Pacific Christian messenger., January 31, 1879, Page 2, Image 2

PACIFIC CHRISTIAN
MESSENGER,
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31,
FRIDAY, JAN.
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times melts away, meekly suggests not away from the sins of Magbalen, at last.-- When we trade with virtue, beauty ; also that, when they marry,
that it is better not to knpw so much Hood showed us the starving woman we do but buy pleasure with the ex­ many a woman will expire of jealous y.
Every one remembers how it was { than to know so much that isn’t so. despairing, the sinful woman dead. pense of time; so it is not se much —Northwest.
a night of aong and revelry in the > Everyone knows how much harder it “ One more unfortunate ” is, perhaps, a consuming of time as an exchange.
kingly palace of proud old Babylon,, is to unlearn than to learn.
—Life is a lemonade, made up of
the most pathetic lipe poet ever pen­
Lady Bulwer.
when the haughty monarch drank
As the tide of years sweeps on it ned. The thought of it seems to turn different ingredients. Fortune, that’s
the water; misfortune, that’s the
wine out of the sacred vessels of gold I
Baq wreck of all vain delusions, the Thames into a grave.
There was never, it is said by those
lemon, and good fortune is the sugar. who saw her then, a handsomer girl
before the thousand! lords and princes . allq when we look back and see the
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of the realm, and that as he drank.! ruin it has wrought we stand in des­
It is rather pleasant when the in­ “ brought out ” into London society
Select Reading.
his soul grew rick with terror at pair asking, What shaH we cling to ?
gredients are not disproportionally than the one who became the wife of
—
The
easiest
and
best
way
to
ex
­
sight of the fingers of a hand that was
mixed; but it is an unpleasant dose Sir Edward Bulwer (Lord Lytton)—
That of most importance that Time
pand
the
,
chest
is
to
have
a
good
no man’s slowly tracing on the is weighing, weighing is the faith of
when the lemon is excessive, or the the father, later on, of “ Owen Mere;
plastered wall Words of'fate in an Christendom and never does the large heart in it. It saves the cost of super-abundant water makes it in­ dith ” the poet.
sipid, or a large quantity of sweeten­
unknown tongue ; that it was inter­ scale give sign of rising. All other gymnastics.
Perfect in form, Lady Bulwer had
—Hold on to your good character, ing makes it . mawkish or pall upon the kind of face to which the words-
preted, and that tbe revelry ag^in supports cast out on the waves of life
went on, though the fulfillment came to uphold the human soul have been for it is, and ever will be, your best the appetite.
“strikingly handsome” are suited."
full swiftly, and before ..looming swept away as broken reeds, but this wealth.
S ilent S uffering .—These things rather than the terms “ lovely ” or
—Many who cannot be convinced are often unknown to the world ; for “ beautiful,” for they seem to apply to
dawned the Persians wepe in the is as a grounded rock round which
city and a Mede upon the throne. the surges beat, and it moves not, but by argument, can Sometimes be won thfere is ,mu?h pain that is quite beauty of a softer and less haughty
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noiseless, and vibrations that make character. Her gTeat, dark eyes; her
Babylon’s king had been weighed bears the cross high above the angry by love.
—
A
lady
school
teacher
at
New
human agonies as mere whispers in high, proud, and extremely regular
and found wanting.
billows, and to this we cling, knowing
York
was
docked
two
cents
the
other
the roar of hurrying existence. There features, and her noble carriage of a
And . it is true that Time, who that air truth must rest and centec
day by the principal in whose school are glances of hatred that stab and figure then slender, though symmeti-
proves all thing, stands with giant . here.
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she taught, for being one minute late raise no cry of murder; robberies cal.all suggested the word “handsome”
scales in his hands, slowly and care
Thomas
Hood.
in getting to her desk. That is al­ that leave man and woman for ever rather than any other term.
fully weighing, not only men and
most equal to Mark Twain’s story beggared of peace and joy, yet kept
nations, but human thought and
But no untrained colt ever scattered •
Death and fame came to Thomas
human actions; sometimes awarding Hood almost together. For twenty about a mining company which secret by the sufferer.
more consternation in a stable than
the tardy meed of approbation, but years he had held his place among the docked a man for the time spent in
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Lady Bulwer in the establishment of
more often marking with his wither­ rank and file of literature, earning being blown up, when his back pay
Old Maids and Old Bachelors.
that precise gentleman, that “ Pelham
was being handed to his widow.
ing fingers—“ Found M anting.
out of the book,” to whom she had
thereby little more than daily bread
Old maids are useful ; they can given her youth and beauty by the
—It is easier to forgive an ancient
Far more interesting than noting and the applause that is but of a mo­
his estimate of kingdoms and rulers ment, when, in 1843, the Christmas enemy than the friend we have cook, sew, .take care of children, nurse marriage contract. To sop up spilt
is to mark the sentence he passes on number of Punch electrified its readers offended. Our resentment grows sick people, and generally play the ink with a twenty guinea handker­
those ideas . that have spurred the with the “ Song of the Shirt.’’ Those with our undesert, and we feel vin­ piano. Old bachelors are useless; chief, to snap a gold chain into bits
race onward or have held it in wonderful verses went from newspaper dictive in due degree with our own they do not even know how to drive under the influence of temper, to up­
doubts of the chance of finding for- or'split wood.
wretched thralldom.
set fine china in the “torrent, tempest,’’
to newspaper as in old times the bea­
Old maids are amiable. If one and, we may say, “ whirlwind of her
giveness.
Aq opinion holds sway in the con fire was accustomed to pass from
—Each Pisgah of labor has its wants anything done that requires passion,” were not domestic features
realm of thought, perhaps, for ages, hill to hill. The laurels reaped by the
patience and kindness of heart, a
as strangely defended by apparent author were, however, barren, and the glimpse of the promised land.
that exactly suited “ Pelham.” They
single
lady is sure to be the one to do
—Practice flows from principle;
facts as Babylon by its impregnable sunshine of celebrity had nothing gold­
were rather sensational than desirable,
it. Old bachelors are ill-natured,
walls; but at last the balance rises en in its beams. With the new year for, as a man thinks so will he act.
and when to them was added a great
—Truth is not realized to us, but They desire to be as disobliging as pos­ deal of extravagance in other ways,
and tbe terrible fingers write the was bofnan unlucky publication chris­
result; its place is then given to j tened Hoods Magazifie. Misfortunes by a confoftnity of-our wills to its sible. They snub children, despise “ Pelham objected.” Still, it is not to
babies, hate young'mothers, and are
another which, in its turn, is weighed fell thick upon both periodical and ed­ discoveries.
be doubted that the novelist was any­
always so busily employed in seeing
—
Every
good
deed
that
we
do
is
and assigned its true value.
thing but agreeable as a husband.
itor, and the “flashes of merriment”
The thought that one day is given that the latter still put forth came from not only a present pleasure, but a that other, people take good care of Self-worshipers are said to be detesta­
them, that they have not a moment to
tn« sceptre and invested with the a life blackened with the thunderclouds prop for the future.
ble as home-companions. In fact, a
give
to any one else.
—
Without
confidence,
friendship
is
royal purple on the next is dragged of sickness and calamity. By May
self-wotshiper wants nothing near him
Old maids are nice-looking, and
low in the dust. That which one Hood was in a sick-room, and, as but a mockery, and Social intercourse
but object worshipers of the same god,
“
young
for their years.” Old bache­
a
sort
of
war
in
disguise.
generation knows to be true past all editorial apology for the non-continu-
and Lady Bulwer’s rights as a beauty
—A man of sense may well disdain lors generally have red noses, rheuma­ and a wit were not, to the best of her
doubting, the next sneers at a.^ ance of a novel he had commenced,
tism in their knees, bald heads, and
ridiculous error.
sent forth a drawing of “ a plate of artifice, just as a man of known
belief, so slight a thing as to be sacrific­
mouths
that turn down at the corners.
It was this fact, no doubt, that led leeches, a blister, a cup of water-gruel, wealth may venture to appear in a
ed with her consent upon the shrine of
Old maids can make a house of one
one of the ancient sages to say^ there and three labelled vials.” All the rest plain garb.
the self-complacent litterateur..
little
room, and cook delicious meals
Be careful how thou sayest any­
is no such thing as truth, or, ac least, of that year, and far into the spring of
The son inherits much of the
if there be, no one can tell when he the next, the light of life still flickered thing of the absent, which thou for one over the gas jet, m cunning mother’s good looks. There is nothing
has discovered it. And, indeed., it is on, sometimes burning up brightly shouldst be unwilling they should little tin kettles, besides making all of the irregularity that made Bulwer
their own wardrobe. Old bachelors
a trifle discouraging and humiliating enough for the sick man to resume his hear, if present.
so homely as an old man, though there
—Sin is never overcome by looking need an army of tailors, waiters, cooks, is much hauteur.
when, judging from the past, we pen, sometimes all but fading away
must believe that some coming age into eternity. “ I am so-near death’s at it, but by looking away from it to distant relatives, and hotel landlords
Gossip tell us that the beauty grew
will laugh at our credulity and prove door,” said Hood, -on one occasion, Him who bore our sins, yours and to ke(*p them comforable.
rather stout, and that she allowed her
When old,maids are ill, they tie up-
our strongest convictions to' be but I “ that I can almost fanev I hear the mine, on the cross.
friends to pelt “Pelham” at the elecu-
foolish notions. Yet this will, doubt-. creaking of the hinges.” Thethiad of I —Night brings out stars, as sorrow their heads in pocket-handkerchiels, tions. Those who know, say that at
take homoepathic pellets out of two
less, be the case,
May, 1845, saw the door gently open­ shows us truths; we never see the
this pelting“ Pelham ” was very much
“ For I doubt not through the ages one ed for him as quietly as a tired child stars till we can see little or naught botfies alternately, and get well again. incensed. The separation and divorce
When old bachelors are ill, they go to
increasing purpose runs,
falls asleep this gentle spirit passed else—and thus it is with truth.
never affected the social position of
And the .honghts of men are widened by
•—Good sense and even propriety bed and send for four doctors ; have a
away
from
earth.
Not
a
mere
jester
either Lord or I July Bulwer, nor that
the process of the suns.
require manners to change according consultation, a mantle-piece full of of their son.
was-
it
that
died,
bnt
a
brave
and
We sometimes almost dread the
to ages. Peurilitv in an old "man is black bottles, all the amiable married
Therfi are a great many whisperings
judgment of the future, but this is kindly spirit who did his noble duty as ridiculous as pretensions to accom­ men who belong so the club to sit up
in
the
battle
of
life,
and
who
had
con
­
of
Bulwer
’s love-affairs after he became
nothing to the vexation and astonish­
with them at night, besides a hired
plished manners in a child-
stantly
a
heart
to
appreciate
and
a
a free man once more. No such stories
ment felt when Father Time uncere­
—A dinner of fragments is often nurse; they telegraph to their rela­
hand
to
relieve
the
sufferings
of
others.
are
told of his wife. But certain it is
moniously thrusts our pet theories out
said to be the best dinner; so there tions, and do their best to impress the
There
is
nothing
in
the
fame
of
Hood
that
there is something to be admired
of his balances, Wore our very eyes,
are few minds but might furnish some world with the idea that they are dy­
ovei
which
any
descendant
of
his
ever
in
the
dignity of the woman who
as if all at once he considered them
instruction and entertainment of their ing.
can
blush.
He
wrote
much
that
was
cal
­
“
held
her
state ” as a self-respecting
too trifling to be weighed at all. And
When an old maid travels, she takes
scraps, their odds a”d ends of
culated
to
make
the
best
of
men
better,
woman
under
the trying circumstance
perhaps, too, they are the very opin­
a sandwich, a piece of pound-cake, and
thought.
not
a
line
that
could,
byany
possibility,
of
unhappy
wifehood,
lonely divorce,
ions we have strongly insisted that
—When a generous man is com­ a bottle of lemonade in a hand-basket,
make
the
most
worthless
specimen
of
an!
the
persecutions
of
a vain man’s
every one else should adhere to ; for
pelled to give a refusal, he generally and lunchescomfortablyin thecarriage.
humanity
worse.
Numerous
and
ex
­
revenge.
—
Ladies
Journal.
it is not ope of the least curious traits
gives it with a worse grace than the When an old bachelor travels, he orders
of human nature that we have the quisite as are his poems, there are two ungenerous; first, because it is a dinner in courses at the station, and
inclination to make every one else that especially shed a star-like light against his nature ; and, secondly, be­ raves because he has no time to eat it
—A wise man will accommodate
think just as we do, and if they insist upon his memory/ While London re­ cause it is out of his practice.
before the fifteen minutes for refresh­ himself to all the contingencies of
too strongly upon having a mind of mains a city, the hearts of men must
life; but the fool, like a swimmer
—Our thoughts are the parents of ments ” are over.
their own we have some slight con­ continue to be stirred by the " Song of our words, and our words are soon
Old maids drink weak tea, and it struggling against the stream, con­
tempt for their understanding, or, if it the'Shirt ” and the " Bridge of Sighs.” crystalized into deeds. Therefore our cures their headache. Old bachelors tends with everything.
be a difference in strictness of belief, The one poem is in some sense the deeds are as our thoughts, as certainly drink strong liquors, which give them
sequel of the other. In this metropolis
we are shocked at the depth of their
• —If the riches of the Indies qr
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headaches.
of ours, where the worship of the as the sapling only produces the tree,
C'rdWfiJ'orarrtfm
kingdoms
of
Europe
Wdfeff ëâTf rs'fraëïîcMÖ6'SKWér-în-”*rtW‘h;tr«IB’"- UTTmat<Ts"are m iodest. They think
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. • vice will
aa Vita
will tvonrvvviA
become vinimia
vicious, qza
so Far
far as
his *kn<n
their youth I*
is over, and their beauty were laid at my feet in exchange for
that we have teen too loud in advo­ creasing scale, it is the poor and not courage will permit. He who love* gone. If, after a while, some autumn­ my love of reading, I would spurn
idle that so frequently endure the
them all.— Fenelon.
cating a very absurd idea.
fate
of being ground to powder. These impure thoughts will naturally illus­ al love is given them, they take it as
It seems that the fate suffered by
trate these thoughts in daily life, sort of miracle, and hope people will
In the Jewish dispensation there were
so many human opinions should teach victims are, in general, girls, uneducat­ while he whose heart tablet is free not laugh at them for " marrying so
us to be not quite so positive, but it ed or half-educated drudges, whom from the impress of unholy thoughts late [in [life.” Old bachelors believe some very holy things,—golden vessel*
in the holy place,—and these had a great
doe* not; and pur not very remote the love of liberty and the hatred of and vicious desires will naturally be that all women are in love with them, position, as it were ; they occupied very
domestic
service
have
driven
to
toil
­
at
duty to
ai eestors
rewujrs considered
ctimiuvicu it
>v a
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f
kept from the outcropping of sins.
and that they must carefully guard ““portant plaoe in tbe manifested pres- —
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An hour of vice is as long as is tnemselvea from traps laid to inveigle enceofOcxl; but yet they were only the
their daily bread. : Year by year their
shadows
of
things
in
the
heavens,
—
type*
o'.their lives, and some of the moat
numbers increase, year by year thous- i ah hour of virtue; but the difference them into matrimony. They also of something that was coming,—and now
*1 ‘ eking wars that have marred the
ands of miserable fates and faces tell which follows upon good actions is fondly cherish the brief that, should we are being taught about the heavenly
a <nals of the world, have been'waged
us how swift is the descent from the i infinite from that of ill ones. The they eventually become married men things themselves. Now, whst are the
to make convert* to beliefs that have
death-in -life of the garret to the hell | good, though it diminishes our time , the world expects them to exhibit great heavenly things? If you have come to
v long since been proved to be too
Jesus, been washed in the precious blood,
of the streets. Lest we should be 1 here, yet it lays up a pleasure for taste in women in their choice, and sealed of the Holy Ohcst, you are the
surd for consideration.
over-zealous in casting stones, lest we < eternity, and will recompense what it that the " other fellows ” will laugh if heavenly things in Chriat—you are the «
•tome one who has noticed how a
should forget that forgiveness turned taketh away with a plentiful return jjheir portion be not tender youth and vessels for Ood’s service.
re of supposed knowledge some­
Found vt’<aiing.