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--Corat Is Beautiful - 000680808000: But the Most Exquisite Is Not Gompara:: ble With the Richer Jewels of _ a Christian Soul. sn. 7% a Ba OIOK SEY ye os ee. . ke oe fe Washington, Jan. 2--Tiis pictur- | esque discourse of Dr. Taimage leads his hearers and readers through un- wonted regions of contemplation, and - is full of pecan sxospel,--Text:>-Job 7 megtion shall be made | Vhy you say that, inspired dra- matist? When yoti wanted to set! forth the superior value of our religion, | you tossed aside the onyx, which is used for ninking exquisite cameos, and the Sapphire, sky-blue, and topaz of rhombie prism, and the ruby of froz- én blood, and here you say that the e bora which is a miracle of shape and a transport of color to thase who have studied it, is not Worthy of mention in comparison with our holy religion. "No mentien shall be made .of coral." At Saint Johnsbury, Vu. in a museum, | se by the chief citizen, as I ¢xam- ned a specimen on the shelf, I first realivea What a holy of holies God ean build, and has built, in the temple of one piece of cori 1 do not wonder that Ernst Heckel, the great scientist, while in Ceylon, was so entranced with the specimens which some Cingalese divers had brought up for his inspec- tion that he himself plunged into the | sea, and went clear under the waves ; | the coral, the beauty of which he in- | dicates cannot even be guessed by | these- who hav& only seen it above: Water, and ater the polyps, -- are its nd have died, | and the chief. gloriesof these submar: 1 ine flowers hav« expired. Job, in my } mean to Pig cry this | seulplture . in the sea' corsis. ford -to depreciate the of the deep, cng eae tion. He neve his the building of the islands end sheres: | and fer uncounted thousands of years | sardens, und the coral! cas- the corat battlements ge on 1 charge you that you will please God end please yourself if you will se 'into the minut? examination or the corais--their foundations, their Pinnacles, their aisles, their pillars. their curves, their cleavages, their reticulation, their grouping--families of them, towns of them, cities of them, and continents of them. Indeed, you near appreciate the meaning of my J ext unless you know something of the pry Labvyrinthian, stellar, columnar, Noral, dented like shields from battle. spotted like icopards, embroidered like las, hung like upholstery--twilight_ s wureras-and-sunbursts' OFT beauty From deep crimson tO milk-white are its colors. You may find this work of God through the animalcules 80 fath- oms down, or amid the breakers, where the sea dashes the wildest, and beats mightiest, and bellows the loudest, These sea creatures are ever busy. Now - they build islands in the center of th Pacific ocean. Now they lift: barriers he continent, Indian ocean, and coast™ef Zanzibar have infinitesimal but At the apni ot in some ple . Alpine elewations.\ but the dee did unas the top of their elsewhere nothing soundings decks of ite Jenger, the Porcupine and th ning of the British expedition « an an- and the hiits of lands it has been ust fake Algerian reefs inn had at work amid the coral ' *, With yielding profit $565,000, seculiag worldly value of the coral us conmpared with the meral : gieus, as when, in my tex ploys $f in comparison. hew any one can exam size of the thumb- ma thinking himself of wed; ping Him, and-feeling the opposite jor the xreat infidel surgeon, lecturing to the medical students In the diss: cling reom eye, he? : at the idea powerfolly students: } hate Him." sg nal " ut and 1 adore Hin thi se without and wership- of Picking up a eoral, "There is a God, a me with the that. eur God loves the mast beautiful coral of the werld comes to human observation Sunrises and sunsets he } He may e dew inte pearl, on fire autumnal] foliage to please mortal sight. but those thous- ef miles of coral achievement I has had built for His Own In those galleries He . The of those played om by the He only, can hear. white and the bloom of He alone can see. Having garnitured this world to please theshuman race, and lifted a glorious heaven ta. please -- he TMcenice en I am giad that He has planted these deep to please Himself. -there Ged aliows spec maripe glory to be loans up and set us fer sublime contemplation. speak, these great nations of phytes, andrinas pores, with tentacles for building just such coral as we find in our. text. The diamond may be more rare, the crystal may the chrysoprase Ere . who underst stones, declares that "the beauty and value of the coral aré nothing com- worthy compared. -with che ener Jewels: of Christian scul. ; There Something. beautiful. ©! ro , ba % -! SB Ke to SH Ok Me KOK The first thing that strikes me in iook- ing .at the coral is its long-continued accumulation. It is not turned up like Cotopaxi, but_is.an outbutting-and-an | outbranching ages. In a ae | there are reefs hundreds ¢ and one thousand bui these reefs, zoophytes. or cora not such workers whe built the mids as were these masons, creatures of the sea. What smail crea- tions amounted to what vast agsrega- tion? Who can estimate the ages be- tween the time when the roe sn ni laid the foundations of the the time when the « apeuine of a completed work' 4 puzzles all the'scientists to guess through how many years the vorallines were building the Sandwich snd Soci- qty istanda: and the Marshail and Gil- groups. more siowly wonderfully accum ee ci is the heart. couraged apbuile ding » soul does not ge on more rapidly. you have all eternity. to I u tdi litile annoyances of life builders, and there will py Sm yer on topof snvall layer, ed grief on the top of fossilised grief. Grace does not go up rapidly soul,- but, blessed id Oe. it : Ten thousand milic ges tinish you. Tp pias z sea of earthly disquietude will gradu- grace in xet dis- € phyte ally rise the reefs, the islands, the con- | the hemispheres" of Men talk as therugh in this only had time to buit: but what we gen in this jife, as aompared i With what we shall build 2 i : e. is asa "striped shel You. nad 50 into an architect's nd you see the sketch of a te "mple. the correr-stone of which has net yet been laid. O-» a could have an arch- aoe sketch of what you will be ifter eternity Ww hat pillars of strength! What altars ef supernal worship! "Vhat pinnecles thrusting their glittering sbikes into | i the sun that never scts! You do. scold the corallines bueause cd not build an island in a day should you scold yourself tecause cannot complete a temple of for the heart in this shert You tell me vou do net much new, but try us after i thousand miliion ages of halelujah. Let us hear --_ angels chant fora milion cen- turi Give us an eternity with God, ail 'iw see if we do rot a'nount to More-siowty-am) Warvel- ously accurpulative is the grace in the soul than anything I ean think of. "No mention shall be made.of coral.' Lord, help us to learn that which f are deficient in--patience, mest of If Thou canst take, through the sea- of vears to puild not anemones, millions one bank of Cenil willing to do work ev fitty Sears without complaint. out thessn Without chafing of spirit? * Pasience With the erring: pati ener that we cannot hayes the milan. niun' ina few weeks: patience with as- "ault of antagonists: pat < at what slow fulfilment prom- years with- 2 enemy. standard | on like a is uyoa FS OWMIng have and like that sTtalesmay. persue 'd him te his own Aim epithets. and -ar- bec Sime dark. a tore 'hack to his home sreund, Patienrs Athenian a oman who, . balanc '¢-Wheel for all men- and moral machinery: the foot that r placidity stormiest lake: - for otherwise rash tongues: silence that conquers 'isterous and blatant. Patience most ji-ustrious example is patient ws tal sreatme nt sniner: pailent under the nis assailants: lation: patient expectoration patient 'unde r flagel- under the epee. heard eavalr patient all exasperations Whatever comes. stand it; wait. bear up. ake my hand again, and we will zo a little further into this garden of the sea, and we shall find that nm propor- Leite as the climate is healthy. Draw two laotherial lines degrees north s of equater, and hed on, k around hey é They hear the children' 5 sa al But. after awhile the wheel b ° but he has d ped the catechism. The wheel of fortune turns up again and he gets his 380,000. Now he has prayers on Sabbath morning alone. The wheel of ene keeps turning up, and he has ~now he has prayers on Savbath morning. when he feels like it, company: The wheel and : | funeral could net express my has wrought upor you! But now the' wheel of 'for-" ns down; and the man loses. "the $300, w newspapers on the egg riage 8 soiling to have prayers: His affairs.are ore and more complicated, ge after , awhile crash goes his last dollar. Now the has prayers every ng, and he_ | hears his grandchildren the catechiam" Prosnerity took him away from God: ; adversity drove him back to ¢ ke" the coral; ' seal iding. trouble to make the jews of We all hate trouble, j Dadniter who wished t sion of great distress for , and who had his serva | fast and-put See sreat j then the artist { victim's facé ae immediately j ferred it to the canvas. 1 te servant, "More ler more torture gh expression said: "Stop th catch that expression. i have it-upon the canvas. 'wietim, 1 ie ave a work that will iast forever,"* you say, "he | inhuman saints Trouble is + and inhuman. put he is a great pa of our tears and blood. 'on makes colors that that it might be a pic- Christian fartitude,. of shining | Tore ; hope! On the day I was Heensed te preach the. Gospel an old Christian my hand and said: "My son, yet-in a tight corner on without any sermon, and-I & ii preach for yo . it WaS @ yreat encouragem€n?t backed up by such a good dld Rninis- and it Was notlong before I got "a tight corner on Saturday night. Without nny sermon, and I sent for the i "came and preach- was the last strmon he ever All the tears I cried at his affection who was wilttr 1g tO helpe corer what we al help us out of '¢ ip one now. am used to j Nances, and . for that ime out of friends, that ! somebody Man, fa eovulite nN an beyond the agaons look wv hich you hide vi our élin I ; sna ight. corner, ji did when ! 4 De » better, than | did--se a? Danife:, and of ' eth er man who got into a "QO." SAYS someone, "why UEVE "Op me through Prosper- "The water is net het In answering my y own enou . wre! | + stion you have : : imate for richest "het trouble soul. The from Torre ashere sue brought wut pea ei ser: r the coral fishers th 'a x T mie dae "inte the there ix something that ike blos a. great | blond scatiereg f eareat 'tribulati en and ha t. washed white me" Lamb these oth) > made of hand: ~ | watk on throws h-this garden "of the particularily Soeny Corn t faaediated sith it Wrote: vod and asa met on. sweeps thr 1 ihe clear deep sea, And the yellow and scartet tufts of the ean} = Or ent like on th» earn upline ser ne eral called the it specimen of | de sndrophilia. because uno oth er 5 lke Star: another fs brain corad, hecause it is ike the con- vohution; ef the human train: unetner ihe fan coral, because it i instrument with which vou coral, es Pals "ier of iad eal inatruments. Ali the flowers and ali the shrubs in the gardens of the land have their en this of the sea a for beauty. beauty with our eS not give features with person Was net originally fourt it behind the fea- homeciest person a heaven through. So acquaintance, you * is the homellest person when, aftef you came tv him and his nobility shining through his countenance, - sets Fa af " thoug sht of her, there thought well--your had admired her for 50 and you. over whom she bends tender ministrations, of the angels of God, and your mother a them, she outshines them ¢ that-our-yeuns eople could ep meee: that there fs ' nething that su much beautifies the hu- countpnance as the religion of Christ! It makes" everything | beautiful. Trouble benautital. Sickness _ Disappointment beautiful, beauti ear my early home there _ place called the Two Bridges. . bridges leaped the two Well. my © friends religion mot Jesus Christ is iwe bridges. It bridges all the past. It arches ae overspans all the future. the dying pillow the landing 'ate of angels fresh from glory. A turns the sepulchre into May-tim techni. It catches up the dying into full 'or- An tra. 'oralium! oes not. express the beauty: --e. cor be gee of coral" ur han grey and Roig a hag on Farther on in this Sea, and I notice the durability ot he work of the coral. . Montgom- ery speaks of it. He says: "Frail were their forms, lives. their When you think was a bona England Amelia Wofford, in December St. olns. takes 187,000,000 of them to make-on. Srain- Corals are Changing the meee ; igation- of the sea, saying to the com- merce of the world: "Take this chan- nel;" "take that cpeenele "avoid the other channel." Animalcules beating back the Atlantic ant Pacifi If the insects of the ocean have built a reef a thousand miles long, who knows but that they, may yet build a bridge Asia will be united with this conti- nent on the other side; and the tour- ist of the world, without the turn of a steamer's Wheel or the spread of a ship's sail, may go all around the ai and thus be fulfilled the pro- phecy, "There shall be no more sea,' - Buethe: durability of corals w is net at ail to' be compared the' durability of wore. for The coral is crumble in the fires of the day, but our werk for God will fortver. No more dixcouraged man ba lived than Beethoven, the , crea musical composer, Unmercifully criticived by brother artists and his music some- times rejected. Deaf for renty-five years, and forced. on his. way. to Vienna, to beg food and 'lodging ata very plain house by the roadside, the evening the family: opened a musical instrument and Played and Bang With great enthusiasm; and one of the numbers they rendered was so mee peal that tears ran down their He they sang and played. sitting in the room, too r the singing. was curious was (he music that so overpowered them, and when they 4 through he reached up and took the folio in his hand and found it was i music--Beethoven's Symph- and he cried out. "I wrote household Sat.and stood find that their. oN Digaaae eae > ihe to gy bat 5 sreat compose ¢ that heuse him that expiring hephew, had play seethovenis symphonics e the enc = ge irre ef nations. But you "om-~ nd you say fs remarkable you--onty trying to family usefulness and 2Ven. Yet the i S your child i mission, vid ona) die. That son the you sang su conscious or uncon- nd inspiration here. epen to him the -- i i # seas! - owt By When youre pitchforked em thae eae a' te Eieht. o'clock, Wee sleepy-heidet Wull ye wauken*up ? Meee mither Eas sic faug ut-- 2 moment's ease! i ci Tam as ye like, at nicht His breeks are Heooge. his knees, Thread is no' for him pe 1t never hauds 4 Maun I speak sake a A are Bid ull ye wauken up' Tam, the very last to bed, He wWinna rise ava'. ast to get his books an' Last to won awa'. Sie a limb for aa a fun-- Heeds na' what Rab an' Jouie bak zane plagues~ Wull they sleep a' day ? sklate-- Here they come, the three at sce, clies e wee bit faces clean. Here's your bite an' sep--- Never was mair wiselike bairns Noo they're waukened up. 'There, the three are aff at Inst I wateh > frae the door: That Tam. he's at his tricks «gai 1 coont them as the se lHie's a his-1it afore we Rab. An' coupit Jamie doon. Could I lay my han's on hi rd mak ini claw his nea han Noo to get my wark , is uneo™ vray. A ~dizzen tas rh look the When it come roun' clock ree. . euddlin' or ee me up, "Ale x. Anderson ('Surface manne.) 4 Scotch Night P chance to strike a. gathering a dozen friends "here the drink is a rere key or some blends," in And the room Is fall of ™ speirin', and the "gruppin'™ of brown han's, And the talk is all of "tartans" and of ™ plaidies," ' clans," You can take Things douce and easy, you can judge you're going right, For you've had the Inck to stumble on a "wee Scotch night." whis- "forde: in among in a sw eeping sort of way, "anither mon an' brither™ from the Tweed or from the Tay, When vontre taken by the oxter As and lorio: ee brs f The lullabies of this century will sing _threugh No the centuries. soo accomplished in through eternity. t aged, as I sup- vastness ae little we are dveing. ou suppose the rhizopod is ne need of my work- cannot build the Cordilleras." you suppose the madrepore = said, "There is no nged of my working: I cannet-buiid --theySandwieh islands." h one attended to his own busi- and there are the Sandwich is- und ere are the Cordilleras. redemption of enterprise. I Tt will not in this lam only an in- sect as colpared with the great be _be done, but sometimes set this eternal My paren see toiled on : this befor: low born. I pray God that my children in toil on this after fam dead. Insects but honored "i God to help up reef of acrogsa- which shall break the ox conus immor- sladness, Bette useful than mastodons and --megatheriums of the earth, what did they do but stalk their great eareasses across the land and leave their skeletons through ye Strata, while the heaving 'up the is s With fruitage and verdure. Better be 2 coralline than.a, mastodon. Se now 1 am trying to make one little coral- The polyp picks gut-of the wave teak smites it carbonate of lime, an with that builds up its own insectile masonry... So out of the wave of your tears | take the salt; out of the bruise I take the blue. and out bleeding heart I take the Soueiest owned up in when God makes his. jewels. day Court Fools Who Owned Whole Powns Hitard, who was attached to id- mund Jronsides, ix _ first court jes- ter Whan we ha wrt 24 He owned the town of \. atv ling gift He held et through reigns; and before leaving England for Rome, where he a@pent his Jast days, be presented it Ao the chureh, pierced thre deel ipo the altar of the ( bury. Gallet, Galet, 'athedra! of Canter- or Gollet, a uative of steps. whet only saved his muster's life by | disclosing a plot for lis Assassination. led in Berdic was another: hé is enrej Domesday Book as joculator regis. and lord of three towns, all rent free, and five carucates in Gloucestershire. Ra- ami Wm. jester "te 'King Join. | c - who, it_is' thought, may be identical with H@nry of Fanches, the poet-laureate or : ry Neh Mr. Van Clive--Do you know, ve you're couped into a chair While someone slips a whusky in your tumbler -- ure, , Then the present seems, less dismal nd the future' fair and bricht, . earth's grand reasure in hn "guid Scot's nicht." When hear a short same shout- eX the same uname shouted you back, Till you*think in the confusion that they've all lieen christened *' Mac." When you see a red beard Mashing in the corner by the fire, d a giant on the sofa who is nix- foot three, or higher, Before you've guessed the color and before you've ganged the height, You'll haye-jumped at the conclusion it's a ""'braw Scotch night.' When the red dik in the corner puts his strong ¥ gives the "Hundred the chorus lifts the chiel. sings * wW its tender, , Ti! the tears are on their syed and --the drink comes round again. When they chant the stirring .war- , That Would make the cow- ward fight. Then you're fairiy in the "we Scotch night." middle of a Wen the> pict begins to) thicken, and the band. begins to play, Vhen every tin-pot chieftain Lists 2 wonl or two to say Ww ber, oti jang do sell a Qu ocbianlaii aan : sprig of native hea 1¢ Whole of them are tight You Meu know that you're "ssi - -ting at (bic) Seotch 'night. When the-last big bottle's empty and the dawn creeps gray aes eo dd, saa" _ Jast clan ta folded, d the last t big. lie is told. sigs down the footpath a brave, gee line, To the peril of the pare and une of "Auld Lang Syne. Sou can tell the folks at breakfast, as they watch the feursome WwW bern i the a sicht, ; ects "They have only been assisting st bra w~-Seote-nicht.---- --G lenrowan, Austritin. A SONG OF COURAGE. 'Ax you pull along the trail, never Jet your courage If the hill be steep. and rocky is the roagt Keep a climbin' for the. top. ter, never stop, 'Teeugh your Lida Horned limbs may ,tot- ne ver jond, if yeu wall C5 to catch the truini= do noti fall 'into the dumps. An' geciare it is no use to further Though it seems a rocky game kee on-buekin" just the same, An' "yon! re-bound to akan a winnin' by-an'-by.- Though life's temptests beat «round There is yet a cali in store: Theo dark clouds are hovering The da will soun be | Soon the morn will bregk owith glad- And the clouds will pass away; And bog te or Brogee: 3