Pacific Christian messenger., February 21, 1879, Page 2, Image 2

PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, FEB. ?1, 1879.
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Here they have windows aré broken, he keeps them trees twenty years old will yield an steadily all the forenoon tQ get up such
keep hie
made their hornos for years, because open with the first prop that cornea to abundance of fruit. The tree is par­ a meal. How much wiser to have
The history of the world has been their fidelity to Jesus Christ compelled hand, often a hair-brush, sometimes > a ticularly beautiful when in full given a font th ¡«art of the .variety, and
■written in tears and blood. X' hy them to this isolation, ‘ It was to do lexicon 'When, his curtin rings dp ’bloom, or When laden with ripe fruit.* had a1 aim pie delicious tea out of the
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The process of preparing coffee for remainder. <
pain, degradation, sorrow and death this or .give up their conscientious con-. ■not run smoothly (and in his house
I
feel
that
we
Americans
add great--
nothing runs rooothly), he climbs on a market is as follows: The ripe ber-
are in the world we shall not- stop to victions of truth and right.
¡ir and pushes thorn with a-poker.--riea when picke«! áre firstpukthjeilgL ly to our bqrdehs by our luxorioan
discuss at the present. We ' know .... 'Tim^nTen?TnTiira^^rthe"WOTW7
a machine called a “ de plador,” which tea-tables ; and we add greatly to our
Dvnieutic
Monthly.
that such is the case, and, therefore, have had to suffer on account of their
removes the pulp; the coffee grains, wastes, for there must be more or less
another side of the question concurs adhesion to right and their consequent
The
Story
of
a
Toad.
of which there are two in each berry, waste where there is such a variety.
us more and shall receive our attention. course in life. There men have loved
are still covered with a sort of And, besides this, we dread having
That wé have responsibilities in this tfuth, and have hated and exposed
One day last summer, when I was glutinous substance which adheres to our friends c<vne to see us, because of
life, which we cannot ignore without error, and, therefore, have had to suffer down at Aunt Jane’s house in the
personal loss and suffering, no one will for this cause. The world has never country, I was standing in the con­ the bean ; they are now spread out on the labor and expense. Shall we not
be so foolish as to deny.' A 'wise man honored sach men as they deserve to servatory, smslling the pretty flowers, large “ patois,” made expressly for the have a less number of dishes, and
will, therefore, accept the situation be honored. But they have suffered with little Nanny by my side, when purpose, and left there, being occas­ more vivacity to our conversation>. '
with its manifold environments, and cheerfully rather than to become un­ I saw a* large toad hopping across the ionally tossed about and turned over And who can be very sparkling when '
with wooden shovels until. they are the
err hostess is tired out
will go forward heroically laboring to true to their convictions of right. They floor.
uests is danger*
perfectly dry. They are then gather­
make the best of life he can. To acb could have done as others did arid
As a rule, I object to toads, and I
of
dyspepsfi||^|NH.
t
\
X. Soule, in
ed
up,
put
into
the
“
retrilla,
”
.
a
circu
­
in any other way is unWise, and one gained the approbation of the wbrld ; was going to drive this one away,’
can not be successful in such a course. bfit they have preferred to be what when I saw that the poor load was lar ¿rough in which a heavy wooden the Chicago lntei*0cean.
There is a common gateway through they have been and receive whatever going very slowly, as if in pain, and wheel, shod with steel, is made to
revolve, so as to,,thoroughly break the
which all reformation and successful has been in store for theiq.
Napoleon and Providence.
as Nanny described it, “ was holding
men have passed, which we, for lack of
If any. man will be a friend of the one of its hands up to one of its eyes husk without crushing the oean. The
AN EXTRACT FROM A BERKUN.
chaff is separated from the grain by
abetter name, call Suffering. Man, | wor|j he can not be a friend of Christ, just like a giown-up person.”
means
of
a
fanning
mill,
and
the
truth, and righteousness have had ' The one warreth against the. other
What an illustration, too, of the f
“ O Mamma !” cried Nanny, “ it has
their enemies since the childhood of anj there can be no compromise with hurt its eye ; look—how swelled it coffee is now thoroughly dry and overruling providence of God do wj
the human race. There never has sin. A Christian of the apostolic type is !" I then faw that the eye was clean. After this it is the custom of have in the career of that same Na
been a time during the history of fal­ mnst expect persecution and tribula­ cut and swollen, and that was the some planters to have it spread out poleon, of whose curt remark concern­
len manwhen there were no difficulties, tions. If tha world hated Christ and reason why it kept raising what on tables and carefully picked over by ing the partmlity of providence for
the Indian women and children, all
temptations and sufferings. At the persecuted him it will do the same Nanny called its hand to its eye.
long cannon I have already madiq
the bad beans being thrown out. It
very gates of the Garden of Eden Cain with us. “ If any man suffer as a
mention. For a time this man of
“ Let us watch, it,” said I ; “ We
only remains then to have it put into
slew his brother and the lied to the Christian,” says Peter, “ let him not will not hurt it—poor thing !”
destiny seemed to have everything
bags, weighed and marked, before it
Lord about it. When the Lord aSked be ashamed.” On the contrary he
his own way. His counsels, both in
The little creature did not seem to
him : “ Where is Abel, thy brother ?” should rejoice that he is counted be at all afraid of us, but remained is ready for shipment and sale. On the cabinet and in the field, displayed
he answered positively, “ I know not. worthy to suffer for Christ’s sake. near, blowing out its body, and wink­ some of the larger plantations this consummate wisdom. His power was •
process is greatly simplified, with
Ara I my brother’s keeper ?”
To enter into the “ fellowship of ing its well eye for several minutes.
irresistable. Kings and people trem­
considerable saving in time and labor,
All through that wonderful history Christ’s suffering ” was Paul’s desire,
Nanny suddenly became so fond of
bled at his name. He went from con­
of the Patriarchs the way to success in order that he might obtain a it that she wanted to'take it up and by the use of improved machinery for quering to conquer. At last there
And Peter bathe its eye, but this I would not drying and cleaning the coffee.— came a charge, and Waterloo stood out
was by this same gateway of suffering. *' better resurrection.”
lleligious Herald.
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and all tells us that if we suffer with Christ allow.
on the panorama of human history.
those worthies passed this way, and we shall also reign w’ith Him. . And
Concerning English Teas.
So she contented herself with put­
And what was the secret of Waterloo?
endured privations and sufferings in then comes James, saying : “ C.
Count it ting a leaf, with a grub or t.wo on it,
No doubt more than one cause might.
We went about three o’clock in the
carrying out God’s will concerning all joy when you fall into divers close to the toad ; and we soon saw
~With gpod reason, be assigned for the
them. AM who were true to God, trails.” So then, let us be content to it darting its pink tongue out, and afternoon. The lady met us at the issue of this decisive contest. But he
themselves and others, often felt the be as our Master and ’the apostles catching and eating them. When the gate, and, as I was an invalid, kindly will, surely err who shuts his eyes to
piercing sting of opposition from with­ were, knowing that these light afflic­ creature had finished its meal, it assisted me up the winding walk that the facts that Napoleon had provoked
out and within They often wandered tions, which are but for a moment, hopped slowly out of doors, and sat led from terrace to terrace, till we t|ie wrath of heaven, which now took
reached the house. She took us right
from place to place, “ being destitute, work out for us a far more exeeding basking in the sun.
sides against him. One of the most •
afflicted, tormented ; of whom the and eternal weight ofglory.-C/n’istion.
We were glad to see that the eye into the dining-room, as there was a I graphic descriptions of the battle is
fire there, and the afternoon was chilly,
world was not worthy.” They’ were
looked better, and so we left it. The
that given by Victor Hugo, in his
The
Casual
Person.
it
being the latter part of September.
seeking a better home, one which
next day, however, and o.’ten after­
“ Les Miserab’es.” I commend you to
The casual person is so plainly his ward, it came back to the conserva­ We had a pleasant chatty time till his interpretation of the fate which
shall not fade away.
They were Willing to endure afflic­ own enemy that it is really not worth tory, where Nanny generally managed about 2:30, Then the maid came in over-whelmed this greatest man- of
tions for a season that they might while for other people to behave un­ to provide food for it. It grew to to lay the table. She spread the modern times on that memorable day-
kindly to him. Perhaps he pleases know us quite well, and not only damask cloth, white as snow and You must allowance for the brilliant
enter, at last, into joys everlasting.
Moses gave up position, wealth and people by the very noise and move­ made friends with us but also with a polished like satin, laid out the nap­ novelist’ssensational style. His words
influence that he might save his ment of his crowded life, in which he lai'ge cat which was a great pet of kins and set out the china, and brought are, I believe, fraught with deepest
the cream and sugar, the plate of but­
people from a terrible bondage. is always trying to do every thing Nanny’s.
Our new friend made
truth. He says:
ter and a loaf of bread, first cutting off
with
inadequate
instruments.
To
him
There was only one way out of their
itself at home in every part of the
“ Napoleon had been impeached be-
bondage, and this way was difficult existence is a sort Crusoe’s Island, and house. One day, to the surprise of the crust to make a smooth slice, just , fore the Infinite, and his fall wa.-
and compassed about with many he is constantly exerting an ingenuity' every one, it was found sitting before as our mothers used to do for us decreed.
tribulations and sorrows. After they as great as Crusoe’s in doing things in* the kitchen fire, close to the eat, with children when we wanted “ a piece ”
“ He vexed God.”
had passed the Red Sea, w'bere the wrong, but in what seems to him its “ hands ” resting on pussy’s tail, between meals. Then she cut each
" Waterloo is not a battle; it is a
Pharaoh’s hosts were destroyed, their the easy, way. If any thing in his and looking quite affectionately into slice as thin as possible, and piled charge of front of the universe.”
them on a plate till she thought she
’’trials in the Wilderness were as house is broken, his does not send for her face.
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Now for the proof:
had enough ; the butter and the loaf
severe as those they experienced in the carpenter; it is not worth while ;
Once we noticed that the toad’s
•* Had it not rained on the night of
the land of bondage. They wandered he mends it himself in a manner skin was split down the whole length were left upon the table, with the the 17th of June, 1815, the future of
from place to place with many reverses which, he says, “ will do well enough.” of his body. We w’atched him and knife, that more could be spread and Europe would have been changed. A
and sore tribulations. Even Moses If a gaspipe is cut (a thing which saw him twitch himself until the cut if needed. The maid then brought few drops of water, more or less, pros­
was more than once railed at by the sometimes happens when the casual loose skin gradually fell apart and in a part of a boiled ham, a small trated Napoleon. That Waterloo should
Children of Israel in thé Wilderness. man is addicted to pistol-practice in lay in folds on his sides. We saw jar of plum preserves, a dish of buns, have been the end or Austerlitz, Provi- •
All the way from the Red Sea to the his bedroom), he stops the hole with a him then put one of his legs under and a pot of tea—and that was all. dence needed only a little rain, and an
land of Cannan were oppositions, ob­ piece of soap and goes away and for­ his arm, and press down upon it, and But 1 assure you I never relished a unseasonable clobdv crossing the sky
stacles and suffering» It was the gets all about the matter. If he cuts pull it out of its covering. He did meal more than I did that simple one. sufficed for the over-throw of a world.
only possible way out of bondage and himself in shaving, he hastily tears a the same thing with his other leg, Everything was delicious and there
"The battle of Waterloo—and this
into freedom.
. convenient shred of blotting-paper, a leaving his old pants under his arms. was a plenty of each. And we all gave Blucher time to come up—could
No man has ever yet climbed ’the rough-and-ready styptic, out of the With his mouth he now ¡lulled the arose from the table without the fear not be commenced before half past
ladder of success without difficulty first writing-case that comes to hand, skin off his arms, and with his two of dyspepsia before our minds.
eleven. Why ? Because the ground
“ I suppose,’’ said Mrs. Parker, as we
and danger. There are Galileo, Col­ He smokes, but he never has any hands he pushed it into his mouth in
was soft. It was necessary to wait
went home, “ it looked very odd to
and is often almost reduced a little ball, and swallowed it.
umbus, Luther, Weslqy, Campbell, matches,
•a
for it to acquire some little firmness,
you to see such a simple tea-table, ac­
Washington and a host of others who to the primitive method of rubbing
Nanny clapped her hands with
so that the artillery could mam euver.
have marched slowly to success two sticks together to get a light. One glee to see how gay he looked in his customed as you are to the luxurious,
" Napoleon was an artillery officer,
overladen tea tables of America ?"
through storms of opjiosition, cruel has seen him working away at a ciga­ bright new suit.—Church Union.
and he never forgot it. •
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“ It did look odd,” said I, " but I
hatred and manifold sufferings. Brave rette with a burning-glass. It is
liked it/ and it has brought me to a • * All his plans of battle were
men they were, and right well did dreadful to ha ve him in a room where
How Coffee is Raised.
lesson I shall remember—that to have made for projectiles. To converge the
they contend for the right, which will there are books, for he regards fly­
artillery upon a given point was his
Coffee culture is very interesting, a good time with friends it is not
at last enable them to stand under leaves as pipe-lights in a state of
.* On the
nrrff the gTrrwtnn’ crop- tx •very' bestrtb
‘¡¿¡■''df^irtory; '¿mSre&ïvï 'ñartfFFrUrhas no ryrtg
18th
of June, 1815, he counted- on his
the plaudits of the true and good pages, and in the thin tissue paper ful. The trees at maturity are from forenoon over the baking table, or bum artillery the more because he had the
cheeks to a blister over a hot
wherever their deeds have been made which guards engravings he rolls up five to eight feet high ; they are well your
advantage in numbers. Wellington
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oven.
shaped
and
bushy,
with
dark
green
known. All successful movements tobaco and makes cigarettes. He is
had only 159 guns; Napoleon had
Now, let me tell you of a tea-table
and reformations, political and relig­ disliked in houses where decorative foliage, and planted eight or nine feet
240.
Had the ground been dry and.
ious, have met, in the first place, a arms, swords, creeses, and snickersnees apart. The flowers are in clusters at in the United States. We had first the artillery able to move, the action
furious storm of opposition and the are kept on the walls: for he draws, the root of the leaves, and are small, fried chicken, mashed potatos, stewed would have been commenced at six
most cruel harted. Every demonia­ a dagger to sharpen his pencil, and, but pure white and very fragrant. tomatoes, and hot biscuits. Following o’clock, in the morning. The battle
. /f > re- this were six kinds of preserves, jelly, would have have been won and finish­
cal power has been summoned for war­ violating the old saw. will poke the The • fruit has a rich color and
semblee
a
small
cherry
or
a
large honey, two .kinds of peas, dried beef,
fire
with
a
.sword.
He
mends
any
fare,Mnd if possible, for the demolition
cranberry
;
it
grows
in
ciasters
close cheese, two kinds of pickles, three ed at two o’clock, three hours before
torn
garments
with
pins,
and
fancies
of these movements. Right has al­
the Prussians turned the scale of for­
He has
seen to the branches, and when it becomes kinds of iced cakes, doughnuts and
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ways been fiercely combatted by that all is well. K-
tune.”
wrong, and we may expect the war­ trying to wind up the hall clock, when a deep red is ripe, and ready to be’ cookies. It was utterly impossible to
fare to be waged till the power of the key is lost, with a button-hook. gathered. - The trees are raised from taste of everything, much more to eat
The sweat of one’s brow is no
darkness and the wicked one are con­ He is often put to it sadly by his habit seed, and do not begin to yield until at all. And we all felt as though we
quered. In the mountain gorges and of losing keys, and climbs over the the third year. In Central America had been making the mistress and longer a curse when one works for
fastnesses, in caves and dens, Chris­ wall into bis own house like a thief they bear well for twelve or fifteen maid a great deal of ¿rouble, as we had, God ; it proves a tonic for the system
tians have met to worship God and and a robber. If the sash topes of his years, although in exceptional cases, for they must have worked hard and and is actually a blessing.
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