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A MOTHER’S PRAYER. 
Father ! listen to my prayer, 
As I kneel to Thee, to-night, 
Gazing on my Jewels rare 
Slumbering ‘death the moon’s pale light. 
They are purer than the pearls 
Glowing m ath the star-lit sea. 
Fairer than king’s diadems, 
Though of priceless wealth they be. 
Ask I not a setting rare 
For my gems; nor gifted name, 
Well I know the thorns Of care 
Lurk ’mid laurel leaves of fame. 
Ask I not for length of days, 
Measured out timid earth’s tears, 
Till the weary traveler prays 
Respite from the coming years. 
Father! in this holy hour, 
As I bend the suppliant knee, 
Send thy spirit down In power, 
Bend their tender hearts to Thee. 
And when death’s lone vale they tread, 
Jesus I Thou their refuge be; 
Thou wf'i of such children said, 
“ Suffer them to come to ine.” 
Porter, 1867. a, e. h. 
0UEIOSITIES OF MAEEIAGE. 
Mauuiage is the first and most ancient of all 
institutions. As the foundation of society and 
the family, it. is universally observed throughout 
the globe, no nation having been discovered, 
however barbarous, which does not celebrate 
the union ofthe sexes hy ceremony and rejoicing. 
The abuses of the institution, as polygamy, infi¬ 
delity and divorce, have in no manner touched 
its existence, however they may have vitiated 
its purity. 
The condition ol women In all countries has 
afforded a fruitful theme for the observation of 
the traveler, and the speculations of the philos¬ 
opher and the novelist. It has been uniformly 
found that the savage is the tyrant of the female 
sex, while the position and considerat ion given to 
woman Is advanced in proportion to the refine¬ 
ment of social life. Under the laws of Lycurgus, 
Numa, and even later law-givers, the power of 
the husband over the wile was absolute, some¬ 
times even including the power of life or death. 
The wife was always defined and treated as a 
thing, not as a person—the absolute property of 
her lord. In the earlier uges a man might sell 
his children or his wife indifferently, and relics 
of this rude custom still survive, even among 
nations called civilized and Christian. 
In the countries of the East, where polygamy 
is almost universal, marriage is not the sacred 
tie which it is held to he in Christian countries. 
In Persia men marry either for life or for a de¬ 
terminate time. Travelers or merchants com¬ 
monly apply to the magistrate lor a wife during 
their residence in any place, and the Cadi pro¬ 
duces a number of girls for a selection, whom 
lie declares to he honest and healthy. Four 
wives are permitted to each husband iu Persia, 
and the same number is allow ed by the Moham¬ 
medan law to the Mussulman. 
In Chinese Tartary a kind of male polygamy is 
practiced, and a plurality of husbands is highly 
respected. Iu Thibet it is customary for the 
brothers of a family to have a wife in common, 
and they generally live in harmony and comfort 
with her. Among the Oalmucks, the ceremony 
of marriage is performed on horseback. The 
girl is first mounted, and permitted to ride off at 
full speed, when her lover takes a horse aud gal¬ 
lops after her. If he overtakes the fugitive she 
becomes his wife, and the marriage is consum¬ 
mated on the spot. It is said that no instance is 
known of a Cal muck girl ever being overtaken 
unless she is really fond of her pursuer. 
The Arabs divide their affections between their 
horses and their wives, and regard the purity ol 
blood lu Hie former quite as much as in their 
offspring. Polygamy is practiced only by the 
rich, and divorces are rare. In Ceylon the mar¬ 
riage proposal is brought about by the mau first 
sending to her whom he wishes to become his 
wife, to purchase her clothes. These she sells 
for a stipulated sum, generally asking as much 
as she thinks requisite for them to begiu the 
world with. In the evening he calls on her, with 
the wardrobe, at her father’s house, and they 
pass the night in each other's company. Next 
morning, if mutually satisfied, they appoint the 
day of marriage. They are permitted to separate 
whenever they please, and so frequently avail 
themselves of this privilege that they sometimes 
changu a dozen times before their inclinations 
are wholly suited. 
In Hindostau the women have a peculiar ven¬ 
eration for marriage, as it is a popular creed that 
those females who die virgins are excluded from 
the joys of paradise. In that precocious country 
the women begin to bear children at about the 
age of tw elve, some even at eleven. The prox¬ 
imity of the natives of India to the burning sun, 
which ripens men, as well as plants, at the ear¬ 
liest period in these tropical latitudes, is assign¬ 
ed as the cause. The distinguishing mark of the 
Hindoo wife is the most profound fidelity, sub¬ 
mission and attachment to her husband. 
On tire banks of the Senegal, and among many 
African tribes, the mntrimomal prize most 
sought after is abundance of flesh. To obtain 
corpulence is regarded as the only real comeli¬ 
ness. A female who can move with the aid of 
two men is hut a moderate beauty, while the 
lady who cannot stir, and is only to be moved 
on a camel, is esteemed a perfect paragon. Nor 
is this queer fancy for obesity in women confined 
to the savages iu the torrid zone, since we read 
in Wraxall’s Travels in Russia that “ iu order.to 
possess any pre-eminent degree of loveliness, a 
woman must weigh at least tw T o hundred weight. ” 
The Empress Elizabeth, aud Catharine II, both 
accounted very fine w omen, were of this massive 
kind. 
In Italy, matches are made with proverbial 
levity, and marriage vows, if report speaks truly, 
are easily broken. Young virgins are systemati¬ 
cally bartered and sold by their parents, and 
young people are married every day who never 
saw one another before. Concubinage Is a con¬ 
stant remedy for these ill-advised aud deceitful 
marriages, and the peculiarly Italian term, cfcis- 
bio, indicates the indemnity which custom pre¬ 
scribes for the fair sex fettered to husbands 
unloved. 
In France, as has often been remarkad, w omen 
monopolize all the society and a large share of 
the business of life. The coffee houses, the 
theaters, the shops, the cabarets, or drinking 
6hops, are filled with w omen. Women lord it at 
all assemblies, and are better informed aud more 
capable managers than men. Marriage is looked 
upon not so much as a matter of affection as of 
interest, and the saeredness of the tie is propor¬ 
tionately slender. 
Marriage in Sweden is commonly governed 
wholly by the will of the parents, and le founded 
upon interest. A stolen match is almost un¬ 
heard of, and persons of either sex seldom 
marry before the age of twenty-five or thirty. 
Divorces are very rare. 
Russia appears to in: the most preposterous 
country in Europe in its treatment of women. 
The nuptial ceremonies, all singular, are based 
upon the degradation of the female. When the 
parents have agreed upon the match, the bride 
is examined by a number of women to see if she 
has any bodily defect. On her wedding day 
she is crowned with a garlaud of wormwood, to 
denote the bitterness of the marriage state. She 
is exhorted to be obedient to her husband, and 
it is a custom in some districts for the newly 
married wife to present the bridegroom with a 
whip, in token of submission, aud with this he 
seldom fails to show Ills authority, lu this cold 
and cruel country, husbands are sometimes 
known to torture their wives to death without 
any punishment for the murder. If a woman 
prove barren, the husband generally prevails ou 
her to retire into a convent and leave him at lib¬ 
erty. If he fails iri persuasion, he is permitted 
to whip her luto condescension. 
Such is the slavery In which the Muscovites are 
kept hy their parents and guardians, that they 
are not allowed to dispute any union agreed 
upon by their ciders, however odious or incom¬ 
patible it may he. This extends so far, that offi¬ 
cers in the army are not permitted to marry 
without, the consent of the sovereign, and wives 
whom they do not want are even sometimes 
forced upon them. 
Whether It he the result of this syetem ol' op¬ 
pression, or of their savage climate, nr of the 
unnatural hotair m the stove-heated apartments, 
it is certain that a more unlovely race of women 
than the Russian would he difficult to find. 
“They want,” says an English traveler, “the 
gen uinc flavor which only nature can give. That 
charming firmness aud elasticity of flesh, so in¬ 
dispensably requisite to constitute beauty, and 
so delicious to the touch, exists not among the 
Russian females, or in very few of them.' 1 
We are told of the Aleutian Islanders who 
form a part of our new' Russian American ac¬ 
quisition, that they marry one, two or three 
wives, as they have the means of supporting 
them. The bridegroom takes the bride upon 
trial, and may return her to her parents, should 
he not be satisfied, hut cannot demand his pres¬ 
ents back again. No man is allowed to sell his 
wife without her consent; but he may (and 
often does) assign her over to another. This 
custom, it is said, is availed of by the Russian 
hunters, who take Aleutian women or girls to 
wife for a time, for a trilling compensation. 
No Farmer's Girls now. —Seward Mitchell, 
Cornville, Me., sends a communication to the 
Maine Farmer, which goes to show- that there 
are some “old fogies’’ dow T n east yet. Hear 
him“ There are no girls uow-a-days; they are 
nearly all young ladies. It is generally thought 
to be a disgrace to work, they must be dressed 
in 6ilka aud satins, and be doing some kind of 
fine sewing or worthless croteketing. Instead 
of subscribing for a valuable agricultural or do¬ 
mestic paper, which would he of service to them 
they are insane iu reading Godey’s Lady’s 
Book.” We judge from this that Mre. Mitchell 
is not presistent or punctual in Candleing her 
man or he would not dare to break out in such 
manner and style as aforesaid. 
Teach the Children.— The celebrated Ger- 
600 , although Chancellor of the University of 
Paris, and the theological leader of the reforma¬ 
tory councils of Pisa and Constance in the early 
part of the fifteenth century, felt that he had a 
greater work to do. After taking a promiueut 
part iu all the leading qnestions of the age, he 
retired to a convent at Lyons, and found lxis 
chief delight in the instruction of little children, 
saying that it was with little children that the 
reformation of the church should commence. 
And on his death-bed he sent for the little ones 
that they might pray for him. 
Example fob Mothebs. — The late Henry 
Winter Davis said of his mother:—“She wa6 
the incarnation of all that, is Christian in life and 
hope, in charity and thought, ready for every 
good work, herself the example of all she 
taught.” What an example for parents, and es¬ 
pecially for mothers! The legitimate sphere of 
woman 6eems to many to be very humble and 
obscure. But it is hers to teach and to temper 
the secret springs of being and of character, and 
to flash forth her power upon nations and ages, 
through the sovereignty over heart and life 6he 
wields in the home circle. 
Women are like precious carved works of 
ivory, nothing is whiter and smoother, and 
nothing sooner grows yellow. 
€Ijol« lEUscetlattg. 
THE MUSIC OF THE SEA. 
The gray unresting sea, 
Adown the bright and belting shore, 
Breaking in untold melody, 
Makes music evermore. 
Centuries of vanished time, 
Since the glad earth's primaeval morn. 
Have heard the grand unpausing chime, 
Momently new-born. 
Like as in cloistered piles, 
Rich bursts of massive sound npswell, 
Ringing along dim-li Jilted aisles 
With spirit-tranciug spell; 
So on i..o surf-white strand. 
Chants of deep peal the sea-waves raise, 
Like voices from a viewless land, 
Hymning a hymn of praise. 
By times in thunder notes. 
The booming billows shoreward surge; 
By times a silver laugh infloats: 
By times, a low soft dirge. 
Souls more ennobled grow. 
Listing the wordless anthem rise; 
Discords are drowned in the great flow 
Of Nature’s Harmonies, 
Men change, and “ cease to be,” 
And empires rise and grow and fall; 
But the weird music of the sea 
Lives, and outlives them all. 
That mystic song shall last 
Till Time itself no more shall be; 
Till seas and shores away have pass’d, 
Lost In eternity. [(/nee a Week, 
Written for Moore’s Rural New-Yorker. 
SELF-EELIANOE vs. HOME INFLUENCE 
It was only a few days ago as I was traveling 
in the northern portion of a county in South¬ 
eastern Missouri, that 1 fell in company with 
a young man who was, as it happened, intent 
ou visiting a cave that I bad traveled many 
miles to see. Our horses jogged along together 
a6 we conversed on mutters ol‘ general interest 
that suggested themselves from our surround¬ 
ings. I could not help observing with interest 
my new companion. We entered the cave with 
others, each bearing a torch. Every passage¬ 
way opened into new’ beauties, and we were 
more than delighted with onr visit luto the 
bowels of the earth, so cool and refreshing in 
contrast with the heated atmosphere at the sur 
face. On returning 1 noticed many beautiful 
specimens that my friend had brought out with 
him. Desiring to know something of him 1 
ventured to ask him, “Are you not from the 
Booty" 
“ Yes, sir,” he replied. 
“ What part ? ” 
“ New York.” 
“ How long have you been a resident of the 
county?” 
“ Quite two years.” 
“ May I ask your business ?” 
“In cbivalric parlance, I am a-Yankee 
schoolmaster.” 
“How have yon succeeded since you have 
been here?” I asked. 
“Very well.” 
“ Have you visited other parts of the West ? ” 
“Yes, sir, the North-west. I graduated at 
Genesee College when twenty-one, in 18113, re¬ 
mained at home one year, and being surrounded 
by snob influences that led me to believe I would 
lose all I had gained, 1 started rather independ¬ 
ently West. During one year, having obtained 
a general knowledge of the part 1 visited, a few’ 
very valuable practical lessons, and tested my 
own power of endurance and self-reliance, 1 re¬ 
turned again. Believing that my wild oats were 
all sown, I concluded to settle down on a farm, 
a business I had little taste for, merely to please 
my father, who held the “ loaf,” as he styled it, 
under his own arm. I married, became harnessed 
to my task, forgot the past, and determined to 
live for the future. I found my task only prom¬ 
ising in tnauual labor. I had struck the wrong 
lead. It was not long in being made muuifest 
that I possessed tendencies that were being 
totally destroyed by my newly chosen field of 
labor. These brought again Into exercise those 
home influences that were besetting sins to me, 
and I resisted them. To my surprise, one day 
my father (worth several thousand dollars) gen¬ 
erously offered me the pay of a common farm 
laborer for my time, aud would take off' my 
hands what I had actually bought for the farm 
and what he had given me, consisting of a cow 
and calf and six sheep, and assume control of all 
he had transferred to me. To his surprise I im¬ 
mediately accepted his offer, and within tw-o 
weeks started for Missouri with my wife and a 
very limited amount of greenbacks. I had trav¬ 
eled perhaps eight hundred miles, paid two phy¬ 
sicians’ bills and lay sick for a time at a friend’s 
in the grand old Prairie State. Leaving my wife 
as soon as I was able, I continued my journey, 
landing at last in a city on the west bank of the 
Mississippi with a dollar and ten cents in my 
poeket—all I had in the world. Since then, 
laboring with the powers God had given me, 
seeking such labor as was consistent with my 
taste, and assisted hy my wife, now sleeping 
in death, I have been enabled to secure a very 
honorable position with the comfortable salary 
of thirteen hundred dollars per year. When I 
found labor I was quite willing to begin, receiv¬ 
ing less than six bits [shillingsj per day. 
“ Where is your home? ” I asked. 
“ All the home that is left to me is in-, 
where 1 buried the only one that ever made it 
happy. I am here doubtless by the same motive 
that led you here. While iu the discharge of my 
duties I am very fond of observing God’s won¬ 
drous works; hence you saw me in the cave 
searching for these beautiful specimens of stalac- 
titic carbonate of lime. 
“ Will you remain a citizen of our State ? ” 
“ Yes; tears and suffering have endeared it to 
me. The golden bowl of sympathy is broken, 
aud I can only think well of them. I wish now 
only to become a worthy and obedient servant of 
my newly adopted State.” 
At this we parted. I saw by the sad and hope¬ 
ful expression deeply written upon his face, that 
may be there were other sorrows known only to 
Him that knoweth all tilings. 1 had not mis¬ 
judged. Business led me the some evening to 
where my new-found friend was to lecture. I 
entered the hall and for more than an hour with 
maDy others, listened to him. I had heard other 
men often, but I confess I never was more agree¬ 
ably entertained. The conversation at the cave, 
the convictions of duty, the unpretentious man¬ 
ner, the freedom, the cogent power of expres¬ 
sion, together with my surroundings, led me to 
reflect upon the past and future of the young 
man who stood at the desk before me. I then 
felt the full force of those “ home influences ” 
he referred to in the morning’s conversation. 
Although I believe they were fast consuming the 
best blood of his soul, 1 felt glad that he was here. 
I thought how little his father or mother knew 
ofthe powers that were slumbering within him. 
What a precious possession and strength he 
would have been to them in their old age had 
they only fully appreciated his true worth. 
Home influences lost to them a noble and wor¬ 
thy son. He can only think well of them. We 
have gained him, and his sterling worth will be 
felt among ns. H is sad face, his positive, though 
generous principles, and his Indomitable energy, 
will carry him, as his words attest, to positions 
that will afford a noble contrast with the effect 
of those wrecking “home influences” that 
drove him to us. G. w. a. 
Cape Girardeau, Mo., July, 1867. 
THE WEST IN OUR FUTURE. 
The political importance of the West cannot 
be overstated. It already wields a large part 
of the Republican power of the country, and it 
will not be many years before we shall look to 
the millions near the Mississippi to erystalize 
into laws the hopes and aspirations which 
freighted the Mayflower. The South has as yet 
shown no political characteristics. There is no 
party there whose principles can be reckoned as 
forces for the future. The ideas of the people 
are chaotic. Wc believe that by the introduc¬ 
tion of Northern educational institutions they 
will sometime grow into that radical love of 
liberty which is to be the bulwark of the nation; 
but to day wc are not sure of their future. The 
States tit at lie between the James River, the 
Hudson River and the great Illinois prairies, arc 
full of political theories unsound and unsafe. 
Too timid to confirm by law whatever is light in 
morals, too much bound by commercial inter¬ 
ests to be radical in their thinking and voting, 
loaded down with the debris ol that kind of 
democracy which thought twice before it struck 
a blow for the tottering Government, it will for 
a long while stand neutral in the great political 
contests that arc coming. But the Far West, 
with its large farms and its large-hearted men 
and women, its immense number of Germans 
and Scandinavians, who bring with them to their 
homes the fresh, beautiful love of liberty which 
compelled them to leave the old world, if we can 
only plant in its midst the school-houses and 
churches, the lyeeums and the presses, which 
have been the moulding influences of the East, 
can always be relied upon to stand Arm for that 
justice between man and man, and for those 
rights and privileges which enable the poorest 
boru to reach and hold the highest office within 
the people's gift. Nothing is more evident than 
this, that New r England and the West will write 
the next page of American history. — Rev. Oco. 
U. Hepiuorth. 
Literature in Germany. —The periodicals of 
Germany, including the German provinces of 
Austria and Switzerland, in 1806, numbered 2,957 
journals; of these, 747 w’ere political, and 2,210 
non-political journals. By way of comparison, 
it may he stated that the total uuinber of jour¬ 
nals in France is 1,771, of which 336 arc political, 
and 1,435 non-political. The total number of 
those in England is 2,064, of which 1,527 are 
newspapers, and 437 magazines, showing that in 
this respect Germany occupies the first rank 
among European nations. The greatest estab¬ 
lishments for printing are in Saxony, in which 
State one-third of all German books, and nearly 
all the popular illustrated works and journals, 
are published. 
We hear it not seldom said that ignorance is 
the mother of admiration. A falser word was 
never spoken, and hardly a more mischievous 
one; for it seems to imply that this healthiest 
exercise of the mind rests, for the most part, on 
a deceit and illusion, and that with better knowl¬ 
edge it would cease. For once that ignorance 
leads us to admire that which, with fuller in¬ 
sight, we should perceive to be a common thing, 
and one demanding therefore no such tribute 
from us, a hundred, nay a thousand times, it 
prevents us from admiring that which is admira¬ 
ble indeed.— Trench. 
Value of Chabaoteb. — Colonel Chartres, 
who was the most notorious rascal in the world, 
and who Lad by all sorts of crimes amassed im¬ 
mense wealth, sensible of the disadvantages of a 
bad character, was once heard to say, that 
“he wonld give ten thousand pounds for a 
character, because he should get a hundred 
thousand pounds by it.” Is it possible, then, 
that an honest man can neglect what a wise rogue 
would purchase so dear? 
In spite of the assertions of human pride, the 
operations of science are limited. The electric 
telegraph, that triumph of science, cannot com¬ 
municate ordinary intelligence to a fool. 
SaBBa!| SHea&ittg. 
Written for Moore's Rural New-Yorker 
MEMORIES. 
My heart is fall of memories 
This quiet summer night, 
Sweet memories of “ long ago,” 
When youth and hopes wore bright. 
Oh, olden, golden schooldays; 
To-night they seem to he 
So present, and so real. 
That I almost think I see 
The living forma of loved ones,— 
Seem to clasp once more their hands,- 
Seem to mingle, carefree, happy, 
With the dear old friendly bands. 
How the sleighs sped down the hillside, 
And the gleaming snow balls flew; 
In those merry, merry winters 
When the happy years were new. 
llilt the dear old band is scattered; 
And Virginia's bloodstained shore 
Holds some wo loved and cherished 
In those diamond days of yore. 
And some of that bright, joyous hand 
Have sought the land of gold; 
Others arc ’mong the rocky peaks, 
Of mountains grand and old. 
Pair, gentle, sweet-voiced Marian, 
The purest of us ail, 
Long years ago we laid her down 
Wrapped in the shroud and pall. 
Oh nevermore, while journeying here 
’Mid mingled Joy and pain, 
Shall we fondly meet the friendly clasp 
Of those dear hands again. 
Bnt let us keep the mero'ries bright, 
That cling around the past, 
And trust that In the far home-land, 
We all may meet at last. 
Farm Home, E. Bloomfield. Fannie W. J, 
THE TEUE VIOTOEY. 
Victory over self is victory over the world. 
It is not the outward enemy, but the traitor 
within, that storms or undermines the citadel 
of spiritual life. Alas, that the gates are so 
often unbarred for the hosts of evil to enter! 
Alas, that the soul should so easily surrender, 
and suffer itself to be laid waste! As in the 
conflicts of nations, the conquering army reen¬ 
forces its own strength hy the munitions ot 
w’ar taken from the vanquished foe, so does the 
victorious soul gather new forces from every 
temptation. 
Yet the victory is gained—not by self-con¬ 
fidence and spiritual pride, bnt by humility and 
self-abnegation. The humble soul alone is truly 
strong, and safe from fall. What outward power 
can ubufio Ului who, while he reverences the na¬ 
ture God has given him, still U lowly in liis own 
eyes, “ esteeming others better than himself?” 
What circumstances or condition of life can he 
adverse to him whose will is merged in the will 
of God? To him the tide of life flows “ like a 
broad river’s peaceful might,” through sunshine 
and through storm, beariug steadily ou its ap¬ 
pointed course, ilia abundant peace is not 
stoicism. He is still a being of smiles ami tears 
—tenderly alive to the joys of human sympathy, 
both in giving and receiving the blessed charities 
ol' life. At leisure from internal strife, he has a 
word of courage for the tempted, comfort for 
the sorrowing, reproof for the hardened sinner, 
hope for the penitent .—Monthly Religious Maga¬ 
zine. 
THE BRIGHT SIDE. 
God doth chequer his providences, white and 
black, as the pillar of cloud had its light side and 
dark. Look on the light side of thy estate; 
who looks ou the dark side of a landscape? 
Suppose thou art cast in a lawsuit, there is the 
dark side; yet thou hast some land left, there is 
the light side. Thou host sickness iu thy body, 
there is the dark side; but grace in thy soul, 
there is the light side. Thou has a child taken 
away, there is the dark side; thy husband lives, 
there is the light side. God’s providences in 
this life are various, represented by those 
speckled horses among the myrtle trees, which 
were the red and white, (Zach. 1, 8;) mercies 
and afflictions are interwoven; God doth speckle 
his work. Oh, saith one, I want such a comfort; 
but weigh all thy mercies in the balance, and 
that will make thee content. Look on the light 
side of your condition, and then all your discon¬ 
tent will easily be dispersed; do not pore upon 
your losses, but ponder upon your mercies. 
What! wouldst thou have no cross at all ? Why 
should one man think to have all good things, 
when he himself is good but in part ? WouldBt 
thou have no evil about thee, who hast so much 
evil in thee? Thou art not fully sanctified in 
this life, how then thinkest thou to be fully 
satisfied ? Never look for perfection of content¬ 
ment till there be perfection of grace.— Watson. 
THE LIFE WE NEED. 
It is interesting to observe, that while the 
i saints of old appealed simply to God through 
i his revealed attributes—his mercy, his faithful¬ 
ness, his goodness which endureth forever—it 
is upon God manifested in the flesh, in the fact 
of our Lord’s life, and ihe relations which that 
life has established, that the apostles found their 
claim. They rest not so much upon what God 
is, as what he has become to men, their neighbor 
in Christ Jcsub, and as such bound, as an old 
divine says, to love them even as himself. And 
if it has become hard for believers to recognize 
the fact of their liviug membership with Christ 
and with each other, let us seek more earnestly 
for the light which makes these relations mani¬ 
fest. (1 John 1; 7.) We shall not find it in the 
phosphorescence of any dead man’s candle. Ex¬ 
halations from the tombs, though they bo the 
tombs of saint and martyr, give but an uncertain 
glimmer; for it is uot galvanic, but organic file 
we need, and this is not to be obtained by de¬ 
scending into the past to touch the ashes of even 
a prophet’s bones. 
