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HE LEADS US ON. 
ANSWERING A FOOL ACCORDING TO 
HIS POLLY. 
He leads ns on, 
By paths we did not know; 
Upward he leads ns, though our steps be slow; 
Though oft we faint and falter by the way, 
Though storms and darkness oft obscure the day, 
Yet, when the clouds are gone 
We know he leads us on. 
He leads us on 
Through all the unquiet 
years; 
Past all our dreamland hopes, and 
doubts, and fears, 
He guides our steps. Through all 
the tangled maze 
Of sin, of sorrow, and o’er-clouded 
days, 
We know his will is done ; 
And still he leads us on. 
And he at last, 
After the weary strife, 
After the restless fever we call life. 
After the dreariness, the aching 
pain, 
The wayward struggles, which have- 
proved in vain, 
After our toils are past, 
Will give us "rest at last. 
Let me tell a Dutch story right here, because it 
comes from a Dutchman in the eastern part of 
Pennsylvania and must be a true story. The 
Dutchman was never ashamed of his religion. In 
his neighborhood there was a sceptic who said, 
“ You can’t believe anything you can’t under¬ 
stand ”; and so some of the better class of people 
asked the Dutchman if he would not have a conversa¬ 
tion with him. He said, “ Yes, if you tiulc best.” 
WALKING WITH GOD. 
The difficulty which most peo¬ 
ple have in religion is to bring the 
thought of God into their daily" 
lives. His very greatness makes 
it hard to connect him with home¬ 
ly, every-day matters. We get 
some sense of him in church, or 
in the prayer-meeting, or in rare 
hours of exalted feeling. But 
when we go into the busy world, 
where most of our life is spent, 
God fades away into heaven, that 
is farther off than the blue sky 
above our heads. This is a great 
loss to us. It is neglect on our 
part of our highest opportunity. 
God walks with us, in closest nearness, at every 
moment. There is in him, if we could learn 
to take it, a provision of helpfulness, of sympathy, 
of sufficiency, for every step in the whole round 
of our daily life. The very things that seem in¬ 
significant and without spiritual meaning are set 
round us by God as a part of our education. And if 
we habitually recognize his presence in them, all the 
incidents of business and our household care and 
daily walk would become threads of gold, holding 
us in the sweetest, noblest friendship with our hea¬ 
venly Father. 
The odder day I vas riding along the road and I 
meet von dog, and that dog had von of his ears 
stand up in this way, and the odder one he stand 
down so. Now, vy was dat V 
Now, that was very unhandy just then—very un¬ 
handy. He either had to prove that the dog did not 
have one ear standing up and the other ear standing- 
down, or else say he did not believe it. So he said, 
“ I don’t know.” 
“ Oh! then you are not so very smart after all. I 
ask you auoder question. I saw in John Smith’s 
clover-patch the clover come up so nice, and I looked 
over into the fields and there was 
John Smith’s pigs, and dere come 
out hair on dere packs; and in the 
very same clover-patch vas his 
sheep, and dere came out voll on 
dere packs. Now, vy was dat V 
Now, that was as bad as the 
other, because the same perplexity 
arose. He had to prove there was 
wool on the back of the pig, or 
hair on the back of the sheep, and 
he couldn’t tell why, and, therefore, 
he had no business to believe it. 
Finally he said, “ I don’t know.” 
“Yell,” he said, “you are not 
half so smart as you tink you are. 
Now I asks you anoder question. 
Do j r ou pleef dere is a God ?” 
“ No, I don’t believe any such 
nonsense.” 
“ Oli! .yes, I hear about you long 
ago. I know all about you. My 
Bible knows about you, for in my 
Bible he says : ( The fool says in 
his heart there is no God ’; but 
you big fool, you blat it right out.” 
— G. P. Hayes. 
THE LATEST INVEN¬ 
TION. 
Grandfather and Grandmother. 
“ Have you any objections to the neighbors coming- 
in ?” 
“ No ; shust as you tink best.” 
So they made the appointment and everybody was 
there. The old gentleman came in and was intro¬ 
duced to the sceptic, and he began by saying : 
“ Veil, now look here. I pleefs the Bible—what 
you pleefs 
Said he : “ I don’t believe anything I can’t under¬ 
stand.” 
“Oh! you must be one very smart man. I was 
mighty glad I meet you. I ask you some questions. 
The London Saturday Review 
once declared that the greatest 
benefactor of the human race 
would be he who could enable men 
to drink an unlimited quantity of 
wine without getting drunk. Such 
a man has been found. Dr. Bell 
invented the telephone, but its 
wonders pale before the telegas- 
tograph. This is an electrical 
machine by which the palate can 
be tickled and pleased by any flavor and for any length 
of time, without fear of indigestion or inebriety. By 
putting soup, or fish, or wine into a receptacle connect¬ 
ed with a powerful battery, the taste of the daintiest 
viands can be conveyed along a telegraph wire miles, 
and to an unlimited number of bans vivants. They 
have only to put the wire in their mouths, and they 
seem to be eating and drinking. The}- may get drunk 
or overfed; but the moment the contact is broken 
the evil effects pass off, and nothing remains but a 
“delightful exhilaration.” The inventor, however, 
keeps the modus opercmdi a perfect secret. 
