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YOUTH’S CROWNING 
ulclier. Don’t pause solemnly", and go up 
llie aisle with a disconsolate visage. All! it 
our Lord was a crowned despot, this would 
be right; but he is not; lie is a God ol' love, 
ol mercy, of forgiveness. 
Men ought to be striving to make this day 
a more cheerful day, a pleasanter day than 
all the rest of the week. Brothers, friends, 
fellow citizens, there is nothing that I care 
so much about as the sac red ness of the Sab¬ 
bath. Rut I don’t think you can make it so 
by law, it must be supported by public opin¬ 
ion. Here is a day hallowed by four thou¬ 
sand years of observance. Let us keep it so 
that it may ha a delight to the Lord. Be 
assured that, not long after Sunday has been 
abolished will it be kept except by the sword 
and bayonet of the despot .—Henry Ward 
Beecher. 
who were afraid of breaking the holy day. I 
do not think it is wrong, either, to write let¬ 
ters home on the Sabbath. Every child 
should be so brought up, Unit when ho thinks 
of borne, lie shall think Sunday the best day, 
as the culminating point of the joys of the 
week. Tt ia in the light of making this a 
day of joy that we can discuss the question 
of walking and amusement on the Sabbath. 
Now I am decidedly in favor ol' walking 
upon the Sabbath. And if any go, all should 
go; don’t let, the children encounter tempta¬ 
tion alone. Bui it must be done soberly. So 
far as the working classes are concerned, it 
may he an occasional truth that it is wise to 
take them out of their dirty, lilthy homes, 
and give them an excursion down the bay or 
up the river. Singing birds and beautiful 
dowers arc very pleasant, but stop—give 
them first moral culture and the means of 
beauties, so that they can 
Sabbath Ijcatung 
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IA Memorial Poem, eoinniemuratlnp the death of 
UEoitOK W. Dkmkus of the Albany Evening 
Join iml, rend before the New York State Edito¬ 
rial Convention-] 
Cl,OS It up the ranks, O brothers all! 
And feel each heart throb nearer, 
The bravest nt our sldo must fall. 
The livlnp aru the dearer. 
Vet pause a moment In the strife 
To drop si tear of sorrow, 
o'er ore whose brief to-day of life 
Hub found Its long To-itiorrow; 
Whose Uirtlllnp volee too soon is still, 
Whose pen forgets its mission ; 
Who walks at last, us true hearts will, 
Within the Holds Klyslan. 
NO TEARS IN HEAVEN 
■Listen’, oh burdened, weary one, 
Whose path in shadow lies, 
And o'er whose sky of life the gloom 
Of dark’nlng clouds arise; 
Whose star of Hope has set in grief 
Amid the storms of even,— 
A voice comes stealing o'er the waste. 
“ There are no tears in lieaven.” 
The thorns of care may crown thy brow, 
And sorrow fold her wings 
About thy aching, stricken heart, 
WhileUrtef »ad dirges sings; 
Droop not, t hough Earth seem desolate. 
And thou ill vain hast strlv'n 
With foes too strong for thee t.o meet— 
“There are no tears In Heaven.” 
Ho fought a brave and noble fight, 
And fell while bravely lighting, 
And won the victor's glad delight 
Whore never ends delighting; 
The years that hold their crown afar, 
So long tho same wlthohiing, 
Like sumo deceitful, fleeing star. 
Now distances unfolding,— 
With generous utndne.v; broughtlt near, 
And crowned ills grand endeavor; 
And though wo miss its glory here 
lie’ll wear the crown forever ! 
We eanuot sec by the light of yesterday 
nor subsist long upon yesterday’s food, W o 
need continual supplies every moment. Bo 
long us we feel our weakness, and lean upon 
an Almighty arm, wo are safe, but. no longer. 
interpreting these 
see God's handiwork in every (lower. I set 
my face like Mint against making Sunday a 
day of pleasure for the rich man ami a day 
of bondage for the, poor man. I wouldn't 
sign a petition against running the cars on 
Sunday. It there is any sin it, I think that 
it is just, as bacl to ride hi a carriage to church 
as in a horse-car. 
In arguing for a sacred Sabbath, l am ar¬ 
guing for the poor man. It is his day. It 
is his bulwark against oppression. Many 
have supposed that Christ set. his face 
against t he Sabbath. He did not. He ex¬ 
plicitly declares that Sunday was made for 
man, not man for Sunday. Sunday is made, 
to serve man. It is made to make man 
freer, nobler. I remark, secondly, that a 
negative Sabbath is poor way of keeping it 
as well as can be. Tho prevalent idea of 
the Sabbath is that you must not do some¬ 
thing. I remember in my childhood, at our 
home in Litchfield, how often upon the Sab¬ 
bath I would see something to laugh at, and 
I would laugh. “ Henry,” my mother would 
say, (as good a woman as ever lived,) 
“Henry, you mustn’t laugh.” 
“ Why not ?” 
“Because it is Sunday.” 
“And 1 would stand at the western win¬ 
dow, with my brother Charles, and watch¬ 
ing the slowly declining sun, would nudge 
him and say, “ Charlie, Sunday is most 
gone." 
And my mother would remark, “ Henry, 
you ought not wish that Sunday would be 
through.” But l was glad whim it. was 
through ; it hadn’t made me iu love witli it. 
It was a restrictive day to me, a perpetual 
pruning' day. Oh, that catechism that. 1 
couldn’t learn, didn’t learn, and can’t, say 
even now. Have you brought tip your chil¬ 
dren so that they like tho Sabbath V If you 
haven't so used the Sabbath-day, then you 
have broken it. When you come to church 
don’t look in as if you was going into a sep- 
And though thine own fall hero like rain 
Upon tliy burning heart, 
A preeioiiK harviist rich for Goi>, 
Sim 11 Into beauty start; 
Ami while Its fragrant perfumes rise 
To Him whose hand hath given 
The blessed dew, lie'll whisper low,— 
“There'll ho no tears In Heaven.” 
o. Youth is In its strength sublime. 
And in Its hopeful darlilg; 
Uut Youth Is hound a stave to Time, 
And service Ik Its faring. 
Who servos the host has best reward, 
And fullest In its measure. 
For Time is an exacting lord. 
And dearly holds its treasure; 
And rarely dues V otitli serve so well 
Within Its weary Edom, 
As, like our friend who fought and fell 
To eiirn its early freedom! 
He's molding thee with tender hand 
For thine eternity; 
Then shrink not, for no needlasa grief, 
His love shall send to thee; 
But lift thine eyes where, ’midst the gloom 
Ills lovo tho clouds has riven 
Of pearly gates a glimpse—the strain. 
Breathing,—"No tears in Heaven." 
ST. PETER’S, 
\Ye give herewith a view of St. Peter’s, of 
Rome, to the previous history of which has 
been added that which tho Ecumenical 
Council of 1870 lias made. Wo do not pur¬ 
pose to review the giout church events that 
have taken place there nor give the dimen¬ 
sions and specifications of this grand speci¬ 
men of church architecture. All this lias 
been written again and again by tourists and 
historians. Here is a glimpse of its outlines 
and proportions—the headquarters of one of 
(lie most powerful church organizations 
which exists or ever has existed upon the 
earth. 
O, brothers nil! mir service yet, 
Though youth, mayhap, lias perished, 
Is on our livnB a bondage sot, 
Wlmt,o'er we'vo dreamed or cherished 
But ho who sleeps his dreamless sleep, 
Whoso lift* has found Its ending. 
Whoso loss a sorrowing circle weep, 
Hub known the best befriending; 
Fur tolling brought. Its recompense 
Without a weary watting, 
And Bind and free ho Journeyed lienee, 
Tlio Future antedating! 
HOW TO KEEP THE SABBATH, 
Every house of any consideration has a 
best room. It is usually furnished with the 
choicest, things a man can afford. What¬ 
ever there is that stands apart from the 
It is the 
common uses, the parlor receives, 
room of honor. Now, what the parlor is to 
the house, so is Sunday to the rest of tho 
■week. The week is a house, and Sunday is 
the best room in it. It is a day to be looked 
up to as the best day in the week. In the 
words of Isaiah we see that Sunday was to 
lie honorable ; it was to be memorable, it 
was a declaration that if men will lay aside 
a day for worship, the Lord will bless them. 
It is to be a day upon which a man will say 
“ it is a delight.” 
We are to bear this in mind, that what¬ 
ever you do on the Lord’s day, you may 
take tins as its character — it must he pleas¬ 
ant; made pleasant by a higher manhood, 
by the enjoyment of Christian joys. It is to 
be the day of tlm week which is to act oil 
our higher nature. Tl should, therefore, carry 
this feeling of joy fulness in a man's mUon l 
The whole truth of the prophet’s word's an*; 
then, that you shall so enjoy tlm Sablnith 
day that your higher nature shall say it Is a 
delight and honorable. As the cooper would 
never think of working at his barrel while 
so tho 
And yet and Oun solution this, 
To those sl.lll biugei' serving. 
That lie whum always wc shall miss 
Has won but his deserving. 
A light bus faded from mir sky 
From genius radiant gleaming; 
A brilliance, quickly passing by. 
Leaves darkness for Its beaming; 
And while we toll the years adown, 
Wc may not Unit his equal 
Who early gained the victor's crown 
And life's sweet, llnal sequel! 
HINDOO WORSHIP, 
A Scottish merchant in India thus de¬ 
scribes the open air worship of the Hindoos: 
“ But the chief attraction of Benares on that 
glorious mornng lay in its scenes of animated 
life. The hanks, tinted with many-colored 
cloths spread out. to dry, were l'esomint with 
the progress of industrial employments, the 
mason, sawyer and carpenter being severally 
visible at work in their sheds. A picturesque 
crowd in showy wf red, green or 
yellow, moved up and down the steps of IliO 
great ghaut, branching off in little streams 
by invisible streets or passages at either side, 
and swarming out aud iti through the 
shadowy perspective of the main street iu 
front. The city seemed to be astir us if on 
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CAPTAIN DARREL’S WARD 
Thirty years ago, 1 was second mate of 
the Warsaw, lying in the port of Auckland, 
New Zealand, As we were bound to Japan 
the next season, touching at the Sandwich 
Islands, we received on hoard as passengers 
a Scotchman, who had been for severa l years 
a resident of the colonics, and his only child, 
a little girl of twelve 
' Vn \ David Cameron 
\ had recently lost his 
health, and, closing 
t, e r in i n e d upon a 
g change of residence, 
' He had been 
entertaining company at his house 
Sabbath Is to be kept 
separate from the rest V 
of the week. Keep / jjjj 
your shavings and / 
your dirt, out of I he / . 
Lord’s day. It is not ' _ ’ 
then to he a working 
day. I am not su¬ 
perstitious on this ' 
subject. I don't, think 
that if a man, walk¬ 
ing in his garden on 
the Sabbath, should 
see a weed and pull 
it up, it would be 
marked down against 
him on the Lord’s 
book. I regard it as - _ 
a day in the week 
when a man can say, 
1 am not a clerk, am 
not an apprentice ; 
I am not to crouch 
to any one to-day, 1 
am a man. A man 
stands on his man¬ 
hood that day. 
Wherefore,Isay that 
Sunday should not 
be a working day, ’V 
because it must be 
unlike other days. 
Sunday is the poor jpf 
man’s, it is your day, BP.B| M 
it is my day, it is lib- 
It is not to he a J.. 
visiting day. I am 
n o t superstitious ? 
abont this, either. I Bijg|jjg§jB 
believe the question 
is not, Can I, or can 
1 not visit? but rath- glp Fgj p flfi 
er, wlmt sort of visit- 
i n g would do me §S3f(3i|j§g 
good, make me bet- lllBlil&gS 
ter? 1 have known 
| ministers going to 
t preach on the Sab- 
bath, after the ser- 
fti M vice, not lobe asked ciM 
even to go to dinner, 
from an over-sempu- ^ 
lousness on the part 
when! 
a seaman in his 
youth, and was, of 
course, able to adapt 
himself easily to such 
accommodations as 
we could oiler him in 
a whaler, lie was 
tenderly attached to 
Ids little daughter, 
who soon became a 
favorite with every 
one on hoard. 
Thrown into daily 
contact with her, as I 
xv as, it was not 
strange that 1 found 
a strong attraction 
drawing me to her. 
Blie was a study to 
me, for I could not 
help con trasting her, 
every hour iu the 
day, with a sister of 
mine, about the same 
age, whom 1 had left 
at home. 
When near the 
French Rock, wc en¬ 
countered a gale of 
wind, which exceed¬ 
ed in violence, any¬ 
thing which 1 have 
ever experienced, be¬ 
fore or since, iu the 
Pacific. Biitouriitllo 
passenger was quite 
at homo on ship¬ 
board, and appeared 
to have little fear or 
uneasiness. She re¬ 
mained on deck near¬ 
ly all the time, until 
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