PACIFIC GHRJgTIAN MESSENGER, THURSDAY,
MAY 31, 1877.
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tile noisy unloading of the spoils of ■ its portion for .it centur^ after- the altogether, and that the ten ftiin- lipved, to the eleventh century be
___________________ - Asia, and the wealth of the West Consul L. Mummins entered the uteiTTiath every morning could have fore Christ. Thus the three great
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MISS MARY STUMP, EDITOR, i h»- disembarked.; little thinking, no city in triumpj), then B. C. 4G it prevented.
doubt, that the sensuous luxurious was rebuilt by Julius C«?«ar. On
For it need not be ten minutes,' Hebrew hyms by David, the Vedic
Bi.ble Alphabet. _ . _ city of Corinth would be his home j account of. its advantageous -posi- indeed, if it is done every day; there hyins of the Hindus, ami the Chi
ami. the scene of bis labore for a ' tion it soon attracted a great tide will be nothing, that needs serious nese Book.of Odes, have subs^m-
A is for angels, a pure, fair band,
They sing glory to God in the happy year and six months. ”
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1 wonder how many little girts continued a busy commercial city id passing of the wet sponge, ah«l ranked by nothing , in literature
B is for Ifible, so good and true, -
who go to Sunday school could tell . for many generations, but in the the quick strong use of the’ coarse save -certain Hebrew historical
It-offe;» salvation for me arid you.
the names of the Triendk Pawl found march of progress Corinth fed lie towels afterwaudj will take hardly books. Itis also comforting to'
C is fot Christian, so humble and kind, upon entering thtt city, and Avh yre hind, and in the Turkish conquest so much time at that.
knovf that the ch oice specimens * of—
A friend and brother in him you will in the Bible the story.is told <>f his of Greece received its death blow,
Again, in the’, mere matter of Chinese wit and sentiment which
find-
sojourn in the city - -of Qorinth, 'ptfe modem town is squalid and good looks, who is •there tliat does are scattered yver every tea chest
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b is for Death, in mercy ’tis given,
wliifli an ancient historian desig unhealthy, and it • is with amaze not prefer the society of.thd .'clean and other article of Chinese manu-
’ To relieve ua from care and take us
nates as tlie “fetters of Greece,” ment that we behold how few the person whev is plain to that of the lacture, and .which, of course, evciyt.
heaven.
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<>n account of ius^o-ition on the remains are’ of that city which uficlqan person who, is otherwise body has read with exqusite defigfit,’ ‘
E is for earth, and in it are given’
isthmus- connecting Peloponneses Cicero styled “ lumen—i tedious lovely allowing that an unclean are taken from the same ancient
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Those trials and joys which fit us for
Greeial," the eye of ad.Greece.
and
Greece-proper.
person exists among our acquaint Book of Odes.—I)q. H emenway , in,
heaven.
The origin of Corinth as that of
M ay .W eli . ixo ,
ances; who is there that does not see Christian Adrm
F is for faith, and they «we happy who
many a greater pile of ruins is lost,
a superior beauty in the former, if
find ■
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Peculiarities of Authors.
By believing in Jesus sweet comfort of in the night of tune; it existed, we
The Neighbor of Godliness. the latter is incorrigible ? And
are assured, however, before the
even if ¡n.youtb one is not to be
mind.'
Goethe ‘ abominated
Almost every body desires to called fine looking, encouragement
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G 1Vfor Gospel, and no P“” or tongue -.«'go of Troy, under another name,
though
he
was
a
German.
Bayai'd
Tuff
It
is
hardly
wise
to
assume
for
[have
good
health,
and
almost
every
Couhl speak sweeter counsel to'the
be taken from the fact that
aged and young.
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■truth,, tHe' popular ‘traditions that, .body desires to makte a pleasing per persist^t‘bathing and exercisewill Taylor sayf< that he toll rated tL.
inav not be the- real firsts in the. sonal impression, upon w.hei’s, and do so much for one that the skin use of the pipe by Schiller and his
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With the pure and faithful in the home ease. It .
■ f. th® vl<b-st* almost’eveiy boily desires t<>’ have will be smooth, the eye brig®, the • sjrei«reign, Carl August, Init utlier-A .
of the blest.
. ’ Grecian cities as well as the most the,mental and plij -ical faeulti«'sat color fine, at sixty and seyety, while wise was very severe in denouncing
I is for iffia’ge, and may wtf often find
opulent; Twice is i^ mentioned by their'best, and the virtue all that the indolent beauty of,twenty has it. Goethe himself somewhere says
that,"with tobacco, garlic, bed-bugs
Man the image of bis Maker both in Homer, * in the Iliad, as “-the virtue caq be.
become little better in .look than“ a
body and mind..
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hypocrits he should wage pen- •
Of course tjiere -is no one specific, hag; anil thtf one is then, coiitpara-
wealthy.” It was the. mother of
¡actual
war.”'--------------------------- .
J is for Jesns, so humble and mild
painting, the richest of the orders no elixiroflife, whose single draught tively with what is expected ofJ'
Wonderful in wisdom whea»but achild.
Authors,
vary in their methods of
of architecture named the Corinth can effect all this.-—But there is tt I threescore years and ten, as much I
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composition.
Hawthorne made in
K" is for king, ou r King rufcs SBove
specific that ¿an help us along way I ' a beauty as the other was at twen
ian
there,also
T__ had .. its origin __
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. . bronze,
His ruling is - gentle, tis the ruling of J. I ore
aS it is. sonietimes called Cor toward such an end, and can, at»aJl ty; comparatively With what is ex numerable fiotes of every flitting > >
idle.
quaint fancy, stratige anecdote,, or
inthian brass, - The towa -tcosta odds, put us In the condition to. pected of voulh.
T, is for love, and by lore Jesus wins
..eccentric
person. TL«;se notes lw
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make
the
most
of
ourselves^-rtTirt"
vases of Corinth were' set b^a^Ttiful
~TT Tie al th js no consideration,!
The hearts of the wutldly from .their
that the Romans^ when they, cbii- that is thc^old fieigLEor of godliness Ivauty'may be ;• anti if beauty is' afterwards worked up into his sto- /
erroi;sand sins.
ries. Several distinguishi-.il Amer
quered tim^'city, carried them in —cleanliness.
not. respectability should be,Tor one
M is for mercy, Lord teach us to know
ican writers have tha lurtiit. of jote- _
Cleanliness
has
from
time
imme
is niff respectable if one is nlfc thor
That humble compassion whieb pardons triumphto Rome where theybrought
ting
a sentence, or a line or two
morial
been
recognized
as
not
a
ltix-
fabulous prices. Thus were the
oughly clean. 'Let'cz/re be wealthy -
each foe.
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here
and there, upon a Iqpg-page
uryjtimply,
but
a
necessity'of
man
>• tine arts fostered. in the richest,
as merchants and well bom as prin
N is for new, and a new life we must
and
then
filling up the outline thus
most licentious city of all Greece; kind as well; and the ancient races ces, as the. old Venetians used to I
live
;
made
with
persistent revision.
When we come to Jesus and our hearts likewise thy diode of warfare there made such wonderfuF'arffl magnifi claim they were, yet if pne is a
Woodsworth
used to compose
to him give. • ■
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rt^eiv^anew impetpe, for Thucy- cent provision for it that its. very, whited sepulchre under one’s finely,
aloud
while
walking
in the field.,
O is for over, and over there an Angel dgkis tells us that the shipbuilders ruins astound us; whilc-we put up if one is not clean, one* is not re
of Corinth were the first to build two or three clapboarded shanties spectable, Ami only those people and woods. Sometimes he would
land
Is waiting to welcome tfs* when we war galley^ or triremes. .
in our great cities for the use of the have made any pretensions to civil use a slate-pencil and the smooth
safely land.
The rocky, l»rren isthmus of use of the populace, and consider ization of an advanced nature who side of a rock to jf>t down his lines.
I' i> .for pure, and pure in heart we Corinth was only six "“or seven ourselves, when all is said—if we do live paid attention to bathing, the Walter Scott worked, fasting from
must be.
miles wide, ' through which was a* not build and sculpture So well—yet arts of the toilette, noble dress, and five in the-morning till about ten?
If ever the face of oar God wo would
He clung to his home and library,
ship traverse, where merchant much the suj>eriorfcpeople.
general cleanliness.— Harper'8 Ba
see.
neatly arranged, where he could
Perhaps
we
are
as
cleanly
ras
any
ships were drawn from sea to sea
zar.
Q is for quiet, O may we- be found
other
people,
and
more
so
than
by machinery. A mass- of rock
I. find any volume at a moment’s
living
warning. Lord Jeffrey Used' con
sqme;
bu,t
there
is
room
for
the
ex
The Chinese Language.
Lives peaceful and happy. All enemies rising some 200(Weet above the sea
versation
to stimulate his mind to
ercise
of
yet
a
great
deal
more
care
a veritable “ Gibralter ” in its pre
forgiving.
write
a
new
article.
of
our
bodies,
and
it
will
never
be
The Chinese language is, perhaps,
1» is for refuge, where the Lord’s cipitous strength, was for genera
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Professor
Wilson,the
“ Kit North ”
tions the fortress of the sons of undertaken as a matter of habit by the most difficult of mastery among
children shalj rest
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of
Blackwood
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s
Magazine,
¿jotted ’
When the trials of life are over with the Corinth, who consecrated the hill to the masses till it has been carried the languages of men. It is the
pure and blest.
Aphrodite, upon which a magnifi through as a matter of conscience 'most remarkable specimen of an is down in a large ledger “skeletons,”'
olating or monosyllabic language, from which, when he desired an ar
8 is for saint, who with all forgivon
cent temple was built for that god by the indiyiduaf
Will sing praise round the -throne of dess, who was worshipped, through
But all do not think of this, or which has been the instrument of a ticle, he would select and and clothe
their Savior in heaven.
else hold themselves clean enough respectable civilization and the re- it with muscle and nerve. He was'
out the city.
T is for temple. God’« temple are we.
The Acrocorinthus, for that was without much effort. They mean postory of abundant literature. a very rapid writer and composer,
May we keep oar. minds pure, our the name of the hill, a citadel by to be clean; but to-morrow—today Each word is a monosyllable, atid but would work only when he liked
hearts from sin free.
nature, still frown in unapproach they have something more impor- expresses a complete idea, "fhe and how he liked. .He mantained
L is fof unity, O that all God’s child able majesty upon the blue waves tantto attend to; and so, like the written language is entirely differ that any man in good health might
ren might be
from the spoken. The charac write an entire number of Blacks-
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of the gulf kissing its feet, but of man in The BlithetUde Romance, ent
United in faith, in hope, and in sweet
ters
represent not the sounds, but WOoT 8.
they
rinse
the
front
of
their
faces
the glories of Grecian sculpture that
charity.
Mrs. Lewes, “George Eliot,” incu-
and
ooarider
their
toilettes
ma<le;
the
ideas,
and so, of course, must be
beautified the temple upon its sum?
V is for vine, which vine is the Lord,1
liates
for two or three years before
If we would be frnitful branches we mit in the days of Herodotus, they know they must rejxrat the as numerous. The whole number
she
writes
a book she writes a book,
nothing now remains save “ seven operation tO-morrow, and to-mofrow has been stateel as high as 50,000,
~ must «bide in His word.
tfiough
it
is
probable
that
a
good
reading up her subject in scores and
W is for willing, and willing we should Doric columns,” supposed to have they will take fnore pains; if, in
deed, they are pot of those ■who, knowledge of even 10,000 would scores of volumes. She is one of
been sacred to Athena Chalinitis.
be
To do as the Father bids ns in -meek
No illustrious name in literature when they think they have the op enable one to read any ordinary the masters, so-called, of all learn
humility.
has descended in The annals of eration to refloat nd infinitum, are Chinese book, and to write intelli ing, talking with scholars and men
X is for ’xample, and such is our Savior Corinth except that of Periander ready to sit down in despair and gibly on any subject. But to' make of science on terms of «quality— E.c.
In virtue and mercy, and modest be who perfected _ Dithyrambic mea not do it at all.
the individual and familiar acquaint
havior.
Ben Johnson.
There is a great deal of cleanli ance of even this numbe| of unrela
sure. Diogones, the greatest of all
Y is for youth *nd in youth is the best cynics, in this cynical world, found ness sacrificed to a misunderstood ted particles in this great literary
re old Ben,” his hinds called
time to give
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a sepulcher at Corinth, of all the convenience. ( It should really be sandheiip is a task truly prodigious. him—an English dramatist, eon-
- 1 Our hearts to Jeans, and begin lives
Their literature is voluminous to temporary with Shakespeare, used
world the city of cypresses and the most convenient to be clean, to
true and noble to livo.
a
formidable
degree. A collection to dress shabbily. Being inforiued
have one's Hkin healthy, one’s pores
splendid tombs.
that Lord Craven would I«e pleased
Z is for zealons, and all Christians
Corinth was independent till with open, and one's blood circulating. of the Chinese classics, with com to see him, Ben went to his lord
should be
~ Zealously working to. set the wor^d the rest of Greece it fell into Mace But one is chilly—one must make mentaries and scholia, begun by a ship’s mansion. The porter, not
donian power; thenceforth the haste to the tire »nd be more com- repent emperor, is said to contain liking his looks or dress, reftised to
f/om sin free.
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L izzie E li .
'Acrbcorintlius held a Macedonian fortabletdtone mnstgei'hne’u Irreak- 180,000 volumes. The printed cat admit him. Rough language and
Weston, Oregon.
garrison until B. C. 243, it xms fast pnd he off to bnsines^, because alogue of the same emperor’s libra much noise attraced the nobleman •
to the door.
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captured by Aratus. A- century
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that pajs. But one would possi- ry consist of
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“I understood,” saidriBen, “that
Cities of thè Bible.
later, while recogisined as the capital bljrknow nothing alkfcitchiyiness if pages each, and is represented as a your lordship wished to see me.”
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“Yon, friend! Why, who may you
of the Achean league, it fought one took ■the brisk bath and the most creditahle monument of liter
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be?’’
with mighty Tlome. The Tost is quick rub, and stt the blood to ary genius and taste.
“I am Ben Johnsdn.’
coiipm. ’ .
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Of course, the great bboks of their
quickly tyld. for the crashing of the spinning warm and red; and one
"No, no, you.can not bo the great
So long ago, that we can almost Roman ploughshare of barbarism will find that Jafsihesa ceases to literature, the center and germ of author who wr6fo 'The Sil, nt Wo
" «count the lapse of time by thous- through the streets jioon wrecked pay wlien all the ducts are clogged, 'the whole, are the five ante-Confip- man!* Yowdnbk as if you could
*’ ands of years since then, a great the voluptudurt city. The inert- the skill is sallow, tha hair is fallen, ciAn, railed, in order, the Book of not say 'bq' To a goose."
The dramatist, looking straight
preacher had turned, his face to were slain, women and children and the overtaxed organs that ar«, Changes, of Records, of Ode*[ of
at
the nobleman's face, with a com-'
ward his native land, but instead sold as slaves, every quarter rifled obliged to do the work of the neg Rites, and Annals of Spring and ical air, cried, “-Boi”
of crossing what w now called the by the soldiery, and the treasures lected skin give way and break down Autumn. Of these the third, the
"I am now convinced,” raid his
into complication of all sorts of dis Book of Odes, is regarded as the lordship, “You are Ben Johnson.”_ *
Archipelago, he sailed into «the of Corinth went to enrich Rome.
The bitterness of desolation was eases that put an end to business most ancient; going back, if^ls be- Standard.
Corinthian harbor, and there amid
Christian Family.
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