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MOORE'S KEEitL MEW-YO&&£ft. 



LITTLE ROSE. 



tattering thick 



g soft and •wool, 

 beam eooais to linger 

 holy bea.t, 



lovely, llubl and fragrance 

 ily do IhOJ nettle 



eutti 



loaned paiofu 



y, aod the 



after "i tinj 



m missed an the. i 







the no 



nday shadow 





the door-siil, 

















.hi-. and loft 













form, and a 



they turned 





that little m 



und in Loo 



■■ ■' 



father 



nd mother al 



IO.-I loil-l' 



to real than 



too. 'Twas sad to watch their grief and suffering 

 when they laid her away io the ground, and when 

 they had reached their desolate borne the bumbled 

 wife said, as she smoothed the grey lock- of her 

 husband, "she was only lent un for a little while, 

 topjuif) OUT hearts and make iia better, nnd now 

 lotus be happy in each other, for, though we may 

 not forgot our Almk, we may live to meet her in 



Years have passed. The cottage still Bland; 

 hut the inmates are not the some that they wer 

 .llib's father dud mother rest side b; 

 ibnrobyard— they hare gone to mee 

 their child in the Garden of Goi>. 

 Brighton, N. T,, ISM. Nettir Nettlb. 



ye.ir.s :igo. 



,p,rl 



4 gleam of angel tight. 



ALIIE DAYTON. 



11 lis. Dayton dctesle'l children, so she said,— so, 

 too, said bcr actions, and every little one in the 

 neighborhood wondered if */« was ever a child, 

 and, if mo, they wondered if hbe used to hate her- 

 self os bad as she now did them! Mrs. Dayton 

 boasted that she never had her nicest plums and 

 peaches stolen by the little urchins as they came 

 from school — no, not she — und as to the children 

 Why, they had not the least doubt but that she 

 would "cut their ears off," if they dared to come 

 near the house, for she bad told them that she 

 would, and they believed her fully capable of per- 

 forming the act. Mrs. Dayton 6aid ii was. owing 

 to her "good government" that they did not 

 trouble hern* they did the other neighbors— well, 

 ■ 



Mr. Dayton was a mild, peaceable sort of a man, 

 who believed in Woman's Rights because he was 

 afraid to believe any other way, and always al- 

 lowed his wife to do just as she chose to, because, 

 forsooth, it so happened that he couldn't help 

 himself. Poor Mr. Datton ! Many a night did 

 he go to his dreary home tired and weary, and 

 found there no balm for his troubled heart, and 

 naughf to give his spirit cheer, nod instead of a 

 kind welcome from bis wife, he was greeted with 

 harsh words and useless complaints. Poor man! 



Two years passed away, and now the cottage 



walls re idedwith the merry voice of childhood. 



Every one woudered al the oddity of Damo Nature 

 in fashioning sueh a dainty liltlo figure as Allie 

 Dattox, and then setting her down in the little 

 red cottage of the shoemaker. True, it wusstrange, 

 but how wise, for she came like an angel messen- 

 ger into that home, wiping out all the evil there. 



She was indeed as beautiful a flower as ever 

 bloomed Ibis side of Paradise, with flaxen curls, 

 deep blue eyes, a forehead as fair as the pure lilies 

 that blossomed beside the cottage door. Her lips 

 -red, and' cheeks rich with the hue of 



the i 



Her 



Like 



lake, 



chaste and pure— and thus she played 

 cottnge, softening the harsh nature of Damo Day- 

 tox, and shedding abroad the light ia the dark 

 places of her father's heart. More beautiful she 

 grew, and yet more beautiful, and tho village 

 people opened wide their eyes in amazement to 

 think that this could he the child of Mrs. Dayton, 

 and inaoy shook their heads gravely as they point- 

 ed to the blue veins in the clear forehead, and 

 whispered of a " mound in the graveyard I " 



She grew to bo an idol in that cottage, worshiped 

 even above Him who made her and placed her 

 there. Often when her mother's face was pale 

 aod distorted with passion, little Alue, the house- 

 hold angel, would climb upon her lap, and with 

 her little soft hand would smooth the wrinkled 

 forehead, and say, — "Gon will be angry with ma- 

 ma," though where she learned that holy name I 

 know not, unless 'twas from the lips of hor father. 

 'Twas wonderful what a cbunge came over that 

 household when Alue entered ifc It softened the 

 mother's nature, and made her ashamed of her 

 harshness— made her more womanly and geutle, 

 and made her lore her husband more. And the 

 father-- O! the sunshine soon chased the shadows 

 from his heart, and he loved his home more and 

 after baby Allik came to cheer it. 



and mouths passed on, and the 



mill, and flowers were planted 



en blinds adorned 



) looped back with 



w carpet covered 



d hardly say 



TbuMhfi d 



before the door, a\ 

 the windows; the c 

 bluo ribbons, and 

 the parlor floor, an 

 it w« the "Dayton CottagV,"' fo7i he" old folks 



make Allu'j hL 

 Gentle Allib. They saw net tho shadow "tit at" was 

 even then trajling "long the landscape— knew not 

 Of the angel that was even then w a , C hi ng on d 

 -i.lo the cottage door! One bright 

 itbcard in the house, 



THE BIGHT TRAINING OF WOMEN. 



The Chun* of England Jtcviaw has an arti. 

 on Female Education, from which we take the 

 following ■ 



Much remains to be done in winnowing 

 peoples' mind ridiculous ideas of a certain 

 fastidious Hvle of living, without which it 

 possible to keep house. There are plenty of 

 young men who have yet to uulearn the foppery 

 of expenses disproportioned to their means, and 

 the sordidness of luxuries which feed not self- 

 respect, but gluttony nnd pride. The possibility 

 must be secured to daughters and young sisters 

 growing up to bo rational, appreciative compan- 

 ions; girls who, if they ever marry, will choose 

 and value their husband for what be is, and be 

 interested in bis calling and his opportunities for 

 observation ; women who will estimate the grave 

 and sweet realities of wife and motherhood be- 

 yond any accident of precedence or superfluity. 

 By dismissing false and foolish notions of respect- 

 ability, by refusing the cheap fascinations of a 

 paltry education of display, by discountenancing 

 restraints misdirected or too rigorous, by culti- 

 vating nn intelligent aud unassuming mode of 

 intercourse, by a careful foresight in assisting 

 young people to prepare themselves for the exer- 

 tion and cost of one day being the centre of a 

 peaceful, hospitable home- in these and other 

 ways much may be done to remove obstructions 

 to that gradual acquaintance, and lliat uuulli-cfed 

 respect and attachment which lend on to happy 



In the meantime it may be well to think, with 

 it only the sympathy, but the veneratioo they 

 deserve, of among those who will never marry; 

 assist in multiplying the too few occupat 

 (able to women, or open to tbem; above 

 I to preach by implication or otherwise, that a 

 man's life need ever be dwarfed to a neguti 

 tsumed miserably away by causes absolutely 

 her control. There are women strong enough 





1 events, of an independent existence. They 



bose steps are feeble need the more to be helped, 



rather than hindered in the struggle with their 



ainter and more yielding self. If they fail here, 



s it all certain that in wedded life their lot would 



Hive been suspicious? Alas! how many a falter- 



ng will has been bent and "given" beneath san- 



juine, unfulfilled resolutions, to reclaim and 



humanize the husband, who has pulled the wife 



down to his mean wi etched level. Marriage 



lottery ; but it is mere willful blindness to u 



get that in all its higher aspects, it may be wofully 



verted ornppallingly debased. Not all the grand 



ovisions of lender tics and gracious instincts 



liich surround one of the greatest of Divine 



dinances, will make people pure or happy who 



sist on being peevish or frivolous, or worldly, 



\\ added life is a great and holy mystery, and a 



urce of power for good, often far beyond eBti- 



ation ; but unless there be at least one soul filled 



.til unselfish love, aud strong in un » i n [J .j ^ l; i n lc 



ith, the formal union of two persons is no 



guarantee whatever for a will ennobled, or afleo- 



ns enlarged and cleansed." Aud the faith which 



works by love can make a sunshine in a shady 



ice, without an infant's or a husband's eye to 



ik into. The harmonies of a developed and 



transfigured womanhood, have been set many a 



o other music than that of wedding bells. 



!io is enthroned never, under any roof, iu a 



mother's holy sovereignty, may earn the right in 



house of compelling every soul to love 



e will create or find on atmosphere in 



which to keep, unwithered, und it full pulsation, 





I of which i 



II, r I 



: the 



Hll ! 



of gratitude and cheerful, 

 palhy, "the cord of self has, ti 

 sic out of sight." 



of life." 

 aud her brain 

 solitary, when 



mbling, passed 



WOMEN AND PICTURES. 



lr, indeed, women wore mere outside form aud 

 face only, and if mind made up no part of her 

 imposition, it would follow that a ball-room was 

 luite as appropriate a place for choosing a wife ils 

 in exhibition-room for choosing u picture. But, 

 inasmuch as women are not mere portraits, their 

 value not being determinable by a glance of Hie 

 follows that a different mode of apprecia- 

 ting their value, and a dt lie-rent pluce for viewing 

 antecedent to their being individually 

 selected, is desirable. Tho two cases differ also 



this, that if a man select u |.i.iuie for himself 

 -jm among all its ".-Oiil.iit.-d ■-■.!,,. .ru,,,., UUl j 



bring it his awn him-', the pielim: lurmy p,,.-. n e, 

 ible to (to it there; while Mu- wile, pirked 

 a public place und accustomed lo incessant 

 t. it is probable, when brought 



:. the s 





property, and had i 



HOPE AMID DECAY. 



To say that decay is engraven on all below, 

 peat a truth which is indelibly written o 

 blet of every heart. From the cradle to the 

 grave, the experience of man has been regret aud 

 uppointment. Too soon the smiling infant 

 eps o'er its broken tojs,— the youth is called to 

 urn for friends stricken from bis side ere the 

 departed hopes of his childhood's days are buried 

 from his memory. The noble breast of manhood 

 sighs, for that period, also,— iB 

 the victim of sure decay, and old age bi>wa in sor- 

 , when the summer of his life past, and bishai- 

 t is not gathered in. It is truly wise 

 To solie the moments as Ibey fly,— 

 Bright gems, whlob careless men pass lightly by. 

 re care has lured the feet of childhood from 

 r sunny track, or vice led captive the pure 

 rt of youth, decay has marked them for bis 

 i. He scruples not to pluck the brido from tho 

 ,r, or the miser from bis gold, while the crown 

 of glory that the conqueror wears, or a hoary 

 ,th from the brow of ago, rest alike upon his 

 laureled head. The drooping lily and the tower- 

 oak bend beneath tts fitful blasts, and the 

 works of man crumble to the dust Gentle spring 

 greets us in her emerald mantle, and summer fol- 

 lows in her train. Gladness fills the earth, ond 

 beauty crowns the pinnacle of Nature ; but olns I — 

 mourning and sighing we heard io the valleys, 

 ps. Sad Autumn is the 



r o! v, 



■adrs 



lying." 



Withered flowers and falling leaves follow herto 



the grave; and the snows of Winter cover her 

 resting place. 



Decay is stamped on every page of history, and 

 oblivion marks the records of antiquity. Where 

 is Rome, — proud Home, whose queenly form rose 

 mojesticolly above the nations of the earth?— 

 Where is Sparta, with her wise law-civers and her 

 noble sons? Athens, the loved home of philoso- 

 phy and art— her uucient glory has departed, aud 

 wisdom has found un asylum in other lands. 



It is night, and the calm, beautiful stars come 

 out oneby one, until myriads of shining orbs gem 

 tho vaulted arch of heaven. We behold, aod are 

 filled with admiration, with wonder and with owe. 

 As we turn from the saddening details of this 

 earth-life of a day, to the contemplation of these 

 stupendous monuments of nature, what wonder, 

 that to us, impei-iihubU beauty veils the skies, 

 where Divinity has left His impress on every 

 twinkling star. Like sinless angels clothed 

 garments of unsullied purity they ministered 

 our fettered spirits until an undelinalik limbing 

 he freed from the prison house of clay, to so 

 through the regions or space, till arrived at t 

 "shores of heaven" we should cross 



" Creation's last boundary atone," 

 and be ushered into the presence of Deity, to b 

 hold the consummation of Infinity, to fathom the 

 mysleries of Eternity. To appearance, they 

 change not as they move on in their allotted 

 course, age after uge, but wo have every rea; 

 believe, that there, also, Decay is busy at bis work 

 of desolation. 



But have wo yet marked the boundaries of hi; 

 wide domain ? To the great and glorious mind it 

 reserved the end and consummation of decay, 

 Here, the aspirations of this universal tyrant 

 must cease. There is nothing greater but Deity 

 Himself. Since the fall of man, the history 

 mind has been u simple, siice.L-.ifol or unsuccc 

 ful, against the tendency of this part, immortal 

 though over dying, to degenerate m purity and 

 fitness to be called Ihe likeness of its Muker. 

 Here, Decay, alone, lias Ins ptifeel work. In the 

 ial world, it is but achnu;;e, for annihilation 

 only weapon which the conqueror cannot 



field, 



Hope pervades all online. Winter, whito and 

 barren, gives place to IbeTigor and freshness of 

 vernal bloom, The lovely buea of Summer are 



iturtd in the fruitful Auhinui and repose again 



lit the resurrection morning of the year, when, 



the voice of the ongel tepbyr, and tho touch 



of the faithful sunbeam, they sbull spring again 



robed Ufa, sublime in its simplicity and 



almost holy in its purity. 



'''"■ pherea shall be destroyed and the elements 

 dissolved, hut there shall he "a new heavens 

 earth wherein dweUelh righteousness." 

 mly work which the linger of 

 •h with more than its created 

 i | u - the path of pro- 



earing should be taught i 

 irell- regulated family. It is full as .ropor 

 lomeslic happiness as a cultivated car, for which 

 io much money and time are expended. There 

 ire eo many things which it is pats All to bear— 

 uany which we ought not to hear, very many 

 vhich, if heard, will disturb the temper, corrupt 

 limplicity nod modesty, detract from contentment 

 iad happiness ; that every one should be educated 

 o take in or shut out sounds, according to their 



i falls 



■ of na> 



and 11 



If, i 





of life, I find myself caught in one of those domes 

 tic whirlwinds of scolding, I shot my ears, as a 

 sailor would furl his sails, and making all tight, 

 scud before the gale. If a hot and restless man 

 begins to inflame my feelings, I consider what 

 mischief these Dery sparks may do iu the maga- 

 zine below, where my temper is kept, and instantly 



Does a gaddiug, mischief-making fellow begin 

 to inform me what people are saying about me, 

 down drops the portcullis of my ear, and he can- 

 not get in any further. Does the collector of a 



neighbor! d'l scandal ask my ear as a warehouse, 



it instioctivoly shuts up. Some people seem anx- 

 ious to hear everything that will vex and annoy 

 them. If it is hinted that any one has spoken evil 

 of them, they set about searching the matter, and 

 finding out. If all the petty things said of one by 

 heedless or ill-natured idlers were to bo brought 

 home to biui, he would become u mere walking 

 pincushion, stuck full of sharp remarks. 1 should 

 as soou think of thanking a mau fox emptying 

 upon my bed a bushel of nettles, or setting loose a 

 swarm of ants in my chamber, or raising a pun- 

 gent dual iu my houso generally, us for bringing 

 in upon me all the tattle of careless or spiteful 

 people. If you would be happy, when among 

 good meu, open your ears; when among bad, shut 



THE TWO IDEAS. 





j thei 



,.!.■.! f.,rr 



y ho expressed in a word— Stlf-lot>« qf Christian 

 t. We take all the forms in which men love 

 world, with the objects which they puraue, and 

 motives which animate them, and they are all 

 olved into one idea-that of self. Power, learn- 

 ing, fame, wealth nnd influence— in the palace, 

 hamlet— in halls of legislation, or in tho* 

 humblest walks of life, in a kaleidoscopic change, 

 ad a constant transmigration of circumstances, 

 re only man isolations of the selfish principle, 

 hen not acoompanied by a spiritual life. This 

 :lf-love is the most insidious and delusive of all 

 le evil tendencies of the corrupt moral nature, 

 ud is the last and hardest to be removed. It lies 

 deep in the human heart, with its roots so closely 



■Hill lll.'.i V 





irk of o 





of tbeindivid- 



world. The gr< 



tall be broken up before 





s Ihe thro 

 ;ukes 



f the . 



s should be trained t 



mge- 



angryj 



slammed 

 your chi 

 business. 





I yolll 



ants say when they 

 i say after they have 

 neighbors say about 

 fuIs say about your 



; what your 



The art of not kturimj, though n a taught in the 

 :hools, is by no means unknown, or unpracticed 

 i society. I have noticed that a well-bred woman 

 ever hears an impertinent or a vulgar remark. 



kind nf discreet deufucs-9 saves one from many 

 lSults, from much blame, from not a little oppa- 

 i dishonorable 



CHARACTER AND REPUTATION. 



TI,.- lost 



Gon shall not re-toi 



glory. The mind, 



I will draw a distinction between character 

 ud reputation, which are not syuouymons. A 

 lan's character is the reality of himself; his repu- 

 ition, the opinion others have formed about him ; 

 jaracter resides in him, reputation in other 

 people; tbut is tbe substance, this is the shadow 

 they are sometimes greater or less. It a man t 

 able to achieve things beyond his time, his reputi 

 tion will be different from his character. He who 

 seeks reputation must not be beyond the tin 



pie ..I i-ellMii 



irtbly and mater 



ic world can be regenera 



Ou the other band, the Christian's great purpose 

 is to live out of and beyond himself. He becomes 

 elevated by the very nature of bis new inpulse; 

 and be moves on a higher plane in the duties of 

 bis daily life. 



So will it be when the world shall be brought to 

 the point where it will undergo the moral trans- 

 formation which is to come. The work will not be 

 accomplished by a transition like that of darkness 

 into the daylight and the noontide. Sunbeams do 

 not tear up the giant oaks of a hundred years, nor 

 melt down pyramids, nor dissipate the debris of a 

 mighty flood. The old institutions of despotism, 

 hoary with age, and moss-covered by time, will 

 not bo removed by songs or smiles. The grasp of 

 power, so firmly held by men, will not be relaxed 

 by fancies or by rainbows. The mercenary pur- 

 suits of men who know no motive but self aggran- 

 dizement, will not be relinquished without a 

 struggle. Kingcraft, priestcraft, and moneyeraft, 

 of whatever name aud degree, will resist the forces 



world will become the battle held for the contest 

 between the spirit of selfishness and the spirit of 

 Christ. Men may pray. " Thy Kingdom cornel" 

 But we sometimes think that were that kingdom 

 to come, iu answer to our prayers, we should not 

 ba prepared to receive it, because of the violence 

 with which il would uproot selfish and material 

 interests. — ChrUtian It,:. 



Daiik Ili>ons.— There are dark hours that mark 

 the history of the brightest years. I'Or not a 

 whole month in many of the millions of the past, 

 perhaps, has the sun shone brilliantly all the time. 

 There have been cold and stormy days every year. 

 And yet the mist and s-hartow.su!' the darkest hour 

 disappeared and (ltd heedlessly. The most cruel 

 ice fetters have been broken aud dissolved, and the 



! Inn 



i lose: 





7 reputation 



character 

 To build a character is a work or 

 are built on one element and used in another, 

 character is formed in youth and homo for after 

 life. Reputation is cosily got; it is generally 

 taking many forms— us that of t 

 i numerous as mosquitoes, who I: 

 , leau ond hungry, suck all tho blood they 



, but 



!i, 



man, as in n ship, Ihe material must exist origi- 

 nally; a man naturally mean may be improved, 

 but never will be a noble man. Reputation may 

 be made for a man; character must be mado by 

 him, with labor and time, and it cannot be taken 

 away. Tho antagonism between the two is not so 

 great as the disproportion. Thus, a man, if wise, 

 will be content to be considered wiser ; he is like 

 u shadow three times in size; like a bank that 

 issues three paper dollars for every one in speoio 

 they have; if worth a quarter he likes to be called 

 worth half a million, until Ihe assessor brings him 

 to his senses. He will disclaim "popularity," 

 hut claim the same thing under the name ol in- 

 fluence;" but it is what God made a moo and be 

 makes of himself which determines his Influence; 

 the Weights never ask a favor of the scales; a 

 thousand pound* will wei^h down live hundred by 

 their natural force. So he speaks of " prudence." 

 Prudence is coincident with rectitude, and there 

 have been men against the grain of life all their 

 - 1 1 were most prudent men. He sub- 



es love of approbation for love of truth. 



lauds lose their characters to save their repu- 

 i 



;n day brings its own da 

 along with it; aud they are 

 e shoro, many like tbem coming i 

 ever the same.— FruiU of Lei*urt 



lower to harm. And 



an life— of our inside 

 J al ils shadowing of 

 cold blast chills the 



parable is this in 

 world, where the heart 

 the dark hour, and ma 

 heart to its core. But what matters It I 

 born a hero, and it is only in the darkn 

 storms that heroism gains its greatest and 

 development, and the storm bears it o 

 rapidly to its destiny. Despair not, then, 

 good power 



I will I) 





M," 



Sound I 

 logical crit 



jack-.'! -i si 



, <;..■■ ■ <■■ 



: id.- s 



says:— "Religion 



of the Pharisee, nor the 

 I.iberulisl, but denying our.-elves of 

 all ungodliness aud worldly lusts, and living 

 righteously, soberly and godly," "rejoicing in 

 hope, patie 

 mosi preolouB enjoym 

 results of tribulation, und the fruits of self denial. 



Loam in childhood, if you can, thai I 

 not outside but inside. A good heort am! a clear 

 conscience bring happiness ; no riches and no cir- 

 cumstances alone cau ever doit. Alexander coa- 

 uercd all the world, aod then, far from being 

 happy, wept because there were no more worlds 



"l 1 "-' 



ihe 



halts for 



beneath 



Tub Sabbatb ia like UDto the grea 

 'He grassy meadow in the wilderm 

 after the week day's journey, the pilgri 

 refreshment and repose; where Ik- res 

 the ahade of the loRv palm-tree, ond dips ciavHwei 

 waters of the calm, clearstrram. and recov- 

 s strength to go forth again upon bia pilgri- 

 mage in the desert, with renewed vigor ond cheer- 

 fulness. >>t 



