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1 í ■ «=■ 2 1 PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, DEC. 16, 1881. A Word to the Girls. “ A Long Journey.” . Arthur Sullivan. • ing soil. Then 1 discover that the whole journey #f the believer is “ por What, detest the care to be spotless We never- may count the j>ainted There is hardly a boy or girl in this BV TUKI'UOBE 1». CI IUEB, ». I». tioned. out ” to him, and that th^ dark country who does not know some of and trodden hearts under the feet of as a lily, sweet and fresh as lavender, Sometimes we have an experience tunnel on the road is just as suiely the tunes in Pinafore by heart—few, the world'-s great caravan. Now and a blessing tp those who see her,apart in life that seems like walking through appointed wisely as is the most indeed, among our readers 'fcho have then a stray b^of human sentiment of all fair and comely scenes, instead a long, dark tunnel. The chilMng air Mowery mead or the happiest walk not heard the Opera—and all will be like the following stops the rough of something discordant, mat ring and the thick darkness make it hard over the- “Delectable Mountains.” interested in hearing something about travel for an instant; and then the them? I refuse to, believe it of any walking, and the constant wonder is Nay. more. When wb reach heaven, the composer of that delightful music. crowd sweeps on«. The Detroit Pod | girl who Yeads this. I Now let the why we are compelled to tread so i'we maj’ discover that the richest and Arthur Sullivan is a bright-eyed, and Tribune tells this simple story of | Wise Blackbird drop a bit of wisdom gloomy a path, while others are in the deepest and most profitable-exper- dark-haiied man thirty-ee.ven years a little coffin and its only mourner: in your ears which \fill take the open day of health and happiness , iences we had in this world were of age. . When quitejt,little fellow he When one of the trains to this city harshness out of every disagreeable #z We can only fix our eyes on tbe those which were gained in the very was a choir-boy in the chaj»el of St. came in at midnight a few nights ago, duty in life. In beginning a task, bright lighteat the end óf*tbe tunnel, [ roads from which we shjAlfc back •James’s ’Palace in London, and at an old man was found sleeping in one ’never under any circumstances con and we comfort ourselves with the with dread. The bitter cups we tried i thirteen years he had made such pro of" the seats. sider how easily it Can be done, but thought that every step we take to push away contained the medicines gress in musical studies that he Com “ I say, old man !” yelled the con •how well it can be, you find it grow brings us nearer to the joy and the we most needed: The hardest lessons posed an anthem that was sung in ductor, “ git out of this ; do you hear ? ing easier day by day. At last every rest that lies at the end of the way. that we learn are those which teach the chapel before the Queen. On, This .. Is L Detroit. If j««-v you ve got , any thing seems to come right to your • Extinguish the light of Heaven that . us the most and best tit us for service th is-occasion, he relates, with.a merry : friends, they’ll be looking for you. v hand, and all things conspire to help gleams in the distance, and this tun- \ here and glory hereafter. It is the twinkle in his eyes, the, Bishop of: “Where’s Gracie?” you. A girl of twelve should know nel of trial would become a horrible ■ easiest thing in the world to obey London pafted him on the head, and j “ Who ?’ asked the. conductor, re h.ow to mend nicely both stockings tomb! Some of us are passing! Clod when he commands us to do. gave hinx ten shillings. At the age of covering his official Voice, j and. clothes, and to cut and make through just such an experience how. what we like and to trust him «when fourteen, Arthur Sullivan won the “Little Gracie—grandpa’s little most articles she wears. There an We can adopt the ^plaintive language the path is all sunshine. The real Mendelssohn Scholarship in the Royal [ pet! I brought her with me. Is she plenty of girls whVcan do this now of the Psalmist, atal cry out: “ Thy victory, of faith is to trust God in the Academy of Music, being the young- | j there ?' ?” but every giri ought to do it. A hand pvesseth us sore ; .as for the light dark and through the dark. Let us est of those who tried for it, and was — J‘ Ijguess he is not wide awake yet,” small book might bo written on the of our eyes, it also is gone from us ; be assured of this, that, if the lesson sent to Leipsic, in Germany, to study said tfie curious passenger. “ Suppose care of clothes, but I will only tell we are ready to haltt(and our sorrow and the rod are of his appointing and under the most famous musicians of you help him to his feet.” you a few labor-saving hints: that .his all-wise love has engineered is continually before us.” Instead ol brushing the dust from Conductors are experts in helping the time. . * One of the most trying features of the deep tunnels of trial on the Stimnge though it may seem, the people to their feet, and this one was I a gown, or the mud from a drabbled ou^teial is that we cannot diseoveR* heavenward ivad, he will never, desert name■* of the cpmjxjsjr . of Pinafore no exception to the rule. He took Bounce, inch by inch, take yoyr dress 2 ”- th^Fwhy ” or the ' wherefore’’of our i a» during the discipline. The'vital first became known I q - a sacred ora the old man by' the coat collar and out on clean, short grass, aft.er the special' affiictions. Our Heavenly ' thing for us is, not to deny and desert torio, called the Prodigal Son, Since stood him up, but he sank down the dew is off, and holding by the shoul- - r * . Father did not consult us before the lorn »U-. — H_ vi ..n1— —:»»__ ... .... ders, sweep and beat it against the Let us also keep in mind that the that time Mr. Sullivah has written next moment limp and 'motionless, trial came, and he does not explain to other oratorios, as well as a great , ^ust then a depot-hand came in. sward, turning that'all sides of the * us why he’sent it His ways are not chief object of the discipline is to many songs that are sung everywhere; every where; : “The baggage-master wants to skirt awill touch the ground. The our ways, nor his thoughts our develop character and to improve the and there is hardly a hymn-book ' know what you’re goin’ to dp with | grass acts as a tine soft brush, taking thoughts; nay, tney are the very graces of his children. Whom he that does not contain several hymns that little deal box over there. He j out the dust, and freshening every opposite. The mgetery of the pro loveth he -chastises, and correcteth by this same great musician. The don ’t want |ny of that kind left over, part, while it does not we>r dresses as vidence perplexes and staggers us. every son whom he receiveth. Every composer j)f Pinafore has followed up and there’s no direction on it'but a hairfbrush or whisk-broom does. For exaimple, I open my daily journal, branch that bareth not fruit he his success in that opera with two “ Gracie ”— 1 Lawn dresses and grenadines areXce and read that the Bishop of Jerusa pruneth it, that it may bring forth others (also commencing with a P), freshed safely in- this way when a “ That ’ s her! ” said the old man, lem, whom I left a few months ago in more fruit. “ Why do you cut that the Pirate# of Penzance and Patience, brush would fray them. The flounces and he stood up feebly. “ Take me | the prime of vigorous health and wide pomegranate bush so cruelly ?” said a and it is said that -he is-already at and plaitings- of silk are thoroughly there. We ’ re going a long journey — • j (. usefulness, is cut off in the midst of gentleman to his gardener. The an work upon yet another one. - dusted, and the hems of drabbled Gracie an d me ; a long, long journey, I _ his days.__ Ail his preparatory train- swer was ; “ Because it is all running It may be said that comic operas but it don’t «eem as if I knew the | wateY-proof cloaks are cleansed with- ing for his office by eighteen years of to useless leaves, and I want to make arc very light work for a great j out the disagreeable need of touching way right clear.” missionary life comes to naught. This it bear." Ah I it is a keen knife that musician to devote himself to; but They took him into the depot and them with the hand. I never saw very day I am called for the sixth our Divine Gardener often employs, those which Arthur Sullivan has com laid him on one of the benches and the lightest frock stained or worn in time in a few years to bury the dead and he often severs the very heart posed are the best of their kind, and put his carpet-bag under his head, but; the least by grass. strings by his discipline ; but “ after- from a- certain Christian household. the man who makes people glad- stilLhe fretted for bis “ little Gracie— I’our-boiling water through fruit- This time it is the head of the house tvard it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto hearted does as much good as he who his pet,” [and at last they consoled stains until they disappear, holding them that have been exercised there that is'taken and the children are left makes them wise.-#//«r/rr’s Young him by telling him she was resting, tbe spot stretched firmly. Carry a to orphanage. Beside me now sits a by, even the fruit Af righteousness. People. was asleep, and must not be dis- j needle threaded with cotton or silk, mourning mother, whpse aching heart God has a great many crucibles foY turbed. -. ' to match your dress, and you are — After all the counsel we can get his gold, where he may refine ’ it. cannot understand why a beloved The little “ box,” with Gracic writ ready for accidents. Darn thread from those who are wisest, and who There is so much alloy of pride and child is snatched away, when she ten upon it in lead pencil, was safe gloves, which are always dropping seemed the most indispensable to the self-will, or covetousness, or sinful love us most dearly, the final decision enough with the other “ freight,’’ and , stitches like Jacob’s-ladder, with as to our personal duty must rest idolatry in genuine Christians that happiness of the home. Every week the old man slept peacefully at last. ; ravelings of old gloves.. In the pre- a pastor has to confront these mys they require the “ fining-pot ” and the with ourselves. It is for us to say Some kind soul threw a rug over him 1 i sent fashion of wealing mittens you what it is best for us to do — all furnKce. Sometimes prosperity is teries in the dealings qf a Godot love. near morning, and asked him what can prolong the usefulness of long- To the torturing question “ Whyxdoes ten-fold more damaging to us than things considered —in every emer train he was waiting for, but all the ’ ' wriated gloves when the finger-tips gency. This is the teaching of revela sharp adversity. A fit of sickness God lead me into this valley of the answer he made was a feeble wear out, by cutting them off evenly tion and of experience, of clearly in may do more for soul-health than shadow of darkness ?” we can only “ Thank’ee ;»cs!l me at sunrise. We're" i at the lower joint, hefniuing the edges reply: “ Even so, Father, for so it years of bodily strength and comfort. spired and of purely practical teach going a long journey, Gracie and me.” i with ravelings, and pressing them ers Mo'es said, ” Thou shalt not fol To all my^readers who are wonder seems good in Ihy sight.” We áre He was called at sunrise by a voice j with a hot iron when you have a neat low the multitude to do evil. ” Paul ing why a loving God has subjected brought into the tunnel, however we that none may refuse, i and when a 1 P*>r ot Nell Gwynne gloves.— Wide went farther, and suggested that it is • shrink back. There is no retreat; them so often to the furnace, my only flood of -rosy light shone into, the \ Awake. not right to let the multitude settle Answer is that God otrn# you and me, we have nothing left to us but to dreary room he was up and away— . ,, ► , « . , , grasp the very hand that brought us apd he has a right to do with us just the question of what is evil. “ Let „„ i - 1 • —Among the Jews in olden time— gone on his long journey. Oulv the if • . . . . , , . every man be fully persuaded in hi» there and push forward. Like Buny as he pleases. If he wants to keep his worn out body was there, and yester men mind ” — on points of his duty — an s Pilgrim, we can only say : “ I see silver over a hot Hame, until he can Jews of to-day—the " idea prevailed not but that my road to H éaven fieth see his own-countenance refiected in is I’aul’s injunction. Solomon gives day it was laid with “ little Gracie ” | that it was requisite to advance the the metal, then he has a right to .do a reason for this personal settling of in the strangers lot at Mount Elliott, length of at least ‘ two doort ’ within through this very valley.” personal duties, in his reference to the unknown, yet possibly in as “ sure a synagogue before settling to prayer.’ . 5 Just in such trying, hours it is that so< It is the Lord, it is my loving absolute separateness of every in hope of a gracious resurrection ” as if It is a pity that that custom docs not the Adversary assails us most fiercely. teacher, it is my Heavenly Father; dividual soul. “ The heart knoweth marked by 30 feet of monumental . ■prevail with attendants at all Chris He stirs up in our hearts bitter let him do what seemeth to him good. his own bitterness fas no one else can clay.— Ex. tian prayer meetings. It would have thoughts against God. He points us He will not lay on one stroke in know it]; and a stranger doth not in a wonderful effect^in warming up the to the actual and realized loss, and cruelty or a single one that he cannot termeddle with (cannot enter into] Toilet Set. social atmosphe tells us that Heaven is utterly unseen give me grace to bear. Life’s school of the gathering, his joy. ” All by himself each soul One of the gr __ ___ r or bar- __ and no one comes« back to assure us of days and nights will soon be over. hindrance«, A very pretty toilet set is made of must, at times, be depressed, and, at its reality. And so he endeavors, Pruning-time will soon be ended. The riers, to a g^pdprayer-meeting, is the times, be uplifted, must delight and the checked crash toweling. Cut with devilish suggestions, to blow out cruoiblea will not be needed in number of eiu front seats — which must suffer, must live and must die; your mats the size you desire to fit heaven. such lamps of divine promise as we often are as a great gulf fixed between . Se, to all my fellow-sufferers who and " then every one of us shall givi^ your bureau, flowing for a hem An have, to shatter every stall’ that we the leader and his little Hock. The are threading their way through the account of himeelf to God.” It is be inch wide. Draw the threads close to ■carry, and to make the pathway of common idea, in the average church tunnels of trial, I would say : Tighten cause of our separateness from every hem and hemstitch all round. Then trial the in^re dark and desperate prayer meeting, seems to be for the your loins with the promises and keep other soul in our inneimost experien leave a plain space of | inch. Then than before. This is not poetry; it early comers to get as near the door the strong staff of faith well in hand. ces and id bar ultimate accountabili draw threads until you have a space is the actual trial to which tbe faith as possible, and for those who come Trust God in the dark. We are safer ty, that it behooves us to recognize of j or ] inchesZ Take ribbon the of thousands of God’s people is at this later to get behind them. If you with him in the dark than without our individual responsibility for our width of the space drawn, run it in moment subjected. Under these want to help the prayer meeting, fill him in the sunshine. He will not individual conduct, and to be rightly over and under alternately, taking up • severe experiences, more than one up that row of front seats to begin suffer thy foot to stumble. His 10J independent accordingly. The quaint threads of, J inch space-each time. “* Christian hsa been sorely tempted to with. At all events “ advance the aad his staff never break. Why he advice of Henry Vaughan is as timely Finish the corners where the open turn infidel and to “ choose death length of at least two doors " wijhin 'brought us here we know not now, to us all to-day as it was to any one square occurs with a bow of ribbon. rather than life.” I , Antique lace, around the edges adds the room “ before settling to prayer.” . but shall know hereafter. At the end who read it two centuries ago : Don’t Be behind the Jews.—»S’. S. To my own mind there is only one of. the gloomy passage beams the •• Seek not the same steps with the much to their beauty. This is not an eolution for these mysteries and only heavenly light. Then comes the ex crowd; stick thou expensive set and can be washed by Tune«. To tfiy sure trot; a constant, humble —I havWound nothing yet which one support for these days of terrible ceeding afid eternal weight of glory .' taking out the ribbon, and then it is mind require#' more courage and inde|>en- affliction. The only relief 1 can find —Independent. Is both his own j<Jr, and his Maker's too ; as good as new. The toweling>check- Lot folly duat it on, or Ins behind. dence than to rise even a little, but is in the certainty that this life is not off with red, and run with ribbon,* is A. sweet «elf-privacy in a right soul A Favorite Paper. „ •decidedly, above the par of the re «tho end; but. simply and only the Untruns the earth, and lines the ut- the prettiest.— £’.<•. «■oat pole. ” . ligious world around us. Surely the prepttn'toiy mlutol for .the real and For judicious editing, select and popular ' — 8. 8. Timet, z contributors, and iprightiy and entertain way in which we commonly go on i* the endless life that is beyond.' The ing reading, the Youd't Cotupanten, ol —“ Truth and love are two of the not the way of self-denial and sacri moment that I accept thi# truth fully Boston, has no superior among tbe youth's Purge eut the morbid humors of tbe most powerful things in the world; publications. ' It has more than two hun blood bv * dose or two of Ayer ’ s Pills, and fice and eppss-bearing which the New and hold it’ firmly, I find solid ground will < dred thousand subscribers, and unques ! yon “ 111 bare clearer heads as well as ami when they both go together they Testament talks of.—Dr. J. W. Alex for my feet and light for my sorrow- tionably merits its success. ; healthier bodies. cannot easily be withstood.” ander. Trusting God in the Dark. « A % y -A