ittle returned with the provos

N all." He was also a person of the utmost gravity, and scarce smiled
at any thing. Once when Mr. William Guthrie being exceeding merry,
made Mr. Durham smile with his pleasant,
facetious and harmless conversation,
at which Mr. Durham was at first a little disgusted, but it being the
laudable custom of that family

to pray
after dinner, which Mr. Guthrie did, upon being desired, with the
greatest measure of seriousness and fervency, to the astonishment of
all present: when they arose from prayer, Mr. Durham embraced him and
said, "O William, you are a happy man, if I had been so merry as you
have been, I could not have been in such a serious frame for prayer
for the space of forty-eight hours." As Mr. Durham was devout

in all parts of his ministerial work,
so more eminently at communion

occasions. Then he endeavoured through grace to rouse and work
up himself to such a divineness of frame, as very much suited the
spiritual state and majesty of that ordinance. Yea, at some of these
solemn and sweet occasions, he spoke some way
as a man that had been in heaven commending Jesus Christ, making a
glorious display of free grace,
&c. and brought the offers thereof so low that they were made to think
the rope or cord of the salvation offered, was let down to sinners,
that those of the
lowest stature might catch hold of it. He gave himself much
up to meditation, and usually said little to

persons that came to propose their cases to him, but heard them
patiently, and was sure to handle their case in his sermons.
His healing disposition and great moderation of spirit remarkably
appeared when this church was grievously divided betwixt the
resolutioners and protestors; and as he would never give his judgment
upon either side, so he used to
say, That division was worse by far than either of the side

urve i

Me players who don't know how to drop their bats and get away from the
plate. Some stand until they see whether the hit is safe, and they run
to first with

the head twisted around to watch the ball. The
instant the ball is hit, no matter where it goes, the batter should drop
the bat and start
for the base; leaving the ball to take care of itself, he should put
down his head and run, looking neither to the right nor the left. Every
foot gained may be of vital importance, for in most cases the runner is
thrown out by the distance of only a few feet. Some runners make a
mistake
in jumping for the base with the
last step. It not only loses time but makes the decision so plain to the
umpire that the runner fails to receive his fair share of benefit from
close plays. A runner to first on a base hit or fly to the outfield
should always turn first base and lead
well down toward second, so that if the ball is fumbled or handled
slowly or missed, he may be able to reach second.
And by hurrying

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ight years had not tasted th

Er work, and a smile of peace and happiness upon her lips. The boy
believed that it was the arrival of his four little black things
which had worked this miracle, and I do not think he was mistaken.
Without the crickets, and his good little heart, would this happy
change have taken place in his mother's fortunes? _From the French of
Pierre J. Hetzel._ * * * * * Jacques (zh[:a]k), James. In the
selection, find
ten sentences that ask questions, and five that express commands or
requests.
What mark of punctuation always follows the first kind? The second?
Memorize: In
the evening I sit near my poker and tongs, And I dream in the
firelight's glow, And sometimes I quaver forgotten old songs That I
listened to long ago. Then out of the cinders there cometh a chirp
Like an echoing, answering cry,-- Little we care for the outside
world, My friend the cricket, and I. For my cricket has learnt, I am
sure
of it quite, That this earth is a silly, strange place, And perhaps
he's been beaten and

hurt in the fight, And perhaps
he's been passed in the race. But I know he has found it far better
to sing Than to talk of ill luck and to sigh,-- Little we care for
the outside world, My friend the cricket, and I. * * * * * _34_ For
Recitation: OUR HEROES. Here's a hand to the boy who has courage To
do what he knows to be right; When he falls in the way of temptation
He has a hard battle to fight. Who strives against self and

and gesticulat

and the first rays of returning sunlight stream through
the parting clouds. Some days have elapsed, and in those days the
temples have yielded all their wealth; the conquered Romans
have bribed the triumphant barbarians to mercy; the ransom
of the fallen city has been paid. The Gothic army is still encamped
round the walls, but the gates are opened, markets for food are
established in the suburbs, boats appear on the
river and waggons on the highroads, laden with provisions, and
proceeding towards Rome.
All the hidden treasure kept back by the citizens is
now bartered for food; the merchants who
hold the market reap a rich harvest of spoil, but the hungry are
filled,
the weak are revived, every one is content. It is the end of the second
day since the free sale of provisions
and the liberty of egress from the city have
been permitted by the Goths. The gates are closed
for the night, and the people are quietly returning, laden with their
supplies of food, to their homes. Their eyes no longer encounter the
terrible traces

of the march of pestilence and famine through every street; the corpse

are as young and

T moral and religious improvement, not by standing off and clapping
their hands, but by going

into his churches and into his pulpits, showing him the "light and the
way"

not only by precept but example as well. Can't do it, do you say? Then
take your religion and
cast it to the dogs, for it is a living lie; it

comes not from God but from Beelzebub the Prince of Darkness. A
religion that divides Christians

is unadulterated paganism; a minister that
will not preach the Gospel to sinner

conf

Natural calm was more pitiful than any outburst of grief
could have been, and an immeasurable compassion spoke in the priest's
voice as he told the story of Philippe's death. "He was hiding in the
deserted hut in Planter's Wood (you know the spot, Cecile) and they
discovered his place of concealment. They had been following after him
for days but he thought he would be safe there and

could come out at night and procure food from you. There was a short,
sharp struggle in which he received a mortal wound. Doctors were sent
for; I, too, was summoned. Thank God, he was conscious up to the very
last and I arrived in time to

reconcile him with the Master whose love he had outraged, whose
commands he had broken. His end was very quiet and peaceful, he simply
closed his eyes and fell asleep as a little baby might. "But we must
not stand here talking, my child. We have a duty to perform, you and I,
and we must be brave and perform that duty
at once, difficult though it may be. Where is your mother, Cecile? She
will have to be told before--before they arrive. I came on ahead for
that very purpose." "We cannot tell

her, Father, we cannot. It will kill her." "We _must_ tell her; it will
be impossible to hide it. Take me to her and we will tell her together.
God will be with us and will help
us, my child." "Oh! if God would only spare her, if He would only spare
her! If He would only open a way so we need
not tell her!" Her brain was in a whirl as she mounted the stairs; she
was stunned,

broken. Of one thing only was she perfectly conscious. Philippe was
coming and his moth

Pany of Chicago Knights of Labor, who "have

LE] SUPERFICIAL CRITICISM. A RESPONSE TO MISS ELIZABETH STUART
PHELPS. The publication in the Chicago _Inter-Ocean_ of two columns
of sharp criticism

on the spiritual movement by Miss Phelps, which were widely
republished, induced the editor to
send the following reply to the _Inter-Ocean_,
which was duly published. BOSTON, MASS., Jan. 23. The rhetorically
eloquent essay of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
on spiritualism
has been read by

the undersigned with that peculiar pleasure with which we witness an
intellectual
or psychic _tour de force_ which produces singular results. It is
quite an able production, for the ability of an advocate is measured
by his capacity to make that which is obviously absurd appear quite
rational, and to give to that which is intrinsically small or mean an
air of refined dignity. Divested of its dignified and delusive
rhetoric, what does the lady say or mean in plain, homely English?
She says
that "cultivated thought" has a "slippery surface" on which
spiritualism has made "a clutch," and
that it has lately made an "encroachment upon scientific attention,"
so that psychical societies of distinguished
men are "busying themselves;" also that spiritualism must be "made
subject to the laws of common

sense" and controlled
by "common integrity," and if this truth "is at last materializing
before the consciousness of the believers in

spiritualistic phenomena some good may come of it." That a certain
style
of "cultivated thought" familiar in Boston has a "slippery surface"
on which neither religion nor philosophy makes much impression,
cannot be denied, and that it is only lately (as she says) that
psychical societies of more or less distinguished men have a

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