The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 9, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 24, 1888 Page: 2 of 8
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THE hcV C.LATION,
iiv i'ai't. ii. iia f.nk.
ll"i culm, frank eyes wore over turned
in truwiuil fashion on iiilnuuwii;
No hliudow l'rom those lushes dark
Across their •touilfast light wustliiovvuy
'Tivhb 1 who felt abashed when sho
lltr smile unconscious Hushed on me.
I thought tlio maiden's lieurt ivas cold,
I drouiiind no love could harhor there;—
When walking by the summer waves,
A step stole on us unaware;—
II rued to afle whut stranger came;
She partly turned; her cheek was llitine!
Her cheek was flame. h"r eyes, whose light
Ne'er veiled to mine their splendors sweet
Now shone like stars of e irlier night,
Wlien sunset mid fair glnumltig moot;
I) tied' that evermore for me
Her hi art had slept- a mystery!
DeaconTMisFari
11Y IIAIIIIII'.T IIKWIII.lt MTOWK.
CIIAPTRIt III.
Tlere Is no n oiuent of life, however
•festive lliut does not involve the near
|irc-e;ioe ot a |>nssllile tragedy. Wl.en the
concert of life is playing the gayest mid
•Irlest niuslo, it requires only the change
of a little Hat or sharp to modulate Into
the ni nor key.
There seemed at lirst glance onlytho
tle nentso joy. usiicss and ga.vety in the
surroundings a' the I'ilkln farm, Thanks-
giving vas come—the family, health>.
ros , and nolgy, were all under the one
toof tree. There was energy, yi uth In-
H'lllgcnce, beauty,—a pa rof lovers on the
sve of lictrot'iil just in that misty, golden
twilight that precedel the full sunrise of
•vowed and accepted love, and yet behind
it all was walking with stenllhy step the
ihadow of a coming sorrow.
"What In the world alls .lames"' said
Malta as she retreated from the door and
surveyed him ai n distance from her
rhambor window. Ills face w. s like a
lands ape over which a tliuiide -cloud lias
drifted, and lie walked heslde Ills father
with a peculiar air ol p ond dlsploiisine
ind repression.
At tl.at moment the young man was
lniggling with t' e bit e est sorrow Hint
can liefall you li the breaking up ol' his
Itfe-puri o-o. lie had it st come to a de-
rision to sacrifice his hopes of education,
tils imin'fi ambition, his love, his home
itnl family, and become a wanderer on
1lit> face ot the ■ artli. Mow this befell
10 ulres a sketch of cltarac er. ;
Ilea on Silas Pitkin was a fair speci-
n en of a class of men not uncommon in
New Kii tlaiid men too sensitive for the
levere physical conditions of New I iig-
Sand life, and therefore both suffering An I
indicting suffering, lie was a man of the
Knest moral traits, of incorruptible probi-
ty, of scrupulous liono", of an exacting
lonsclonlioiisness, and of sincere pe!y.
Jtut he had begun life with nothing his
whole standing In ilie world bad been
gained inch by ill h by Ilie most unremit-
ting economy and sell'-denlal, and lie wa*
t man of little capacity for hope, of whom
it was said, In proper phraseology, that
to ' took things hard." lie was never
jinigiiinc of good, always expectant of
•vlI. and seemed to \ li w Ife like a scntl-
tel forbidden In sleep anil constantly un-
der arms.
l'ov such a man to be harassed by a
mortgage upon bis homestead was a steady
wear mid drain upon his vitality. There
were times when a I osl ive horror of dark-
ness came down upon him—when his
wliv ^ untroubled, patient hopefulness
loomed to him like recklessness, when
the smallest Hem or exp use wa- an in-
tolerable burden, and the very daily
bread of life was full of hi I Ionics : and
when these paroxysms wore upon lilui.
one of the heaviest ol Ids burdens was the
support ol' his son in college. It was true
thai lie was proud id' his sou's talents and
sympathized with his love for learning
he lull to III' full that sense
of the value of education which Is the
very vital force of the New l uglaml mind
—and in an hour when tli tigs 'ookod
hrigh er to hiiii Ik; luid given his consent
to the scheme id' a college education freoly.
.lames was Industr ous. frugal, energet-
ic. mill lui i engaged to pay the most of
his own e pcnsi s by teaching ill the long
winter vacations. Hut unfortunately this
year ilie Maidoton acailcm , which IiikI
long been proml-ed to him 'or the winter
term, luid been taken away by a little
maneuver of local politics and given to
another, thus Icavinx lilui without re-
i urce. This dlsappoin incut, coining
Just at t' e time when tint yosrly Interest
upon the mortgage w«< due, lind brought
«pon li s father one o" those pmovysms of
helpless gloom mid discouragement In
which Ilie very world I so fs'cmcd clothed
in sack-cloth.
I'l'oin the time that he heard the acade-
my was gone Descon Silas lav awake
sights In the blackness of darkness. 'Wo
shitll nil go to the poorhousi> together
that's where II will end," he sai l, as lie i
tossed restlessly in the dark. j
"i b no, no my dear,' said his \* IV, |
with those serene eves that had looked ;
through so many gloomy hours "we must
cast our care on .tui. " |
•'It's oast for women lotalk. Voti don't j
have the interest money to pay, you mo
perfectly reckless o expense. Nothing !
would do li it .lames must go lo colli go, j
■n I now see what it '* bringing u- to. " i
'Why. I'aiher, I thought you younelt' I
we. e In favor of it. "
••Well I did wrong then. Von per i
sutuled me into li. I'd no business to
have II loncd ti yon mid .1 iill and got all j
lliU load on iny shoulders. "
Vet Mary Pitkin knew in her own calm. |
clear head thill she bail not been re kles- i
vi expense. I he yearly Interest money 1
tv.is e er before her, and her • wn incits-
saul toils bad wrought no -mall portion
el what was needed to pay it i er butter
st the store commanded I li • very highest (
proe, her straw braid ng sold for a little
more than that of anv o: her hand, and she
lad i alculated all the returns -oe\ticilv
that she felt sure tl at the interest money
for that year was safe. • lie luid seen her ;
kusband pass tlirou h this nor on crisis
iniiny times before, andshe had learne I to j
bo blamed ill silence, ti r he was a w iiiiilll
out of whom all seltness had lung since |
•lied leaving on'y the tender p t\ of the 1
nurse and the eonso'er I or soul rested \
mi her Saviour, the one i ver present, In- j
•o|.arable fr ond; and when it did u < goo I ,
lo speak to her husband, she spoke to her
(iod for him. and so was peaceful and ,
pence-giving.
l-.ven her hiisbaiul himself felt her
itregthening. rest-g vlng power, and for ,
this reason he Imr • i own oi her with the
luirden of all his tremor* and li s cares j
lor while he dispute . >ei he believed her.
and rested upon her with an utter helpless
trust, as the good an clot his house. Had ,
she for a moment given wa> to api>reheti
slnn, bad her step been a tl ought less
lirni. her e e less peaceful, hen Indeed
Ilie world I self would have seemed to be
•inking i nder hl« leet. Meanwhile she ,
was to him that kin I of relief which we
derive from a person to whom we may say
everything without ii tear of Its harming
them, lie felt <.ulte sure that, lay what
| no would, Mary wo Id always lie hopeful
and courageous: and lie foil s.une -tcfi
I ilea that his own gloom> forebodings wer •
of ser Ice In restricting mid sih<|1ii/ wli.t
seemed to h in her too san.'ulne nntuie.
j 1'e I llndlv reverenced (v tliout ability
to comprehend her e it I tod relight s
i fervor, an I the (j'uietude of soul
that it brought. Hut he did iiAi
{ know through how many, silent coiiilic'-
liow many prayers, how many tears, how
n.iany hope-resigned and sorrows wolcom-
i ed, she had come into that last refuge ot
sorrowful souls, that Immovable peace
when all life's anguish ceases, and the
will of (iod becont s the final rest.
lint, unhappily for this preaent crisis,
tl ere was. as there often Is in family life
just enough of the father's nature In the
son to bring them into lollislon with each
other. .lames had the same nervously
anxious nature, the same intense feeling
of responsibility, the same tendon y to-
wards inorhld earncs'ness: and on that
day there hud co ne collision.
His father I ad poured fourth up n him
his fears und apprehensions in a milliner
which lintdie I a cell ure on Ills son, asbe-
v ill ng to accep1. a life of s holarly iase,
while Ills lather and mother were, as he
expres-ed It "working their lives away. "
'•Hut 1 tell you, father, as
(iod is my witness I mean to pay
all; you shall not suiter: interest
and principal all I hat my work would
bring—I engage to pay back."
"Vou!- you'll never have anything!
You'll bit a poor man as long as you live.
I.ost the a ademy this fall—that tells the
story!"
"lint, father it wasn't my fault I lost
the academy."
"It's no matter whose fault. It was -
that's neither here nor there—you lost it.
and here you are with the vacation lief le
you and nothing t > do! There's your
mother, she's working lierse f to death:
she never gets any rest. I expect she'll
go off iu a consumption one of these days."
" I liete there, father! that's enough'
Please don't say any more. You'll seel
will find something to do."
There are words spoken at times in life
th.it. do not >ound bitter that come from u
pitiable depth of anguish, and as .lames
turned from his father lie had taken a
resolution that convulsed him with pain:
bis strong arms quivered with the repress-
ed agony, and he hastily sought a di-tant
part of the field, and began cult ng and
stacking cornstalks with a nervous ener-
gy-
"\\ h , ye work like thunder!" was
Utah's comment, "i.uok I'ernin' hain't
spiled jo yet; your arms are good for
suthinV
es, my arms are good for something,
and I'll usu tlieiu for something,'' s.iid
.11 m.
There was a raging tempest in his soul.
Kor a young fullo \ of purlimi education in
those days to bo angry with his father
was somewhat that seem: d to him as aw-
ful a sacrilege as lo lie angry with bis Co ',
and yet be felt that bis father had been
bilterlv, cruelly 1111)1 st towards him lie
had driven economy to the most stringent
extremes: lie bad avoided the Intimacy of
Irs class fellows, lest he should be drawn
into needless oxpoii es; he had borne with
shabby clothing and mean fare among bet-
ter dressed and richer associates, and been
wtl lug o bear it. lie bad studied faith-
fully, uiirenilt'lnglv, lor two years, but at
the moment he turned from his father the
throb that wrung his heart was the giving
up of all.
lie bad in his pocket a letter fro u bis
townsman mid schoolmate Sam Allen,
u ale <>t' an l ast India 1 au just titling out
al Sale 11. and it said:
"We are going to sail with a picked crow,
and wo want one just such fellow as you for
third mate. ('unie along, and you can go
right up. and your college math inulies will
be all the better for us. ('111110 right off, and
yoifr berth will be ready, and away for
round the world!"
Here, to be sure, was immediate posi-
tion wages employment—freedom from
the intolerable burden of dependence;
but it was ae opted at the sacrifice of all
his life's hopes. True, that in those days
the e periment of a sea faring life luid
often even in instances which lie re ailed,
brought forth fortune and au ability to
settle down In peaceful competence In
utter life. Hut there was Diana. Would
she wait for him 1 Kuclrcled on all sides
with lovers, would she keep faith with au
ailycntun r Rone for mi indefinite iiuest'.'
Tl e desponding self-disturbing side of
bis na ure said. Why should s! 0"'
Then, to go was to give up I laua to
make up his utinil to have her belong to
some other. Then there was bis mother.
An unutterable reverential pathos always
to him encircle I the idea of h s mo her.
Her life lo him seemed a bard one. I rout
the outside, as he v lewed it. U was all
•elf-sacriticc and renunciation. Yet he
know that she had set her 1 cart op an
education for him, as much as it could b •
set on an.thing earthly. lie was her
pride, her hope, and just now that verv
thought was full of bitterness. There
was no help for it: lie must not let her
work her elf to death for him; he would
■nuke the household vessel lighter by the
throwing him-elf Into the sea to sink or
swim as might happen and then, perhaps,
he might come hack with money to help
them all.
All this was what was surging mid
boiling in his mind when he emtio in from
his work to the supper that nlghl.
I'll APTRIt IV.
Ill ANA.
I liana 1 itkin was like some of the fruit*
of her native hills, full of juices w hich
lend to sweetness in manrlty, but which
when 11 o 1 < 1 ulte ripe ha e a pretl.i decided
dash of sharpness. 'I here are grapes
that re uiieu rust to tipen them and
I Man 1 was somewhat akin to these.
She was n mettlesome warm bio iced
ete.iture, toll of energy and audacity or
youth, to whom as vel lite was univ a
trolicand a pla\ spell. Work never tired
her. site ate heartily, slept peacefully,
went to 1 ed lung' lug. and got up In a
tucrr.v humor in the morning. Diana's
laugh was as earl a note us he song of
birds Such a natuie is not at lirst sym-
pathetic. It has in it some of the unci 11-
sclons cruelty which be onus to nature
its' ii. who e sunshine ne er pales before
human trouble. I ves that have never
wept cannot comprehend sorrow. Mo e-
1 ver, a lively girl of eighteen looking at
life out of eyes which bewilders others
with their brightness, docs not always see
the wo Id truly, and is sometimes jii get
to tie heartless when she Is only imma-
ture.
Nothing was further Irom Dianas
thoughts than that any grave trouble was
overhanging her lover's mind—for her
lo er she very well knew that .lames
was. and she had arranged hefo:eltatul to
herself very pretty little comedies of life,
to be duly enacted In the long vacat on
in which .lames wa- to appear as the
suitor, and she not too soon nor with too
much eagerness, was at last t> ackuowl-
e ge to hint how much he was t> bet.
Hut meanwhile he was not to be too pte-
suniptlous. It was not set down In the
cards that she should be too grac ous or
make his way too easy. Wh n.therefore,
he brushed by her hastily, on entering the
house with a flushed cheek and frowning
biow, and gave no glance of admiration
st the pietty toilet she h d found time to
make, she was slightly indignant She
was as Ignorant of the j^ng whloh went
like an arrow through Iris heart at the
sight of her as the bobolink which whirrs
and chitteis and tweedles over a grave.
Sho turned away land commenced a
kitten like frolic with iilitj^who was
always only too happy to second any of
her motions, and readily promised that
after supper she would go wl h him a
walk of half a mile over to a neighbor's,
where there was a corn husking. A great
golden lump of a .harvest moon was al-
ready coming up In the fading flush of
the evening sky, and she promised her-
self much amusement in watching the
lesult of her maneuver 011 .lames.
"He'll see at any rate that I am not
waiting his beck and call. Next time, if
he wants my compa y he can ask for It in
season. I'm not going to Indulge him In
sulks, not I. These college fellows wor-
ry over books till they hurt their diges-
tion, and then have the bines and look as
if the world was coming to au end," and
Diana went to the looking glass and rear-
ranged the spray of golden rod in her
ha'r and nodile ■ at herself defiantly, and
t. eu turned to help gel on the supper.
The l'ltldn folk Ilia night sat down to
mi ample feast, over w hich ho impending
Thanksgiving shed Its hilarity. There
was not only the Inevitable great pewter
platter!'scoured to silver brightness, in tbo
center of the table, piled with all solid
masses of boiled beef, pork, cabbage and
all sorts of vegetables and :he e ually in-
evitable smoking loaf of rye and Indian
bread, to accompany the pot or baked pork
and beans, but there were specimens of all
the uoAly n ade Thanksgiving pies filing
every tivuilaMe space on the table. D una
set special value 011 her elf as a pie artist,
and she hail taxed her ingenuity.tills year
to Invent new varieties, which were re-
ee.ved with b irsts of applause by the boys.
These >a itown to the table witln e.ndcrat-
ic equality. Kiuli Carter and Abner, with
all the sons of the fa ..ily, old and young,
each eager, hiingiyund noisy, and over all
with moonlight calmness and steadiness,
Mary Pitkin ruled and presided,' di'ipens-
in,r to each bis port on in ({tie season,'
while Diana, restless and mischievious as
it spirit, seeme I to be posses ed wlih 'an
el in spirit of drollery venting tsolf in.
sundry little tricks and antics, which drew
ready laughs front the boys and teproving
glances trom the deacon. For tbo deacon
. as that niitht lit one of Ills severest hu-
mors. As lilalt Carter afterwards remark-
ed of that night "Vou could feel ther>!
was thunder in the air somewhere routi'.
The deacon had got on about the longest
face, and when the deacon s lace Is about
down to its wust why it would stop a rob-
in siugln'—there couldn't nothing stunil
it."
To-night the severely cut lines of hi-
face had oven more than u-ual of haggard
sternness, and the h nilsotne features of
James beside hiiii. in their fixed gruvi y,
presented that s'ugular likeness which
often comes out between father and sou in
scusonsof mental emotion. D:ana in vain
sough to draw a laugh from her cousin.
In pouring bis home-brewed beer she con-
trived to spatter him. but he wiped It 0 )'
without a smile, and let pass in silence
some arrows of raillery that she had direct-
ed at his so t.Iter luce.
When thoy rose fr tit table, however, lie
followed her into the pantry.
' Diana, will you take a walk wlthtne to-
night.'" he said in a voice husky with re-
pressed feeling.
"To-night! Why, I have jyst« promised
Hill to go with him over to the husking at
the .lenk's. Why don't you go with us'
We're going to have lots of full.' she
i>«lded, with an innocent air of not perceiv-
ing his grav i y.
'I can't," he said. ". esldes. I want d
to walk wi h you alone. I luid something
special I wanted to say o yon. '
"llless mo. how you frighten otr.i! You
look as solemn as a bourse: but I promised
to go with Hill, to-night, and j suspect
another time w.ll do just as well. What
you have to say will keep I suppose," she
said mischievously.
tie turned away ottlckly.
"I should reully like to know what's the
mutter with vou to-night," she udded, tint
as she spoke be went up-stairs and shut
tlie 1 nor.
"lie's cross to-night " was Diana's com-
ment. "Well, he'll have lo get over bis
pel. 1 sha n't mind it!"
in iik contim rcn.
"Tecuinsclfn Epigram."
"The soldier is a man, no a musket."
This senten e from (ieneral Sherman is
one of those phrases which a in..11 of gen-
ius like She titan now ami the 1 throws in-
to history. It tells the ditlerence between
imr war and modern wars. Our soldiers
were men, with ideas In their cartridge
boxes. I .ike men they fought and like
men made their vi lorv honorable. And
t was because there were men, not tuus-
.;ets. both in the north and south that the
whole military system melted uw.iy like
the baseless fabric of a vision. There
were no remaining lie-s uns among t e
victorious to Inspire vulgar deeds of am-
bitious usurpation. There were no fool-
ish guerillas among the con tiered to be-
come bandits an 1 mountain or swamp
rebels. The war was o er and done. Tim
m sket became a man. to plow and dig
and spin mid he a component part of
the great republic and vote eurl- and as
often as the law aliowed, and now mid
then when occasion happily served, to
gather mo n I Tee niseh Sherman and
oilier heroes and cheer them with cheers
which leealled the great days o" triumph,
endeavor and achievement. New V■ rk
Herald.
Hi'tifs Ititler Haggard's Crab*.
The I'aupack creek, in like county,
I'r.. is the dwelling place of u monster
more woudeiful than the sea serpent, if
on.' v n believe the storle< told by people
in the vicinity. They describe the beast
as having a head like au ape, and s uure
shoulders like a human be ng. From the
sliott ders of the crea ure there extend
legs, or arms, will It terminate in vreal
claws. The body of the monster, which
Is full) six feet in length, is of a redd sit
brown tint, very like that of a lizard, und
terminates in a tail like that of a fish.
The creature's body Is b re of any uover
lug. 1 ut about the head an I neck is u
mane of reddish hair. It is needless o
su.v that the county Is exe ted.
The Agricultural Class in litissia.
A Itussian writer of considerable emi
nonce asserts that in Itussia the agricul-
tural rhi*s constitutes $3 per ecu of the
utile population enual for Kuropeuu
ilus-la. exclusive of Finland and Poland,
to about ds,000,000 souls. I he tillers oi
the soil the morviks are of necessity,
therefore the chief fgutes in the social
and politli al li e of the stire, and they
must, tor all Interested in pollt es, be the
(trln e ob eet of study, observation and
investigation, The emancipation act of
sOl 11 terly failed to realize the expe ta-
tiou of its promoters. The great tieueiit
of he measure was purely moral, and the
bulk of the peasantry s in a condition uot
far remove.I from actual starvation
THE DAY OF RECKONING.
Rewards for the Dull as Well as
the Brilliant
Tha R r. Ta mage Discourses on the Parable
of the Ten Talents-Prepare for the Great
Dav-The Day When All Nations Are Lis-
tening for Their Doom.
Brooklyn, Not. 18.—At the Tabernacle
tbli morning the acclaim of the worshippers
iras very great as they joined In the opening
Doxology. Professor Browne rendered ex-
quisitely the organ solo, Sonata In C minor,
Kbeinberger. The pastor, the Rev. T. DeWitt
Talmnge, D. D., took for bis text: "Unto
one lie gave five talents, to another two, and
to another one; to every man according to
bis several ability." Matt. xxv. 15. lie said:
Many of the parables ot Jesus Christ were
more graphic In the times in which be lived
than they are now, because circumstances
tiave so much chaugcd. In olden times,
when a man wanted to wreak a grudge upon
bis neighbor, after the farmer bad scattered
the ieed wheat over the field and was expect-
ing the harvest, lis avenger would go across
the same field ' ti a sack full of the seed of
larnel grass, scattering that seed all over tue
Held, and of course It would sprout up aud
spoil the whole crop; and It was to that
Christ referred In the parable when he spoke
of the tares being sown urnong the wheat, lu
this bind our farms are feuced off, aud the
wolves have been driven to the mountains,
and we canuet fully understand the meaning
.>f the parable In regard to the shepherd aud
tbe lost sheep. Hut the parable from which I
-ipeak to-day Is founded on something we all
understand. It Is built on money, and that
meaus the same lu Jerusalem as in New
fork. It meaus tbe same to the serf as to
the czar, mid to the Chinese coolie as to the
emperor. Whether it is made out of bone or
brass, or Iron or copper, or gold or silver, it
•peaks all languages wilhout a stammer. The
parable of the text runs lu this vtlse; The
owner-'of a large estate was ubout to leave
liomc. aud lie itad some money that he wished
properly invested, and so he culled together
bis servants, and said;
"I ain guintc away now, and I wish you
would take this uioney aud put it to the very
best (lOsslble use, anil when 1 come back re-
tutu to me the interest." To one man be
L'ive tO,4UU, to others he gave lesser sums of
,thobt y; to tbe least he gave $1,88D. lie left
'home aud was gone for years, and tben re
turned. On his arrival be wus auxlous to
kuo.v about hts worldly affairs, aud he called
bis berv.iuts together to report to hlin. ''Let
me know," said he, "what you have been do-
ing with mv property since 1 have been gene,
'l'be man who had received the til, 400 came up
and said: "I have iuvested that motiev. 1
got good Interest for It. 1 have in other ways
rightly employed It; and here are $1S,8U0.
Vou see 1 have doubled what you gave me."
"That's very good," said the owner of the
estate; "that's grandly done. 1 aduiire your
faithfulness and Industry. I shall reward
you. Well done—well done." Other servants
came up wllb smaller accumulations. After
a while i see a man dragging himself along,
with hlB bead hanging. 1 know from the
way he comes In ibat ha Is a lazy fellow. He
comus up to |tbe owner of the estate and says:
"Here are those $1,88U." "Whatl" says the
owner of tbe property, "haven't you made It
accumulate anvthlugi" "Nothing — noth-
ing." "Why, what have you been about all
these years!" "Oh, I tvas afraid that If I Iu-
vested It, I might somehow lose It. There
are your $1,880." Many a mau started out
wltb only a crown in bis pocket, and achieved
a fortune; but this fellow of my text,
with ti 8.89, has gained not one far-
thing. Instead of confessing his Indo-
lence, he goes to work to berate his
master, for Indolence Is most always Impu-
dent and Impertinent. Of course, he loses
his place auil is discharged from the service.
The owner who went out into a far couutry Is
Jesus Christ going from earth to heaveu.
The servants spoken of In tlie text are mem-
bers of tbe Church. Tbe talents are our dif-
ferent ijualllflcattous of usefulness given in
different proportions to different people. The
coming back of tbe owner is tlie Lord Jesus
returulug at the judgment to make final set-
tlement. The raising of some of these men
to he rulers over Ave'or two cities, Is the ex-
altailou of the righteous at tbe last day,
while ihe casting out of the idler Is tbe ex-
pulsion of all those who have inlslmproved
their prlvillges.
Learn first from lliis subject, that becom-
ing a Christian iamerelv going out toservlce.
It you have auy romantic Idea about becom-
ing a Christian. I want now to scatter the
romance. If you enter iuio the kingdom of
(iod. It will be goiug into pbdti, practical,
honest, continuous, persistent Christian
work. I know there are a great mauy people
who have fantastic aud romantic notions
shout this Christian life, but be who serves
<jod with all tbe ruergles of body, mlud, and
soul Is a wertby servant, and be who does
not Is au unworthy servsnt. VV'beu the war
trumpet sounds, all the laird's soldiers must,
march, however deep the snow inay be, or
however fearful tbe odds against' them.
Under our government we may have colonels,
and captains, aud generals in time of peace,
tiut iu tbe Church of God there is no
peace uutll tbe lust great victory shall have
been achieved. But I have to tell you it Is a
voluutary service. People are not brought
Into ll as slaves were drugged from Africa. A
vouug mau goes to an artisun, aud ssys:
"Sir, I want to learu your trad*. 1
by this indenture, yield myself to your care
slid service for tbe next four, or five, or seven
years. I wuut you 10 be my master, and I
want to be your scrvaul." Just so, if wc
come Into tbe kingdom ot Clod at all, we
mutt couie, saying to Christ: "Be thou my
master. I take Thy service for time and for
eternity. 1 choose U." It Is a voluntary serv-
ice. There is 110 drudgery in it- In our
worldly callings sometimes our uerves get
worn lint, and our bead aches, and our phys-
ical faculties break down; but tu this service
of the l.ord Jesus, the tinnier a man works
tbe better tie likes it. aud a man iu this au-
dleuce who has been for forty years servluir
Uod, en ion tbe employment better than
when tie first entered It. Tbe grandest bouor
that can ever be bestowed upon you, is to
have Christ say to you ou tbe last day: "Well
done, good and faithful servant!"
Learn also from this parable that different
qualifications are given to different people.
The teacher I ft* a blackboard, aud be draws
a diagram, in order that by that diagram he
may impress tbe mlud of tlie pupil with tbe
truth that lie lias been uttering. Aud all the
truths of this Bible arc drawn out lu the nat
Ural world ns lu a great diagram. Here is au
sere ot ground that lias ten talents. Under
little culture, It yields twenty bushels of
wheat to the acre. Here Is another piece of
grouitd that bus only one talent. Vou may
plow U, and harrow It, and culture It, year
after year, hut it yields a mere pittance. 80
here la a man wllb ten talents iu the wav of
getting good aud dolug good. He soou, tin
tier Christian culture, yields greater harvests
of truth and good work. Here is another
man who seems to have ouly oue
talent, aud you may put upoit h:tn
lite greatest spiritual culture, but he
yields but little of the fruits of
righteousness You are to understand that
there are different qualifications for different
Individuals. There is 11 great deal of ruinous
comparison when a man savs: "Oh, If 1 ouly
luid that man's faith, or that man's money,
or that man's eloquence, ho>v 1 would serve
! (iod." Better take the faculty that God has
given you and employ It In the right wav. The
rabbis used to sav, tout before the stone and
Umber were brought to Jerusalem for the
Temple every stone and piece of timber was
marked; so that before they started for Jeru-
salem, the architects knew in what place that
particular piece of timber or stone should tit.
And so I have to tell you we are all marked
for some one place in the great temple of tlie
Lord, and do not let us complain, saving: "1
would like to be the foundation stone or tbe
capstone." Let us go luto the verv place
where God Intends ns to be. and be satisfied
with tbe position. Your talent mav ne In
personal appearance; your talent may be in
large worldly estate; your talent mav h in
blgh social position; your talent may lie In
a swift peu or eloquent tongue; but whatever
De the talent, It has been given only for one
purposs—practical use You sometimes find
1 man la the community of whom vou say:
"He bssno talent at si1;" snd vet that man
may have a hundred talents. Hia oae Hun-
dred talents may bo iihown In the Item of en-
durance. poverty comes, aud be endures it;
persecution cobles, aud be endures It; sick-
ness comes, and be endures It. Before men
and augels he Is a specimen of' Christian pa-
tience. and is rea ly Illustrating tbe power of
Christ's Gospel, aud is doing us much for tbe
Church, and more tortile Church, than mauy
more positively active. If von have oue talent,
use that; If you have ten talents, use them,
satisfied with tbe fact that we all have differ-
ent qualifications, aud that tbe Lord decides
whether we shall have one or whether we
shall have ten.
I leuru also from this parable that tbe grace
of God waa Intended to be accumulative.
Wbeu God plants an acorn. He meaus an oak,
and when be plants a small amount of graco
In tbe heart, He intends It lo be growthful
and enlarge until it overshadows the whole
nature. There are parents who, at tbe birth
of each child, lav aside a certain amount of
money, Investing It, expecting by accumula-
tion anil by compouud Interest, tbat by tbe
time tbe child snail come to mid life, this
small amount of monev will roll up iulo a
vast accumulation. Well, God sets aside a
certain amount of grace for each one of Hts
spiritual cbildren at his blrtb, and It Is to go
on, aud, as by compound Interest,'accumu-
late, until It shall become an eterual fortune.
Can It be possible that you have been ac-
quainted with the Lord Jesus for ten, twenty,
thirty yeurs, and that you do nod love Him
more now than you ever did bcforel Can It
be that vou have been cultured In the Lord's
vineyard, and that Christ finds on you noth-
ing but sour grapes! You may depend upon
it, if you do uot use the taleut tbat God gave
vou, It will dwiudle. Tbe rill tbat breaks
from the hillside will either widen luto a river
or dry up. The brightest day started In tbe
dim twilight. Tbo strongest Christian man
was once a weak Christian. T.ike the one
talent, and make it two; take five aud make
tbem ten; t ke teu aud make them twenty.
Tbe grace of God was luteuded to be very a'
cumulative.
Again: I learn from the text that Inferior-
ity of gifts Is no excuse for indolence. Tbls
man, wltb the smallest amount of
money, came growling into tbe presence
ot tlie owner of the estate, as much as
to say: "If you bad given me $D 4DU 1 would
have brought $18,8 id as well us tbls other
man. You gave me only $1,881), anil 1 hardly
thought it was worth while to use It at all.
So I hhl it lu a napkin, and it produced no re-
sult. It's because you didn't give mo
enough." But Inferiority of faculties Is no
excuse for Indolence. Lot me say to the man
who has the least qualifications, by tbe grace
of God bo may be made almost omnipotent.
Tbe merchant, whose cargoes come out from
everv island of the sea, and who, by one
stroke of tbe pen, can change tbe wliote face
of American commerce, tins not so much pow-
er as you may have before God, In earnest,
faithful and continuous prayer. You sav vou
have no faculty. I)o you not understand that
you might this afternoou go In to your place ot
prayer, and kneel before God, and briug down
upon your soul, aud the souls of others, a
blessing so vast that it would take eternal
ages to compute it? 'Ob," you sav, "I
haven't fleetnesa of'speech. I can'ttalk well.
I can't utter what 1 wuut lo say." Mv broth-
er, can you not quote one passage of Scripture I
Then, take that oue passage of Scripture;
carrv It with you everywhere; quote it under
•71th
. . . iy
souls for God. I am glad that tbe chief work
all proper circumstances. With that one pas-
sage of Scripture you mav hurvest a thousand
of the Church In thlsdav is belug doue by the
men of one taleut. Once iu a while, when a
great fortress is to bo tuken, God will bring
out a great field-piece and rake all wltb the
fiery ball of destruction. But common mus-
kets do most of tbe bard fighting. It took
only one Joshua, and the thousands of com-
mon troops under blm, to drive down the
walls of cities, and, under wrathful strokes,
to make nations fly like sparks from tbe
auvil. It only took one Luther for Ger-
many, oue Zwlngllus for Switzerland,
oue John Knox for Scotland, 0110 Calvin
for France, and one John Wesley for England.
Dorcas as Certainly bus a mission to serve as
Paul has a mission to preach. The two mites
dropped hy tbe widow. Into tbe poor-box will
lie as much applauded us the endowment of a
college, which ftels a man's name into tbe
newspapers. The man who kindled tbe tire
under the burnt offering in tbe ancient tem-
nle had a duty as Imperative us that ot tbo
high priest, lu magnificent robes, walking In-
to the Holy of lloliea under the cloud of
Jehovah's presence. Yes, the men with ono
talent are to save tbo world, or Unit it will
never be saved at all. The men wltb five or
ten talents are tempted to toil chielly for
themselves, lo build up tbclr own great name,
and work lor their own aggrandisement, and
do nothing for the alleviation ot the world's
woea The cedar of Lebanon standing on
the mountain seems to hand down the storms
out of the heavens lo tbe earth, but it bears
110 fruit, while some dwarf pear tree has
more fruit on its branches than it can carrv.
Belter to have one talent und put it to fu^
use than five hundred wickedly neglected.
My subject teaches me tbul there Is going
to come u day of solemn settlement. When
the old farmer of the text got home, ho Im-
mediately culled nil tbe servunts about biro
aud said: "Here is tbe Utile account 1 have
been keeping. I waut to see your account,
aud we will first compare them; and I'll pav
you what I owe you. and you'll pav me whut
you owe me. Let us Ituve u settlement." The
day will come when the Lord Jesus (Jurist
will appeur, and will say to you: "Whut
have vou beeu doing wltb my property? What
have you been doing with my faculties? What
have you been doing" with what I
fnve you for accumlutlve purposes?
bere will be 110 escape from that settle-
ment. Sometimes you cannot get a settle-
meut with a man, especially If he owes you.
lie postpones and procrastinates, and savs:
• I'll see you next week," or "I'll see you
next mouth." Tlie fact Is. he does uot want
to settle. But when the great day cotnes of
which I am speaking, there will bo no esc.ipc.
We will huve to face all the bills. I have
sometimes been amazed to see how an ac-
countant will ruu up or down a long line of
figures. If I see ten or fifteen figures In a
line, aud 1 attempt to ndd them up, aud 1 add
tbem two or three times, I make them differ-
ent each time. But I have admired the way
an accountant w II take a long line of figures,
aad without a single mistake^ and wltb great
celerity, announce the aggregate. Now, In
the lust great settlement, there will lie a cor-
rect account presented. God has kept a long
Hue ot sins, a long line of broken Sabbaths, a
long line of profane word', a long line of dis-
carded sacrameuts, a loug line of intslinproveil
privilege*. They will all be added up, and
before angels, and devils, and men, the ng.
irregate will be announced. Oil, that will be
Ute great day of settlement. I have to ask
tbe Question: "Ant 1 ready for iti" It is of
more Importance for tno to answer
that question in regard to myself than iu re-
tard to you; ami It, is of tuore importunoe for
you lo answer that question lu regard to
yourself than tit regard to me. Evert man
for himself in that duv. Kverv woman for
herself 111 tliat dav. "II thou tie wine, thou
ahail be vtlse for thvseif; if thou tcornest,
tltoti alone sliait bear it." Wo ure apt. to
speak of the last duv as an occasion of vo-
ciferation—a great demonstration of power
•nil pomp; but there will be on that dav, I
think, a few motnen s of entire silence.
I think a tremendous, alt over-
whelming slteuee. I think it will be such 11
silence us the on1 tli never hoard. It will he
ut the moment when till nations are llsteuite/
for their doom.
I learn ulso from this parable of the tl x
that our degrees of happiness In heaveu will
be graduated ceordtug to our degrees of use-
fulness on earth. Several of the commenta-
tors agree lu making this parable the same
one tis In Luke, where one man was made
ruler over live cities and another made ruler
over two Cities. Would It be Tu.rand right that
the professed Christian man who has I ved
verv near Ihe lino between I he world and the
Church—th' man who tins often compromised
his Christian character—the man who has
never spoken out f ir God—the man who lias
never been known us a Christian only on
communion days—Ihe matt vvho«e great strug-
gle lias been to see how much of tlie world
lie could get and vet win heaven—Is It right
to supt ose that that titan will h ive as grand
and glorious a seat In heaven as the man who
gave all his energies of body, mind, and
soul to the service of liodi The dying thief
entered heaven, lull no' with the same
startling acclaim us Ih it which greeted 1'itiil
who hail gone under scorcltlugs, and across
dungeons, and through maltreatments into
tlie kingdom or glory. One star differs from
another mar lu glorv, und lliev who toil
1111 -11111 > for Clirlit ou ear'h shall have it fir
greater reward than tlione alio have rendered
only half a service.
Some of rou are hastening on
toward the regard of tbe righteous.
I want to cheer vou up at the
thought that there will be some kind of a re-
ward waiting for vou. There are Christian
people lu this house who are very near heav-' A
en. . This week some of .vou may pass out
Into ihe light or the uusettiug suu. I saw «
blind mutt going along the road wllb bis
Stag, and lie kept pounding the eurth and
then stamping with his foot. I said to him:
"What do vou do tbat for?" "Ob," bo said. V
"I can tell by the sound of tbe ground wbeu*
I am near a dwelling." And some of vou
cau tell by tbe sound of your earthly path-
wav that you are coming near to vour father's
bouse. I congratulate you. Oh, weather-
beaten vovagers, the storms are driving you
tnto the harbor. Just us when you were
looking for a Irlend, you cuine up to tbe gate
of Ills bouse, and you were talking with Ibe
servant, when your friend hoisted Ihe win-
dow uud sbouiel: "Come in! come In!"
Just so, wbeu you come to tbe gale of the
1111 ure world, aiid you are 'allcing wltb death,
tbe black porter at tbe gate, methiuks Christ
will hoist the wludow and say: "Comelul
come In I I will make thee ruler over ten
cities" Iu anticipation of that land I do
not wonder that Augustus Topladv. the
author of "Koek of Ages," declared In bis
lust moment: "I huve nothing more to pruy
for; God has given me everything. Surelv
no man can live on enrlh after tbe glories I,
have witnessed." Ob. my brothers and al-
ters,' how sweet It will .be. after tbo long
wilderness march, to get homo. Tbat was a
bright moment for tbe tired dove In the time
of tbe Deluge when It fouud its way safely
Into the window ot the ark.
What Victoria iu Worth,
There wits a rumor recently afloat
in London, sttys a'London letter, to
the effect that an increased allowance
would be naked for on behalf of the
prince of Wales titul his family during
tlie Nosaion
If it proves true the proposal will an-'
doubtoitly receive severuf black eyes.
Economists argue that there is no call
lor this additional expense. Tlie queen
lias an annuity drawn from tlie con-
sol dated fund of $1,925,000, which is
especially allotted to meet those ex<
penses connected wiLli her high posi-
tion, the partial weight of which has
been transferred to the heir apparent,
lint tbat is only a portion of the enor-
mous income which good fortune niul
frugal habits have placed at the dispo-
.stil of the head of the royal funiilv.
The new Domesday Hook discloses the
fact that the queen's private estates
exend over 37,372 acres, the aiinnai
rental, even at at the lately depreci-
ated prices, being $130,655. Somo
years ago her majesty, acting under
the advice of Lord Sydney, purchased
the Claremont estate for tlie sum of
$300.000,estimated at the time as being
ajlittle over half its market value. It is
said to be worth to-day at least $750,-
000.
The queen also possesses property
al Coburg and the villa Hohenloue at
Baden. As to personal property, there
was the bequest of a quarter of "a mil-
lion left to her majesty by Sir James
Camden Neiitl. This will was proved
in 1852, and the bequest must now
have reached magjiilicent proportions.
Then there was the property left by the
prince consort,estimated to have reach-
ed nearly $3,000,000, but as this will
was never provud and so escaped
bate duty, the exact amount is
known. These items tire over
above the queen's annual savings,
aggregate monev sum at her majesty's
disposal for family purposes would
hence appear to be at the lowest
computation, such as rentiers unneces-
sary national solicitude on the subject,
Tlie prince of Wales will hardly get
tlie now allowance under those cir-
cumstances.
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pro
not
and
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Good ami I'li'l I u4e.
Don't put your initials or your name
over everything you possess, so that
people who pick up u fork or look ut a
pillow sham will read "John Brown,
my property." It's all right to mark
things of use in some such way, but
not things of beauty. 11 ml if you must
so mark them make the letters small
and pui tlietu 011 the hack of the object,
not the front. Tiie woniuu who wears
Iter initials in diamonds on n brooch is
vulgar. The mau who prints his mon-
ogram on his china docs u useless
thing, for nobody's going to run away
with his dishes. Don't assort loo much
tit ihe table. l)or,'t be too showy and
complex. Don't make your napkin
rings too emphatic anil obtrusive. Puli
flowers on the table, but place tllf Jf
loosel, or iu a glass, for if you put
tlieni in china or any other opaque
substance you conceal half their beauty
—namely tbe r stems. Don't entirely
cover your wall vvitli pictures ind when
you huve a picture don't let the shop-
keeper kill it with a big gold frame.
Try brony.o or something that will re-
late to the picture on the wall and not
make it stand out like a big shiny spot
of color and gilt gingerbread. — Decu-
rntor mill Fit rni* lm
1
Franking With Rubber Stamps.
"Speaking about forgiug the frank
of a senator," said a layyer the other
day to a reporter, "brings to my re-
collection the occurrence that gave
rise to the use of the rubber hand stamp
for this purpose. The question as to
tlie use of the fac simile in rubber,
where it expressly stated that hand-
writing is necessary, was lirst raised
by the assistant secretary of the inter-
ior and the pension office when the
point at issue was a batch of pension
claims wherein the signatures were
made by stamp. When Secretary
Daniel Manning was stricken with
paralysis ho had a rubber stamp made
with wh ch till his correspondence and
mauv public documents were signed.
The same legal <j tost on was raised as
to Mr. Manning s right to use the
stamp, and 11 was decided in both in-
stances 1h.1L only iu eoi iaiu cases and
certain classes of papers specilied
could it lie used. However, last year
Postmaster (I -110nil Dickinson decided
that the use of such a stamp was a
suflicicnt compliance with the law in*
the case of printed pap- r such as the*
Congressional Itecord ni all bills of
the House, but for 110 other purpose.
'•A practice lias grown up of per-
mitting a congressman or senator to
designate any person to s gn the docu-
ments, but only when power of attor-
ney has been given, ns the custom as
now established is that anv clerk eau
frank papers by using the congress-
man's stamp. But there is no law to
punish the unauthorized use of such a
stamp, it is a question whether, were
a person placed 011 trial for forgery iu
such a case, lie could be convicted.''—
.\eio York Ma I und tlxfesx.
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