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PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, 6 SATURDAY. JUUY 13. 1878. to work to gather together the pietty do hope I shall live to tell her so, and flowers. She knew better than to to thank her for the flowers. It is overlook the leaves, for she quite un good for her to bring them, and, oh, J//.S5 MARY STUMP, EDITOR. derstood what a beautiful addition how lovely they’ are!” Keramos and Other Poems. She enjoyed them for a few min- they are to a bouquet, and she arrang ed them tastefully around the flowers,; utes until the chloroform made her Critics who insist that Henry W. wwvTxlzw »•» n a j I insensible, 1.1 (3 O J IC Pci t kA) 11 ftfA while 41-tAwr they (the flowers,) X put * in Longfellow’s later efforts give signs of bunch at the centre, made such a pret i successfully performed; and afterwaid, decaying powers, will have cause to ty posy as people in those parts do when consciousness returned,the bunch change their opinion when they read of primroses was the first sight that not often see., the volume entitled A'eramod and But though she was so fortunate, greeted her. Other Poem» The Opening poem has Whose lights are out,whose garlands dead, any fewer? would our hands have any and knew’ that the others would envy A few days afterward she was able all the old fire, freedom of movement, And all the guests departed. her, Ella Smith was not happy. No to write a little note in a very trem more arduous tasks to perform, or our sweetness of melody and wonderful Tire examination terrors of May smile lighted the face that bent over bling Hand to her friend.’ And this felicity of expression, with an under- and early June are over, and the hearts be any sadder for haviimr feast ed for a sea: on upon this bri^nWiued the primroses, and if the lips of the is -what she said—“ lX-ar Ella, thank currentrof solemnity and pathos not school-folk, both teachers and stu girl parted they did so not to sing, i you. I love you and I’m going to found in his earlier efforts. It was dents, have shaken hands at j>arting picture ? Did you say it was wasting time— but to sigh. Any one who watched prove it as soon as I am well. Jesus evidently suggested by the modern with scarcely a tear of regret, for the this day dreaming—this filling the her would have seen that only half says, ‘ Blessed are the peacemakers rage for Keramic art. The potter is happy expectancy of holiday time mind with beautiful thoughts and her thoughts were- given to the flow for they shall be called the childrefl introduced tp-us singing as he turns dispels the sadness that always fol ers, the oth er half wa.t centered upon of Godi’ ”— Marianne- Farningluvnt, holy Asp ¡rations? his wheel, and the poet standing near lows a change in the ordinary routine some subject th|t was evidently pain in Christian world. , ’’ You mistake. . ® muses between the verses. Here is of school life.. Better a day spent in meditating ful. And so it was. Ella’» mind and a portion of the song of the potter: If we knew the plans each one had upon, and planning a beautiful, and a memory kept repeating these words : Each in his U%u Way. Turn, turn, my wheel! Turn round and made to while away the two months glorious future to work in, than an —“ Nellie Harrison is in the infirma round All greet works are dime by serving summer vacation, what a book it hour spent in lamenting yofcr present ry. Nellie Harrison has had an acci Without a pause, without a sound ; God with what we have on hand. would make, what a strange medley narrow resources and real unhappiness. dent. Nellie Harrison is in the in So spins the flying world away ! ‘ Moses Was keeping sheep in Midian. This clay, well mixed with marl and sand, of antici|>ated pleasures, or variety of The one makes the face bright and firmary.” Round about this thought God sent him to save Israel, but he- work-to those whose vacation means cheerful, labor light, and the heart there hung certain facts. Nellie and Follows the motion of my hand ; shrank from the uiylertaking. We For some must folliAr, and some command, only a change from scholars desk, to purer, and nearer its maker. The Ella had not been friends for a long sympathize with Jethro’s herdsman, Though all are taade of clay 1 the honest toil of harvest time, or the other makes life Seem a burden, and time. Perhaps this was more Nellie’s alone and a stranger, owning not a Turn, turn, my wheel! All life is brief; ringing strokesof thework-man’sham- places heaven beyond our reach. fault than Ella’s, for she had certainly lamb that he watched. He had noth What now is bud will soon be leaf, mer. “ Christopher Columbus,” says not shown herself a true friend. “That What now is leaf will soon decay ; According to the circumstances Washington Irving, “ was decidedly is more than 1 can forgive,” Ella had ing but his shepard’s rod, cut out of a The wind“blows east, the wind blows west; thicket, the mere crabstick with which surrounding each-life, and the differ visionary.” said several times, under some fresh The blue eggs in the robin’s nest he guided his sheep. Any day he Will soon have wings, and beak, and breast, ent inclinations leading each to follow He was only a common wool-comb provocation received from Nellie, and might throw it away and cut a better And flutter, and fly away. the guidance, of his own heart, the ers son, but while yet quite young, she thought herself justified inlaying one. And God said: - Tarn', turn, mJ wheelYThts earthern jar school kingdom is dissolved, its kings, his vivid imagination (with little aid, it. Certainly, she was not always “ What is that in thine hand ? With princes and underlings are following by way of doubtful evidence) pictured well treated. On one occasion Nellie A touoh can make,, a touch can mar ; this» rod, with this stick, thou shalt And shall it to the Potter say, their own sweet will afar from the out a new continent, healthful, and had laughed at her because her hat save Israel. ” And so it proved. What makes thou ? Thou hast no hand ! worry and aggravations that beset ev rich with gold, which he might explore. was shabby and old fashioned, and al As men who think and understand “ What is that thou hast in thy ery teichers way; and those whom Think you be indulged in no -day though a laugh does no real harm, for A world by their Creator planned, hand, stranger , they have kept in leading strings for dreams of the great honor and happi it cannot break bones, nor cause phys Whe wiser is than they. a “ Al^>x-goad with which I urge my ten months; where are they ? As wide ness t<> be his in.tlie future ?. ical pain, girls would rather receive a And listening to the song the poet muses: lazy Iwasfo ’ - - - ■ ... ■ ly •separated as their diversity of mind b'ow r than be laughed at. At another He, like all others who will be the Who is it in the suburbs here, * I'sed for God, and Sham gar’s ox- will allow them to be ever seeking first tointroduce some new scheme, time Nellie possessed- herself rd’ Ella’s This Potter, working with such cheer, 1 ” ffi goad defeats the Philistines. la this mean house, this mean attire, green fields and pastures new, for the j was ridiculed, and when he applied to misM.oris.ry card, 'and although she j ° His manly features bronzed with fire, development of real or- imaginary'tal- I the senate of his native city for aid knew that the little girl was anxious-1 “ What ¡»that in thine hand, David?’ Whose figulmes and rustic wares ent, nevermore many of them Jp enter ! in consuming his plans, he was re- ly looking for it, she said- not a word i “ My sling with which I keep the Ijcayce find him bread from day to duj ? the ll-t> for a scholars championship, 1 fused.-' His fellow Spaniards doubtless about having it'Lut fold some of their 1 wolves from the sheep.” This madman, is the people say, , Yet with that -ling he slew Goliath but lieriding every energy to secure I regarded Ips project as merely a “ cas- mutual+i icnds that it was a had sign, Who breaks his tables and his chairs whom an army dared n.ot meet. ' Fortunatos’ prize while the greedy j ’ tie in the air,” but w ho can sav that for Ella’s card to be lost’, and looked To feed his furnace fires, nor cares “ What is that in thine handrdisei- Who goes unfed if they uie fed, i world j uks on and applauds. 1 o the I our g],» mouj * America might not, to-day as if she wanted to keep the money. Nor wfio may live if they are dead? I gradu. U a of this last commencement ; have been a wildenjci »-inhabited only When Ella heard of .this .she said. This alchemist with hollow -¿Seeks time, vacation has a deeper meaning , by the savage, had not the youthful “ Nothing is too bad for that Nellie J “ Nothing 'but five bar'ey -loaves ’And sunken, searching eyes, who seeks, and two little fishes.” than to those whose expectant eyes Columbus been blessed with a fruit Harrison.” Bv mingled earths and ores combined “ Bring them to me ; give them to will turn to the familiar books and ful imagination to which he gave full Some new enamel, hard_and bright, And now Nellie was in the in firm- God. ” And the multitude was fed. His dream, his passion, bis delight ? the well remembered faces at the be sway. Aryl “ What is that in thine hand, poor ginning of a new session, for with the Oh, Palissy 1 Within thy breast And what though om' “ air castles” “Bhe was not ni<Je. She has been widow ? ” Burned the hot fever of unrest ;, diploma of the institution they have should never result in the discovery most unkind,” Ella said to herself. “ Qnly twQjqjites.” .Thine was the prohet’s vision, thine honored and that has honored them, of a continent, or some other great But there was another voice speaking The exultation, the divine “ Give them to God, and beholJ, the tucked snnglv under their arms, they good, we know that the mind, if con in the girl’s heart, a voice of pity, for Insanity of noble minds, fame of your riches fills the world.” start valiantly on their journey ready stantly tied down to the stern har^j giveness and love. She could not help That never falters nor abates, “ What hast thou, weeping woman?” to conquer worlds, little thinking the duties of life, loses sight of ..the beau listening to it. Indeed, she felt that I But labors and endures and waits, Till all that it foresees it finds, “slough of Despond” is just.ahead, or ties and grandeur of half God’s crea she ought to do it. Ami she was ; “ An alabaster-box of ointment.” • Or what it cannot find, creates. that before they have gone far on the tion, and becomes too painfully sensi right. Not only little gipls, but grown [ “Give it to God. Break it; pour ****** it upon tha Savior’s head, and its road they may be treading up hill tive 'of its own cares and burdens. up men and children too, should nev As leaves that in the autumn fall, sweet perfume is a fragrance in the with peas in their shoes. Alas! that Better to study the beautiful, and er let that gentle voice be unheeded, Spotted and veined with various hues, church until now’. the graduates dreams for renewing the make our lives bright, remembering for it is full of w-isdom and tenderness. Are swept along the avenues, " What hast thou. Dorcas ?” world should be hid away with their that— And listening to that voice Ella made And lie in heaps by ledge and wall, “ My Needle. ” So, from this grove of chimneys whirled | diploma, knots of ribbon, withered “ Sometime for those who trusting wait, out what to do with her primroses. * ’ I se it for God, and those coats To all the markets of the world, bouquets and compliments of proud Shall the white flowers of gladness blow, “ I will take them to the infirmary, i These poreclain leaves are wafted on — and garments keep multiplying, and i friends as soon as vacation time is And Leaven will fully compensate and ask the porter to be very careful Light yellow leaves with spots and stains are clothing the naked still.— BiLie The pain and loss that now wc know. ” ■ over and the real work of life begins. to give them to Nellie, and no one else. Of violet and crimson dye, Student. That tests the truth bf prize medals Ella felt more comfortable after this Or tender azure of a sky A Eunch of Primroses. anti certificates of thoroughness, and Just washed by gentle April rains, resofr®” ai-d at once proceeded to carry Tupper and Tennyson furnish an And beautiful with celadon. the world soon learns to honor the Ella Smith had just found a large j it into execution. She called to the Some of the minor poems are very deserving one, or to laugh mockingly bed of beautiful primroses, and with other girls, and, showing, her own item for the chapter of literary coinci sweet and tender. They are tinged at a pewter cup that has been silver- all a child’s eagerness she stopped to spoils, advised them to 'ook about the dences. In Mr. Tupper’s “’Centennial Play ” these lines occur: with a spirit of half sadness, as if the scoured. same spot, in hope of finding more. gather them. Vacation we say it now with an poet was conscious that his end was “ I am very fortunate,” she said to Then, she took a slip of paper from ■ “ A man is nothing if he has no foes, Nothing if blander, ridicule, contempt not far off. How touching* is this eager looking foi ward to the weeks of • herself. And so she was. Ella did her pocket and wrote on it, “ With Are not the freqneut scorpions in his case that are to-come, but while we not ljve in the south of England where Ella Smith’s love to Nellie Harrison, sonnet: — path.” say it the hours arc slipping, slipping, primroses are plentiful, but in the hoping you will soon be better.” Hav As a fond mother, when the day is o’er, Tennyson has the same idea in liia L-*ads by the hand her little child to bed, through the glass, and the precious bleaker north, where tall chimneys are ing done this, she hastened to the hos <c Eloise:” Half willing, half reluctant to be led, moments will soon be but an echo of the chief objects which attract the pital and rang the bell at the gate. And leaves Lis broken playthings on the “ Never yet i the pasi, that shine out at us through eyes, and where few flowers or trees The porter promised to do that which Was noble man bnt made ignoble talk ; floor, Still gazing at them through the open door, ' a rainbow of tears as we row swiftly are seen. In such a neighborhood she asked him, and he was as good as He makes no friend wLo never nude a foe.* ’ ! down the tide to another commence- largs beds of primroses are rare, and his word. Nor wholly reassured nor comforted. By promises of others in their stead, pnent that will usher in the vacation the sweet flowers are very precious. Toor Nellie Harrison was lying in 1 horo V ghness .—Nothing must be Which, though more splendid, may not , time which will never end. Ella had been walking with her com one of the wards, looking veiy white. slurred over; nothing left to chance; please him more. panions when one of them proposed She was suffering considerable pain, nothing be taken on supposition. So nature deals with us and takes away Day Dreaming3. that they should disperse, and search ! and was about to pass under a very Your whole energy must be thrown ______ r‘ Our playthings, one by one, and by the The nurse and doctor j into your work, whatever it may be. W»l(C8N FOR THE STUDENTS’ EXHIBITION, in different directions in case there bad operation. hand CHRISTIAN COLLEOK, MONMOUTH, OBKOON, should be any spring flowers hidden were trying to cheer and comfort her, Leads us to rest so gently, that we go All your thoughts must l>e concentra- JUNE 11, 1878, BY MISS ROSA BENTDY. Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, and She was herself asking God to for ted on it. Your labor must be given away. Being too full of sleep to understand j “ Life does not find completeness here, . “ If we cannot find violets, let us give her for all the Vrong she had ' unsparingly. You must grudge neith- How far the unknown transcends the what content ourselves with daises,” said one done, and spare her life, when the i cr time nor fatigue. You must let We grasp at tiaxjhings, too far away, we know. “ And perhaps the most diligent flowers were brought in. And many a hope, grown doubly dear, —S. F. Chronicle. nothing connected with it (no matter Just at ita brightest droops away.” may be rewarded by a find of prim “ They are for Nellie Harrison, with how small) escape your notice. But when the mind has become sad roses,” suggested another. Ella Smith’s love,” said thé nurse. Tyndall and Topsy 1 They have I “ That would be treasure-trove, in ..The little girl brightened immedi If a man empties his purse into his both vaulted to 'the identical con and weary with the prosy monoton ately. . h(wi; no man can take it away from clusion, and explain the origin of the ous hum-drum of every-day toil, this deed,” said Ella. And actually she was th» -one to “ Ella _ Smith ! Does she love me him. An investment in knowledge universe by one comprehensive battle for food to eat and raiment to formula: “Specs it growed.”— Ad wear, this always striving and never discover it. In a very diligent syste still ?” she cried. “ I have been not always pays the best interest__ reaching, which we call life, it is such matical and business-like way, she set been so bad as she thinks me ; and I Franklin. vance. Christian Family Vacation. a relief to steal an hour from the counting lioijge, licmse, the workshop, or the Upon the garlands of Commencement kitchen anSg ive it Jt to to the the mind mind when when ______ ____ give time, the dust pml cobwebs base un]ianHneie(j bv these cares, it may already gathered, the desks are empty ■ soar away anJ pictunj in imagination the schoolrooms deserted • and the health, wealth, blissful association, and haunting silence of the hads an.I stair-( a happiness which would almost be ways, makes one turn, awaj* with a heaven. lonely feeling that always comes when And what though the “ further on ” we tread alone some banquet hall de sliou’d never bring a realization of serted, these fancies? would our dollars be ’ t —
