Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1864-06-07

              V A 6 IE MI Mff! - r--if DEVOTliU TO POLITICS, LITEKATUUK, TI1E MARKETS AND GKmOK AL INTMJ-JLIGKIVCJS. VOL. X. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 1864. NO 31. I THE iUOtNT VEUNvN UICPI'ULICAN. , T B It M S: For one year (invariably in advance) J'2. 00 . For hix uouthB,: i " 'l- 1,00 TERMS OP ADVERTISING. ' One square, 3 weeks, 1,00 One squaro. 3 months, 3,00 One square, G mouths, 4.5J One square, 1 year, , 0,00 "mo square (ehunijeablo monthly') 10,00 .Ihuiigeablo weekly, ' ! 15,'H) IVo squares, 8 weeks, 1.7.1 Two squares, 0 weeks, 3,25 Two squares, 8'months, .... y 5,'Jo Two squares, 0 months, 6,57 Two squaws, 1 year, . . . 8,00 Threo squares, if weeks, 2,50 Three squares, 0 weeks, t 4,50 Three squares, 8 months, , 6,0(1 Tliree squares, 0 months, 8,00 Three squares, 1 year, . 10.00 One-fourth column, chan. quarterly, 15,00 Oue-third " -'-" " 22,00 One-half " " " . 28,00 One column, changeable quarterly, 50,00 The Spirit of Sacrifice. DKI.IVKHEO BY PROF, D. SWIXO, ll T1IK THIRD ' I'RKSUYTKRUN CIHJRl'11, KKIIURABY 8, 1863. He thntlovctn lather or mother more than me is not worthy of me, mill lie that lo'th ton or daughter more than mo is not worthy of ino. Every one that hath (orsukn houses, or brethern, or Hi-tiers, or f.itlier. or w.-fe. or cliil dren, for my name's sake, shall inherit ever lastinif life. Jfniiy man will come ii"ter mo l-t him (I'-ny himself mid tuktt up liw cross and follow mi'. GOal'El. OK HATTHKW. I avail irysulf ot the first opj-ortu nity granted me, in this place, o; drawing lessons from the wink und death of one whom many of you well knew, and will not t"-day be unwil ling to remember. Though tliii- now ai,ia.ttin u-a i-i'int iwiaKQ0 ' it nv ur- tractive qualitus, ten viitues fur ev- . , erv fanlL vet .1 come not to eulogize. "'. : bat because his character stood out boldly, and thus readily illustrates ' Bome of the destinies and duties of : manhood, I come 'to intrudo upon you this discourse. ' , . The full of Mixoit Mii.uk in reminds us of the wonderful part played in God's earthly eeonemy by sacrifice. - At every stair a sacrifice must be . made, not i nly in the salvation of a . .soul, but in the progress of national life, or of mental or spiritual devel . upiiient. An English writer has i-aid that in works of art meritis measured partly by the amount of toil bestowed upon this or that, production, and lie mentions among the light by which thcartists1 foot is guided, the Lamp of Sacrifice. The once popular fable that Goldsmith bestowed upon his DesorletL Village" the toil ot seven vears, -added to th value of that place. To pay a great price, to make . u irreat denial, to offer a sacrifice is u habit of the soul, beaauie a design of . . God. Labor, sorrow , snfl'eri ng,death, these are the coins with winch we outer the world's market in which to ' buy education, or religion, or liberty. Tlioy are the great legal tender. The r n . e .. 1 11 spirt 01 csacrinco pervtuies uu spuce and time. - It reveals itself in the widows's casting in two mites; in the . giving up of an alabaster box; in the yielding of life by a John the Bap- tist. The' patriarch Jacob, fonnding his boine,offered the sacrifice of toil; sending afar for cornyoffered the sacrifice of silver; and Benjamin, offered the sacrifice of sorrow; and at last with ' way-worn leody aod soul, offered the sacrifice of! death. Here is a pictue of human life. The heathen natives could not part with this' idea, but by each stream and upon each hill and beneath each great irca they built al-Jtars, and In hours of hope and affection hastened to part with something that was their own.'- Flocks ami jewels, were transferred ' from man to God. .. , .. , :.: .. But if yon would read the trne history of man, liuger not by heathen -altars, but go to where manhood is v.pe-fuutly revealed; not where it is eoen "through a glass darkly," but tr. whoru the lost Imago is seen restored. This brings you to Jesus Christ. But while we look at Ilim,' what a strange sight appearsj He t it carrying a heroes! and from bit sinless lipe issue ' .the - words, any njitu n Come .alleruie'i leihira $6Tj lijmsef, an1 ,follov.me."- The spirjt ,pf sacrifice js therefore the Spirit of tle arth, and jthe rude cross is fto material symbol. Jt is oaly when we tlw luterpret the worhl that we can ftxJ reconciled tqtli struggles, the dUappoiiitoient tlie ftpisb, which 'surrrfind Wr-; '11166 ' are thousand whos' liearts, .during jur gigantic war, are seeking jhoiuB comforts $j aserane pipp tit' jnind, facing rersriflj and priecrif 'juiijfy, jvu the murvi t)t. iioUu, cipU'S and fee M'rld'g regeneration t ken family circle; willing to barter all for a happy hearth stone. For! these thousands there is reserved the j bitterest clip of Sorrow--nfHictioiis I without a previous preparation, v-i lamiticB without human sympathy tr lighten them, and without nobleness enough iii the soul to render it strong in itself. And yet many of these weak ones are prr!essed!y the followers f Hint who wandered homeless in Galilee with no place tor his head at night, and with a Mount Calvary rising before him. , , To confess that this earth is a battlefield, a. vast im-nu of strife greater than any Olympian, a vale of some happinesss, but of much sorrow; to put away the weakness of calling it Paradise, this is wise. It is even Christlike. It should bo sufficient for us that there is beyond this life an existence beautiful, happy, endlcsB. For the present let u bow to tho world's econeniy, let us accept of its plan and be imbued with its genius. Only look at the world and see its most impressive phenomenon, that f Truth strugjdiiig with F.ilsd'iood. Ignorance Hid i'uIscIm mmI once In hi nil nations in their grasp, and amid bucIi a scene the Makerofflio universe set Ti nth to its toil, difficult und noblw; long but to '.terminate in u crown. The world is commanded ot Oo l to U-gm i career upward. Like Pilgrim, it must run from the gloomy den in the wilderness up Mountains. to the D.h-etal'lo ; Falsehood is passionate and strong. It is all passion ami no reason. The millions of India and. Africa stand ready tiwl.iv to defend a wooden God with kidfe or club or poisened dart. In support of their orrmr the follow ers of Nena Sahib jnnrdored the women at Cawnporo. and the American traitors stand readv to defend their follies by streams of blood. Thus all falsehood always has upon its side passion and violence, and hence lie that teaches truth must first bow down and take upon bis shoulders the rough cross. So passionate is falsehood that the most beautiful truth in science can not reveal itself without awakening the public wrath. Astronomy fought its way into life. When the firstfiteamhoat moved out on trial, both banks of the Hudson were lined by tho complaining and sneering crowd. The first teachers 5f temperance were mobbed at our country school houses; and at last when our land tries to take n step ii)-ward in 1 1 great in :reji of civiliza tion, the sneering crowd reappears and deals with national liberty as the old priests dealt with astramotiy. as the old drinkers dealt with the tern-p ranee reform. When inventors are not hanged nor beheaded, it is generally because their country wishes them to be starved. In such a world truth is commanded to toil. Violonce is not the willing characteristic of truth-teaching. The truth prefers to be be spoken in love, lv.it there is so much brute force in error that it bears with uothii g but hastens to draw its sword, and then sudden ly , the sword of truth is seen gleam mgiu the sun. Christianity is love, but it is not cowardice and infamy. Tho Hebrew shehperd Iwy wasyi ung and gentle, he was love as it afterwards nroved: hut his hand brought down Goliath ofGath. The cry that Christianity is nothing but love, is the cry of ignorance or coward ice,and in these last days of treason. "Heavens livery is stolen to trve tho devil in.'' The philosophy which mak Christianity all peace is wholly unfit for this world. The philosophy of love demands tiiM, ami In all cases where tliQre lie years uf generations before us in which ' to accomplixh a result, the gospel of 'peace is the means; but whore theeluhient of time is left out, wiieri armies rather upon a nation's border,' where a Goliath stalks up Irom the South, the philosophy of love is perfectly worthloss.and becomes the resort of the weak of the infamous. Had Goliath of Gath giv-the shepherd boy the privilege , of fjino, it fa piobahlothat in tun years the great Philistine might have been made a friend of' Hebrews by the power Qf sweet peajinoy; but the element of time was denied',, pnd then came the flying stone the philospby of force. , When the struggle i prea Bed Into the present moment, truth has another nruu)t'lufdde.rUat rf hve an nrmorUhnt wijl, ri;ig npon the batr tleiieldi and it isug Iionoi-jdil i- m ilie smile f love or ' the tears, if merer, J l . - l I .. .'.' body and the heart. Thousands sleep in the grave to-day weighed down by this. Millikin, Tuttle, Cliilds. the liuinl lj McGillan, li beneath this Imrnhdied shield. In obedience to Christian plnlotophv ther sleep. The great falsehoods which lived before dii.' independence dealt hard blows upon the bodies of our fathers. What were those falsehoods? That, onr' fathers should by their toil support A far-off, idl aristocracy; that they should be goverenid by persons un.iciinainted wMi this laii'l; that they should not make with their own liauds tl is or that .'illicit, but should buy from British shops, tlyit percons accused of crime should be transfer- red for trial to England; that immigration was discouraged; these were some of toe political falsehoods which came aguiii6t the colonies in. waves fiercer tlian those of the Atlantic Anil yet our ancestors took up Truth's cross. They arose above tho pursuit of private happiness. Mothers wore willing for; their 6ons to fall.and wives consented to hi coino widows, and out o.''tliis wreck of glorv. The cause of truth lises above individual life, und ot'en lives bv the individual death, as the grain growing upon buttled elds ,!ruVvs luxuriance from tho human blood. Your homes to-day are the ; the blowers which l.ave grown out of the blowers which the old revolutionary 'graves. ' fcinco that day of strife almost a hundred yea in have pin-sed, and other falsehoods greater than nil v fro u ' old England havo advance! from tha 'Smith. . One wf these is so largo n pretwise that it batfl s measurement The United States is expected to draw a dividing line from East to West, centrally, and to grant to some private citizens live hundred thousand square miles, to bo theirs from this late. A monarchy, a slave republic is desired. It is thus asserted that a great nation cares nothing about either half of its domain. En-gbin 1 will tomorrow jri'" np 'l''ll,,l and Scot Ian. I, and acknowledge the right of any coiumittea to rule in those isles. Eiu8ia will divide from east to west, centrally, and confess tl e power of the Porte of Turkey to hold the southern half. Napoleon will t-j morrow divide France, and in tho south ern half establish a Chinese Mandai an. Spain will to morrow share her oin-pire with the King of Dahomey; and thus will bo revealed the doctrine that no nation has a '-are h: actual do main. The island of Sanctions ei.ongh. What governments need is a lively imagination. This dogma of secession is thuoneto which tho iov-ul American is invited to give his heart a dogma which if it were not in the hands of madmen would rend like a joke. But curious as it is, it pas-6ionato und brutal and bloody. Xoth'ng so wrek-Iied ever came from old England. George I.I taxed up indeed, but ho seemed willing for us to live; but the advocates of secession hold out to us every calamity in the implo offer of death itself. Their idea is indeed fisilish. but it is also vicious. The doctrines of Mahomet were absurd, but they stacked human ears and hands and feot at the gates of Constantinople, that the world might see how strong was Islam. Ami yet this political falsehood, gross as it is, has a Kmipnnion of equal distress and wicked nes, ona over which world has wept, over which the Christianity weeps tc-day. Need I pronounce the name of slavery? It came with the frightful ness and 8ti 1th of a serpen, coil opon coil, anxious to crush, hungry for a glutton's feast. Missouri wasthrowu toit ami Vas crushed and mangled and poisonod within its folds. Texas, n whole nation in itse'f, was cist to the nionstoY, and the crushing and poisoning went on. And yet. tho beast wormed its 'way - Northward .and sought new victims. Itcharmed great Senators as the common serpent charms small birds, rnd they bade the beautiful creature go .whithersoever it would, and toward Kansas it dragged its full length. 1 Isthiiw..rl plaoeopieD'3toyou und U all? Do we out, drink ami be inerry tc-day since tomorrow we die? Have men no duties? Have nations no honjrpo pride? ' na Christianity gou away from eurtlJ Has it buthwlailour temples, In the river Lethe thaf w0 'might forget Jesus Chn"t, his f ruth and l is cross? .. U"t slavery di I rot only rolisii ne Smtefti ,r(fiinl tlmsnnlnof iiihi)."- It cJiangiid tio HaU of (nigrei,s in- ists. There Brooks beats with dread - -1 .. tul b.ows the benat-or f rom Massncliu setts.' There Prvor sent his challenges. There Wigtall raved thro' hie intoxication. .There treason laid its plans, arranged the destruction of the Government, stole the nation's arms and the nation's gold. , But slavery did not pair e with ter ritory nor with c ngressinen; its in fluence was felt itiniljiniis of hearts. It prevented southern literature from ever rising into vigorous life, and of- ten cursed it with sad .blemishes so fur as it had any existeneenee. It , overdeveloped the had missions so that the Southern bar and legislative hall and the pulpit itself were a hun- dred yeui-s belli ml, tho stanr'ard of the North. The papers of a Davis and a Benjamin breathe the spirit of falsehood; tho letters of S-uiirt Robin son or a Parson Brownlou are all Milgarity. Slavery, however, is not satisfied. There has never .vet been found a point at which slavery has cried enough. "To the lowest depths it finds a lower deep." America's daughters, whom God hd endowed with talent and beauty, it. has coin-pel led tr seek happiness fv other paths than the culture of tuind an I sou!: while o! Sont! e n young men. it has tin ned tliree-f'orths of the whole number into debauchees at the ug. of sixteen. And while the white race was thus sinking, tho slave nuin, slave woman, and slave child, beaten with the merciless lush, were sending up the wail of agony. Oh, why has God hesitated so long to sweep from existence a nation so infamous, that dared not even cheek the progress of juch a destroyer. He spared the n.itiou that tho lovers of truth might combat here! : Earth was not it paradise, but a field of probation, and , there was a mighty wrong to be overthrown. And Goil bids this nation live that it may win a victory upon so illustrious a field. Heaven is tho place where there is no cross to be borne, but earth is where men 6trugglo and bleed and die. when tho wife wishes her husband home from the battlefield to bo at her side evermore, or wisho- him back from the tomb, it is of Heaven she thinks. There is no war there and no grave is there. Her affection, her love of a happy lome, her dream of contentment and peace have raised her thoughts av ay from earth, and it is of Heaven she thinks. By affection earth is transformer' -into a paradise. Bin i , the sight ot'Gi d ear; h is a field for human foik Goil know 8 the mission of man, and leaves him to struggle onward. Thus for generations the Netherlands fought the Roman bigots; thus the patrii-t hearts of England toiled on; thus the patriots of America toil up ward today, carrying truth's great cross. , . : .... Let Goil bo praised that there were noble hearts enough to say to the nioimter slavery .''Tliua farshalt tjiou come; here shall thy march bo stayed. .Anil'iistrious French writer, Count Gasparin, says that when he beheld the repeal of the Missouri Compromise in America, read the Dred Scott decision, reducing man lo tho level of a brute, and saw the constant success of the slave power hi American legislation, and the stupor of the frdeStates, his heart sunk within him; but that now ho witnesses a sublime sight, the "upriBiiig of o great people in sup port of truth and liberty." This great people aros in the jKiwer of a peace ful Christianity firet, that peace 60 loved now among infidels and skep tics, and at the ballot lo.v commanded tho slave monster to go no farther Northwaid nor Westward. No arms were to bo seen. The seas of China end of Europe held, our fleet. Our soldiers: were. in the workshops, in the studio, or on thu farm. The Christian philosophy prevailed in all the North, Truth ig peaceful. It is th shepherd David singing songs iu veidant pastures beide still waters. But Error is the passionate, the challenging Goliath, From the Potomac to the Gulf and the Rio Grande the' g id of violence we invoke', ' Schoolmasters were mobbed and sent Northward.! Forts were seized, arms were dktribut-'d.gold was stolen, and troops were marshalled for the bloody frpy-Jltis is the region which' Northern traitora find so pacific in it nature, so lovotud to reason, g Ijjjlp to bnith'ie. A Jiation is but a qol lection ot men, aid ot eu oae mail 1 ophv which was dear to Preston si I ,J . ... . I Brooks when he tried to as sossinate Sumner; that was ear to Pryor in v ins challenges; tlnif win dear to Herbert when ho murdered tho Irish .wai'er; that was dear to Giuliani when he murdero I Colonel Loriug, was but the promise of that coining public sentiment which was to flaunt its banners in the nation's face. ! Falshood assailed truth, anil it wculd have been ignominious had truth not drawn her sword, i Would each individual in such n day seek his own happienessand leave tho rights of men and the blessings of a noblogov- ; ernmeiil to perish? and do this in a j world where Jesus Christ died for truth's sake. My friends it wa9 the holiest Christian duty to take up this cross of war. And to bear that cross ' still patiently is the duty of each man worthy of the name of an American. To i ho heart wearied by the long suf fering of (he innocent it ofteu seems de sirable that the great Joluwah should em )1 y the oa,rthquake or winged lihtnings und iu one awlul hourblo from existen:e those traitors so unworthy of life, so worthy of a violent death; but it is our weakness and ignorance which thus do sire, for to the eurthquuke or lightniupii the Creaor h is assigned no moral ra s- sioii. Have thce power 0f nuture eii teru.l i he lists to con en I for u crown? Have they ' before them a beautiful iiu- I . ..O L.I II . I iii'irtamy: 011.111 i.ne unite lorces carry 11 way the laurel wreaths which might sn ud .rii tho brow "I humanity? The Sav iour hi:n.--e.f refused the aid of miracle when the ra'ilile pursued him with the shiiut, "Crucify!" Christ beckoned back the fiowert of the uir ami left the hum, in s ml to meet the World's great storm. Il is man that is upon probation It is not pcstilenee or volanin fires thnt strui.di- for America The -dd Diet ot Worm God could lmve overthrown by some an got of death, but He loved Luther to. well. He could have arrested by miracle the persecutions ot Eugland, but He wish ed to see exiles wandering westward tn platit a great republic. The earth it. man's great . Olympian field. Humanity deals with humanity, Our tears over -such a sacrifice as wi. remember to dav would be dried coulu wo but realize tho grandeur of truth in its earthly mission. Lite is short bu ru h is long. That noble life we lumen was in its best estimate but of tew years while truths es'ablishtd live on and on The English constitution co mis its ug. by centuries, while the lieartsout of whicl-t grew perished at all the years betweet the first scoro and the fourth. Hud thus. Iieurts refused to fi.rht tur truth, we won!"' to day have the knowledge that our iii vextors died a natural death in oil age diis knowledge to atone for the absciici of liberty. Had Paul put a-dde the cro-and retained to his tent making, his lid would have run onward years many ane happy; but truth U greater than the hunt a man, and 1'uul- Went early to hii-couch that truth might rise from horloug dream. A man s eeps thnt philosophy may waken A Millikiu gives up hie lil'e that a nation nity begin hers. Time steps aside to make room for immortality uch is earth's genius. Witness the grandeur of teeth. Rees some lands where truth is not Putagonia, Fujec aud taming from them upon the gulden hc.iv lis of England. Franco, Italy : here are the arts, the scieuucsr the economies. Iito their atmosphere of iru.h the generations are born; into it marches each man, each litt'e child, and all ure tinged with its coloring. - But this brilliaut other is the incense risiug from the sacrifice human spirit. Over mativ iiiirts'of our land rolls it luminous cloud, over Western Virginia, Maryland, and liberty's home spot.' The vast State of Missouri, with every vale acd river, ev ery city and village, lies to-day beneath this new "excessive light." She tries to enclave Kansas no umre. Whence comes this cloud of tru'hs incense? There has been a earrificj offered up at Murfrees. Iioro and in the Boston .Mountains. . A uatiou's tru h is like a soral reef. That cha:n uf rocks runs for a hundred leagues, parting die massive waters; in time of sunshine making them smile, in times of storm making them tremble in wrath, and yet this immense reef is built np by the bonei of the coral army. . The battalions, th legions, thegraod divisions full there. Thus our brothers fall iq death and a vast reef of death rant many s league westward and southward. ' There, wut a time when the waves of tha Atlantio swtpf furiously oyr tl fields of Holland, turning fertile plains into marsnes ot tanuy Witera, r Oerors tne sort lasnings ana hp dndj upturn, the inhabitants, fled. Happiness ind mvmzuioD ana ret.eated. Hat I too nrv- l-uuii Miliar, iniMt Meocaan. .wn iivr, .nu ri(os.a.m-.nyiiipy, r -i-e.l walls whieli no iav eoiilu .nllh.u ll..l'a..l ..-.'a ..!.. I..L frnm There "was a time when tho wr of i -.. i '. . .l i i very and seWion swept northward the r.iehest vales of America iato i ..,....... religion and 1 bertv. Hut thousands who loved truth above life, thousands whom Gd had grunted a braver and nobler i-jtrit than bebui-a to you and me, went down to ihe eorroiching flood und built a barricade of their own bi dies. At Dooel-800, at Shiloh, at Murfreestoro, their bodies ar hnped up, and the wave ot falsehood bus rolled back.' Listen to the d.sputch sent to Richmond; " hivt found (lie Union' forett too ttrong fur me, ami Imvk falleu back " Another Holland rescued from another sea. ' It is not to be wondered at that the classic soul said, "It is sweet to die for one's country;" und if this was true in un njre when the ciu-"e of country was not alwiys the cause of truth, how noble must bo the soldier's dea h in a place where he falls at once for native hind and $n lightened liberty. for it so happens that the blows which save this Govern nmut destroy bondage, and thus tho con flict is twice houortble once tn its oh iect. once in its accident. It you ana J have not the greatness of soul which can cirry such a war's cross, at least may we possess mind enough to admire tho heroism of that soldier to whoe memory thesr W'-rls are all spoken. That patriot sol dier now in death's Bleep wen down fron die North to meet, the trai'or coming u; t'r-an tho South. From the moment In grasped ihe sword he became flobler than you and I. He was lifted up in the arm ol truth us though borue by an.angel. His language grew more eloquent, hi r.-li-'ion' lookert toward Paradise. You und me he left at our peaceful homes eocscious of our inferiority of soul, per haps conscious of treason, while as foi himself he was off and away toward thi lischarge oi a duty the mst sacred, an ' oward a gtove the most henorable upoi which affection's tears Can fall. . Oh! how inexpressibly worthy is the quiet spot whiro the young Colonel Millikin sleeps. In the springtime the wild vines mny well contend for a place there. Toaand I shall die by some humble discate whicl an infant might go from life, or an oh dove quit its toil, while the great crow- if trutd rest upon the shoulders ot ou brother and holds kis nobler spirit dw ro Earth. We cun uever come to a rest o sweet uoles we approach it by the path he trod the path of sscrifico. vWhile wo ireak of the grandeur of this war and of the mission of the noble ou! we would ot permit our philosophy t keus forget the sorrow which enshroud- id many once hsppy households. Whih tho warrior sleeps honorably, we remem lier th loneliness of bereaved hearts. These tears there is nothing but tiuiecai hy I'hev must fall like the r-iin. Ate yet wur does not create death. The Strug le for truth docs iiot originate sorrow. It addsu little indeed to the vast sen which deluges society, but chiefly it gath ers the grief from many future years and hurls it upon our hearts in the ad pre ... . 1 sent The soldier whom we Dunea yes terday, shot through heart or brain, we should otherwise have buried to-morrow by nature's law, stricken of disease. The soldier who made a covenant with truth, and for her sake agroed tj die few days earlier. Humnu tears are hanging upon all the momenta of this world u dew dorps upon every loaf. War gath ers them and pours them down the pre sent like a flood. War concentrates desolation and into one year gathers tht-bitterness of ihe coming ten. All sorrow should be forgiven when we remcmbei how truth rises above the individual life. The world's great philosophy does not know that the soldier has a wife or'u mother. When it strikes down the warrior it knows nothing of the home made desolate, being mindful of only States nn generations. Tho storm which wakens among the mountains with its awful thunders, feedsthe riversaod purifies the air, but we cannot expect it to remember the flowers at the mountain's base. We forgive it for beating them to the earth; and we must forgive ihe truth if, whih it thnudera alonir the Mississippi aud the Cumberland,' feeling tha springs ol liberty, it forgot the wife's and child'-tenderest affeotion. Saorifioe is the universal spirit. ' Not only the soldier "must offer it -the wile, the mother, the ckild must go to the altar and part with seme thing dear. 1 Tlie cross is tie world' symbol. The sorrow that followed Jtsu.-Christ trials after burusnitj. A fiou. writer says; .... "tt !' T' U tk t ' TSt fUo Cii bll f-.fl im, - Ad tknS ! bo ip ri .Bring. ialnn. hff ft(, 1 torn Sr Mi ret An(, ftrter 5, ,hers -potVag tfa lU wu, elctpt MCrjG ' Earth Is th. r. n-.; . ' n hl Tinhi gittaj hc.ra brah 1"1 hi toe ,ha mnunuiu wle; hero the or .r. ; h r ,.,i, here Xn.rvuu !'. ,- ., . f , ' t''"'"1 alviiry; litif. wliOJI WO tu the crow which he wss iud la iu sot I i. .k ;.(. row is thero wrea'heu with flowers anil bathed in light Ou earth the individual is (woridoed tor nations the Ism bowa oefuje the crruter bat in heaveo tb nations do not appear; the individual heart ' rises and ia greater than a ropublig Or aa empire, l offers aacrifice no more. ' There are two crosses: the one of sicri-fice.theotheroffutare happiness. It bone of the pleasant, the charming memories of him. at whose tomb we stem now ta he-standing, that with hi whole mind be accepted of tht Redeemer in relation to. two world-f-win relation to duty in th'uv tohappiuoss in the next. To him Cbris-tiuiity was both apolitical philosophy and apian ot salvation. . . ' .....' '' When the niasters painted images of the heavenly saints, they often drew the cross upon the bosom, that bnpie of love ind life, while the toiling men of thia world are seen carrying it upon, their shoulders. How beautiful the change irom the neck, lowly bowed, around to. the heart, that happier seat! Thus the cross which weighed down our brother to, the grave apd was the type of many lot-rows, has passed around to bis bosom, to. be henceforth the symbol ot immortality Children's Feet. Life long discomfort, disesies, Suddee, death often comes to children through, 'he iuattention. or carelessness of the parent. A child should never he allowed to go to sleep with cold feet; the thing 10 be lust attended to, putting a child to oed, should be to see that tho feot are fry and warm; neglect of this baa often, resulted iu a dangerous attack of croupt siptheriu, or fatal tore throat. Always oncoming from school, on en- ering the homo from a visit or errand in rainy, muddy, or thawy weather, the hild't shoes should be removed, and the, mother should ascertain' if the stockings, ire the least dainpfatd if to, should re quire them to he taken off, tht feet held tfore tht fire and rubbed with the band until perfectly dry, and another pair of tockiugs and short to be pat on, whit the other stockings and shoes should be ilaced whertthey can be well dried, so as to be ready for use at a moment's notice. There ire ch ldren not ten yeart of ige suffering with corns from too close jtting shoes, by the parent having been eiupteJ to 'take' them because a few ems wore' deducted from. the price, ffhilo the child's foot if constantly grow ;ug. A shoe large enough with thin . stockings is to small on the approach of :old weather and thicker hose, but the ' ousideration that tbey art only half worn ii sufficient, sometimes, to require rheni to be worn, with the result of a. sorn, which is to be more or lest of a trouble fur fifty years, perhaps; and all . .his to save the price of a pair of half . srorn shoes! No child should befitted with shoes without putting on two pairs if thick woolon stockings, and they hould go on moderately easy even ove hese. Have broad heels, and less than ialf an inch in thickness. Tight shoes inevitably arrest the free -irculation of the blooJ and nurfo'is io-luences through the feet and directly end tu cuuse cold feet; and health with. nuhituallv colJ feet is an imoosaibilitv. iPi: lluu't Journal of Italth. , How onr Wd Sol4lra FmU It has bean well remarked in view of ihe valor and endurance of our soldiers, in tho battles of the Wilderness, and the steady and resolved advance on Rich mood, that the fierce fire of Cromwell's Covenanters are burning in ear hearts; Col. Frney writes from Washington '0 the Philadelphia l'reu, that "1'oihing jould be mure touching thun to make tour of our hospitals atd converge with the noble follows who were wounded ia ihe Thursday's and Friday's battles of test week. "There it not a complaint of heir own Government; not n wish tl -tressed that the war should close disbon-. iirably; but frequent and fervent exclama tious that they may recover jn time to. .'O back to their regiments and help t finish the rebellion They are full of praise of the colored troops in lturnside'e command. These brave blaoks rushed 1 nto tho very crater of the carnage, shuot- imr their war cry, ''Remember Fort f Pillow!" "Remember Plymouth!" There is no longer any abase of the Abolition sts and' of negroes in, tha army, Of ' he rebel atrouities'they speak in terms ; if unmeasured indigqatioa." '".' 4 U IhlMrcB 4tt Cri, There Is a prevalent idea a mong moth-, era, that children require great deal of medioina in tht spring, sqil the regular losing of the seaMQ bu I already Ugun in nearly all respeptabla families, at the tame time the poor littlethiogi art kept closely boused, or bundled op if they ga out of doors, as if there was poison, instetij of health and a renewal of life, iq th sir. It i possible that eb'rti Xs,j wsct medioiot who bavtbe -''fd oa pav'a id luolasset and minot'pj ' Wnl'r, ht.t f they have be'B t''1'' 'j M, n 1 mffer jnlj froa l':'-'-l pleutss aed hni- afTODS. tad , liberty to ms'.i "y r will be f -old ' ' vicked to keep c ' ' in f-nr wi."s, ri"i I' rh .veil s tpif-'. ' 'J 1 ' ' in I sHp.l.i" 19 I l.ns vke Hid wr.- 7, J , I ,th."i lin'e wii.it iff iti t et lioors, But! ( ii.liii'oj i t 1 t - s. 11 i 1 1 i 1 lob" ,. fery li'l t r