Earlier text: A GREAT DECEPTIONJIM'S CORNER.
By Amey Ewing
DONATION-DAY at the Children's Hospital was over, and the matron stood looking at the great store of gifts which had been received. "Only one picture," she said, "and Jim Wray has long been wishing that there would be lots of pictures. I will hang this opposite to his bed, and may be it will cheer him up." Poor Jim! Some weeks before he had fallen under the wheels of a carriage, and was carried to the hospital maimed for life. "His leg must come off," the doctor had said, "and it will be a long time before he can go home." As the time passed, he longed more and more for the free air and the old busy life. Donation-day entertained him; he watched the crowds of ladies as they walked through the ward. One or two had stopped to ask if he was not thankful that he had such a nice place to be sick in, and he answered:— "Thankful? Yes'm; a fellow generally is thankful when he has to go on crutches all his life." The next morning, when Jim opened his eyes, he saw the picture hanging right before him. "Donation, I s'pose,—something the folks didn't want and so they sent it here; that's the way they generally do. It's a wonder it isn't a picture of some fellow dying with a crowd of people looking at him." It was a photograph of two boys; the one was dark and handsome, while the face of the other was as pure and sweet as that of an angel. The longer Jim looked, the better he liked the "donation." At last, unable to enjoy it alone any longer, he spoke to his neighbor in a loud whisper:— "Look at the picture over there. The folks who brought that wanted to give something nice." "Who are those boys, Jim?" "Don't know, but I like them." "What is that light around that one's head?" "Don't know; I wish it wasn't there. It don't look real. We will ask Miss Marion when she comes." Jim studied the picture until the sweet faces seemed like friends, and a new light had come into his life. Miss Marion sometimes felt discouraged about visiting at the hospital. On this warm day in particular she almost gave up going; but something in Jim's farewell glance the week before made her feel that to one sufferer at least her visits were helpful. This time his face was so bright when she entered the ward that she was startled. "What has happened to please you, Jim?" He pointed to the picture. "Christ and John the Baptist!" she exclaimed; "where did that come from?" "Jesus and John the Baptist. That is a copy of a celebrated picture by a painter named Guido; he lived three hundred years ago. Do you like it?" "Like it? I have been wishing you would come and tell me who they are, and why the blue-eyed boy has that light around his head." "Jim, it is a picture of Christ. No one knows how he looked; but I think the artist was inspired when he painted that face. You have learned at Sunday-school that one of Jesus's names is the Light of the World; and he told his disciples that they too were to be like lights in this dark world. The old painters often put a light like that around the heads of Christ and the saints. Shall I tell you what it means? Everyone in this world, whether he knows it or not, has an influence over other people. The influence of a good person is like a light shining in the darkness. Are not your dark hours brightened by the visits of the good people who come to see you? The artists could not paint the good influences of the saints, and so they expressed it by putting a light around their heads." Jim repeated softly—
"Jesus bids us shine,
You in your small corner,
I in mine."
I learned that long ago, but I did not know what it meant. If you will tell me how, may be I can shine; but," and the voice was choked with sobs, "how can a fellow like me shine? I am lame, and I haven't much education, and I'm poor." "Jim," said Miss Marion, "those disciples to whom Jesus said, 'Ye are the light of the world,' were poor, and some of them were no better educated than you are. It did not seem as if they would ever have much chance to shine, did it? But it does not mean being rich or famous. It is what you have within you that makes the light around you. If your heart is pure, you can make others purer. If you are like Christ, you can make those around you more like Christ. If you have Christ within you, he will shine through you; and so, as he was the Light of the World, you will be a light in the world." Jim's eyes were fixed on the sweet face beside him. Miss Marion had uncovered her head, and the last rays of the setting sun just touched the outline of her golden hair until, to the boy, it seemed as if she too had a shining halo around her head. The tears ran down his pale cheeks as he felt the divine light breaking into his heart. He looked again at the picture. The lovely face of the Christ-child was in a flood of light, and Jim felt as if he were in the presence of something holy. "My small corner," he said, "is—where?" The last words were uttered in a husky tone. The answer came softly and tearfully:— "Here, Jim, on this bed, just as long as it is necessary for you to stay. Our corners are just where God puts us." Jim was left alone to think it all over. Shine on that cot where he had lain for weeks? "It's a mighty dark corner," he groaned. "May be a little light would go a good way. Jesus was a poor boy; he worked in his father's carpenter shop in a little town. I never thought much about it before. The painter put that light around his head to show that he was a light in the world then, when he wasn't any older than I am. His corner was small too; and I believe he will help me to shine anywhere, if I ask him." It was months before Jim could leave his "small corner." Often he felt weary; the quick, impatient words would come; some ugly old habits were not to be easily given up. Each day brought its trials and temptations. Sometimes, when speaking an unkind word, his eyes would fall on the face opposite to him, and a voice seemed to say, "You in your small corner." At last the doctor said, "To-morrow you can leave." When Miss Marion came to say good-by, she found Jim in tears at the thought of leaving his picture and the "corner" that he had learned to love, and in which he was beginning to shine. For a long time afterwards he often visited the ward, and the sound of Jim's crutch was a signal for rejoicing among the boys. He always came with a happy face, and many a cripple was cheered by his smile. Jim's corner is larger now; but the secret of his happiness is the same as when he was lying on his cot in the hospital. The light that shone in that "small corner" fitted him to shine in the larger ones. He owns a copy of the picture, too; and underneath it hangs his golden text, "Ye shine as lights in the world."—Amey Ewing, in S. S. Times. The Home Circle.
By Herald; Presbyter
CHILDREN, make your mother happy;
Make her sing instead of sigh,
For the mournful hour of parting
May be very, very nigh. Children, make your mother happy;
Many griefs she has to bear,
And she wearies 'neath her burdens—
Can you not the burdens share? Children, make your mother happy;
Prompt obedience cheers the heart,
While a willful disobedience
Pierces like a poisoned dart. Children, make your mother happy;
On her brow the lines of care
Deepen daily—don't you see them?—
While your own are smooth and fair. Children, make your mother happy;
For beneath the coffin-lid
All too soon her face, so saint-like,
May forevermore be hid. Bitter tears and self-upbraiding
Cannot bring her back again,
And remorseful memories
Are a legacy of pain. Oh, begin to-day, dear children;
Listen when your mother speaks;
Tender, quick, and sweet obedience
For your highest good she seeks. She loves you better than all others,
And for your sake herself denies;
Always patient, prayerful, tender,
Ever thoughtful, true and wise. Remember while you live, dear children,
Tho' you search the rounded earth,
You'll never find a friend more faithful
Than the one who gave you birth.
—Herald and Presbyter. —Three inches of snow fell at Dickinson, Dakota, the 14th inst. —The Supreme Court of the United States has adjourned until October. —There is a bare possibility of work being resumed on the Panama Canal. —A sharp shock of earthquake passed over Central California the morning of the 19th inst. —An immense landslide recently occurred near Berne, Switzerland, destroying villages, forests, and cattle. —Recent cable dispatches intimate the possibility of the Prince of Wales becoming the Viceroy of Ireland. —Samuel C. Wright, of Nevada, has been appointed superintendent of the United States Mint at Carson City. —Six thousand people were rendered homeless on the 16th inst., by a disastrous fire in St. Sauveur, a suburb of Quebec. —The first man-eating shark ever caught in San Diego harbor was taken in a net by a fisherman there on the 14th inst. —Railroad rates are being cut on trans-Continental lines from San Francisco to New York, Chicago, St. Louis, and other Eastern points. —Hippolyte has gained another decisive victory over Legitime in Hayti, and has captured the towns of Marchaud, Marmalade, and St. Michael. —The Young Men's Democratic Club of New York will honor ex-President Cleveland by a grand reception and dinner at the Fifth Avenue Hotel the 27th inst. —Heavy rain-storms in Kansas and Missouri are reported under date of May 17. Railroads were blockaded, bridges washed away, and considerable other damage done. —William O'Brien, member of Parliament, has obtained a writ against Lord Salisbury, the British Premier, on the charge of libel. The trial will take place at Liverpool. —An extensive conspiracy has been discovered among the military officials in Russia, and a large number of the conspirators have been arrested. —Allen Thorndike Rice, recently appointed United States Minister to Russia, died at New York, May 16, of tonsilitis, after an illness of only five days. —Suit has been brought in the name of the people of New York against the fraudulent Electric Sugar Company, to have the corporation dissolved and a receiver appointed. —Two young men at Chicago drank a bucketful of raw whisky between them, May 14. One of them died two hours afterward and the other was not expected to recover at last advices. —One hundred persons were poisoned by ice-cream at a festival held in South Glastonbury, Conn., the 16th inst. At last accounts thirty-four of the victims were not expected to recover. —A terrific thunder-storm passed over Paris the 15th inst., exceeding in violence anything experienced there for years. Considerable damage was done to some of the exposition buildings. —The President has designated two revenue cutters under the recent act of March 2, to seize all vessels and arrest all persons found violating the laws of the United States in Behring Sea. —The most severe storm ever known on Puget Sound passed over Tacoma, W. T., May 13, demolishing several buildings. Of eight men who were buried in the ruins, six were taken out dead. —The historic piece of property in Elberon, N. J., known as the "Garfield Cottage," in which the murdered President passed the last weeks of agony which preceded his death, was sold for $25,000 the 13th inst. —A St. Petersburg dispatch of May 14 states that a high Russian official has been arrested for attempting to shoot the Czar. A pistol was used, and the bullet passed only a few inches from the emperor's head. —Owing to the difficulty found by the French Senatorial Court in framing specific charges against Boulanger, it is now thought that the proceedings will fail and the prosecution by Rocheforte will be abandoned. —Judging from the tone of certain South American journals, trouble is threatening between Bolivia and Paraguay. Everything indicates that war is imminent, and the Brazilian Government is powerless to prevent it. —The first sentence under the new law of New York requiring the death penalty to be inflicted by electricity was passed at Buffalo, May 14, upon William Kemmler, convicted of murder. He will be executed next month. —The famous Myra Clarke Gaines suit against the city of New Orleans was finally disposed of by the United States Supreme Court May 13. The court awards her heirs $567,000. The suit has been in the courts for more than fifty years. —Hostilities have been resumed between the Dutch and Malays at Sumatra. As the result of a recent battle at Edi, the Dutch garrison lost twenty-seven, five killed and twenty-two wounded. The Malays left 150 dead on the field. —The steamer Nanticoke, which arrived at Key West the 14th inst., ran out of coal when 185 miles from her nearest port, and was obliged to burn the cabin, roof, part of the sides of the vessel, and at last a portion of the cargo, in order to reach harbor. —A notable murder case has been attracting much attention at Salt Lake recently. Herbert O. Spencer and George Stringham, both Mormons and well advanced in years, have been charged with the murder of Sergeant Pike, of the United States Army, in August, 1859. —The Supreme Court of the United States has declared the Scott Exclusion Act valid in the Chae Chang Ping case. This settles the Chinese question for the present, and they will be denied the right of immigration to this country, under the provisions of the act referred to. —The steamer Alaskan, of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company's line, went to the bottom during a storm off Cape Blanco, on the southern coast of Oregon, on the night of the 13th inst. No one but the crew was on board at the time, so that no large loss of life is reported. It is feared, however, that about twenty lives were lost. —Rev. Edward C. Towne, of Washington, late of Cambridge, Mass., declares that Chauncey M. Depew is indebted to him in the sum of $1,500 for literary labor performed in compiling Depew's oration on the occasion of the recent Washington centennial celebration, and that he proposes to enter suit for that amount at once if the money is not immediately forthcoming. —The latest news from the Samoan Conference at Berlin is to the effect that Germany has at last consented to the American plan of a tripartite government in Samoa. It is thought that the restoration of King Malietoa to power is assured. The work of the commission is practically over. —The statement is denied that Miss Kate Drexel, daughter of the late millionaire Drexel, is to enter a convent and leave her immense property in the Catholic Church. She only desires to become more familiar with the interior religious life of the convent, and her retirement will only be temporary. —The British ship Altmore, from Sydney, New South Wales, April 8, for San Francisco, has been wrecked at Neirai Island, in the South Pacific. The captain and a portion of the crew landed at Levuka. The first officer was drowned. A boat containing the remainder of the crew and passengers is missing. —The Mexican Congress has granted valuable concessions in the way of manufacturing and colonization privileges to an American company with Caleb W. Mitchell at its head, and which proposes to organize large colonies or industrial establishments, to develop and utilize some of the many latent resources of Mexico. —The new armored coast defense vessel, the contract for whose construction has recently been let to the Union Iron Works of San Francisco, will cost $1,628,950, and will carry the most formidable battery of big guns of any vessel of the United States Navy, of which one forty-six-ton gun and one of one hundred tons will be a part. —The new cruiser just built in England for the Italian Government, carries engines of 11,500 horsepower, and makes nineteen and one-half knots per hour under natural draft. With forced draft she has made over twenty-one knots, and is considered a very remarkable vessel. The British Government has made strenuous but unsuccessful efforts to purchase her. —Washington Irving Bishop, the mind-reader, died at New York, the 14th inst., under the strain produced by a very difficult test which he was performing. An autopsy of the brain showed that death was produced by hysteric catalepsy, followed by coma. Mrs. Bishop insists that he was only in a trance when the autopsy began, and doubts that he died from natural causes. —General Miles has been calling the attention of the Senate Committee to the defenseless condition of the Pacific Coast in general, and San Francisco in particular. It has been shown that a hostile vessel carrying an eighty-ton gun could anchor outside of the harbor of the above-named city beyond range of her batteries, easily demolish them, and reduce the whole city to ruins in very short order. A thorough system of modern fortifications is called for. All of which shows that the world is very near the millennium of course! —Investigations concerning the insane asylum at Chicago are in progress in the Cook County court. Some horrible developments are being made. The institution contains room for only 600 patients, but there are 1,000 inmates crowded into it. Some of the rooms containing four persons are only four and one-half by ten feet in dimensions. Insufficient food, and that of an inferior quality, is thrown in to the patients without being served, and the poor imbeciles scramble like hogs to get possession of it. Much other revolting testimony has been brought in. —The Southern General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church convened at Chattanooga, Tenn., the 17th inst. —The police of Kieff, Russia, recently discovered that a Jew 105 years old had been living in that city for over 50 years without being in possession of a passport. The poor patriarch was ordered by the guardians of the law to quit Kieff at once. —The fifty-seventh annual session of the American Baptist Home Mission Society met at Boston, Mass., the 17th inst. The report of the committee on States shows the largest number of missionaries ever under appointment. There are now 3,000,000 Baptists in this country. —The Baptist Missionary Union will soon establish a new mission in Swei-fu, in the province of Sz-chuen, about 1,600 miles from the sea, on the river Yangtse. The province has a population of from thirty to forty millions of people, but very few of whom have ever heard the gospel. —A unique class was confirmed in Baltimore recently by Bishop Paret, of the Episcopalian Church. Besides nine colored candidates it included Miss Nellie Blaine, daughter of the Secretary of State, the sister-in-law of Postmaster-General Wanamaker, Justice Gray, of the Supreme Court, and the daughter of the late Justice Matthews, of the Supreme Court. —"A new society," says The Peculiar People, "called the Montefiore and Lady Judith Hebrew Association, is being formed in New York for the benefit of Jewish immigrants in that city. Its object is, we believe, by the advice and co-operation of such men as are familiar with the language and nature of the immigrants, to Americanize them and provide employment for them. —The colored Episcopalians in South Carolina are not yet satisfied with their position in the Protestant Episcopal Church. A compromise was offered in the convention proposing to admit colored ministers who have been in the church twelve months prior to May 18, 1888. There is no provision for lay delegates. This does not satisfy the colored churches. They threaten to carry the case to the General Convention. RUOFF.—Died, in Stockton, Cal., May 8, of heart disease, Charles Ruoff, aged 49 years. Sister Ruoff, who for several years has been a leading representative of the Seventh-day Adventist faith in Stockton, will receive the sympathy of many brethren and sisters, now located in various parts of the great field, who have known of her persistent faith and labors in behalf of the cause. FAIRCHILD.—Died of epilepsy, at his home in Fish Creek, Wis., April 10, 1889, Brother Charles Fairchild, aged 58 years, 11 months, 1 day. He was born at Bethlehem, Conn., May 9, 1830, and resided there the greater part of the time until he removed to Wisconsin, in 1861, from which date he has been a resident of this place. He embraced the S. D. A. faith about the year 1875, and was for several years an active member of the church, being at one time the leader. He has been a great sufferer for the past seven years. He leaves a wife and five children, three of whom are married and have families. In the absence of a minister, a few remarks were made by the writer from 1 Cor. 15. May God bless the surviving members of this dear family, and may they prepare to meet the loved ones gone before, in the first resurrection. STEPHEN NORTON. ONE of the most pernicious evils of civilization is one that is doing infinite harm, and yet which attracts comparatively little attention, except now and then from an occasional physician, or some other expert, each of whom is regarded as a crank. Whisky and all other kinds of alcoholic stimulants do attract notice for the reason that their evil results, when excess is indulged in, become conspicuously apparent. They flush the complexion, they redden and swell the nose, they blear the eyes, bloat the liver, inflame the stomach, derange the nervous system, and impair the qualities of the brain. These effects are so marked that they cannot escape notice, and hence the abuse of alcohol is regarded as a supreme evil, and is made the subject of repressive and reformatory action throughout all civilization. After something of the same kind is the opium habit. It forces itself upon the notice of the world by its rapid development of destructive symptoms. It produces in the victim excessive exaltation, alternated by a frightful depression. The necessity of larger doses of the drug incessantly increases; the periods of felicity in heaven grow constantly shorter and those in hell more extended, until there comes a time when death, or worse, idiocy, puts an end to the disease. On account of palpable developments the opium mania is brought within the notice of the world, and is the object of widespread and earnest reformatory action. The tobacco habit differs from others in an essential particular. It is slow moving and insidious beyond comprehension. Alcohol and morphine no sooner enter the human system than danger signals at once give notice of the presence of the enemy. Not so with the nicotine mania. It exists for years without giving the least warning. It is the slowest, the subtlest, the most deadly of poisons. Somewhat like the fabled vampire, it soothes its prey with the caressing kisses of its wings while it sucks the life-blood from its veins. The evils of the tobacco habit only begin to be felt long after they have become incurable and the mischief is already accomplished. Difficult as it may be to break the chains of the inebriate or of the opium eater, those which pinion the confirmed smoker are capable of infinitely greater resistance. There are reformed drunkards, here and there, and now and then is to be met a man who has been redeemed from the slavery of the poppy; the cases of those who have ever been emancipated from the tobacco mania are of the rarest occurrence. Long before the victim suspects that there is anything wrong in his condition; long before he knows there is an enemy in the vicinity, the work of investment is completed. He suddenly discovers that his memory is not as retentive as it has been, and in reading, and in listening to a speaker, he finds by degrees that he does not comprehend what he hears and sees with distinctness. He finds himself subject to moments of impatience; he is irritable; events which once caused him no pain now afflict him grievously. His appetite decreases, his digestion is impaired, his heart takes on an irregular pulsation, he is startled at the most trivial surprise, and worse than all else, there rises in his brain a fog-like exhalation which obscures its clearness and obliterates the pathway of thought. All these developments have come without warning. He studies them. He never learns that he is suffering from nicotine infusion. It is malaria, the weather, the climate, the east wind, heredity; it is never tobacco. He is overworked, he needs a vacation, a rest, and all the while he inhales the deadening vapor whose malign influence is the cause of all his ills. For the reason that tobacco is so insidious in its action and destructive in its ultimate effects; for the further reason that, unlike alcohol and opium, it is sought for by mere children, and often begins its work in the immature nerves and tissues of the young, and thus materially enlarges its area of action, it is far more deadly than either of the others. The pulpits, legislation, reformers, and philanthropists are failing in their duty in not denouncing with all their might an evil which is doing more than any other one to undermine American civilization.—Chicago Herald. IF intemperance were a new evil, coming in upon us for the first time like a pestilence from some foreign shore, laden with its awful burden of disease, of pauperism and crime, with what horror would the nation contemplate its monstrous approach! What severity of laws, what stringencies of quarantine, what activities of resistance, would be suddenly aroused! But, alas! it is no new evil. It surrounds us like an atmosphere, as it has our fathers through countless generations. It perverts judgments, it poisons habits, it sways passions, it taints churches and tears consciences. It seizes the enginery of our legislation, and by it creates a moral phenomenon of perpetual motion, which nature denies to physics; for it licenses and empowers itself to beget in endless rounds, the wrongs, vices, and crimes which society is organized to prevent; and—worst of all for our country—it encoils parties like the serpents of Laocoon, and crushes in its folds the spirit of patriotism and virtue.—New York Tribune. Catholic Church Authority in Civil Life
During the hearing before the Massachusetts Legislative Committee on Education, having before it a bill to bring all schools under the inspection of public officers, a liberal and intelligent Roman Catholic witness, named Desmond, was asked: "Supposing the two powers, ecclesiastical and civil, in your judgment, or in the judgment of any good Catholic, were not in harmony, to which would you be called upon to give the precedence, to obey first?" To this he replied: "I should be inclined to obey the ecclesiastical. It would depend somewhat upon the circumstances." And yet there are a great many good people who profess to believe that the Church of Rome exercises no control over its members in civil life.—America. Tobacco Smoke and Children
THERE are tobacco-using men by the hundred in California, who are daily committing cruel outrages upon their own and other people's children. When the little innocents are sleeping, these ignorant men are filling the room with their noxious smoke, poisoning every breath they inhale, implanting seeds of disease and death, which are murderous in their tendency, and inflict curses upon them which last through life. When the children are up and awake they are subject to the same cruelties; and when one after another of the helpless little ones, half murdered in this way, falls a victim to some disease that would not endanger the life of a healthy child, and is carried out to its little grave, its parents wonder why the Lord "has seen fit to deal so hardly with them," and they go on and kill another the same way. There are parents who sin in ignorance and recklessness in this way, who would commit a less cruelty if they killed their children at once with a dose of laudanum.—Rescue. Publishers' Department.
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