Inexpressibly Sad.

A casket containing the body of a maiden of seventeen years was carried over the doorstep of a mansion a few weeks ago and conveyed to the ceme tery. The distance was short,aud all who had filled the spacious house, whose inmates now numbered but two-for she was an only childwalked slowly and sadly after the carriages which contained the relatives. From the gate the casket was borne by six young men to the side of the open grave, where it was reverently placed. It was the saddest of funerals; she was the most bithesome of girls, and as brilliant as gay. She had been ill

day in June, it is followed by its sure above the head of the laughing boy, December. Bright as are the skies there comes a time when the voice of the brook no longer sings to him the old time invitation to the forest. However fair the palace, time will stain its beauty with tears and crumble its strength with decay. However mighty the empire, the day will fox will play unscared, and the adder, come when upon its broken heaps the sunning itself undisturbed, be the sole occupant of the royal court. To-day the curious traveler thrusts his sharp spade into the mounds of Assyrians kings, drags the funeral trophies of Rameses to the unaccustomed light, and thrusts his fingers

would pretend to do what it cannot Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity, and do by unchurching any who love the truth. in general, I do not mean this or that When I speak of the Church communion, under this or that organization, but I mean in their ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands the whole multitude of the saints of God."

seizure till within three hours of death, when she became unconscious. The hymn, the prayer, even the benediction, were all mournful as the sound of winds on dark nights at sea. The people stood silently while the grave was slowly filled, and then turned to pass away.

Suddenly the teacher of her whose body had been lowered into the damp

ars.

But there is one thing of which even time can not rob the soul, one thing which in the history of the race thing which in the history of the race never grows old; it is the conscioused in Jesus Christ. That which was ness of God's redeeming love revealthe boy's song is still the old man's staff. The lad who joined his infant voice with others in the praises of

fellows most deeply have spoken diIt is s gnificant that the men and woman who have influenced their rectly and unhesitatinly out of their own best natures. They have not waited upoh common opinion nor repeated the current phrases; they have not weighed their words against fitted their teaching to the prevalent mood. They have said what they believed, frankly and courageously. They have not calcnlated the chances of acceptance; they have spoken what seemed true to them, and left the result with God. Atmospheric influences are very powerful and pervasive, and only strond natnres overcome them; contemporary currents

ical weeping. The pastor, perceiving her grief, went at once to her home to com fort her. "Why," said he, "do you manifest such unusual sorrow?"

She answered: "A month ago I felt impressed to speak to her of her soul, and of her duty to her Savior; but I postponed it, and now she is gone."

Then, turning to the pastor, she said, "I hope you have spoken to her." He was silent, and after a while said: "I, too, must confess my sin. When I saw how thoughtless she was becoming, how much more interested in frivolous things, I also was impressed to speak to her of the things of the Spirit; but I postponed it,and she is gone." They prayed together for forgiveness.

Taking leave of her, he went at once to the house of mourning. There he tenderly asked the parents if they had ever conversed with her about yielding her heart to God. The answer was: "On her last birthday we remembered that she was not in the kingdom, and said we must speak to her;but other things came up and we neglected it, and now she is gone."

Yes, gone to witness against her parents, her pastor, and her teacher. -Christian Advocate.

Can Not Take Away. How beautiful the rose upon the breast of the bride. No art has taught us how to make its fragrance and loveliness perpetual. However perfect a

shadow of death with the same joy man goes down into valley of the upon his now trembling lips. The world may take away fortune, youth, fame, but it is powerless to rob the believing heart of that peace which comes from its reconciliation with God in Christ Jesus.-New York Evangelist.

Christ.

"Perish the hand which would circumscribe by one hair's breadth the limits of the definition of the Church of Christ;perish the arm which would exclude from that one flock of the Good Shepard the other sheep which are not of this fold;' perish the narrow superstition that the wind of God, which 'bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh or whither it goeth,' can only be conveyed by mechanical transmissions. I, for one at any rate, refuse to flatter the priestly pride which would sectarianize the catholicity of the Church of Christ. The articles which I accepted at my ordination taught me that the visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men wherein the pure Word of God is preached and the sacraments duly administered, and I, for one, even if I were to stand alone, would repudiate and protest against the uncatholic teaching which

however, less than it appears; for, however set men may be in their prejudices, or however confirmed ir. their indifference, there is something in them which responds to the direc and frank utterance of a noble na ture. Many a speaker faces an ap parently solid audience and sees it hardness melt in the firi of his con viction. Many a man shinks fror opening his heart before a throng of strangers, but when he has spoke. simply and frankly of what is most sacred to him he finds that his lister ers are suddenly his friends. W hide our best selves as if we we ashamed of them; but when we tak courage and speak of our deepe convictions, our highest aspiration we suddenly find that we have ente ed into sacred companionship wi our fellows, and that the breath of a fervor has stirred the same fire nobleness in them that burns in Never give less than your best, a remember that your best is alwer yourself.-Christian Union.

The Sun of the Years.

The art of making friends, like the art of making money, is a common gift distributed by the fairies with liberality to the children of men. But the art of keeping friends, like the art of keeping money, is a very rare gift. To keep friends is a fine art. able to hold the ideal while perceiving To be the humanity of a friend; to be patient with the mistakes of to-day because of the wisdom of yesterday, which forecasts wisdom for to-morrow; to tolerate moods; to sink one's very love out of sight for a moment rather than have it shocked or disturbed by surface conditions, requires rare self-control. Yet the one who possesses the art of keeping friends does all this. The cause of the severance of friendship is sometimes so superficial as to be childish. The action of the moment often obliterates, even when it contradicts, the knowledge of years. Impatience and selfishness are responsible for much of the loss of happiness that necessarily results were friendly relations have been disturbed.

Too often there is a surface appearis lacking to justify this appearance. ance of intimacy, where a foundation Words of endearment are too often counterfeit coins. A nature of integrity is very apt to lose faith when once confidence has been shaken, and the result is that from observing deceitful attitudes in the circle about him, one begins to doubt the integrity of those whom he holds dear.

Friendship is a dear and precious gift the one that most ministers to life; without it life is barren. Two conditions are necessary for its preservation-Truth and faith. Very often a little forbearance would preserve that which is often held too lightly. Said a wise woman one morning, discussing the cloud no larger than a man's hand that had arisen between herself and her friend, "I tell you the trouble is that the doing of one wrong thing often wipes out the record of the ninety-and-nine right ones. That is the difference between God and man. What we should do is, not to draw our conclusions from the one act, but from the knowledge of years. That would not only be righteous but natural.” It is not the sudden freak of nature that scientists accept as natural; they draw their conclusions from governing laws; and so it is with human beings-all move in obedience to the law of their being, and that which arcuses the antagonism of the moment is not the result of those laws,

but the result of a sudden disturbance which a little patience would enable us to understand and often forget.Christian Union.

for food. They crave love, they crave fame, they crave power, they crave knowledge, they crave silver and gold; cravings unsatisfied. Many a and they live and die with their Many a man who has given his life to the pursuit of material wealth has died in want. This is the story of the alchemists of old, who devoted themselves to a search for the secret of turning all things to gold. There was one Gabriel Plattes, for example, who gave long years to this study, and wrote a book on the subjeet, more than twocenturies ago. He told how he had at last succeeded in making pure gold; but before he could avail himself of his discovery, he "dropped down dead in the London streets for want of food." There is a longing that shall be satisfied, but it is not for gold. "Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled."-S. S. Times.

Men long for riches as they long

Church sickness must be considered as one of the religious diseases of our time. It means that a large number of people have ecclesiapho

bia. The bitterness which marks the alienation from our churches may be seen in the expressions of scornful criticism and reproach indulged in by socialistic and labor reform leaders. Such sentiments are pretty sure to secure a full measure of applause. And this simply means that the church is not fulfilling its duties toward that class of society in which it first originated. Equally manifest is the indifference about church-going in a different straum of society. Locomoter ataxia takes possession on Sunday of men whose legs are perfectly usable every other day in the week. Indeed, on Sundays they are available for a picnic, but will not walk toward church. We see no cure for it all except a new revival in the church itself-an attempt, with burning conviction, to proclaim to the world that Christianity relates to the life that now is, that it is vital and essential to the redemption of human society. The church need stand none the less for the great eternal things it has stood for; but there are eternal things this side of the grave as well as on the other, and justice, righteousness, and love are some of them.-Christian Register.

Death.

There is a little garden full of white flowers before this house, before this little house, which is sunken in a green hillock to the lintel of its door. The white flowers are full of honey; yellow butterflies and bees suck them. The unseen wind comes rushing like a presence and a power which the heart feels only. The white flowers press together before it in a soft tumult, and shake out fragrance like censers; but the bees and the butterflies cling to them blowing. The crickets chirp in the green roof of the house unceasingly, like clocks which have told of the past, and will tell off the future.

I pray you, friend, who dwells in this little house sunken in the green hillock, with a white flower-garden

before the door?

A dead man.

Passes he ever out of his little dwelling and down the path between his white flower-bushes?

He never passes out.

There is no chimney in that grassy roof. How fares he when the white flowers are gone and the white storm drives?

He feels it not.
Had he happiness?
His heart broke for it.

Does his heart pain him in there?
He has forgot.

Comes ever anybody here to visit him?

His widow comes in her black veil, and weeps here, and sometimes his old mother, wavering out in the sun like a black shadow.

And he knows it not?
He knows it not.

He knows not of his little prisonhouse in the green hillock, of his white flower-garden, of the winter storm, of his broken heart, and his beloved who yet bear the pain of it, and send out their thoughts to watch with him in the wintry night's?

He knows it not.
Only the living know?
Only the living.

Then, then the tombs be not for the dead, but the living! I would, I would, I would that I were dead, that I might be free from the tomb, and sorrow, and death!-Harper's Maga

zine.

A Social Need.

The importance of making much of home life and home surroundings cannot be exaggerated. No right minded person would think of establishing any class of institutions that would tend to supersede the home in the intend to supersede the home in the interests and affections of men. It is to be remembered, however, that in every thickly settled community there is a class of persons who have no homes, except such substitutes as the Among all men there is a natural and lodging house or cheap hostelry afford. legitimate desire for social intercourse, for congenial companionships. not to be satisfied at all times even in the best and brightest of homes.

There is and must always be a real and proper need, limited, but none the less real, in every civilized community for places of social rendezvous, places where men may congregate and enjoy the advantages of companionship. This need is supplied mainly by the drink shops, with all their attendant evil and demoralizing influences. It is the work of the temperance reformer to supply this need with something better.—Christian at

Work.

The Ideal Wife.

Many young men eschew matrimony to their notice, some because of the because of the "failures" which come alleged expense, and more because of the selfishness of their natures. The latter class prefer the grosser enjoyments of life and care not for the spiritual and mental companionship which only a pure woman can give, and the delights which center about the sacred name of Home.

"There is no greater blessing can befall a thinker than a union with a woman who is at least his peer in her appreciation," writes Walter Blackburn Hart, in the New England Magazine. "And it must be remembered that Balzac claimed that 'appreciation is complete equality.' A woman worldly enough to protect a thinker from the world, and unworldly enough to live with him in the world of his thought and imagination, is the ideal wife for the man of high aims. and with such a woman a man can live serenely in the most desirable society. Emerson puts it thus: 'When a man meets his accurate mate, society begins and life is delicious.' In an atmosphere of love and sympathy one lives more vividly; there is a spur in every meeting, and inspiration in every absence.

Life itself begins with such a union; the old adage that 'he lives twice who

lives well,' has more meaning when is twisted to read, he lives twice w loves well and wisely. The man w is rich in himself, his sympathies, l various magnetisms and recipro tions, is the truly rich man; his sto does not tempt the vulgar to robbe or excite the envy of his neighbo for to them this world of the imagin tion is nothing; and granting all p sible human separations and aff tions, such a store will last a life ti These are the riches to accummul cultivate; and to make it attract One's own society is the society to one's self and to others, one m cultivate one's self. This is the sec of true greatness, true gentlene manners and true morality."-Ame can Farmer.

"The Shining Shore."

The origin of popular hymns is ways interesting. In an article "The Vitality of Song" by Geo. Root in Current Topics, he gives following account of the origin of well-known hymn, entitled Shining Shore:"

One day, I remember, I was wo ing at a set of graded part-songs singing classes, and mother, passi through the room, laid a slip from of her religious newspapers bef me, saying, "George, I think t and the poem began: "My days would be good for music." I look gliding swiftly by." A simple mel sang itself along in my mind as I re and I jotted it down, and went on w my work. That was the origin "The Shining Shore."

Later, when I took up the mel to harmonize it, it seemed so v simple and commonplace that I h tated about setting the other part it. But I finally decided that it mi be useful to somebody, and comple it, though it was not printed u some months afterwards. When after years, this song was sung in the Sunday-schools and churche the land, and in every land and ton where our missionaries were at w and so demonstrated that it had that mysterious vitality of whic have spoken, I tried to see wh should be so, but in vain. To musician there is not one reason melody or harmony, scientifically garded, for such a fact. To him, dreds of others, now forgotten, better. I say so much about this tle song because it is a particul good illustration of the fact that simplest music may have vitalit well as that which is higher, and the composer knows no more abo in one case than in the other.

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VOL. 5.

The Record of Five Years. The first Sunday in this month was the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the present pastorate. The occasion was taken by the pastor in his morning discourse to present an outline history of the pastorates of the church from the organization in 1828 to the beginning of the present pastorate, and to present to the church an album containing portraits of the pastors and a few of the prominent members. The church has had a notable series of pastors in former years in spite of great financial weakness felt during the most of the time. Such men as Rev. J. S. Twiss, the first pastor in the upper village; Elder Marvin Allen, the leader in Michigan State Mission work and an early publisher of the Christian Herald; Dr. Oliver C. Comstock, member of Congress and minister of the gospel; Dr. Samuel Graves, pastor and theological teacher; Dr. S. Cornelius, founder of the American Baptist Publication Society and wise and witty

college president, author; Professor A. Tenbrook, acting pastor, professor, U. S. Consul, author; Dr. N. S. Bur ton, pastor, professor, acting college president; and the noble servant of God whose seventeen years pastorate of the church immediately preceded the present one, Dr. Samuel Haskell, constitute, with others less prominent but no less faithful, a magnificent heritage for any church. The church has licensed to the gospel ministry Dr. Justin D. Fulton, Dr. Arthur L. Wilkinson and others of notable use fulness. It has been blessed with the faithful work in other years of such men in the membership as Professor Dr. J. R. Boise, the noted New Testament Greek scholar; Professor F. O. Marsh, recently deceased; and the beloved Dr. Edward Olney of the University of Michigan.

A bare statement of statistics of the past five years' work may be given.

MEMBERSHIP.

Number of members five years ago Number of additions in five years.. Number of diminutions in five years. Present membership.....

.315.

.317.

.182.

450. .133.

Number baptized in five years... Number received on experience and by restoration.........

Number received by letter.....

11.

173.

NO.

A Request from the Treasurer. Our treasurer, Mr. William Good year, who has served us so faithfull in the financial duties of his office requests that the members will pay i the contributions made toward th deficit of the past year before the en of the month of June. The defici

was all cheerfully and readily sub scribed in such small amounts as t make no great burden on any on member. He also requests that al contributions on regular subscription be fully brought up to date before the summer vacation begins, and tha those who expect to be absent durin the vacation, especially if they con template attending the World's Fair pay as much of their subscription i His prudenc advance as they can. will be recognized by all..

Waterbury, Conn., has elected school board, every member of whic is a Roman Catholic with a Romis priest as chairman. They have thre daily papers all of which are Roma Catholic. Rev. Dr. Lansing, a Congre gational minister was refused ever church in the city when he applied for the privilege of lecturing on ed ucation. He applied for the city hal and was also refused, but when priest asked for the city hall in which to lecture on education, he got it and the mayor led the way, and introduce the priest. Reader, do you see th drift of things in this country? It i time the American people were get $3094.51 $17,708.99. ting awake.-Protestant American.

It will be noticed that the changes in our church are very numerous, and it has been in previous years almost impossible to maintain a steady increase in the total membership for a series of years. This, however, has been accomplished during the past five years.

FINANCIAL.

Local BeneyExpenses. olence. Total. .$14,686 43 4848 29 $19.53472

Regular Contributions. Bequests of deceas ed members....

2700 00 $5794.51

7548.29. $25,329.23.

Memorial Sunday. Sunday morning, May 28, our church welcomed the Welch Post of the Grand Army of the Republic with the two local military companies, the Woman's Relief Corps, and the Sons of Veterans, to the annual memorial service in honor of our soldier-dead. There was a large attendance and a most interesting service. The church was beautifully decorated by the ladies.

Apropos of Lady Randolph Church ill's recent illness, the Pall Mal Gazette, says that she first met Lor Randolph at a dinner party in Paris His attention was attracted to her b her beauty and the fluency and brill iancy with which she carried on con versation in French. He addresse her, and soon found that he had me his match in repartee. When th ladies had withdrawn, Lord Randolp turned to a friend and said: "That' the brightest woman I ever met, an I mean to marry her." And he did