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PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FMDÁY, MAY 21/ 1880 ’ The upshot of the matter was that The Sunday School at Bright- Miss Belle did promise. “ SomehoV I acre. Itching Ears. goods, clothing and railway fare in the same manner—he might feel hurt over Itching ears are the bane of the the insinuation and inform you that , “ Tall your people liow fut we are dving, and aak could not bear to refuse him, ” she if they cannot rend the Gospel a little faster,’’— " If you please, miss, there is some told her mother a little later: “ he world, and especially of the Christian he thought he was conferring a favor Word« of a Heathen Woman. world. People love to be praised and by attending the sanctuary at all, and one one in the parlor to see you.” Ha»k I the wail of heathen national seemed so determined to have me LiSH-the cry conies back again. flattered and left undisturbed to fol that his ears expected to hear praise “To see meI at this hour come, and I told him I would be there With its solemn, aad reproaching, low their whims and fancies. They and not censure. Belle Dorset tossed aside the book for one Sunday at least. So now the With ita piteoua refrain : ' .„ * “ Wp are dying faat of hnnger, like to be told they are right, and to —People do n o t li k e to h a v e t he truth---- she had been reading, and Hew to her least I fcan do is to look up the lesson.’’ S ta r ving for th e br ea d ef Lifo I---------------- mirror. While she bade Bridget say And taking her garden hat from the find others holding the same opinions told them from the pulpit. Like the Haste, O hasten ! ore we periah, she would be down in an instant, both rack, she was soon seated in the deep as themselves. One is great and wise olden kings of Isreal they seek the Send the Messenger of Life ! hands were busy among the braids of est shads of her father’s beautiful in their estimation, as he- thinks as prophets who will prophesy the things “ Send the Gospel fatter, swifter, Ye who dwell in Chriatian lands ; they think, and does as they do. they wish to hear.' “The time will her yellow hair. grounds reading, and thinking of Reck ye not we're dying, dying, “ I wonder who it can be, ” she soli More in number than the sands ! things very different from what had Self-willed and intending to do as come,” said Paul, “ when they will not Heed ye not His words—your Master : loquized. “ If any one intended com occupied heF attention but a half hour they please, they are impatient at endure sound doctrine, but will heap • Go ye forth to all the world ? contradiction and spurn restraint. to themselves teachers having itching ing from the city, he would certainly previously. Send the Gospel faster, faster, have sent a message.” Let its bannors be unfurled !” “ Hurrah ’ she’ll come, Frank,” cried They do not like to hear the truth ears.” That time has come, and is now. The effect of a red rose pinned at George, when he met his bashful if it is at all unpleasant, and fancy Such persons propose that God’s em Christian ! can you sit in silence, While this cry fills all the air. they cover all their moral defects with bassador shall deliver their message, the collar so pleased her, that when faiend waiting at the corner. Or content yourself with giving she swung her white-robed figure “ Well, you’ve been fcng enough,” the gauze of their vain imaginings, not His. They have-no hesitancy in Merely what you “ well can spare?” down the stairway, there was a smile said Frank. “ But will she really be and that their “cloud-built castles,” telling him what he shall say, and to Will you make yo-ir God a beggar When he aaks but for “ Hia own?" formed out of moon-struck fancies and soundly berate him if he fails to obey. of supreme satisfaction upon Miss there though ?” Will you dole Him, from your treasure, Belle ’ s face. At first, upon entering A poor pittance, as a loan ? “ Yes, indeed. And now we’ve got baseless shadows, are built of adamant The stern truths of God are unbeara the parlor, she failed to see the young Shame, oh, shame ! for very blushing, to raise a class for her first, and then and stand upon unshakeable founda ble. Sin’s sinfulness “and fearful re- E’en the sun might veil his lace : gentleman; but when her eyes had get Miss Parkinson and Mr. Shaw and tions. Facts have no business to be tribution, the exaltation of justice and “ Robbing God ay, or his honor, grown a little accustomed to the some more to promise, and we’ll have at variance with their notions, and if righteousness, the rebuke of iniquity, While presuming on Hia grace ! light Of the room, and his face had that Sunday school chock full next they are, they think the facts at fault, the insisting upon “ truth in the in Keeping back His richest blessing By withholding half the “price ” and not their notions. Their opinions ward parts ” and unimpeachable in grown a little redder, she saw him Sunday.” Consecrated to His service ; are reckoned the criterion of truth by tegrity and unspotted purity in the starting from a dark comer, and heard Peijuredr-peijnred, perjured thrice ! “ Bat we’ll have to work like beav him stumbling over imaginary obstac While you dwell in peace and. plenty, ers all the week. I’m good for coax which everything must be tested, and life; accountability to God in little their way the only right way. The things as well as great—repentance, “ Store and basket” tunning o’er. les, as an awkward boy will. ing boys, but you can bring the girls Will you cast to these poor pleaders universe has no need of any other regeneration, pardon. and purity are “ I am George Anderson,” he began and teachers.” Only crumbs upon your floor ? *~ when he had found his voice, blurting Can you sleep upon your pillow All right. Mr. Green will be sur light, for they are the light and the- '^forbidden themes unless they refer to With a heart and soul at rest. out what was evidently a set speech; prised next Sunday when he finds so universe—it centers in them and the people on the other side of the While, upon the treacherous billow irradiates from them. “ and 1—that is, we—would like to many there, I tell you!” globe. They do not tickle the itching Souls you might have saved are lost ? If you were to tell many a preacher have you do us a favor. ” ear; offend polite and refined tastes, ’ And he was. Hear ye not thé tramp of nations- that the amount of money paid him Miss Dorset was so surprised that Marching on to Day of Doom ? . Three o’clock upon the following . render people uncomfortable, make See them falling, dropping swiftly. she scarcely knew how it came about; Sunday afternoon found such a con for his services was far in excess of ministers unpopular, and are an in Like the leaves into the tomb : ' but in five minutes she had .drawn course at the little stefte ehureh as their value; that his eloquent dis fallible recipe for emptying pews. -Souls- fee whom Christ died are dying. While the ceaseless tramp goes by ; aside the curtains, let in more of the was never seen there before. Every courses were only froth and gilded Multitudes attend the house of God Can you shut yottr ears. O Christian, ,A afternoon’s sunlight, and was seated seat was full of eager, bright-faced bubbles ; or that they were dull, stale, simply to be entertained. They go as To their ceaseless moan and cry ? chatting to her visitor. He seemed children, and several classes had been full of platitudes and weakness ; that they go to the opera or the play. Hearken 1 Hush your own heart beating, to be very much, in earnest, and awk formed in the nooks about the pulpit they neither quickened thought, nor Spiritual quickening and instruction While tho death-march passeth by aroused the conscience, and that thé Tramp, tramp, tramp ! the heart of nations, wardness was almost forgotten. with chairs and the pulpit steps for in righteousness is not the object they Never ceasing, yet they die— people would be as well off Without " You see,” he was saying, “ it is the seats. Die unheeded, while you slumber, ’ seek, but entertainment. Fancy pleaed Millions strewing all the way ; only afternoon Sunday school in this After the lessons were ended, Mr. them ; that rant is not reason, nor the conscience quieted—flights of im- »■ Victims oT your sloth and “ selfness this whole town, and we ought to have Green, the superintendent, clapped sentiment sense, noi fancy fact, nor agination, pictures of beauty, some Ay, of mine and thine today ! more than than thirty scholars and his hands, to rouse every one’s atten poetry piety ; that what he says lacks novelty in doctrine, some dissertation When the master cornea to meet ns. For this loss, what will He say? four teachers.” tion (they had no call-bell) and began vigor, point, sense, truth, pathos, on literature, science or philosophy, “ I was hungered, did ye feed Me ? power, Christ—being neither intel “ I should think so.” a little speech. the rounded period, the thrilling story, I asked bread, ye turned away ! lectually quickeniiig, morally invigor “ I heard that you taught a class in “When I was a boy,” he" began. the flashing rhetoric, the scintillations Ye ne’er came to visit Me !” the city, while you were there, and I “ my mother used to tell me stories of ating, nor spiritually stimulating or of genius, the manner, the elocution, And swift witness those victims want to ask you if you won’t do the two benevolent old ladies who were refreshing; that his talk is twaddle! Standing by will surely be. the sound and tinsel, it is these which - same here ?” He did not pause long in the habit of talking a great deal that his denunciation of the short Sound the trumpet! wake God's people .' attract, please and for which they enough for her to answer, but went on: Once upon a time they found a very comings of his congregation is the Walks not Christ amid His floclf? Sits He nof R against Hie Treasury ?"“ We'have not the scholars yet, but poor family, who were in immediate vindictiveness- of wounded vanity, at, that the demand creates an abun Shall He stand without and knock— me and Frank ’ll find them, if you’ll need of help—the mother was sick, coming from the itching of an ear Knock in vain, to come and feast us ? dant supply, and that for the incense Open, open, hearts and hands 1 promise to come.” the father was dead and three little which has had no response to its of praise and seeming success that And as surely His best blessings “ Frank! who is Frank ?” Miss babies were hungry. But instead of cravings ; that one-half of what he Shall o'ertlow all hearts, all lands. men are found lower than Judas, and —M aria A. West. Belle asked, more for the purpose of aiding them at once, these good ladies says and does is for popular effect and sell theii Loid for a much less sub giving herself time to think, than for went home and had a talk about it. nst for the good of the people, the “God’s Providence House. stantial reward than thirty pieces of desire to know him. One thought it would be better to glory of God, or the “ cure of souls,” silver ? '• In a small, quaint English city, “ O, he’s a boy. He’s waiting send them something to eat at once, but from a longing for the pleasure of On the banka of the river Dee, What is largely the result of all around the comer for me. He and I ’ the other thought no, the house had titillation upon the itching member ; Is a queer old wooden building this ? The sanctuary of God trodden have been elected treasurer and secre best be put in order first, and a fire under such circumstances he would in Of a style we rarely see. beneath the heels of the world I Dis Five hundred years it has stood there taiy of the Sunday school. The su built. And then these two old ladies all probability consider you a calum In the narrow and stony street, perintendent used to have all the offi united in half an hour’s discourse niator, a slanderer, and a false honesty, knavery, corruption, and un cleanness reeking around God’s altars. Carved, over its oaken doorway, ces, but we were elected last Sunday about the poverty in this world and “ accusqj^uf the brethren.” With a legeud, strapge and sweet. The church a whited sepulchre, often If you were to look in upon a com and we are going to build that Sun- the various means of lessening it. painted, veneered and vrmished on The line has been kept so perfect. pany of “ official brethren ” assembled day-school up.” “Yes?” 9 “ When night came, the poor family It is read at a single glance ; the outside, but within “ full of dead * to estimate a salary for their pastor, “Somehow he doesn’t think much of would have been in a very bad plight God’s Providence,” so it sayeth, men’s bones ” and wierd ghastliness of representing two or three millions of us. ‘ Boys’ work is of no use he indeed, had not a little girl who lived “Is mine inheritance.” corruption ? Its “ holy of holies ” cov And if one should ask its meaning, says.” near by and who was almost as poor propecty-themselves, besides what the ered with dust and hung with cob “ And you propose to show him that as they, happened in. This little girl unofficial held—if you were to hear He would hear this story told webs, the ghekinah having long since Of a dreadful plague in the city it is of some use ?” had no time for conversation. She | them bemoaning their poverty, the Which darkened its days of old. departed. Has there not been and is “ Yes, ma’am. The Sunday school went to work—hunted up some chips hardness of the times, and the illiber- there not now, too much pandering ___ It ravaged the homes of thousands, is breaking up, just because nobody and built a fire, swept the room, wash ality of their brethren, asserting their And the people wildly fled, “ itching ears f Is it not time to will go to work, The teachers and ed the children’s faces, and gave them inability to support the Gospel, and Calling oiyGod for mercy call a halt ? He who shall administer the superintentendent and our preach /her best loaf of bread. And when the fixing an amount which they knew While mourning their many dead. the remedy will cure oneyof the worst In the street where this house is standing, er all have a dozen plans, but they two old ladies at laBt made up their would hardly keep their pastor and don’t try any of tffim—they just talk minds what to do, they were sorely hiB family from starvation—with a maladies of humanity. Shall not the No other escaped the blow. And thanks for such special favor mental reservation not to pay all that church apply the discipline of the about them, and worry and wait, till mortified to find that a little gi school room, and instill the truth re The legend is meant to show. I’m tired.” “Yes?” been before them and h done a —and then if you were to tell them gardless of the wishes of the pupil or Each house and heart in the kingdom It was evident that Miss Belle was world of good while they Vvere merely that they were a set o{ cheats, swind his conceits and false tastes ? Hu Inberit’s God’s love and care ; lers and robbers, filching-dheir religi manity is corrupted, its inclinations not like some young ladies we have arguing. Yet seldom it shows such record ous privileges, and blessings, out of wrong, its sentimentalities false heard of, who talk when they have “As these old ladies were mortified As is carved on the cross-beam there. nothing to say, and who would, most so am 1. I talked and thought and self-denials of God's ambassador, and Gospel truth is God’s cure for its ill« Stand strong, old house, in thy glory. and can have have no subetitute, noi probably, have laughed at this earnest thought and talked about our lack of taking the comforts of life from his be superceded by anything for which Bearing witness as years advance That Providence, caring and loving, country boy. itching ears may clamor.— Central scholars, and about means for remedy wife, the clothing and food from his Is man's blessed inheritance. “ And if you will promise to come ing it, but I did nothing, and now children, to pay for the religious ad Christian Advocate. . —Conyregationalist. next Sunday, anyhow, we will be find myself forestalled. Two boys vantages of themselves and their By The Shore. Pussy Willow and the South mighty glad.” have been before me—I need not families; such “official brethren” " But I have not studied the lesson name them, we all know who they might consider you impertinent, and I stood by the shore a. the anshor wenf Wind. down, for that day. In fact I do not know inform you that their ears were not ’Fie ! moping still by the sleepy breok ? are—and by one week’s hard work Andchî*n “WOhenl '1‘iP to her itching for that kind of scratching, what it is.” Little Miss Pussy, how dull yon look ! have gathered an army which any “ G, I can tell you where it is. general might be proud of. but considered themselves generous in And saw the dark sailors row np to th, fcwr Prithee, throw off that cloak of brown, And give a glimpse of ybur silken gown Here is eur printed lesson slip, and doing anything at all. Beterned from the far-away amia ’ “ I want thank them, and I want to If a man avails himself of th?"privil you can soon learn all about it. ” My gray silken gown, Sir Wind, is done say to them and to you all that I I cried, What a glorious thia„a BMt, But its golden fringes are not quite spun. eges of public worship, occupies a ÄXX’VtüÄ “'But suppose I say no ?”- have learned this morning that ener What a slow little spinner ! pray pardon me, “ Why, then we’ll be sorry. If you getic work ia the narrow path leading pew, hears the sermon, enjoys the Bnt I have had time to cross the sea. warmth and receives the benefits pf promise it will make other people to success.— Ex. ' Hute forth, dear Mias Pussy ! the sky is promise. I’m sure of that. Ypu see, And the coasts that all ].Utl<u the sanctuary, hnd from year to year ’ t------- ------- —------------------ \blue, — An Italian philologist has dis does nothing to support it; if told when we ask some one, they always And I’ve a secret to whisper to yon. covered in the binding of a Greek that he is a sponge and a religious Nay, nay, they say Winds are changeful say: * Has anyone else promised to And the hand-shaking .. comet and if we can say, ‘ Yes Miss manuscript at Mount Athoe two frag “ dead beat,” taking privileges which things,' I’ll wail, if yon please, till the Bluebird Dorset will be there,’ they will be al ments of St. Paul’s Epistles in the somebody else pays for, and that he “ Before you can be in a ship c0*"‘’ Yonmuatbeinaship^ “'“««. sings. Greek text. might justly get his groceries, dry most sure to say ‘ yes, ’ too. ” —Emily A. Braddock, in April IFkfa Awake. The Great Famine Cry. I J .
