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PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, SATURDAY.
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SEPT. 21. 1878.
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| merchant questioned him, an<l the I saved the king from being a hypocrite
Lord Beaconsfield's Wife.
ries the Jews have wandered in all”
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Christian Family.
man told th£ story of his misfortunes. to his dying day. But nothing save
countries and climes, despised and
A London correspondent, describing He had determined to destroy himself personal dealing would have effected
MISS JMRY STUMP, EDITOR. scorned; often driven fiom one refuge
Lord Beaconsfield as he entered the I because he was too poor to live. The j the object. No wise physician would
to another and persecuted without
House of Lords after his return from merchant was still more astonished. think he had done his duty when he'
Babylon.
mercy; yet as if pursued by a relents
Berlin, writes : His face has been well He had been driven to destroy himself; had gone through a hospital and given
We cut the following exquisite gem less fate they have through all, and in described as a mask. That is a com­ I
because he was too rich to live : Plac­ to each patient a spoonful of the same
from an exchange paper, and give spite of all, been preserved in a dis­ mon simile, which finds pictorial ex­
ed side by side with the pauper, by kind of medicine; ha must feel the
welcome place to it in our columns, tinctive existence. Other races when pression in the. sphinx. But there is
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that mutual misery which respects no | pulse of ever man, and examine his
regretting that we do not know the thrown together blend one with an­ a soul behind it. I fancy that “ vacant
condition»*, he accompanied him to his symptoms and give to etteh the medi­
name of the gifted author. We com­ other, and each loses its identity, but look ” is the practical disguise of feel­
cheerless dwelling and found his story cine which he needs.
mend the piece to the lovers of ¡»oetrv: the Jews endowed with traits that are ing. A face that tells no secrets, eyes
true.
If you had a bushel af bottles, and
undying, blend with none. There is
I climbefl the cliff--I crossed the rock—
that can look unconcerned on all oc­
His wicked purpose of suicide was wished to fill them, you would not
an
indefinable
something
that
sepa-
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I trod the desert old—
casions, a mouth with the lips that forgotten. Pity entered his heart think ic the best way to get a fire
rates them from the rest of mankind,
I passed the wild Arabia» tents,
never tremble, must be useful to great when he saw the want and suffering engine and pcjur a stream of water
The Syrian shepherd’s fold ; ,
' and they are governed by a resistless
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politicians and diplomatists.' Depend of the poor man’s family. He at once ' over them; especially if half .of them
Behind me far are haunts of men
' unseen law that will not let them per­
upon it, many a time the fierce tires provided them with fobd, fuel and were rightljcorked. You would never
Stretched into distant gray,
ish—a law stronger than the natural
XVhen spread '»efore me, lone and wide,
of passion have burned red and hot I clothing. He also sought for employ-^ fill them in fhat way. Much of the
that consign to decay all things
The plain ofSlnnar lay ;
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behind that human mask. But every ment for his new friend. New energy pulpit labor of the »lay is quite that.
' that have outlivdd their time and
The boundless plain of far Linjar,
thing comes by practice, and, Disraeli was awakened within him by the We bury our hearer^ in Gospel mes­
■ creates from their mould new forms of
Where long, long ages back, ~ '
is an actor who can control the ex­ very act, and when he thought of the sages we ¡»our the waters of life all
Abdallah read the silent stars,
active life. They have a perpetuity
pression of his features and adminis­ strange providence that had caused it, over them but the corks are not
And wrote their.mystic track.-
of existence known in no other people.
ter in his strongest feelings with the his heart was softened to%»rds his drawn, and at the end the bottles are
Where art thou, gem of the rich earth.
A handful of any other race placed in
discreet management of a great his- I fellow-man, and filled with gratitude as dry as ever.
City of far renown ?
’ the midst of a strange nation after a
The glory of the proud Chaldee,
’ trionic artist. The -common people I to his Creator for his fortunate escape ! To fill a bushel of bottles, we should
' time is lost, as a drop of wine mingles
The green earth's ancient crown !
j look at him wonderingly, his peers i from self-destruction.
take them one at a time between the
Where Les the lake that, gleaming wide. i with a full goblet of water and loses don't undeistand Lun : only Montagu
It
was
not
long
before
the
health
of
thumb
and finger; withdraw the cork
’ itself, but the Jews remain forever
Gave back thy hundred towers ?
(’ory, 1 suspect, knows him thorough­ his mind came back. What was bet­ then and turn a little stream of water
Where ate thv gardens of delight,
; strangers in a strange land. Go where
ly, now that his wife is no more. ter jstill, the lesson of the singular aJ- into the mouth of each bottle, and
Thy cedar-shaded bowers ?
they may they remain unchanged, and
How much in the past he owed to the ventura which had saved hitn from thus fill it, and then cork it again, and
Where, where—Oh ! where rolls rapidly '
they literally have no abiding place.
-Thine ever flashing river,
patient devotion of that good woman, self-destruction, led him to the cause then the work is done. So if we wish
» The Jew is in every land but he
Past marble-gates and columned tower,
the Premier touchingly made known I of doing good among his fellow-men. to pour the Gospel into sinner’s hearts,
has no country. He is mocked by a
Guarding thy walls forever ?
during her lifetime; and there must Henceforth he devoted his vast wealth it is not enough to marc 1 them into
faith that has no fruition, and is be­
* There is no voice of gladness here,
i be something good in a man to whom towards helping .the needy, and his the meeting-house and deluge them
reft of the hope that his will be the
No breath of song floats by ;
a true, noble woman is as devotedly remaining days’were passed in peace with streams of living water once or
common doom. He moves on through
I hearken—but the moafiing wind
attached when they tread the down-, an»l content.— E.e.
Is all that makes reply.
twice a week, we must remove their
1 the changing epochs of history, ever
hill of life together as she is' in the
Solemn and lone the silent marsh
doubts and prejudices; tfe must take
rfhe same, though burdened wijh
Spreads endlessly around.
heyday of 'their qmbitious hopes.
Going into Debt.
out the corks, and gently pour in the
' the weight of all years since Abraham,
And shapeless are ttfe ruiufad heaps
!
She
was
his
only
companion.
.They
%
living stream, and. thus bring them to
obeying
the
mandates
of
a
power
that
That strew the broken ground.
Half the young men in the country,
w’ent together everywhere, like two
the knowledge of Christ and of his
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wills
that
he
shall
fulfill
a
peculiar
Sadly, and above huge outlines dim.
close companions. When she died his with many old enough to fcnow better salvation.— The Chriel¡an.
Sighs the lone willow bough—
destiny. Some day the doom mfty be
' bitterest political foes expressed a would “ go into business ” that would
The last, last voice of Babylon,
mitigated, but we wonder not*at the
run thern in debt to-morrow if they
z
Its only music now.
The Church and Temperance.
: strange legend, for the’wandering Jew deep , sorrow for him. Everybody I could. Most jxx»r men are so ignorant
knew
how
intensely
he
suffered.
And
Son of Mandane ! by whose hand
, is a living miracle.
The doomed city fell— "
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c. c. c. yet there rose.up.in due course miser- as to envy the merchant and manufac­ Just before he was laid in the tomb, ’
The swift feet of whose soldiery
' able gossips who talked of his taking turer, whose life is an incessant strug- in a speech, ab Washington city, Vice-
Somebody’s Darling.
Climbed tower and citadel ;
I a second wife, and poor scribblers who ! gle with pecuniary difficulties, who is President Wilson said : •* Probably we
Thou foundest rsvelry and mirth,
In a quiet ahd pleasant Eastern J were silly enough to suggest that he driven to constant “ dodges/ and who, have GO,000 churches in this land,
Thou foundest dance and song,
village hardly larger than our own,-i was going to marry the Queen. These from month to month, barely evades •'»0,000 or GO,000 clergymen at least ; *
Thou foundest many a banquet fair,
a
middle aged man with blue eyes, and latter were of the class who Lave not that insolvency which sooner or later and «,000,000 church members. The
And many a joyous tlijong ; - _
tall, lank form was laid up on A ham- . scrupled to scandalize the true wife overtakes most men in business; so ministers of these churches profess to
Like the death angel earnest thou,
mock His head waving, his brain 1 and mother because she showed spe­ that it has been computed that but believe that God has ¡»laced us here to
When men were care bereft
And is this lode', waste wilderness
throbbing, and his mind whirling cial favor toher dead husband’s Scotch one in twenty of them achieves a pecu­ ¡»repaie ourselves for a higher and
The total thou hast left ?
with an over-glass of . kings-evil he servant, just as a man might feel kind­ niary success. Let no man misjudge better life. They profess to believe
Oh, glorious were her palaces,
was induced by his friends to be car­ ly toward a servant whom the man himself unfortunate or truly poor so that they have consecrated themselves,
And shrines of fretted gold !
ried . to a bed, where he was partly she loved had liked and trusted above I long as he has the full use of his limbs all they are, all they hope to be, to
Then rose the fame of Blerodach,
. and faculties, and is substantially free the cause of the Divine Master. Now
cared for, and soon the groaning snore all other attendants.
The house of Bel us old ;
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I from debt. Hunger, cold, rags, hard we have in the United States hun­
signified
that
the
drunkard
was
And busiest life was in her streets.
A Rich Man's Experience.
asleep. His heavy eyelashes that
work, contempt, suspicion, unjust re­ dreds of thousands of poor drunkards.
Where countless nations thronged,
Light foolsteps glided through her home3^ shaded his brow, his head of thinly
proach, are disagreeable; but debt is • The human mind cannot fathom the
Self-love —acting only in self-indul­
And mirth to her belonged ;
scattered Hairs and his face all covered
infinitely wore than all. Avoid pecu- evils and the sufferings the habitual
gence—is a fatal passion. An unmar­
But prophet-voices murmured,
with wrinkles, furrows, bruises and
cuniary obligations as you would pes-' use of intoxicating liquors brings upon
ried merchant, who had amassed great
Even in her festal halls !
scars portended cleaily that he had
' tilence and famine. If you have but its victims. Thousands of the young
And angel-fingers wrote her doom
wealth, disposed of his business at the
two bits and can get no more for a men of this country are going head­
before been the same swill-tub of des­
Upon the palace walls.
age of fifty-eight and retired to a
ecration
that
he
now
was,
—
and
that
week, buy oat meal and live on it, long to ruin. Nobody can doubt it
At midnight came the Persian,
splendid country seat, where he ex­
countenance mottled with grief was
rather than owe a man half a crown. everybody sees it, everybody feels it.’
Mingling amid the crowd ;
pected to spend the remainder of bis
only too significant of an inward burn­
Of course some men must often give M here are the voices of the 60,000
He heeded not the beantiful,
days in ease, luxury and happiness.
He staid not for the proud ;
ing sorrow. Shunned by all he was ■
' notes and other obligations, and we clergymen ? Where are thë activities
He had a library large and rare
False was her fated river.
approached"by the lady of the house
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Jo not consider him really in debt • of the 8,000,000 of church members of
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enough
to satisfy a bibliomaniac ; the
Heedless her gods of stone ;
and was a>ked if he would take a
I who can lay his hand directly on the the United .States ? I say, to-night, I
He entered at the open gates,
' j»late of soup. He, finally succeeded choicest paintings and engravings ’ means of paying, at some little sacri­ have little hope of-the triumph of the
He passed—and she was gbre !
covered his walls; trained and trusty
in opening his eyes, stuttered out a
Her.place on earth abideth not—
fice, all he owes. We speak of real ' temperance cause until a large propor­
servants waited on him; fine horses
Memorial she hath none ;
“ Yes,” and in a moment the dish was
debt, that which involves risk of sac- tion of the clergymen and professing
and “ fancy spans ” stood in his ele­
Darkness and ruin thou may'st find,
' prepared for him. Being helped to
refice on the one side, obligation and Christians of this land rise up to the
gant stables ; his rooms were adorned
But never Babylon !
his
elbows
he
began
to
try
to
eat,
but
dependence
on the other; from all duties of the occasion. I call upon
—Reeteu.
with sumptuous carpets and furniture;
it was noticed that he could not. The
such let every one humbly pray heav­ every Christian minister of this land,
his table was loaded with epicurean
lady inquired of him why he did not
en to ¡»reserve him evermore, To the and every member of the Church of
For the Mewenger.
delicaies; throngs of friends and ac­
eat the food she had given him. A
The Wandering Jew.
editors, we say, never be in debt to Christ, upon every man and woman,
quaintances visited him and ¡»aid him
tender gloom spread itself over the
' your printers.— Commercial Afire r- to come up and aid this work by pre­
EveYy one is familiar with the leg­ drunk man's face and he said, “You deference. He had nothing to do but i titre.
cept and example.”
end of the Jew to whom Jesus is said have been a mother to me. I ”—and to entertain and be entertained, and
To a large-sou’ed Christian philan­
to have refloated in tones of authority here the grief became too much for his hopes of ease an 1 luxury were
Personal Dealings.
thropist, such as Vice-President WiL
his own mocking words, “ Move thou bin/and the teal’s streamed down his certainly realized.
i son was, the apparent apathy of tem­
But his hopes of happiness were not
The greatest trouble with sermons
on and how cursed with an earthly cheek—“ I’ve got another mother liv­
perance Christian people, in the face of,
immortality he still moves on, wan­ ing that’s been a mother to me for realized. Missing his per.-onal inter­ is they hit the wrong persons. A the gigantic and hydra headed evil
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dering ever, footsore, weary and old; tiprty-five years, but I’m ashamed to est in the stirring world—the news of broadside against covetousness goes intemperance seems apjtalling.
It
now among the restless multitudes of let her see hei; drunken son. , She I the markets, the fortunes of trade, and right over the head of that old skin-: must however be remembered that
the great cities, now in the <lepths of don't know that I’m a drunkard—I the policy of government—which had flint at whom it is aimed, and hits a the grandest, and most successful part
the vast wilderness; again, through can’t go to her this way, but I will see once spurred his energies and kept poor widow who has already cast in of the work done by them is not the
the wastes of northern snows, or, yet her, and if ever your boy should need his attention keen, h3 found himself all her living into the treasury of the ¡surfaqg. There, are. the individual
ere long restless and disconsolate. Lord. The man at whom.^you aim
over the trackless sands df .the bnrn- help, she'll be a mother to him.”
efforts, the ever »lay entreaties and
Soon his mind preyed upon itself. your scathing rebuke for his long and
ing desert ; facing alike (lie blasts of
I exhortations, the stea»iy example, the
This son when lying under the bur­
winter and the consumingi.winds of den of ten-thousand sorrows, wrang­ Life became a terrible blank to him. hypocritical prayers, does not have the firm opposition to home, ami table
summer ; always seeking djath, but ling in the midst of a million tenors Amusement onlyrinafle the emptiness slightest idea that you refer to him, ¡practices that are anti-temperance
never hoping to find rest for his faint­ conjoined with a drunkard’s—a devils more distressing. His habits had un­ and prays on just as he did before, [• the mother’s trembling voice and
ing limbs nor balm for his mocked death, fairly saw the contrast between fitted him for reading, and to the joys while some one whom you have been tearful eyes, as so many steady, stand -
he was an utter trying to encourage for a long time to
spirit; for always in his ears are the his situation and his blessed mother's of scientific research
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ing admonitions against the vice, and
be more active in the meeting, shrinks
words of his dooti|, “ Move thou on,” ideal darling. " My mother dare not stranger.
the thousands impassioned petitions
At last, one morning, very early, he back affrighted and disheartened. If
and he cannot rest; he can not tarry; see me," but her prayers saw him and
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rose
in a state of mind approaching you could get these persons where you
he cannot die.
angels, kept their vigils over him while
prayer; these ami many other unre­
It is true that this story of the he let the serpent bruise his heel— insanity, and went down to the river could talk with them one by one, j’ou
cognized
agencies are silently at work
wretched old man is an idle tale that The devil, to cower that brow. A to drown himself. As God willed it, might apportion their instructions to ând ¿heir influence must tell in th» ’
had its origin no one knows where; mother, a blessed mother, but while 1 he met a wretchec^ ragged man, who their peculiar needs. ' . ,
general result.- Pacific Ewngd
Nathan's word, "Thou art the man:”
yet, under the threadbare cloak of the he has a mother, that mother has a had coma there for the same desperate
broke through the refuge of lies
legend, one sees something of the his­ darling—a drunkard—vet a darling purpose.
No man’s religion ever survives his
Astonished at the coincidence, the « which had covered David’s sin, and morals.
tory of a race. For many long centu- in her bioken hopes.—Ar.
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