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About Christian herald. (Portland ;) 1882-18?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 19, 1883)
10 / X •• CtîtltsTîAN HH ft Atü. ■ Y his host, impatiently. “It has fellow,” Charlie had said to How his purpose to write. His friends ard ; and that youth replied, “Not frequently said to him “ Why don’t burned out. It wants oil.” Written for the Herald. " You have diagnozed your own a bit stuck up if he is rich.” “ He you begin ? You are getting along Death of Little Children. case. You want oil. You have plays the best game of ball and in life and after awhile you will be lawn tennis of any one I know,’’’ too okl to write the poem.* And Many sweet children have lived and died, burned out your strength and never renewed the supply. Good-night.” added Charlie. “ He’s always such he would keep saying: “ To-morrow And said good-by at the riverside ; They dipped their feet in the shining He would not speak another a gentleman too; one never hears I will begin.” ’But once when to stream any swear words ortlang from him. morrow came, he was dead and his word. and faded away like a lovely dream. We are often reminded of the old I’d like to be such a man, wouldn’t life work was done, and what he CHOBVS. had gathered worthless. clergyman’s answer when we read a you ?” asked Howard. We shall meet them again on the shore, book by some once popular writer, E. E. Hale Bays : “ There is. Having felt the admiration ex We shall meet them again on the shore made up of mannerisms, of re-heated pressed in the above sentence, it is great virtue in beginning. To be With fairer face and angel grace, pathos or passion, and of vapid fil not surprising. that Howard ap gin means that you are going to E ich loved one will welcome us there. ling up. -There is the lamp in peared a little abashed as his hero’s succeed and that you know you Many dear children we know do stand And tune their harps in the better land ; shape and color as before. But the Voice fell on his ear, for he was are—that there ¡8 no such word as Their little hands from each'golden oil is burned out. He forgot to painfully conscious that the expla ‘ fail.’ ” “ Well begun string, nation which was overheard in the keep up the supply. Is half done” Brings music sweet while the angels We have sermons, too, which are balcony was unworthy of a Chris sing, mere literary efforts, instead of ap„- tian lad. Nevertheless Howard is an old saying which has grown Brings music sweet while the angels out of the experience of the world. « peals from one human soul which raised his hat,saying, sing. “ I did not know you were there, And the Italians bave an old pro has found God to others who knew They used to mourn when the'children him not. The lamp gives no light, Mr. McDonald ; you rather startled verb, “It is the first shower that died wets,” by which they mean very fair as its construction may be. me with your solemn words.” ! Before King Jesus was crucified, much thé same thing. The cross with light unchanging beam, The preacher spent all his effort in “ I am not sorry to jlo that, my If, therefore, you think you ought Now lights all the way over the misty the construction and forgot that young friend, for I should like to stream impress *6n your mind that it doe» to study your lesson, don’t say “ I there was no oil^inside. Now lights all the way over the misty The Savior gives the same figure make a difference' how' we treat will by and by/’ but begin now. stream. Dallas, Or. Jan. 7, 1883. . „ . ........ deeper meaning. He tells us of the every one with whom we meet, no If you feel like helping mamma, be time when all the -souls of men matter if only once met. The un gin at once ; she may not need yoqr Lamps Withoùt Oil. shall go forth-to meet him to whom kind-speech you made to the com- help when you have had a good time pfaying first. If you think, Old Father K----- was well they shall render an account of pariion on the- ball ground, may “ I ought to turn over a new leal known in Western Virginia, in the their work in life. They would all have lasting effect on him. He and do better than I have,” begin. early part of this century, as one then willingly appear fair and knows you belong to Christian If you feel, “I ought to give of the few remaining specimens of shining in his sight. But some will parents. He, as I happen to know, iny heart to Christ and be his little the old type of itinerant preachers, ’ have forgotten to bring oil; their does not. The thought miy occur child,” do it at once. In this case rugged, acrid, almost fierce in hi9 lamps will have gone out.— Selected. to him that boys of Christian pa the beginning is the main thing. If ------------------------------- rents are no better than others— attacks upon Satan in a soul which The Difference it Makes. Something which is said everyday, you only truly begin to give him he wished to save, yet with a depth J-i- , BI HABXIET COCPLABD. because we donotguard carefully our your heart, you will find the work of tender feeling underneath which done—He never delays to accept showed itself, however, but rarely. “ Well, what’s the difference 1 actions and words. Remember that one who begins in earnest to serve On one occasion, the old gentle Don’t suppose I’ll even see him every word, every act has its influ Him. man went to Pittsburgh, and was again, any way,” and with this ex ence, and there will be no excuses If you feel like starting a mis the guest of a prominent politician cuse Howard Bradley “ shied ” a for unkind ones, at the throne of sionary society among your com and lawyer whom he had known in pebble that he held in his hand at God in the* day of judgment. I panions, or an Excel Band, begin. a happy father bird, who was ex feel the greatest interest in both of his youth as a hopeful convert. The longer you put it off the less In the evening his host came in pressing his joy at the successful you, my young friends,” continued likely you are to succeed. to his room haggard and exhausted hatching of four blue eggs in a nest Mr. McDonald, “ and I want you to No matter what the thing may feel that you are in some measure with heavy work in (hecourts, sup not far off. be you are proposing to do, if, it be plemented by a campaigning tour “ ‘ Every human being that we your brother’s keeper. Therefore worth doing at all, the sooner it is and incessent stump-speaking. meet with in this world, though we be ever on your guard, more espe begun the better.— Ex. " I wish you could prescribe for should never meet with him again, cially in holiday times—for ’tis me, Father K----- ,”he said’ “ You will meet with us at the day of said that more wrong is done in Punctuality. used to be a skillful physician for judgment.’ So some wise man has leisure than in busy moments— When eight Quaker ladies had both body and mind. My brain is written,” said a voice from the bal that no human soul shall meet with you on that last great day and say : an appointment, and seven punctu failing, my memory plays me false. cony, and looking up, Howard saw I can no longer formulate my ideas young Mr. McDonald sitting with ‘ But for him I should be among the al and the eighth, being a quarter of an hour too late, began apologiz with force or directness. After a his slippers and newspaper, appar redeemed of the Lord.’ ” To his evening prayer Howard ing fur keeping the others waiting, sleepless night my hand shakes in ently enjoying the cool of the added this petition : “ From all sin the reply from one of them wa«, “ I the morning like that of a drunkard evening. This Mr. McDonald was a rich in moments of pleasure and leisure, am sorry, friend, that thee should or a nervous woman. Tonics and young man, who, like Howard and good Lord deliver me.”— Ex. medicines have no effect. What is have wasted thine own quarter of — ---------- ♦ • ----------- • his friend Charley, was spending the matter with me ?” hour, but thee had no right to waste .- Begin. The lamp beside Father E— at ! some of thft hot days at the seaside. two hours and seven-eighths more Before I give you Howard’s re ~3VTien y ou' La ve iiïade" up -ymrr -of -w. lime which. waa .noMhipe the moment burned low, and went out with a sputter and nauseous ply to Mr., McDonald’s remark, I mind to do anything the best thing own.” And of Washington it is smell. The old clergyman began to must tell you that this young gen to do is to begin. said, that when his Secretary, on tleman and the two lads had It is said of Alfred De Bigney some important occasion was late, pull up the wick and to turn the already become very good friends. that he spent his life getting ready and excused himself by saying that screw. • There is no use in that/” said “ Mr. Mack -is such a splendid, to begin a great poem which it was his wat^h was too slow, the reply Family Circle.
