6
PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER. THURSDAY, SEPT. 6, 1877.
Superior Persons,
j about snobs, prigs, conceit, selfislmess, Jesus! O Lord Jesus! have mercy justly praised, and have not the public
re- I Rnd 8»on> wben his name “ “*ntion- upon my* pdbr soul !’
Now, sir neglected those others which the crit­
— in.« vi/tr xtimpepi T qr . - sp . i 4 j i l.ility hjnuit -1 inipminr person, j eib /fo'"«- Jou i n<d.
your religion may be all very well ics justly damned ?.
"
when
a.
man
is
all
rikdit
and
squ
are.
. • \ Three Seasons.
He is a long. UaV elevated above-’tht* 1 TT
,
ttt h
i___
s
How T Far
Will a n
Graenback
Go ? but. when he gets' a lump of coal on
•
~ x-’ A Senaiblê Girl. •——-
| petty vices and foibles of the .majority :
“ A cup for hope
she said,
and he takes care tint you shall know j yjr, Browq kept boarders. Around | him it makes him sing out.’”
Example is better than precept, al­
In springtime ere the bloom Was oM*.
it. Beer and skittles have no attrac- ] his table «at Mr. Brown, Mrs. Brown, ;
The erimeou wine was poor and cold
ways A young lady of Kansas, tired
Livingstone's
Boyhood.
By her mouth's richer red.
tions for lum, and lie is so proud of! Mrs. Andrews, the. village milliner,;
of meeting the excuse, when tirgbig
the fact he can not persuade himself; Mr. Black, the bilker, Mr. Jordan, a; The boyhood arRTaubscqiieht lifo <if her poorer neighbors to attend church/
■ “ A cup for love f bow low.
How soft the words : and all the wbiic -
to allow you to remain in ignorance
of j earfienter, and Mr. Hadley, a flour, | Livingstone, the missionary explorer
O
Oh ! the people dress so much ; I
Her blush was rippling with a stnila
it. The consciousness that he-.i^CH]- J feed and lumber merchant.
i ol’Ml-foiea, illustrates the lines:
pan t afford to go in that style,” has
Like Summer after snow.
’_w .
tivated iir person and mind has a pe- , Browij
Browij took
took out
out of of his
his jiocket-book
pocket-book I ■ •• “ Honor
Honor and
and aliame
tdiame from
from no
no condition
condition rise
rise ; determined to dress as plainly as the
;• “A cup for njemory !”
culiar .influence upon his comfort.
In ’ a ten
ten
dollar
dollar
nojt^,
nojt^,
am.|
and
handed
handed
it
it
to
to
Act
Act
well
well
thy
thy
part,
part,
there
there
uliabe
all
ibe
fomor
honor
lie»,
lies
’ ’ - I iorest of them wood. Accordingly
•
‘
I
i Sr
f ‘S. C SSVV,'
•
■ Cold eupthkt oue must drain alone.
the first place, it renders him alive to Mfo. Brown saying
. c
: 1 When Da4*flt*Liv,ingston was a boy," joJijw.fer the last Six months xyom
saving:"
.-..■II
While autumn winds are up'and moan
the weaknesses of his brethren, and ; “ “ Here,
Here, mv
my dear,
dear, are.
are. ten
ten "dollars
dollars to-
i1 i he win? obliged
~ to4 lie at the lrtills byv w’church the saine çaliço drew, costing
Across the barren sea.
inspires him with an amount of can- j W »» ard
; six o’clock every morning, and he did ninety cents, and a hat which cost her
ill *1 the
VI Iv twenty
VWVHly 1 * promised'you.
|»I will lovU ^4X1. ”
Hope, mencjiy. h>ve^
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dor which, as this is a dege-nerate age. i ■ Mrs. Brown
-'---J
■> s*
x«_. An- 1 not leave until eight o’clock in the eighty cents, discarding ^qv-es. Thus
handed
it t^> Mrs.
Hope for fair morn and love for day a-”
is,
it
is
to
b0
feared,
not.
appreciated.
!
drr»ws,
the
milliner,
saying
:
Evening. It migfit well ls*‘ supj>ox«d attired, she has played the organ and
Ahd memory for the evening gay .
He betrays.a laudable anxiety to im­ ! “ That pays for my new bonnet.”
And solitary.dove.
that the little factory boy would have felt “ quite comfortable,” iCs she certi­
—Ctu-iifina Rotefii
prove the conditfolfVf his neighbora.
Mrs. Andrews said to Jordan, as she been - glad to rest during the short fiés.— A. C. lleJeiew:
He would wean .the drunkaid, the handed him the note : ___
time that he was not at work. But a
August Days.
spendthrift, the profligate, the* sloven,
What a Trifle May Hide.
“ That will pay youi for your work lad with such a spirit of determina­
O ' these August days, perfect, days,
and the brute from their evil ways, and on my counter.”
" '
tion as Davie possessed, was not easily
with " Summer’s green all girded 'up
over and over again he exhorts them • Jordan handed it to Hadley, the to be »Interred from pursuing the course • The little boy who held the six­
in sheaves,” while
,
to this end. He hblds up a model for flour, feed- and lumber merchant, re­ which he had marked out for himself. pence near his eye and said, “ O moth­
“ Round about ns orchards sweep.
er ! it is bigger titan the room !" and
them-to imitate, and the model is one questing liis lmAber bill.
When he received his first week’s
Apple and peach tree trailed deep.”
when he drew it still nearer he ex-
which he may. be expected to know a
Hadley gave the note back to pay, he forthwith purchased a Latin
The sun shui^.hi»t upon the hillside,
claimed,
O mother' it is bigger than
great-dual about, since it is himself Brown saying: fo' ’
gr
— fttpm
\niar
a with a portion of it, and,
IV"
e*
all
out-doprsAnd
in just that way"
r
-That
pays
teti
dollars
—on
my
|
w
i
thin
He couiplarently informs those wlfo
.......... a very short tin*, joined an
Lees flj> in kn<F out, the cool shadows
the
worldling
hides
God,
and Christ,
Jisten to him that they ought to be board.”
evening school. The school was a
of the pear trees ft^j upon the short
and
judgment,
and
eternity
from view,
I
able to make themselves what he has.
Brown passed it to his wife, with very humblefone, and it was partially
grass in .strangeWfantastic figures.
behind
some
paltry
pleasure,
some
made himself, and that if they tfo not the-reuiark that ¡that paid her twenty supported by the owners of the cotton
Half a mile away through the boughs
trifling
joy,
or
some'small
jmssession
choose to do so, their misery reste^upOn ♦lollai's he had promised. She in turn mills for the benefit of those emploped
of peach trees laden now with crimson
their own heads, and it is a waste of paid it to »Black, to settle , her bread by them, the dominie who carried it which foiall perish with the using, and
■' fruit, the wheat field glows and ripens
time for them to go about repining. and pastry account, who handed it to onjbeing thus enabled to give instruc­ [»ass away, with all earth’s lusts and
in the noonday glare. -We go black-
glory, in the approaching day of (Sod
He has managed to escape falling into Hadley, wishirm^redit for the amount tion at a low rate to his pupils* ■
berrying too these early. August' days
the. pitfalls- which have. l>*set him on his flour «MR, ne again returning it v Davie now began to learn in real Almighty.— Ex.
heaping our ]»ails with luscious fruit,
through life, he lias madefor himself a to Brown with the remaqk that it set­ earnest, corrtinuing, night after night,
'comforting ourselvei in a quiet way
Value of Poultry Manure.
comfortable position “fat .least he as­ tled for that month’s board. Where­ to attend the school until ten o’clock,
for our scratched bleeding hands with,
sumes that he has made tliat jibsîfTonF upon Brown put it l>ack into his and then devoting two hours—some­
From actual experiment, we found
v •• There will I»* briars when1 I terries
and he has earned a reputation- that ¡locket-book, exclaiming that he never times more, unless his mother prevent­ that droppings lrom four Bramah«, for
orow.’l and with, all the other trite
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should be the eiTVy ”f all- C'onse- thought a ten dollar bill would go. so ed him by taking his books away—to one night, weighed in one case, exactly
allusions wécün cotïjiüe Alp, .w>luciug
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quenfly ITfose wlfo, being weak aud V----- :------ 4
_ the preparation of the, following itaVs
•om> pound ; and in another more than
ourselves too as we turn bom -ward
tempted at every twjst and turn," do .'Thus a tell dollar greenback was lessons ¡and so absorbed was lie always three-quarter*; nn a\’erage of nearly
wit'ii a look,. along, long look at the
not dp what lie has done, are fit only made to pay ninety dollars iridebted- in his thought, that the luinf work .in foui; ounces to each liird. By drying
royal splendor of an August vtHfaet.
to fosfoctured liy’t’i-'ir b. tt-'i - I'lwy 1 ncss, inside of five minutes, Who which he ..was regularly engaged seem­ tins was redtatod to one and a half
Then the long delicious twilights full
have no excuse for their tastes, since fo s ■ greenbacks are worthless ?
ed almost to be.-J.yst sight-of by liini.-^- ounces. Other breeds make less : but
of it st ¿nd heartsease, sitting silent
A’ a ...
- ’
he is so pure and undefiled. let he
allowing one dunce ¡»er bird daily, of
<lut onthy old porch while a mellow
1ms. somewhat inconsistently, a happy
dry measure, fifty fowls will make in
Sermons
in
Coal,
voice within p^tirs forth cxultingly
How Greenback Paper la Made. their roosting house alone, about ten
way of indicating that it would be
i
- _ tie- beautiful words’ <>f " Harvest
impossibio for other individuals to
The London City M ine ion Maya-
Home.”
AH-the pXptg* for the money issued cwt., per annum, of the Isst manure in
zine
has the,following account of the
shine ns he «binés, as they are not
tire world. Hence, fifty good fowls
• No days of the whole year deck the
made of thé true and sterling métal of effect of the preaching of infidel lec­ by the United States Government is will make more than enough manure
,
world in so brilliapt a robe as do the
which he is composed. He often al- turers and of the insufficiency of then "manufactured on a sixty-two inch for an acre of land, seven cwt., being
yellow harvest days of August; no
Fourdrinier machine, at the Glen Milla,
fects to deplore tli? circumstance» that Gospel in the hour of trial:
Uot even theugi-een valleys lif .sjiring-
near
West Chester, Pa. Short pieces the usual quantity’applied per acre;
“ Some few years ago, two Or three
his neighbors are not so highly organ­
and poultry manure living even richer
time-, nor-ri»gorgeous trust brightened
ized as he is himself, but he accepts gentlemen went from London to Bir­ of red silk are mixed with the pulp in than guano in ammonia and fertilis­
maple leaves of October can surpass
• the severe logic'of the situation. Con­ mingham to deliver a course of lec­ the engine, and the finished stuff is ing salts. The.other 'stock will give
the golden glory of the harvest glow
sequently,though he preaches ‘bi'fliem, tures on Infidelity, and to prov‘e that conducted to the wire without passing, an actual return in this way, and these
and the touch of August sunshine
though he graciously allows, them to men were better without religion than through any screens, which might re­ figures demand careful attention from
kissing to'a ruddy ripeness the bloom
contemplate his many admirable traits, with it. Amongst the rest of the tain the silk threads. By an arrange­ the large farmer. The manure, before
of peach an<i pear and plum. The
and though lie becomes quite affected working men that went to hear them, ment above the wire cloth, a shower using," should be mixed with twice its
calendar of the months pours into the
when protesting that he yearns for I were two miners who were members of short pieces of fine blue silk thread bulk of earth, and then allowed to
lap of August the yield of the year’s
the day when all men shpll lie brought 1 of the Wesleyan Society, and very is dropped in streaks upon the jiaper stand in a heap, covered with a few
preparation and tills the great ware­
together and live as one happy, family, 1 regular in their attendance at the while it is being formed. The upper inches of^earth, till decomposed
houses with hpgvest riches destined
he insists upon their remaining at such , chapel services and meetings. Hav­ side, on which the blue silk is dropped throughout, when it makes the very
, for other1 lands than ours; fills the
a distance from him that all danger irf ing listened attentively to the argu­ ¡s the one used for the face of the best manure that can be had.— Amer-
housewife« cellar and storeroom with
his becoming contaminated is reduced ' ments of the lecturers, these two men notes, and, from the manner in which can Poultry Journal.
preserve and pickled sweetmeats for
the threads Xfe applied, must show
to a minimum. It is true that he may 1 came the conclusion that what the
the winter days, and fills'our lives
them
more distinctly than the reverse
condescend to mix with the lower or- ; gentlemen said was very true, and
False taste may be known by ita
with busy planning for the. garnering
side,
although they are imbedded
ders in a certain way. For instance, both of them agreed to give up religj
fastidiousness,
by its demands of pomp
and the storing of fruit and landing
deeply enough to remain fixed. The
upon platforms and at philanthropic ion and have no more to do with it.
splendor, and unusual combination;
grain. Though all this B? true, yet
mill is guarded by officials night and
tea-parties he will benignly hover over About twelve months afterwards, an­
by its enjoyment only of particular
there are other August dAvs as in
day to prevent the abstraction “of any
those whom he is virtually endeavor­ other ‘ course of lectures ’ on the same
styles
and moles of things, anil by ita
early June, when heavy showers, in­
ing
to
rescue
from
their
condition of subject was announced at the same paper.— Paper Trade Journal.
pride
also, for it is ever meddling,
tercept outside "labor, when harvest
degradation and wretchedness ; but it place, but this time only one of these
mending,-
accumulating, and self ex­
Brat Harte and tha Critics.
hands lie idle, when night shuts down
is
understood
that
they
must
not
pro
­
two
men
put
in
an
appearance.
At
the
ulting,
its
eye is always upon itself, *
liefore eight o’clock, and w e close the
Mr. Bret Harte amuses himself in a and it tests all things around it by
fanely lay tbeir hands upon his sacred close of the first lecture, this man step­
doors feeling like drawing nearer the
ped uji to the lecturer and asked him Washington pajier by prophesying the the way they fit it But true taste is
fire, and while the girls gather round person, that they must always remem­
ber
thât
they
are
not
as
he
is,
and
if he could have a word with him. He approaching extinction of the Ameri­ forever growing, learning, reading,
piano, build beautiful nothings of the
that
he
is
very
kind
and
good
to
both
­
replied, ‘ Certainly.’ The man said, can critic. He jiointe out that the worshipping, laying its hand upon its
darning coak in the “ hollow down by
er
himself
about
such
insignificant
‘
You remember, sir, coming down reading public don’t care a rap for the mouth because it is astonished, casting
the Hare.”
creatures as they an^ It Is indicated, here twelve months ago, and giving* a critic, but go on buying their books its shoes from off its feet because it
The Great Alliance.
delicately perhaps, hut in a way not course of lectures ? The lecturer re­ just as they please. Also that even finds all ground holy, lamenting over
<e are partners in the greatest un­ to be misunderstood, that though he plied, ‘ Perfectly.’ ’ Well, sir,’ said the distinguished literary men can’t im- itself, ami testing by the way that it
1 pose their favorites on the aforesaid fits things. There is that to be seen
dertaking in the universe. The part­ is a being whom they may be permit- man, Jem and me, that was my mate,
nership is represented by the Triune ! ted to worship as much as it is possi­ came to hear you, and we thought 1 public. Also that the ineffectiveness in every street and lane of every city
God, Ire all the min’otering spirits of ble to worship anybody in this mun­ what you said, was very true, so we l of criticism is proved by the facts that —that to be felt and found in every
the world» of light, by all the robed dane world, they are not to venture on both gave up * religion.’ .* Good,’ re­ English clitics praise Walt Whitman, human heart and countenance, that to
and ransomed hosts now triumphant that familiarity whiehbréèdscontempt. plied the lecturer; ‘ I am very pleased and most of the American critics don’t, lie loved in-every roadside weed and
"*■. in heaven, and by all the panoplied .Indeed, he baa befen known to effectu­ to hear it; and you felt very much that Poe, whom the English critics moss-gfown wall, which in the hands
Well, air,' said laud, was himself an unfair critic of of faithful meri, may convey emotions
militant legions of the church on ally put down low persons who have better, did yon not
Tieen
so
impressed
with
his
public
per
­
the
man,
'justhold
hard
a bit, ahd let Longfellow, whom also the British of glory and srtbbniity, Continual and
earth. " We are laborers together
me
have
iny
say
out.
We
got on all extol; and that Joaquin Miller wasn’t exalted.— Ruekin.
with God.” The business on hand is formance« that they have actually had
very
well
until
about
six
months
ago, discovered to be a poet untilyhe’d pub­
tfie evangelization of the wbrld. Joint­ the audacity to approach him privately
Disgusted with a suit for a yoke of
heirs with Uhtist to the ineffable in a social sense, in spite of the fact when Jem and me was working to­ lished in England. In fine, awi proph­
oxen
which had had five,trials, a Ken­
et
the
critic
is
a
failure
;
as
a
legislator
benefit and bliss to come, we are joint­ that while he has actually dealt in gether in the mine, blasting the coal,
tucky
jury has rendered the following
his
laws
are
etpost
facto
and
unneces
­
agents with him now || the grand tallow by the hundi$d-weight, they when a great lump of coal of about
verdict
: " We, of the jury, fir0 for the
sary
;
as
a
judge
his
decisions
are
re
­
.achievement. We shall share in the have only dabbled in it by the pound. half a ton weight fell on Jem on the
plaintiff
one of the steers in contro­
rewards of the undertaking-™ propor­ It is perhaps as well for his own rep- lower part of his body and crushed versed by another judge who may be
tion as wc have contributed by toil i utation that he does not tolerate that him; and what do you think he "be­ as igrikrant and predjudiced as him­ versy, or its value, 850; and to the de­
and money to promote, its .sucre«., familiarity which breed» contempt, for gan to cry out when the lump of coal self.” We are afraid that Mr. Harte’s fendant the other steer, or its value,
We shall reap only its we sow. Our those who know him intimately seem was on him ?' ‘ I don’t know,’ replied personal experiences may’ have borne 850; the cost to be equally divided be­
' reward shall be according to our indisposed to bow down before him, the lecturer." ’ Why, sir,’ said the this fruit, and yet are not his success­ tween the parties, and the yoke to go
and are apt to make rude remarks man, ‘ he began to holloa out, * O Lord ful writings those which the critics to the lawyers.”
deeds.— Ex.
'
Christian Family.
There is an od^Trfthe great