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CHRISTIAN 51ESSENGER. w. .... .. ■ —-, ..... , ------------------- ............... . — APRIL 20, 1877. ——— * ’ Lord,-he was^ led willyn the gates sons consists in persuading ethers to to meet .with, in man or woman, that are like to onions, but lesse. It sel- blind and helpless, until the hanps try their melhodsotcure. The most we are apt to treat the owner as if it dofn beares either stalks, fl’oure, f> r, Miss M. STUMP, Editor, of the pious Ananias fell upon him. delicate compliment-^fou can pay were a plant of his own selecting and seed. It is u«ed tojae eaten in Bal Up through’ the long Tiafrow street them is to swallow sq,i2 nauseating sowing, since w’e do.not stop to in lads.” Both Theophrastus and Pliny Cities of the Bible. called straight (merely calltll »0, . in ii ure up0n their rec*mtnendation, quire h<*w much is indigeuous'nr hpw refer to. tbts. the latter in the sixth SVMllIB i. without any appearance of truth, which all the while bears a atroag much exotic; for though thé effect is chapter in his nineteenth book, where says Mark Twain), Ananias temghi family likeness to that of those who the same Upon the spectator, yet the he say»: “The one serving for a DAMASCUS. lor Saul of’Tarsus, al the house ot with bad eoinplextons, assure you, mea- belongs-to those why; having sauce or to season meat with.” Can '.Under the blue dome of a Syrian one named Judas, w)>ere,to-day the that soap is wiulesome for the skin, no naturalTnclinatlpn toward cheer it be then, that in Pompeii of old, 'tty lies a ruinous heap, showing wire ot eaHerti traffic pnd Arab or Ait bald people who extol the vir fulness, have yet succeeded in-graft chivhs, as we know now, were used forth i» their fultìljjnenl the power ' Sheika with turbaned heads are tue ef certain .washes whicll they ing it upon the barren stock of a de populariy.— Gardener'» Chronicle- 'and truth of-the propio cies ot the heard and *ceu. The bright spark have^employed.- This art ot dosing spondent disposition,'who have been po.rd. While the lamentation was “That's How.’’“ ling waters from Lebanon still curve does not interfere, however, with the obliged to fight bravely for the sun going up on account of the cui’we in‘■'-riobens of silver” and rivers of usefulness ®f the family physician, shine they spend lavishly. We do Af er a great sqow storm, a little which destroyed the city of Tyre g®!4 as they were woht to d.i but rather supplies him with prac not question but it is a more certain fellow began td' shovel a path and the wail tor the departed glory through, the plains-of Syria, but tice by laying the foundations for’ recipe against the encroach inerts of Babylon, queen city ot the world. “Damaecus^is waxed feeble an.1!, • positive disease. The stomach which disease than the specifics’of medical through,, it;,large snow-bank before bis grandmother’s door. He had The prophet ‘ Isaiah in very few turrfelh berrelf tb fleV,” for tbussaith has been unrighteously corrected re science. ,By examination we shoùTd nothing but a small shovel to work words gives ns 1 lie burden ol Damas the Lord, “I will kiudle a fire in the bels at length ; the nerves .that have doubtless,find that the lew who reach- witji. » cus, “ Bel.old Damascus- is taken wall of Damasstts, and it shall con been too often artificially soothéd fi-* tho nineties are’those who cultivate, “ 'How do you expect to' get away from being a city, and it shall sume the palaces of Behhadad. Yea, nally refuse to acknowledge the pow- a sanguine temper-; who wear lijv through that drit ?” asked a man be a ruinous heap»” Thus it stands for three transgressions ot Damascus ér-uf the charmer;, the strength en like a garland rather thafaa yoke ; passing along. '.- as it has for centliries, white the l and for lour I will not turn away the (lettered by stimulants' proves but a -who do not wring their hands when “ By keeping at it,” saijl tbe boy, many rich cities ol the Syrian plains broken reed ; appetites fortified by their stocks depreciate, but ¡ire cer cheerfully. “That’ b how.” punishment thereof ” have Ajimbled and scarce a relic oi With the dowiffall of Damascus frequent tonics surrender one day tain they will rise fo-inoiroW; w I m ^ That is the secret of mastering , their former grandeur can be found were los.t some of the arts that the without reserve. If the science of wlieu the ship is leaking, are onlhe almost every' difficulty under the —- ’neath the sands .of the desert. W'orjd knows nothing of at the- medicine itself is as yet only experi outlook for a sail; whov! when their sun. If af-bard task is before you, No change has likejn place in the present lime.'* The Damascus blade mental, «must not amateur dosing, case is desperate,do not make it worse stick tp it. Do not« keep thinking ■ City of Damascus since it received has never been equaled since Tamer beyond question, belong 10 the most by desperation—peoplehrho can say, how large or how hard it is'; bu* go the curse of Gód, and there will it lane carried the artists- away into objectionable-class ot empiricisms? If life an empty bubble be, at it, and little by little it will grow stand till the end of time. Travelers Persia, and thus lost the secret of Almost every body with whom it is Bow sad are those wfio never see smaller until it is done., , — tell us of,tne caravans from the east The rainbow in the bubble !” tempering Damascus steel. The a habit cultivate« h’er favorite nos- -If a hard lesson is to be learned, • • ...* - that still stop there, of the low luscious’apricot of Portugal called t»um. To one cod liver oil is the do not spend* moment in fretting ; sqpare houses, and of the files of Damaseo came from Damascus, and fountain ofperpeual youth,and health; ? ? Finger ItàlK do r not Toile breath in saying, “U garbage and filth that make'-t >e ex . ; • Ar.., - _ our blue Damson plums, showing another’s salvation lies in sulphur— cau ’ i, ” or “ I don’t sde how ;” but go ptorihg of the narrow, crooked The nailo.of4.he human hand have* their purplish blue cluster» through to the disparagement of orthodoxy; . . ,- . , , at'it, aud keep at it-*-atudy. That atretic a-seriqua matter. Damascus i;in,Ty ti.i£xU w iiivir vw n. nrrtt _vttv r-5 ■—7—i--------- — ** ---- --- w their sHioing green *.Ie;ives Trf“ Octo- a third.wurship»’blue pill aiid ciKT • . . . IS the is t only way to conquer it-', . > . is believed to lie the oldest city ii‘ ' her, haff Their origin as well' as't lieir' fides in calomel ; while thère yet re" - manner of keeping them is eloquent. If a fault is tn be cured, or a l»ad the world, at least, it is the oldest ot i name from the city of Damascus, •mâin those who have such respect’ Some keep them Ion/ and pointed habit broken up, it cannot be doue which, we have any record being i Damask ctOffisj so highly prized by foi all medicaments that they slight like reminiscence ot claws; some by merely being sorry, or trnly cry- - > pare and trim and scrape And polish mentioned in the xrv chaptër of ■housekeeper«, came first from none. —Ex- ing a little,,„ Yog must keep fighting Genesis, as the city of Eliezer. Its Damascus, as also that beautiful art up to the highest point ot artificial -until it is got rid of. •>- history is a meager one, as it is beauty; and others, carrying tl.e The ltainhow in the Bubble. of inlaying wood with gold and If you have entered your Master’s mentioned but rt tew times in the silver, called damaskening. The doctrine ot nature to the outside liin service, and are trying to be good, Cheerfulness is to the mind what Bible, and seldom in secular his;oyy. Damask rqse was •transplanted by it, let them grow wil’d, with jagged you will sometimes find hills^of sunshine is t® the earth — its rejuve David (Conquered it, slaying more Henry VII. from Damascus to Eng edges, broken tracts, and hangnails nating force. The'cheerful people or “ back'-friend,” as the agonizing difficulty in the way. Things will i ;thari Js^O-lhonsatid Syrians, and then land, and brightens many a, home are always ywung, howe’ver gray often look discouraging, and you will ----- ha put gju-risona o ver-pamateus, anti consequences. Sometimes you see •wtTti itr fragrance and rich color. . their locks, dim their vision, or wrink-, the must beautiful nails, pink, trans not'seeni to make any progress at ■ the Syrians became servants to When tbe "head of all Syria” led their faces. Nay, cheerfulness parent, filbert-shaped, with the deli all; but keep at ie Never forget Di^id^a^d -'brought gilts. Thpre Damascus must have been a magni was one,..however, who fled when ficent city, fpr.Mahoinined W'buld’not will keep gray hairs and wrinkles at cate, filmy little. “ half moon ” iadi “ That’s how. '’-‘-Child » Companion. bay m.ore effectually thin -any cbT" cated at the base—all the conditions this was ,R'ezina'>u’lio0ga?)“e^b; men Expert.. -• —ggt,. »- at its loveliness, said, It .is given •*■--• r—hut. ot bounty carried unto him until lie became captain of man which attracts affection and re all rendered of no avail by .dirt, and but once to man to eftter Paradise, Yob' want us. to tell yen what is gard to those ’who ’ wear it. The a band and dwelt in Damascus and »loveliness; while others, thick, shoddy.’ Well, the fir8t difference and I do not want to enter mine on reigned there' “ And he was an -cheerful person is every where wel wliite-ribbed, square, with.no half is the material; instead of using', earth.” . f ' adversary to Israel all the 'days ofc come, and nowhere out of place. She moon, spotted like so many circus long fibres, as found iq wbol and M ay W elling . Solomon, and he,abhorred Israel and light» up the darkest day, aud has horses with “gilts” aud “friends” other materials, such short fibres are reigned over Syria.” the same genial and stimulating effect - — . Dosing. and the like—that is, without beau used as are found--, in the refuse . - i Afterward; ■ during the feign of as the sunbeam ; she makes the best ties, and with positive blemishes— material of <9bth and woolen manu Ahaz over Judah, there arose a fear- There are a .host qf people who ef every thing—even misfortune seen are yet pleasant to look at fyr factures, or even eld wornout clothes '-*• ful strife^ between Rezin and the Beem to have little else t® do but to through her spectacles does not look acre bestowed on them, their dainty are torn up and treated as if a papier hosts of the Lord who had forsaken considerthelr physical cbudilion and so ugly ; oho anticipates happiness perfection of cleanliness being a pulp had to be made of them? The the way of righteousness and had administer doses for its improvement; ahead, and is sure that trouble will' charm in itself. Nothing indeed is material is then purified from dust given „tbemsel^ps Qver tô every people who are positively dissipated get detained on the way ; she sees more disgusting tLan dirty hands and such fibres as are altogether too 'wickedness and foul idolatry. Ahaz and intemperate in their use of med the silver lining of every cloud, and' and neglected nails, as. nothing gives short; and as even the remnant is fearful of being defeated sent messen icines, and appear to think this world the first rift; where another, mur*. one such an idea -of freshness and too short to be spun into threads ., ger and great treasures to the king not so much a vale of tears as of murs and doubts, she is full ef thanks care as the same member«, well kept. and woven, it is simply felted. Now of Assyria that he would come and d'rugs; people to whom a new pre giving and hope The small dis —A b . * t felting is well enough, and may be help him overcome the king of scription affords a delight only equal, comforts of life do not fret her as as strong as woven idoth, providing Syria. “ And the king of Assyria cd by that which a savant would de many another.. She is the best trav History of the Ouion. the fibres are long enough, as is the hearkened unto him ; for the king of rive from the possession of a bone of eler the. world over—heeds the-jolts case with the new fur ot the beaver Very few uieinberdof the vegeta Assyria weat up against Damascus the extent megatherium. If they on the road only to laugh at them; and the hare, which becomes so and took it, and carried the people are troubled with insomnia, instead breakdowns and detentions are only ble kingdom exist that can boast aD mutually entangled by the curling of it captives to Kir and. slew of resorting to the nataral assistance Romany novel experiences to'her ; . older record than the onion.. The produced in felting, as to Strongly Rezin.” ” Joabepbus tells the story of occupation and exercise, they turn and we doubt if even a highwayman ophrastus alluded to it as follows: resist any force which may be used qf this war aud the capture of t® the bromides for aid, and call in could rob her of the habit of looking “ There be divers sorts of onions to tear the stuff apart; but it is clear Damascus in almost the same words chloral for their defense; if they at the bright side of every thing. She which have their surnames of the that if the fibres are shbrt they can- as those of the Bible already quoted have low spirits, they lay siege with does not make faces over a poor din plaees where they grow; some also uot well be held together in this and adds that the people of Damas blue pills; if rheumatism invades ner or a hard bed, but resigns her* lesser, others greater, some be round, way, and henge the case with which cus were carried off irrte Upper their borders, they summon col chi self to inconvenience» so complacent divers others Jong.” This is ample material made of sueh short fibre Media, while the city was again ctrfi rather than endurance; a slight ly that one might be deceived into pi oof that, even in his early days, a tears and wears out. peopled by a colony of Assyrians. attack of indigestion is an occasion thinking her accustomed to them. variety'of sorts were grown, and in During the late war, blankets bv Thus was fullfilled another prophecy tor a Sedlitz powder; if colic threat That she is a most companionable many places. Pliny adds the ques the thousands were sold to the of Isaiah, “ The riches of Damascus ens, they advance upon it with cas personage, the comfort of her* pres tionable information that “none government made of material of and the spoil of Samaria shall be ter-oil; quinine is their password, ence attests. Iler example is infec grow wilde.” The onioD is also spo fibres so short as literally to fall taken away before the king of and camphor the panacea tor all their tious,.and we find ourselves groping ken of in Holy Writ, where, in con apart. Such stuff could only be ap Assyria.” It was finally taken by ilia from hysteria to heartburn; our way out of the slough of despond nection'ot the leek and other vege proved of and aceepted through Pompey, who, with his Roman while they entertain the idea that by the light of her countenance. If tables,it is referred to as a luxury sheer ignorance or bribery—most legions, overran and conquered the Death himself is afraid of carbolic “good nature is stronger-than tema* belonging to the Egyptians, at the likely the latter. It was the same entire east, making from the Orient acid ! In fact, rhubarb, senna, tjior- hawks,” as the sage tells us, then earliest date we possess any history with the clothing, and not only short a thoroughfare which ended in oughwort, and all the ghastly array cheerfulness is its twin sister. With in regard to them. Though,Theoph woolen fibre, but short, cotton fibre Rome and oppression. of drugs, the mere mention of which many of us, perhaps, cheerfulness is rastns shows by his statement above was used, mixed up with the rest; Every Bible feade'r familiar with is agitating to a well-bred stomach, no more a virtue for which we 'are that distinct sorts existed, we are in in fact, the material was only fit for Paul’s conversion, knows that our are familiar words with them, and responsible than a quick ear for mu clined to believe that there were notfj qltfier, and a rotten paper at that, as great interest in that old eastern household gods to whom they sacri sic would be, than a Grecian profile, mote than three distinct types then. paper made of a good lang fibre is city lies in the fact that it witnessed fice almost daily. . If they are in the or a fine head of hair. It is bred in They derived, however, a varriety of indeed stronger tharrthe shoddy sold the first labors of Paul in turning least degree under the weather, it the bone with a few of us, just as a pamer from the various places where to the government by contraetora sinful souls to the faith of Jesus. A never ocours to them to allow Na talent for carpentry, for sculpturing, they were'known as “ Ascalonitides,” without consciences.— Ex. short distance from Damascus the ture to work out her own salvation, or versifying is ; and as it is reckon a name" said by Gerards to be “ of a ligh? ot the Lord shone reind ab®ut but they take her affairs into their ed a disgrace to spell badly, but-no towne in Jndete, otherwise called “ There’s something in this cigar him, and he beard the voice of the own hands, and having small ac virtue to spell well, so the talent for Pempeiana.” Singularly enough, that makes me sick,” said a paid’ Lord saying unto him, “ Saul, Saul, quaintance with her pi «cesses, the cheerfulness, being our birthright, is however, the English name of thia little boy to hie sister. “I know why persecutest thou me?’’ How ^reeplt resembles that of a novice at not so mush set down to our credit, kind by. this latter authority as “ Seal what it is,”-responded the little very different bis entry into the tempting the tasks ot a superior, and but to much subtracted- therefrom if lions,” and along with it is given an girl, “ It’s lobacker.” city than be had imagined; instead making them the more difficult for we do'not develop it into a genius. illustration and the fell®wing state of breathing out threatening» aud that superior to accomplish. One of But it is'none the less a sweetener of ment:‘1 “This hath but small roots The bump of, destractivenes—a slaughter against the disciples of the of the peculiar pleasures of such per- existence, aud such a charming thing growing many together; the leaves railway collision. CHRISTIAN FAMILY G