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A
tain is moved out of its place and
borne irresistibly forward. Before
H ereafter .
it yawns an awful precipice; but,
as if exhausted by the gigantic
We need some shadow o’er out Bliss,
struggle, the waters retire and the
Lest we forget the Giver 7—
So often in our deepest joy
loosened mass of rock is once more
There conies a solemn quiver.
■ at rest. Ajjain and again the wa­ ■
We could not tell from whence it came, ters roll forward, like the phalanx
The subtle cause we can not name,
of any army, when a third wave,
Its twilight fall
Youths’ Department
^KJftV wall jranalJ .
Calm thought of him who gave us all.
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—F. R. Havergal.
Birth of th6 Columbia River.
Steadfastness.
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A Russian Fable.
A peasant was one day driving
some geese- to a neighboring town
where he hoped to sell them. He
had a long stick in his hand, and to
tell-the truth he did not treat his
flock of geese with much considera­
tion. I do not blame him, howev-
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the shattered mass, bearing it grand-
So is it here, so is it now !----------------“ ly -o», then hurting itthou^ands oT
feet below. The breach has been
Not always will it be !
There is a land that.needs no shade ;
made, and-now the imprisoned wa-
A morn will riso ifliich cannot fade , 'tfTS'nT^h’m'a(Tty'0'fr—-i^to7ngrTanin*g,
And we, like flame-robed angclsmade,
/oftmniq—carrvina evcriThinn
annn may a ae .
fore them, wearing their passage
No cloud upon its radiant joy,
through the solid^rock, as they cut
No shadow o’er its bright employ,
x No sleep, no night,
a channel for the grand old Colum­
But perfect sight,
bia. From the Portland JOr.)
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market in time.to make a profit,
and not only geese but men "’must
expect to suffer if they hinder gain.
The geese, however, did not look
on ltre~ffiKtRF^irnKir"ligbt anc
happening to meet a traveller wrtiU
ing along the road they pourec
forth their complaints »gainst the
peasant who was driving them.
“ Where can you find geese more
’^Bappy'lfean we are ?” See' how
this peasant is hurrying on this
way and that, and driving us just
-as"’though’'’WO Were only common
geese. Ignorant fellow as he is, he
never thinks how he is bound to
honor
respoct us ; 4’or - we- -are
the distinguished descendants qf
chose very geese to whom Rome
once owed its salvation, so that a
jn
honor.” ' '7 ~~
“ But for what do you expect to
be distinguished
yourselves ?”
asked the traveller.
“ Because^-our ancestors—”
“ Yes, I know ; I have read all
about it. What I want to know is
The best work the teacher does
for a child is to teach him how to
learn for himself. —
crusade
against text-books had its inspira­
tion in the prevalent notion that
children who learn from books
"Woutd never leafn^Tor themselyes ;
$nd now we have been taught at•
great expense of experience, that
pne^canJeafih. libjecttKalyy aad still.
not train pupils to study for them­
selves. We have learned thp,t it is
in the teacher and her inspiring and
directing power, rather than in any
theory that the secret of such suc­
cesses lies. Study this arb ahd
your reputation is secure. The
teacher does wejl.^t^^
that
the school-life is cnly from six to
done?”
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twelve years interjected into a life
“ Why, our ancestors saved that may be threescore and ten,
Rome.”
and the school-room is not the end
“Yes, yes; but what have you of existence, but merely the means
done of the kind ?”
to an end, and the teacher should
“ We ? Nothing.”
so use it.— Ibid.
“ Of what good are you then ?
Do leave your ancestors at peace.
They are honored for their deeds
but you, my friends, are only fit for
roasting.”
Never forsake a friend. When
When the mountain systems had enemies gather around,when sick­
been perfected, encircling ^he wa­ ness falls on the heart, when the
ters between the Rocky Mnnnt.ftina.- world is dark and clfeerless, is the
and Cascade Range, forming a time to try true friendship. They
great inland sea, the tide no longer who turn from the scene of distress,
ebbed and flowed there “ twice in betray their hvpocrisy^and
that interest only moves them. If
alarm of the storm was sounded : you have a friend who loves you—
when the thick clouds were-muster- who has studied your ___
interest and
ed for the black tempest, and the happiness—be sure to sustain him
winds burst forth in their madfnry, in adversity. Let him feel that his
then the waves dashed up the steep former kindness is appreciated, and
sides of the sand cliffs and each that his love wa3 not thrown away.
left its ripple marks as it receded. Real fidelity may be rare, but it ex­
Tn fha prnn^c-o nfiirmn fcka
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fits—in the Tieart They only deny
changed to stone, the waves lines its worth and power who have nev­
still remained—mementoes of a er loved a friend, or labored to
past epoch. As the upheaval of the make one happy; The good and
bed of the imprisoned waters con­ the kind, the affectionate and the
tinued, their surface gradually rose virtuous, see and feel,4Jie heavenly
' until far above the level of the ocean, influence.— Ex.
unable to escape the mountain chain
that formed an impenetrable barrier
The Best Life.
to their egress. If thefe was a
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diminuation from evaporation, it
The first object nf a good man is
was more than compensated by ihe to please God. His wants are few.
rainfall during the rainy season. Home, a few real friends, a way to
Nature' never builds fences. The
Then as now, the sea breeze carried secure money for honest, self-sup­ mountain slopes down to meet the
eastward the ocean-formed clouds, port, and benevolence, the opportu­ valley, the day fades and darkens
when the moisture was condensed nity of learning more of God in his into night, the shore shelve« off into
by the cold and the rainfall was words and in his works, and of Jo­ the sea, but the exact point at
general. Streamsand rivers were
^owing jn^0 t|le impyia- will not be lazy ; he will not will­
is undetermined. Is there then no
oned waters, which were thus con­ ingly be poor ; but he will do noth­ distinction between them ? Is the
stantly increasing.
During the ing which he knowst dr suspects to daytime as the night, because no
T lapse of ages the imprisoned waters be wrong, to getricL He does not eye can fix the instant when the
.reach the summit of the Cascades. stoically seek affliction ; but in har­ gates unclose to 1st the morrdng
A storm arises. Great waves are mony with his first principle, ho through ? Is the separation be­
rolling across its surface. See I holds that “’tis a mqrcy when God* tween land and sea unreal, because
~ what a monster billow approaches! takes from us what takes us from between them lies a narrow stiip
It would overwhelm a whole fleet 1 God.” Though bis meditations in over which they alternately hold
Now it breaks with the force of a the Lord may be long because they sway ? The Christian life must-
.million. toiw .against-the-reeky W are sweet, his prayeTL’i^TTFbe "short, slope
..... downward
......... ...... ~ to meet the world.
ries interposed» between two lofty and very much like the Lord’« I and mingle with it. .. In busines.’i
peaks. Look '. a part of the moun- prayer.— Christian Intelligencer. I partnerships, in political interests,,
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in social matters, in hundreds v
a.fl
,
j Gnfistian and unchris­
tian man must meet
ne*!
ground. Is the distinction bei,,^
them therefbre Jost,’ even for an in­
stant ? Reo»«'se they have great
interests m common, because in
many thing“ *hey act alike, is the
one in all essentials like the other *
"OL?'4 '.’.fir the day is as the •
night. Narrow is the bord^gjand
on which the two men meet. As
regards all the great realities the
ope is in the shadowy, valley and —•
the* other on . the sunlit heights ;
twilight’s border-
land, but one never passes over it
into the day, nor the other beyond
it into the night.— Ex.
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