tional wealth or enjoyment. Had all the men and animals slept the whole time, no vacancy of good had been occasioned. The merchant who deals in ardent spirits is himself looser; for a temperate nation consumes more, pays better, and lives longer than the intemperate; and among such a population merchants would do more business and secure better profits. What merchant looking for a place where to establish himself in trade, would neglect the invitation of temperate, thrifty farmers and mechanics, and settle down in a village of riot and drunkenness, made up of tipplers, widows, and beggared children, of old houses, broken windows and dilapidated fences?

Out Into Space.

The wildest dreams of unbridled fancy fail to exaggerate the wonders of sober truth, as they are now carefully collated and recorded with the same mathematical precision as you would solve a problem in Euclid. Though no man has ever been able to reach a height of more than about seven miles above the level of the sea, yet by his indomitable genius, he has set at naught the laws of limitation and drawn illimitable space down to himself. He has sat in inquisition on all things pertaining to matter, and by skillful questioning has elicited truth after truth, until he has been able to erect into a positive science physical phenomena that were looked upon as valueless accidents a few years ago.

He verified this with a prism, and found that no further splitting of the rays would give more than the seven colors first obtained.

Second, The amount of suffering and mortality inseparable from the commerce of ardent spirits renders it an unlawful article of trade. Many thousands Newton, when he blew his soap bubof children are there in our land who bles up in the summer sunshine, caught endure daily privations and sufferings, the truth of the composite character of which renders life only a miserable bur-homo geneous white light, by breaking den. Their's is a lingering living death. the pencil of light into the seven colors We talk of the cruelties of the slave of the rainbow, or of the solar spectrum. trade the husband torn from the bosom of his wife, the son from his father, brothers and sisters separated forever, the horrors of their passage from Africa to America, the chains, the darkness, This was a grand truth-was immorthe stench, the living madness of woe- tality—and yet his foot only pressed the and it is dreadful! But bring together threshold of the great temple of truth the slaves of intemperance, and crowd of which his soap bubble and prism them into one vast lazar-house, and were the portal. He noticed that when sights of woe quite as appalling would the sunlight passed through a narrow meet your eyes. Yes, in the nation of slit in the shutter, and then passed intemperance there is a passage, not through his prism in the darkened from Africa to America, but from time room, that although it spread the seven to eternity, and not of slaves whom colors of the rainbow on the white death will release from suffering, but of those whose sufferings at death do just begin. Could all the sighs of these captives be wafted on one breeze, it would be loud as thunder. Could all their tears be assembled, they would be like the sea. Then the desired perpetuation of the good of the nation and the liability of eternal death should teach us to abandon the use of intoxicating liquors.

HOPE is the best part of our riches.

screen, yet he found a multitude of narrow black lines passing across the spectrum, as though wires had been stretched across the slit to intercept the light. These lines were not placed at regular intervals, neither were they of equal width. Whether he attached any significance to them we do not know; but it is certain that until the present century, the interrogatives were not sufficiently skillful to make them yield their secret. In 1802 Wollaston mentioned these dark lines, and in 1814 Feranen

hofer, of Munich, carefully examined the chromo sphere, the part that sets and mapped them. Others followed, the heat and light waves vibrating, and but the origin and nature of them eluded which is in fact the sole source of heat the most careful and painstaking re- and light to our earth. A vast electric search and reasoning, until 1859, when zone or corona surrounds him, giving Kirchoff' made his splendid discovery. him an auroral crown, the insignia of This discovery was the simple fact unisputed royalty. But unlike other that the vapor of any substance would kings, the king of day does not disdain intercept just such parts of the prismat- to work. His laboratory contains ic rays as it would originate if made almost all the metals, minerals and self-luminous. By applying this law-gases known in our earth, and many and there is no exception to it-the substances of which we have none of chemist is able to step out into space like kind, iron, nickel, platinum, gold, and call on any of the fixed stars, the silver, zinc, magnesium, sodium, and comets or our own sun. many others exist in a molten state, It would take too long to tell just how and their vapors are dispersed in the this is all accomplished, but we would gaseous envelope, or chromosphere, take it for granted that light and solar making known their presence to our heart are the result of vibrations of chemists by the dark hands and lines of ether, a substance millions of times the prismatic spectrum, as I told you lighter and thinner than ordinary at- before. mospheric air, and which pervades all But what a clang, crash and tumult space in the vast universe of creation, must be there! storms, thunderings and penetrates and occupies the spaces and explosions far beyond the power between the atoms of the densest met- of description, are the constant pheals. The ether vibrations are propaga- nomena witnessed. Streams of burnted in waves, and each atom is capable ing hydrogen shoot out from the surof vibrating in all periods of time. This face of the sun, and meet the downrush enables that part of the light that is of particles of matter that are constantpropagated by short waves, namely the ly drawn to his surface, and lick them violet and indigo, to reach the eye at up into vapor, and throw them out into the same time as the red, that has twice space to set the waves of heat and light the wave length as the extreme violet; into motion, and thus govern times and and the sensation of white light is thus seasons, and thus seed time and harvest produced on the optic nerve. come in their appointed times. Out in Let us now pay some attention to a space we find that the law of mutual comet, and see if his solidity is conform-dependence bind worlds together, and able to his great size. We will discover the perturbations of one is met by a rethat he, like many other bodies occu- sponsive vibration of the others, so that pying great space, is very thin and mutual harmony is manifest in all parts made up entirely of gas. The analysis of the chain of creation. The solar cyof the spectroscope shows that the comet clone is responded to on earth by the is nothing but carburetted hydrogen, aurora borealis and the electric storm, rendered self-luminous by condensation and were our senses more acute, we at the nucleus part. would find through them, instead of We will abandon him as a vagabond, through the cunningly devised metha tramp on the highway of the heavens, ods and processes, that each planet and see what that great central mass of and each living being residing on it, matter, our sun, has to offer to increase formed mutual parts of an eternal harour store of knowledge. The sun is mony. Who would suppose that the nearly 863,000 miles in diameter. This simple prism used to show that suncentral mass is perfectly dark, and is light is compound, could bear any relathirty times as dense as the earth. tion to the useful arts? Yet such is the Outside of this we have what is termed case. The spectroscope is in constant

pendent, as that of man, at his birth. | In thought I have paced St. Peter's The worm is as much a worm at the aisle, and gazed in admiring awe upon first as it is at the last hour of its worm its lofty columns, its vast proportions, life; a fly is as complete a fly in its first and its sweeping dome. But yet, above spring day as it is when matured by a all these, yes, above the starry heavens full summer's heat. So it is, to a cer- even, there towers in wonderful magtain degree, with the higher orders of nificence, pearless worth and sublime life. The lion marches straight forward majesty, a pure, lovely and generous to the goal of its lionhood, and the eagle manhood, veiled with the drapery of to its kingship in the heavens. Never heaven, and all radiant with the image does Bruin lose his penchant for hug- of God restored again. Such a manging, or turn out a dwarfed and bilious hood as this not all the powers of earth satire on his bearhood; nor the pan- can confer upon you. Better is it than ther lose his stealthy tread from a fit of all the "letters patent" ever issued by chronic rheumatism. Not so with man. parliament, or conferred by kingly By brutal passion and by leprous sin, hands to make a duke over lordly many, many trample manhood in the realms. dust, and become lost to every inspira- Neither learning or science can give tion of virtue and to every grace that it to you; for, without manhood, learncould adorn. Young gentlemen and la- ing would lose its luster, and knowledge dies, you have entered into the great "be as sounding brass or a tinkling "irrepressible conflict of ages." You cymbal." Manhood knows no law of now stand in the vestibule of your man- primogeniture; neither does it come to hood and womanhood. Over the past us, like our sins, through hereditary deyou have no control. The future is be- scent. What if you are poor or humfore you. Upon its dark veil is written these threefold ideas-your duty to yourself, to your neighbor, and to your God; and these find center in these two words, True Manhood. Under Provi- The pages of history, blackened and dence, you are the architects of your blistered as they are by astounding character. What you shall be-what crimes and hell-planned villainies, are power you shall attain-is, in a meas-relieved of their utter horror by the lusure, in your own hands. Life, either of ter of the glorious lives of earth's noglory or of shame, is the problem you must solve.

ble? "The rank is but the guinea's stamp-a nian's a man for a' that.” Yes, "worth makes the man--the want of it the fellow."

blest men. Truly there was more wealth and loyalty and nobility in the prison cell of Bunyan than in the kingly court of England.

Be a man, shouts forth the sweetest singer of the world; and true manhood is a prize worthy of life's highest, no- Columbus in his chains was more blest efforts. Peerless excellence is than the peer of Ferdinand in all his stamped upon it; but it is imprisoned-royal splendor; and the poor, rugged bound. I challenge you to the task of German monk, standing in the midst winning that prize. Summon forth of scowling princes and maddened every energy, call out every power. bishops, was more a monarch than he brush away every obstacle, polish down whose hand held the scepter of dominthe rough asperities of the quarryman, ion, and upon whose head flashed the and bid your manhood come forth, and coronet of an emperor. set it all ablaze with the jewelry of purest excellence.

In imagination, I have stood upon the crumbling wall of ancient Thebes, read the story of its marshaled hosts, its hundred brazen gates, and wondered at its greatness and renown.

But you ask, What do you mean by true manhood? In answering, we must not confound its manifestations with its power. He would be a novice indeed who would take the tricks of Wyman for Wyman's self. Common sense is not manhood, neither is virtue,

self-reliance or religion-these are the the hero of faith, bearing in his hand signals of a noble power within. By the covenanted deed of mercy to bless true manhood I mean that every fac- all nations? We remember how weakly ulty and power that God has given us his soul bent before the presence of fear, should be so disciplined and trained as and by sinful cunning escaped the peril. to enable us to act our part truly and Earthly records give us the names of nobly in the great drama of life. great and glorious men, "names not born to die," but still some defect serves to mar and rob them of perfection.

Physically and mentally, we are made up of forty or fifty different faculties, and each of these has its proper office, work and mission. Take our physical senses; if our sight is gone, a world of beauty is blotted from our view. Let one enter the temple of intellect, and destroy the faculty of number, then will mathematics close her gates, and forever we shall remain dead to the grand and sublime themes that belong to her dominion. Let veneration, that highest and noblest crown jewel of the soul, be lose, and then we wander forth into the dark night of Atheism, desolate, forsaken, without hope of God either in this or in the world to come. Thus destroy or weaken any faculty, by desire or abuse, then, just in that degree of lost, we cease to be entire men, then there can be no

harmonic manhood or womanhood for

us.

Be a man—a noble man-working up into a perfection and a majesty that shall gain the blessing and the appro

bation of an infinite God.

But next we ask, What are the things needed as aids to the gaining of such a prize? I answer: You need, at the very start, the highest and most perfect

Christ comes into the world, gathers all the excellencies of the illustrious ones of the past, anticipates all the possible virtues of the future, exhausts every conception of the pure and the good, and is placed before us as the sublimest realization of faultless perfection. Ponder him, study him, till every faculty and power is impressed with his divine image, and then may you stand forth in your redeemed manhood as the peer of angels as the approved of God.

(CONCLUDED NEXT MONTH.)

PATIENCE.--There is no kind of vocation, no degree, neither spiritual nor temporal, no estate and condition of life, which can lack this excellent virtue, christian patience. For, as it is sometime day, some time night, other whiles cold and frosty winter, other whiles pleasant summer, and other whiles springtide, so the life of man and woman is mingled of sweet and sour things. It hath commodities and pleasures, and it hath griefs and displeasures. There be things that delight and refresh us, and there be as many things which molest, model of excellence to call forth all sting, and vex us. For who is there livyour powers. The young artist, with ing, either temporal or spiritual, which his soul all ablaze with glorious concep- can truly report that he hath had contions of the beautiful and the true, would tinual health and prosperity, without not think for a moment of studying the works of inferior minds. He would re-tience is necessary unto all sorts of men.. any storm of adversity? Wherefore pasort to the galleries and museums where the immortal works of the world's masters are preserved, and study their great originals.

THE sweetest and most signal revenge to inflict upon enemies who seek to belittle our labors or underestimate our But where find the masterpiece of abilities, is to do everything well, to lead human excellence? Shall it be Moses? irreproachable lives, to earn popular conWe remember the hot passion to which fidence and respect, to eschew all but he gave way as he came down from the laudable undertakings, to succeed in Mount, and the bold assumption with every act and labor. Success is the which he lifted the rod to smite the wa-most effectual reproach to envy, malice ter yielding rock. Shall it be Abraham, and unfriendliness.