— “ If I. wore as big clothes as you At Thy Right Hand. ADEL MACDONALD. O q tuneful harp proclaimed, Earth caught a truth sublime, Wrapped in prophetic strains That echo down through time. <l°> .JAL..be a Uiail.” When Israel’s harper sang - Iler mother overhearing the re The glorious bard of yore — mark, called her away, and chided * At thy right band there are her for being so saucy, but soon the Pleasures forever more.” tears caused by the rebuke were Assurance sweet! though here brushed away, and the cause forgot Billows may rise and swell, ten by the little girl. My soul will look away, _ _ Ainl.Htrivu by faim to «pel 1 — A-few years •"tarter the same girt, What depth of meaning lies then a young lady, was returning Within that sacred song ; / home from „school-,-and., in making What pleasures are withheld changes of thè train was obliged to That shall be ours ere long. stop at a hotel oyer night_ A ris- And straining through the mists, ">ng ~i nd popular lawyer of the place Upon my sight appears chanced to see her name upon the Ther gleam of snowy robes— A robe made white through tears ; register, and at once called upon The glitter of a crown her. As soon as he greeted her, he That fadeth not away ; said : The sweep of golden chords “I called to thank you for what Where angel fingers stray. • you have done for me.” Forevermore ? O yes 1 She replied : The ever murmuring sea Shall hush her waves at last, ""You must be mistaken about And yield her mystery ; my help, for although I do remem Mountains shall melt away And earth give back her store, ber you as a clerk in my father’s, ljut pleasures pure and sweet — store, when I was a child, I can not Are ours—forevermore. recall one single favor I ever did Then let the path be rough And thorny »s we climb ; you, or in fact that I had ever seen Let Apollyon draw his sword— you since then.’ It is but for a time. How else. Lord, should we know He then referred to the impatient The fullness of that rest remark before quoted, and said that Thou hast forevermore For those thou iovest best ? day he resolved to be a -man, and One solemn, haunting thought— from that time had honestly tried Who shall the chosen be make something of Lis life. He to Of all the countless throng Around us that we see? also said he had never been tempt Dear Savior, let me feel ed to do a mean thing without hear That even I may stand Safe in thy fold at last, ing the warning, “ F<1 be a man.”— Sheltered by thy right hand. Ex. -Sei, .Mother’s Hili, & Watt and the Engine. Oft within our little cottage, As the shadows gently fall, Watt lvriS one of the most indus While the sunlight touches softly trious of men ; and the story of his One sweet face upon the wall Do wo gather close together, life proves, what all experience And in hushed and tender tone, confirms, that it is not the man of Ask each other full forgiveness For the wrong that each has done. the greatest natural vigor and ca Should yon wonder at this custom pacity who achieves the highest re- At the ending of the day. Eye and voice would quickly answer, | suits, but he who employs his pow “It was once onr mother's way.” ers with the greatest industry and If our home be bright and cheery, the most careful disciplined skill— If it hold a welcome true, Opening v ide its door of greeting the skill that comes by labor, ap To the many—not the few ; plication, and experience. Many If we share our father's bounty With the needy, day by day, men in his time knew far more than . His because ourJiearta remember —- " Watt, but none labored so assidu This was ever mother’s way. Sometimes when our heartsgrow weary ously as he did to turn all that he Or our task seems very long ; did know to useful practical pur When our burdens look too heavy, poses. He was, above all things, And we deem the right all wrong Then we gain a new fresh courago, most persevering in the pursuit of As we rise to proudly say : facts. He cultivated carefully that Lbt us do our duty bravely, This was once our mother’s way.” habit of active attention on which Thus we keep her memory precious, I all £he higher working qualities of While we never cease to pray, ' the mind mainly depend. Indeed, That at last when lengthening shadows | Mr. Edgeworth entertained the Mark the evening of life’s day, They may find us waiting calmly opinion that th,e.di (Terence of intel To go home our dear mother’s way. lect in men depends more upon the —Sei, early cultivation of this kdbit of at tention, than upon any great dis parity between the powers of one individual and another. Even when a boy Watt found science in hjs toys. The quadrants lying about his father’s carpenters’* discovered in 1492; the first print ing press was set up at Copenhagen in 1493; Copernicus announced his discovery of the true system of the universe in 1517 ; Luther was sum moned before the diet of Worms in 1521 ; Xavier, the first great mis- > * I : Nionary" or modern anti astronomy ; his ill-health in duced him to pry into the secrets of physiology ; and his solitary walks through the country attracted him to the study of-botany ami history While carrying on the business of a mathematical-instrument maker he received an order to build an organ ; and, though without an ear for music, he undertook the study of harmonics, ainl . Hucee^sfuUy emi- structed the instrument. And, in like manner, when the little model of Newcomen’s steam-engine, be- longing to the University of Glas gow, was placed in his hands to re pair, he forthwith set himself to learn all that was then known about heat, evaporation, and con densation—at the same time plod- ding his way iiMBfechanics ami -the of which he at length embodied in his condensing steam-engine. For ten years he went on contrive ing and in ventings-with little hope to cheer him, and with feyy friends to encourage him. He went on, meanwhile, earning bread for his family by making and selling quad rants, making and mending fiddles, flutes, aud musical instruments; measuring mason- work, surveying roads, superintending the construc tion of canals, or doing anything that tinned up arid offered a pros pect of honest gain. At length Watt found a fit partner in another eminent leader of industry—Mat thew Boulton, of Birmingham ; a skillful, energetic, and far-seeing man, who vigorously undertook the enterprise of introducing the con- densing-engine into general use as a working power ; and the success of both is now a matter of history. -Self-Help. Some Interesting Facts. Dates are generally dry reading; hut there is sometimes asignificance in the mere grouping of dates; and the reader will find such signifi cance in an attentive consideration of the following events, all occuring he will observe, within the limits of a little over a century: Post offi ces were first established in 1464; "__r ? printed musical notes were first used in 1473; watches were first constructed in 147G; America was planted the cross in India in 1526 ; Albert Drurer gave the world a prophecy of future wood engraving in 1527; Jergens^et the spinning wheel in motion in 1530, the germ of all the busy wheels and looms _ftf... .... ten thousand future factories. Hen ry VIII. of England finally and for ever broke with the pope in 1532; Ignatius Loyplo founded the order of the—Jemfe»in 1A35;- Calvin —— founded the university of Geneva in 15.37 ; modern needles first came in to use in 1545; the first knives were used in England, and the first wheeled carriages in France in 1559; Torquato Tasso wrote in 15C0; religious liberty was granted to the Huguenots in France in 1562, and was followed by the massacre of St. Bartholomew in 1572; Cer- vantr’rwrotff DontyriixoTe in loTT; the first newspaper was published in England in 1588; telescopes were invented in 1590 ; Spencer, Shakes peare, Bacon, Kepler, Tycho Brabe were contemporaries in 1590—these are some of the more important headlands of European history with in a single century.— Evangelist. A Hint to Ladies who Shop. Ladiea, when you go to the stores to buy articles of nge or beauty, have a little patience with the wea ry women who stand behind the counters. It makes my heart ache to see the utter fatigue too often expressed in their faces and forms. Remember that they are compelled to stand all day, and think of the strain thus put on their muscles and backs. Many a time when they show a little irritation—and usually they are ever polite—it is because the nerves, which they pos sess as well as yourselves, have been strung to the greatest possible ten- sion_, an<llbfiy_gaim(A.help^ alight_ - protest. The other day I was looking at veils in a Brooklin store. A re- spectibly dressed person came along •* and began to tiunble the delicate tissues, unfolding them recklessly and disturbing their arrangement. “ Please don’t do so, madam,” saiA^he shop-woman. “ Ladies will not purchase the veils if they are rumpled.” « Iler manner was respectful and I 1 -4 4 f “ 3T ( I I