Earlier text: WOMEN AS TEACHERS"Court sits to-morrow," said farmer Campbell, one pleasant evening in early spring, to his son Thomas, a bright, sturdy lad of fourteen. "I am on that jury, you know, and shall have to be away from home for a week at least. Henry Greaves is coming here to work while I am gone, and if he does well, I shall hire him for the season. I shall leave everything in your care, however, and I know I can trust you to have the pasture fences put thoroughly in order, and to turn out the cattle, sheep and colts, as soon as there is sufficient feed for them. You understand all about the chores as well as I do myself; and I shall go away feeling thankful that I have a son who is trusty and capable of seeing to my affairs in my absence." "The charge of this large farm, and the little jobs to be done upon it at this time of the year, seems a good deal to put upon a lad like you," said Henry Greaves to Thomas Campbell, the next morning after Mr. Campbell's departure for the shire town. The two boys were walking up through the pleasant chestnut woods toward the mountain pastures, to look after the fences there; Henry, a bold, dashing, bushy-haired youth, carrying an axe and a gun, and Thomas stepping alongside with an axe and a pail. "I suppose you are used to hard work," went on Henry; "I overheard your grandfather tell your father, night before last, not to forget that you was a boy." "Oh, I have never had to work hard," said Thomas, laughing, and not knowing whether to be vexed or amused. "As farming is to be my business, father thinks I ought to know how and when to do things. He says there is just as much need of intelligent farmers as there is of intelligent lawyers and docters; so he takes pains to have me understand all the 'whys and wherefores,' as he says. He leaves me in charge, to be sure, when he goes away, but I am not obliged to work hard enough to hurt me." "Well, perhaps your grandfather thought the responsibility was too much for you; anyway he said, 'Remember what I tell you, my son, a boy is a boy,' and your father laughed, and said he, 'I'll risk Thomas.' It struck me as being a little hard-hearted. I shouldn't like it much if I were you to have him sitting in his cushioned arm chair up there at the court-house, and eating his nice hotel dinners, while you are here with this great farm on your hands to look after." "I like the farm and all its machinery," replied Thomas lightly; "and father would much rather be at home than to be where he is; but every citizen has duties, you know; I wonder what he would say to us taking a gun along when we are going to our work?" "Ha! ha!" laughed Henry. "I reckon he wouldn't like it much, and I didn't know but your mother would object to it; so I put the gun out of the window upon the roof of the shed, and climbed up there and got it. It's lucky for me that my window opens upon that flat roof. I can go in and out there any time—when I want to be on the sly. I thought it was best to have a gun along with us; we might have a chance to kill an Indian, or a bear on the mountain. The woods here, and the mountain up yonder, remind me of a book I am reading--about two such boys as you and I," said Henry, quickly turning the conversation away from the gun. "Is that so? What did they do? Tell me all about it as we walk along," said Thomas eagerly, with the average boy's love of a story. "Oh, they got so tired of working and grubbing on an old farm, that they run away from home and had great fun living by themselves in a sort of cave up on the side of the mountain," replied Henry, casting occasional glances at his companion to see how he was affected by the narrative. "They used to roam about the country, with their guns and fishing rods; and when the girls in the farm houses caught glimpses of them in their scarlet shirts, with fox's tails and bright bird's wings in their hats, they always fell in love with them. The boys milked the cows in the pastures at the foot of the mountain, and when the dairy maids could get no milk, they were frightened and said there were witches about. On moonlight nights these fellows had the greatest fun riding far and near over the country on unbroken colts, which they took from the mountain pastures. They often got up splendid dinners of game and fish—hallo! there's a partridge! hold my axe!" and quickly drawing the gun to his shoulder and firing, the pretty bird fell dead. "We might have roast bird for dinner if we only had some salt," went on Henry, as he picked up his game. "Oh, there's salt in the dinner-pail, that mother put in for us to eat on our boiled eggs, but we shall have no time to cook a game dinner and mend our fences at the same time," replied Thomas, half regretfully. "Oh, well, what of that? let the old fence go to-day; there's plenty more days coming. You have never had any fun in all your life, poor fellow! I intend to teach you how to enjoy life. How jolly it would be if there were only some place that seemed like a cave where we could go." "There is," said Thomas. "I was thinking about it when you were telling about the boys in the book. We call it the Old Mine. It's a place where a company once commenced working for iron ore, but there was not enough of it to pay the expenses." "Splendid!" exclaimed Henry. "Let's go and see it, and perhaps we can fix it up and come up here and camp out sometimes; at least we can have fun about it, and when we come up to salt the cattle we can go in and eat our dinners and pretend that we are the 'Boy Outlaws of Moose Mountain.' I have got that book in my hip pocket, and two or three other ones besides, and we can read after our fire is made, while our bird is cooking." "All right," said Thomas, with a look on his face as if it were not all right, at all, but as if he lacked the will to say so to his bolder and more daring companion. "It is up here, just up here a little way. This is the path, along by the brook;" and sure enough, he soon ushered his companion into quite a pretty, romantic little room, behind a big rock on the mountain side. Henry fairly shook with delight when he saw it. "It is better than anything I ever thought of finding," he said. "We will make us a bed of hemlock boughs over in that corner, and 'hook' some blankets down at the house, along with a good many other things—dishes, you know, and things that we shall need. We might manage to lose our dinner-pail to-day," he added with a laugh; "It would be just the thing to milk in, and Esquire Taylor's cows are near by. Now let us fly around and kindle a fire," and he began to hew large chips from a fallen log, while Thomas scraped together dry pine cones and needles, and carried them into a niche in the rock which Henry declared, with much enthusiasm, must have been intended for a fire-place; he knelt down beside it now, and taking a card of matches from his vest pocket, he lighted one after another, until the last one was gone without succeeding in making a blaze among the accumulated kindlings. Very angry at his non-success, he began to curse and to swear in a way that very much surprised and really frightened his companion. "There are some sparks here, among the leaves," said Thomas, kneeling down in the place which Henry had left; "let me take your powder flask." Henry tossed it to him, and ran out to look for some bits of birch bark. Just then there came a flash, then an explosion, and poor Thomas was rolling down the cliff, at the foot of which Henry picked him up for dead and carried him a little distance, to a rushing mountain brook. An hour later, as Mrs. Campbell was singing her baby to sleep, the kitchen door opened, soft footsteps rapidly crossed the floor, and a low, suppressed voice behind her easy chair said:— "Don't cry, mamma, I don't think I shall die." Turning hastily, a sight confronted her vision which sent all the blood from her face to her heart; but the need for immediate action prevented her from yielding to the sensation of faintness that came over her. Her idolized son stood shrinking before her, with a mere fragment of his pantaloons clinging to him, the only vestige of clothing on his poor burnt person. There were shreds of skin hanging from his blackened face, arms, and hands; the blood was running from his legs and feet, and he was writhing with pain. Mrs. Campbell didn't stop to ask questions. She laid the baby on the bed, and took a freshly ironed sheet from the clothes frame, shook it out and laid it in the large, broad, old-fashioned cradle, which the hired girl had just made ready for the sleeping infant. Then the quick-minded, swift-handed mother poured a vessel of pumpkin, which she had prepared for pies, into the cradle, and tenderly laid her son down in the cool mass. She then completely covered him with molasses and lard, and white wheat flour from the baking table, which stood just at hand, and wrapped him carefully with the linen sheet, thus effectually shutting out the air from the wounded parts. There was quite a gathering in the big farmhouse sitting-room that evening when Mr. Campbell, for whom a messenger was sent, arrived home. "I advised you not to hire that Greaves fellow," said grandfather Campbell to his son. "I told you that he was poison clear through—round all the time with his pocket full of novels and boys' trashy periodicals; and I told you a boy was a boy, but you wouldn't listen to me." "I think it was best for it all to happen just as it did," came in a plaintive voice from the mass of pumpkin, molasses, flour and linen in the cradle. "I don't know what I might have been led to if it hadn't." "That is it," said grandmother. "Well may we pray, 'lead us not into temptation;' and let us all pray, too, for strength to withstand temptation when it comes to us in any form." Thomas recovered after a long time, but he will always carry on his hands and face the scars and powder stains received that day in the cave on the mountain side. But he has over and over thanked God that his evil associations were so early and summarily cut off, else there would have been left ineffaceable scars and stains upon his heart.—Presbyterian Witness. THERE died lately in a western State a blind brush-maker, whose story is worth telling, for the truth it illustrates and the practical lesson it conveys. At the age of eighteen John B—— was a bright, ambitious, hopeful student in an Ohio college. His parents being poor, he worked on the farm in summer to pay for his winter's schooling. He was an earnest follower of Christ, and it was his intention to become a missionary, and he hoped to go into the field in Africa, his attention having been drawn to that field of Christian labor. A violent attack of fever destroyed his health, and left him with a disease of the eyes, which in a year's time left him stone-blind. Whatever the boy suffered in this destruction of all his earthly hopes, he kept to himself. He was outwardly the same cheerful, light-hearted fellow. As soon as he had gained strength, he began to learn brush-making, and supported himself by that trade. A year after he was established at it, he began to gather into his little shop on Sundays the boys whom he found on the river wharves, to teach and to talk to them. This work he continued for thirty years, until the time of his death. He had a peculiar aptitude for interesting lads, and the experience of his own life gave a force and pungency to his appeals which they would have lacked coming from happier men.71But he was in the habit of regarding his life's work as utterly destroyed by his misfortune. "God," he would say, "perhaps will allow me to be of some use hereafter. I can not see that I have done anything here." When he died, a letter came from one of the most influential and wisest statesmen of our country; a man whose strength has urged many a reform which has helped to elevate and civilize the nation. "Whatever I am," he said, "and whatever I have done, I owe, under God, to John B——. It was he who took me out of the slough and made a man of me." Let no boy who reads this be discouraged by any circumstance, however hard. If God forbids you to plant an oak, plant an herb. It is He who will give the increase, and only the future can tell how great the harvest will be. "Do thou thy work: it shall succeed
In thine or in another's day,
And if denied the victor's meed,
Thou shall not miss the toiler's pay." The Home Circle.
By Prince Georgian
A STRANGER to the subtle guile
That makes deceit beneath a smile,
Assumed to silence and betray,
His acts and deeds are but, in sooth,
The witness to the simple truth
Of all that he may think or say. He scorns the arts of base pretence,
Nor seeks to mystify the sense
With nice decisions, dimly seen;
But docile to receive the light,
He shuns the wrong, pursues the right,
And makes no compromise between. He asks not whether praise or blame
Awaits to honor or defame,
For what his conscience may propose;
But faithful to his chosen course,
He presses on with tireless force,
Nor heeds the clamors that oppose. He scans the motives that inspire
The hidden springs of strong desire,
Their true intent to ascertain;
If right to others they deny,
Or good or selfish ends apply,
He stamps them out with deep disdain. E'en as the sun, with changeless ray,
Illumes the scenes of passing day,
So he, thro' his allotted span,
Throws on the shifting ways of time
The radiance of a worth sublime,
That dignifies the name of man!
—Prince Georgian. —Oakland has a branch Land League. —The public schools of the United States cost $80,529,000 a year. —The king of Ashantee has declared another war against England. —A Sunday-school is to be formed in New York for the study of politics. —Thomas Carlyle, the most prolific of British essayists, died Tuesday, Feb. 5. —The severest rain-storm ever experienced in Utah, was reported last Saturday. —Telegraphic communication between Mexico and the United States is soon to be opened. —Seven hundred of Sitting Bull's band have now surrendered, and his power for mischief is broken. —San Francisco is receiving a visit from the king of the Cannibal Islands, who is on a tour of the world. —The rainfall at Shasta has been over forty inches since Jan. 25, and over ninety inches for the season. —A "regular blizzard" is reported from Ottawa, Kansas, Feb. 2, with the thermometer twenty degrees below zero. —From forty to fifty thousand men and boys are idle in Lancashire, England, owing to the universal strike of the colliers. —Severe cold prevails throughout Mexico, and it is reported that several persons have been frozen to death at Pueblo and Matamoras. —The success of the conservative Republicans in France means that the people sustain the government in enforcing the laws against the Jesuits. —The loan of sixty million dollars which Greece has succeeded in securing, is to be spent entirely on the armament and mobilization of its national force. —The consolidation of the Western Union, American Union, and Atlantic and Pacific telegraph companies, has been effected and officially announced. —There are thirty Egyptian obelisks scattered throughout Europe at the present time. Rome has eleven, four of which are higher than the one in New York. —The population of the United States and Territories is declared by the Superintendent of the census to be 50,152,866, and that of the States alone to be 49,369,595. —Over fifty employes have been discharged since Campbell accepted the office of Comptroller of New York City, making a saving on the salary list of fifty thousand dollars. —Feb. 6, a Portland, Oregon, dispatch stated that the Willamette river was twenty-three feet above low water mark, that it lacked only two feet of being over the front, and was gradually rising. —The track of the Southern Pacific railroad is laid within twenty-one miles of El Paso. Connection will be made with the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe road, eleven miles west of Deming. —Several of the young ladies attending Moody's school at Brookfield, are native Indians, who are preparing to teach in their tribes. It is said that they stand high in their examinations. —The damage done to the telegraph wires alone in New York City, during the storm of the 21st ult., is estimated at $100,000. Such a storm has not passed over that part of the Atlantic coast for years. —Preparations are being made in Germany to celebrate Nov. 10, 1883, the four hundredth anniversary of Luther's birth. The central attraction will be at Wartburg, where he translated the Bible into German. —A petition is in circulation, asking the President to pardon the Mussel Slough settlers who were convicted of resisting the U. S. Marshal, and sentenced to eight months' imprisonment and three hundred dollars' fine. Thousands of signatures are being obtained. —About forty sets of designs have been received by the committee of the Raikes Memorial church, to be built at Gloucester, England. It was thought that the best memorial to the founder of Sunday-schools would be a church, which should be built in the city in which he lived and worked. —Among other departures, it is proposed by the Regents of the University of New York State, to allow candidates for entrance to college to be examined at their home schools instead of at the colleges. This gives the timid, though well-prepared, candidate an equal chance with the half-fitted, but bolder and more adroit youth. —The statistics of a large city are always interesting. Those of New York last year show that there were 31,841 births, an increase of 3,499 over 1879, and 27,493 deaths, a gain of 1,920. The ravages of diphtheria have been marked, the number of deaths from this disease being 1,433, an increase of 762 over 1879. —Preparation for the International Exhibition of 1883 has just taken a new start. Inwood, some twelve miles from the Battery, has been chosen as its site. It is accessible by land and water, by railway and steamboat. General Grant stands at the head of the Commissioners, and several of the great railroad magnates are on the committees. —It is quite possible that the arrest of Michael Davitt, one of the leading Land Leaguers, will have the effect of quieting Ireland. Davitt has been boldly preaching resistance to the law in force though liable to be picked up and put in jail at any time, to serve out a balance of over four years, being merely at large on a ticket-of-leave during good behavior. —The small-pox has been making sad havoc in the Jefferson Union settlement about twelve miles from Sioux City, Dakota. It is thought to have been communicated by a party of Russian Mennonites, who passed through the town several weeks ago. The people, mostly Canadian French, unmindful or ignorant of the contagious character of the disease, at first held public funerals, which were attended by all the settlers, as they are really of a kin. Of the ninety cases, thirty-three have been fatal. A strict quarantine has been established. —Preparations are being made by nearly all the countries of Europe and by America for a regular Arctic siege, to begin in 1882. Germany, Austria, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Denmark, the United States, and we believe Canada, are all to take part in this great work by establishing observing stations at suitable points all around the Polar area; while Italy is to send out next year a scientifically equipped expedition to the Antarctic region, our knowledge of which is meager and uncertain. This last will really be an observing as well as an exploring expedition, preparatory to the establishment of an Antarctic station. —"The slave trade in Africa," says the Christian Union, "is still enormous. Dr. Livingstone estimated the traffic for all Africa at half a million yearly. Col. Gordon puts the loss of life in the Soudan alone at 30,000 to 50,000 annually. Raouf Pasha, who was left to carry out the work begun by Col. Gordon for the suppression of the slave trade, is proving its active abettor, and the iniquity is encouraged by the Egyptian government. The sale and purchase of human beings continues to be practiced on a large scale in the Hedgey, Yemen, Nubia, Abyssinia, and at various points on the coast. Men, women, and children, are sold as beasts of burden." In one respect especially may wrong speaking work a great evil—we allude to the expression of opinion asked for by a young man of a superior. Thus a young minister will ask, "What did you think of my sermon?" And very often the reply will carry undeserved compliment, whereas the timely word of discriminating but kindly criticism would have conferred a permanent and salutary benefit. No; let not the word be trifled with; however kindly the heart may be, do not let it prompt the lips to utter inconsiderate, undeserved, and therefore valueless commendation. The effect may not be as pleasant as we might always wish; but the result is not ours but God's, and he will take care of it. It is our duty to see that everything that we do say is truth and that only. How many conversations would be cut short, how much scandal would be saved, were this rule constantly observed! And how greatly the sermons of some preachers would be abridged if this rule were always implicitly followed! A man who asks our opinion has a right either to a refusal, or to a true opinion. There is no middle ground. When we consider the effect of opinion expressed in speech; when we realize as every Christian should realize, the solemn responsibility which he assumes in speech, and when he reflects upon the measure to which every man is measurably his brother's keeper, surely we can not be too much on our guard in this matter, that we may prove worthy followers of Him who said, "I am the truth."—Christian at Work. RELIGIOUS PUBLICATIONS,
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I SIMPLY state a fact when I say that in many places the church is surrendering and the world is conquering. Where there is one man brought into the kingdom of God through Christian instrumentality, there are ten men dragged down by dissipations. Fifty grog-shops are built to one church established. Literary journals in different parts of the country are filled with scum, dandruff, and slag, controlled by the very scullions of society, depraving everything they put their hands on. Three hundred and ten newspapers, and journals, and magazines, in New York, and more than two hundred of them depraving to the public taste, if not positively inimical to our holy Christianity. Look abroad and see the surrender, even on the part of what pretend to be Christian churches, to Spiritualism and Humanitarianism and all the forms of devilism. If a man stand in his pulpit and say that unless you be born again you will be lost, do not the tight gloves of the Christian, diamonds bursting through, go up to their foreheads in humiliation and shame? It is not elegant. There is a mighty host in the Christian church, positively professing Christianity, who do not believe in the Bible, out and out, in and in, from the first word of the first verse of the first chapter of the book of Genesis, down to the last word of the last verse of the last chapter of the book of Revelation. And when, a few Sabbaths ago, I stood in this pulpit and said, “I fear that some of this audience will be lost for the rejection of Christ,” why, there were four or five of the daily papers that threw up their hands in surprise at it. Oh! we have magnificent church machinery in this country; we have sixty thousand American ministers; we have costly music; we have great Sunday-schools; and yet I give you the appalling statistic that in the last twenty-five years, laying aside last year, the statistics of which I have not yet seen—within the last twenty-five years the churches of God in this country have averaged less than two conversions a year each. There has been an average of four or five deaths in the churches. How soon, at that rate, will this world be brought to God? We gain two; we lose four. Eternal God! what will this come to? I tell you plainly that while here and there a regiment of the Christian soldiery is advancing, the church is falling back for the most part, and, if it does not come to complete rout—aye, to ghastly Bull Run defeat—it will be because some individual churches hurl themselves to the front, and ministers of Christ, trampling on the favor of this world and sacrificing everything, shall snatch up the torn and shattered banner of Emanuel, and rush ahead, crying: “On! on! This is no time to run; this is the time to advance.”—Talmage. NAPA AND OAKLAND.
By William M. Healey
FROM Fresno I went to Napa to attend the State quarterly meeting; but the heavy storm which set in at that time flooded most parts of the city; and meetings were an impossibility, but with other brethren I visited several here who seem to be desirous of knowing more of the truth. From Napa we came to Oakland and found some interest had been awakened by the missionary efforts of our brethren. We held five meetings here, and six persons resolved to go with us, and were baptized and admitted to membership in the Oakland church. The interest manifested in the meetings seemed to increase, and we feel that judicious labor bestowed upon this field would bring more fruit, but at present, duty seems to call us away to other places. May God help in the harvest which is "ripening far and wide."
W. M. HEALEY.
Oakland, Feb. 7, 1881. JESUIT IMMIGRATION INCREASING.
By Wm. Penniman
A NEW YORK paper of Dec. 30, 1880, says : " An extensive Jesuit immigration is in progress. The members of this society expelled from France and Germany are settling in large numbers in America, especially in the West. Superintendent Warren, of California, writing to a friend says : ' Their schools are everywhere, and number probably 2,000 in the State. Their new College of St. Ignatius is the largest, finest, best equipped of its kind in the United States. Three years ago the property of the Roman Catholic Church in San Francisco out-valued the sum total of the Protestant churches, parsonages, asylums, schools, and Young Men's Christian Associations by $47,000. To-day the excess is probably more than three times as much. They blow no trumpets, are sparing with statistics ; but are at work night and day to break down the institutions of the country, beginning with the public schools. As surely as we live so surely will the conflict come, and it will be a hard one. ' " Yes, the conflict will come, urged on by Satan and the powers of darkness ; yet the true Christian should fight " night and day " with the " sword of the spirit " to gain the victory ; and when the " enemy comes in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him. " Flooding in the Sacramento Valley
By Editor
The storm reported last week is wide-spread and still continues. The damage to property, especially in the Sacramento valley, will be immense. The river was never known to be higher, not even during the great flood of 1862. Both above and below Sacramento city the levees have given way, and the country is covered by one vast waste of water. Every precaution has been taken to secure the city itself; the levee (which for 2,000 feet is from two to four hundred feet wide, and twenty-nine and one-half feet high) is watched night and day, and cars loaded with sacks of dirt are kept ready to go on a moment's notice. Were it not for the unfailing sign once placed in the heavens, some living in this valley might sometimes fear a second flood like that of Noah's time, but the word of the Lord standeth sure. LATER.—The river according to later accounts is gradually receding, and it is to be hoped that the storm is over. District Church Officer Appointments
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