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SATURDAY NOV. 30,ll/B.
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for the deep, unfathomfed emotion, ! named Vincenzo de Galili had a very St. John at Patmos ? We find him I Has it not at such seasons chastened
that no eternity can exhaust. It is ! bright little boy named Galileo. The interpreting a word in which their and solemnized us, made us look up
MISS MARY STUMP, EDITOR. strong in need, expressive in danger. father intended that his chjJ^jshould thunder would never be heard. In the ’and aspire beyond our wont, and
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! terrible if it is wrathful, tender in its be a trader in wool, but as the littla dream which he dreams of his ideal stirred in us braver resolves or nobler
Commissioned.
sympathy, and pliant to every condi- I fellow improved so rapidly under his I universe, of the heaven and earth that yearnings I And this, maybe, ever
“ Do their errand« ; enter into the uacrifice with i tion. It is the true interpreter of all I father’s instructions,and seemed as an­ 4 I are to be, he begins with the line, when we had no definite idea of what
them ; be a link your*elf in tuo divine chiUU, and
languages, that heaven, earth, air and xious and quick to learn, he waited, “ There was no more sea as though it was saying, no sense of language ia
feel the jov and lite of it.’*
waler speak—what the rolling thun­ hoping some opportunity would open until it were done away the beautiful 1 its tones. Just as men, on occasions,
What can I do for thee, beloved,
Whose feet so littla while ago
der mutters, what caressing love prat­ I for Galileo’s higher education. Under order of things for which humanity have felt themselves benefited or com
. ,
Trod the same wayside dust with mine,
tles, what the noisy flay babbles, and his father he became a fine musician, blindly sighed, and of which tha Spirit forted under sermons from which they
And now up paths I do not know
the silent night broods, what the rosy and was far advanced in Latin and of the Iòni gave assurance, was im­ have derived little or no actual teach­
Speed, without sounl or sign?
morning paints greeh, gold and silver, Greek. When he was a little past possible. Now he was no voluntary ing. Just as it was with a Londoner
What can I do? The perfect life
I and the earnest sovereign on the seventeen, in 1581, he was sent to a sojourner by the seaside ; no affliction - on hearing a certain famomo Yorkshire
All fresh and fair and beautiful
throne of thought« panders, what the I large .school—the University at Pisa, free, comfortably placed creatvre, whd Methodist, whose dialect was almost
Has opened its wide arms to thee ;
maiden chatters, the quiet fountain to study medicine and philosophy. He had come to look uf>on the great waste as unintelligible to him as Sanscrit or
’ Thy cup is over-brimed and full;
murmurs and the poisonous serpent did not study books simply, but things; of waters. He was a prisoner, whom Greek, when he said, with a grasp of
Nothing remains for me.
hisses; when the gay boy hops and I and, while, he .was always courteous, , | these ^Watgra sternly enclosed . and the hand “ God bless y«*, my good
I used to do many things ;
i rejoices, anil the old philosopher of I he gave great offense to his professors . | guarded, confining his movinents so northern brother; I have been blessed
Love thee and chide thee and caress ;
Brush little Straws from off thy way,
j his difficult I sits and speaks : I am j sometimes because he dared to ques- j that he eould not go whither he would, under, your ministry, though I could
Tempering with my poor tenderness
II ! All, all, it translates and declares I tion and doubt what a great philoso­ I and cutting him off from, connection scarcely understand what you said.”
The heart of thy short day.
to us intelligibly, and every entrusted pher, Aristotle, had said. He usqd to j with kindred spirits and friends. They To whom the Yorkshire orator replied.
Not much, but very sweet to give ;
word delivers to us more graceful and sit in the great cathedral and look at j were cruel waves that shut him up Niver heed, niver heed, if thee dost
And it is grief of griefs to bear
the painting 'and statuary, richly gild­ j and hemmed him in. As morning by but get blest.’’
more adorned, as it is given over.
That all these ministries are o’er,
ed ceiling, and carved pillars, just as j morning his eaj opened to 'their roar,
Who,
therefore,
still
feels
himself
in
Yes, the sea has blessed us some­
And thou, so happy, love, elsewhere,
the heart a perman; in whom', the any one else would do. But one day ■ and his eyes rested on them anew, it times with a swell of better feeling;
Dost need m’e never more.
wild search after gold and goods has the bronze lamp of which I have been , was to be reminded that .they were his while y?i we were unable to-tell ex­
And I can do for thee but this :
not yet destroyed every feeling of telling you, that suspended by a very ' jailers. -They were forever saying to actly what it was that it» wild waves
»Working on blindly, knowing not
- If I may give thee pleasure so ;)
love for man and nature, ideality long cord from the ceiling of the nave, Ì him, whether in the crash of stormy were saying. Has it not, as we have
Out of my own dull, shadowed lot
-and poesy. .Who near the clinking of was by some mearis put in motión, and days, or in the low monotonous ehant stood lietning to its ecaseless wail, as of
I can arise, and go
the gold also still understands the the young man faund himself indolent­ with which they broke upon the an unspeakable, unfulfilled longing»
To sadder lives and darker homes, *- *
secret rustling wf the woods and the ly watching it swinging forward and strand during hours of calm, “ We oi gazing upon the constat heaving
A messenger, dear heart, from thee
I gay. trill of the birds, he will and must backward again and again.
are the arms that bind and thwart and undulation of its mighty breast—
Who wast on earth a comforter ;
But, as I said, this young man had you ! " He heard nothing when he has it not touched and awed us once
make-use of the German language, for
And say to those who weloome me,
neither English brevity, nor French learned to think for himself. Shorter stood and listened, either to the ripple and again* with a sense of O ih , not the
I am sent forth by Zier :
shallowness can suffice far the warmth and shorter grew the arcs, or ¡»arts of a of their sleep, or the tumult of their sea, but in the sea, who was calling
Feeling the wUile "how good it is
circle, through which the lamj»s passed, unrest, but a dreary repetition of the us to appease him with the offering of
To do thy errands thus, and think
J J of his feelings and the depth of his
but it moved with a slower motion. words, " Separation and restraint ; ourselves, and seeking -to bring us to
emotions.
It may be, in the blue, for space,
A
thought came into his mind: Was restraint and, separation.” That was the beauty of his perfection ? Haye
Thou watchest from the heaven’s brink,
Some one calls us Germans a nation
A smile upon thy face.
not
the time of each vibration the their only voice to him, in consequence we not felt in it something appealing
of dreamers ; and indeed, not entirely
same,
whether the distancé was great­ j of. the unhappy -personal condition • to us against the -vanity and ¿folly of
And when the day’s work ends with day, I without truth; but we thank the
* And star-eyed evening, stealing in,
er
or
smaller
? He set the lamp to I through which their varying sound our li ves, against the sordid, servile
Creator that we are so; that we still
Waves her cool hand to flying noon,
swinging
again,
and watched, and was ! came to him, until at length the sea cares and fears, solcitndes, and ambi­
experience the emotions of the heart
And restless, surging thoughts begin.
and are acquainted with the language sure he had found a truth. His mind | became to him the symbol of separa- tions with which we are allowing our­
Like sad bells out of tune,.
■ of nature and know a more noble being full of the study of medicine, he J , tion and restraint; and in seeking to selves to be fretted ; against the low­
I'll pray, “ Dear Lord, to whose great love
¡ purpose for our earthly existence, than made a little instrument with a pen­ express what he saw in bisApocalyp- ness of the aims and the pettiness of
Nor bound nor limit-line is set,
i the mere untiring search after riches ; dulum, by which he could measure the , tic vision of the glorious freedom and the interests to which we are devoted;
Give to my darling, I implore, .
Some new, sweet joy, not tasted yet,
and, therefore, can and will only vibrations in the beating of the pulse. j fellowship that obtained in the new against our bondage to trifles, to things
For I can give no more.”
I vanish the German language with the This waj the first little instrument that j heaven and earth, he hit it off with transitory and changing; and sum­
j
And, with the words my thoughts shall extinction of the German spirit” and ever measured duration by means of the stroke, “ And there was no more moning us to live more earnestly and
climb
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, German peculiarity of character ; and the pendulum, and within the lifetime sea.”
more nobly, to forsake frivolity, to -
With following feet the heavenly stair
Thus, while to the happy Hebrew strive ofter duty and truth, and to rest,
no one in whose heart lies the Tionoi of Galileo many clocks were made to
Up which thy steps so lately sped,
j of his fatherland, needs the caution : tell the;j time of day. Galileo’s genius psalmist the ocean seemed resonant of not in the temj»oral, but in the eternal ?
And seeing thee so happy there, ■
lighted the bronzé lamp, and the beams the wisdom and majesty of God, to
j “ Forget not the German tongue.”
There are few of us, snrely, who
Come back I.aTf comforted.
have never been extinguished. Little I the exiled Christian apostle it wailed have not had some such impressions
SfSAN COO LAO E
objects and slight actions have gieat with all its billows of the manifold during our wanderings and musings
Sunday Afternoon for November.
The Bronze Lamp at Pisa.
infl tience.— S
limitations and privations of the by the sea; whom it has not stirred
The German Language.
It is a large, handsome lamp—the
present time—his own painful situa­ now and then to some serious thought
Musings By The Sea.
tion throwing its shadow upon the and loftier resolves. It has led us
The following tribute to the langu-1 I bronze lamp tft Pisa.
“
But
is
there
only
one
?
Yes
said
main, *• and making
A certain Hebrew psalmist, and a magnificent
O
. o it of I ’ somehow to feel afresh the solemnity
age of the fatherland we clip from the ■
f/«-
lamp
—
and
does
it
light
all
Pisa
?
”
melancholy
aspect
and
import
forever. of life; to think what dissatisfaction
certain ( hristian apostle looking forth,
Deutsche Zeitwng of Portland.
The English language extends the -. Well, my inquiring mind, you are each from lii.s own individual mood So much is our reading of nature, as of the comparative emptiness and
greatest distance round the circle of ; yet young, or you would know that and circumstances, upon the sea, were of everything else, inevitably affected | meanness of our ways, and to crave to
the earth ; it almost entirely mono­ though there may be hundreds- of very differently affected by it. It by our mood and surroundings at the be swayed and governed by grander
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polizes the international commerce, lamps in Pisa, the world knows only spoke to them in different tones ; . set time. The voice of the sounding sea ends, and to be moved by a greater
was
cracked
into
harshness
for
St.
one,
and
that
this
one.
Once
upon
a
them
thinking
and
reflecting
different
­
spirit.
If
it
be
so,
if
the
voice
of
the
and we, therefore, can confidently
:
designate it as the language of the ’time, though its tapers were not light­ ly. The wild waves had not the same John by the subtle action if the place Lord has been at all audible to us up­
merchants: then; on account of its ed, it sent out such a flood of light i voice fur both. To the poet of Judea, and state in which he was wont to on the waters, calling us to higher
brevity and precision it is admirably that its bearils reach every civilized whoever he may have been, they san" hear it. And there are few things things, let not its sound be forgotten,
melodiously, in concert with the whole around us, perhaps that are not spoil­ or its effects fade. Let us come from
adapted to their explicit manner. It town on the globe.
“ The Bible didn’t come from Pisa, creation, the praise of God's dower and ed or marred for some one by some this great and wide sea ofhis, with the
is true, it has in the Spanish language
i did it ?”
wisdom. They awoke in him bright trouble or other in his life, by some­ mystery anil majesty of which he has
a notable rival, in South and Central
You are a very good child to take a and happy thoughts- of the Lord the thing of unpleasantness or painfulness, somewhat awed and quickened us, to
America, but this will eventually be
driven out of the field, at least in moral view of the subject so soon, but maker, and of his wonderful strength which in’the course ofhis history has seek to present ourselves anew to him,
"a living sacrifice.”—CZu irtian llorid.
commerc?, as the direct result of the the lamp at Pisa is not so great a lamp and |kill. As he gazed out upon the come to be associated with it.
Many
of
us
have
returned
lately
blue
expanse
of
Mediterranean
from
as
the
Bible,
and
it
has
not
done
men
English brevity and consequent clear­
nearly as much good, but still it is very the Tyrian shore or the walls of Joppa, j from the sea. We have been falling
ness.
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A Rochester (N. Y.) newspaper
its vastness, compared with the inland asleep and waking within hearing Of j man, being called upon to tell how he
The French language is heard in valuable.
" Is it noted for its beauty, like the lakes behind him, and its wealth of j its solemn music. Wélrave watchedit obtained certain information pub­
the state apartments of courts and
diversified life, sampled in the count­ i dashing itself against the rocks in lished in his j>aper bearing on a trial
princes, and on the parquet Hoors of seven golden candle-sticks
No, but it is very pretty. There are less painted shells which the waters ! windy weather, or creeping lazily on I now ¡»ending, declined to answer, on
tha salons at home; it is the langu­
age of the “ polite world.” On account four little fat cherub boys without lay at his feet, in the nets of the fisher­ still afternoons up yellow sands. We the grounds that a disclosure by him
of its pleasant sound, and the richness wings, standing on one rim and hold­ men, ami still father, in the stories of have loitered beside it in quiet, shelter­ of the name of his informant or in­
of its flatteries, and play upon words, ing up another, containing these bands strange creatures tola by weather­ ed bays, and from breezy cliffs and i formants would seriously injure him
, headlands have heard it churning in j
it is of inestimable value in that con­ and rosettes and carved scroll-work, beaten mariners who had roamed the
in his business as a newspaper man,
versation of the polite world* which is and very many little pendant« that deep,—these impressed him with a ¡the darkness. Bi.t how differently that the information had been im­
carried on for hours without sense or hold the lights, looking like little bal­ sweet sense of the riches of the divine j has it* affected us ! What different parted to him under the pledge of
substance, yet without becoming tire­ ances that are ready to adjust all the might and majesty, and drew from him I filings has it said to us, according to secrecy, and that all communications
some, as it falls pleasantly on the car. difficulties in the world. It is in the lyric notes of worship. Probably, it the different frames and tempers that to a newspaper man should be re­
Only in sung,
¡wng, in the opera, does the I fine old cathedral to-day, suspended was fine, glorious weather when the we brought to it, the burden ovbuoy­ garded as privileged, the same as *
Italian hoi
Old the preference above the from the ceiling, just as it was hun­ wide-reaching ocean and its treasures ancy of spirit under which we coui- communications between lawyers and
French, as being
entertaining to dreds of years ago, when it became so moved him thus. Perhaps' he had i muned with it. It has sighed out ! clients—and the court sustained him.
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famous, ami you can see ii when you journeyed to the coast after a year of doubt and despair to some ears, pfl»ba-
the hearing.
But there are doubt­ honest and successful work, to recreate bly ; and to some has sung anthems of
But the German language comes go to Europe.
Take a map of the United States,
out.of the heart, it is the language of less handsomer lamps than this Pise. and enjoy holiday, with that famous triumph or hope. We have found it,
now
calming,
and
now
quickening.
place
its eastern and weitern edges
“ I wish you would tell me about it. j heart’s-ease in hi? breast, the conscious­
the feelings, the language of the
I»
it
not
so
I
together, and fold it; and then
ness of something attempted and some­
thinkersand dreamers,'of the poets Did it ever shine in our town ?”
And yet, have there not been certain double it from north to south; open
Well, I intend to tell you, but you thing done; or prehaps to welcome
and philosophers.
The ingenious
writer, Ludwig Borne, says of it: keep me answering questions. Yes, it1 ' lack his long absent ship, and receive impressioni borne in by it at times the map, the folds have crofSed tach
“ What other language can compare shines in your own ’town and your the profits of its safe and prosperous more or less powerfully upon ua all ; other near Fort Riley. I)o it your­
¡-with the German ? What other is so own home. Did you ever listen to the voyage. Doubtless he was, at the atleast, upon those of us who, riot self and you will know that Kansas
rich and strong, so spirited and grace­ measured ticking of a clock and watch time, plesantly situated, where the content with idling in the neighbor­ is the center and heart of America.
ful, so beautiful and so mild as ours ? the hands move -slowly ? The benefit sight of the sea made glad with noth­ hood of bathing-machines, or a among It is a curious coincidence, that the
It has a thousand hues and a hundred that clocks do the world is the light ing but suggestions of a good and the crowd on the esplanade, have routes of the first explorers and the
sought to walk with it in solitude, and folds made by the map will cross at
k shades. It has a word for the small- that came from the lamp at Pisa. bountiful God.
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But what said the wild wave« to surrender the mind to ita influence 1 1 the same point.
' est want of the moment, and a word A man of noble family, but quite poor,
Christian Family,
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