ESTHER KING had resolved to lead a new life. She had sought and found a pearl of great price. Her life heretofore had been of the butterfly kind, but a sudden affliction had turned her thoughts in a new channel. Old things had passed away and all things had become new. She took a class in the mission school. It was an unpromising looking class which the superintendent gave her, and she trembled when he told her that every teacher had given it up as hopeless.
“Now, Miss Esther, we will see what you can accomplish with such material,” he added, as he left her surrounded by seven rough-looking youths, ranging in age from fourteen to seventeen.
“Well, young gentlemen, I am happy to make your acquaintance,” said the new teacher with a pleasant smile, as she glanced around the class. “I hope we will do each other good.”
“Trying to soft-soap us,” said a coarse-looking boy, his loud whisper distinctly heard by Miss Esther. Another laughed out loud, attracting the attention of all around.
“We ain’t no gentlemen,” quickly spoke up a thin-faced, eagle-eyed boy. “I’m a rag man. Got any to sell? I’ll call ’round to-morrow. Where do you live?” At which the others all laughed; and the merriment was increased as he took a spit-ball out of his mouth and aimed it at the bird on her hat.
“Try it ag’in, Jack,” exclaimed another boy.
Esther looked Jack straight in the eye, and, in a gentle tone, said, “Jack, it is the conduct, not the calling, which makes the gentleman.”
He showed no signs of being abashed, but he whispered to the boy next to him, “She’s got pluck.”
“The Crucified Saviour” was the lesson for the day, the new teacher telling them the story, which has thrilled so many hearts, of the sacrifice on the cross. She pictured his agony, his patient endurance of his sufferings for our sakes as well as for those who have lived before us.
“We’ve heard that tale before,” interrupted Jack. “Tell us something new.”
“Do you believe all that?” inquired another.
Esther let a silent prayer ascend from her heart as she went on talking, apparently paying no attention to the rude remarks.
After school, the superintendent inquired how she had succeeded. Esther repeated what had occurred.
“Well, try and see what you can do,” said Mr. Miller. “If you can persuade one of those boys to turn from his evil ways, it will certainly be a bright star in your crown up yonder.”
Esther feared that star would never adorn her crown. She had youth and inexperience to fight against; but then she had a warm love for the Master burning in her heart, and an earnest desire to work in his cause and win souls for his kingdom, and the longer and harder she worked, the warmer grew the one, the more earnest the other.
“Do you believe God sees and knows all about and cares for fellows like us?” asked Jack, one Sabbath, as Esther was telling them of God’s attributes of omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience, and his fatherly care of his creatures.
“Certainly, Jack. We are told in the Bible that there is not a hair of our heads unnumbered.”
“Wouldn’t take long to count ’em on that fellow’s head over there,” quickly said Jack, pointing to one of the teachers, an elderly gentleman, who had lost his hair, and was like the prophet of old whom the boys called after—“Thou bald head.”
“And not even a sparrow falls to the ground without his knowledge, and he knoweth all our goings in and goings out, and there is nothing hid from him, not even our most secret thoughts and deeds,” continued the teacher, paying no attention to the suppressed titter caused by Jack’s smart speech.
Sabbath after Sabbath for two years she took her way to the mission school room, trying to sow seeds that would, with His help, fall upon good ground. She prayed constantly, and remembered those precious words, “Whatsoever ye ask in my name, ye shall receive.” And she had asked for souls, just one, if it was his will, while she hoped on, knowing that delayed answers to prayers are not denials.
“R-a-g-s, r-a-g-s, any rags!” shouted Jack, as he picked his way down the long alley in the rear of a handsome row of houses on a fashionable street.
“Mister, come in here,” called a voice from one of the open gates. “What do you give for rags?” asked the girl, as Jack approached, with a huge bag of rags flung over his shoulder.
“Two cents for mixed, four for white,” was the answer:
“Here is a lot of all kinds. The lady cleared out the closet this morning.”
Jack put his hand in the bundle, and drawing out a handful glanced at them, carelessly saying, “Two cents a pound.”
“Take them,” said the girl.
They were duly weighed, and twenty-one pennies handed her. Jack’s eyes had espied a pocketbook among the rags, and he hastily left, quickly got out of the alley, and going to the next street emptied his bag of rags in the wagon which stood there, and put the pocketbook in his pocket, intending to open it when he got far enough away.
He whistled merrily as he drove down the street to his next point of business, which was some distance off, and on a smaller street, where he usually collected more rags, among the humbler class of people; his well known cry of “R-a-g-s r-a-g-s,” in the peculiar tone of his profession, ringing out and bringing several boys and girls out with their hoarded stores of rags, eager to get the pennies Jack gave in exchange. His thoughts were all of the pocketbook, but he waited until he finished up his regular morning’s round.
Jack lived in a little, narrow street, near the mission school room. His mother was now an old woman, who thought she had done her duty by her son, since she had provided scanty clothes and food for him until he was twelve years old, and then got him a place with a dealer in rags. He had no childish recollections of a mother’s tender voice, or of gentle caresses. No shadowy visions of infantile prayers, or folding of little hands, and reverential closing of eyes, and bowing of head as the blessing was asked at the homely meals he partook of. No, no; his had been the rough-and-tumble life of the wretchedly poor, unblessed by the sunshine which the Lord gives to all who serve him, however poor and humble. Education by gaslight on the corners of the streets of a great city was all the education he could boast of, and who can wonder that he opened the pocketbook and appropriated the three crisp one-dollar notes which it contained, without a thought of its being wrong? There was a card in the pocketbook, with “Mrs. S. A. Cole, 63 Hamilton Terrace,” engraved on it, and he knew that it was the street where he bought the rags among which he found the pocketbook, but he did not mean to restore it to the owner.
“Thou shalt not steal,” said Miss Esther, as he entered and took his accustomed seat the next Sabbath. He rolled his eyes around the room, made a comical face at a girl in the next class, and paid no attention until he heard his teacher say, “If you find anything, and know to whom it belongs, and keep it, that is wrong; it is the same as stealing.”
“Whew!” said Jack to himself; “is that so? No, of course not. They ought to have been more careful, and not put pocketbooks in rags. ‘Findings is keepings,’” quoted Jack to himself.
But those words of Miss Esther’s haunted him the rest of the day, and when he got home he went to his little, untidy room and turned the crisp notes over and over, while he reasoned with himself that he had a right to keep them. But somehow every time he took them out to buy anything he always put them back, for a small, still voice was awakened in Jack’s heart, growing louder and louder, until he lay awake a whole night on account of that pocketbook and those three one-dollar bills. What should he do? He never made a confidant of his mother, he was too wary to tell his chosen companions, and he felt sure if his employer knew it he would claim it.
“Suppose I ask teacher?” thought he. “Wonder what she would say? But then I can’t ask her in school before the boys. “I’ll write her a note,” was his next idea—a brilliant one, he thought. But to write it was the great trouble, it being an unheard-of thing for him to write—indeed he hardly knew how to make some of the letters. He sat up nearly a whole night, and with difficulty penned the following:—
Mis’ ’ester, is it rong to kepe enything if yu jus’ think yu no it is sumbodys yu don’t no.
JACK GIVEN.
Miss Esther took the paper from him as he handed it to her in a mysterious way, and in obedience to his signs put it in her pocket. Jack lingered after school was dismissed, and his teacher read the, to her, inexplicable scrawl. She turned to ask an explanation, but her scholar was gone.
“Please, miss, there’s a rag-man at the gate wants to see you; he wont come in,” said a servant, one morning, the following week, and Esther went down.
“Good morning, Jack; come in.”
“Did you read that letter I wrote you?” questioned Jack, plunging headlong into the object of his call, without even a salutation to Miss Esther.
“Why yes,” was the reply, “but I don’t understand it. You tell me just what has happened, and what you mean. You know one can understand better when you tell it than when it is written,” continued Miss Esther, in a winning tone, not wishing to wound his feelings by saying his manner of expressing himself, as well as the writing, was a mystery.
He finally divulged enough for her to understand the drift of the story, and she advised him to go straight to Mrs. Cole’s house and tell her how he had found the pocketbook in the rags; but Jack thought he never could do that. “Then,” suggested Miss Esther, “let me write a note explaining the matter, and you take it with the pocketbook and contents just as you found it, and leave it at the door to be delivered to Mrs. Cole.”
Jack was very quiet and attentive the next Sabbath, as he sat in his old place in the mission school. The seed had been sown in good ground. It was springing up, and needed tender care to keep the blade from wilting. Miss Esther watched and prayed earnestly it might yet bear fruit. A refreshing shower of grace in the form of a revival fell upon that mission school for the first time, and Jack Given, the rag-gatherer, was one of the first who felt its influence.
Several years have passed. Jack is now a promising young man. By attending night-school he acquired a common education, has a situation in a good business house, and bids fair to rise higher than even his devoted teacher dared hope. His aged mother attends church now with her son. The superintendent calls him “Miss Esther’s jewel,” and says he will shine brightly in the crown which she will receive when He makes up his jewels.—Louisa Moore, in Christian at Work.
The Home Circle.
AUNT HANNAH'S ADVICE.
AND so you have quarreled with David?
And hide it as well as you can,
I know at this moment you're thinking
That he is a horrible man.
He has no regard for your feelings,
He loosens his hold on your heart,
And each has confessed to the other
That both were much better apart.
You think of the days of your courtship,
When David was thoughtful and kind.
In all your vexations so helpful,
To all your follies so blind;
And now, o'er the gateway of Eden,
The sword of the angel is crossed,
And you miss all the sweetness and sunshine,
The joy of a Paradise lost.
You think you have done all your duty,
Have prayed and have labored in vain,
And feel, as a husband, that David
Has really no right to complain.
But let us sit down in the twilight,
And talk o'er the subject awhile,
Before you take leave of the meadow,
'Tis well that you pause on the stile.
'Tis likely that David is fretful,
And careless at times, it is true;
His business absorbs him too closely,
But is he not working for you?
So when he comes home in the evening,
Quite silent, and thoughtful, and queer,
Just let your heart keep up its singing,
And pretend you don't notice, my dear.
For just as a scratch on the finger
Will heal if you let it alone,
So many a trouble or grievance
That David or you may have known
Would soon have been gone and forgotten,
And left not a scar on the heart,
Had either been fond and forgiving,
Had you never supposed you could part.
'Tis your duty to yield, and you know it;
You will, if you're true to your trust;
Your God and your honor demand it,
And David is gentle and just.
Don't keep any bones of contention;
Don't hold to this terrible strife,
But make him a much better husband
By being a much better wife.
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NEWS AND NOTES.
—Tennessee has seven Baptist weekly papers.
—Heavy storms suspended sending news, July 3.
—Fighting between Peru and Chili still continues.
—The Pope has decided to accept the Prussian church law.
—A stately "palace" is to be built in New York for Cardinal McCloskey.
—July 1, report from New York, seventy-nine fatal cases of sunstroke in twenty-four hours.
—A sulphur mine near Winnemucca, Nevada, is on fire, making a splendid display in the night.
—Dr. W. H. Milburn, the eloquent "blind preacher," is making a two-months' visit to the Pacific Coast.
—The annual tribute paid as rent to the landed aristocracy of England, is estimated at $500,000,000.
—The damage to property by flood on the Columbia river is large. The water is nearly as high as in 1876.
—It is said to cost as much to raise one acre of tobacco as it does to raise eight acres of corn. Shameful waste.
—The Congregationalist says: "It is quite time it were understood that the Westminster Confession is not the Bible."
—The number of immigrants landed at New York in June last was 42,026; in June 1879 the number was 15,330.
—An accident on the Lachine canal, Canada, caused a direct damage of $500,000, and an indirect loss of over $1,000,000.
—During the past fiscal year more settlers have occupied homesteads on United States lands, than in any former year.
—Gladstone introduced a resolution in Parliament which resulted in seating Bradlaugh. Strong feeling was raised in his favor by his rejection.
—The number of victims of the late Long Island Sound disaster increases. Thirty-two bodies have been recovered, and thirty are yet missing.
—In a recent speech Sitting Bull said: "There is not one white man who loves an Indian, and there is not a true Indian but hates a white man."
—Lightning struck an oil tank at Olean, N. Y., the evening of June 30. The tank contained 25,000 gallons. By great effort the fire was prevented spreading.
—The United States steamship Pensacola, which left San Francisco for Alaska, to relieve the Jamestown, had to return on account of defects in her machinery.
—A meteor described as large as a barrel, fell at Macon, Ga., on the night of June 28, lighting the heavens, and exploding with a report which shook the earth.
—Accounts from Fort Stockton, Texas, give description of the terrible sufferings of a party of Texas-Pacific Railroad men in the White Sandhills, from thirst.
—The "Mollie Maguires," a murderous band, which was supposed to be broken up, has become strong again in the Eastern Pennsylvania coal regions, and murders are frequent.
—The Grand Republic ran into the Adelaide, in New York harbor, and the latter sank in a few minutes. Both were excursion steamers; the Republic had just landed 2,000 passengers.
—Dr. George R. Crookes, LL. D., has been appointed to the chair of Historical Theology in Drew Theological Seminary, made vacant by the election of Dr. Hurst as bishop of the M. E. Church.
—A vessel arrived in New York June 16, with 330 Mormon converts on board. They were from England, Scotland, Wales, Switzerland, Schleswig-Holstein, and the northern part of Germany.
—Gen. Hancock is placed in an awkward position. The "platform" on which he stands nominated strongly denounces President Hayes, who is his superior officer, being commander-in-chief of the army.
—A pleasure steamer was completely wrecked by explosion of her boiler, on Lake Minnetonka, Minn., July 1. Four persons were killed and seven badly hurt. An excursion party of 100 was just about to embark.
—By the running of fast trains east of Chicago the time from New York to San Francisco has been reduced ten hours. Travel would be greatly increased if the fare west of Chicago were brought to reasonable rates.
—Invitations to revolt have been largely circulated in Syria, and find great favor among the Moslems. Arabs in Pera profess to know that a great movement is on foot for the establishment of a Syrian-Arab State.
—The Secretary of War is considering the propriety of ordering Cadet Whittaker before a court martial, where he may have opportunity to vindicate himself, which, it is claimed, he had not at the examination at West Point.
—The Sultan of Turkey is said to be preparing to render the Dardanelles impassable by means of forts and torpedoes. This looks like resistance to the decisions of the conference, which are favorable to Greece on the border question.
—Thirty miles of sewer pipe, and nearly as many miles of draining tile, have been laid in Memphis. Ground which was low and swampy has been rendered dry and hard, and the health of the city is improved in a corresponding degree. Thus a "terrible and mysterious providence" is cleared up.
—The Russian railway system presents one striking feature. The companies are bound to maintain at each station, at their own cost, a mounted Cossack gendarme who is armed with a Berdan and revolver, and forms a part of the powerful "railway police" of Russia.
—It is said (and if true it is worth knowing), that one spoonful of coarse powdered saltpetre to a pail of water will destroy potato bugs, squash bugs, and other insects. For roses it is unsurpassed. Pour a pint of the liquid at the foot of the squash vines where the roots are attacked.
—A despatch from Constantinople says the Foreign Ambassadors have given the Porte clearly to understand that if the Porte accepts the suggestion in regard to the surrender of Dulcigno, it must execute it without delay, or the Powers will insist upon the immediate execution of the previous Convention.
—Great disappointment is felt in many cities over the census returns, the population being so much less than the estimates. St. Louis is talking of another enumeration. Oakland, Cal., which counted on 45,000, falls to about 35,000. San Francisco, which was counted sure of 300,000, is set down for 240,000.
—The work of expelling the Jesuits from France has been commenced, energetically. The strong measures pursued will doubtless cause a reaction and prove disastrous to the cause of the government. Even in the United States it is denounced as persecution; but treason is tolerated in this country more than in Europe. The Minister of the Interior and Worship has received a letter threatening him with assassination "in the name of the Sacred Heart."
—What is known as the Suy levee, an embankment which protects the Illinois bottom for many miles north and south of Quincy from overflow of the Mississippi river, broke at 3 o'clock the morning of June 30, near the Cincinnati Landing, about eight miles below Hannibal, Mo. There is a break of about half a mile wide, and the water is rushing through and backing up with great rapidity. The loss in the Illinois bottom will be immense, and many of the farmers will be ruined. Wheat which was cut and shocked floated off, and the corn crop will be destroyed. Another break has occurred near the first, and the water pours through with great velocity. The break is long, and embraces fully a quarter of a million acres of the most highly cultivated, and most fertile bottom lands in the State, more than half of which was in wheat.
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OBITUARY.
By W. M. Healey
DIED, at St. Clair, Churchill Co., Nevada, June 29, 1880, infant daughter of brother and sister J. B. and Nancy Ferguson. Remarks by the writer from Isa. 65 : 23, showing that among the blessings promised the people of God is this, that their little ones will be restored to them. Bro. and Sister Ferguson have a new tie to hold their thoughts upon the future life. In this we pray their trial may prove a final blessing.
W. M. HEALEY.
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Life of Wm. Miller, with portrait. Interesting sketches of the life and public labors of this pioneer in the Advent movement in this country. 416 pp. 1.00
The Biblical Institute. A synopsis of the lectures given at the Institute held at Oakland, Cal., April, 1877, covering the main points of our faith. 352 pp. 1.00
History of the Sabbath and First Day of the Week, for the period of 6,000 years. By Elder J. N. Andrews. This is a work of unusual interest, prepared with great care, and is full of historical and Scriptural facts. 528 pp. 1.00
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