THE GREATEST OF THESE IS CHARITY. "Mine is a true story," said Annie, the eldest of the group. "Our teacher told it to us in school to-day. He said he knew a little girl, only eight years old, whose dress took fire. She was alone in the house with a stupid servant who did not know what to do except to run to the door and scream, which she did till the little girl called out' Roll me in the carpet.' As soon as this was done and the fire extinguished, she remarked, I read that in a book.' Any one might have known that, but it was presence of mind that made her think of it just at the right moment." "Mine is a true story too," said Tom, "and a great deal better than yours. It is about a boy I know who saw a drunken man beating a poor little girl with a stick, and was brave enough to seize his hands and bear the blows himself till she was out of danger. I call that courage, and I like it." "Yes, Tom," I said, "courage is a great thing especially in a good cause. But moral courage is the best kind. I should think you a much braver boy, if you were not ashamed to have the other boys know you were trying to live like a Christian, than if you fought all the drunken men in the village. Who comes next?" "It's my turn," said Ernest, "I haven't any new story; but you all know how Robert Bruce, the King of Scotland, was once wandering in disguise, when he came to a poor little hut where he spent the night, and in the morning he watched a little brown spider trying to make his web. Seven times the spider fell back again, but at last succeeded in fastening his thread on the point of a beam, and so built his house. And Robert Bruce learned from him the lesson of perseverance, which enabled him to win back his throne." "I heard Aunt Mary telling some one of what she saw in Pompeii," said Arthur. "You know that was the city which was buried in the ashes by an irruption of Mount Vesuvius 1800 years ago. Just outside the gates, she said, there is a little stone sentry-box and in it were found, in a standing posi tion, the bones of the Roman sentinel who was on duty there "My story is about faith," said Edith. lady trying to teach a very little boy geography the other day. She said How do you know that the world is round?' 'O, because I have been told so.' 'But how do you know you were told right?' "My Aunt Maggie told me and she never tells lies.' I thought this is just the way we know anything about heaven or the way to get there; we have been told so; God has told us, and he never tells lies." "Well," said I, for I saw the children paused, "you have all told very good stories, and I like them the better for being true; I hardly know which is the best; but here is little Katie quite forgotten. Haven't you a story for us, dear?" 6 "I did not know where to look for an anecdote," said Katie, hesitating a little at that long word," but I thought about the old, old story,' and how the dear Jesus came to earth to live and teach and suffer and die, just because he loved us so much that he wanted to save us. I think that is the sweetest story after all." "Yes it is, little one. Katie has chosen the best story for the character of Jesus unites all the good qualities you can think of. He had presence of mind enough to know just what to do at the right time. He had obedience enough to do and suffer all God's will. He had courage enough to face all enemies and meet death. He persevered to the end in working out our salvation. He believed that God would do all he had promised to do, and he loved his own, though they did not yet love him, enough to die for them. He loves them still with an everlasting love; and has promised to love them forever and ever. "Dear children, if you want to be like Jesus, remember that while faith, and obedience, and courage, and all other good qualities, are great things, love is greater still, for the Bible says, 'The greatest of these is charity."" He was A A GREAT LOVER OF CHILDREN. Professor Agassiz was a great lover of children. constantly speaking to them in the street and caressing them not from affectation or a desire to be popular, but because he could not help it. His grandchildren, George and Max, were always running over to see grandpa, and grandpa was always glad to see them. If grandpa had had the entire training of them perhaps there would have been some spoiled children. friend tells me of an instance which well illustrates his tenderness for children. Once, while conducting some scientific experiments, it became necessary to have some water immediately. Agassiz seized a pitcher and ran out to a pump near by. He went out quickly, but was slow in coming back. They waited twice as long for the water as would have sufficed to bring it, and then went out to see what was the matter. There sat Agassiz down by the pump, his legs crossed, and a little child, which he was fondly soothing and caressing, nestled in between them. In his haste at the pump he had accidently struck the child standing near by. Though the blow was of little account, the exigencies of science seemed to him the less important, and he had to put down his pitcher and open his heart. deeply engaged in scientific investigation he would leave his work to seize and fondle a child that had strayed into his room, and the interrupted mental process seemed to be resumed with out difficulty.-Boston Letter to New York Tribune. When FIFTEEN WORDS." Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them." This sentence contains a precept which, if observed and practised, is sufficient to regulate the conduct of all the inhabitants of the world and establish order and harmony among them. In all intercourse between man and his neighbor, it makes every man his own judge, jury and advocate. It levels with the dust all offices erected for the professed object of administering justice. A YOUNG HERO. HOW A QUAKERESS STOPPED BORROWING. The following is but one of many scenes of sorrow and self- An exchange says the subject of borrowing and lending came sacrifice which have been witnessed in our city. It has just up in the course of a conversation with one of its subscribers come to our notice. It was a family of six-a father and moth-the other day, when he suddenly recollected a funny occurrence er, two sisters and two brothers. The fever enters their house, of that character that had happened in his neighborhood. He and all are stricken down but one little boy of twelve years. said he had a neighbor whose family were great borrowers, He alone was left to minister to them. The mother was called but seldom, if ever, returning the exact amount borrowed. An away, and the little boy was well-nigh broken-hearted. The old Quaker lady, another neighbor, who had endured these inphysician had just called when the mother died, and, turning to vasions for a long time patiently, hit upon a very philosophical the weeping child, said to him: "You must dry up your tears mode of eventually putting a stop to the nuisance. Keeping and go and wait upon your sisters, and don't let them know, by her own counsel, the next time her good man went to town he your crying, that your ma is dead, for it may hurt them." had a separate and express order to purchase a pound of the Brave little fellow! He went instantly and washed his face, best tea, and also a new canister to put it in. As he knew she and dried up his tears, and entered the room where his sick already had plenty of tea, and also à canister, he was puzzled sisters lay. The first question which was asked him was, to determine what the old lady wanted of more tea and a new "How is ma?" No tears betrayed the heavy heart, but, canister; but his questionings and reasonings elicited nothing choking down his sorrow, with cheerful tone he answered, more than a repetition of the order. "Ma is better off now," and the sisters did not find out their loss. Noble boy! May God spare your father and sisters. Surely there is other heroism than that which is on battlefields.-Memphis Presbyterian. BOTH SIDES. A man in his carriage was riding along, In satin and laces she looked like the queen, A wood sawyer stood on the street as they passed; And said, as he worked with his saw on a log, The man in the carriage remarked to his wife, I'd give my wealth for the strength and the health A pretty young maid, with a bundle of work, She looked on the carriage; the lady she saw, And said in a whisper, "I wish from my heart The lady looked out on the maid with her work, And said, "I'd relinquish position and wealth, Thus it is in the world, whatever our lot, In longing and sighing for what we have not, "Jim, did I not tell thee to get me a pound of the best tea and a new canister! Now go along, and do as I bid thee." And go along he did, and when he came home at night the tea and new canister were his companions. The old lady took them from him with an amused expression on her usually placid features, and depositing the tea in the canister, set it on the shelf for special use. It had not long to wait, for the borrowing neighbor had frequent use for the aromatic herb. The good old lady loaned generously, emptying back in the canister any remittance of borrowed teas which the neighbor's conscience inclined her to make. Time went on, and after something less than the one hundredth time of borrowing, the neighbor again appeared for "just another drawing of tea," when the oft-visited tea canister was brought out, and found to be empty, and the good old lady and obliging neighbor was just one pound of tea poorer than when she bought the new canister, which now only remained to tell the story. Then she made a little characteristic speech, perhaps the first in her life. She said: "Thou seest that empty canister. I filled it for thee with a pound of my best tea, and I have lent it all to thee in driblets, and put into it all thou hast sent me in return, and none but thyself hath taken therefrom or added into it, and now thou seest it empty; therefore I will say to thee, thou hast borrowed thyself out, and I can lend thee no more." The Rechabite Magazine says: "Several clergymen traveling together were much annoyed by a fellow who had been drinking, but he feigned much of his drunkenness that he might more readily attack the ministers. Standing near them, he remarked: 'Well, it's singular, yes, it is, that I never get drunk only when in the company of ministers." He repeated something like this, when one of the gentlemen turned upon him, asking: Do you know the reason for it?' 'No,' replied the fellow, perhaps you can tell me.' 'Because,' replied the clergyman, when with such company you get all the drink to yourself.' "My son," said an old man, "beware of prejudices. They are like rats, and men's minds are like traps; prejudices get in easily but it is doubtful if they ever get out.' PUBLICATIONS OF THE AM. PEACE SOCIETY. 66 to one address, 66 50 or more " 15 cents. 8 each. 6 " $1.00 BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT.-There is a legend of the early Church, that the Saviour left His image miraculously impressed upon a napkin which he placed upon His countenance. The napkin has been lost; and men now attempt to portray that countenance from the heathen models of Jupiter and Apollo. But the image of Christ is not lost to the world. Clearer than in the precious napkin,clearer than in the colors of the marble of modern art, it appears in every virtuous deed, in every act of self-sacrifice, in all magnanimous toil, in every recognition of the brotherhood of mankind. It shall be supremely manifest, in unimagined loveliness and serenity, when the commonwealth of nations, confessing the true grandeur of year per single copy; for Clubs, one cent for every four ounces. peace, shall renounce the wickedness of the war system, and shall dedicate to labors of beneficence all the comprehensive energies which have been so fatally absorbed in its support. Then, at last, shall it be seen that there can be no peace that is not honorable; and there can be no war that is not dishonorable.-CHARLES SUMNER, before American Peace Society. We will send for gratuitous distribution copies of the Angel, a fresh and beautiful paper, at the rate of 50 cents a hundred. Eastern States, should be directed to Rev. H. C. Dunham, Office Agent, at POSTAGE. Postage always paid at the office of delivery-twelve cents per CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS AM. PEACE SOCIETY. HoN. EDWARD S. TOBEY, of Boston, President. MEMBERSHIP. The payment of any sum between $2.00 and $20.00 constitutes a person a member of the American Peace Society for one year, $20.00 a life member, $50.00 a life director, and $100.00 an honorary member. issued its public protest against this heathen and wicked custom. But while we have cause to feel thankful for the amelioration of military laws, whereby our members are now generally exempt from suffering, we are pained in knowing that war, with all its horrors, is yet allowed and practiced by all the Christian nations, and sanctioned by the larger portions of the Christian Church. As Christians, we all believe in the fulfillment of prophecy. Dr. Chalmers, more than fifty years ago, sentence of condemnation upon war, and stamps a criminality on its very forehead. So soon as Christianity shall gain a full ascendency in the world, from that moment war is to disappear." The Advocate of Peace is sent free to annual members for one testified that "the mere existence of this prophecy of peace is a year, and to life members and directors during life. If one is not able to give the full amount of a membership, or directorship at once, he can apply whatever he does give on it, with the understanding that the remainder is to be paid at one or more times in the future. The Advocate is sent gratuitously to the reading rooms of Colleges and Theological Seminaries-to Young Men's Christian Associations—to every pastor who preaches on the Cause of Peace and takes a collection for it. Also, to prominent individuals, both ministers and laymen, with the hope that they will become subscribers or donors, and induce others to become such. To subscribers it is sent until a request to discontinue is received with the payment of all arrearages. CHARLES SUMNER ON PEACE AND WAR. THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS and the WAR-SYSTEM OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS bound in one volume, will be sent postage paid on receipt of $1.00, by addressing Rev. H. C. Dunham, 1 Somerset street, Boston. We have but a limited supply of these great orations of the great Senator, who was a " tower of strength" in our noble cause, and believe there are many who will be glad to receive a copy on the above terms. DYMOND ON WAR. This remarkable work is receiving unwonted attention from the reading public. Orders come to the office almost daily for it. We are indebted to Mr. Robert Lindley Murray, one of the Trustees of the Lindley Murray Fund, of New York city, for a new grant of several hundred copies of this most excellent Peace Document. We call the special attention of ministers to the fact that it will be sent to them free, whenever they remit six cents postage. It is a book of 124 octavo pages. Its retail price 50 cents. Address all your orders to Rev. H. C. Dunham, No. 1 Somerset St., Boston. AN APPEAL TO CHRISTIANS, INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELY, ON BEHALF OF THE CAUSE OF PEACE. It is well known to our Christian brethren that the Religious Society of Friends has ever believed that all war is entirely forbidden by the Gospel, and that, in accordance with that belief, its members have as a rule, refrained from taking any part in carnal warfare; and for refusing to comply with military requisi ions, or to pay fines for thus refusing, many, in years past, have suffered distraint of goods to large amounts, and not a few have been imprisoned. Beside a passive testimony thus borne by members individually, the Society has, from time to time Believing that it is only by a full and proper application of the Gospel in the affairs of nations, as well as individuals, that the prophecies in regard to war will be fulfilled; and believing, as a branch of the church which has so long seen the true character of this heathen abomination, that we were not doing all that we should do toward enlightening our brethren on this important subject, most of the Yearly Meetings of Friends have united in the organization of "The Peace Association of Friends in America," to which is delegated this important work, with instructions to labor expressly on their behalf in the more general promotion of the cause of peace. The Association, in the fulfillment of its trust, has thus far mostly confined its labors to the printing and circulation of books and tracts, and the publication of a monthly paper called the Messenger of Peace. During the few years of its existence, millions of pages have been distributed far and wide, and many acknowledgments have been received of the convincing effects of the truth therein inculcated. The attitude of millions in the prime of manhood, now kept Constantly armed and equipped for mutual slaughter by the nations of Europe, and the sudden uprising of the war spirit in our midst, convince us of the necessity of further and more direct efforts to arouse and awaken the public to a clearer appieciation of the true character of this monstrous evil. If it is only by the full application of the Gospel that war can be abolished, surely it is the duty of the church to labor for its proper application. But, in view of the apathy that so generally prevails, we feel constrained to appeal directly to our Christian brethren, individually and collectively, earnestly entreating them to take this subject into prayerful consideration in all its bearings. Can we believe that if the members of the Christian church everywhere were entirely to refrain from taking part in carnal warfare, that professedly Christian nations could any longer continue the custom? If we believe this, we must also believe that the responsibility for the continuance of war rests upon the church. Dear fellow professors, can you rest satisfied in continuing to bear the weight of this awful responsibility? While statesmen and publicists are laboring to relieve suffering humanity from the blight of this dreadful curse, the church of Christ remains silent. Surely it is time for it to arise from its slumber and to proclaim its supremacy! Is not eighteen hundred years long enough for its white robes, which should be pure and spotless, to have been stained in blood? Must the skirts of the visible church be longer polluted with the gore of the battlefield, and stained with the tears of the orphan and the widow? While war, as has been said, seems to aim at setting up the kingdom of Satan in the earth, alas! the church remains to be its very bulwark. Surely it is time to wipe out this reproach against Him, at whose coming into the world, peace on earth and good will to men was proclaimed, and engage in this holy warfare against the supremacy of Satan's kingdom. Therefore, in behalf of suffering humanity, and in behalf of the cause of the blessed Prince of Peace, whose mission on earth is not fulfilled while wars continue-in true Christian love, we again entreat you to give this subject the consideration it justly merits. Friends in America. ROBERT L. MURRAY, President, New York. DANIEL HILL, Secretary, New Vienna, Ohio. MURRAY SHIPLEY, Treasurer, Cincinnati, Ohio. New Vienna, Ohio, First mo. 1, 1874. Address American Peace Society, Boston, sent by mail 25 for 15 cents, 100 for 50 cents, 250 for $1.00, 1000 for $3.00. Use them. . We present above a specimen of a new pictorial envelope, which we are sure will be regarded as one of the most beautiful and expressive things of the kind. The Society has now four kinds of envelopes, three pictorial, and one other containing brief paragraphs in relation to war and the object of Peace Societies. They are not only envelopes, but peace tracts in miniature, and their use will promote the Cause perhaps a hundred or a thousand miles away. The price of these envelopes has been reduced to 15 cents a package, 50 cents a hundred, $1.00 for two hundred and fifty, and $3.00 per thousand. Being so cheap, and what almost every one has to purchase somewhere, we are selling thousands every week, and those who buy them are sending these messages of Peace all over the Continent. THE MESSENGER OF PEACE is published monthly by the Secretary of the "Peace Association of Friends in America." It is filled with facts and arguments to prove that war is unchristian, inhuman and unnecessary. That if men and women of intelligence were as anxious to find a remedy as they are to find an apology for war, this self-imposed scourge of our race would soon be banished from the civilized world. It advocates the brotherhood of mankind, and that we cannot injure another without injuring ourselves. Terms, 50 cents per annum, in advance, or 5 copies sent to one address for $2. Free to ministers of the Gospel of all denominations who will read it and recommend it to their congregations. Also, a well-selected stock of peace publications, both DANIEL HILL, for adults and children. Address, New Vienna, Clinton County, Ohio. ON EARTH PEACE, . NATION SHALL not lift up SWORD AGAINST NATION, NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANY MORE. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. For some cause we ran short in August issue of the Adrocate, consequently, many of our paying subscribers failed to receive that number, which we much regret and shall avoid any such failure in the future. H. C. DUNHAM. A BOOK FOR THE MILLION!! The Life and Times of Charles Sumner, his boyhood, education and public career, by Elias Nason. Three hundred and sixty pages, substantially bound, with a capital likeness and finely illustrated. Mr. Nason, evidently con amore, has wrought ont with a vivid hand the facts in the life and times of the great statesman and advocate of peace, allowing him to speak for himself by giving the reader many passages of the masterly speeches which electrified and purified the nation. This book which will repay many times reading, ought to go into every library and family in the land, especially into the hands of every young man and student as an inspiration to pure and lofty aims; for Charles Sumner "being dead yet speaketh" to his countrymen and the world of justice and peace. Price only $1.50 and will be sent, postage paid, for price, by addressing Rev. H. C. Dunham, No. 1 Somerset St., Boston. CHARLES SUMNER ON PEACE AND WAR. THE TRUE GRANDEUR OF NATIONS and the WAR-SYSTEM of THE COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS bound in one volume, will be sent postage paid on receipt of $1.00, by addressing Rev. H. C. Dunham, 1 Somerset street, Boston. We have but a limited supply of these great orations of the great Senator, who was a "tower of strength" in our noble cause, and believe there are many who will be glad to receive a copy on the above terms. 4 Editorial Contributors 4 Peace Society's Envelope.... 4 The Messenger of Peace..................................... Advertisements.............................................. DYMOND ON WAR. This remarkable work is receiving unwonted attention from the reading public. Orders come to the office almost daily for it. We are indebted to Mr. Robert Lindley Murray, one of the Trustees of the Lindley Murray Fund, of New York city, for a new grant of several hundred copies of this most excellent Peace Document. We call the special attention of ministers to the fact that it will be sent to them free, whenever they remit six cents postage. It is a book of 124 octavo pages. Its retail price 50 cents. Address all your orders to Rev. H. C. Dunham, No. 1 Somerset St., Boston. MEMBERSHIP. The payment of any sum between $2.00 and $20.00 constitutes a person a member of the American Peace Society for one year, $20.00 a life member, $50.00 a life director, and $100.00 an honorary member. The Advocate of Peace is sent free to annual members for one year, and to life members and directors during life. If one is not able to give the full amount of a membership, or directorship at once, he can apply whatever he does give on it, with the understanding that the remainder is to be paid at one or more times in the future. The Advocate is-sent gratuitously to the reading rooms of Colleges and Theological Seminaries-to Young Men's Christian Associations-to every pastor who preaches on the Cause of Peace and takes a collection for it. Also, to prominent individuals, both ministers and laymen, with the hope that they will become subscribers or donors, and induce others to become such. To subscribers it is sent until a request to discontinue is received with the payment of all arrearages. |