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-
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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
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