Pacific Christian messenger., May 13, 1881, Page 4, Image 4

PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, MAY 13, 1881.
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letter with her; no good, kind heart
The President's Church.
tians,” will be much sought after in
like the President, could refuse to be
the fooF coming yean». I hope they
“ Let us go to the President’s church
Partner Owen’s son ha»l been found melted by it.
O did you see him riding down,
will have no experience like that
the
church of the coming President,"
And riding down, while all the town
asleep when doing sentinel duty, and
The next morning they reached
which made an earnest Christian say,
Came out to see, came out to see,
he was sentenced to be shot. A tele­ New York, and the guard hurried her I said to Ida, Thansgiving morning.
“Ah! that-was a bad day for the
And all the bells were mad with glee ?
“ I thought churches belonged to
gram had been received by his father I on to Washington. Every minute
church, when kings and emperors
O did you hear those bells ring out.
saying that the sentence would be i now might be the means of saving the Lord,” said unsophisticated Ida.
stopped persecuting us and took to pa­
The tella ring out, the people shout.
“ They do, outside of Washington,
carried out in twenty-four hours. Mr. her brother’s life.
tronizing ns !”—UWden Rule.
And did you hear that cheer on cheer
-¿ut in Washington you always hear
Allan, the minister, called to do what
The President had just seated him­
That over all the bells rang clear ?
he could to comfort the sorrowing self to hie evening’s task, when the of the ‘President’s church,* ‘Secretary
Law for the Young.
And did you see the waving tlaV,
So-and-so
’
s
bhurch.
’
A
few
years
ago
family.
During
his
visit
a
letter
ar
­
door softly opened, and Blossom, with
The fluttering flags, the tatterednags.
By»Member of The Bar.
Bed, white and blue, *hot through and rived : Blossom, the farmer’s daughter, downcast eyes and folded hands, stood there was a great frequenting of the
■Church of the Epiphany,’ by Printing
AManKSTH.
opened the door, and received it. ” It before him.
through.
Baptize»! with battle'; deadly dew ?
Bureau
girls,
because
it
was
the
The
most
important
thing for a
is from him,” was all she said.
“ Well, my child,” he said, in his
Aud^Iid you hear the drums' gay beat,
It was like a message from the pleasant, cheerful tones, “what do you church of McCaitee, chief of the young person to understand about
Printing Bureau. >
• The drums' gay beat, the bugles' sweet,
dead. Mr. Owen took the letter, but want ?’*'
agreements, er contracts, is that there
The cymbals’ clash, the cannon’s crash,
“
But
I
always
did
wont
to
see
how
could not break the envelope, on ac­
must always- be a “consideration.”
“ Bennie's life, please sir,” faltexed
That rent the sky with sound and flash ?
these parexcellence Christians manage An agreement» is very different from a
count of his trembling fingers, and Blossom.
And did you see me waiting there,
their services, and it is not Jike going promise. A promise is all on one side.
hflld it towards Mr. Allan with the
“ Bennie ’ who is Bennie !"
Just waiting there and watching there,
on
Sunday, from mixed’motives.’’
helplessness of a child.
In an agreement or contract there is
“My brother, sir. They i
"One little lass, amid the mass
“
Come
oh,
then,
”
said
Ida
;
“
Let
us
The
minister
opened
it,
and
read
as
a
promise upon one side and a counter­
ing to shoot him for sleeping
That pressed to.see the hero pass?
see how these ‘ Christians’ manage, promise, or something by way of pay-
follows:
post."
And did you see him smiling.down;
“ D ear F ather ,—When-this reach­
“ Ah, yes; I remember. It was a manage, and how Gen. Garfield look, ment or reward' for it, upon the other.
And smiling down, as riding down
es
you
—
I
—
shall
—
be
—
in
—
eternity.
This is what make» the agreement
With slowest pace, with stately grace,
fatal sleep.
, You see child,
.......... it was a and then offer a few thanks.”
We walked along broad and digni­ binding in law. If one person says to
At first it seemed awful to me;<But I time of special dangar. Thousands oi
He caught the vision of a face—
another, “ I will give you a hundred
My face uplifted, red ami white,
'----- dtave thought bo much about it now, lives might have been lost by his neg­ fied Vermont Avenue.
“
I
thought
you
said
it)
was
between
Turned red and white with sheer delight, that it has no. terror. They
say
they
dollars,” or “II will lend you my horse
» .
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ligence.”
To meet the eyes, theTmlling eyes f--------- wilt not bind me nor blind me, but. .. So my fetbcr
Bio*- Ji
* and O streets,” said Ida, after we next week,” or “ I will work for you
Ouiflashing in their swift surprise.
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that I may meet my death like a man- sem gravely. “ But poor Bennie was crossed NZ~
' next Saturday,^ and there is not to
O, did you see how swift it came.
“ So it is ; ,but you cannot see it till be any pay,, but the thing is to be
I thought, father, that it might have so tired, sir, and Jimmie so weak. .He
How swift it came like sudden flame.
been on the battle-field ■
my coun­ did the work for two sir, and it -was you get to it.”
done gratuitously, there is no obliga­
That smile to me, to Only me,
Just then we passed a large house, tion in law. Probably the person
try, and that when I fell it would be Jimmie’s night, not his ; but Jimmie
That little lass who blushed to see ?
fighting gloriously ; but t,o be shot was too tired, and Berthie never and there at the top of a series of ter­ ought to keep<his promise, but if he
And at the windows all along,
down like a dog for nearly betraying thought about himself that he was races, rested- a small; l»w, wooden refuses the law will not compel him or
O, all along, a lovely throng
temple, with outspread, wings like a punish him. Many lawsuits and
it—to die for neglect of duty—O fath­ tired, too,”
Of faces fair, beyond compare,
-
er,
1
_
wonder
the
very
thought
doe»
much trouble among neighbors would,
-Beamed out upon him riding there !
“ What is this 'you say, child ? brooding bird.
•¿•This atom of a place!” cried Ida.
not
kill
me
'
.
But
1
»hall
not
disgrace
be saved if all persons would bear in
Each face was like a radiant gem,
Come here, 1 do not understand.”
“Why I strayed in< here»one hot mind that there is no legal obligation
you. 1 am going to tell you all about And the kind man, as ever caught ea­
A sparkling gem, and yet for tjicm
No swift smile came, like sudden flame.
it, and when 1 am gone you may tell gerly at what seemed to be a justifi­ morning last sumraen They were in a promise unless there is some pay­
No arrowy glance took certain aim ; '
very friendly, and the edifice struck ment made for it, sr some counter­
my comrades. J’ou know I promised cation of an oflenci.
■ He turned away from all the grace,.
Jimmie Carr’s mother I would look
Blossom' went to him. HS* put his me as wonderfully clean and [»eaceful, promise given. Why should one man
From all that grace of perfect face,
after her boy ; ami when he -fell sick hand tenderly on his shoulder, and like the inside of a lily. But how be compelled-, to give another money,
He turned to me, to only me,
I d;d all I could for him. He was ,turned up the pale, anxious face to­ small for a Court ’.chapel!”
or lend his horse, or work all day, for
The little lass who blushed to see ! -
The congregation rose and sang,
not
strong when ordered_ back into wards his. How tall he seemed ! And
nothing ? The law »ays, No.
.
' —N oiia P xkkt .
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“ Before Jehovah’s awj’ul throne,”
the rankle; ‘anil the day before that he was President of the United States
There are many agreements which
with fnll melody. There was no amount to nothing unless, besides
night
“
!
’
carried
all
Lie
luggage,
besides
too
A
dim
thought
of
this
kind
Maximus.
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my own, on our march. Toward passed for a moment through little "choir ” and no osgan. A little maid* having a consideration, they are put
I hili him great who, for love's sake.
night we went in on double quick, Blossom.’» mind; but she told her about seventeen played the melodeon, in writing. There can not be-'a sale
Can give with generous, earn« st will »
and though the luggage besan to feel simple, Htraight-forward story, and her rbund, childlike face all serious of lands without a writing; and there
Yet he who takes for love's sweet sake
very heavy, everybody else was tired handed Bennie’s letter to Mr. Lincoln and rapt in the music. She had an are many other cases in which a
I think I hold more generous still.
unconsciousness beautiful in any mu­ writing ¡» required. These, however;
too. And as for Jimmies if I had not to read.
I bow before the noble mind
sician
; peculiarly beautiful and pecu­ are not of the kind which young per­
lent him an arm now and then, he
He read it carefully; then taking
That freely some great wrong forgives;
liarly
rare in a ahureh musician. The sons arc often called to make. Most
would have fallen by the way. 1 was up his pen, wrote a few hasty lines
Yet nobler is the one forgiven
young
pastor espied an elder minister of their» contracts are allowed to l>e
all tired out when wo went into and rang his bell. Blossom beard
Who bears that burden well and lives.
among
the congregation, and with made by word of mouth, if people
earn}», and then it was Jimmies turn this order given : “ Send this dispatch
It may be hard to gain and still
brotherly
simplicity, he escorted him prefer. There is, however, great con-
turn to be sentry, and I would take at once.”
To keep a lowly, steadfast heart .
up into the chancel, and invited him venieaoe in having a memorandum,
j his [dace; but I was too tired, father.
Yet he who loses has to fill
I I could not Lave kept awake though t The President then turned to the to offer a prayer. He offered a fer­ even if not very formal. A useful
A harder and a truer part.
girl, and said, “Go home, my child,
a gun Lad Leen pointed at my Lead; and tell that father of yours, who vent prayer. Its burden was, that we method is to carry a little memoran-
Glorious is it to wear the crown
I might show our thankfulness for all dum book or diary, and a/\j«^noiL
Of a deserved ami pure succeaa ;
| but I did not knowlt until—well— ‘
could approve his country's sentence,
He who knows how to fail has won
until it was too late.”
. j even when it took the life of a child our joys by conforming our lives*ut- When a bargain is concluded, note
A crown whose Instre is not less.
| " God be thanked !” said Mr. Owen, like that, that Abraham Lincoln terly to the spotless life of Christ. doviii the terms agreed on in. thio
Great may he be who can command
i« I knew Bennie was not tips boy to think the life far too precious to be I Then the pastoj read ta us the first book, and read it over to the other
And rules with jast and tender sway ;
' fourteen verses of the twenty-eighth person, and ask him if that is correct.
sleep carelessly at his post,"
i lost. Go back, or wait until to mor­
Yet is diviner wisdom taught
chapter cf Deuteronomy, and next in­ Afterward, if he forgets what he pro­
“
They
tell
me,
to-day,
that
I
have
Better by him who can obey.
row ; Bennie will need a change after
a short reprieve—‘time to write to he has so bravely faced death; he vited us to rise and read in response mised, the diary will be a great aid in
Blessed are they who die for God
with him the 15Bthand 150th Psalms making hum remember. More than
you,’ our good colonel says, horgive shall go with you.”
And earn the martyr's crown of light;
I
Then
Rev. Mr. Power preached a ser- that, it might “ carry a lawsuit,” as
him
father
;
he
only
does
his
duty
;.
Yet be who lives for God may be
“ God bless you, sir
said Bios-
' mon, dwelling much on the last clause they say. If a lad should be seat to
A greater conqueror in His sight.
I he would gladly save me if he could. ' sotn.
•
—.V. I’ Tnb«»'.
j of his »ext, “ for the jey of the Lord is a livery stable to hire a horse Ser his
and do not lay my life againAJim- ,
Two days after thia interview, the your strength." There was such
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mie. The poor boy is broken-heart­
father to drive to Nextown., with
Ministering Angels.
young soldier came to the White straightforward devotion to divine
ed, and does nothing but beg and en-
leave to go, if he wished, to Ehrtown,
House with his llfrle sister. He was worship and to the sermon subject, by
treat
them
to
let
him
die
in
my
twenty miles beyond, and th# father
They do not come in the silent niglit.
called into the President’s private I both pastor and people; -there was se
When the
beams sweetly sleep
stead. ‘
should drive to Fartown and» be sued
Upon the field^nj^ forests old,
“ I can’t bear to think of mother room, and a strap was fastened on his I becoming an abstinence from persox- for carrying the horse tieyond agree-
Mr. Lincoln then said r I
And the
deep ;
and* Blossom. Comfort them, father. shoulder.
or political allusions in sermon aid ■ ment, the stableman should deny that
No, not in the bush of the holy night
“
The
soldier
that could carry a sick prayer, that I, accustomed to the ways
Tell them I die as a brave boy should,
he ever gave leave to go t» Fartown,
Do they their virgils keep.
and that when the war is over, they comrade’s baggage, and die for the act of former court preachers, fancied the the lawyers could use the lad’s
But in the glare and rush of day
will not be ashamed of me, as they so uncomplainingly, deserves well of General could not be present. He memorandum book. They would
. They come with toil and care,
must be now. God help me; It is his country.
might have strayed into some larger crosa-eramine the stableman: “Did
Just as I think life's heavy load
Then Bennie and Blossom took their I church; or, his present stay is so not the boy make a memorandum of
very hard to bear. Good-bye, father.
Is more than I can bear ;
And, stranger still, there angels, too,
God seems near ami dear to me, as if way to their green mountain home. j brief, he might be at home in counsel what was said ?” " Yes, I believe he
Plain human faces wear.
[he felt sorry for his poor broken- A crowd gathered at the railway sta- | with some of his devoted million or wrote something down." " Did he
_ They do not speak of the angel land
heat ted child, and would take me to ' tion to welcome them back; and, as two of friends." Anyway, glancing read it over to you to see if it was
In voices sweet and low,
be with Him—in a better, better, , Farmer Owen's hand grasped that of furtively among the prominent pews correct?” “ Well, yes, something of
And tell of the holy world of light
his I sty, tears flowed down his cheeks, ; revealed no Gen. Garfield. But by that sort.” Then they wpuld call the
life.
Where life's fair rivers flow.
and he was heard to say, fervently t and by, in a side aisle, against the son to testify, and would let him read
“
To-night
I
shill
«ee
the
cows
Oh. no, they speak in human, words,
¡“The Lord be praised."— Er.
coming
home
from
pasture,
and
pre
­
I wall, partly screened by the lady next his memorandum, to "refresh hia
And bid me onward go.
cious
little
Blossem
standing
on
the
! him, I spied the massive, benign head memory.” And the jury would be­
One angel, with a human face.
stoop
waiting
for
me
;
but
—
I
—
shall
1 of the President-elect. After the lieve that the witness who kept a
The English Skylark.
Is dearer far to me,
Than all the shining boats that dwell
_ never—never — come. God bless
| benediction was a quiet but eager im- minute of what was said remembered
Another attempt is about to be | pulse of the brethren and sisters to-
Beside the jasper sea ;
you all. Forgive your poor Bennie."
better than the one who did not_
And cbeeriug words are sweeter far
Ute that night a little figure glid­ made to introduce the English sky­ | ward their successful comrade. The Christian Union.
Than aDgel'# song, can be.
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ed down the foot-path toward! the lark to our fields and skies. Last I General’s large, blonde, clear-eyed,
Thank God that earth has angels, 109.
A Cough, Cold or Sore Throat
' railway station. The guard, as he summer Mr. Isaac W. England im­ ! profile, glowed with gladness, purity
Who ge with willing feet
be stopped. Neglect frequently
j reached down to lift her into the car­ ported two hundred birds, a consider­ I and goodwill. As I watched him should
results iu an Incurable Lung
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To smile upon the happy one,
riage wondered at the tear stained able number of which have survived I with his friends, together so quietly, Consumption. Brown's Bronebial 'Tro­
And with the mourner weep ;
ches are certain to give relief in Asthma
1 face that was upturned toward tha the winter and are now in excellent i honestly glad, yet unrelated, these Bronchitis,
Who help to bear the burden, too,
Coughs, Catarrh, ConsumDtiva
i
lines
of
Arthur
Cexe
recurred
to
me
!
dim lantern he held in his hand:
* condition. They will soon be set free,
Up life’s wild rocky steep.
and Throat Diseases. For thirty y»arg
-M bs . M: A. H olt .
Dreamland folk seemed simple ones the Troches has been recommended by
A few questions and ready answers probably in the neighborhood of ’ | ** Ths
Who knows but these are they
physicians, and always give perfect satis­
.
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told him all, and no father could have Ridgewood, New Jersey; and it is to Described in ancient chronicle,
faction. They are not new or untried but
.—There are in the valley of Mexico
As ohildren of the day ?
having been tested by wide and oonatank
cared more tenderly for his only be hoped that the people of that i , They
seemed no denizens of earth,
twenty “ churches of Jesus,” composed
nee for nearly an entire generation, they
child than he for our little Blossom. 1 region will make it hazarddu^, for I But more a pilgrim band,
have attained well-merited rank among the
of persons who have renounced Ro­
few staple remedies of the age. Publie
She was en her way to Washington, small bird hunters to be seen there­ With no abiding city here.
That seek a better land.”
manism. The converts at the various
speakers and Singers use them to clear and
, to ask President Lincoln for her bro­ about during the next fqnr or five
tbs Voise. Bold at twentv.
Protestant mission stations in Mexico
| This unique little band of “ Chris; strengthen
five oenta a box everywhere.
ther s life. She had brought Bennie’s
now number more than 12,000.
Sentenced to Be Shot.
Riding Down.
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