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CHK-1 ST IAN MESSENGER 6 MAY 3, 1877. A. Then the youths'passed out from captured the city, taking for this to the castle, into .whose hands the eyes cannot look upon the work, it is purpose the stones, timber and rub lads were given to be disciplined ac’ invisible; it can be seen only by re tire home ot their chil<lhood. Through .Miss M. STUMP, Editor. bish of the ruined city on the main cording to the fashion of their time. sults in coming vars; but be not tiding« of good report or evil, the land, as it was said by the prophets, “ For,” said the father, “life is one faithles, but believing, and the Mas mother’s heart never failed, het1 faith The Little llnii-e <m the Hill. 1 neVer wavered, and when some no-; “They shall lay ihy stpn'e^, and thv long conflict, and the world is a field ter will bless thy labor. ?» Then lifting his hands, over .th* Ider deedt was done, some gfeater timber, and thy dust iu thetmidst of of battle; my sons must' be trained O Memory, be sweet to me— Take, take all else, at will,- the water.” - ••- — , soldiers. No cowards, tto idlers for little,group in blessing, ' he. passed evil overcome, and men said How-, So thou but leave iqe aafe aud sound, » bright’" these knights their armor Scarcely more than forty off me,- but courageous thinkers and- away as silently as’he came. Without a token my hyart'to wound, “ Have I slept ?” said the lady. keep !”,their mother only smiled, and this once large and populous city workers, th take their places in the The little ho’use on thd kill ! But ibère beside lier, and brightly said: “The uusien armor shineth now remain above the water, this is ranks,’when they are men.” Thoughts ot his Bons when they shining In the moonlight, was the througb^and the innocence of child Take all of her best from east to west, .supposed to.be perhaps a huudrffdth So thou but Leuve me »'>11, . part of the otiginal .large- island should be men—good men—knighted Book, all bound with velvet and hood.” The chamber where in the starry light, ruled in. the zenith of her glory by and clad in all their brave attire, edged with gold, whose-printing,’ They passed unscathed through I used-to lie awake at night, HiraiUi-rtteTrieu^pand ally ot'Solo standing by his side, strong to suffer fetter by letter, had been the saintly .the heat .of battle. “No «weapon And list to the wbipporwill. acd to do, would lighten their lath work of a life in some dim o|<l clois formed agiirst them could • prosper mon, ’ Zx . ’ . u That violet-bed, and rose-tree red, eih, heaviest moments, and brighten 1er. » / - The people of X«rael and the for hrougli the words-of the Book And the purple flags.by the mill, It was written on vellum, in let a ml the might of prayrr, their ax^,. Phcenicians were nearly always at his darkest ones. And the pleasant, The meadow gay aud the garden ground, peace, though the narrow valley vision gave his martial bearing firm ters of gold; anti delicate Vines, and mor was kepi ever height. Anil its But leave, oh, leuve me safe and sound. lying between tlie^ mountaitis of er dignity and grace. “ Ah! my wreatliB of’tjowers, and tufted birds, light ho encompassed lh»-m,'Hiat tn - The little house on the hill 1 jAbarton and the ica was never _a_. brave boys,’’«aid the, proud father, in quidtit device, in richest color ot time men gTl-w_ to calling them The daisy lane, and the dove’s low possession of J he Jews. A great <■ “ - betimes • - — the •------- ■ 1 ÎEy' scarlet and him-, and purple,- and “Knights of the Happy’ Sphere.” shall armorer besîn ' : ’ plane, " " ■ many ef the Jews dwelt in Ijj're, suite of mail: no hasty works, no , gi'eeli, and gold bordered the beauti And wlihhersoever they went, they And the cuckoo’s tender bill, careless Hiiks sliall peril your tame.’’ ’ !ul words. ' carried wi h them noble endurance, Takejone and all, but leave the dreams lliram himself being ot Jewish d<--- - Tiie Miother pondered her treasure He s;oke with the armorer. And 'undsunteti prowess, and gentle cour That turned thfl rafters to gulden beams, scent. Once, at least, the two na well ; and her children’s eyes and tions were united by marriage, when while Their coals of mail were fash tesy. In the little house on the hill I ; hearts were daily -fed with its fair Ahab married the daughter of ioning, he' would say with every set Aud all through the words of -he The gables brown, they have tumbled ting sun, “ nearer, one day nearer to , file«, and Its goodly truths. A; Golden Book and a mdther’s patient Elhbaak It is with horror and a ' down, ' • times it tasked all her power to keep loathsonre fascination that we read their manhood are the lads.” love, “ who did what she cpuld.’’— . And dry is the brook by the mill ; them interested ; fur- -children soon ofutile wickedness of Ahab and the Anon. The sheets I used with care io keep But the mother knelt at night be- Hare wrapped my dead for tlie last curse heaped upon his ‘ t B iuu .«idfi. lift acus, and kissing the curls vyeary, and ever asking lor some thing new. - Seueee of Our Great Lakes. through tlm foul idolatry i»n5 cove- lotiK'-sleep, _ _______ , moist brtxws, BuU’h'er faith and—natie lìce never In. the valley, low and still. ..l. A... -i. .......... ‘ - tousness of his haughty queen Jeze wouldMiiurmer over each fair sleeper: Among the most interesting of the wavered.-, , In her heart she knew bel ; but tlie end caifte to all her But memory, Be sweet to me, Mine, mine now, so innocent, so scientific papers presented at Buffalo thill while she taught them the ... And build the walls at will, greatness, and the proud pringess of pure—oh, that I-could keep them Of the chamber where I used to mark, Phoepice fell from her palace wiudow ever thus! But it cannot Be ; every .words of the "Book, ajl unseen, 'un was the one of Professor Newbury, in regard to the origin of our great Bo softly rippling over the dark; to be torn in piece®, and her blood setting sua takes tliem~6ne day far heard, the. angels were silently we.rv lake-chain, He, tells us that at one The song"of lEe’VTuppbrwnrT’ ing their protection for the coming' lapped from the ground by ravenous- ;rom nie - \yas meant that 'time Ontario, Erie and Huron appa yea.idl , - 7 Ah, Memory, be sweet to nae ! ~ dogs. . - knowledge must always bring woe, • “ The days go by so fast,” said the. rently formed portions of the. valley All other fountains chill, Carthage was founded as a colony ami action, peril? Ah! liitle ones, mother, “I have no lime to love; it of- a river which subsequently be But leave me that eoug so weird and troru Tyre 143.years after the burbl would that your mother could weave isjiot’long nosy that I shall have came the St. Lawrence, but which — • wild, ing of Solomon’s temple. At the some panoply of surer defence than .Dear as its life to tlie heart-pf a child, them beside rne^. My little children, then flowed between the Adriondnck's W* eoWs of s teel .; s ome li llhi TJua ep l)’»^ In tlse li f t f e ho n sg wti r whiH.-— - aim-fit’ Ghi'wj M -an d Ap pS t a chain s.. i u t he l in e «»£the-- — about equal to th it of Jerusalem, coal,’ all Wrought of divers colors, of Would^tMTl tiadicBrnedearlief how —Afice Cary. deeply buried-channel of the Mu- to help them. ’ ’ ■ ~ ~ ~ probably- 100.000. - The modern many loves, that, warm beneath the hawk, passing through the trough • And so the days went by, each one ( Mh's of the Bible. town is for the most part rudely linked steel of the world’s defehce; of the Hudson and emptying into u built and contains perhaps three of would keep my children both indo'* bearing-its own burden ; oftentimes SfitllKK 11. the ocean eighty miles southeast of the last' laden with-the cares, or tour thousand inhabitants. AU the cent and safe.” New York. Lake Michigan was ap crowned with the joys, as it may be, nm. great nations of antiquity have there Andthus night after night as she' of all that bad gone before tt. And parently then-a part of a river course . A< we read the. historical record , left the curious works of their archi knelt in prayer, the same wish took the lads who had learned at their which <1 rained l^jke Superior apd of this once prott I mistress of the lects hands. Upon the great sea possession of her sojjl and would not mother’s knee the love ot the Golden e,nplied in the M'-sissippi, the strai s Mediterranean, a gTainour of the wajl of old Tyre is'still lying a stone away. For every setting sun re Book were grown to men. of Mackinaw being rot yyt opened. past, «teals over ns, and the wail of in its original position, where it was minded the ' mother, that one day It was their last eve before their After that it would appear, came the the prophets of Israel over her des placed"-more than 3000 years ago, nearer to the battle of life were the . tnMp«« into the work! of action, “cold period," when huge ice gla ti uction, rings through our ears as a beaming the pecuffar work of early lads, aud another day's inarch be Their mother went to kneel beside ciers were formed in the moiuitains' grand old song, though we shut out Phouician art upon its surface. Over yond the innocence of infancy and them once again, as lhey lay in above what is now the lake-chain, the "Bterness of their w’arning; we it have fallen the wonders of Grecian the protection of home- and gloving southward, scooped out peaceful slumber. fail to grasp the greatness of the fall sculpture, and still above them have It was evening. The mother stood the lakes from a plateau previously “ Have I been faithful to the trust of What was once as the garden of crumbled the massive marble pillars existing there, gradually broadening on the parapet, looking over the val reposed in me; have I done what I God,, now lying between the sea and at Roman architecture. Tyre has their basins by grinding away their ley. The purple and gold of another could ? ” And, once more, rhe laid sky, a place for the spread-ing of been used as a marble quarry for fishermen’s nets; we blind ourselves ages, and its best materials carried sunset were paling out of the wes her head beside her sons, thinking, southern margins with an inconceiv to -the fact that upon pride and sin away to enrich other cities. The tern sky, and gray was glooming in. as she did so: “If never again, oh ! able power. At length the intense cold period passed, and the glacier fall destruction and ruin, and that dye, called Tyrian purple was once a The tops of the pines were tremu what would comfort me?” lous with the light step of the pass-, The moonlight stole rpftly. in, ail which had before flowed over the in the fall of Tyre, we have but source ot great wealth to Tyre, and ing breeze, mourning for ,the sweet venng fair braids, and creeping slow, watershed in Ohio was so far redu another proof of the reality of this was found in a shellfish on tb$ coast south wind that only kissed them ly up in curly heads. And the ced as to be unable to overtop its truth, which is so oft repeated inthq .near the city, each fish affording only and passed on. The birds tad folded rylhm of the night winds chanting summit, but, deflected by it flowed simple touching words of Isaiah, one drop ,of the precious color. Ezekel, and Jeremiah. At firs; the Glass and sugar were also largely their wings; and the flowers had off through the pines, floated in with along its base, spending' its energies the low sweet lul? of some far off me 1 in cutting the shallow basin in which , site of this famous city was op the manufactured. Much of our knowl ered up their incense. - “ Nature wears the color 'of the ody ; so calm, so soothing in its tone,' Lake Erie now lies. 'mainland, out of which the best edge of the city of Tyre is gathered • The Professor goes on to say that spirit, ” said the mother, “ and this is that its key-note might have been authorities say the Phoenicians were from the account of William, who this melting of the glaciers was ac her voice to me. Stars will gather struck in Heaven. first dr.iven-by Joshua into a large was bishop of Tyre at the time of companied, perhaps occasioned, by a the gold of the setting sun, and dis Suddenly the room grow all island not far off,, that this island the crusades, A. D. 1124 Once this sinking of the Continent, which pro pel the gloom'of night. The whis with light and two angels stood be w as joined to the mainland, or was wreck of a city had ho rival and the in reality, a sort of peninsula. It cities and nations of the earth were pering pines will thrill to a fresher fore her; oh, wondrons beauty for a greased until the waters of the At valley» of the was at one time besieged for five her merchants ; now has the inspired wind, and the folded wings are but mother’s eye, sweeteet music for a lantic flowed up the •WW. **i St. Lawrence to Kingston, and up veers by Shalrnanezer, the king of prophecy of Israel’s seers come to resting f&r higher flights. The flow- mother’s ear 1 Surely she had seen those faces be Ottawa ,o Arnprioy. 'The valley of Assyria, and afterward was taken pass tor, “The merchants among the er exhaled its life in love, its mission finished, leaving a perfect plant fold fore, had beard those voices, but the St. Lawrence and the Hudson and laid waste by Nebuchodnezar in people shall hiss at thee, and I will were tfonneoted by way of Lak« ed away for another blooming. And where or when ? luifiilment of Scripture propheey. make thee a terror, and then shall Champlain, and thus the highlands I who have had^my beautiful morn- Oh sunny days, happy days ; in Thus were the boasted towers of be no more; though thou be sought of New England was left as an is- ing, shall I cloud ffly noon with the the untroubled deeps of the dear Tyrus laid low by the axes of the | lor, yet slialt thou never be found dread of night? Not so; perfect eyes of her children, when learning land. It is also possible that the k ng of Babylon, and the powex_yf | again, saith the Lord God.” love casteth out fear.”« the lessons of,the Sacred Book. And seawater.penetrated to the lake ba the luxurious city situztevTat the M ay W elling . Again, as was her wont, she knell the voices were their voice«, in times sin through the valley of the Mo entry of the sea was gone forever. hawk and through that of the Miss- ~~ beside her clambering boys ; she put of perfect love and truthfulness. She had said, “I am of perfect Mother’s Story for Her Boys. her arms around them ; so young, so Aud they said: “ Well done, thou issippi', but of this we have no evi beauty.” Ezekiel compared her to light and slender, she could fold" good aud faithful mother; look with dence in the presence of marine 1o>- ' Once npon a time, up among the a ship which the merchandise of the sils. The theory of the formation of both to her heart now, and sip such joy upon thy werk.” whole world had contributed to mountains stood an old castle, half Then she saw their shining robes, the great lakes has always been an adorn, and foretold the time when hidden by the forests that surround sweet kisses from the .dewy lips. the lament should arise for .the city ed it from the great world that roll Then the moonlight stole softly in, all interwoven and luminous with interestingj>ubject, and the late Prof. which was destroyed in the midsv'of ed <>B below. Within d welt a young to weave fitful tracing over fair line upon line, rule upon rule, pre Agassiz made a special study of Ni mother, and her two sons, whose smooth braid and curly head, and cept upon precept, from the Golden agara. According to the opinions - the sea. of some experts, this so-called “ new. ’ ‘ Severity years jtfter this destruc father was away at the head of his therylhmof the breeze was sweet Book. world” of ours was really the “old “ See thy work bath been faithful tion the city was paitially rebuilt, army fighting the battles ef his king. and lew. world”—that is, the first io become An agfid man ef noble mien stood ly done. ” And the mother's^, fears ag6d of but another prophecy of Ezekiel The castle looked very lonely up (xxvk) was accomplished in the sea among the pines, wiih only its gray before her; bis aspect was so benig were ajl dispelled with tender words. reasonably fit for the abode of prim Overflowing, not only the neck ot turrets visible above them. But nanl, that his sudden appearance “ Not one of these little ones shall itive rasn.— Eat. land but the peninsula itself, thus that was on the outside; within, a gave her no alarm. Taking a roll be lost, fer their angels do ever stand Modesty io one of woman’s great ^orld went rippling on, from the folds of hi« robe, he said : before the face of our Father.” covering the mystery and idolatry^ And when the lade went forth, est charms, it is that charm that with deeper tone, whose •• Arise youug mother, thou that of the old and famous city with the beating ot the changing waves which inmates bad quite enough to do in steepest, awake : thy prayer is beard; belled knighta..tq the world’s con distinguishes her from the rest of even thus thou «halt weave a gar fliot, away from their mother’s pres her sex; in every society, she is tell no tales. However there yet re the care and training of the lads. ment of sure defense around thy enoe, without a fear she gave them knowp, and universally admired and Both father and mother loved their mained a small adjoining, island respected. once connected to old Tyre by children well, and" 'sought t> »bave children. The angels are thy help her blessing, and bade them ge. v . “ Remember the words of the lliram, afterward inhabited. Thia them instructed in all the lorn aud ere. Teach thy sons the word of the Christis not a reed, shaken in the is the island to which Alexander grace of the land. And fer this pur Book. Be patient, steadfast in tby Golden Book,” she said, “ and keep wind;but a rock.—IF. F. Etutr. the Great bnilt a caaaeway when he pose the beat teachers were brought labors, faithful to thy trust. Thine your armor bright.” CHRISTIAN FAMILY