,transcriber's note3 ,text enclosed by underscores is in italics 7italics74 ,text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face 7bold74 ,small capital text has been replaced with all capitals4 ,the carat character 77 indicates that the following letter is superscripted 7example3 ye74 99 99 99 99 99 ,the ,quiver #aa_/ahii ,illustration3 ,,motherhood4 ,after the ,picture by ,,miss ,,ida ,,lovering4 ,,lady ,,doctors ,,in ,,heathen ,,lands ,by the ,author of ,the ,child ,wives and ,widows of ,india1 ,etc4 ,a garrison of snow-capped mountains2 a valley smiling in ,oriental luxuriance2 the gorgeous1 romantic loveliness described in ,lalla ,rookh--such are the general impressions of the land of ,kashmir4 ,dirt1 disease1 and degradation summed up its prevailing characteristics in the eyes of an ,englishman1 who1 in ,october1 #ahgb1 toiled wearily over the ,pir ,panjal1 #aa1ijj feet above the level of the sea4 ,this was ,dr4 ,elmslie's last journey4 ,he hardly realised1 as he dragged his weary limbs over rough but familiar paths1 that one object for which he had struggled for years was practically accomplished4 ,he sank from exhaustion on the way1 and the day after his death ,government granted permission for missionaries to spend the winter in the ,valley of ,kashmir4 ,still farther was he from knowing of another result of his labours4 ,he had appealed to ,englishwomen to bring the gifts of healing to suffering and secluded inmates of zenanas4 ,dr4 ,elmslie had found a direct way to the hearts of prejudiced heathen men4 ,the sick came to him for healing1 and learnt the meaning of his self-denying life4 ,illustration3 7,photo3 ,elliott and ,fry47 ,,the ,,late ,,dr4 ,,fanny ,,butler4 7,at the time she went to ,india47 ,skin for skin1 yea1 all that a man hath will he give for his life1 are ancient words of wisdom2 but this rule has exceptions4 ,to ,hindu women1 at least1 caste is dearer than life4 ,it would be as easy to restore the down to a bruised butterfly's wing as to give back self-respect1 and with it all that makes life worth living1 to a zenana lady who has been exposed to the gaze or touch of a man other than a near relation4 ,custom of the country debars a respectable woman from receiving ministry to body1 soul1 or mind1 unless it comes from one of her own sex4 ,dr4 ,elmslie's appeal resulted in ,miss ,fanny ,butler's offer of service to the ,indian ,female ,normal ,school and ,instruction ,society4 ,she was the first enrolled student of the ,london ,school of ,medicine1 which had just been transferred from ,edinburgh1 and passed second out of one hundred and twenty-three candidates1 one hundred and nineteen of whom were men1 in the ,preliminary ,arts ,examination4 ,she went to ,india in ,october1 #ahhj1 the first fully qualified medical missionary to women4 ,seventeen years after ,dr4 ,elmslie's death ,dr4 ,fanny ,butler obtained another concession for ,kashmir1 the permission for missionaries to live within the city of ,srinagar4 ,she saw the foundations of a new hospital for women begun within the city1 and fourteen days after she also laid down what1 an hour before her death1 she described as a good long life1 in the service of ,kashmiri people4 ,the age of thirty-nine1 she said to the friends who surrounded her1 and who felt that she of all others could not be spared1 was not so very young to die1 and she sent an earnest plea to the ,church of ,england ,zenana ,society1 the division of the old society to which she belonged1 to send someone quickly to take her place4 ,the new hospital was the gift of ,mrs4 ,bishop 7,miss ,isabella ,bird7 in memory of her husband4 ,she had seen the dirty crowd of suffering women at the dispensary door overpower two men1 and the earliest arrivals precipitated head foremost by the rush from behind1 whilst numbers were turned away in misery and disappointment4 ,hospitals and dispensaries have rapidly increased since the day of pioneers4 ,absolute necessity has forced medical work on many missionaries in the field4 ,the most elementary knowledge of nursing and hygiene appears miraculous to women sunk in utter ignorance4 ,a white woman too modest to give them remedies for every ailment is usually regarded as unkind4 ,a neglected missionary dispensary is practically unknown4 ,illustration3 7,photo supplied by the ,church of ,england ,zenana ,missionary ,society47 ,,outside ,,the ,,verandah ,,of ,,the ,,women',s ,,hospital ,,at ,,tarn ,,taran4 7,showing some of the patients placed out to spend the hot night in the open47 ,at the time when the ,countess ,dufferin started her admirable scheme for providing medical aid for ,indian women a well-known ,anglo-,indian surgeon stated publicly that1 whatever other qualification was required in a candidate1 two were absolutely necessary3 she must be a lady in the highest sense of the word1 and she must be a ,christian1 and he proceeded to give good reasons for what he said4 ,the experience of every woman who has taken up this work would bear out his sentiments4 ,without courtesy and ready intuition of the feelings of others it would be hard to get an entrance into zenanas1 and nothing but love and devotion to her ,master would enable a woman to persevere in spending her life amongst sick heathen women1 in spite of sights1 scenes1 and vexations beyond conception in ,england4 ,illustration3 7,from a ,photograph47 ,,the ,,duchess ,,of ,,connaught',s ,,hospital1 ,,peshawur4 ,the greatest difficulties are probably met in high-caste zenanas4 ,there1 in the midst of unhealthy surroundings1 the friends and neighbours have grand opportunities of undoing any good that may have been accomplished4 ,it is grievous to a medical missionary to find her fever patient dying from a douche of cold water1 because the white woman has defiled her high caste by feeling her pulse4 ,it is enough to make her give up a case in despair if1 after she has explained that quiet is absolutely necessary1 the friends and neighbours decide that the evil spirit supposed to be in possession must be driven out by the music of tom-toms4 ,a ,hindu man is said to sin religiously1 and a ,hindu woman excels him in devotion to her creed4 ,a fever patient in the ,punjab refused to drink milk--the one thing of all others that her medical woman ordered her--because she said1 if it were the last thing she swallowed1 her soul would pass into the body of a cobra4 ,one medical missionary found a woman1 who was in a critical state1 lying on a mat1 whilst an old woman1 supposed to be learned in sickness1 stood on her body1 or patrolled up and down like a sentinel1 as far as the length would admit4 ,this was kindly meant4 ,another found one suffering seriously from the effect of a linseed poultice4 ,she had carefully explained the mysteries of making and applying it1 but in her absence the patient's friends had spread dry linseed over her chest and poured boiling water over it4 ,illustration3 7,photo3 ,baness ,bros47 ,,waiting ,,their ,,turn4 7,patients outside the ,tarn ,taran ,hospital ,dispensary47 ,happily1 all the women in ,india are not secluded in zenanas4 ,by far the largest proportion live in the villages1 but their notions of propriety are very strict4 ,the hard-working field-women will hide themselves on the suspicion of a sahib being within reach4 ,when once they are satisfied that the visitor belongs to their own sex and is harmless1 crowds beset the missionary encampments4 ,many tales of suffering are poured into sympathising ears4 ,i am blind from crying for my only son is not an infrequent complaint4 ,nothing can be done in this case4 ,there is no god or goddess to love a ,hindu woman4 ,whatever offerings we make her1 the goddess of small-pox smites us1 and then the men say the women have not offered enough1 and are angry4 ,this was the reply of a ,punjabi woman1 who spoke for her friends and neighbours4 ,one ,bengali woman told a missionary of the death of a precious baby boy4 ,there did not seem much the matter1 but the hakim 7a native quack7 first gave him something burning to swallow1 and then applied a red-hot iron to each side in turn2 and the child only drew one or two breaths after this treatment4 ,this also1 one hopes1 was kindly meant4 ,the ,hindus are by no means wanting in humanity1 but ignorance is often as fatal as cruelty4 ,many patients find an excuse for coming again and again to the dispensaries4 ,there they hear of blessings in this world and the next which they say seem too good to be true4 ,they see love shining in the earnest faces1 and feel it in the touch of hands that will not shrink from dressing repulsive sores4 ,the majority of cases in dispensaries are ordinary fevers or skin diseases resulting from dirt1 and other scourges that follow defiance of elementary rules of health4 ,patients discharged as cured often return4 ,tell me again that ,name that ,i can say when ,i pray1 one of them asked1 to explain the reappearance of her shrivelled old face2 ,i forget so soon4 ,and she went on her way repeating the ,name that even some of the heathen realise must be exalted above all others4 ,i know that your ,jesus must reign over our land1 a ,punjabi woman said to a lady who had opened a dispensary at ,tarn ,taran1 a sacred city of the ,sikhs2 ,i know it1 because your religion is full of love and ours has none at all4 ,the mission hospital at this city1 with the name which literally means ,the ,place of ,salvation1 and the dispensary seen in the illustration1 came mainly into being through the determination of the inhabitants4 ,a suffering baby might claim a share in its existence4 ,this infant's mother brought it to a missionary whose training as a nurse had made her a friend in sickness4 ,the child's sight was hopelessly gone4 ,the mother said that the hakim had told her alum was good for sore eyes1 so she had put it under the lids4 ,you have used it in such a way as to blind your baby1 the missionary said2 and ,i could have told you what to do4 ,how should ,i know8 the woman replied1 using a common phrase to express helplessness or lethargy2 but she told the story to her friends1 and other mothers1 whose babies' eyes were suffering1 soon proved that the white woman had made no empty boast4 ,ophthalmia is terribly common in ,india1 and its marvellous cures began to be famous4 ,one day a family party carried an invalid into the verandah of the ,tarn ,taran mission house4 ,the missionary looked inside the doolie2 she was not a doctor1 and declined to undertake such a serious case1 and told the men to take their invalid to the ,amritsar ,hospital4 ,they were determined to take no such trouble4 ,to show that she was equally determined to make them1 she went inside the house and shut the doors and blinds4 ,who would hold out the longest8 ,the result was a foregone conclusion4 ,the ,punjabis1 armed with a greater disregard for a woman's life1 gained the victory by the simple method of beating a retreat1 leaving the helpless woman behind them4 ,in common humanity she could not be left to die4 ,in a few days her family returned to inquire1 and were gratified to find her progressing towards recovery4 ,the white woman's celebrity was now secured1 and to her consternation and embarrassment she found her verandah full of patients1 and1 from overwork1 was soon herself added to the number4 ,the people of ,tarn ,taran afterwards gave the building for a ,women's ,mission ,hospital1 and a new one is now in the charge of a fully qualified lady doctor4 ,hospitals are by far the most satisfactory part of medical missions4 ,in zenanas and dispensaries it is one thing to prescribe and give advice1 and another for orders to be obeyed1 especially if they are contrary to rules of caste or custom4 ,it is well known that a ,hindu soldier1 who will follow his ,british officer into the fiercest mle1 and1 if necessary1 die for him1 if true to his own creed1 will not receive a cup of water at his hands4 ,when wounded his parched lips will close tightly1 lest his caste should suffer4 ,the same principle debars his womenfolk from accepting physic in a liquid form from ,englishwomen4 ,they may1 however1 take powders4 ,written directions are generally useless1 and verbal ones often misunderstood4 ,it is little wonder if dispensary patients make slow progress4 ,are you sure you took the medicine ,i gave you8 inquired a medical missionary of one who made no advance at all4 ,quite sure1 ,miss ,sahiba4 ,how did you take it8 ,i ate the paper and threw away the dust4 ,this mistake was not astonishing under the circumstances4 ,one ,mohammedan specific is to swallow a paper pellet with the name of ,god written in ,arabic2 another1 for the mullah to write an ,arabic inscription on a plate1 and for the water that washes it off to be the dose4 ,illustration3 ,a ,,group ,,of ,,workers ,,at ,,the ,,duchess ,,of ,,connaught',s ,,hospital4 7,dr4 ,wheeler stands at the left-hand side of group47 ,it is well when superstition and misconception stop short at swallowing paper and inky water4 ,a woman1 seriously injured from an accident1 was carried into the ,duchess of ,connaught ,hospital1 ,peshawur4 ,her husband accompanied her1 and saw the medical missionary in charge carefully attend to fractures and bruises4 ,rest and sleep and quiet were doing their work1 and the man was left to watch4 ,a sudden crash startled the ward4 ,the husband had turned the bedstead over on its side1 and flung his wife down4 ,he fancied she was dying1 and said it would imperil her soul if it departed whilst she lay on anything but the floor4 ,he had the satisfaction of knowing that she died where he placed her4 ,this was a case of a ,hindu sinning religiously4 ,it would be harder to forgive the frequent sacrifice of life to superstition1 if there were no ennobling element underlying it of honest desire for some vague spiritual good4 ,the ,duchess of ,connaught ,hospital is a permanent memorial of her ,royal ,highness's kind interest in the women of ,india4 ,whilst on the ,north-,western ,frontier she went through the ,dispensary and ,nursing ,home which represented the first effort to bring medical aid to the ,afghan women1 and allowed it to be called after her name4 ,a new and much larger building1 of which a drawing has been reproduced1 has taken the place of the native quarters1 where ,mohammedan bigotry was by slow degrees overcome4 ,for years the ladies of the ,church of ,england ,zenana ,missionary ,society1 who had charge of this hospital1 were the only ,europeans living within the walls of ,peshawur4 ,every night the great city gates closed them in1 and separated them from other missionaries and from ,government servants4 ,they chose to be in the midst of their work1 and though outbreaks of ,mohammedan fanaticism repeatedly checked teaching in schools and zenanas1 ministry to the sick continued1 and never lost the friendly confidence of ,peshawuris4 ,illustration3 7,photo supplied by the ,church of ,england ,zenana ,missionary ,society47 ,,staff ,,and ,,patients ,,of ,,st4 ,,catherine',s ,,hospital1 ,,amritsar4 ,in its early and humbler days1 the fame of this hospital reached far-away ,khorassan4 ,a lady of that country who was suffering terribly1 caused herself to be carried the fifteen days' journey to ,peshawur4 ,miss ,mitcheson1 who opened the first dispensary1 and is now the head of the hospital1 saw that her case was critical and required an operation of a far more serious kind than she had ever attempted1 and begged her to allow the civil surgeon to see her4 ,i would rather die1 the patient answered4 ,the combined forces of suffering1 fear of death1 and persuasion1 were powerless to move her4 ,the ,englishwoman1 of whose powers she had heard in her own country1 might do what she liked with her1 but no man should come near her4 ,happily ,miss ,mitcheson successfully accomplished what was necessary1 and the ,khorassan lady made a good recovery4 ,when the time came for parting from her new friends1 she promised to use in her own country the knowledge she had gained in ,peshawur4 ,she kept her word1 as more visitors from ,khorassan testified1 and they said she had not forgotten the benefits she had received in the mission hospital4 ,illustration3 7,photo supplied by the ,church ,missionary ,society47 ,,back ,,view ,,of ,,new ,,women',s ,,hospital1 ,,hangchow4 ,during ,miss ,mitcheson's absence in ,england ,dr4 ,charlotte ,wheeler1 who with her fellow-workers1 in the illustration on p4 #ajb1 stands in the verandah of the old building1 superintended the medical work4 ,on ,miss ,mitcheson's return1 ,miss ,wheeler opened a medical mission amongst the women in ,quetta4 ,this work extended rapidly on and beyond the frontier1 so that in ,november1 #ahif1 when it was a year old1 eight different languages were spoken on the same day in the dispensary waiting room4 ,institutions for training ,christian girls of ,india as doctors or nurses have come into existence as the number of candidates has increased and the necessity has arisen4 ,the ,north ,india ,school of ,medicine has been established at ,ludhiana with this object4 ,many of the mission hospitals also have training classes4 ,st4 ,catherine's ,hospital1 ,amritsar1 under the superintendence of ,miss ,hewlett1 who has had nineteen years' experience1 has provided very valuable assistant medical missionaries for stations in the ,punjab and ,bengal4 ,at the last census a hundred ,christian women--counting missionaries1 assistants1 patients1 nurses and students--were within its walls4 ,an illustration shows the inmates mustering before going to church4 ,one student in ,st4 ,catherine's ,hospital1 who had gained a scholarship1 gave promise of a brilliant career4 ,before the time of study in which she delighted was over1 the lady superintendent became suspicious of what this young girl described as broken chilblains on her fingers4 ,a doctor was called in1 and confirmed her impression that it was leprosy4 ,an ,eastern girl knows1 what in ,europe is only faintly imagined1 of the horrors of this loathsome disease4 ,one cry of anguish only escaped her when she was told the verdict4 ,then she rose above the trial1 and resigned herself cheerfully to the will of ,god4 ,she was prepared to start the next day for the ,leper ,settlement near ,calcutta without meeting her friends or fellow-students for a word of farewell4 ,what comforts me1 she said to the ,clerical ,secretary of the ,church of ,england ,zenana ,missionary ,society1 who was in ,amritsar at the time1 is that ,i may go as a missionary rather than as a patient4 ,she went to that place of death and banishment1 to live out the rest of her days in ministry for others4 ,in her case the days lingered into years1 and the disease took a severe form1 but her devotion and courage never failed4 ,when death came to her as a friend1 and her work was done1 the memory of the superior girl1 who had lived among the afflicted people as a missionary rather than a patient1 remained4 ,perhaps her fellowship in suffering gave her the final qualification to be a missionary to lepers4 ,india is the land which above all others cries out for lady medical missionaries2 but other ,eastern countries have also a claim4 ,wherever ,islam has planted its iron heel1 women are jealously guarded in harems1 and it is very unusual for a man to be allowed entrance on any pretext4 ,in ,china1 also1 women of superior class are hidden within the high walls that surround their houses4 ,those free to go out gain little but suffering from the barbarous attentions of native surgeons4 ,in the ,east the knowledge which brings relief from pain is a power to overcome obstacles to ,christianity that resist every other force4 ,the ,church of ,england ,zenana ,missionary ,society has sent out a qualified lady doctor to ,foochow1 and in #ahid the ,church ,missionary ,society opened a hospital for women in ,hangchow with one large and six smaller wards4 ,one patient who was brought into this building--of which two views are given--suffering from diseased bones1 has gone out to devote her recovered health and new knowledge to the service of ,god and her own countrywomen4 ,illustration3 7,photo supplied by the ,church ,missionary ,society47 ,,interior ,,of ,,new ,,women',s ,,hospital1 ,,hangchow ,there is scarcely a mission hospital or dispensary that cannot tell of similar results of the double ministry to body and soul4 ,each year justifies the increased number of women with medical qualifications sent into the mission field4 ,some1 like ,mrs4 ,russell ,watson1 of the ,baptist ,mission at ,chefu1 are the wives of missionaries1 others have been sent out by various missions1 such as the ,zenana ,bible and ,medical ,mission1 or by the women's branches 7added during the close of the present century71 to the more venerable societies4 ,dr4 ,henry ,martyn ,clark1 of ,amritsar1 once asked a friendly ,hindu what department of foreign missions his people considered most dangerous4 ,why should ,i reveal our secrets to the enemy8 the ,hindu responded4 ,but he yielded to persuasion4 ,we do not very much fear your preaching1 he said1 for we need not listen2 nor your schools1 for we need not send our children2 nor your books1 for we need not read them4 ,but we do fear your women1 for they are gaining our homes2 and we very much fear your medical missions1 for they are gaining our hearts4 ,hearts and homes gone1 what shall we have left8 ,what may be expected when medical and women's missions are combined8 ,according to the friendly ,hindu1 the very citadels of idolatry and superstition might tremble at the advance of this double force to rescue the captives4 ,d4 ,l4 ,,woolmer4 ,illustration3 ,,our ,,roll ,,of ,,heroic ,,deeds ,this month we devote our space to a pictorial representation of an heroic act by ,james ,williamson1 a fisherman of ,whalsay1 ,shetland4 ,during a heavy storm he waded out to the succour of two companions1 who had been pinned on the rocks by their capsized boat and were in imminent danger of drowning4 ,williamson was at first carried away by a heavy sea1 but was returned by the next4 ,then with an extraordinary effort he lifted the side of the boat1 seized the men1 and1 with one under each arm1 fought his way through the boiling surf to dry land4 ,for this conspicuous act of bravery ,williamson was awarded the ,silver ,medal of ,,the ,,quiver ,heroes ,fund4 ,illustration3 ,,pledged ,,pledged ,by ,katharine ,tynan1 ,author of ,a ,daughter of ,erin1 ,etc4 ,,chapter ,,iv4 ,,youth ,,at ,,the ,,prow4 ,and then1 old fellow1 went on ,sir ,anthony's letter to ,jack ,leslie1 of the ,blues1 his particular chum1 ,i stood staring1 with my eyes watering and a little scratch on my nose bleeding where the old rooster--for a rooster it was--struck me with his spurs as he flew4 ,he might have knocked out my eye1 the brute6 ,the second missile 7an invention they call a sun-bonnet1 ,i believe1 made of pink calico and horribly stiffened7 lay crumpled at my feet4 ,and there in front of me stood the culprit herself1 looking half-ashamed and half-inclined to follow the example of the other sun-bonnet which had buried itself in a big chair at the end of the room1 and made scarcely a pretence of stifling its peals of laughter4 ,i felt no end of a ninny ,i can tell you1 especially as the owner of the first sun-bonnet was by long chalks the most beautiful creature ,i'd ever seen4 ,i'm no good at describing a girl's charms1 but even at the first glance her beautiful violet eyes struck me4 ,blue eyes and black lashes and eyebrows--it is a thing happens over here sometimes1 they tell me4 ,then1 though she'd been rushing about after the ancient barnyard fowl who was to have graced the table in my honour1 she had no more colour than a white rose2 and yet she looked the picture of health and life--so different from fine ladies4 ,this was ,miss ,pamela--,pam for short--as ,i discovered later4 ,to finish her description1 her charming head is covered with a mass of short black curls4 ,she had a very shabby frock on1 which didn't take a bit from her loveliness4 ,i couldn't help wondering what the mater would have thought if she could have seen her4 ,she would surely have called her 'a young woman1' with that superb contempt of hers4 ,however1 the breeding tells4 ,nothing could have been finer than the little air with which she pulled herself together1 and said1 as if it were an every-day thing to blind and maim your visitors3 ',you must be ,sir ,anthony ,trevithick4 ,i am so sorry4 ,that wretched fowl flew in through the open window1 and we've been three-quarters of an hour chasing him round4 ,it was so unfortunate his flying out just at that moment1 and still more unfortunate that ,i should have flung my bonnet after him4 ,but you've no idea how he had aggravated us4' ,i assure you the mater couldn't have done it better1 if one could conceivably imagine the mater under such circumstances4 ,i could think of nothing to do but to pick up the bonnet and hand it to her1 muttering some idiocy about it not mattering a bit4 ,while this was going on the laughter in the chair was dying off in sobs of enjoyment4 ,but before we could get any further ,mr4 ,graydon himself made his appearance4 ,i suppose something about my looks struck him--for a cucumber wasn't in it for coolness with ,miss ,pam--because he said1 ',why1 bless me1 ,sir ,anthony6 what's the matter8 ,what's the matter1 ,pam8 ,why1 ,sir ,anthony1 your nose is bleeding6' ,illustration3 ,the old rooster struck me with his spurs4--p4 #ajg4 ',why1 so it is6' said ,miss ,pam1 calmly4 ',sir ,anthony was trying to catch the red cock1 papa1 with a view to his dinner1 but he's escaped1 ,i'm sorry to say1 and the dinner with him4 ,it will be days before he comes home after the alarm we've given him4 ,i'm so sorry you're wounded1 ,sir ,anthony4 ,can ,i get you a little sticking-plaster8' ',i never know where ,i shall find the fowls in this house1' said ,mr4 ,graydon1 a little irascibly1 ,i thought2 'but the drawing-room at least ought to be kept free from them4 ,why1 ,sylvia1 what are you doing there1 child8 ,come here1 and speak to ,sir ,anthony4' ,i expected a small child to come out of the big chair in answer to the summons2 but1 lo and behold6 out of the sun-bonnet there looked another satin-cheeked damsel1 almost as beautiful as the first4 ,she made her bow demurely1 and1 ,i assure you1 there wasn't a feather out of her after her fits of laughter at my expense4 ,she had rather an ecstatic look1 and her eyes were a bit moist--that was all4 ,i can tell you ,i never felt so small in my life as when ,i stood up before those impudent girls1 for ,i could see that the pair of them were hugely delighted at the whole affair4 ',get some tea for ,sir ,anthony1 girls1' said the father1 'and see that he has hot water taken to his room2 he's had a long journey4 ,sit down1 my lad--that is1 if there's a chair in the room without a dog on it4 ,here1 ,mark ,antony1 you lazy animal1 come off that sofa4' ,this to the fattest bulldog ,i ever saw--with such a jowl4 ,he's ,miss ,sylvia's1 and an amiable dog1 despite his looks4 ,then the eldest daughter came in--not a patch on the others for beauty1 but a ,madonna of a creature1 with a beautiful voice and a rather sad expression4 ,she was greatly concerned about my scratched nose4 ,but all the time she was talking ,i noticed that she looked at her father steadily reproachful4 ,at last he noticed it too1 for he suddenly blurted out3 ',why1 bless my soul6 ,molly1 ,i forgot all about it1' and then he stopped and laughed4 ,miss ,pamela has told me since that they had instructed their father to keep me on the way as long as possible4 ,you'll gather that it is a rather rummy place4 ,it is4 ,the windows in my bedroom are mended with brown paper1 and there are holes in the floor you could put your foot through4 ,not that my father's son need mind little hardships4 ,but ,i am amused to think of what the mater would say1 with her notions of things4 ,by the way1 if you're in ,brook ,street any time1 don't repeat what ,i've told you4 ,the mater hated my coming here4 ,she has some extraordinary prejudice against ,graydon1 though he scarcely seems to remember her4 ,but as ,i've given up my desire for soldiering to please her1 it's my turn now to please myself by reading for this ,foreign ,office grind with my father's old friend4 ,a word more and ,i am done4 ,you'll think me as long-winded as some of those old women at the clubs4 ,but their ways here are too delicious4 ,the establishment is managed by one old woman--,bridget1 who seems mistress1 maid1 and man rolled1 in one4 ,well1 the morning after ,i came1 when ,i rang for my shaving water there was no response4 ,at last ,i heard a foot go by my door1 and ,i looked out cautiously4 ,it was ,bridget1 and to her ,i made my request4 ',why1 bless the boy6' she said1 staring at me1 ',you haven't been pullin' that old bell that's never rung in the memory of man8' ,i assured her ,i had4 ',well1 then1' she said1 'goodness help your little wit6 ,an' so ye want shavin' water1 do ye8 ,sure1 ,i thought ye wor a bit of a boy1 that never wanted shavin' at all1 at all6' ,however1 she brought me the water obligingly1 in an extraordinary piece of kitchen crockery4 ',i suppose you're used to valetin'1' she said4 '',twas ,misther ,mick spoiled me entirely for other young gentlemen4 ,he'd dart down for his shavin' water--aye1 many a time before ,i had the kitchen fire lit4' ,mr4 ,mick was apparently a former pupil2 ,i often hear of him4 ,there's any amount of sport here1 but ,i won't tantalise you4 ,i like ,graydon better every day2 he's a dear old boy1 and though he's in the clouds half the time when he's supposed to be coaching me1 ,i can see that he knows more than half the tutors in ,london put together4 ,he's a delightful companion out of doors1 a good sportsman1 and as young as the youngest4 ,it's a mystery his being buried here4 ,but ,i've no time to try to unriddle it now1 and you'll never get as far as this1 ,i expect4 ,good-bye1 old fellow--,i'm extremely well satisfied with my present quarters1 and pity you in ,knightsbridge4 ,i suppose town is getting empty4 99 99 99 99 99 ,when this enormous epistle was finished and sealed1 the young gentleman put it in his pocket and went downstairs4 ,his pace was hastened by the fact that he could hear the joyful yelping of dogs in the hall1 from which he gathered that someone besides himself was bent on outdoor exercise4 ,indeed1 as he reached the hall and caught his hat from one of the dusty antlers1 he saw the two younger ,miss ,graydons setting out amid their leaping and yelping escorts4 ,he hurried after and overtook them4 ,may ,i come with you8 he asked eagerly4 ,i've a very important letter to post1 and if you're going to the village you might perhaps point out the post-office4 ,i'm such a duffer at finding out things for myself4 ,but we're turning our backs on the village1 said ,miss ,sylvia1 going in exactly the opposite direction4 ,oh1 well1 then1 it doesn't matter2 the letter can wait till another time4 ,though it is so important4 ,oh1 but you must post it4 ,we'll put you on the way for the village4 ,you turn to the right and we to the left when we reach the gate2 then you'll walk straight into the arms of the post-office4 ,pamela1 who had not yet spoken1 turned her heavenly-coloured eyes on her sister1 but without speaking4 ,something in the look made the young fellow's heart throb suddenly4 ,ah1 ,miss ,sylvia1 he said imploringly1 don't put difficulties in my way4 ,i want to come for a walk1 if you will have me1 and the letter can wait4 ,i'm not contemplative enough to enjoy a country walk alone2 and it will be a pleasure to walk with you and your sister4 ,and the dogs8 ,and the dogs4 ,the joys of a country walk are doubled in the society of dogs4 ,i hope you'll think so when you have the felicity of fishing them out of a bog-hole4 ,they will chase every beast they see2 and our neighbour1 ,jack ,malone's black cow1 ,polly1 always leads them such a dance1 ending up deservedly in a bog-hole4 ,i'll try to endure even that1 ,miss ,sylvia4 ,then if ,mark ,antony gets a thorn in his paw1 as he almost invariably does1 you'll have to carry him home4 ,he must weigh three stone1 ,miss ,sylvia4 ,about that1 ,sir ,anthony4 ,then it is better ,i should carry him than you4 ,oh1 if you're bent on it1 ,sir ,anthony4 ,if you're not bent against it1 ,miss ,sylvia4 ,well1 come along then1 for this is the parting of the ways4 ,they had arrived at the gate by this time4 ,sylvia should have told you1 ,sir ,anthony1 that though we turn our backs on the village1 yet we pass a wall letter-box1 which the postman empties on his way to ,lettergort4 ,it was ,pamela speaking for the first time1 and in this less hoydenish mood of hers she had a likeness to her gentle elder sister4 ,i'm not surprised to hear it1 ,miss ,pamela4 ,i guessed ,miss ,sylvia was only piling up the difficulties to tease me4 ,but ,i was not to be put off4 ,you are really a most persistent person1 ,sir ,anthony4 ,i know when ,i want a thing and mean to get it1 ,miss ,sylvia4 ,did you ever see anything more beautiful than the rose-light on that mountain1 ,sir ,anthony8 ,i have seen more beautiful things1 ,miss ,pamela4 ,he spoke with the utmost simplicity1 but the girl blushed nevertheless1 and was furious with herself for blushing4 ,see how rosy the peak is1 she went on in some confusion1 but the woods are purple at the base4 ,if we were over there where the road winds round the hill-foot1 we should hear nothing but the singing of little streams4 ,they are chattering through the bracken everywhere1 and spilling into the road1 where they make little channels for themselves1 clear as amber4 ,they make your boots very wet and your skirt draggle-tailed1 remarked ,sylvia4 ,i see chimneys rising above the wood1 said ,sir ,anthony4 ,is there a house there1 then8 ,there is1 but it is empty at present4 ,it belongs to ,lord ,glengall1 who is away just now4 ,it has a queer story attached to it4 ,indeed8 ,yes4 ,lord ,glengall went to ,australia as a boy1 and was unheard of for years4 ,his mother lived there1 with one old servant1 in the bitterest poverty4 ,she was so proud no one dared to interfere1 until1 it having been noticed that the chimneys were smokeless for days1 the house was entered by force1 and mistress and maid were found dying of starvation side by side4 ,the house was full of valuables--lace and plate1 and all kinds of lovely things--but they were heirlooms1 and the old lady would rather starve than sell them1 and the old servant was quite of the same mind4 ,what happened then8 ,they were taken off to the ,rectory by old ,mr4 ,rogers1 who died last year4 ,and in the nick of time ,lord ,glengall1 whom everyone said was dead1 turned up safe and sound to nurse his old mother4 ',i kept the things together for you1 my boy1' she said as soon as she recognised him4 ,and the next thing she said1 went on ,sylvia1 taking up the tale1 was1 ',where's that cat8' ,the faithfulness of animals1 ,sir ,anthony6 ,old ,tib1 with whom they had shared all their short-commons1 had1 it seems1 stolen the very last drop of milk that stood between them and starvation1 and had then escaped through a window into the woods4 ',i should like to give him a good hiding before ,i die4' ,that was the second speech of the indomitable old lady4 ,what a chance for the novelist this country of yours presents6 said ,sir ,anthony4 ,but that fortunately he never comes our way1 replied ,pamela4 ,your father promised me you would take me fishing one day4 ,he spoke to ,sylvia1 but his eyes turned from her to ,pamela4 ,so we shall1 said ,sylvia readily4 ,the river runs quite close to the house8 ,yes1 but if you want the pleasantest fishing1 you must climb for it4 ,up there in the hills are little golden-brown trout-streams running through the valleys under the shadow of woods1 and they are full of trout spoiling to be caught4 ,you know the best places1 ,miss ,sylvia4 ,don't let her guide you1 ,sir ,anthony4 ,i'll tell you a story about her4 ,she was always tantalising ,mick ,st4 ,leger1 an old pupil of papa's1 who is in ,india now1 with stories of a wonderful pike which inhabited one of the big holes in the ,moyle4 ,well1 poor ,mick used to sit and fish for hours1 now and then catching a little fish by accident1 for his heart wasn't in it for thinking of ,sylvia's big pike4 ,and ,sylvia used to sit by watching him1 apparently full of sympathy4 ,one day he was fishing the big hole as usual1 when he gave a long whistle4 ',what is it1 ,mick8' ,sylvia cried1 running to him4 ',it feels like a twenty-pounder1' said poor ,mick1 very red in the face4 ',oh1 ,mick1 do let me help6' cried ,sylvia4 ,and then1 with an immense deal of carefulness1 and poor ,mick holding on like grim death1 they reeled up an old tin can full of stones1 in the handle of which ,mick's line was caught4 ,mick would never have known1 said ,sylvia dispassionately1 if little ,patsy ,murray hadn't come running after me a week later1 calling out1 ',where's that apple ye promised me for sinkin' me mother's ould can in the river8' ,mick never believed in me as an honest angler afterwards4 ,no wonder6 ,but to think your father should have suggested you as my guide1 ,miss ,sylvia6 ,pam's just as bad1 ,sir ,anthony4 ,i generally do the things1 but ,pam encourages me4 ,pamela again turned those eyes of heaven's own colour in mute reproach upon her sister4 ,i'll have faith in you1 ,miss ,pam1 said ,sir ,anthony impulsively1 no matter what your sister says to the contrary4 ,and he meant his rash promise4 ,illustration3 ,the letter can wait till another time4--p4 #aji4 ,,chapter ,v4 ,,the ,,wishing ,,well4 ,my friends generally call me ,tony1 said a voice1 the youthful growl of which was subdued to all possible softness4 ,we have known each other such a little while1 replied ,pamela1 looking down at the ground1 which had begun to cover itself in the flying gold of the autumn woods4 ,as the calendar counts2 but we--'we count time by heart-throbs'--doesn't somebody say that8 ,a colour1 like a pink rose-leaf1 warmed in ,pamela's clear cheek4 ,we have become very good friends1 she said1 seeing that it is only six--or is it seven8--weeks ago since we met4 ,it is eight1 said the youth4 ,i came in mid-,july1 and now it is mid-,september4 ,but it sometimes seems to me that ,i have always been here1 and that my life elsewhere was but a dream4 ,illustration3 ,tell me what you wished for8 ,if that were so1 she said demurely--and for a moment the violet eyes looked up at him under their shadow of night--if that were so1 then ,i might really call you by your name1 ,sir ,anthony4 ,but it is too soon4 ,then you will one day1 ,miss ,pamela8 ,how many days must go by first8 ,you called that other man--,st4 ,leger--by his name4 ,it is ',mick' with all of you4 ,ah1 said ,pamela1 again with the bewildering glance2 but ,mick was ,mick1 you see4 ,a sudden irrational anger kindled in the young man's eye1 and his expression stiffened4 ,oh1 ,i see1 he said4 ,this paragon had special privileges which no one else may hope to share4 ,he certainly had1 said ,pamela4 ,for no one else would endure them1 poor dear6 ,now1 what do you mean by that8 he said doubtfully4 ,do you mean the privilege of being called by his name8 ,no1 but the privilege of my society and ,sylvia's4 ,he must have been jolly hard to please4 ,he wasn't1 then4 ,he was as easily pleased as a child4 ,i should like to have seen you in some of the situations in which ,mick distinguished himself4 ,i daresay ,i'd be very undistinguished4 ,i make no pretence of being a paragon4 ,it would be useless to1 ,sir ,anthony4 ,i don't dispute it1 ,miss ,pamela4 ,i suppose we'd better be making for home8 ,he turned and walked sulkily along the forest path with the girl by his side4 ,for a second there was silence2 then ,pamela broke it by saying softly3 ,i often have thought that one reason why ,molly fell in love with ,mick was because she pitied him so much4 ,he came to the wall in all our escapades4 ,of course1 he was always in love with ,molly1 but ,i believe it was in protecting him from us that she became so fond of him4 ,he is your sister's lover1 then8 incredulously4 ,why1 of course he is4 ,whose did you suppose he was8 ,yours1 ,miss ,pamela4 ,mine6 why1 he'd never look at me when ,molly was by4 ,besides1 you don't know how horribly we ill-used the poor dear fellow4 ,miss ,pam1 ,i wish you'd ill-use me4 ,you wouldn't like it at all1 ,sir ,anthony4 ,yes1 ,i should1 ,miss ,pamela4 ,so ,mick is engaged to your sister4 ,what an ass ,i have been6 ,yes1 poor dears1 they are engaged1 without the remotest prospect of ever being married that ,i can see4 ,mick's a subaltern in a line regiment1 with just his pay--he got in through the ,militia--and ,molly1 needless to say1 hasn't a penny4 ,he's a lucky fellow1 all the same4 ,and now1 ,miss ,pamela1 what have we been quarrelling about8 ,i'm sure ,i don't know1 ,sir ,anthony4 ,have we been quarrelling8 ,i have4 ,but ,i haven't4 ,i did think you were a little cross about something4 ,but here is the ,wishing ,well that ,i told you about4 ,they had come on a little glade of the forest1 in the midst of which was a brier heavy with blackberries4 ,the bush hooded a little space1 and1 looking underneath1 one saw1 as in a cup1 a still depth of water over pebbles of gold and silver4 ,you are to drink1 ,sir ,anthony1 without spilling a drop1 and think on your wish at the same time4 ,drink from what1 ,miss ,pamela8 ,why1 from your hands1 of course4 ,i couldn't2 the water would all run away4 ,no1 it wouldn't4 ,see how ,i manage it4 ,the girl scooped the water into her rosy palms and drank it slowly4 ,then she looked at him1 and again the wave of rose flowed in her cheek4 ,i never could manage it2 ,i'm such a duffer at things4 ,miss ,pamela1 would you let me drink from your hands8 ,do6 ,without a word she stooped and lifted the water and held it to him4 ,he drank from the rosy cup to the last drop4 ,then he suddenly caught the hands that had served him1 and pressed them to his lips4 ,for a moment they were yielded to him1 and then the girl drew back4 ,he thought she trembled a little1 and the ardour in his gaze grew4 ,i am sorry1 he said1 but ,i couldn't help it4 ,you are not angry1 ,miss ,pamela8 ,i am going home1 ,sir ,anthony1 she said4 ,not till you tell me one thing---- ,he barred her way1 putting himself in front of her4 ,tell me what you wished for4 ,her eyes fell before his1 and as she stood with her hands clasped1 and her head bent1 she was a different creature from the wild ,pamela of a few short weeks ago4 ,the sunlight through the thinned branches fell on her short curls1 for her hat--which she had been swinging by a ribbon--had fallen to her feet4 ,look at me1 he said2 ,i want to see what is in your eyes4 ,she lifted them obediently1 and then let them fall again4 ,ah1 that is enough1 he said1 with exultation in his voice4 ,you have answered me1 ,pam4 ,that is enough just for the present4 ,some day ,i shall tell you what ,i wished for1 and we shall see if our wishes come true4 ,a double wish should have double force to induce its fulfilment4 ,isn't it so1 ,pam8 ,she said nothing1 and he looked at her with triumph shining in his eyes4 ,blent with it was the tenderness of a lover when he knows he is loved1 and just a shade of shamefacedness as well4 ,we must be wise1 little beautiful ,pamela1 he said presently1 in a low voice4 ,we must be wise and wait4 ,i mustn't ask yet all ,i would ask1 but ,i will one day--one good day1 ,pamela4 ,you will trust me1 won't you8 ,yes1 said ,pamela1 hardly knowing what she was asked4 ,it will not be for long4 ,indeed1 ,i could not endure it for long4 ,shall we be friends for a little while longer1 ,pamela darling8 ,yes1 said ,pamela1 forgetting to rebuke him4 ,after to-day ,i will not call you darling till ,i have the right before all the world4 ,after to-day4 ,i meant to have held my tongue1 but you bewildered me1 ,pamela4 ,you are not angry with me8 ,no1 came almost in a whisper4 ,lift up your eyes to me and say it4 ,that is right4 ,how beautiful your eyes are1 ,pamela6 ,say ',tony1' now4 ,tony6 ,dear ,tony4 ,dear ,tony6 ,how sweetly you say it6 ,it is like silver in your voice4 ,but1 come now1 we will go home4 ,i have to be wise1 you know4 ,ah1 ,pamela1 ,pamela6 why did you bring me to the ,wishing ,well8 ,you wanted to go4 ,yes1 ,i know2 but it was an accident that we were alone1 or it was ,fate--yes1 it was surely ,fate that sent ,miss ,spencer's carriage for your sister at the last moment1 so that we had to take our walk without her4 ,shall we go now1 and talk no more about love to-day8 ,pamela hesitated1 and then said3 ,poor ,sylvia6 ,she has spent this lovely afternoon shut up with an old lady and a dog4 ,she wouldn't mind the dog1 ,i fancy1 ,pam4 ,nor the old lady4 ,sylvia is fond of ,miss ,spencer1 strange as it may seem4 ,why is it strange1 ,pam8 ,i can't help using the sweet little name4 ,he had taken her hand by this time1 and they were walking like children down the aisle of golden trees4 ,you haven't seen ,miss ,spencer4 ,she is a little mad and a little grotesque to most people4 ,but she is devoted to ,sylvia1 and ,sylvia to her4 ,she is not mad to ,sylvia4 ,how does it come that ,i haven't seen ,miss ,spencer8 ,she has been abroad4 ,you'll see her one of these days1 ,i expect4 ,she was crossed in love in her youth1 and it seems to have made her strange in ways4 ,she's immensely wealthy1 and gives a good deal in charity1 but mostly among single women4 ,she seems to think that those who have husbands and children don't need pity4 ,she's quite safe for your sister to be with8 ,oh1 quite4 ,she has all her senses1 only that she's a trifle peculiar4 ,she's a splendid business woman1 everyone says4 ,it is a curious friendship4 ,i should never have supposed it of ,miss ,sylvia4 ,no4 ,one funny thing is that ,miss ,spencer's full of sentiment--wait till you hear her sing ',she wore a ,wreath of ,roses'--whereas ,sylvia's quite without sentiment1 and laughs at everything sentimental4 ,i feel sorry for the poor old thing1 said ,sir ,anthony1 with a half-ashamed laugh1 because she was crossed in love4 ,i shouldn't like to be crossed in love myself1 ,pamela4 ,it was cruel1 said ,pamela simply4 ,the man made her love him1 and then went away and never came back4 ,she was poor then4 ,she inherited ,dovercourt quite unexpectedly4 ,what a sweep he must have been6 ,illustration3 ,come along1 ,trevithick1 he cried1 rushing away4 ,poor ,miss ,spencer always thinks he will come back1 though people say he married abroad and died there4 ,i tell you all this so that you won't be the least bit in the world inclined to laugh when you see her4 ,i daresay it's funny enough to see a pink silk coal-scuttle bonnet on top of a grey head2 but then1 you know1 you don't feel like laughing4 ,no1 indeed1 darling4 ,sylvia says it's made a man-hater of her4 ,that's how she excuses herself for treating her admirers so outrageously4 ,i'd have fallen in love with ,sylvia myself1 only for you1 ,pamela4 ,it's lucky you didn't1 ,tony4 ,the name came with soft hesitation4 ,why1 ,pam8 ,she'd have laughed in your face4 ,i'd rather have your way1 ,pam4 ,my way8 ,though it made me behave worse than ,i intended4 ,but never mind4 ,a little time will unravel the tangled skein4 ,now we are nearly out of the wood4 ,ah1 ,pamela6 kiss me once--,i shall not ask you again till ,i have the full right4 ,without a word the girl lifted her face to meet his kiss4 ,to her it was the kiss of betrothal4 ,,chapter ,,vi4 ,i ,,will ,,come ,,again1 ,,my ,,dear4 ,i wish my friend1 ,glengall1 were at home1 said ,mr4 ,graydon1 leaning back in the chair by the study fire4 ,he'd give you a mount while you were waiting for ,johnny ,maher's little mare4 ,the hounds meet at ,lettergort to-day4 ,he looked wistfully through the bare trees on the lawn1 as though he saw in imagination the scarlet horsemen pounding away after the streaming line of hounds4 ,his pupil thrust into a book a sketch of ,pamela which he had been making absent-mindedly4 ,why don't you hunt1 sir8 he asked1 with sympathy4 ,so ,i do1 my lad1 when ,i can4 ,but ,i can't afford to keep a horse1 and there aren't many mounts to be had here4 ,glengall is going to set up stables when he comes back1 and ,i'll have the run of them1 ,i suppose4 ,he's a good fellow--one wouldn't mind being obliged to him4 ,the mare'll be a good one when she's broken1 said the young man4 ,the best in the world for ,irish fences1 if she does look a bit roughish4 ,you'll ride her for me1 when ,i am away at ,christmas1 to get her mouth in8 ,thank you1 my lad2 ,i should like to4 ,mr4 ,graydon's eye kindled with pleasure4 ,but ,i didn't know you were going4 ,it seems a longish way to go home for ,christmas4 ,my mother would like to see me4 ,to be sure1 to be sure4 ,i quite understand1 and1 of course1 there are friends in ,london you naturally want to see4 ,no one very particularly1 sir4 ,ah1 well6 it will be a holiday from this dull place4 ,no1 ,i assure you1 sir4 ,it is partly because ,i have some--some business ,i want to settle4 ,it is really true that there is no one ,i go to see whom ,i regard more than the friends ,i shall be leaving behind4 ,sir ,anthony blushed hotly over this avowal1 but his unsuspicious host only saw in it the shamefacedness with which a man1 and especially a young man1 makes a display of his feelings4 ,now1 that is kind of you1 he said1 looking at his pupil benignantly4 ,i am sure our ,christmas will be dull without you4 ,do the girls know you are going8 ,they won't like it1 eh8 ,and they will be disappointed that you will not be here for the ,vandaleur affair4 ,i am coming back for that1 sir4 ,i am glad4 ,it is really the children's first outing4 ,it is a dull enough affair for young people1 but then they will wear their pretty frocks and see strange faces4 ,we are such quiet people1 ,trevithick1 that even ,vandaleur's big dinner and reception1 which comes off regularly whenever there is a general election in sight--,mr4 ,graydon broke off to laugh and rub his hands--is an event for us4 ,but we are forgetting our ,tacitus1 my boy4 ,let us get back to the old fellow4 ,at that moment there was the sound of a horn1 and1 with the shout of a boy1 ,mr4 ,graydon was up4 ,come along1 ,trevithick1 he cried1 rushing away1 hatless and coatless4 ,we shall get a glimpse of them4 ,what a day for a scent6 ,they are sure to find at ,larry's ,spinney4 ,his words came back to his pupil1 who was getting under weigh more leisurely4 ,dear old boy6 he muttered to himself4 ,it's not surprising my father never forgot him4 ,i wonder why the mater regards him with so deadly a hatred1 though8 ,at lunch ,mr4 ,graydon announced that ,sir ,anthony was going home for ,christmas4 ,there was a shrill expostulation from ,sylvia1 and even a mild protest from ,mary1 but ,pamela said nothing4 ,perhaps it was not news to ,pamela4 ,you will not be here for the skating1 said ,sylvia aggrievedly2 that is1 if there's going to be any4 ,and ,i've promised them at the ,rectory that you'd recite at their penny reading and give away the presents at the ,christmas-tree1 besides managing the magic lantern4 ,and1 oh6--the magnitude of the misfortune coming full upon her--you're not surely going to miss the ,vandaleur dinner8 ,no1 ,miss ,sylvia1 ,i shall be here for it certainly4 ,i wouldn't miss it for anything2 but ,i object to your engagements for me with the ,rectory people4 ,i'd rather be shot than recite1 and--the other things are beyond me1 laughing4 ,never mind1 then1 said the young lady airily4 ,lord ,glengall will do just as well4 ,i shall like to see him distributing the articles4 ,besides1 he will please the people better than a 'baronite1' and be of the rale ould blood1 too4 ,sylvia6 said her father1 with a rebuke in his voice4 ,never mind1 papa dear4 ,sir ,anthony understands all about his being only a 'baronite4' ,bridget told him the other day that if the master had his rights 'tisn't teaching a ',sir' he'd be4 ,so she did1 said ,sir ,anthony4 ,mr4 ,graydon laughed4 ,ah1 well1 my boy6 you mustn't tell your mother what odd people you've found among the wild ,irish--will you8 ,she wouldn't understand a bit1 but ,i'll tell her what dear friends ,i have found and made at ,carrickmoyle4 ,he blushed again1 and ,mr4 ,graydon thought how well his modesty became him4 ,ah1 well6 he said1 ,i suppose we must make up our minds to spend ,christmas without you4 ,what are you going to do this afternoon8 ,i'm going to ,maher's to see the mare1 and put her through her paces4 ,i'd like to have her stabled here as soon as possible4 ,if she's ready1 she can come at once4 ,to be sure4 ,there's stabling for twenty horses here1 though the stalls are bare--worse luck6 ,but we won't let ,sheila starve4 ,shall we1 girls8 ,i'll go bail these children will make a fine pet of her1 ,trevithick4 ,i shall be all the fonder of her1 sir1 though ,i'm well pleased with her at present4 ,she's a sweet little bit of horseflesh1 assented ,mr4 ,graydon4 ,i think ,i shall come with you1 if you don't object to my company4 ,i've a bit of business with ,johnny myself4 ,when they returned in time for the afternoon cup of tea1 they found an old yellow barouche standing before the door4 ,ah1 ,miss ,spencer is here1 said ,mr4 ,graydon4 ,she's rather an oddity1 my boy1 so prepare to meet one4 ,i heard her story from ,miss ,pamela4 ,it is very sad4 ,when ,i was a boy of thirteen or fourteen ,i remember her a brilliantly lovely young woman4 ,that was before that scoundrel came in her way4 ,when they entered the drawing-room ,miss ,spencer was sitting with her back to them1 almost hidden in a deep armchair4 ,the three girls were sitting or standing about her1 all evidently much interested4 ,here is papa1 and our guest with him1 ,miss ,spencer1 said ,mary4 ,the little old woman came out of her chair with a sudden darting movement like that of a bird4 ,her gaze went from ,mr4 ,graydon to the younger man4 ,oh6 she cried4 ,whom did you say8 ,she looked at the stranger for a moment with an agony of expectation in her yet bright eyes1 while she fumbled nervously for the long-handled glasses at her side4 ,when she had found them she peered at him through them2 then dropped them1 the expression of her face changing to indifference4 ,i beg your pardon1 sir1 she said4 ,i am expecting a friend1 and for a moment ,i thought you were he4 ,how do you do1 ,miss ,spencer8 broke in ,mr4 ,graydon4 ,i see you have ,stella under the barouche again4 ,i'm glad she has recovered from her lameness4 ,the foot has come all right1 thank you1 said ,miss ,spencer1 assuming quite an ordinary manner4 ,you weren't hunting to-day8 ,no2 ,i must wait till ,glengall sets up his stables4 ,ah1 ,glengall is coming home soon8 ,he expects to reach ,plymouth on the eighteenth4 ,he will be at home for ,christmas4 ,there'll be nothing in order for him in that old barrack of his4 ,he'll stay here while he's getting things straight4 ,he is going to make a grand place of ,glengall4 ,he has plenty of money1 and the heart to spend it1 and the practical wit to direct it4 ,what will he do with it then8 ,he has neither chick nor child4 ,there is always time1 ,miss ,spencer4 ,the slightly mad1 brooding look came back to the little wizened white face4 ,yes1 of course1 there is time1 she said1 dreamily4 ,i remember someone--who was it8--who knew ,glengall when she was a young woman and he was a little boy4 ,glengall can't be old1 of course1 and any day people may return--mayn't they8 ,why1 to be sure they may4 ,glengall did1 though he was twenty years out of the reach of civilisation4 ,oh1 ,i wasn't thinking of ,glengall4 ,it was of someone much younger1 someone about the age of that young gentleman there4 ,trevithick stood in the background and watched her with honest eyes of wonder and pity4 ,she was smoothing the pink silk of her gown1 while her eyes watched the fire as if she saw something very happy in it4 ,her skin was waxen white1 and her features sharpened1 but the brilliant eyes kept their beauty1 and her little old hands1 covered with rings1 were delicately shaped4 ,her hair was half-white through the original black1 and very oddly her pink bonnet1 with its wreath of roses inside1 sat on the streaked hair and over the white face4 ,she had thrown off a large sable cloak on to the back of her chair4 ,illustration3 ,trevithick watched her with wonder and pity4 ,sylvia now broke in on ,miss ,spencer's half-mad mood4 ,she touched one of the hands tenderly4 ,trevithick1 as he noticed it1 thought that it was the first time he had seen ,sylvia's face really soft2 and wonderfully the new expression completed the girl's beauty4 ,so she will look1 he thought1 some day1 when she is in love1 like--like ,pamela4 ,but ,pamela's serious face was hidden from him now with a fire-screen she held in her hand4 ,he had noticed of late that she seldom looked at him1 nor was he displeased4 ,he knew the secret she was afraid to reveal4 ,we are all going to the ,vandaleur affair1 ,miss ,spencer1 ,sylvia was saying4 ,it will be on the thirtieth4 ,there are to be great doings--acres of marquees for the diners1 and the winter garden lit by electricity1 and ,i don't know what besides4 ,miss ,spencer came back to every-day life with a start4 ,to the ,vandaleur affair1 child6 ,why1 who is going to take you8 ,papa1 of course4 ,he loves a little outing1 though he won't admit it4 ,he says he'd rather stay at home and have a quiet night's work at his book1 and get some hot tea ready for us by the time we come home4 ,why shouldn't ,i take you8 said the old lady4 ,i'm hardly old enough for a chaperon1 of course1 still ,i've the carriage1 and ,i'd enjoy the function4 ,i haven't been at one since the time ,tom ,charteris was master of the hounds4 ,how long ago is that8 ,mr4 ,graydon1 to whom she spoke1 answered her without looking at her4 ,a goodish few years ago4 ,it can't be1 said the old lady2 not more than four or five at the outside4 ,i wore white satin and pearls4 ,that reminds me3 what are you going to wear1 minx8 ,this to ,sylvia1 at the same time softly pulling her ear4 ,we've got pattern-books of silk stuffs from ,dublin4 ,they're dirt-cheap2 but the dressmaking will be the bother4 ,however1 ,i daresay we'll manage4 ,mrs4 ,collins' ,nancy1 who is a lady's-maid1 is expected home for ,christmas4 ,she'll cut the frocks out1 and we'll sew them ourselves4 ,she'll know the fashions4 ,illustration3 ,i must go1 to unravel a tangled skein4 ,stuff and nonsense1 child6 ,your first public appearance1 too4 ,it's ,pam's also4 ,but you'll see we'll look very nice4 ,i shouldn't be surprised if the prince fell in love with me4 ,what prince8 ,oh1 ,i see1 ,cinderella's4 ,but ,cinderella went magnificently to her evening party--not in cheap and nasty stuffs cobbled up anyhow4 ,the prince wouldn't see that4 ,he'd be disconsolate when ,i disappeared at twelve o'clock1 and he'd send all over the country to find the fit of my glass slipper1 and ,molly and ,pam would cry tears of rage because it wouldn't even fit on their toes4 ,you're not ball-going1 minx4 ,it will be just as good4 ,there'll be a beautiful dinner1 and everyone in the county there1 and afterwards there will be acres of beautiful things to see4 ,it is a thousand pities ,mr4 ,vandaleur is an absentee4 ,if he wasn't1 he wouldn't have to remind you of his existence now1 said the old lady cynically4 ,but am ,i to be chaperon8 ,well1 ,i'll tell you what1 ,miss ,spencer1 said ,mr4 ,graydon4 ,if you'd take charge of these children1 ,i'd be greatly obliged to you4 ,the fact is that ,i've to attend a sort of unofficial meeting of ,vandaleur's supporters in the afternoon1 and he has hospitably offered me a bed4 ,so ,i thought ,i'd take my bag over and dress there after the meeting4 ,and stay all night8 ,i knew it1 cried ,sylvia4 ,papa pretended it was such a bother1 and all the time he was longing to be in for every bit of it4 ,only he didn't know what to do with us4 ,mr4 ,graydon laughed4 ,maybe you wouldn't like it yourself4 ,i shall be button-holed by ,musgrave and ,frost and ,clitheroe1 and every man in the county who thinks he has a head for politics and wants a patient listener4 ,and you will go at it hammer and tongs with the best of them1 and forget you have daughters4 ,i don't suppose you'll even remember at dinner-time to see whether anyone is asking us if we've an appetite4 ,the young fellows will do that4 ,every boy in the county will be there1 including the #cjjth from ,dangan ,barracks4 ,i daresay1 said ,sylvia3 you're always ready to shift your responsibilities4 ,never mind1 ,miss ,spencer2 ,i daresay we shall be able to find someone who will look after us1 if it's only a waiter4 ,oh1 indeed1 you'll find someone to befriend you1 never fear4 ,and so will ,pam4 ,and so shall ,i4 ,but what about ,molly8 ,never mind me1 ,miss ,spencer1 said ,mary4 ,it would never do to have you chaperoning three girls1 and ,i shouldn't enjoy it a bit4 ,i shall stay up and have tea for you after your cold drive4 ,i don't know what girls are coming to1 said ,miss ,spencer2 ,i shouldn't like to have to stay at home myself4 ,we don't mind ,molly1 cried her sisters2 she really likes to stay at home and write her perpetual letters4 ,i shouldn't mind having the three of you1 went on ,miss ,spencer2 we'd pass for four sisters4 ,we should never look as lovely as you in that white satin and pearls1 said ,sylvia1 fondly4 ,i was much admired1 said ,miss ,spencer1 complacently4 ,but now ,i must be going4 ,i've letters to write before dinner3 ,i don't want to lose my beauty-sleep sitting up to write them4 ,when ,sir ,anthony came into the drawing-room before dinner1 he found only ,pamela stretching her hands to the wood fire in the low grate4 ,the lover stooped down and kissed them4 ,have you been out8 he asked in a whisper4 ,only to the stables with ,sylvia4 ,your ,sheila has come4 ,she is a dear thing4 ,you like her1 ,pam8 ,who could help it8 ,she looks so wild and shy1 and she is so gentle at the same time4 ,do you like her because she is mine1 ,pam8 ,do you1 just a little because of that8 ,say you do1 ,pam4 ,just a little1 whispered ,pam4 ,why1 if you like1 she shall be yours1 when--when everything has come right4 ,i think she would carry a lady beautifully4 ,what do you say1 ,pam8 ,would you like her1 then8 ,yes1 said ,pamela1 with her eyes very bright4 ,you didn't seem to mind my going away at ,christmas1 ,pam4 ,you were the only one who didn't protest4 ,i know you wouldn't go if you could help it4 ,wise little woman4 ,i must go1 darling--to unravel a tangled skein4 ,afterwards it will be paradise1 ,pam4 ,i will come back as soon--as soon as ever ,i can4 ,i shall be in a fury of impatience till ,i come back4 ,and ,i1 said ,pam1 lifting her eyes to her lover1 and flooding him with their light4 ,sweetheart6 you were a coquette when ,i knew you first1 ,pam4 ,now you don't try me as many girls try their lovers4 ,i have only love for you now4 ,ah6 what should ,i do if you did not come back8 ,i will come back1 'though 'twere ten thousand mile4' ,i shall be here for your great function4 ,do you think ,i would have you go without me8 ,i shouldn't care for it without you4 ,there will be other men there1 ,pamela1 to see how beautiful you are4 ,i must be there to guard my own4 ,there is no need for that4 ,i believe you1 my love1 you are as much mine as if you were my wife4 ,and ,i am as much yours4 ,love can only mean that4 ,ah1 my darling6 how sweet you are6 ,you wouldn't care for the admiration of other men1 ,pam8 ,only for one4 ,it is hard to be wise1 ,pam1 when ,i am with you4 ,you are too sweet4 ,it is fortunate ,i am going4 ,when you come back it will be different4 ,yes2 you will have to make up to me for my prudence all these months4 ,i have been good1 ,pam2 ,i have never asked you for a kiss4 ,yes1 you have been good4 ,and you1 you are a girl in ten thousand4 ,you have never asked me what stood between us--a shadowy barrier1 ,pam1 but even that must go before ,i claim you1 my queen4 ,when ,i come back1 ,pam6 ,ah1 when ,i come back6 ,here is ,molly1 said ,pam1 in a low voice1 as her sister entered the room4 ,,end ,,of ,,chapter ,,six4 ,illustration3 ,,great ,,anniversaries ,,great ,,anniversaries ,,in ,,december4 ,by the ,rev4 ,a4 ,r4 ,buckland1 ,m4,a41 ,morning ,preacher at the ,foundling ,hospital4 ,december is a month of great names4 ,on ,december #bast1 #aaag1 according to some authorities1 there was born1 in a house that stood on the site of the ,mercers' ,chapel in ,cheapside1 ,thomas ,becket4 ,whether men side with ,church or ,state1 and are for or against ,becket1 they will hardly deny him the right to be remembered as an outstanding figure in our history4 ,on the last day of the month died another great ,englishman2 like ,becket1 an ,oxford man1 and a potent factor in the religious development of our nation4 ,on ,december #cast there passed away at ,lutterworth ,john ,wycliffe4 ,his bones1 thirteen years after burial1 were dragged from their resting-place and cast into the ,river ,swift4 ,thomas ,fuller turns that shameful act of ecclesiastical malice to good use4 ,thus1 he says1 this brook did convey his ashes into the ,avon1 the ,avon into the ,severn1 the ,severn into the narrow sea1 and this into the wide ocean4 ,and so the ashes of ,wycliffe are the emblem of his doctrine1 which is now dispersed all the world over4 ,on the #acth of the month1 many generations later1 there came into the world ,arthur ,penrhyn ,stanley1 an ecclesiastic of still another type4 ,no modern dean ever identified himself with his cathedral as ,stanley did with ,westminster ,abbey4 ,its national character was always present to his mind4 ,his simple piety1 his good works1 his sympathy with ,nonconformists1 all helped to make the ,dean himself rather a national possession than merely an ecclesiastic4 ,he died in #ahha4 ,illustration3 ,,john ,,wycliffe4 7,from the ,portrait at ,king's ,college47 ,we have had the ,church1 let us come to the ,state4 ,it is a rich month that claims the birth both of ,william ,ewart ,gladstone 7,december #bith7 and of his great rival1 ,benjamin ,disraeli1 ,earl of ,beaconsfield 7,december #bjth74 ,they began their careers under very different auspices4 ,eton and ,oxford prepared the one for immediate entry1 under favouring circumstances1 into ,parliamentary life4 ,the other was educated privately1 designed for the law1 and first caught the public eye as an author when he burst upon the world with the novel1 ,vivian ,grey4 ,mr4 ,gladstone survived his rival seventeen years4 ,illustration3 ,,dean ,,stanley4 7,photo3 ,the ,london ,stereoscopic ,co47 ,there died on ,december #adth one whom the ,british nation can only number amongst its own worthies by adoption4 ,the death of the ,prince ,consort in the prime of life1 and just when his very considerable powers and great devotion were beginning to be understood by those who at first regarded him with doubt because he was a foreigner1 plunged our ,queen into sorrow which long darkened the life of the ,court and was felt by the whole nation4 ,the pure1 unblemished life of the ,prince ,consort1 his sincere desire to advance the welfare of the people1 his ready promotion of the arts and sciences1 as well as his tender devotion to the ,queen1 have long been understood and valued by the nation which he served4 ,illustration3 ,,john ,,milton4 7,from the ,miniature by ,samuel ,cooper47 ,to come to other fields3 there was born in ,london on ,december #ith1 #afjh1 ,john ,milton4 ,educated at ,cambridge1 he early gave free play to the powers which in their issue have made his name familiar wherever the ,english language is spoken4 ,few remember him as a writer of polemical treatises on affairs of the ,state and the ,church1 or even as ,latin ,secretary to ,cromwell2 but he was an old man and blind when he gave the world ,paradise ,lost4 ,on the #abth there died ,robert ,browning1 a poet who spoke to his age as few men have ever done1 and spoke of ,god and the soul1 of the here and the hereafter1 with a clearness of faith which was as distinct as the robust manliness of his character4 ,illustration3 ,,sir ,,christopher ,,wren 7,from the ,portrait by ,sir ,godfrey ,kneller47 ,december #bhth is given as the date upon which ,westminster ,abbey was consecrated in #ajfe2 and on ,december #bnd that other minster1 ,st4 ,paul's ,cathedral1 was opened in #afig4 ,legend says that the same ,king ,sebert who founded the original ,st4 ,paul's also founded the ,abbey at ,westminster1 whilst another story invokes the aid of ,king ,offa4 ,there is1 however1 clear testimony to the establishment of a ,benedictine abbey at ,westminster in the time of ,edgar2 that is antiquity respectable enough to satisfy most of us4 ,a cathedral on this site is mentioned by the ,venerable ,bede as early as #fjd2 but the actual fabric of ,st4 ,paul's has1 according to ,mr4 ,loftie1 undergone greater vicissitudes than that of any other cathedral in ,england4 ,the present ,st4 ,paul's was begun in #afge and finished in #agaj4 ,its cost was #gcf1geb4 ,sir ,christopher ,wren1 its architect1 received for his services #bjj a year4 ,what were then called the new ball and cross on the cathedral were completed in this same month in #ahba4 ,illustration3 ,,robert ,,browning4 7,photo3 ,cameron and ,smith1 ,mortimer ,street1 ,w47 ,an old calendar assures me that on the #aeth of this month1 in the year #ahjb1 societies for abolishing the common method of sweeping chimneys were instituted4 ,on the #bjth of this month1 in the year #ahad1 ,samuel ,marsden landed in ,new ,zealand--a missionary anniversary worth recalling4 ,illustration3 ,w4 ,e4 ,,gladstone ,photo3 ,samuel ,walker4 ,,the ,,earl of ,,beaconsfield4 ,photo3 ,hughes-,mullins1 ,ryde4 ,i4,w4 ,,two ,,eminent ,,statesmen ,,born ,,in ,,december4 ,illustration3 ,the ,limits of ,human ,genius ,the ,limits of ,human ,genius ,pulpit at ,gloucester ,cathedral4 ,a ,sermon ,preached by the ,very ,rev4 ,h4 ,donald ,m4 ,spence1 ,d4,d41 ,dean of ,gloucester1 at the ,opening ,service of the ,september 7#ahih7 ,meeting of the ,three-,choirs ,festival in ,gloucester ,cathedral4 ,as for ,wisdom1 what she is1 and how she came up1 ,i will tell you1 and will not hide mysteries from you1 but will seek her out from the beginning of her nativity1 and bring the knowledge of her into ,light1 and will not pass over ,truth4 ,the surroundings of a custodian of a medival cathedral1 beautiful though they are1 at the same time are unutterably pathetic4 ,they tell him1 do the pages of the old solemn ,book of ,stone he is never weary of turning over and of pondering upon1 that the genius of man has its limits1 which it may never pass2 that the story of human progress to higher and ever higher levels is often a delusive one2 that in past ages his forefathers were perhaps as noble and chivalrous--aye1 nobler1 more chivalrous than the men of his own generation--that their imagination was more brilliant and their hands more cunning2 that if in some respects progress is visible1 in others the movement is retrograde4 ,again1 a great medival cathedral like our own glorious ,gloucester1 inimitable in its fadeless beauty and matchless strength1 surely deals a very heavy blow to human pride1 and it teaches humility to the most competent and ablest of our number1 for it is a conception belonging to a past age4 ,a great gathering1 however1 like the present1 numbering some six or seven thousand persons1 is for varied reasons an inspiring one and bids us be trustful--even hopeful4 ,dwell we a brief while first on our surroundings4 ,of all works devised by human ingenuity and carried on by human skill1 the triumphs of architecture are among the most enduring1 afford the most genuine and purest delight to the greater number of men and women1 are confessedly the most attractive1 perhaps the most instructive1 as they are among the most enduring of human creations4 ,the glories of ,luxor and ,karnak1 which for several thousand years have been mirrored in the grey-green ,nile2 the white and gleaming shrines of ,athens the bright and happy1 the mighty ruins of ,eternal ,rome1 are splendid instances4 ,but perhaps the conspicuous examples of this architecture1 the most loved of human arts and crafts1 are1 after all1 the medival cathedrals4 ,the first object of interest for the modern traveller in search of health or rest is a cathedral4 ,all sorts and conditions of men find delight in its contemplation4 ,the delight1 of course1 is varied1 but the strange and witching beauty appeals to them all4 ,this appeal to the higher and devotional side of our nature speaks to every soul1 to the unlearned as to the learned1 to the mill-hand as to the scholar4 ,the wanderer from the ,new ,world beyond the seas at once seeks them out1 conscious that in them he will find a beauty and a joy such as he will never see or feel outside their charmed walls4 ,i have said that to the custodian of such a cathedral the surroundings are1 if not sad1 at least pathetic1 for these magnificent and loved creations of human genius belong to a somewhat remote past1 and1 as far as these exquisite buildings are concerned1 save for purposes of necessary repair--repair simply to arrest the ravages of time--for nearly four hundred years the clink of trowel and pickaxe has been hushed4 ,it is scarcely an exaggerated statement which speaks of architecture1 in its noblest sense1 as a lost art4 ,very significant are the words of one of the greatest of modern architects1 who1 after dwelling on the decadence of his loved art1 tells us how ,it is a somewhat saddening reflection--but there is no escaping from the conclusion--that the art which created the glorious abbeys and minsters1 the beautiful parish churches so plentifully dotted over our country--abbeys1 minsters1 and churches which the churchmen of the second half of the nineteenth century so reverently and wisely restore and seek to copy stone by stone1 arch by arch1 window by window1 down to the smallest bit of ornament--is a lost art6 ,men have come sorrowfully to see that medival architecture is the last link--perhaps the most beautiful as well as the last link--of that long chain of architectural styles1 'commencing in far-back ages in ,egypt and passing on in continuous course through ,assyria1 ,persia1 ,greece1 ,rome1 and ,byzantium1 and thence taken up by the infant nations of modern ,europe1 and by them prolonged through successive ages of continuous progress till it terminated in the beautiful thirteenth-and fourteenth-century ,gothic1 and has never since produced a link of its own4444 ,alas6 it is the last link of that mighty chain which had stretched unbroken through nearly four thousand years--the glorious termination of the history of original and genuine architecture4' ,well may men love it and seek to preserve the examples they possess of it1 and aim at copying it as well as they can4 ,these remarkable and melancholy words above quoted were deliberately spoken by ,sir ,gilbert ,scott1 ,r4,a41 ,,ll4,d41 in his first lecture on ,medival ,architecture delivered at the ,royal ,academy some years ago4 ,so much for my note of sadness4 ,now let me strike a different chord4 ,such a gathering as the present1 ,i repeat1 is an inspiring one1 for it tells me that if one great art dies1 ,he who loves us and has redeemed us at so great a price1 gives ,his children something in its place4 ,now it is strange that amidst all the gorgeous and striking ceremonial of the medival services1 with their wealth of colour and ornament1 with all their touching and elaborate symbolism1 music1 as it is now understood1 was unknown and comparatively neglected4 ,in the noblest cathedral of the ,middle ,ages1 in the stateliest ,benedictine or ,cistercian abbey1 while the eye was filled with sights of solemnity and beauty1 each sight containing its special and peculiar teaching1 the ear was comparatively uncared for4 ,strangely monotonous and even harsh would chaunt and psalm and hymn1 as rendered in the mighty abbeys of ,westminster1 ,durham1 or ,gloucester in the days of the great ,plantagenets1 of the ,white ,rose or ,red ,rose kings1 sound to the musically trained ears of the worshippers of the second half of the nineteenth century4 ,indeed1 music as a great science was unknown in pre-,reformation times4 ,the most complete anthem-book may be searched through by the curious scholar1 but scarcely a musical composer of any note will be found in these collections of a date earlier than the reign of ,queen ,elizabeth4 ,it would seem as though1 when architecture ceased in the sixteenth century to be a living craft1 a new art was discovered and worked at by men4 ,a new art6 ,i say these words1 strange to some1 with emphasis4 ,one who has indeed a right to speak of music#a thus voices my assertion4 ,while telling us that certain grand forms of music loom out of the darkness of the earlier centuries of our era1 the famous musician to whom ,i refer adds that little of what we understand of music existed before the later years of the fifteenth century4 ,it was no mere renaissance1 for that which had never been born could not be born again4 #a ,professor ,hullah1 in his ,lectures on the ,history of ,modern ,music1 delivered at the ,royal ,institution of ,great ,britain1 published #ahhd4 ,see1 too1 ,professor ,hullah's ,royal ,institution ,lecture on the ,transition ,period of ,musical ,history 7#ahgf74 ,in case some should think that too strong expressions are here used1 it may be well to quote some of ,professor ,hullah's own words1 which he used in the above-mentioned lecture at the ,royal ,institution3--,music is a new art4444 ,what we now call music 444 what answers to our definition of music1 has come into being only within comparatively few years2 almost within the memory of men living4 ,i should say that in the scholastic music there was no art1 and in the popular music no science2 whence it is that the former has ceased to please1 and the latter has for the most part perished utterly4 ,it was a new art which charmed and delighted men as they listened to the magic of the sounds evoked by the majesty of the compositions of ,palestrina1 or by the sweetness of the music of ,marenzio4 ,it is true1 as ,i said1 that certain grand forms of music loom out of the darkness of the remote past--shadowy forms--and the rare composers and writers of the music of the past are1 as far as music is concerned1 but the shadow of names now4 ,i allude1 as famous examples of these shadows of names1 to names such as ,gregory and ,isidore1 ,hucbald and the eleventh-century maestro1 ,guido ,aretino4 ,with extraordinary rapidity developed the new craft4 ,to give here some familiar landmarks-- ,henry ,,viii4 was reigning before ,josquin ,deprs1 whom all musicians revere as one of the earliest1 certainly the most renowned1 of the pioneers of modern music1 became generally known in ,europe4 ,josquin ,deprs was born somewhere about the year #adff1 dying about #aeae1 some ten or fifteen years before ,palestrina was born4 ,luther said of him1 ,other musicians do what they can with notes2 ,josquin does what he likes with them4 ,the ,abbate ,baini alludes to him as the idol of ,europe2 and again writes1 ,nothing is beautiful unless it be the work of ,josquin4 ,the famous ,roman ,school of music only dates from #aedj4 ,the oratorio1 even in its more simple forms1 made its appearance some seventy years later4 ,not until the last years of our ,queen ,elizabeth were the names of ,palestrina and ,marenzio1 those great early composers1 conspicuous1 and the ,queen so loved of ,englishmen had long fallen asleep before ,carissimi1 the earliest master of the sacred cantata in its many forms1 gave his mighty impulse to the new-born art2 while the works of his world-famed pupil ,scarlatti1 and of our own ,english ,purcell1 belong to the art-records of the days of ,william and ,mary and ,queen ,anne4 ,see how the whole of the marvellous story of music--as we understand music--belongs to quite recent days6 ,all through the eighteenth century1 when the ,georges reigned1 architecture slept its well-nigh dreamless sleep4 ,but the new art of music grew with each succeeding year1 while the men whose names will never die lived and wrote4 ,it was this eighteenth century which saw a ,beethoven1 a ,handel1 a ,bach1 a ,haydn1 and a ,mozart4 ,as masters of the new-born craft none can be conceived greater4 ,the century now closing boasts1 however1 a long line of true followers and worthy disciples of those great ones1 men whose names are household words in every ,european city4 ,but my brief record1 necessarily dry and bald1 of a momentous change in the teaching of the world would be incomplete without one word on the glorious instrument--the voice1 so to speak--of these masters of a new art1 the organ4 ,the first organ known in ,western ,europe traditionally was sent to ,pepin in ,france by the ,emperor of ,constantinople in #gei1 but ,aldhelm1 ,bishop of ,sherborne1 in his poem on ,virginity1 some half a century earlier1 apparently describes what appears to have been the organ4 ,elphege1 ,abbot of ,winchester in the tenth century1 is said to have caused a very large organ to be constructed2 but1 with this solitary exception1 all the medival organs seem to have been small and comparatively unimportant instruments4 ,the oldest organ-cases preserved do not date back further than the last years of the fifteenth century1 and these by the side of modern organs are insignificant in size4 ,viollet le ,duc1 in his great work1 gives us a picture of the ,perpignan organ1 one of the earliest 7early in the sixteenth century74 ,from this date the size rapidly increased4 ,in the ,rites of ,durham1 where a great medival church is described at the period of the ,dissolution 7#aecj-dj71 there were three organs in use in the abbey church1 the principal one being only used at principall ,feasts1 the pipes being very faire and partly gilded4 ,only two organs in ,england1 says the ,rites1 of the same makinge1 one in ,yorke and another in ,paules4 ,illustration3 ,,listeners ,,at ,,the ,,three-,,choir ,,festival4 ,the most magnificent organ-case in ,europe is the one in ,st4 ,janskirk at ,bois le ,duc1 and1 like the vast majority of the great organ-cases1 is ,renaissance in style4 ,viollet le ,duc sums up the question in the following sentence3-- ,it does not appear that great organs were in use before the fifteenth century1 and it was only towards the close of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries that the idea of building organs of dimensions hitherto unknown was first conceived4 ,the organ1 as we now know it1 was born among us at the same date when architecture died4 ,like the music of the ,middle ,ages1 in the days when these vast and peerless buildings arose1 it is true the organ was not unknown2 but1 like medival music1 it was a small1 poor thing compared with the stupendous instrument we know and love4 ,there was no great organ before the last years of the fifteenth century1 when the ,tudors reigned4 ,the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed its development1 and acknowledged its surpassing grandeur1 and recognised its fitness as one of the chief handmaids of the new great art4 ,now the secret of the men who built this lordly abbey is lost2 never again will such a triumph of1 alas6 a dead art arise to charm and to delight1 to instruct and inspire the children of men4 ,but we may still preserve and reverently use this rare and noble legacy of a vanished age as a shrine and a peerless teaching-home--a prayer-home1 in which are taught the great evangelical truths by which ,christian men live and breathe and have their being1 the saving knowledge of the work of the ,precious ,blood1 the glad ,redemption-story1 the story loved of men2 the story which never ages1 never palls1 but which1 like dew1 descends on each succeeding generation of believers1 and gives them new stores of faith and hope and love4 ,this--these things--we try to do1 and not without success1 for as ,god's bright glory-cloud once brooded over the sacred desert-tent and the holy ,jerusalem ,temple1 so now upon our beloved and ancient cathedral1 with its almost countless services of praise and prayer and teaching1 ,god's blessing surely rests4 ,it sleeps1 does our cathedral1 as one has lately said in words beautiful as true--it sleeps with its splendid dreams upon its lifted face4 ,but it has1 too1 its many wakeful working hours4 ,not the least memorable of these will strike this week1 when the charmed strains of ,handel and ,haydn1 ,mozart1 ,mendelssohn1 and ,beethoven1 and of the great ,englishmen1 ,gibbons and ,boyce and ,walmisley and ,wesley1 and last1 but not least1 of ,hubert ,parry1 peal through these fretted vaults1 lingering and wandering on among these wondrous chambers of inspired imagery2 while the almost prophetic words of that truest ,english song-man ,wordsworth become history3-- ,give all thou canst2 high heaven rejects the lore ,of nicely calculated less or more2 ,so deem'd the man who fashion'd for the sense ,these lofty pillars1 spread that branching roof ,self-poised1 and scoop'd into ten thousand cells1 ,where light and shade repose1 where music dwells ,lingering and wandering on as loth to die-- ,like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof ,that they were born for immortality4 ,illustration3 ,decorative ,illustration3 ,a ,hero in ,disguise ,a ,,hero ,,in ,,disguise ,a ,complete ,story4 ,by ,m4 ,westrup4 ,the girl was little1 slender1 insignificant--only her love made her heroic4 ,the man was big1 broad1 one to be noticed in a crowd1 and his love made him as helpless as a little child4 ,they stood opposite each other in the poor1 shabby little room4 ,his eyes devoured her face wildly1 incredulously1 but her eyes were fixed on a great hole in the faded carpet4 ,her mind was chaotic1 for with his eager words of love rang others1 bewildering her4 ,side by side with his passionate outpouring of his love for her1 his longing to have her for his own1 to live for her and work for her1 were other words--words of ambition and great aspirations1 words of intending travel into far-away countries1 of hardships and discomforts to be borne for the sake of the book that was to be written--the book that was to bring fame and satisfaction to the writer of it4 ,and these words rang with a deep note of earnestness and strength1 and overpowered those eager1 present tones that were pleading to her so wildly4 ,i called you ,kathleen ,mavourneen last night1 you remember1 and you smiled and blushed6 he protested1 roughly4 ,why did you do it8 ,kathleen1 you do love me1 you do6 ,why don't you speak to me8 ,i tell you1 ,i have seen it in your eyes4 ,why do you deny it now8 ,she shook her head1 and her heart cried in agony1 ,how long8 ,how long8 ,won't you try1 then8 with a humbleness that was not natural to him4 ,oh1 ,kitty1 little ,kitty1 ,i cannot live without you6 ,he held out his arms to her despairingly4 ,i have a singing lesson to give at one o'clock1 she said4 ,his arms fell to his sides4 ,the sun streamed in on to the pretty1 pale1 downbent face of the girl1 and on to the white1 haggard face of the man who stood opposite4 ,there were no shadows in the little room--it was all glare and shabbiness4 ,i will go1 he said1 and then his eyes caught fire2 but you are a flirt6 ,do you hear1 a paltry1 heartless flirt6 ,you have led me on--played with me4 ,you have made your eyes soft1 your lips sweet1 to amuse yourself at my expense6 ,how do you do it8 with a little cynical laugh4 ,it's really clever--of its kind--you know---- ,he moved towards the door4 ,i beg your pardon1 he said icily4 ,i should not have spoken so to a woman4 ,good-bye4 ,you will begin your travels now8 she said4 ,he laughed4 ,why keep up the pretence8 he said2 it's rather late now to pretend any interest in my life4 ,she was silent4 ,at the door he paused4 ,he was a proud man1 and he had an iron will4 ,but his love made him helpless and weak as a little child4 ,kathleen1 he breathed1 you are sure8 ,a moment she stood still and rigid as a statue4 ,little one1 ,i love you so---- ,his voice was soft and caressing2 but her love made her heroic4 ,she raised her head4 ,i am sure1 she said steadily4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the girl sat in a corner of the warm1 gorgeous drawing-room1 and wished vaguely that people would not nod and stare at her so energetically4 ,she was used to it now1 and tired of it4 ,she had never liked it1 but fame brings notoriety in its train1 and notoriety brings nods and whispers and stares4 ,she was dressed beautifully4 ,she had always liked pretty things1 and now she could have as many as she wanted4 ,the man stood over in a doorway and watched her with cynical eyes4 ,he had not seen her for five years1 and as he stood there another man lounged up and spoke to him4 ,looking at la belle ,philomle8 he said2 she's quite the rage1 you know4 ,ever heard her sing8 ,you're only just back from the wilds1 aren't you8 ,oh1 well1 of course you'll go to ,st4 ,james's ,hall to-morrow8 ,she's going to sing1 you know4 ,her voice is splendid4 ,i never go to hear her myself--makes me feel ,i'm a miserable sinner somehow--does1 'pon my word4 ,i've heard her twice1 and then ,i dropped it4 ,don't like feeling small1 you know4 ,he lounged away again1 and the man with the cynical eyes still watched her4 ,her head was turned away from him--only a soft1 fair cheek and little ear nestling in a soft mass of hair1 a white throat1 and a lot of pale chiffon and silk1 could he see4 ,and suddenly the cheek and even neck were flooded with a red blush1 and then they looked whiter than before4 ,he wondered1 and smiled bitterly as he did so4 ,and the girl's eyes remained fixed1 eager1 fascinated1 on the long looking-glass before her4 ,but she was not looking at herself4 ,afterwards he sought her4 ,you were wise1 he said mockingly1 and her eyes grew dark with pain4 ,he took the seat beside her and played with the costly fan he had picked up4 ,illustration3 ,you were wise1 he said1 mockingly4 ,i must congratulate you1 he said indifferently4 ,this--with a comprehensive wave towards her dress and the diamonds at her throat--is better than the old days4 ,yes4 ,but perhaps you have forgotten so long as--what is it8--ten--no1 five years ago8 ,no4 ,he furled and unfurled the fan in silence1 and wondered who had given her the ,parma violets in her hair4 ,your--book8 she said timidly4 ,he stared at her blankly4 ,she reddened slowly4 ,you--you--were going to--to travel1 and write about it--strange places---- she faltered4 ,oh1 ah6 yes1 ,i believe ,i was--five years ago4 ,her face was white again now4 ,you have travelled8 she ventured at last4 ,oh1 yes6 ,i've done nothing else for five years4 ,i've shot tigers1 bears--,i've lived with ,chinamen and negroes--chummed with cannibals once--oh6--with a laugh--,i've had a fine time6 ,her eyes were wistful4 ,her hostess brought up a man to be introduced1 and when she turned again1 the chair was empty4 ,she did not see him again for two weeks4 ,there was an added pathos in the beautiful voice4 ,la belle ,philomle brought tears to many thousands of eyes1 but her own were dry and restless4 ,it was dawning on her that she had made a mistake--five years ago4 ,seen ,hugh ,hawksleigh8 she heard one man say to another4 ,never been so disappointed in a chap in my life4 ,years ago he promised great things4 ,those articles of his on ',foreign ,ways and ,doings' made quite a sensation1 you know4 ,and there was some talk of wild travels and a book that was going to be the book of the day4 ,the travels are all right1 but where's the book8 ,the usual thing--a woman1 drawled the other4 ,didn't you know8 ,some pretty coquette--the usual game--but the cost was heavier than usual--to him4 ,it knocked it out of him1 you know4 ,i never saw a fellow so hard hit4 ,that was five years ago1 and he's never written a line since4 ,poor fellow6 ,the knowledge that she had made a mistake five years ago was growing plainer to her4 ,at the end of the fortnight she met him and asked him to come and see her4 ,he smiled1 and did not come4 ,her eyes grew too big for the small1 sad face4 ,she met him again1 and asked him why he had not come4 ,he looked down into the sweet1 true eyes1 and his love weakened his will again4 ,he promised he would come4 ,he came1 and stayed five minutes4 ,he looked at her sternly as he greeted her4 ,why do you want me8 he said1 and watched the colour come and go in her cheeks with pitiless eyes4 ,we--used--to be--friends1 she whispered4 ,he laughed4 ,never6 ,i never felt friendship for you1 he said1 nor you for me4 ,you forget4 ,five years is a long time1 but ,i have a retentive memory4 ,i forget nothing4 ,nor ,i1 she murmured4 ,no8 ,then why do you ask me to come and see you8 ,she did not answer4 ,he looked round the pretty shaded room4 ,he laughed again4 ,there is a difference1 he said1 in you too4 ,she looked up quickly4 ,i am the same1 she said1 knowing her own heart4 ,are you8 ,his eyes grew stormy4 ,listen1 he said1 in a low1 tense voice3 ,i am five years wiser than ,i was--then4 ,i will not be a tool again4 ,you have ruined my life--doesn't that content you8 ,i would have staked my life on your goodness and purity--once4 ,i dare not believe in any woman since you1 with your angel's eyes1 are false4 ,i was full of ambition and hope once2 you killed both4 ,i tried to write--after4 ,i could not4 ,i shall never do anything now--never be anything4 ,i despise myself1 and it's not a nice feeling to live with4 ,it makes men desperate4 ,i love you still4 ,do you understand8 ,i have loved you all the time1 and ,i loathe myself for it4 ,his voice changed4 ,you may triumph1 he said1 but now you understand--,i will not come again4 ,she stretched out her arms after him1 but he was gone4 ,and she knew now quite clearly that she had made a mistake five years ago4 ,for three weeks and a half she did not see him4 ,then she saw him when he thought he was alone4 ,she studied his face with eyes that ached at what they saw4 ,then she went forward and touched him gently on his arm4 ,well8 he said4 ,will you come1 she said in a low voice1 to see me---- ,thanks1 no4 ,his eyes rested bitterly on her rich gown4 ,it came across him again how wise she had been4 ,tied to him1 she could not have been as she was now4 ,i have something ,i must say to you1 she said tremulously2 will you come--just this once8 ,he looked down into the soft eyes with the beautiful light in them4 ,i would rather not1 he said gently4 ,the weariness in his eyes brought a sob to her throat4 ,ah1 do6 she entreated2 ,i will never ask you again4 ,he looked at her with searching incredulity4 ,then he turned away4 ,just so had she looked five years ago4 ,she laid a small1 despairing hand on his4 ,the iciness of it went to his heart4 ,i will come1 he said gently1 and went away4 99 99 99 99 99 ,when he came1 he wondered at the agitation in her small white face4 ,her eyes were burning4 ,he waited silently4 ,she twisted her hands restlessly together1 and he saw that she was trembling4 ,he drew a chair forward4 ,won't you sit down8 he said4 ,she sat down in a nest of softest cushions4 ,i--,i---- she began1 and put up her hand to her throat1 ,i want to--to--to explain4 ,his face darkened4 ,she got up restlessly and faced him4 ,he thought of that time when they had faced each other before--in the shabby1 glaring little room--and his face hardened4 ,when you---- she began2 ,i thought it was for you--,i had heard you say---- ,are you going back five years8 he asked4 ,yes4 ,then would you mind not8 he said4 ,there can be no good in it1 and to me at least it is not a pleasant subject4 ,i must6 she burst out4 ,oh6 cannot you help me8 ,it is so hard6 ,she held out her hands pathetically4 ,a deep colour came into his tanned face1 and he stood still1 looking at her strangely4 ,i think ,i will go1 he said2 there is no use in prolonging this4 ,do you--love--me still8 she cried suddenly4 ,he turned on her in a white passion of anger4 ,not content yet8 he breathed4 ,what are you made of8 ,do you want me to show you all my degradation8 ,why8 ,oh1 ,kitty1 ,kitty1 be merciful6 ,be true to those eyes of yours---- ,he stopped abruptly and moved over to the door4 ,hugh1 ,i love you6 ,it was the veriest whisper1 but it stayed his steps1 and brought a great light leaping to his eyes4 ,the light died down4 ,it is too late6 he said1 and turned away4 ,hugh1 listen--,i loved you always--five years ago4 ,it was for your sake---- ,he turned again4 ,kitty8 he said uncertainly4 ,she went on bravely1 always heroic through her love4 ,i was poor--insignificant2 you were ambitious--clever4 ,i had heard your longings after greatness4 ,hugh1 how could you travel into those wild countries with me8 ,i knew you would give it up1 and how could ,i bear that8 ,to be a drag1 a hindrance to you6 ,and in the coming years ,i thought you would regret---- ,hugh1 you were poor1 too1 though not so poor as ,i4 ,i did it for you--it nearly killed me1 ,hugh4 ,i was ill after1 but it was for you6 ,her voice died away into silence4 ,he stood very still1 and his face was white and bloodless4 ,but in his eyes there was a great reverence4 ,forgive me6 he said4 ,she smiled softly4 ,oh1 yes1 she said4 ,the cynicism had gone from his face1 and the hardness and bitterness too4 ,illustration3 ,oh1 cannot you help me8 ,it is so hard6 ,she looked at him wistfully4 ,he turned away from her eyes and hid his face in his hands4 ,it was a mistake1 he said1 slowly1 dully4 ,yes4 ,still she waited4 ,he looked up1 and she strove to read his face in vain4 ,sad it was1 and set1 and yet there was a light there too4 ,he took her hands gently in his4 ,kathleen1 he said earnestly1 ,god knows what ,i think of you4 ,i can work now4 ,good-bye1 dear4 ,she raised her eyes to his--mystified and anxious4 ,he answered them1 very gently1 but with a firmness there was no gainsaying4 ,you are famous1 he said2 when ,i have made a name ,i will come to you4 ,will you wait1 ,kitty8 ,for ever1 ,hugh1 she answered1 understanding him so well that that was all she said4 ,he bent and kissed her hands4 99 99 99 99 99 ,she knelt at the side of his bed1 heedless of the presence of the nurse at the other end of the room1 and her tears wetted his hand4 ,the right hand and arm were swathed in bandages4 ,he smiled sadly as he looked at her4 ,i am a failure1 he said4 ,ah1 no1 no6 ,all ,england is ringing with your name4 ,hugh--she raised a face all alight with a proud joy--you are famous now6 ,a little flush rose to his white face4 ,pshaw6 he said1 rescuing a woman and a few children from being burnt to death4 ,anyone would have done it4 ,ah1 no1 ,hugh6 ,brave men shrank from that awful sea and burning ship6 ,he was silent1 looking at his bandaged hand4 ,i must learn to write with my left hand1 he said4 ,she bent nearer4 ,let me write for you1 she whispered2 let me finish your book1 ,hugh1 while you dictate it to me4 ,i do not sing now in public1 you know4 ,yes1 ,i know4 ,he drew her closer to him and rested his cheek against her soft hair4 ,i said ,i would not come to you till ,i had made a name1 he said4 ,i am a wreck now6 ,i shall be a wreck for a long while---- ,ah1 dear1 but you are famous6 she interposed lovingly4 ,he sighed4 ,i cannot do without you any longer1 ,kitty4 ,i am beaten at last4 ,will you take a wreck8 ,i will take you1 ,hugh1 a famous---- ,a famous wreck1 he finished with a smile4 ,illustration3 ,let me write for you1 she whispered4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,pulpit ,,manner ,,the ,,pulpit ,,manner ,,characteristic ,,gestures ,,of ,,great ,,preachers4 ,by ,f4 ,m4 ,holmes4 ,first let us look at ,dr4 ,joseph ,parker4 ,his sermons are constantly attended by ministers of all denominations1 including clergymen of the ,church of ,england2 and no stronger testimony1 we take it1 could be given to a man's extraordinary preaching power than that year after year he continually attracts other preachers4 ,dr4 ,parker1 it is almost needless to explain1 is the eminent ,congregational minister of the ,city ,temple in ,london1 and he occupies the unique position of having maintained for thirty years a noonday service every ,thursday in addition to his usual ,sunday services4 ,to this ,thursday service come persons from the ends of the earth1 and ministers and laymen of various religious persuasions4 ,on one occasion the sittings of a conference belonging to one of the minor ,methodist bodies seemed seriously imperilled because so many of the delegates desired to go and hear ,dr4 ,parker4 ,what is the secret of his widely attractive power8 ,the answer comes in a word--he is intensely dramatic4 ,we do not mean theatrical4 ,he chooses a clear message to deliver1 and that message--that paramount thought--is driven home to his hearers in a manner that forces itself upon every mind1 no matter how reluctant4 ,he uses short1 pithy sentences1 and heightens and emphasises their effect by suitable modulations of voice1 by deliberate or rapid utterance as the words may require1 and by vigorous and appropriate gesture4 ,he speaks only the very pith and point of what he has to say1 and then says it in the clearest and most suitably effective manner that he can possibly command4 ,it is the thing itself we hear1 rather than talk or argument all round and about it4 ,illustration3 ,,dr4 ,,parker4 ,thus1 on one occasion1 his theme was found in the text1 ,jesus in the midst4 ,where is the midst8 he asked in a clear and striking1 sonorous voice that commanded attention at once4 ,these were his opening words1 and after a pause he proceeded in the same manner and in similar short1 striking sentences to point to different ideas of the midst1 and to declare that ,christ was1 or should be1 in the midst of the literature1 science1 philosophy1 and business of the day4 ,unless ministers preached ,christ1 said he1 they had better be silent4 ,,illustration3 ,,bishop ,,of ,,ripon4 ,,archdeacon ,,sinclair4 ,,dean ,,lefroy4 ,,bishop ,,of ,,stepney4 ,there is nothing new in this1 you will say4 ,no doubt ,dr4 ,parker would tell you that he does not wish to preach anything new2 but no one can watch him critically without concluding that he constantly studies not only what he shall say1 but how he shall say it in the most striking and effective manner4 ,as a dramatic preacher1 we might also instance the ,rev4 ,j4 ,h4 ,jowett1 who has succeeded the late ,dr4 ,dale at ,carr's ,lane ,congregational ,church1 ,birmingham4 ,to his ,oxford scholarship ,mr4 ,jowett has united an assiduous cultivation of a fine voice and vigorous yet graceful and suitable gesture1 which render him a most striking and fascinating preacher4 ,but turning now to other styles1 if ,dr4 ,parker is one of the most dramatic1 ,dr4 ,boyd ,carpenter1 the learned ,bishop of ,ripon1 is one of the most eloquent of preachers4 ,he is also one of the most rapid4 ,he seems so fully charged with his subject that the words pour from his lips like a torrent2 his body turns first to one side and then to the other1 and anon leans forward in front1 as though propelled by the energy of the thought within4 ,his hand is often held up before him with the index finger pointing1 as though to lead his audience on to the next thought1 and to prevent their interest or attention from flagging4 ,but1 rapid and fluent as he is1 it must not be thought that he is superficial2 on the contrary1 there is every evidence that the discourse is well thought out1 and based on a solid framework of reason1 while the language is eloquent and rhetorical4 ,and it is1 as it were1 to mark the network of logical deduction within the words that the index finger is brought so fully into play4 ,we judge that his voice is naturally somewhat thin and poor1 but by careful use and perhaps assiduous cultivation1 and by the most beautifully clear articulation1 ,dr4 ,boyd ,carpenter can make himself heard in ,st4 ,paul's with what appears to be perfect ease4 ,there is no straining of the voice and no shouting2 but in a quiet though forcible manner he sends his voice round the huge building4 ,further1 it has been pointed out to me that he will not commence his discourse until the congregation have settled themselves down into absolute quietness1 and all the rustling of dresses1 and coughing1 and fidgeting are stilled4 ,under these circumstances his voice would1 of course1 carry far better in a large church4 ,somewhat similar in manner is ,canon ,barker1 of ,marylebone1 who1 in the energetic expression of the thought with which he seems surcharged1 bends forward sometimes so deeply towards the congregation as to give1 the impression that he is about to dive out of the pulpit4 ,but his style is that of the special pleader1 the advocate and the debater2 it is as though he desires to argue out everything to its logical conclusion1 rather than to sway or move his audience by eloquence and emotional appeals4 ,illustration3 ,,prebendary ,,webb-,,peploe4 ,dean ,lefroy of ,norwich is also a debater2 perhaps1 a more keen debater than ,canon ,barker1 and he is also a rhetorician4 ,he delights to preach a strongly evangelical ,gospel sermon1 and to embellish it with rhetoric and declaim it with passionate earnestness4 ,it is evident he thoroughly believes in his theme1 he seeks to impress it on his audience by vigorous1 earnest1 passionate utterance1 in which his energetic gestures are often of the most decided character4 ,a curious characteristic of his preaching has been related to me by a friend4 ,you cannot listen to ,lefroy for five minutes1 said he1 without violently taking sides either for or against him4 ,you are either intensely in favour of him or find yourself becoming almost vehemently opposed--a testimony1 we take it that the ,dean is a decided1 downright1 assertive and aggressive preacher rather than persuasive and emotional4 ,he has instituted a ,nave service at ,norwich ,cathedral1 at which he often preaches himself1 and attracts enormous congregations4 ,illustration3 ,,john ,,mcneil4 ,still continuing to glance at those whom we may call rapid and fluent preachers1 ,prebendary ,webb-,peploe comes to mind4 ,he is not so energetic as some others1 but the rapidity of his utterance1 the fluency of his expression1 and his great command of language1 would rival that of almost any speaker4 ,he and many others would probably utter three times as many words in a given time as ,dr4 ,parker or ,archdeacon ,sinclair4 ,illustration3 ,,ian ,,maclaren 7,dr4 ,john ,watson47 ,the latter is slow1 deliberate1 and dignified in his utterances1 rarely using gesture and affecting a grave and somewhat sonorous voice2 but the ,archdeacon's sermons are always most carefully prepared1 and indicate considerable study and research4 ,among the grave and sedate preachers we might also place ,dr4 ,john ,watson 7,ian ,maclaren71 of ,sefton ,park ,presbyterian ,church1 ,liverpool2 his sermons are full of thought1 and1 as might be expected1 exhibit an excellent literary finish4 ,now1 if we take ,archdeacon ,sinclair and ,dr4 ,john ,watson as examples of more deliberate and sedate preachers1 we may regard the ,rev4 ,john ,mc,neil1 the well-known ,presbyterian minister1 as an instance of the colloquial preacher4 ,not that his voice is low-pitched1 as used in conversation4 ,mr4 ,mc,neil has done what few preachers could physically undertake3 he has preached twice a day for a fortnight in the ,albert ,hall at ,kensington1 the largest hall in ,london1 and capable of holding about ten thousand persons2 and he has repeatedly filled the huge ,agricultural ,hall at ,islington1 numbers being turned away from lack of room4 ,his voice1 indeed1 seems capable of filling the largest hall without effort4 ,but his style is easy1 unaffected1 conversational1 though sometimes1 with both arms outstretched1 he bursts forth into loud and impassioned appeals4 ,there is no doubt a large section of the public who like this easy and colloquial style1 especially if it come quite naturally to the speaker4 ,illustration3 ,,dr4 ,,mclaren4 ,and now another celebrated figure rises on the scene1 the eminent ,baptist minister1 ,dr4 ,mc,laren of ,manchester4 ,refined1 scholarly1 brimming over with knowledge1 and a master of beautiful illustration1 there is no doubt that he takes rank as one of the very greatest preachers of the day4 ,like other great speakers1 he has evidently studied the art of preaching4 ,illustration3 ,,dr4 ,,horton4 ,,hugh ,,price ,,hughes4 ,j4 ,r4 ,,jowett4 ,,silvester ,,horne4 ,at a meeting at the ,holborn ,restaurant to celebrate his ministerial jubilee in ,april1 #ahif1 he said he had determined1 at the outset of his career1 to concentrate his mind on the work of the ministry and not fritter away his energies over many minor engagements4 ,he had always endeavoured to make his ministry one of ,gospel exposition2 he had preached ,christ because he believed that men needed redemption1 and he had preached without doubts and hesitations4 ,it was ,thomas ,binney who had taught him how to preach4 ,undoubtedly ,dr4 ,mc,laren has succeeded in his aim as an expositor of the ,scriptures1 for that is regarded as one of his chief characteristics4 ,a favourite gesture of ,dr4 ,mc,laren's--at all events in his earlier days--was to squeeze up a handkerchief1 no doubt quite unconsciously1 in his right hand by the nervous energy he was putting forth in his discourse1 and then suddenly his hand would dart out to mark some emphatic passage as though he were about to throw the handkerchief at the congregation2 but needless to add the handkerchief was never thrown4 ,like ,dr4 ,mc,laren1 ,dr4 ,whyte1 of ,free ,st4 ,george's1 ,edinburgh1 has a great command of beautiful and striking illustrations4 ,he is the most wonderful preacher in ,scotland1 declared an enthusiastic ,scot to me on one occasion4 ,mr4 ,gladstone used often to hear him1 and ,lord ,rosebery does now4 ,dr4 ,whyte makes great use of the imagination in his discourses and employs frequent gestures1 but graceful1 emphatic and always to suit the action to the word and the word to the action4 ,one illustration1 said a gentleman1 ,i remember some time ago4 ,dr4 ,whyte was preaching about tribulation1 and he showed that the word came from tribulum1 which is a ,latin name for a roller or sledge for thrashing out corn1 and in the same way tribulation sifted men as wheat4 ,how like a platitude this may sound when summarised down to a line2 but the point is that the idea of the beneficial purpose of tribulation had been so firmly fixed in the hearer's mind that he remembered it1 and perchance in some dark hour it had been to him a cup of strength in some great agony4 ,is not that1 after all1 one of the great aims and one of the great tests of good speaking--to fix some idea1 some truth firmly in the hearer's mind so that it is never forgotten8 ,as a robust1 manly preacher few1 if any1 we suspect1 can surpass ,dean ,hole of ,rochester4 ,he has a tall1 commanding presence--he is over six feet high--a bright1 animated countenance1 and a most genial manner4 ,when some years ago he held the living of ,caunton1 ,notts1 he used to journey periodically to ,liverpool1 where his midday addresses to commercial men were most successful and exercised great influence4 ,he does not employ much gesture1 but his fine voice1 sparkling eye and manly1 straightforward utterances1 based on reason and logic1 always command deep attention4 ,illustration3 ,,dr4 ,,whyte4 ,his appeal is rather to reason than to the emotions1 and by way of contrast we may glance at ,canon ,wilberforce1 who is fluent and fervent1 and affords one of the best examples of the emotional preacher4 ,it would seem as though he set himself to arouse and stir up all the feelings of his congregation and lead them into what he conceives to be the right channel4 ,often choosing most unusual texts1 he can yet make direct and pointed appeals from the pulpit1 touching the greatest hopes and deepest trusts of human nature1 and yet can employ as illustrations the greatest events and the newest discoveries of the day4 ,he uses but little gesture1 in this respect being somewhat different from the eminent ,wesleyan1 the ,rev4 ,hugh ,price ,hughes1 who might also be classed as an emotional--we had almost said passionate--preacher4 ,in fluency and fervour he is probably surpassed by none4 ,possessed of a remarkably clear1 vibrating1 and penetrating voice1 which seems as though it could thrill through any building1 however large1 there is no chance of anyone dozing when he is in the pulpit4 ,when pleading some cause or denouncing some wrong1 his feelings seem to get the better of him1 and he slashes away with his voice in a perfect hurricane of verbal blows4 ,illustration3 ,,dr4 ,,clifford4 ,quite as emotional and quite as fluent is ,dr4 ,clifford of ,westbourne ,park ,baptist ,church4 ,his command of language is extraordinary1 and with a mind less clear and well-regulated this great fluency might prove a snare2 but his discourses are always remarkably well-arranged1 his points are clear1 and his meanings driven home with remarkable emphasis4 ,his congregations are immense1 and his hearers are devoted to him4 ,his gestures often follow his words1 and one--probably quite unconscious--is1 it must be confessed1 not graceful1 even if forcible3 it is a drawing back of his arms1 and then shooting them out both together as if appealing to the people4 ,his voice is exceptionally clear1 penetrating1 and resonant2 and in all very popular preachers much is due to the voice4 ,illustration3 ,,dean ,,hole4 ,the ,bishop of ,stepney1 who may be described as bearing all the characteristics of the highly cultured ,oxford man1 has in addition a deeply sympathetic musical voice4 ,he does not use much gesture1 but such as he does employ is well suited to the words1 while his illustrations are often drawn from his social and religious work in the ,east ,end4 ,he used frequently to preach in ,victoria ,park1 where he has readily acknowledged his best supporters were ,nonconformists4 ,illustration3 ,,canon ,,barker4 ,,canon ,,wilberforce4 ,another eminent preacher whom we may also describe as exhibiting all the characteristics of ,oxford culture is ,dr4 ,horton of ,lyndhurst ,road ,congregational ,church1 ,hampstead4 ,possessed1 like the ,bishop of ,stepney1 of a remarkably sympathetic voice1 he modulates and varies it to suit the subject and the words1 and his gesture1 never redundant1 has lately been reduced almost to extinction4 ,at the sermon which he preached before the ,congregational ,union at its autumnal assembly at ,birmingham in #ahig1 his style was almost severely quiet1 but the effect of his thrilling voice and sometimes awesome whispered tones1 his polished literary language1 and his intense earnestness--as he declared that the ideal ,christian must be in constant touch with ,god1 and yet in constant touch with men--was very great1 and appealed both to reason and emotion4 ,indeed1 both of these find their place in his sermons4 ,dr4 ,horton has mastered the art of always being interesting1 no matter what his theme2 and it would seem as though in his discourses he makes an effort to really interest and to reach all sorts and conditions of men4 ,another ,congregational minister who exhibits much of the ,oxford manner is the ,rev4 ,silvester ,horne1 of ,kensington2 but1 in addition1 he seems possessed of a fiery zeal and fervent enthusiasm that will1 it is feared1 wear him out physically before his day is fully spent1 unless he carefully husbands his nervous energy4 ,already1 although a young man1 he has had to take rest for a whole year because of ill-health4 ,that inner fire1 that mental energy1 that disciplined enthusiasm1 which light up his face so brilliantly and animate his suitable and graceful gesture1 are far too precious a possession to be quenched too quickly2 but there are few or none of the younger preachers of the day who have promise of a more brilliant future4 ,and now a word in conclusion for one who is perhaps the greatest philosophical preacher of the time--,dr4 ,fairbairn of ,mansfield ,college at ,oxford4 ,his memory is marvellous1 his power of choice and accurate verbal expression is wonderful2 he can speak for hours without a note1 and though sometimes a sentence should appear involved and complicated1 it will finish admirably1 and1 if read in a verbatim report afterwards1 will have all the finish of a literary production wrought out in the quiet of the study4 ,he uses but little gesture1 an occasional opening out of hands and arms1 as though to present and lay before the audience the thought which he is uttering1 seems nearly all4 ,in fact1 it would appear that he is so absorbed in the abstract thought1 the argument1 the philosophy he is working out before you1 that he thinks nothing of the manner in which he utters it4 ,we do not pretend to have exhausted the list of famous preachers1 or even to have glanced at all the different types2 but these will be sufficient to indicate the variety that prevails1 and to show that there is an art of preaching which1 like other arts1 needs to be assiduously cultivated1 and well repays those who intelligently do so4 ,a ,,mother',s ,,bible4 ,a pathetic incident occurred some years ago in connection with one of our wars abroad4 ,a youth who had been wounded1 and who died in the field hospital1 clutched in his last hours an old worn copy of the ,bible1 on the flyleaf of which were inscribed these touching lines3-- ,,to ,,my ,,boy4 ,remember1 love1 who gave you this1 ,when other days shall come1 ,when she who had thy earliest kiss ,sleeps in her narrow home4 ,remember6 'twas a mother gave ,the gift to one she'd die to save4 ,a mother sought a pledge of love1 ,the holiest1 for her son2 ,and from the gift of ,god above ,she chose a godly one-- ,she chose for her beloved boy ,the source of light and life and joy4 ,and bade him keep the gift1 that when ,the parting hour should come ,they might have hope1 and meet again ,in an eternal home3 ,she said his faith in that should be ,sweet incense to her memory4 ,and should the scoffer in his pride ,laugh his fond faith to scorn1 ,and bid him cast the pledge aside ,which he from youth had borne-- ,she bade him pause and ask his breast ,if he or she had loved him best4 ,a mother's blessing on her son ,goes with this holy thing1 ,the love that would retain the one ,must to the other cling4 ,remember6 'tis no idle toy1 ,thy mother's gift6 ,remember1 boy6 ,illustration3 ,,roger ,,pettingdale ,,roger ,,pettingdale ,a ,,rustic ,,love-,,story4 ,by ,h4 ,a4 ,davies4 ,across the fields from the church--through the clover meadow first1 into the broad wheat-field next1 and thence over the pasture lands1 all yellow with the glint of buttercups--you will come to the ,pettingdale farm4 ,a thrill and a song and an aching went through my blood all together when ,i looked on the block of buildings the other day4 ,how sweet-and-bitter is remembrance2 how musical to the heart1 and yet how sad with yearning6 ,for the sight of that rugged old chimney standing square and grim and familiar upon the grey roof of the house2 the red-tiled barns clustering behind1 plain and prosperous2 the sweep of the waving corn-fields towards the setting sun2 caused my heart to surge with swift memories1 long since buried and forgotten beneath the stress of life4 ,how peaceful were the old days amidst these very fields6 ,when the heart is young1 ah6 then's the time for music2 and what echoes of far-off melodies--songs of old summers past and gone--does the scene awaken6 ,there's the orchard where ,i spent such rare hours4 ,here are the hedges where we went a-nutting4 ,yonder is the oak-tree which we used to climb1 ,frank ,pettingdale and ,i4 ,it is still the same sturdy tree1 keeping gnarled and knotted guard over the same creaking gateway1 just as in the old days6 ,wherever my eyes fell there were thorns and roses for the heart all in one moment4 ,it was in the old upland field that ,clara ,pettingdale and ,i as children used to wander1 hand in hand1 amongst the buttercups4 ,she has long slept1 poor ,clara1 in that corner of the churchyard where lie generations of ,pettingdales past and gone--a long line of sturdy yeomen4 ,the full light of the sun falls upon the courtyard of the farmhouse4 ,it has a broad frontage1 long and low and quaint1 with irregular gables and overhanging eaves and deep1 mullioned windows4 ,the house runs queerly on two sides of the courtyard1 one wing being at right angles to the other4 ,it is beautifully clean and prim1 with its whitewashed walls1 its freshly painted woodwork1 and its geraniums growing in green boxes on every window-sill4 ,on the third side of the yard run the granary and the cider-house2 while the fourth1 save for an ivy-covered wall1 which gives way to the entrance gates in one corner1 is open to the gentle vista of countryside which stretches away before the house4 ,what a pleasant old courtyard it is--so cool in the summer that the panting dogs love to throw themselves upon its stones2 so sheltered in winter that the blustering nor'-easters touch it not2 so prosperous-looking always1 with its well-kept flags laid from end to end1 as level and smooth as a billiard-table1 and as spotless as the floor of the farm kitchen4 ,how the polished milk-cans glisten and blink upon the wall6 ,how the white sills of the old-fashioned windows gleam in the sunlight6 ,the whole place seems to breathe of scouring and buckets1 and scrubbing brushes and vigorous arms4 ,every morning the yard is washed down by the house-boy 7it used to be ,elijah in my day1 but he is now a bearded man1 and labours outside1 and a young ,ezra is the present knight of the bucket72 every morning the cans are scoured and the tubs are scrubbed1 and the step before the door is free-stoned1 and the flowers are watered1 and the house seems to smile a glistening1 watery smile1 as though it had just lifted its head from its morning dip to bid you the time of day4 ,there was ever a charm to me about ,pettingdale and its paved courtyard4 ,i mind me well what a brave and romantic sound to my young ears was that of the horse's hoofs ringing and clamping upon the stones as he was brought up to the door on market days with the high yellow dogcart behind him2 or the clatter of the wheels across the yard as ,roger ,pettingdale drove out through the broad gateway1 a fine old figure with his white hair1 and his aquiline nose1 and his broad1 well-set shoulders4 ,illustration3 ,his hair went snow-white early in life4 ,he is still outwardly the same4 ,one could hardly detect a single point of change in him1 save that his face is more furrowed and his eyes deeper set4 ,his hair went snow-white early in life4 ,generations of ,pettingdales have been subject to the same peculiarity4 ,thus it is that the long step from forty to sixty-five has wrought little difference in ,roger ,pettingdale4 ,his body is as erect1 his step as firm1 his voice as sonorous as ever4 ,he was ever a well-known figure at all the county markets and agricultural meetings1 and it might be twenty-five years agone for all the change that one can see in him4 ,among other men he was always noticeable1 with his tall figure1 his white hair1 his clean-shaven1 well-cut face1 and that wide-rimmed silk hat which he always affected4 ,as he moved amongst the crowd ,i have heard men say1 ,who is that8 and others answer1 ,don't you know him8 ,why1 surely everybody knows him8 ,he's ,roger ,pettingdale4 ,he is elected on all the local bodies4 ,thus he is a guardian of the poor1 a member of the ,school ,board1 vice-chairman of the ,county ,council1 and the people's churchwarden at the parish church4 ,there is no man amongst all those he meets in these capacities whose words are listened to with more respect4 ,that solid weight1 that hallmark of sound judgment which always attends upon sheer common-sense1 is apparent in every opinion he utters4 ,he forms his judgments first1 and speaks afterwards4 ,while other men are impulsively throwing themselves into useless controversy on this or that vexed question1 ,roger ,pettingdale is silently weighing the pros and cons of the matter in his own mind2 and when he speaks there is usually nothing more to be said4 ,he chops no logic2 he simply argues with the sledge-hammer of common-sense1 backed up by the blunt1 uncompromising sincerity of an honest and fair-dealing mind4 ,his tolerance1 his breadth of vision1 his power of seeing the other side of the question1 his scorn of all shams and pretences1 have made his name a password for integrity and sound judgment4 ,you will always get a fair hearing from ,roger ,pettingdale1 people say4 ,does ,roger ,pettingdale think so8 ,oh1 then1 there must be something in it4 ,in his home life1 in the control of his farm1 in his own daily affairs1 there is the same straightforwardness1 the same sincerity1 the same well-balanced judgment and acumen4 ,there never was a year1 as ,i remember1 when we didn't have plenty of hay to begin conditioning on1 said one of his labourers the other day4 ,now1 at the next farm they've never got enough4 ,that is only a small instance of the perfection of method which marks every department of the prosperous farm4 ,at home he is essentially a plain man1 this sturdy farmer4 ,there is no nonsense about him1 although he can claim blood with one of the oldest families in the county4 ,yet he has a proper pride1 in a manly1 direct kind of way1 as you shall see4 ,he has had four children1 two boys and two girls1 in giving birth to the youngest of whom his wife died4 ,james1 the eldest1 is his right hand in the farm management1 and will some day be head of the family1 as the ,pettingdales have succeeded1 son to father1 for generations out of mind4 ,mary1 the second1 you shall hear more of anon4 ,frank1 the third1 my old playmate1 early in life took the fancy that he would like to be a soldier4 ,roger ,pettingdale has ever been a wise and a tolerant father1 studying well the nature of each of his children4 ,he unerringly knew ,frank's proud and stubborn character4 ,you want to be a soldier8 he said4 ,well1 ,i could have wished it otherwise1 ,frank4 ,it would have been a pleasure to me to see you settle down on the farm4 ,but we will not argue the point4 ,let it stand for twelve months1 and then talk to me about it4 ,twelve months did not change ,frank's resolve4 ,when he mentioned it again1 a drawn look passed over ,roger ,pettingdale's face for a moment--a look of keen pain--for he loved his children4 ,then he drew himself up to his full height4 ,you are still of the same mind1 ,frank6 ,then ,i have nothing more to say4 ,i am not going to attempt to dictate to you what your calling should be4 ,you have to live your own life1 and as you make your bed you must lie on it4 ,remember that1 my lad4 ,if you decide to go as a soldier1 you shall go in a proper fashion1 lad4 ,you shall have your commission4 ,no son of mine shall enter the ranks4 ,and have his commission ,frank did4 ,i looked at the tablet in the old church the other day with a surging heart4 ,it is a brass tablet1 the lettering of which has been recently renovated4 ,,to ,,the ,,memory ,,of ,,lieutenant ,,frank ,,pettingdale1 ,,who ,,fell ,,in ,,action ,,in ,,the ,,battle ,,of ,,tel-,,el-,,kebir4 ,that was all4 ,there was no vainglorious recounting of the brave deed in the performance of which ,frank was cut down4 ,he fell in action4 ,that was all4 ,it was ,roger ,pettingdale all over--simple and direct and manly4 ,and were not the laconic words far more eloquent than all the ornate elegiacs that poets might have written1 just as ,roger ,pettingdale's silent grief when the news reached him was far more eloquent than all the passionate outbursts of frenzied sorrow that one could conceive8 ,the fourth child1 ,clara1 as ,i have already said1 sleeps in the churchyard4 ,she died when she was a fair-haired girl of ten--as bright and promising a maiden as one could wish to see4 ,but she was ever fragile1 like her mother1 and suddenly she faded away1 leaving a great gap in the home life at the ,pettingdale farm4 ,as to ,mary1 the second child1 she was nineteen years of age1 and newly returned from school1 when ,edward ,leigh1 the son of old ,squire ,leigh1 of the ,hall1 came home from his travels round the world4 ,these two1 who had only distantly known each other as children1 met for the first time after many years--she a sweet-looking1 fresh-coloured girl1 in the first blush of womanhood2 and he a manly1 well-set young fellow with a pleasant1 sincere face and straightforward blue eyes4 ,it was the old story6 ,twang goes the bow of the roguish little archer1 and to some heart or another the world all at once becomes rose-colour4 ,the old story6 ,they saw each other on a ,sunday morning across the church4 ,she1 sitting in the ,pettingdale pew1 mentally noted that there was a young man at the ,squire's side who could be no other than his newly returned son2 and he1 from his corner underneath the dingy1 ponderous coat-of-arms of the ,leigh family1 looked upon her in her simple dress of white4 ,the sun1 striking through the window to her right1 glinted upon her brown hair1 which always curled so prettily about her forehead4 ,he thought1 as he looked1 that she was the sweetest1 daintiest maiden he had ever seen1 and he fell in love with her4 ,he made no secret of his passion4 ,beating about the bush was entirely foreign to ,edward ,leigh4 ,the choleric old ,squire went off into a fit of apoplectic rage when he heard how things stood4 ,the veins swelled in his forehead1 and that pugnacious under-lip of his stood out and drew itself over the upper lip and the teeth with a tight grip4 ,but ,edward had all the old ,leigh blood in him4 ,i love her1 father1 he said quietly1 looking the ,squire straight in the face1 and the old man's heart sank within him as he met the steady glance of those blue eyes4 ,fits of passion1 threats1 fiery denunciations--they were all of no avail4 ,edward was never once other than respectful4 ,he would stand with shoulders squared and head uplifted1 bearing the storm in perfect calm and silence1 and then would look his father in the face and say--,father1 ,i love her2 and the ,squire would clench his fist and march to and fro1 furiously stamping his feet upon the floor4 ,illustration3 ,father1 ,i love her4 ,in one culminating fit of choleric rage the ,squire rode over to the farm4 ,he found ,roger ,pettingdale in the corn-field1 looking at the growing wheat4 ,illustration3 ,forgive me6 ,look here1 ,pettingdale1 he burst forth fiercely4 ,this nonsense must be stopped4 ,are you an idiot1 that you cannot see what is going on1 or are you in the scheme to entrap my---- ,roger ,pettingdale turned round upon him4 ,i beg your pardon1 ,squire ,leigh8 he said quietly1 as one who had not heard aright4 ,tut6 ,nonsense6 retorted the ,squire4 ,don't 'beg-your-pardon' me6 ,you know full well what ,i mean4 ,are you blind8 ,i say it must be stopped6 ,you know full well that that precious son of mine has gone stark mad over that chit of a girl of yours6 ,and what of that1 ,squire ,leigh8 replied ,roger ,pettingdale1 drawing himself to his full height and looking at the ,squire from underneath his heavy eyebrows4 ,if that precious son of yours has gone stark mad over my daughter1 what of that8 ,why1 this1 thundered the ,squire3 that it must be stopped6 ,very well1 why don't you stop it8 replied ,roger ,pettingdale4 ,the retort1 perfectly cool and natural1 laid bare all the ,squire's impotence at one stroke1 and drove him well-nigh to frenzy4 ,his eyes shot fire1 and those veins in his forehead swelled as though they would burst4 ,it is not my daughter who is coming to the ,hall after your son1 ,roger ,pettingdale went on4 ,it is your son who is coming here after my daughter4 ,you seem to forget that point4 ,you say it must be stopped4 ,and ,i repeat--,why don't you stop it8 ,it is as ,i thought1 shouted the enraged ,squire4 ,you are all in it--all of you4 ,all in the scheme to entrap him6 ,a pretty plot1 don't you call it1 for a man who poses as a ,christian8 ,in a blind access of fury he took a step forward and raised his riding-whip4 ,and then his shaking arm fell to his side1 for ,roger ,pettingdale had laid a hand upon his shoulder1 and was confronting him with grave1 kindly1 pitying eyes4 ,you are in anger1 ,squire ,leigh1 he said1 with simple dignity1 else ,i should take your words as an insult4 ,be sure that the ,pettingdales have not fallen so low1 nor their womenkind either1 that they need to trap the son of ,squire ,leigh4 ,but ,i tell you this1 as man to man3 if your son truly loves my daughter1 and if she loves him in return1 ,i will put no bar before my child's happiness2 no1 not for you1 nor for all the ,leighs in the world4 ,we come of as good a stock as you1 ,squire6 ,remember that6 ,more money and more land maybe you have--but not more pride of family4 ,i care naught for your money or your land4 ,thank ,god6 ,i have prospered beyond all expectation4 ,and ,i tell you again1 straight to your face1 if your son comes to me and asks for my daughter's hand1 and ,i find it is for her happiness1 ,i shall say ',yes4' ,i shall disinherit him6 burst forth the ,squire2 he shall not have a penny--not a brass farthing6 ,i shall tell him1 continued ,roger ,pettingdale1 that if he would win my daughter1 he must first make a position for himself in the world1 independently of aught you can do for or against him2 and that shall be the test of his sincerity4 ,then he turned away1 and the ,squire1 his face livid with passion1 marched off1 savagely cutting at the wheat-ears with his riding-whip4 ,and when he mounted his horse at the corner of the field1 he dug his spurs so viciously into her that she bounded and reared1 and almost threw him4 ,well1 the long and short of it was that ,edward ,leigh was not found wanting in the test which was imposed upon him4 ,you are quite right1 sir1 he said to ,roger ,pettingdale2 the condition is a reasonable one4 ,i ask for nothing more than the chance of proving that ,i am in earnest4 ,he went to ,london1 studied under his father's old college friend1 ,john ,wetherell1 the well-known ,queen's ,counsel1 and in five years was making fair headway in the courts as a barrister4 ,and the strange part of it was that the choleric old ,squire--who has a good heart underneath his rough exterior--seeing his son's name in the papers from time to time1 felt his paternal pride rising within him despite his stubborn resentment4 ,perhaps1 too1 he felt lonely in his old age4 ,at all events1 he went over to the farm one day1 and asked to see ,mary4 ,i shall fight against it no longer1 my dear1 he said1 holding out his hand4 ,the lad has proved his grit1 and the woman who can call forth such steady love in a man is more than worthy of being mistress of the ,hall4 ,i am an old man1 and have no time left for bitternesses4 ,forgive me1 and you will find me as staunch in friendship as you have found me frank in enmity4 ,mary is now ,mary ,leigh1 of ,leigh ,hall1 and a sweeter1 gentler1 more winsome mistress you could not find in the whole land4 ,you may often see the old ,squire leaning upon her shoulder--a bent1 white-haired figure--as they walk in the grounds4 99 99 99 99 99 ,among all the seasons of the year1 ,i think there is none that ,roger ,pettingdale loves so well as the time of harvest4 ,you may see him standing at the gateway1 looking in meditation down the long shimmer and sheen of the golden wheat-field as the wind ripples over it4 ,i love to gaze at fields white with corn1 he said to me once4 ,they seem to breathe rich promises of that full fruition to which our own lives shall come if we live them well and uprightly4 ,at the last harvest thanksgiving service in the village church ,i was present for the sake of old times1 and from my place behind ,roger ,pettingdale ,i saw him lost in meditation1 with eyes fixed upon the chancel window4 ,and when he stood up to sing he was still rapt in thought2 but suddenly he joined in the sweet old hymn so lustily and with such a full heart that it did me good to hear him4 ,the valleys stand so thick with corn ,that even they are singing4 ,,the ,,art ,,of ,,reading4 ,by the ,ven4 ,archdeacon ,diggle1 ,m4,a4 ,reading aloud is more commonly regarded as an accomplishment than an art4 ,in truth1 it is both4 ,it is an art in that it cannot be left to its own guidance1 but requires both an acquaintance with rules and familiarity with their practice to bring it to perfection4 ,it is an accomplishment in that it is a means of completing our equipment for happy social life4 ,good reading yields not only profit but pleasure to others4 ,it is one means of throwing brightness into home-life to gather the children together and read really well to them4 ,and what a sweet delight it is in the ward of a hospital1 or among the inmates of a workhouse1 or by the bedside of some dearly loved invalid1 to be able1 by reading in soft1 gentle1 refreshing tones1 to charm away the monotony and the weariness1 perhaps for awhile to relieve even the pain1 of the lonely and the suffering6 ,we might shed sunshine into the darkness of many a life if1 instead of spending our leisure hours in ennui on ourselves1 we devoted them to reading aloud to others4 ,reading aloud is good for ourselves both physically and morally4 ,it is good morally1 for if we never read anything unfit for reading aloud we shall not be likely to read anything morally deteriorating4 ,and physically1 reading aloud is a benignant exercise4 ,it widens the chest1 opens the lungs1 strengthens the throat1 and does good to all the breathing organs4 ,it is a mistake to suppose that using the voice weakens it4 ,abuse or misuse of the vocal organs1 as of any other organs1 injures them2 but by proper use and exercise they are strengthened and improved4 ,speakers and preachers have bad throats not because they use their throat too much1 but because they use it badly4 ,they force and torment it1 instead of training it to natural action and giving it free1 full play4 ,and who shall blame them8 ,at school they were taught to spell and mind their stops2 but how to breathe and manage the voice when reading1 they probably were not taught a single rule4 ,in many instances teachers themselves are wholly ignorant of the art and therefore incapable of teaching it4 ,and so it comes to pass that1 unless either outward circumstance or innate common-sense turn our attention in later life to the management of the vocal organs1 we never learn to read aloud without weariness and with pleasure4 ,it is mainly through lack of early training that1 of all useful and delightful accomplishments1 the art of reading aloud is one of the least practised and most rare4 ,illustration3 7,photo3 ,russell and ,sons1 ,baker ,street1 ,w47 ,,archdeacon ,,diggle4 ,yet it is an art which1 in some degree1 may be acquired by the majority of people2 very many could1 by a little training and perseverance1 even excel in it4 ,of course1 the art admits of many degrees of excellence4 ,but without reaching the splendid summits of the art1 attainable only by the highly gifted few1 ordinary persons may learn to read sufficiently well to gratify both themselves and others1 if they will take pains to learn and practise a few simple rules4 ,the first requirement is to master the physics of the art3 to learn to breathe in through the nostrils and out through the mouth1 never to speak on an inflowing breath1 quickly to fill the lungs and slowly to empty them1 never to gasp or strain after sound1 not to attempt the higher notes until the lower have been completely mastered1 to rely more on the lower than the higher notes1 to teach the lips and front portion of the mouth to do their fair share of work equally with the larynx and the vocal cords4 ,a moustache is an impediment to easy and distinct reading4 ,it hinders the air from passing in free1 full flow up the nostrils1 and it troubles the waves of sound as they issue from the mouth2 causing indistinctness1 more or less flat and thick1 in enunciation4 ,clearness of enunciation ranks next in importance after easy1 natural1 flexible production of voice1 and largely depends on it1 for there can be no clear1 crisp1 distinct enunciation of words1 unless the tools by which words are made1 viz4 the organs of voice1 are kept sharp and well burnished4 ,moreover1 for the attainment of limpid and finely articulated enunciation careful training is required both in the melody and modulation of sounds4 ,precision and beauty of enunciation are much assisted by habitual practice of the graduated series of all the tones from the keynote to its octave4 ,do not sing when you are reading1 but1 in order to read well1 first learn to sing2 otherwise your reading will be flat and monotonous1 without light and shade1 instead of being fresh1 richly modulated1 and melodious4 ,the next requirement of good reading is to learn the relative value of the letters1 and the right handling of the syllables1 of which words are composed4 ,this study is both interesting and attractive1 for1 as ,plato observes1 letters themselves have a clear significance4 ,the letter r is expressive of motion1 the letters d and t of binding and rest1 the letter l of smoothness1 n of inwardness1 the letter e of length and the letter o of roundness4#b ,letters run in families1 and each family has its own characteristic significance of sound4 ,some letters belong to the lips1 others to the throat1 others employ the whole mouth4 ,vowels and final consonants are the letters which demand most care and support in good reading4 ,for the most part1 vowels should be rich and full1 and the final consonant well sustained4 #b ,cf4 ,jowett's ,plato1 ,i4 #caa4 ,if letters in themselves are expressive and significant1 collocations of letters in syllables and words are clearly more significant still4 ,by various degrees of strength or weakness1 emphasis or pitch1 length or shortness1 they become the natural expressions both of the stronger and the finer parts of human feeling and thought4 ,to read well1 therefore1 it is necessary to give intelligent and ready heed to the relative weight of words1 to notice whether consonants are massed together to increase their density1 or vowels are freely interspersed to leaven and make them light4 ,true enunciation largely depends on a careful study of the natural formation of words and a right appreciation of the proportionate value of their several syllables4 ,reading1 however1 is frequently spoiled by pedantry and exaggerated minuteness4 ,in seeking to avoid slovenliness readers often fall into foppery4 ,good reading goes at an easy pace1 it is neither too fast nor too slow2 it neither counts the letters nor omits them1 neither jumbles syllables together nor anatomises words4 ,the good reader reads so that intelligent listeners can spell his words1 but he does not read as if spelling them himself4 ,he avoids the extremes both of negligence and nicety1 and constantly remembers that whatever is overdone is badly done4 ,avoid ostentation4 ,no rule in reading is more fundamental than this4 ,near akin to ostentation is the taint of false and histrionic emphasis4 ,colourless reading1 bad though it be1 is better than tawdry reading4 ,especially in all reading of a religious or sacred character should affectation and dramatic artifices be reverently avoided4 ,to read the ,bible in church as if playing a part on the stage is as inappropriate and irreligious as to read like one in haste to catch a train4 ,each kind of subject demands its own proper style in reading4 ,prose should not be read like poetry2 nor all kinds either of prose or poetry alike4 ,as in writing1 each species should be dressed in language from its own wardrobe2 so in reading1 each several kind should receive its own appropriate tone1 and travel at its own appropriate speed4 ,to read everything alike is to read nothing--or at most only one thing--well4 ,illustration3 ,charming away the monotony and the weariness4 ,great authors are by no means invariably good readers1 even of their own productions4 ,lord ,tennyson read some of his own glorious poems beautifully2 but others he read either droningly or with too much singsong4 ,dickens read his own works with wonderful power and realisation4 ,wordsworth read his own verse admirably2 but we are told that neither ,coleridge nor ,southey could read verse well3 ,they read as if crying or wailing lugubriously4 ,reading1 therefore1 is an art which doubtless requires1 for the attainment of excellence1 some degree of histrionic gifts--imagination1 imitation1 fervour1 and passion4 ,similarly with oratory and authorship4 ,both these arts are distinct from that of reading2 as each of these again is distinct from the other4 ,it is curious1 indeed1 how few among great authors are great orators2 or1 among great orators1 great authors4 ,the gifts which tell in writing--condensation1 terseness1 finish--are not the gifts which tell most in speaking4 ,in speaking1 the essentials are clearness of enunciation1 sympathy with the audience1 copiousness of illustration1 directness of statement1 uninvolved reasoning4 ,the merits which impart value to a book--wealth of fact1 niceness in balancing opposing considerations1 delicacy of assertion1 depth and sweep of argument--may easily become ineffective in the delivery of a speech4 ,hence1 therefore1 whereas a good speaker is occasionally a good writer1 owing to his rare combination of different orders of talent1 it more frequently happens that the one set of talents is given to one man to enrich them in seclusion1 and the other to another man to use them with publicity4 ,in like manner with reading2 it is an art by itself4 ,it is natural to suppose that no one could possibly read an author's works so well as the author's self1 because no one can understand them so intimately as their own creator4 ,yet experience proves this to be not the case2 and for a reason which at first sight is not wholly apparent4 ,it is just because they are his own that1 as a rule1 he cannot read them well4 ,he may have a richly cultivated voice1 clear enunciation1 a varied power of modulation2 he may even be able to read the works of others well1 yet be a failure in reading what he himself has written4 ,why is this8 ,partly1 perhaps1 it is due to an unavoidable self-consciousness in reading his own works2 and self-consciousness is the ruin of good reading4 ,forget thyself is a necessary condition of good reading4 ,partly1 perhaps1 it is due to over-absorption in the memory of sensations and sentiments which overpowered him when he wrote in the solitude of his chamber1 but which are somewhat unnatural and overstrained for exhibition before a concourse of auditors4 ,but probably the principal reason is that one of the greatest charms of good reading arises from the co-operation of two spirits toward one end--the spirit of the author and the spirit of the reader4 ,the reader of another's works seeks actively to express the spirit of his author1 yet unintentionally he is expressing his own spirit also4 ,the author enters into him and he throws himself into the author2 his reading1 therefore1 is the union1 the marriage1 the interpenetration and expression of two spirits--the author's and his own4 ,however interesting1 therefore1 and delightful it may be to hear an author read his own works1 yet is there always lacking the dash and force and suggestiveness produced when a great author is interpreted by a great reader4 ,the author merely reproduces his original meaning in what he wrote2 the reader1 through the agency of his own independent personality1 idealises and diversifies that meaning4 ,idealisation is one of the most beautiful effects of the fine art of reading4 ,the most ordinary poem or piece of prose1 when idealised by an accomplished artist in reading1 grows lovely and sweet4 ,and one way of learning to read well ourselves is to sit at the feet of some of these great masters of reading4 ,until we have heard a great reader read it is next to impossible to conceive what a fine and noble art true reading is4 ,on the other hand1 we can never become good readers by merely listening to others1 any more than we can become good musicians by hearing others play4 ,in the art of reading1 others may be our models2 none but ourselves can be our makers4 ,listening to others may show us how the thing can best be done1 but without doing the thing ourselves the thing can never be truly learned by us4 ,sometimes1 indeed1 listening to others has an effect quite the opposite of a model for imitation4 ,pausanias tells us of an ancient player on the harp who was wont to make his scholars go to hear one who played badly that they might learn to hate his discords and false measures4 ,in like manner1 one way of learning to read well is to hear others read badly4 ,the art of reading aloud culminates in the expression of the spiritual through the medium of the physical4 ,as sculpture aspires to express its ideals in stone1 and painting in colour1 and music in sound1 so reading embodies its ideals in uttered words4 ,a well-trained voice1 clearness of enunciation1 rhythm and flexibility of articulation--these are the physical framework of the art of reading aloud4 ,without first acquiring these the reader is as impotent as the painter without colour or the sculptor without stone4 ,but the physics of reading are nothing more than its material framework4 ,unless the reader is inspired with ideals1 reading will never rise to the dignity and glory of an art with him4 ,he may be as a house-painter with his brush1 or a mason with his stone--an industrious and useful artificer1 but not an artist in his work4 ,,midget ,,churches ,by ,j4 ,a4 ,reid4 ,the subject of church architecture is ever a fascinating one4 ,millions of money and an immense amount of time and labour have been spent in erecting places of worship1 some of which are magnificent structures capable of seating several thousands4 ,on the other hand1 small1 humble edifices sometimes suffice to meet the requirements of the worshippers2 and it is with these that we here propose to deal4 ,which of the midget churches is the smallest it is somewhat difficult to say2 but it is believed that the smallest church in ,england is the truly miniature church of ,lullington1 in ,sussex4 ,it is a primitive and quaint building1 constructed of flint with stone quoins1 with a roof of red tiles4 ,it can boast of a little weather-boarded turret at its west end2 but its bell does not toll now1 and the birds of the air have long since found the turret a convenient nesting-place4 ,the church is but sixteen feet square4 ,the pulpit is a pew1 with panelled sides and door1 and the furniture is of the plainest4 ,five1 narrow1 diamond-paned windows throw a scanty light upon the interior1 in which there is accommodation for thirty persons--quite sufficient for the population of the village4 ,illustration3 7,photo3 ,h4 ,j4 ,unwin1 ,hailsham47 ,,lullington ,,church4 7,sixteen feet square47 ,a somewhat larger edifice is the very interesting church of ,wythburn1 in ,cumberland1 the dimensions of which are--nave 7length71 thirty-nine feet2 height of walls1 ten feet2 and width1 fifteen feet4 ,this was the original church1 erected about one hundred and sixty years ago1 and is of the simplest description4 ,the roof is constructed of old ships' timber1 and the windows are square holes with wooden frames4 ,the chancel is eighteen feet long by fifteen feet by ten feet4 ,the beautiful little east window is by ,henry ,holiday1 and was put in to the memory of the late vicar4 ,what a magnificent site for a church6 ,the poets have thus expressed themselves with regard to this humble but beautifully situated church3-- ,canon ,h4 ,d4 ,rawnsley wrote3 ,we cannot stay--for life is but an ,inn1 ,a halfway house--and1 lo6 the graves how near6 ,yet mighty minds have hither come for cheer ,before the upward path they dared begin4 ,here ,gray the pilgrim rested pale and thin1 ,here ,wilson laughed1 and ,wordsworth murmured here4 ,here ,coleridge mused1 and ere he crossed the mere ,hence ,arnold viewed the ,goal he hoped to win4 ,and we who would ,helvellyn's height essay1 ,or climb towards the gateway of the mound ,where ,dunmail died because his realm was fair1 ,may join their gracious company who found ,earth's beauty made ,life's ,inn a ,house of ,prayer1 ,and speed1 refreshed of soul1 upon our way4 ,illustration3 ,wythburn ,church as compared with ,st4 ,paul's ,cathedral4 7,photo3 ,t4 ,dumble1 ,keswick47 ,,wythburn ,,church4 7,thirteen yards long1 five yards wide47 ,wordsworth1 too1 said3 ,if ,wythburn's modest ,house of ,prayer1 ,as lowly as the lowliest dwelling1 ,had1 with its belfry's humble stock1 ,a little pair that hang in air1 ,been mistress also of a clock 7,and one1 too1 not hung in crazy plight71 ,twelve strokes that clock would have been telling ,under the brow of old ,helvellyn4 ,and ,h4 ,coleridge3 ,humble it is1 and meek1 and very low1 ,and speaks its purpose by a single bell3 ,but ,god ,himself1 and ,he alone1 can know ,if spiry temples please ,him half so well4 ,we have given two instances of very small churches3 let us now refer to a midget chapel4 ,at ,crawshawbooth1 a village near ,burnley1 there is an extremely interesting diminutive place of worship known as the ,friends' ,meeting-,house1 an old-fashioned building covered with ivy1 and environed by a well-cared-for burial ground4 ,it contains half a dozen oak benches1 on which the worshippers sit4 ,though these benches are sufficient to provide seating accommodation for about sixty1 the attendance is rarely more than six4 ,john ,bright once worshipped here1 walking from ,rochdale1 a distance of twelve miles4 ,this quaint little place is naturally regarded with much interest by visitors4 ,it is interesting to point out that there is another ,quaker meeting-house in the hamlet of ,jordans1 in ,buckinghamshire1 which is1 if anything1 smaller than that already referred to4 ,it has been called the ,shrine of ,quakerism1 for early in ,june every year a gathering of ,quakers takes place4 ,here lie the remains of ,william ,penn1 one of the greatest of ,quakers4 ,at a cottage in the vicinity ,milton wrote his ,paradise ,lost4 ,illustration3 7,photo3 ,r4 ,w4 ,lord1 ,little ,lever1 near ,bolton47 ,,the ,,friends' ,,meeting-,,house1 ,,crawshawbooth4 7,containing six oak benches to accommodate sixty worshippers47 ,to revert to churches1 ,kilpeck ,church is well worth referring to as being a lovely little place of worship4 ,the nave is thirty-six feet by twenty1 and the chancel seventeen by sixteen feet ten inches1 the total length being sixty-eight feet and the average breadth about sixteen feet4 ,it is built upon a ,saxon foundation1 and ,saxon remains are still to be seen--notably1 a holy-water stoup that must be one thousand or eleven hundred years old4 ,it is not possible to do justice to this beautiful church in a few words1 but the accompanying photograph will give an idea of the quaintness and beauty of the structure4 ,the sculpture is remarkably interesting4 ,illustration3 7,photo3 ,poulton and ,sons1 ,lee47 ,,kilpeck ,,church4 7,nave thirty-six feet by twenty47 ,an article on midget places of worship would be incomplete without a reference to the little lath-and-plaster church of ,essex1 consisting of nave1 chancel1 and a small turret4 ,hazeleigh ,church1 as it is named1 stands in the near vicinity of ,hazeleigh ,hall--once the home of the ,essex family of the ,alleynes1 one of whom founded the ,college of ,god's ,gift at ,dulwich4 ,this little church has thus been described by the ,rev4 ,h4 ,r4 ,wadmore1 sometime curate3-- 444 ,a little church beside a wood ,securely sheltered from the sweeping blast2 ,so quiet1 so secure1 it seems to be ,a very type of rest and all that's still4 ,illustration3 7,photo3 ,r4 ,d4 ,barrett47 ,,chilcombe ,,church4 7,twelve yards long47 ,this little church of ,hazeleigh1 owing to its simple character1 differs but slightly from the roadside cottages4 ,it has been styled the meanest church in ,essex1 owing to its unpretentious character4 ,illustration3 7,photo3 ,cassell and ,co41 ,ltd47 ,,the ,,cave ,,church ,,at ,,ledaig1 ,,near ,,oban4 7,the most primitive church in the kingdom47 ,a pleasing little church is that of ,chilcombe1 near ,bridport1 ,dorsetshire4 ,chilcombe is mentioned in the ,doomsday ,book1 and at one time was the property of the ,knight ,hospitallers of ,st4 ,john4 ,the existing church dates from the thirteenth century4 ,it is in the ,roman style1 and possesses a good ,norman font4 ,the length of the nave is twenty-two by fourteen feet1 the chancel being thirteen by eleven feet4 ,the owner of the parish and the patron of the living is ,admiral the ,hon4 ,m4 ,h4 ,nelson4 ,illustration3 ,,grove ,,church1 ,,near ,,leighton ,,buzzard4 7,capable of seating fifty people47 ,another remarkably small church is that of ,st4 ,peter1 on the ,castle ,rise1 at ,cambridge1 its dimensions being twenty-five by sixteen feet4 ,it is of ,norman architecture4 ,england by no means possesses all the diminutive churches and chapels1 and a very quaint and interesting church is that of ,ledaig1 near ,oban4 ,it is unsectarian1 and its congregation numbers1 on the average1 twenty-five4 ,it was founded by ,john ,campbell1 who was more familiarly known as ,the ,bard of ,benderlock4 ,he converted a natural cavern in the cliffs of ,ledaig into a place of worship4 ,a portion of a trunk of a tree1 on which ,robert ,bruce is said to have rested1 serves as a table and reading-desk4 ,trunks of trees around the sides of the cavern serve as seats for the worshippers4 ,mr4 ,campbell officiated as minister for many years to a band of faithful ,highland worshippers in this curious church4 ,mr4 ,campbell was a remarkable personality4 ,he was postmaster of ,ledaig1 and he also gained a considerable reputation as a poet4 ,he was a much respected man1 and his memory is dear to many4 ,illustration3 7,photo3 ,a4 ,a4 ,inglis1 ,edinburgh47 ,,st4 ,,margaret',s ,,chapel1 ,,edinburgh ,,castle4 7,for some time used as a powder magazine47 ,i would like to refer to a very interesting midget church at ,grove1 near ,leighton ,buzzard1 which ,i had the pleasure of visiting recently4 ,it is the smallest in the county1 and is a gable-roofed1 barn-like fabric1 with a door on the north side4 ,in #ahhc the little church was restored throughout1 the fine old-fashioned square pews being replaced by open wooden seats1 and it is now capable of seating about fifty people4 ,formerly the edifice contained a three-decker--clerk's desk1 reading-desk1 and pulpit combined4 ,the churchyard contains many graves1 but only one tombstone 7eighteenth century74 ,the dimensions of the church are--length1 twenty-nine and a half feet2 width1 eighteen feet2 height1 about forty feet2 in all probability1 the church was formerly larger than at present4 ,grove is generally considered to be one of the smallest parishes in ,england1 and one could hardly conceive of a smaller4 ,it consists practically of a farmhouse and a lock-keeper's cottage4 ,illustration3 ,,st4 ,,robert',s ,,chapel1 ,,knaresborough4 7,showing figure of a ,knight ,templar cut in the rock47 7,photo3 ,g4 ,e4 ,arnold1 ,knaresborough47 ,we must not forget that at the top of ,edinburgh ,castle is the historical diminutive chapel of ,st4 ,margaret's1 which was the private chapel of the pious ,margaret1 ,queen of ,malcolm ,,iii41 during her residence in the castle4 ,until very recently it had been quite lost sight of1 having been converted into a powder magazine and fallen into disrepair4 ,in #ahec1 however1 it was discovered and put into an efficient state of repair4 ,it is considered to be the oldest and smallest chapel in ,scotland1 its dimensions being sixteen feet six inches by ten feet sixteen inches4 ,the semicircular chancel is separated from the nave by a well-carved double-round arch1 decorated with ,norman zigzag mouldings4 ,it is too small to be made available for divine service for the troops quartered in the castle1 and the only use that it is now put to is for occasional baptisms and morning ,communion4 ,illustration3 7,photo3 ,cassell and ,co41 ,ltd47 ,,small ,,church ,,at ,,st4 ,,andrew1 ,,greensted1 ,,near ,,ongar4 7,believed to include the only remaining portion of a ,saxon wooden church47 ,there are several very small places of worship which are now1 alas6 in ruins4 ,at ,iona1 for instance1 on the west coast of ,scotland1 are the remains of an extremely small chapel1 known as ,st4 ,oran's ,chapel4 ,it is very near ,iona ,cathedral4 ,it is constructed of red granite1 and its external measurements are sixty feet by twenty-two feet4 ,it is now roofless1 and is very old4 ,this little chapel is believed to have been built by ,queen ,margaret in #ajhj4 ,its architecture is ,romanesque1 and it has one low entrance4 ,this humble edifice is interesting inasmuch as within its walls is the tomb of ,sir ,walter ,scott's ,lord of the ,isles1 the friend of ,bruce4 ,illustration3 7,photo3 ,cassell and ,co41 ,ltd47 ,,diminutive ,,chapel ,,at ,,point ,,in ,,view1 ,,near ,,exmouth4 7,containing an organ made by the pastor47 ,there is another tiny barn-like edifice at ,greenloaning1 near ,dunblane4 ,the little church is situated adjacent to a farmhouse1 and seems to have been erected for the benefit of the farm-workers4 ,it is remarkably small4 ,the scenery in the vicinity is magnificent1 and the church is regarded with much interest by tourists4 ,st4 ,anthony's ,chapel is another small building also in ruins4 ,it is interesting owing to its historic surroundings1 being in the near vicinity of ,holyrood ,palace4 ,it comprises a hermitage1 sixteen feet long1 twelve feet wide1 and eight feet high1 and a ,gothic chapel forty-three feet long1 eighteen feet broad1 and eighteen feet high4 ,one of the most remarkable of these little churches is that at ,knaresborough1 in ,yorkshire1 which is a very queer little chapel elegantly hewn out of the solid rock1 the roof being beautifully ribbed and groined in the ,gothic style4 ,at the back of the altar is a large niche1 where an image used to stand1 and on one side of it is a place for the holy-water basin4 ,there are also figures of three heads--designed1 it is believed1 for an emblematical allusion to the order of the monks at the once neighbouring priory4 ,possibly they were cut by some of the monks4 ,the order was known as ,sanct ,trinitatis4 ,a few yards away there is another head4 ,it has been surmised that this is a representation of ,st4 ,john the ,baptist1 to whom the chapel is supposed to be dedicated4 ,there is a cavity in the floor1 in which some ancient relic was rested4 ,the chapel is ten feet six inches long1 nine feet wide1 and seven and a half feet high4 ,near the entrance is the following inscription3-- ,beneath yon ivy's spreading shade1 ,for lonely contemplation made1 ,an ancient chapel stands complete1 ,once the hermit's calm retreat ,from worldly pomp and sordid care1 ,to humble penitence and prayer2 ,the sight is pleasing1 all agree-- ,do1 gentle stranger1 turn and see4 ,the chapel is known as ,st4 ,robert's ,chapel4 ,st4 ,robert1 the hermit who used it for devotions1 was born about #aafj1 and was the son of ,sir ,toke ,flouris1 who was mayor of the city of ,york4 ,in his youth he was noted for his piety1 and he entered the ,cistercian ,abbey of ,newminster in ,northumberland4 ,he was only there eighteen weeks1 however1 removing to ,york1 and then to ,knaresborough1 where he retired from the world to live a life of contemplation in this restful spot4 ,he died in the ,september of #abah4 ,on one side of the entrance to the chapel1 under the ivy1 is the figure of a ,knight ,templar1 cut in the rock1 in the act of drawing his sword to defend the place from the violence of intruders4 ,this is a queer and remarkable building1 and1 though not now used as a place of worship1 the reference here made to it may prove interesting4 ,illustration3 7,photo3 ,cassell and ,co41 ,ltd47 ,,interior ,,view ,,of ,,perivale ,,church4 ,the cathedral of ,st4 ,asaph1 in ,flintshire1 might be mentioned in this category as being the smallest cathedral in the country4 ,it is in the shape of a simple cross in plan1 consisting of a choir transept1 nave1 with five bays with aisles1 and a central tower forty feet square and one hundred feet high4 ,the choir was built in #ahfg-fh from the designs of the late ,sir ,gilbert ,scott1 ,r4,a41 and is of ,early ,english architecture4 ,passing references might also be made to the diminutive church of ,warlingham1 in ,surrey1 which runs the midget church of ,wotton in that county very close2 and to ,grosmont ,church1 ,monmouth1 erected by ,eleanor of ,provence1 a quaint little structure with an octagonal tower4 ,there used to be a church known as ,st4 ,mildred in the ,poultry1 which was removed to ,lincolnshire4 ,it formerly occupied a position in the eastern end of ,cheapside1 and in #ahgb it was taken to pieces and re-erected at ,louth4 ,it is generally considered to be the smallest church designed by ,wren4 ,at ,st4 ,andrew1 ,greensted1 near ,ongar1 there is a very small church1 and it is a curiosity1 inasmuch as it is believed to be a relic of the only church of ,saxon origin built of wood remaining4 ,there is a small chapel at ,point in ,view1 near ,exmouth4 ,it is ,congregational1 and it provides seating accommodation for eighty persons1 and forms one side of a block1 the other three sides being taken up by four little almshouses1 each consisting of two rooms occupied by four elderly maiden ladies4 ,over the chapel door is this motto3-- ,one ,point in ,view ,we all pursue4 ,the chapel contains a diminutive organ made by the pastor4 ,in the vicinity there is a peculiar round house1 the property of the ,reichel family4 ,it was a member of this family who founded the chapel and almshouses4 ,the little church of ,st4 ,nicholas at ,hulcote should be mentioned4 ,it is near ,woburn1 the seat of the ,duke of ,bedford4 ,it is rather difficult to find1 at any rate when the foliage is on the trees1 so surrounded is it by them4 ,it was built about the year #afaj by ,richard ,chernocke4 ,its measurements are3 length1 from the tower to the chancel step1 thirty-nine and a half feet2 chancel1 eight and a half feet from step to east2 width1 sixteen feet three inches4 ,there are carved oaken panels to many of the seats1 and on the north wall1 inside the chancel rails1 are some valuable old monuments in memory of the ,chernocke family4 ,it is now between fifteen and twenty years since the church was used for divine service1 but it is still used for funerals4 ,there is a little church1 near ,london1 known as ,perivale4 ,although so near to the great metropolis1 it is situated in a peculiarly lonely district4 ,it lies in the valley of the ,brent amid expansive meadows and hay farms4 ,in #ahga there were only seven houses and thirty-three inhabitants in the parish4 ,the midget church is situated at the end of a field near a low1 semi-,gothic half-timber parsonage and a farmhouse4 ,although somewhat desolate1 the spot is a restful one1 and the hill and spire of ,harrow in the distance make the scene pleasing to the eye4 ,the little church is in the ,early ,perpendicular style1 and consists of a nave1 a narrow chancel1 a rough wooden tower with short1 pyramidal spire at the west1 and porch on the south-west4 ,the interior presents a well-kept appearance4 ,the church was restored in #ahge4 ,in the windows is some late fifteenth-century glass containing figures of ,st4 ,john the ,baptist and ,st4 ,matthew1 in fairly good condition1 and of ,mary and ,joseph1 which are not so well preserved4 ,the prettily situated ivy-clad church of ,st4 ,lawrence1 ,ventnor1 ,isle of ,wight1 is another edifice which might well be described as a midget church1 although some years ago it was found necessary to enlarge it4 ,the church originally was thirty feet eight and a half inches long1 it is now forty feet eight and a half inches2 and its breadth was formerly eleven feet1 whereas it is now twenty feet4 ,the height to the eaves is about six feet4 ,the architecture is ,old ,english1 but not at all striking4 ,the church dates back to about the year #aaij4 ,illustration3 7,photo3 ,f4 ,n4 ,broderick ,hyde47 ,,the ,,old ,,church ,,at ,,st4 ,,lawrence4 ,we have now exhausted our space1 but not our subject4 ,there are other examples of diminutive churches throughout the country1 but we have made a selection of the more interesting ones4 ,however small the church1 the worshippers have this assurance from the ,founder of the ,christian religion3 ,where two or three are gathered together in ,my name1 there am ,i in the midst of them2 and with that quotation this little article may fittingly be concluded4 ,illustration3 ,canon's ,daughter ,,the ,,minor ,,canon',s ,,daughter ,,the ,,story ,,of ,a ,,cathedral ,,town4 ,by ,e4 ,s4 ,curry1 ,author of ,one of the ,greatest1 ,closely ,veiled1 ,etc4 ,,chapter ,,iv4 ,a ,,premature ,,proposal4 ,in the ,canons' ,court1 between ,mr4 ,bethune's and the ,deanery1 lived ,mr4 ,warde4 ,he was a pleasant man1 well off1 artistic1 musical--and happy in a life of little work1 which left him leisure for his artistic pursuits4 ,he had a rosy1 kind face and plump figure2 the ,bethune children1 ,marjorie included1 went to him before anyone else in times of need4 ,he had often shielded them from offended law4 ,it was he who set on foot the literary and drawing guilds1 arranged concerts1 and was the universal handy man for games and social festivities to all the county round ,norham4 ,he was about thirty-five1 and had a chivalric devotion to ,mrs4 ,bethune and her children1 since1 as a young man1 he had first come to ,norham4 ,marjorie was so accustomed to this that she did not see what was manifest to other eyes1 on her return from school in ,munich4 ,she took all his kindness as a matter of course1 having no more relation to herself individually than the ,bishop's or the ,dean's4 ,since her return1 he had been sedulously pursuing his courtship in every way that occurred to him4 ,this gentleman was standing beside her under the lime-tree at the top of the garden1 where ,marjorie could superintend the pursuits of her two youngest brothers4 ,they were now busily engaged underground4 ,for a whole week every minute of ,david's and ,sandy's leisure had been spent in digging a deep hole in the corner of the garden devoted to their use4 ,thence1 with infinite patience1 passages had been scooped1 and the mound of earth thrown up against the wall had come in useful as a toboggan ground4 ,the little boys had received strict orders that morning that all the earth in the passages of the cave1 which1 in a frenzy of labour1 the two schoolboys had burrowed out before breakfast1 was to be removed before their return in the afternoon4 ,as it got deeper1 steps had been conveyed from the house for the descent of the hole4 ,the utility of division of labour had been impressed upon the children4 ,orme was to fill the baskets2 ,ross1 being surer of his equilibrium1 was to carry them up and empty them4 ,if the work was not done1 and done properly1 the babies would have to play elsewhere2 no longer would their presence be tolerated by their elders4 ,marjorie was enjoying a new book1 whose alluring cover was fit index to its contents4 ,now and then1 between the pages1 dark eyes looked at her in a strange and wonderful fashion4 ,when this occurred1 she would lift her own1 and gaze dreamily over the currant bushes1 her breath coming quickly1 the colour fluctuating in her cheeks4 ,upon one such moment ,mr4 ,warde had intruded4 ,i thought ,i would come in and talk to you about your sonnet1 ,marjorie1 he said1 looking about for a seat4 ,there was nothing handy except a cleft log--used by the boys as a block for chopping sticks4 ,on this uncomfortable seat ,mr4 ,warde poised himself4 ,illustration3 ,the man1 looking at her1 thought he might take hope4 ,but that wouldn't be fair1 would it8 asked ,marjorie4 ,oh6 we judged the poems yesterday4 ,i didn't propose to alter anything4 ,mrs4 ,adeane's is the best1 and ,lady ,esther's next4 ,but--your usual imagination was wanting this time1 he said gently4 ,i thought it was bad--it seemed so prosaic1 ,marjorie said humbly4 ,you see1 father's advice always is1 not to let imagination go further than it knows4 ,have you never imagined1 never thought about love8 he asked softly4 ,often1 lately1 frankly4 ,i thought it was a very silly subject to choose4 ,not silly1 ,marjorie4 ,the loveliest poetry has been written about it1 as it is the loveliest subject4 ,why 'lately'8 he asked4 ,to get ideas4 ,they don't come1 if you don't think--not to me1 at least4 ,that way of putting it is new1 he said1 considering4 ,well1 ,marjorie1 ,i want you to think of it1 to imagine all you can of what it means--the new brightness1 the new beauty it gives to life2 how it transforms all things1 even the commonest1 so that---- ,he paused4 ,marjorie was looking at him in wonder4 ,was it something in his glance that brought irresistibly back to her remembrance that look in ,mr4 ,pelham's dark eyes1 of which more than once that afternoon she had been thinking8 ,she coloured brightly1 and her beautiful eyes grew soft4 ,ah6 ,i see you know what ,i mean1 ,mr4 ,warde said gently4 ,oh6 ,i don't1 said ,marjorie confusedly4 ,but the man1 looking at her1 thought he might take hope4 ,he went on3 ,it is expressed in all beautiful music1 as well as in the best literature and art4 ,it appeals to everyone1 because it is natural to all1 and answers to something in the heart of every one of us4 ,so you see1 ,marjorie1 knowing you and your gift of imagination1 ,i am disappointed at this bald little verse4 ,father says it is dangerous imagining on nothing1 ,marjorie replied1 plucking up her spirit4 ,first get facts1 absolutely accurate4 ,then build on them4 ,well1 ,marjorie1 don't you realise that the facts are all about you1 that ,i----,whatever's the matter8 ,a yell broke across the summer air1 and ,marjorie1 springing up1 bent over the edge of the crater-like hole4 ,at the bottom lay ,orme1 his basket beside him1 its contents upon him4 ,in a second ,marjorie had descended underground1 and ,mr4 ,warde was left gazing into space4 ,when she emerged1 ,orme was in her arms1 muddy tears bedewing his cherubic cheeks4 ,fall'd1 he announced1 in a self-pitying tone1 to the visitor4 ,marjorie reseated herself1 her little brother's head upon her breast4 ,as she comforted him1 the man observing her grew more in love than ever4 ,marjorie1 soft and gentle1 unconsciously rehearsing ,madonna attitudes1 gave him a thrill of delight4 ,presently the boy1 his conscience uneasy over neglected work1 slipped from her knee1 and1 with muttered remarks on er1 nasty ground1 descended again into its bosom4 ,he had learnt the imprudence of engaging in another man's labour4 ,resenting the meaner part of filling the baskets for the more stolid and surefooted ,ross to ascend and empty1 he had been promptly punished for his ambition4 ,his little soul was now sore with the injustice of things4 ,er1 nasty steps slipped poor ,orme1 he said to ,ross1 watching his careful ascent4 ,you not big anuff1 ,ross answered importantly4 ,go and fill er basket4 ,do what ,david bidded you4 ,meanwhile ,mr4 ,warde had glanced at his watch4 ,soon1 all too soon1 this semi-solitude in which he had been fortunate enough to find ,marjorie would be invaded by the schoolboys4 ,he was no nearer the end for which he had come1 and he could not again drag in ,marjorie's little verse for criticism4 ,she glanced at him1 as she drew the alluring book towards her1 and said1 not too politely3 ,if you are going to stay1 ,i'll just fetch my work1 rising as she spoke4 ,no1 ,marjorie1 don't go4 ,there's something ,i specially wished to say1 to talk to you about1 he said1 becoming a little confused under her unconscious gaze4 ,could he1 after all1 disturb this serenity by the suggestion of love and marriage8 ,he felt somehow that the time was not ripe--that they would seem incongruous to her in connection with himself4 ,and yet1 if he did not speak1 and be quick about it1 another man might step in4 ,i have had a letter to-day1 he said1 offering me a college living4 ,have you8 said ,marjorie in a not altogether flattering manner1 and looking at him rather as though she were much surprised4 ,she stood poised1 ready to fetch the threatened work2 her attitude altogether an unflattering one to a lover who has just made an important communication4 ,you won't go1 shall you8 she went on1 her glance going past him to the wall which divided the gardens4 ,over the top big clusters of the roses in which ,mr4 ,warde delighted nodded gaily1 whilst further on the square face of his house was gay with bloom1 amid which the two lines of windows stared a little baldly4 ,the blind in each was arranged symmetrically1 and in spite of its prim tidiness1 even its outside showed that no loved woman ruled within4 ,from her neighbour's house ,marjorie's eyes jumped to her own home4 ,here there was no symmetry1 but its character as a home stood out plain4 ,the nursery windows1 distinguished by their guarding bars1 were wide open1 and the blinds drawn to the top1 whilst in the three open windows of her mother's room adjoining the curtains flopped lazily1 and the blinds had been adjusted to the sun4 ,somehow the sight and the difference brought a feeling into ,marjorie's heart which had not yet stirred it in connection with ,mr4 ,warde4 ,hitherto he had not seemed to her to need pity4 ,but now1 when he went back into his house--away from her and the homely garden1 where vegetables1 and currant bushes1 and the untidy quarter of the boys1 were of more account than flowers1 where little feet pattered1 and boys' voices were never silent--what would he go back to8 ,the blank windows lit up empty rooms1 where no foot but his own stirred4 ,he would find no companionship but that of his music and his books4 ,marjorie never guessed of the visions that peopled his fireside4 ,shall you go8 she asked1 looking at him--then speaking out suddenly the pity her thoughts had called up3 ,won't it be very lonely8 ,very4 ,sit down please1 ,marjorie1 and listen to me4 ,then1 as she complied3 ,when first ,i came here1 ten years ago1 your father and mother were very kind to me1 and ,i grew so attached to them and theirs1 that ,i wanted nothing more4 ,i felt no need of the ties other men have or make1 because ,i had--you4 ,then his tone grew tender4 ,do you remember how you used to come round and climb into my study window for your lessons1 when the boys began to go to school8 ,you were a bit forsaken then1 ,marjorie4 ,and then1 when you were good--as you weren't always--how a little pony accompanied me on my rides1 and then when the pony and the child who rode it had each grown bigger1 one day they both disappeared4 ,the child went to school1 to come back1 nearly grown up1 with music oozing out of her fingers' ends4 ,well1 ,marjorie 7he had risen1 and his face was paling1 his self-control vanishing1 as he stood looking down on her71 ,i have waited a long time for that little girl--who has yet seemed always mine--,i want her for my wife4 ,will you go with me1 dear1 if ,i go8 ,marjorie gazed blankly into his face4 ,i8 ,of course1 it is me1 she said slowly4 ,i don't know--,i didn't think--how can ,i leave--everybody8 her voice faltered4 ,she rose suddenly1 putting aside the hand that would have stayed her4 ,there is nothing so cruel as a young thing who has no notion of her power and of the devotion she has stirred4 ,i didn't think1 she said1 cuttingly1 that you wanted payment4 ,i thought--,i thought---- ,and then1 not trusting her voice further1 she sprang away from his detaining hand1 and fled4 ,,chapter ,v4 ,,marjorie',s ,,trouble4 ,dear ,marjorie1--,you gave me no answer yesterday1 and ,i am afraid ,i took you by surprise1 and perhaps shocked you4 ,a girl is a tender thing1 ,i know4 ,will you send me just a little line of hope and forgiveness8 ,i love you--how dearly you cannot guess--and ,i want you to be my wife4 ,but ,i will press nothing against your will1 and ,i have written ',no' to the offer of that living4 ,i think you will like to stay near home4 ,whatever you decide1 whether you say ',yes' or ',no1' believe always that my love is too great to change1 and that ,i am ever your attached friend1--,w4 ,,st4 ,j4 ,,warde4 99 99 99 99 99 ,marjorie was reading this letter with an expression which certainly did not augur well for its writer4 ,she had been seeing to household matters for her mother1 and had sat down with an armful of boys' clothes to mend1 when the note had been handed to her4 ,i do not know what to say to him1 mother4 ,i wish--oh1 ,i do so wish he hadn't done it4 ,he is a good man1 ,margie1 her mother said simply4 ,a man1 ,i think1 to make you happy4 ,illustration3 ,he is a good man1 ,margie4 ,happy1 mother8 ,i am happy now4 ,what should ,i do next door8 ,i should always be running in to see you4 ,and how could you get on without me8 ,we shall manage4 ,and next door with ,mr4 ,warde would be so much nicer than a long way off with someone else4 ,it would scarcely be losing you4 ,do you want me to go1 mother8 asked ,marjorie1 struck by her mother's tone4 ,not in one sense1 dear2 but you will go4 ,it is natural for girls to marry4 ,you will marry1 ,i hope2 it is the happiest life1 with a good man you can look up to4 ,illustration3 ,you have been very good to my boys1 ,mrs4 ,bethune said4 ,but do ,i look up to him8 ,i think we--,charity and ,i--often laugh at him4 ,but you can laugh1 and yet look up1 or life would be very dull4 ,who do you go to when you want to know anything that father can't teach you8 ,to ,mr4 ,warde1 acknowledged ,marjorie4 ,and when you want to go anywhere8 ,yes2 but only because he has a carriage--and we haven't4 ,and when you want to see the picture galleries8 ,he can go2 he always has time4 ,but all that doesn't mean that ,i want to marry him1 she added4 ,but it is just that4 ,you already look to him for most of your pleasures4 ,that is a long way towards loving him4 ,you would find him a very kind husband and friend4 ,oh6 mother1 what must ,i do8 entreated ,marjorie1 the tears coming into her eyes4 ,he has spoilt everything4 ,it is ,charity's garden-party this afternoon1 and ,i shall be so uncomfortable4 ,couldn't you go1 mother1 in your chair8 ,mrs4 ,bethune's face changed4 ,i could1 dear4 ,yes1 ,i will go2 perhaps it will be difficult for you4 ,she sighed softly2 she was hardly as yet reconciled to her helplessness in public1 in spite of the cheery spirit which enabled her to bear suffering with such courage4 ,mrs4 ,bethune's spirit made her the idol and confidante of her boys4 ,her fun was unquenched1 even when the fire of life would seem to have gone out for ever2 after the terrible fall1 when1 to save the infant in her arms1 she had laid herself upon her back for life4 ,the baby--,orme--was found unhurt1 folded round1 so it seemed1 by the broken body of his mother4 ,ross1 the most thoughtful1 she averred1 of her six sons1 once said to her3 ,mummie1 you do laugh mor'n anybody4 ,is it 'cos you can't walk8 ,yes1 little son1 perhaps it is2 to make up1 you know4 ,and ,sandy1 butting his bright head into her knees one day1 inconsolable about something1 was won to laughter by1 ,sandy1 laugh6 ,look at me6--and he had looked4 ,and the irresistible witchery of the beautiful dark eyes had cured his woe4 ,she was always the sunshiny centre of the house1 and only her husband1 or ,marjorie in rare moments1 guessed how sometimes the bright spirit quailed4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the ,dean was popular in the county4 ,when ,mr4 ,pelham came into the ,deanery garden somewhat late1 he found ,mrs4 ,bethune's chair under the chestnut trees1 a centre of laughter and conversation4 ,marjorie was standing by her mother1 with a wistful look on her face1 he thought at first sight1 wondering at its expression4 ,love1 when presented first to a girl brought up as ,marjorie had been1 comes as a great shock4 ,that it should be ,mr4 ,warde of all men who should cause her this disquiet filled ,marjorie with a sense of the unsatisfactoriness of the world4 ,it disturbed things that had seemed to her as settled as the hills round ,norham that this old friend should want to be her lover4 ,before going to the ,deanery she had sent a little note in answer to his letter1 in which she had said-- ,there is nothing to forgive4 ,but you must not think of me like this any more4 ,you have always been so kind to all of us that it grieves me to say ',no' to anything you want4 ,still1 it must be ',no4' ,she hoped he would not be present at the ,deanery4 ,it was his turn of duty at the cathedral4 ,she would bring her mother away early1 before he arrived4 ,the afternoon was quite spoilt for her4 ,and then ,mr4 ,pelham had come up1 and she had introduced him to her mother with a tremulousness and agitation quite unlike her usual serenity4 ,you have been very good to my boys1 ,mrs4 ,bethune said gratefully4 ,your boys have been very good to my little girl1 he answered1 admiring the delicate beauty of the face1 scarcely looking older than the unquiet one of the tall daughter beside her4 ,they're very enterprising1 their mother said4 ,i hope she will not come to any harm with them4 ,they're apt to give us surprises4 ,i wonder if you will give me some advice about her1 he went on1 drawn by some magic in the dark eyes to appeal to their owner for sympathy1 if ,i may consult you4 ,it is about clothes1 he said1 smiling4 ,my nurse is kind and careful1 but surely a baby in the country does not really need expensive dresses from a ,regent ,street outfitter4 ,i should be so grateful if you would tell me where you get those pretty things your little boys always look so nice in4 ,even when they are grubby8 laughed the mother4 ,i do not know where they could be bought4 ,my nurse1 and ,marjorie1 and ,i make them4 ,then1 if you do1 surely my nurse ought to have time4 ,i do not like my baby's over-dressed look2 at least1 white satin seems to be out of keeping with mud-pies and digging4 ,she is great on digging just now4 ,quite so1 said ,mrs4 ,bethune4 ,if you will send your nurse down to see me1 ,i will have a talk with her4 ,the ,duchess of ,norham1 a very great person indeed now came up to greet ,mrs4 ,bethune4 ,she was not one who troubled about dress4 ,to-day1 in her grey silk1 and round hat1 she was the most plainly dressed woman on the ,deanery lawn4 ,charity1 by her side1 was an effective contrast1 in soft1 shimmering pink4 ,glad to see you out again1 my dear1 she said to ,mrs4 ,bethune4 ,and this is your girl come back to you--grown past all knowledge4 ,i hear wonders about her music1 kindly4 ,charity1 may ,i take her away for a few minutes1 presently8 ,i want to hear this music ,mr4 ,warde extols so4 ,where is he8 looking round4 ,marjorie's cheeks1 in spite of her usual self-control1 turned scarlet4 ,but the ,duchess's gaze was arrested by the look on ,mr4 ,pelham's face4 ,he1 still standing with a hand on ,mrs4 ,bethune's chair1 was looking at ,marjorie with a surprised appeal in his expression1 as if he1 too1 was wondering at her sudden flush4 ,oh6 thought the ,duchess1 ,i imagined it was ,charity4 ,was ,i mistaken then8 ,not about the girl1 if those rosy cheeks are to be trusted4 ,why isn't ,mr4 ,warde here8 she asked of ,marjorie1 who1 in obedience to her gesture1 turned with her towards the house4 ,he is at the cathedral4 ,it is his week4 ,and the ,duchess thought she guessed rightly the reason of the agitation she detected in ,marjorie's voice4 ,the ,blackton man will be unsuccessful1 she settled4 ,but ,charity is pretty enough to console him1 and it will be a good marriage for them both4 ,this great lady was never more happy than when arranging marriages amongst her friends4 ,marjorie did not dream how her sudden flush had betrayed her1 and forgot lovers and the difficulties they caused when she sat down to the piano4 ,but perhaps it was the perplexity in her mind that conveyed itself to the listener1 through the plaintive melody ending in a staccato phrase which fell from her fingers4 ,the ,duchess sat at a little distance1 viewing with approval the delicate face1 framed in its bright hair4 ,illustration3 ,hush6 ,barbe1 don't call6 entreated ,sandy4--p4 #afh4 ,good1 pure1 true1 and strong1 she settled2 and1 as a sudden conviction struck her1 she is beautiful1 like her mother was ten years ago4 ,dressed--her thoughts following along the same way as ,charity's--well1 she would be a success4 ,she is wasted on ,mr4 ,warde4 ,shall ,i interfere8 ,she was so deep in thought1 working out a sudden plan1 that she did not notice when ,marjorie ceased playing4 ,marjorie1 glancing at her1 asked softly-- ,was that too sad8 ,shall ,i try something else8 ,but in a moment the ,duchess rose briskly1 and put her hand kindly on ,marjorie's shoulder4 ,no1 my dear4 ,i shouldn't like that spoiled by anything else4 ,mr4 ,warde is right4 ,you have a gift4 ,but a girl like you should not be sad or--or perplexed4 ,forgive an old woman4 ,is something troubling you8 ,marjorie looked up into the keen eyes above her4 ,not troubling1 she hesitated1 only things are sometimes perplexing4 ,as she spoke her eyes travelled to the window1 through which came the sound of low-voiced chatter and delicate laughter4 ,the older woman1 looking at the girl1 saw a sudden arrested look come into her eyes and1 following their direction1 was again puzzled4 ,charity1 standing by ,mrs4 ,bethune's chair1 was smiling up into ,mr4 ,pelham's face4 ,she had the manner of one who is pleased1 and who wishes to please1 and her pretty daintiness of pose and dress was very attractive4 ,mr4 ,pelham's whole attention1 as he conversed1 was given to her4 ,in his courteous attitude were expressed1 in the eyes of the two lookers-on1 both deference and admiration4 ,that girl has grown very pretty1 the ,duchess said1 and ,mr4 ,pelham seems to think so4 ,he is quite an acquisition here1 though ,i am amused to hear you sniffed at him at first4 ,yes1 agreed ,marjorie1 a little pang at her heart4 ,the keen eyes travelled back again to ,marjorie's face4 ,but your mother was prettier than any of you4 ,the sweetest1 merriest creature ever seen1 with you babies at her feet4 ,i am glad to see her so much better1 able to do even this little1 poor soul1 poor soul6 ,the sudden tears welled up into ,marjorie's eyes at the appreciation and tenderness of the tone4 ,and1 my dear--forgive an old woman again--but ,i think ,i have guessed ,mr4 ,warde's hopes for a long time1 and he is a good man4 ,there1 there--as ,marjorie's face grew agitated--nothing could have happened better4 ,your mother will have you at hand1 and though she is so unselfish and brave1 she has missed you sadly2 and there is plenty of money4 ,marjorie listened in silence1 with a feeling as though chains were being bound round her4 ,as she walked back by the ,duchess's side to her mother's chair she strove in vain to recall her courage4 ,in the eyes of the man who watched her1 as she came towards him1 the shadow on her face had deepened with that little excursion into the house4 ,,chapter ,,vi4 ,a ,,midnight ,,visit4 ,the boys had seized the opportunity of the attention of their elders being engaged elsewhere to get into mischief4 ,although they had made so much fuss about their right of way to school1 it was not the only way they used4 ,they had1 in fact1 several ways4 ,one was by train to ,baskerton1 a village on the river five miles away1 and thence1 by lanes and the parks1 home4 ,this1 however1 required time and the absence of authorities4 ,another way was through ,easton and the parks1 up the course of the little stream1 which at one point nearly touched the ,court gardens4 ,in this stream1 its shallow waters splashing up against their ankles1 the boys were walking1 and the baby was prancing between them4 ,should we take ,barbe with us8 ,david had asked1 pausing on the ,green4 ,if we can get her1 ,sandy had replied4 ,the boys reconnoitred1 and the piercing whistle1 which set the baby all a-quiver with expectation1 sounded through the garden4 ,there then1 go6 said nurse somewhat crossly1 as ,barbe began to stamp2 and she went4 ,her education was proceeding apace4 ,her father sometimes listened aghast at the things which1 in her baby prattle1 she reported herself to have done4 ,see1 ,barbe1 there's a rat6 ,sandy said eagerly1 as a flop and a splash made them jump4 ,see1 it's swimmin' away4 ',wimmin' away1 said the baby1 stooping to look1 her two hands on her two knees1 and the front of her frock sailing on the water before her4 ,oh1 ,barbe1 you're all wet6 ,david said1 as they landed1 and strolled up the field4 ,wet6 she echoed delightedly4 ,foots--f'ock6 ,you'll have to be dried4 ,i know1 said ,sandy cheerfully2 we'll dry you by the ,bishop's fire--almost sure to be a fire4 ,but the study window1 to which they crept warily by sheltered ways1 was shut4 ,the ,bishop was absent4 ,now what's to be done8 said ,david4 ,i know where there's a fire1 ,sandy said4 ,was this morning1 'cos of that lead4 ,let's take her to the little room4 ,again they slipped by leafy ways out of the ,palace garden into the cathedral yard4 ,the baby's wet skirts flopped round her1 and ,david lifted her into his arms4 ,the approach of ,mrs4 ,lytchett1 returning from the ,deanery in unwonted bravery of attire1 prompted them to seek refuge behind a tomb4 ,here it took the boys' whole attention to prevent ,barbe's chatter drawing unwished-for notice upon them4 ,hush6 ,barbe1 don't call6 entreated ,sandy4 ,barbedie good girl1 announced the baby in a loud voice1 lifting herself on tip-toe to see the passer-by4 ,mrs4 ,lytchett's ears were good1 and1 besides1 she felt certain at this point that her eyes had seen something fluttering4 ,she stepped off the pathway1 and examined a tomb near4 ,hush6--sh--sh6 cautioned ,david1 holding up his finger to his mouth--a movement which so pleased ,barbe that she proceeded to copy it4 ,mrs4 ,lytchett passed on2 the danger was over4 ,david lifted up the baby and carried her into a little octagon room near by1 built in the wall of the cathedral1 and used frequently as a workroom or office4 ,here the boys were at home4 ,it was the head-quarters of their greatest friends--the masons engaged on the renovations always in progress at the cathedral4 ,in the grate were the slowly dying embers of a fire1 and the room was empty4 ,mr4 ,galton ain't locked up yet1 knowed he wouldn't1 said ,sandy4 ,he likes his tea punctual--'spects it's time4 ,now1 ,barbe1 come an' get done4 ,whilst ,david was holding the baby to the fire1 ,sandy disappeared1 presently returning with an excited face4 ,they've nearly done1 he said4 ,it's prime up there4 ,seems to me1 we'd best settle as soon as possible4 ,this baby won't get dry1 said ,david1 gloomily4 ,just look at her6 ,i know1 said ,sandy1 regarding the bedraggled ,barbe4 ,we'll take it off an' leave it here4 ,an' ,i'll fetch her somefink4 ,sure to be somefink stored in ,margie's basket--know ,orme made holes in himself last week4 ,so it happened that it was a little blue girl--clad in one of ,orme's shabbiest overalls--who met ,mrs4 ,bethune's returning chair1 and was lifted to her knee for a yide4 ,but what has happened8 where are her own clothes8 ,mrs4 ,bethune asked1 recognising the substitute4 ,we thought they were just a little damp1 said ,sandy in explanation1 climbing up the back of the chair to kiss his mother4 ,good boy1 ,sandy6 said his mother1 to take care of her4 ,but how did they get damp8 asked ,marjorie suspiciously4 ,just a little water p'raps got on them1 he replied1 feeling the tone unkind after his mother's praise4 ,then you have been in mischief8 asked ,marjorie4 ,barbedie walked in er water1 the baby replied1 as if she had been doing a good work4 ,you shouldn't have let her1 ,mrs4 ,bethune said caressingly4 ,barbe don't want lettin'1 answered ,sandy philosophically4 ,she does wivout4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the sweets of mischief whetted the boys' appetites for more4 ,they applied themselves with zeal to a work they had in hand1 and for the next few days little was seen of them4 ,one evening they were standing in a disused corner of the ,palace grounds1 under the ruined window of the old banqueting hall1 which formed part of the wall enclosing the gardens of the modern wing of the house4 ,the corner where they stood was immediately adjoining the wall of their own garden1 and was part of an overgrown shrubbery between the ruins and the parks4 ,both boys were exceedingly dirty4 ,faces1 capless heads1 fingers1 clothes1 all bore traces of the underground work from which they had just emerged4 ,they had burrowed from their cave1 and were mightily pleased at their point of exit4 ,no place could be more secluded1 nor less likely to be discovered4 ,and from the ruined wall close by1 under the shelter of a spreading elder1 they were able to drop easily either into the cathedral yard or the ,bishop's garden4 ,now the game begins4 ,we've got a base of operations1 said ,david grandly4 ,how much8 asked ,sandy4 ,what you work from1 and what you fall back upon1 if you get besieged4 ,and it's a good base too1 he added1 looking round4 ,we've got to make this passage hard and firm1 and then hide it from that prying gardener4 ,an' we can pay back ,mrs4 ,lytchett1 said ,sandy with joy4 ,how8 ,oh1 ,i know6 ,she just hates us going to the ,bishop's window4 ,he told me he'd just got a new tin of gingerbread1 an' now we can get in wivout goin' through the gate4 ,she's made that gate so it clicks4 ,but you mustn't let her see4 ,not me6 ,if she comes1 we'll just run round the house1 and she'll fink we've come back way4 ,and then she'll run round to catch us1 an' we shan't be there4 ,sandy spoke with the certainty of much experience1 as1 indeed1 he had a right to do4 ,our character is all gone1 ,david said thoughtfully1 so it don't much matter how bad we are4 ,no1 s'long as it ain't wicked bad4 ,we'll be highwaymen1 but we won't be thieves and robbers4 ,we can get into the cathedral1 too1 suggested ,david4 ,and then1 with minds full of revolution and anarchy1 the boys bent earnestly to the preliminary work of making their passage secure4 ,ross and ,orme1 you're never to go along there without us1 ,david said to his young brothers1 when he had wriggled back to the cave whence his passage started4 ,now their services were no longer needed1 they were felt to be rather nuisances4 ,if you do1 you'll get smacked right hard1 said ,sandy4 ,both children fixed round eyes on their elders1 unable to understand this sudden change4 ,they were dismayed at its injustice4 ,for some days they had been treated with indulgent kindness1 all their faults overlooked1 so long as they did diligent work4 ,they were cleaned when possible1 and consoled when their dirty appearance awoke wrath in the powers responsible for them4 ,now1 it seemed1 all was changed4 ,there was no mistaking ,sandy's attitude1 as he stood ready to administer the smacks alluded to4 ,nor were ,david's frowning brows more encouraging4 ,ross tried argument4 ,we'se scooped1 too1 he said4 ,we'se got dirty1 ever so1 he added4 ,ever so1 echoed ,orme4 ,no matter6 ,you kids must do as you're bid1 and if ever you go a step along there you'll catch it4 ,see8 said ,david4 ,and the infants1 with moody brows1 averred that they saw4 ,by this time the hole which formed the entrance to the cave was much improved4 ,the wooden steps had been replaced by a flight of mud steps1 the making of which had been a joy1 not only to the boys1 but to the baby4 ,they had required water as well as mud in their making--endless paddlings and pattings and treadings down of little feet before the staircase was complete4 ,david had engineered the proceedings1 and ,mr4 ,warde1 now and then hovering about the top1 had conferred advice4 ,he was not encouraged to descend4 ,the boys wanted no prying grown-ups to mar their schemes4 ,marjorie1 now and then1 had suspicions that some extra mischief was afloat4 ,never before had she known them to stick to anything for so long4 ,but she recollected the fascination of caves and holes1 and was1 besides1 much engaged with her own concerns4 ,illustration3 ,the ,bishop and the boy4--p4 #agj4 ,one evening the ,bishop1 on leaving the drawing-room1 had gone to his study4 ,it had been a wet day1 and the rain had finished in a thunderstorm an hour or so before1 leaving the sky washed and pellucid under the summer moon4 ,the shutters had been closed and a little fire lighted2 but presently1 finding the room warm1 the ,bishop opened the window1 and stood gazing over the wide lawn which occupied the space between the house and the ruins4 ,the delicate tracery of the ruined window of the banqueting hall1 and the many unevennesses of the walls1 stood out black against the sky4 ,every object on the lawn--every bush and tree and flower--was sharply distinct4 ,as he looked1 his eye caught a movement among the distant shrubs4 ,some small object was advancing along the gravelled walk surrounding the lawn4 ,presently1 as if attracted by the light1 it turned off the pathway on to the lawn1 in a bee-line for the window4 ,the ,bishop stood watching1 wondering a little1 when the object resolved itself first into a small boy1 and then into ,sandy ,bethune4 ,why1 ,sandy6 he exclaimed1 how did you get here8 ,is it the middle of the night8 asked ,sandy in his usual cheerful way4 ,nearly4 ,it's half-past eleven4 ,good gracious6 ,what have you been doing8 ,for1 on approaching the light1 ,sandy was seen to be covered with mud and otherwise much disarrayed4 ,sandy considered4 ,he was in a deep fix--so deep a one as to threaten the upheaval and overthrow of some well-laid plans1 just on the point of being carried out4 ,the ,bishop was an understanding man4 ,sandy had confided in him before1 and knew his worth4 ,if only ,mrs4 ,lytchett did not live at the ,palace1 and spoil everything1 ,sandy would have been quite willing to share that residence with the ,bishop4 ,he had once told the ,bishop so1 artlessly asking when ,mrs4 ,lytchett was going away to live elsewhere4 ,the ,bishop1 on his side1 found the children of his friend very charming1 specially so irrepressible ,sandy2 and was ready to be lenient when their peccadilloes were in question4 ,he now invited ,sandy in1 despite the muddy covering which encased him from head to foot4 ,sitting down1 he began to question him gravely4 ,what is it1 ,sandy8 ,why are you in such a mess8 ,sandy sat down on a little stool1 as if glad to present his small person to the fire1 and said1 ,it's the bovering funderstorm4 ,we'd never thought of that4 ,an' we got caught1 an' had to take shelter1 an' when we got back our way was bunged up--all squashy with mud4 ,an' we hadn't got no spades nor fings out with us4 ,so at last ,i said ,i would go and scout--you know--an' then ,i saw you4 ,who's 'we'8 asked the ,bishop4 ,me an' ,david4 ,and how did you get into my garden8 ,oh1 over the wall4 ,we're highwaymen1 and we've got a way of our own4 ,indeed4 ,and where's ,david now8 ,oh1 he's over there1 all muddy1 tryin' to clean himself4 ,he's a deal worse than me1 said ,sandy cheerfully4 ,he must indeed be bad1 then4 ,what do you propose to do8 ,that's it4 ,we can't get back to the pantry window now our way's gone1 said artless ,sandy4 ,not in at all1 not wivout knockin' at the door4 ,i did think p'raps--persuasively--you cud come and knock4 ,i see4 ,and then8 ,then1 when you was talkin' to father1 we cud slip in4 ,don't fink father would see--not to notice4 ,how long have you been highwaymen8 the ,bishop asked4 ,on'y about a week--and this is a sickener1 said ,sandy disgustedly4 ,we was ghosts for a bit at first--till a woman screeched so we nearly got caught1 stupid fing6 ,and the ,bishop1 remembering certain reports that had been made to him1 was pleased with his acumen in refusing to call in the police4 ,if ,i were you1 ,i should try a better line of business1 he said4 ,ghosts frighten silly women1 and highwaymen are not very creditable1 on the whole4 ,yes1 agreed ,sandy4 ,we're goin' to4 ,next we're goin' to be pioneers and settlers4 ,ah1 ,i see4 ,and where are you going to settle8 ,sandy's bright eyes were turned suspiciously to the kind ones looking down upon him4 ,he fidgeted uneasily1 and a smile came across the ,bishop's face4 ,i see1 he said4 ,perhaps you have not yet made up your minds4 ,sandy looked uncomfortable4 ,not 'zactly1 he confessed4 ,truth is1 it depends--,i don't fink ,dave would like me to tell4 ,it's such a grand plan1 he went on enthusiastically1 it 'ud be such a pity---- ,to have it spoilt4 ,well1 don't get into more mischief than you can help1 the ,bishop cautioned1 and don't do anything to make your mother uneasy4 ,mother8 ,oh1 mother'll laugh--she always does4 ,you see1 the bother is1 confided ,sandy1 there ain't no places to pioneer--every bit's taken4 ,an' we've on'y just thought on it2 an' it's splendid4 ,we want a girl badly1 though4 ,margie8 ,no1 ,margie's no good4 ,settlers has wives an' squaws1 went on ,sandy pensively1 and we've on'y got ,barbe lately1 an' she's aw'fly little4 ',sides1 you have to take such care on her--she's the on'y one ,mr4 ,pelham's got4 ,there's a lot of us1 but mother says she cudn't spare not the littlest bit of one4 ,so much less him his one1 an' such a little one4 ,it's a 'sponsibility1 sighed ,sandy1 when you want to do fings4 ,through the open window came the musical sound of the chimes from the cathedral4 ,the ,bishop1 with a quick sigh1 rose4 ,there is a quarter to twelve4 ,your father will be going to bed4 ,fetch ,david quickly4 ,should fink he's cleaned by now1 said ,sandy hopefully4 ,he was rubbin' himself wiv the leaves off the trees--drippin' wet4 ,mr4 ,bethune opened his front door in response to a low knocking1 which at first he did not hear4 ,his eyes had the unseeing1 far-away look in them of a man disturbed in a possessing line of thought4 ,the red light in the hall shone on the face of the ,bishop1 who entered and stood on the doormat for a minute1 in such a position as to shield the entrance of the two muddy boys4 ,here is the ,guardian for you1 he said1 with a very appreciative notice of your paper4 ,then he went on1 ,and tell ,marjorie to-morrow morning not to be too cross with the state of the boys' clothes4 ,they've been in mischief1 but it won't happen again--not the same sort4 ,illustration3 ,the father pretended not to hear the scuffling of small feet4 ,the two men looked at one another and laughed1 and the father pretended not to hear the scuffling of small feet upon the stairs4 ,the ,bishop went home with no weight on his conscience--only a little pathetic envy of the man he had just left4 ,somehow those stifled scufflings up the stairs had gone straight to the depths of his very tender and lonely heart4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the ,bishop knows all 'bout it1 excused ,sandy sturdily1 when confronted by ,marjorie the next morning4 ,the ,bishop knows that all your clothes are in the bath1 with both taps running6 ,well1 he does1 ,sandy repeated1 proberly4 ,he said we were the out-an'-outest dirtiest little grubs he'd ever seen4 ,that you are--no one will contradict him4 ,but he couldn't know that your clothes were in the bath4 ,yes1 he would4 ,if they were so dirty1 where else could they be8 ,it's all that 'gustin' funderstorm4 ,thunderstorm6 echoed ,marjorie suspiciously4 ,that was at ten o'clock4 ,what has that got to do with your clothes and the ,bishop8 ,tell you it has4 ,you'd best ask him1 if you don't b'lieve me1 said ,sandy1 hurt at her unbelief4 ,anyhow1 he does know that they was dirty4 ,an' just cos we want to save trouble an' wash 'em ourselves1 you're cross an' spiteful4 ,girls are no good--'cept little uns4 ,what's there to put on8 ,best be somefink old1 cos there's a deal of diggin' to be done4 ,i shall stop that digging if you make such a mess of yourselves4 ,you'd best not1 said ,david meaningly1 from his bed in the further corner4 ,if you do1 you'll be sorry1 he said darkly4 ,,end ,,of ,,chapter ,,six4 ,illustration3 ,three ,songs of ,birth ,three ,songs of ,birth ,a ,christmas ,sermon ,by the ,rev4 ,hugh ,miller1 ,m4,a4 ,suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising ,god1 and saying1 ,glory to ,god in the highest1 and on earth peace1 good will toward men4--,,st4 ,,luke ii4 #ac1 #ad4 ,three times are we told in ,scripture that the angels sang4 ,at the birth of the world1 when the foundations of the earth were laid1 the morning stars sang together and all the sons of ,god shouted for joy4 ,when ,jesus was born into the world a multitude of the heavenly host praised ,god and said1 ,glory to ,god in the highest1 and on earth peace1 good will toward men4 ,and when anyone is born again there is joy among the angels in heaven over the sinner that repenteth4 ,the subject of the song in each case is the same3 the leading motif of them all is man4 ,man1 to begin with1 was ,god's chief end in creation1 and the angels sang not so much because a new world had been made1 but rather because a new being akin to themselves was put into it1 to whom they might minister and with whom they might co-operate in the doing of ,god's most holy will2 and this season comes to remind us of our inherent dignity in ,god's sight1 of the noble ideal ,he has formed for us1 of the value ,he sets on those whom ,he sent ,his ,son to seek and to save4 ,as ,god made us and as ,he intends us to be1 we are not a little higher only than the animals1 we are rather only a little lower than the angels4 ,he has crowned us with glory and honour and set us over the work of ,his hands4 ,he has put all things under our feet4 ,the material universe was made for man1 to be his home1 to develop his powers1 to be a test and discipline of his moral character4 ,i refuse to be reduced to the same rank1 or to be placed in the same order1 as the beasts that perish4 ,remembering the angels' first song1 ,i assert my supremacy4 ,and man is most of all supreme because ,god has given him the freedom to choose the objects of his life1 and the means by which he can secure them4 ,sun1 moon and stars are bound by laws which they cannot transgress4 ,the movements of the animals are guided by impulses and instincts over which they have no moral control4 ,to man alone belongs the power of refusing to bow before ,god's greatness and of disobeying ,god's commands4 ,man only has this sovereignty2 but his sovereignty led to his servitude1 and the chains that bound him were forged by an angel who fell before man's fall4 ,if1 then1 all the angels worshipped and adored when man was made with the great gift of free choice1 how must the holy ones that remained after the first and great apostasy have grieved when the fallen angels took man along with them in their fall6 ,for because of man's disobedience ,god's idea in making man seemed to be thwarted and the peace and good will to which he was called appeared no longer possible4 ,instead of being the master of creation1 he was now to a large extent its unhappy victim4 ,we know from hints thrown out here and there in ,scripture with what absorbing interest the angels followed the plans of ,god to bring order once more out of the chaos caused by sin1 and the effort ,he put forth to create a new heaven and a new earth1 wherein dwelleth righteousness4 ,no wonder1 then1 that when the fulness of the time was come1 and ,god sent ,his ,son1 made of a woman1 made under the law to redeem man1 the angels should have sung a second time1 and anticipated for man at last a happy time of peace and good will4 ,the angels had a clear perception of the purpose of ,christ's coming4 ,one of the chief of them said to ,joseph1 ,thou shalt call ,his name ,,jesus3 for ,he shall save ,his people from their sins4 ,and they all sang when ,he came1 because they knew that ,god was now dealing in a special and most effective way with that dark thing which cast its shadow on heaven as well as on earth4 ,and it becomes us to remember that it is the sin of man which in the mind of ,god and ,his holy angels is associated with the coming of ,jesus ,christ4 ,to this end was ,he born1 and for this cause came ,he into the world4 ,the sin of our first parents had passed on from generation to generation1 and each one of the millions of mankind had to say1 ,behold1 ,i was shapen in iniquity2 and in sin did my mother conceive me2 and each fulfilled in his own life all too truly the sad promise of his birth4 ,how was the tradition to be broken1 and yet broken by one who really belonged to the race8 ,the instincts of man himself foreshadowed the truth4 ,stories of a virgin birth here and there discernible in paganism show the deep intuition which was realised in ,jesus ,christ4 ,he came into the world to fight with sin1 to redeem a race steeped in a terrible heritage of evil1 and that ,he might redeem it ,he ,himself was born1 and yet was free from evil4 ,he fought sin and ,he conquered it4 ,why1 then1 has the angels' song not been fulfilled8 ,why does sin still cast its shadow on earth and heaven alike8 ,why does ,god's loving purpose in sending ,his ,son seem still to suffer so wide defeat8 ,because in his recovery as in his fall1 man's will must play its part4 ,i can only be saved from sin when ,i will to be saved2 ,i only become a partaker of the benefits which ,christ brought from heaven to earth when1 yielding to the inspiration of the ,holy ,spirit1 ,i turn with full accord to ,jesus ,christ as my ,saviour4 ,marvel not1 therefore1 that we say to you with peculiar emphasis on the day in which ,christ was born1 ,ye must be born again4 ,otherwise1 ,his birth is of no avail to you and me4 ,we are not honouring ,him1 we are putting ,him rather to an open shame1 if we keep out of our thoughts at this time the supreme purpose of ,his coming1 if we are not personally dealing with ,him even now as to the burden and guilt of our sin4 ,but we can set the angels a-singing in the sky1 and the melody of their music can be felt in our own hearts1 if we turn in lowly penitence to ,him who came to save ,his people from their sins1 and to quicken them to a new life of righteousness and peace and joy4 ,only when a man comes to himself in lowly penitence1 and then goes to his ,father with a lofty faith1 does he enter into the full purpose of his manhood2 and only then1 also1 is there not only joy among the angels in heaven over the sinner that thus repenteth1 but there is music and dancing on the earth as well1 and the old life ends in which sin reigned1 and the new begins in which ,christ reigns2 and ,his reign means ,glory to ,god in the highest1 and on earth peace1 good will to men4 ,there is no peace1 saith my ,god1 to the wicked4 ,o ,wondrous ,night6 ,a ,,new ,,christmas ,,carol4 ,words by ,,arthur ,,bryant4 ,music by ,,charles ,,bassett4 #a4 ,o wondrous night6 ,o wondrous night6 we fain would tell ,the news the ,angel told2 ,the holy vision which befel ,the ,shepherds by their fold4 ,with fear they saw1 with gladness heard ,the heav'nly minstrelsy1 ,with hope each trembling heart was stirred ,at that sweet harmony3 444 ,we bring good news ,which ne'er shall cease2 ,to ,god be praise1 to ,god be praise1 ,on earth be peace4 #b4 ,o wondrous sight6 ,o wondrous sight for simple swains1 ,with hasty steps who sped2 ,the music of those joyous strains ,to that poor manger led4 ,with awe they gazed on ,christ the ,lord ,amid that happy throng1 ,and ,israel at ,his feet adored1 ,taught by the ,angels' song3 444 ,we bring good news1 ,which ne'er shall cease2 ,to ,god be praise1 to ,god be praise1 ,on earth be peace4 #c4 ,o wondrous night6 they homeward turned ,to where their flocks did lay1 ,and sang the song they late had learned ,to cheer them on their way4 ,the timid dawn began to peer ,across the dewy wold2 ,their lips in accents loud and clear ,the gladsome tidings told3 ,we bring good news1 c4 #d4 ,o wondrous sight1 that ,god should live ,in robe of flesh for man6 ,o wondrous ,love1 ,himself to give ,when closed ,his mortal span6 ,sing1 ,o ye skies6 be joyful1 earth6 ,ye winds1 bear o'er the seas ,the news of blessd ,jesu's birth1 ,and those sweet harmonies3 ,we bring good news1 c4 ,,the ,,house ,,comfortable4 ,by ,lina ,orman ,cooper1 ,author of ,the ,house ,beautiful1 ,etc4 ,the ,house ,beautiful must needs be also the ,house ,comfortable1 if we take true loveliness to consist of perfect fitness for service4 ,thoroughness is the keynote of each4 ,in order to strike it we must have entered heart and soul into ,ruskin's translation of ,st4 ,ursula's ,room4 ,carpaccio himself painted the useful in the beautiful in this famous picture4 ,from the princess's book1 set up at a slope fittest for reading1 to the shelf which runs under the window1 providing a place to put things on--from a silver lamp on the white wall to the little blue slippers beside her bed1 each detail ensures comfort of the first quality4 ,comfort is a thing quite apart from fashion4 ,so it is easier to indicate the road which leads to the ,house ,comfortable than it was to point out details in the ,house ,beautiful4 ,we most of us agree about the essentials required for real comfort3 chairs upon which you can sit fearlessly2 beds which rest and do not bruise2 arms that support without cramping2 pokers that bend not2 strong tables and sharp knives1 these are a sample of the things ,i mean4 ,but true comfort depends on more than surface surroundings4 ,it is indissolubly linked with attention to detail4 ,the houses to which guests return time after time is the one in which soap is never absent from its tray1 and where pillows are not only covered with frilled slips1 but also stuffed with down and interlined with soft covering in place of waxed ticking4 ,i would say1 first of all1 that the ,house ,comfortable must stand in a sunny situation4 ,this ensures warmth and light1 without which our bodies are ill-nourished and miserable4 ,where the sun never comes the doctor does is a much-to-be-quoted proverb4 ,we cannot all live exactly where we like4 ,circumstances of business1 and means1 generally determine locality4 ,but common-sense must guide us in the selection of our houses4 ,if we would be really comfortable1 we must live in light1 dry1 airy1 and clean homes4 ,never take a house on the sole recommendation of its pretty appearance4 ,to have a really beautiful house we must first see that it is essentially built for comfort4 ,the really useful and good is generally ornamental1 for it possesses the realistic beauty of fitness4 ,a north and south aspect for the chief sitting rooms1 with east and west windows1 secures both sunshine and shade4 ,we want afternoon coolness as well as morning light4 ,if our apartment looks towards the sun rising1 heavy curtains should be ready to draw when east wind rages4 ,a stick to effect this noiselessly is a small boon much appreciated4 ,if our casement faces the golden gates of the west1 no such protection is called for4 ,but all windows should have double blinds--white outside1 to absorb heat1 and dark inside1 to veil the sun when necessary4 ,the comfort of lying in bed1 facing a dark green blind can only be estimated by those who have reluctantly been disturbed by the too early shafts of the god ,phoebus4 ,there should be a triple water supply in the ,house ,comfortable2 ewers always filled from the soft-water pump4 ,every well and tank should be tested ere we take up residence4 ,pure water1 and plenty of it1 is essential to the health 7and therefore comfort7 of every household4 ,it should be perfectly clear and bright1 and free from taste or smell4 ,yet impurity may lurk even in the most sparkling water4 ,therefore science must decide as to its desirability4 ,if only iron or lime water is procurable1 jars of lump ammonia1 or a bottle of cloudy liquid ammonia1 a bag of oatmeal or a bundle of bran should lie on every washstand4 ,the hot-water boiler not only supplies unlimited baths1 but may be devised to heat the house4 ,in every ,canadian home a stove in the cellar warms the rooms above by means of drums and fans4 ,we might do much the same in ,england with our hot-water pipes4 ,these should certainly run through the linen-press and clothes cupboards1 and terminate in bathroom spirals4 ,on these1 towels and rough sheets could be dried and aired4 ,a face cloth always warm is one of the luxuries in our ,house ,comfortable4 ,after sanitation1 ventilation takes its place in the home4 ,how to secure a constant supply of fresh air is a question which demands most serious consideration4 ,in ages past1 houses were unintentionally ventilated by the ill-fitting doors and window-frames1 wide chimneys1 and open fire-places4 ,but in our modern buildings comfort is secured by almost air-tight doors and windows4 ,ventilators at the top of such are delightful and necessary for real comfort1 or a ,queen ,anne casement may have a swing in its upper frame4 ,it is not always easy1 however1 to secure exemption from draught in our modern mansions4 ,when the brick-and-mortar fiend has placed door1 window1 and fireplace exactly opposite each other1 screens must be judiciously used4 ,a brass rod from which hangs a curtain1 screwed into the door jamb and suspended by a tiny chain from the ceiling1 is a good thing1 or an ordinary portire may be allowed4 ,the former plan1 however1 enables us to keep the door open without feeling a wind4 ,padded stair-carpets secure noiseless ascent in the ,house ,comfortable4 ,cork mats by the big bath are welcome to bare feet4 ,many cupboards are a necessity4 ,a place for everything and everything in its place is one of the initial rules for everyone's comfort4 ,it is also ,divine law4 ,hanging presses1 medicine cupboards1 butler's pantry1 housemaid's closets1 keep dresses from dust1 poisons from the unwary1 silver and glass intact1 and brushes unworn4 ,the ,house ,comfortable must not be over-servanted4 ,neither must it be undermanned4 ,of the two evils1 the latter is preferable1 as the mistress herself then looks after the minuti of her house4 ,with all deference to ,matthew ,prior1 comfort does not flow on a line with ignorance4 ,it requires a cultivated intelligence to provide such in our homes4 ,education has done much for us on this point4 ,how not to do it in the ,house ,comfortable is exemplified by the abodes of our forefathers4 ,going over ,beaumaris ,castle the other day1 ,i noted the small apertures for exit2 the high caverns of chimneys2 the windows of horn2 the crooked stairs4 ,nowadays we find stoves and slow combustion grates quite a necessity for comfort--whilst lofty ceilings1 broad staircases1 and wide windows can be quite as picturesque1 and are far more to be desired4 ,the dictionary definition of the word comfort implies enlivenment and capability for dispensing bodily ease4 ,for this1 moral qualities are as necessary as well-planned1 well-equipped houses4 ,punctuality1 for instance1 is an ingredient required to secure a comfortable home4 ,when breakfast and dinner are movable feasts1 served up at the whim of a lie-a-bed or a gad-about1 they can only be make-believes1 after all4 ,cold coffee is unpalatable even when partaken of in a sunny room4 ,whitey-brown sausages are unappetising unless piping from the pot4 ,yet this--like all other virtues--may be strained too far4 ,nothing is more uncomfortable than to feel no latitude is allowed to a weary guest1 or to find one's host at marmalade three minutes after the time appointed for the disappearance of a savoury4 ,courtesy in this must be our rule4 ,neatness is another necessity4 ,no house can be really comfortable that is littered with papers1 or in which boots lie in the drawing-room--yet finickiness in arrangement makes the home unbearable4 ,the most uncomfortable visit ,i ever paid was to the most scientifically correct house4 ,chairs were not allowed to touch the wall-paper2 footstools never shifted4 ,a towel for wiping down the varnish of the bath was provided1 and--,i was made miserable6 ,by all means keep paint and paper in as much primitive purity as possible1 but let unobtrusive service guard these points4 ,much more could ,i discourse of the ,house ,comfortable1 but space forbids4 ,let me only remind you that the veriest cottage--plenished with wisdom and lovingly provided--may fulfil all its conditions just as well as the most luxurious castle4 ,told in ,sunshine ,room4 ,illustration3 ,,donkey ,,boy ,,donkey ,,boy ,,to ,,the ,,queen ,a ,,true ,,incident4 ,by ,alfred ,t4 ,story ,part ,,ii4 ,a week passed before anything further was heard4 ,then a summons came for ,tam to appear before her ,majesty on the following afternoon4 ,he was duly in attendance1 and had not long to wait before a man in ,highland costume came into the room where he was seated and said-- ,noo1 my braw laddie1 her ,most ,gracious ,majesty and his ,royal ,highness the ,prince ,consort will come in through that door in twa seconds4 ,when they enter all you hae to dy is ta stan' up an' mak' yer obeisance4 ,an' when they ax ye a question jist ye say yes or nae1 your ,majesty1 or your ,royal ,highness1 as the case may be4 ,an' if they ax ye naething--weel1 jist ye say naething in return4 ,with these words the wise servitor withdrew4 ,barely had he gone out of one door ere the other opened1 and the same lady he had seen before1 leaning on the arm of the gentleman he likewise remembered1 appeared before friend ,tam4 ,they were both dressed much more richly than when he had previously seen them1 the lady having a brilliant star on her breast1 and the gentleman wearing a silken sash over his shoulder4 ,for a moment the boy was confused1 but he recovered himself sufficiently to recollect that he had to make an obeisance4 ,he had omitted to ask the ,highland gentleman what that was1 but he thought it must be something like the soldier's salute1 and so he stood perfectly upright and saluted4 ,so you have come1 my lad1 to see her ,majesty about the position of donkey-boy8 said the gentleman4 ,yes1 sir--your ,royal ,highness1 replied ,tam4 ,only when he had got out the word sir did it flash upon him that he was standing before the ,queen and her ,royal ,consort4 ,well1 her ,majesty has caused inquiries to be made about you1 and she finds that1 although you are a little wayward and sometimes disobedient to your grandparents1 you are not on the whole a bad boy4 ,no1 your ,royal ,highness1 said ,tam4 ,does that mean that you are not a bad boy1 or that you do not sometimes disobey your grandparents8 ,this question1 though backed by a genial smile1 somewhat disconcerted the would-be donkey-boy4 ,he was silent for a moment1 then he answered1 looking first at one and then at the other1 with that straight glance of his1 ,i hae sometimes been disobedient to my grandparents1 but ,i think ,i have learned better now4 ,i am glad to hear that1 said the ,prince4 ,then1 speaking for the first time1 the ,queen said1 ,well1 ,tam1 if ,i make you my donkey-boy1 will you promise to be obedient to all my slightest wishes and commands8 ,do not answer lightly4 ,i am a severe mistress in that ,i expect the strictest obedience and attention to duty4 ,but ,i1 in return1 am strict in doing my duty to those ,i employ4 ,and if you prove a worthy and trustworthy servant1 added the ,prince1 your position is secure for life4 ,not1 however1 as a mere donkey-boy all your days1 put in the ,queen with a smile4 ,said ,tam with a faltering tongue3 ,if ye'll try me1 your ,majesty1 ,i'll do my best1 and1 he added1 as though struck with a sudden thought1 ,i'll no need to lick the donkeys1 'cos ,i ken hoo ta mek 'em run 'thout the stick4 ,illustration3 ,yetta threw up her hands in amaze4 ,and how do you do that8 asked the ,prince with a smile4 ,i meks 'em carry a bunch o' thistles afore 'em4 ,well1 we will see1 replied her ,majesty1 smiling4 ,now you may run home and tell your grandparents you are to be ready to begin duty this day week4 ,but before you go you will see the gentleman who spoke to you a minute or two ago4 ,with these words and a kindly smile the ,sovereign and her ,royal ,consort withdrew4 ,the one door closed1 the other immediately opened1 and again entered the ,highland gentleman4 ,sae ye hae been engagit ta look after ta cuddies1 eh8 he questioned4 ,tam said he had4 ,aweel1 it's a verra guid step in life for a young callant to begin wi'1 an' if ye tek heed there's nae telling whereto it may lead--ablins even to the primiership1 if ye ken what that is4 ,for ye mun know1 the gift o' the heaven-made ,prime ,minister is just to ken hoo ta manage a' th' human cuddies that are sent to ,parliament to bother 'em4 ,but mebbe a' that's a wee bit abune yer understanding as yet1 and sae we'll just leave it an' speer aboot yer claes4 ,needless to say how surprised ,donal and ,yetta were to hear ,tam's story1 how thankful to reflect that their boy was to have such a start in life4 ,he reported to them what had been said1 and the promise he had given1 and they believed that1 like the ,jamison he was1 he would be true to his word4 ,all the same1 they did not omit to pray for that guidance and support for him without which his own efforts would be vain4 ,the evening before ,tam's week was up a parcel was delivered at ,jamison's door1 addressed to his grandson4 ,it contained a complete new suit1 as the ,highland gentleman had said1 from the skin outwards4 ,never was seen such a brave outfit1 to ,tam's thinking4 ,he turned it over and admired it1 article by article1 for at least a couple of hours1 but would not try it on1 or any part of it1 until he had had a good wash4 ,the tub was never a thing he was shy of1 but on this occasion it was used as though he intended to wash out his every fault1 as well as all the merely superficial smuts and stains that had accumulated1 so as to appear before his ,queen a spotlessly clean cuddy-tender4 ,when the operation was completed1 ,tam indued himself in his new garments and went on parade1 so to speak1 before his grandmother4 ,yetta was busy stirring the matutinal porridge when he walked into the ben and said3 ,how do ,i look1 granny8 ,yetta1 turning round1 threw up her hands in amaze4 ,she hardly knew him1 so great was the transformation effected by the new clothes and the scrubbing he had given himself4 ,donal was no less surprised when he came in from his morning milking4 ,tam looked two inches taller and a lot sprucer4 ,ye mind me of yer puir father1 said the old man as he sat down to breakfast4 ,that was a note of sad recollection which brought tears to ,yetta's eyes2 but a smile was soon gleaming through them when ,tam1 getting sight of ,meg1 who was eyeing him as it were askance1 said drily1 ,meg looks as if she hardly kenned what ta mek of her handiwark2 for the beginning o't was a' her doing4 ,just then the noise of wheels was heard on the road1 and as the messenger who brought the clothes left word that one of the ,queen's carriages would pick him up on the morrow1 ,tam thought surely this was the one4 ,but it was not4 ,indeed1 he ran to the door at least twenty times ere1 towards eleven o'clock1 his vehicle arrived4 ,it was a quaint affair1 half carriage1 half wash-basket1 drawn by two asses1 creatures as beautiful of their kind as could be found4 ,it was driven by her whom he knew1 and by her side were several bright little faces1 while the ,highland gentleman1 riding behind on one pony1 as sturdy and ,hielan' as himself1 led another by the bridle4 ,donal and ,yetta came out and with bowed heads thanked the august though simple-hearted lady for the great kindness she had shown to their boy4 ,she replied with a kindly smile3 ,there appears to be the making of a good man in him1 and1 with ,god's help1 we will do our best to make him one4 ,little more was said1 and1 mounting the led pony1 ,tam rode off by the side of the faithful retainer1 who never got further away from the carriage than the dust raised by its wheels4 99 99 99 99 99 ,thus commenced ,tam's career in life4 ,though he served the noblest lady in the land1 he did not find his way one altogether of buttered parsnips and cream4 ,the one thing abhorrent to his royal mistress was idleness and indifference4 ,the motto of her establishment--of all her establishments--was ,the diligent eye4 ,in this principle she found not only the best interests of her own house1 but the best interests also of those who served her4 ,tam could not be called idle1 nor could he be called exactly indifferent2 but during the years of his tending of cattle and sheep on the brae-side he had got into the habit of liking to loll about1 to saunter and dream1 and then to make up1 or try to make up1 the leeway of work or duty by a spurt of energy4 ,another fault he had was to leave things about--for others to side or put in order4 ,this arose1 no doubt1 from the narrow dimensions of his home1 where there was hardly room for everything to have its particular place4 ,it was1 however1 neither a very grievous nor a deeply rooted fault2 and a little sharp drilling1 not unfrequently at the hands of the ,highland gentleman--a sort of major of the household1 who possessed the diligent eye par excellence--soon corrected ,tam's delinquency in this regard4 ,but the other fault was more deeply rooted and cost the young donkey-boy many a bad quarter of an hour4 ,indeed1 on one occasion it nearly cost him his place4 ,he had been given a task to do1 and in place of doing it with all diligence he had been found with his feet growing to the ground1 as it were4 ,the consequence was an interview with the ,highland gentleman1 who told him1 ,tam1 ye have either ta pe punisht or to leave her ,majesty's service3 which shall it pe8 ,i'll tek the punishment1 sir1 if you please1 he answered4 ,tam1 ye are a wise poy1 an' we'll mebby mek a man o' ye yet1 said the major-domo4 ,tam took his punishment1 and was the better for it2 but he still failed to come up to his royal mistress's ideal of a servant4 ,like his fellow-servitors1 he had plenty of time for rest and recreation3 hours of labour were by no means long4 ,so much time had he1 indeed1 for himself1 that the ,highland gentleman put suitable books before him1 and counselled him to improve his mind by reading and study4 ,he failed1 however1 to profit by the advice1 and was presently made aware of his error by a violent thunder-clap4 ,he was in attendance on his royal mistress one day1 when she and the children were out for a drive4 ,a poor body was met1 in apparent distress1 by the wayside4 ,inquiry was made as to her condition1 present help was extended1 and a promise of future beneficence given if further investigation should warrant its bestowal4 ,hence the necessity arose for an address to be written down1 and ,tam1 who was that day the only person in attendance1 was requested to do it4 ,when ,tam entered the royal service he could read a bit and write very imperfectly2 but there had been time1 had he followed the counsel given him1 to have greatly improved himself in both those accomplishments4 ,not having done so1 he fumbled egregiously over the task set him1 and1 in short1 made such a hash of it that an eye of wrath was turned upon him4 ,tam had seen that eye in all its moods--of laughter and smiles1 of grief1 of earnestness1 of affection1 even of solemnity and awe1 but he had never as yet beheld it flash in indignant wrath4 ,he felt as though the muscles of his knees had been cut away and the ground was sinking from under his feet4 ,what would he not have given to be miles away6 ,but he had to face the storm1 and it came in this way3 ,were not books and paper and ink put before you8 ,and were you not advised to improve your reading and writing8 ,tam falteringly admitted that such was the case4 ,why did you not attend to the advice8 ,i--,i---- stammered the ease-loving ,tam4 ,had you not the time8 ,yes4 ,then why did you not do as you were wished8 ,tam hung his head in shame4 ,tam ,jamison1 listen to me4 ,i will have those in my employ attend to my wishes1 and attend to them with all their might4 ,do you wish to be ignorant all your life1 when the time and the means for improvement are placed at your command8 ,in three months' time ,i shall expect you to read and write in such a way that you will be able to fulfil in a creditable manner a simple duty like that you have to-day so grievously failed in4 ,now we'll go on4 ,tam ,jamison wanted no more speaking to4 ,he was now thoroughly awake3 and he went to work with all his might to do the behest of his mistress and ,sovereign1 and1 in truth1 he made prodigious progress2 so that when it happened one day--he being then in attendance on her ,majesty in another part of the country--that she required the names of several rare plants to be written down for her future use1 he did it so cleverly that he was rewarded with a pleased smile4 ,tam felt that he had acquired wings that afternoon1 and the strangest part of the affair was1 that when he came to reckon up precisely1 he discovered that it was three months to a day since his royal earwigging1 as the ,highland gentleman called it4 ,to that worthy man ,jamison communicated his delight4 ,ah1 said he1 ye thocht1 like many anither1 that ye were doing a great service to her gracious ,majesty by your few hours of daily labour2 but1 guid faith1 she does a mighty deal mair for ye than ye1 or ony the likes o' ye1 can do for her4 ,serve 'maist onybody else in the kintra1 an' they'll take yer service an' gie ye yer wage1 an' there's an end4 ,but when her ,majesty teks ye intil her household she teks ye to mek a man o' ye--if it's in ye1 ye ken4 ,an' weel she knows hoo ta do it--nane better4 ,sae ye just go on as ye've begun1 ,tam ,jamison1 an' ye'll mebbe no bide a feckless cuddy-callant till ye're auld an' blind4 ,jamison did not need to be taught his lesson a second time4 ,he made diligent use of his opportunities1 and improved so much and so visibly that when he was fifteen he was raised to the position of page4 ,a greater mark of appreciation could hardly be given to one in the royal employ2 for her ,majesty's pages are amongst the most trusted of her servants4 ,at first the humbler duties of a page fell to his lot2 but as he improved in thoughtfulness and intelligence1 and in his knowledge of the manifold and delicate duties which fell to his care--in which he had the aid and instruction of one of her ,majesty's oldest and most experienced pages1 a man who had been in her service ever since she ascended the throne--he rose higher and higher in the royal service and the royal consideration1 until at last his services were rarely required except on ,state and exceptional occasions only4 ,illustration3 ,tam hung his head in shame4 ,scarcely a week passed that he did not recall the words of him we have called the ,highland gentleman1 when he said that the ,queen did more for those in her service than they could ever do for her1 in that she not only made men and women of them1 but treated them more as gentlemen and ladies than as mere domestics4 ,there were no servants in her employ1 no matter how humble their sphere1 but she knew them by name and had their welfare at heart2 and if they served her well1 she never lost sight of them1 or forgot them--no1 not even when the grave took them into its transitional embrace4 ,jamison had had abundant opportunities to note and set these things down in his heart1 but he was never so much impressed by her ,majesty's deep regard for those who served her faithfully and well as when1 one dripping autumn day1 he was required to accompany her to the churchyard of a rural village1 halfway betwixt ,london and ,windsor--in which1 a day or two before1 the aged servant above referred to had been buried--in order that she might lay a wreath upon his grave4 ,it bore the words1 ,in grateful remembrance of a devoted and faithful servant1 ,v4,r41 and as she bent down to place it with her own hand upon the grave a tear fell upon the flowers that outshone the brightest jewel of her crown4 ,,temperance ,,notes ,,and ,,news4 ,by a ,leading ,temperance ,advocate4 ,,the ,,temperance ,,hospital4 ,illustration3 ,,dr4 ,j4 ,j4 ,,ridge4 7,photo3 ,j4 ,bacon1 ,newcastle-on-,tyne47 ,the story of the ,temperance ,hospital in ,hampstead ,road forms one of the most interesting chapters in temperance history4 ,when the experiment of treating accidents and disease without the administration of alcohol was first mooted1 the idea was assailed with a storm of criticism in which the medical profession found a most active ally in the public ,press4 ,a quarter of a century has now elapsed since the first patient was received in the temporary premises in ,gower ,street1 and although the medical staff have full permission1 under certain regulations1 to administer alcohol if deemed expedient1 the last ,report states that out of a total of #ac1ihd in-patients1 alcohol has only been resorted to in twenty-five cases4 ,the percentage of recoveries compares most favourably with the ordinary hospitals1 and the cases include every variety of disease and accident4 ,the present head of the medical staff is ,dr4 ,j4 ,j4 ,ridge1 who has been connected with the institution from the first4 ,for many years it has been the custom of the ,united ,kingdom ,band of ,hope ,union to organise a ,christmas collection in aid of the ,temperance ,hospital4 ,the amount thus realised has reached many thousand pounds1 and it is hoped that this year's collection will prove the best of the series4 ,the body of evidence in favour of total abstinence which the ,temperance ,hospital has accumulated certainly entitles the institution to the cordial support of the temperance public4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,temperance ,,hospital1 ,,hampstead ,,road1 ,,london4 7,photo supplied by the ,press ,studio47 ,,coming ,,events4 ,among the fixtures worth noting may be named the ,new ,year's ,meeting of the ,united ,kingdom ,band of ,hope ,union on ,saturday1 ,january #gth2 the ,annual ,meeting of the ,london ,united ,temperance ,council1 to be addressed by the ,archbishop of ,canterbury1 on ,february #acth1 in the ,queen's ,hall2 a great ,industrial ,exhibition1 promoted by the ,hackney and ,east ,middlesex ,band of ,hope ,union1 on ,april #aj-ac2 ,temperance ,sunday for ,london ,diocese ,april #bcrd 7,st4 ,george's ,day1 a grand opportunity for the clergy to strike a national note72 and1 as it is well to look ahead1 a ,world's ,temperance ,convention to be held under the auspices of the ,national ,temperance ,league in #aijj4 ,,the ,,new ,,english ,,dictionary4 ,it may be news to some of our readers that ,dr4 ,james ,a4 ,h4 ,murray1 the editor-in-chief of the monumental literary work which has been in progress for so many years1 is an earnest total abstainer and a ,vice-,president of the ,national ,temperance ,league4 ,dictionary-making and total abstinence seem to run together4 ,in ,william ,ball's ,slight ,memorials of ,hannah ,more is this remark3 ,i dined last week at the ,bishop of ,chester's4 ,dr4 ,johnson was there4 ,in the middle of dinner ,i urged ,dr4 ,johnson to take a little wine4 ,he replied3 ',i can't drink a little1 child1 therefore ,i never touch it4 ,abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult4' ,it is rather curious to note that it is only within recent years that our dictionaries have taken any cognisance of the meaning which temperance people give to the word pledge4 ,more than this1 in the early dictionaries the word was almost exclusively given up to the other side of the drink question4 ,for instance1 in ,bailey's ,dictionary 7#agcf7 we have the following definition of the word pledged3--,having drank by the recommendation of another4444 ,the custom of pledging in drinking was occasioned by the ,danes1 who1 while they had the superiority in ,england1 used to stab the ,english or cut their throats while they were drinking2 and thereupon they requested of some sitter-by to be their pledge and security while they drank2 so that ',i will pledge you' signifies ',i will be your security that you shall drink in safety4' ,illustration3 ,,dictionary ,,murray4 ,contrast this with the definition given in the last edition of ,webster's ,dictionary3-- ,a promise or agreement by which one binds one's self to do1 or to refrain from doing something2 especially a solemn promise in writing to refrain from using intoxicating liquors or other liquor2 as to sign the pledge4 ,no doubt1 when ,dr4 ,murray reaches the letter ,p1 we shall have a definition even still more illuminating4 ,the ,new ,english ,dictionary viewed from a temperance standpoint would make a delightful study4 ,take1 for instance1 volume one1 in which ,alcohol has more than a column to itself1 while ,ale has two columns1 ,beer two and a half columns1 and ,abstain1 ,abstainer1 and ,abstaining are treated with a wealth of illustration and meaning derived from such authorities as ,wyclif in #achb down to ,j4 ,w4 ,bardsley 7the present ,bishop of ,carlisle7 in #ahfg1 who is pressed into the service in this form3-- ,,abstaining4--,practising abstinence 7from alcoholic beverages7 #ahfg4 ,j4 ,w4 ,,bardsley in ',clerical ,testimony to ,total ,abstinence' #cj3 ',the bride was the daughter of an abstaining clergyman4' ,illustration3 ,,madame ,,antoinette ,,sterling4 7,photo3 ,walery1 ,ltd41 ,regent ,street1 ,w47 ,now we will leave it to our fair readers to puzzle over until next month as to who the blushing bride was who is thus assured of immortality in the greatest ,dictionary the world has ever seen4 ,,two ,,queens ,,of ,,song4 ,example is better than precept1 says the old adage1 and there can be no doubt that the example of ,madame ,antoinette ,sterling and ,mrs4 ,mary ,davies in the matter of total abstinence has been of the utmost value4 ,it was at a reception given by ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,frederick ,sherlock at ,hackney1 in #ahib1 to the ,archbishop of ,canterbury 7then ,bishop of ,london71 that ,madame ,sterling1 to the surprise of a delighted audience1 volunteered a few words4 ,the gifted singer remarked that she had been nearly all her life a total abstainer4 ,when on long tours with members of her profession1 it had been rather an aggravation to them to see1 when they were pretty well prostrated1 that she was almost or quite as fresh at the end of the journey as at the beginning4 ,they also complained of the quality of the wine furnished to them1 as well as of water4 ,she took milk and cocoa1 and also water1 of which she did not complain1 and scarcely missed one engagement in the seventeen years during which she had been before the public4 ,she had never had a day's bad health1 and had not suffered from those aches and pains of which she had heard other people complaining continually4 ,like ,madame ,sterling1 ,mrs4 ,mary ,davies has upon many occasions shown a deep and practical interest in philanthropic work4 ,illustration3 ,,mrs4 ,,mary ,,davies4 7,photo3 ,h4 ,s4 ,mendelssohn1 ,pembridge ,crescent1 ,w47 ,illustration3 7,photo supplied by the ,press ,studio47 ,,muscular ,,training ,,at ,,the ,,naval ,,school1 ,,greenwich4 ,illustration3 7,photo supplied by the ,press ,studio47 ,,bucket-,,of-,,water ,,race ,,at ,,the ,,naval ,,school4 ,a ,,famous ,,band ,,of ,,hope4 ,possibly the most unique ,band of ,hope in the world is that which is held in the ,royal ,naval ,school1 ,greenwich4 ,it was founded so far back as #ahga1 by ,samuel ,sims1 an honoured agent of the ,national ,temperance ,league1 and upon his death1 in #ahib1 was taken over by ,mr4 ,w4 ,s4 ,campbell1 as the ,league's representative4 ,no pressure at all is put upon the lads to induce them to join the ,band of ,hope1 but1 as a matter of fact1 most of the lads in the school readily do so1 and the present membership is fully a thousand strong4 ,regular weekly meetings are held1 and the annual gathering1 which is held in the great gymnasium1 is a most inspiriting spectacle4 ,a visit to the ,royal ,naval ,school1 if it should happen to be in recreation time1 cannot fail to afford considerable satisfaction to those who like to see ,young ,england at play4 ,every type of healthy pastime is encouraged in its turn1 and these young abstainers have frequently shown that they are well able to hold their own4 ,it is encouraging to know that the principles of total abstinence are not discarded when the lads pass out into the ,royal ,navy or ,mercantile ,marine1 for every year large numbers of them are drafted into ,miss ,weston's well-known temperance society4 ,,temperance ,,sunday4 ,the appointment of a special ,sunday for the preaching of sermons on temperance originated with the ,church of ,england ,temperance ,society many years ago4 ,owing to various circumstances1 it is not possible for the ,church of ,england clergy to take one ,sunday simultaneously for the whole country1 but each diocesan ,bishop makes choice of a day and issues a pastoral letter to his clergy1 so that at one period of the year or another the whole country is covered1 so far as the ,church of ,england is concerned4 ,the ,nonconformist bodies have1 however1 for some years past1 fixed upon the last ,sunday in ,november for ,temperance ,sunday1 and as we go to press we learn that this year special reference will be made to the importance of ,sunday ,closing4 ,,scripture ,,lessons ,,for ,,school ,,home ,,international ,,series ,with ,illustrative ,anecdotes and ,references4 ,,december #ah,,th4--,the ,captivity of ,judah4 ,to read--,jer4 lii4 #a-aa4 ,golden ,text--,jer4 xxix4 #ac4 ,this chapter describes the fate of ,judah4 ,later kings were all wicked4 ,warnings of ,jeremiah and other prophets all been in vain4 ,time has come for judgment4 ,captivity in ,babylon1 long foretold1 now about to commence4 ,came about in reign of ,zedekiah4 ,the eleven verses of this lesson almost identical with ,jer4 xxxix4 #a-aj4 ,i4 ,the ,king 7#a-c74 ,his name4 ,originally ,mattaniah1 was son of good ,king ,josiah and uncle of late ,king ,jehoiachin4 ,jeremiah had prophesied of a future king 7,jer4 xxiii4 #e-g7 as the ,lord our righteousness4 ,the king assumed that name1 and was called ,zedekiah4 ,his acts4 ,did evil1 but had not always been altogether evil4 ,had made covenant with nobles and priests to abolish slavery 7xxxiv4 #h-aj74 ,but his great wrong was breaking his solemn oath of allegiance to king of ,babylon 7#b ,chron4 xxxvi4 #ac74 ,this looked upon as his crowning vice 7,ezek4 xvii4 #h71 for which ,god's anger was upon him 7ver4 #c74 ,lesson4 ,when thou vowest a vow defer not to pay it4 ,,ii4 ,the ,siege 7#d-g74 ,city besieged for last time4 ,jews never forgot day it began4 ,was ,january--tenth day of their tenth month4 ,great mounds or 7earth-works7 outside walls to shoot burning arrows1 etc42 houses outside thrown down 7,jer4 xxxiii4 #d74 ,famine and pestilence soon ravaged crowded population inside4 ,the assault4 ,city1 after eighteen months1 taken by assault at northern gate 7,b4,c4 #ehg74 ,king and his family and royal guard escaped by passage between two walls 7,jer4 xxxix4 #d71 by royal gardens1 down steep descent towards ,jericho4 ,there he was overtaken and made prisoner4 ,his broken oath caused his destruction 7,ezek4 xvii4 #bj74 ,lesson4 ,evil shall hunt the wicked to overtake him4 ,,iii4 ,babylon4 ,he was taken to ,babylon4 ,his sons killed in his sight1 then his eyes put out1 bound with chains1 kept in prison till death4 ,feeble in will1 faithless in promise1 judgment came upon him4 ,lesson4 #a4 ,the word of the ,lord standeth sure4 ,bargains4 ,he who buys the truth makes a good bargain4 ,zedekiah dealt in falsehood and lost his throne4 ,esau sold his birthright for a basin of soup4 ,judas made a bad bargain when he sold his ,lord for the price of a slave4 ,take heed to the thing that is right1 for that alone shall bring peace at the last4 ,,december #be,,th4--,a ,christmas ,lesson4 ,to read--,hebrews i4 #a-i4 ,golden ,text--,st4 ,luke ii4 #aa4 ,this letter written to the ,hebrews1 i4e4 ,christians of ,jewish birth who clung to the priesthood and services of the ,temple as well as to ,christianity4 ,st4 ,paul shows how far the ,christian system was superior to and superseded the ,jewish4 ,the types and ceremonies of the ,law fulfilled in ,christ1 whose birthday is kept at ,christmas4 ,i4 ,god's ,revelation 7#a-b74 ,past4 ,god revealed or unveiled ,himself of old4 ,this revelation inferior in three ways1 viz4 7#a7 ,it was given gradually1 in portions1 a part at a time4 7#b7 ,given in divers manners1 under many figures and types4 7#c7 ,given by prophets1 only human4 ,present4 ,final revelation of ,god's truth--once for all given to the saints 7,jude #c74 ,given by ,his ,son--the ,word of ,god 7,st4 ,john i4 #a1 #b72 heir of all things--,god's agent in creation of the universe4 ,,ii4 ,god's ,son 7#c-i74 ,great in ,himself4 ,has ,divine glory--the outshining of the ,father's glory4 ,he is ,god's image1 the counterpart of the ,father4 ,to see ,christ is to see ,god 7,st4 ,john xiv4 #i74 ,great in ,his work4 7#a7 ,upholder of the universe as well as its ,creator4 7#b7 ,saviour4 ,came not only as prophet to reveal ,god's will1 but to purge man's sin4 ,this ,he did by ,himself with ,his own blood 7ix4 #ab1 #ad74 ,greater than angels4 ,in ,his person1 ,his work4 ,his exaltation to glory2 testified by ,scripture1 e4g4 ,psalm ii4 #c tells of ,christ's eternal ,sonship--also referred to by ,st4 ,paul as fulfilled in ,his resurrection 7,acts xiii4 #cc74 ,king over all4 ,christ also a ,king4 ,rules in righteousness 7,psalm xlv4 #f1 #g72 received throne as victor over ,his enemies--sin1 death1 and the devil 7xii4 #b74 ,raised high above all4 ,lesson4 ,christ is ,king--honour ,him2 ,he is ,saviour--love ,him2 ,he is ,god--fear ,him4 ,kiss the ,son1 lest ,he be angry1 and so ye perish4 ,blessed are all they that put their trust in ,him4 ,christ in the ,old and ,new ,testaments4 ,a weaver1 who had made an elaborate piece of tapestry1 hung it upon the tenterhooks in his yard4 ,that night it was stolen4 ,a piece of tapestry was found by the police1 which seemed to answer the description2 but1 as the pattern was not unlike that of other pieces1 they wanted more definite proof4 ,it was brought to the weaver's yard1 and there the perforations in the fabric were found to correspond exactly to the tenterhooks4 ,this was proof positive4 ,in like manner1 if we place the life and character of ,christ against all the prophecies of ,him in ,scripture1 they will be found to correspond exactly4 #ahii4 ,new ,series4 ,the ,gospel according to ,st4 ,john4 ,,january #a,,st4--,christ the ,true ,light4 ,to read--,st4 ,john i4 #a-ad4 ,golden ,text--,ver4 #d4 ,new ,year--new course of lessons4 ,this ,gospel records the deeper spiritual truths of ,christ's teaching1 especially about ,his own ,nature and ,person4 ,it sets ,christ forth as ,god4 ,st4 ,john tells his object in writing a fourth ,gospel in chap4 xx4 #ca1 which the class should read4 ,i4 ,the ,nature of ,christ 7#a-c74 ,eternal4 ,in the beginning1 not of the world1 but before all creation1 from everlasting4 ,divine ,word4 ,christ is the expression of the mind of ,god4 ,came to reveal ,god to man 7xv4 #ae74 ,living ,person4 ,the ,word not a mere attribute or power of ,god but a distinct ,person4 ,with ,god from everlasting4 ,not inferior to the ,father1 but very ,god ,himself4 ,creator4 ,as well as ,saviour and ,governor of the world 7read ,col4 i4 #af1 #ag2 ,heb4 i4 #b74 ,,ii4 ,the ,office of ,christ 7#d-ac74 ,source of ,life4 ,as very ,god ,he had life in ,himself1 which ,he poured forth on ,his creation 7vv4 #be1 #bf2 xvii4 #b74 ,source of light4 ,the life from ,son of ,god is cause of man's inward spiritual light by which he is saved4 ,himself the light4 ,world was in spiritual darkness at ,christ's coming4 ,giver of light4 ,no man has light in himself1 however great his natural powers4 ,all true light is from ,christ4 ,rejected4 ,by ,his own4 ,the world ,he made knew not its ,creator 7#a ,cor4 i4 #ba74 ,the nation ,he chose to be ,his own special people 7,deut4 vii4 #f7 received ,him not4 ,received4 ,by a few--both ,jews and ,gentiles2 such as ,nicodemus the ruler 7iii4 #a1 #b71 the disciples from ,galilee 7ii4 #aa71 and others4 ,how did they receive ,him8 ,by believing in ,him4 ,this faith1 itself the gift of ,god1 rewarded by further privilege of becoming ,god's sons--born into ,god's family by a new and spiritual birth 7iii4 #c74 ,,iii4 ,the ,glory of ,christ 7#ad74 ,word was made flesh by taking to ,himself man's human nature4 ,he dwelt 7literally pitched ,his tent7 with men1 full of mercy to heal bodies and souls1 full of ,god's truth to teach4 ,lessons4 #a4 ,hold fast the ,christian faith4 ,jesus ,christ one for ever with the ,father4 ,god--eternal1 glorious1 ,creator1 ,giver of light and life to the soul--yet ,man1 like one of us4 #b4 ,live the ,christian life4 ,jesus is our example1 that we should follow ,his steps4 ,christians walking in the ,light4 ,a little girl in a ,london slum won a prize at a flower-show4 ,her flower was grown in a broken teapot in a back attic4 ,when asked how she managed to grow the beautiful flower1 she said her success came from always keeping the plant in the only corner of the room ever favoured by a sunbeam4 ,only by walking in the light and sight of ,god can ,christians truly grow and bear fruit4 ,,january #h,,th4--,christ's first ,disciples4 ,to read--,st4 ,john i4 #ce-df4 ,golden ,text--,ver4 #cf4 ,christ now thirty years old2 has been baptised and received special outpouring of ,holy ,ghost 7ver4 #cc71 and also been tempted in the wilderness 7,st4 ,matt4 iv4 #a74 ,is now ready for ,his public work and ministry4 ,now begins to win disciples4 ,i4 ,the first two ,disciples 7#ce-dj74 ,heard of ,him4 ,picture ,christ walking near the ,jordan4 ,st4 ,john1 who had baptised ,him1 points ,him out to his followers4 ,describes ,him3 this the ,lamb of ,god to ,whom all the sacrifices pointed2 the innocent lamb slain told of the death of the spotless ,son of ,god for man's sin4 ,his words went home4 ,followed ,him4 ,who were they8 ,andrew1 ,simon ,peter's brother1 and probably ,st4 ,john1 writer of the ,gospel1 brother of ,james4 ,why did they follow8 ,to learn more of ,him4 ,had been baptised with baptism of repentance4 ,sense of sin led them to seek the ,saviour4 ,christ knew their thoughts1 encouraged them to learn more of ,him 7,st4 ,matt4 xi4 #bh1 #bi74 ,,ii4 ,the third ,disciple 7#da1 #db74 ,the two friends separate the next day1 each in search of his brother4 ,andrew soon finds his--eagerly tells the news4 ,they have found the long-expected ,messiah1 the ,anointed of ,god4 ,brings ,simon to ,christ4 ,no greater proof possible of having really found ,christ than bringing another to ,him4 ,christ looks with eager and searching eye at ,simon--reads his very heart1 sees his longing after truth2 gives him a new name1 ,cephas 7,hebrew7 or ,peter 7,greek71 meaning a rock or stone4 ,what did this signify8 ,his bold and determined character1 strong in the faith 7,st4 ,matt4 xvi4 #af71 eager in defence of ,christ 7xviii4 #aj71 and1 after his fall and forgiveness1 strong in love 7xxi4 #ae74 ,,iii4 ,the fourth ,disciple 7#dc1 #dd74 ,philip of ,bethsaida4 ,must have heard his friends talking of ,christ4 ,probably stirred in his heart4 ,christ found him1 as ,he afterwards found ,zacchus ,st4 7,luke xix4 #e74 ,his mission to seek as well as to save4 ,happy they who obey ,christ's call and follow ,him4 ,,iv4 ,the fifth ,disciple 7#de1 #df74 ,philip soon shows marks of discipleship4 ,he finds ,nathanael4 ,tells him how ,christ fulfilled prophecies1 such as of a prophet like unto ,moses1 a king whose name should be the ,lord our righteousness 7,jer4 xxiii4 #e1 #f74 ,nathanael asks in honest doubt if it can be possible for the ,messiah to come from despised ,nazareth4 ,philip did not argue1 but bade him ,come and see--the best cure for all doubts4 ,lessons4 ,from the ,baptist3 ,the dying ,saviour the greatest magnet for drawing souls4 ,from ,andrew3 ,show religion first at home4 ,from ,simon3 ,taste and see how gracious the ,lord is4 ,from ,philip3 ,faith cometh by hearing1 and hearing by the ,word of ,god4 ,from ,nathanael3 ,hearken unto me1 and ,i will teach you the fear of the ,lord4 ,there's ,another4 ,a traveller lost in the snow on the ,alps was rescued by one of the famous dogs of ,st4 ,bernard4 ,when restored to consciousness his first words were1 ,there's another4 ,the monks to whom the dogs belonged continued their search1 and the other was found and saved4 ,are you saved8 ,is there not another whom you can rescue from sin and bring to the life of ,god8 ,illustration3 ,short ,arrows ,short ,arrows ,,notes ,,of ,,christian ,,life ,,and ,,work4 ,the ,quiver ,santa ,claus4 ,last month we published full particulars of our scheme to provide ,christmas ,stockings for the many poor and friendless little ones who are not on ,santa ,claus's visiting list1 and we appeal to our readers for their hearty practical co-operation in this work4 ,each stocking will contain wholesome goodies1 in the shape of cake and sweets1 in addition to an unbreakable toy and a ,christmas card4 ,the ,proprietors of ,,the ,,quiver have headed the subscription list with a donation of #be1 which is sufficient to provide the contents of ,,five ,,hundred ,,christmas ,,stockings ,,for ,,poor ,,and ,,friendless ,,children1 a sum of one shilling being sufficient to furnish a stocking and pay the postage4 ,but1 as we can profitably distribute thousands of such presents1 we confidently look to all lovers of the children to lend their generous aid1 in order that as many as possible of the destitute little mites may have their ,christmas brightened by such a welcome gift4 ,we shall also be glad to receive recommendations from our readers of suitable cases for the receipt of the stockings1 and for this purpose the special application form to be found in our ,extra ,christmas ,number 7,christmas ,arrows7 should be used4 ,as the time is short1 contributions for the ,christmas ,stocking ,fund should be sent at once to the ,editor of ,,the ,,quiver1 ,la ,belle ,sauvage1 ,london1 ,e4,c41 and all amounts of one shilling and upwards will be thankfully acknowledged in our pages4 ,illustration3 ,,curious ,,alms-,,box ,,in ,,pinhoe ,,church4 ,a ,curious ,alms-box4 ,in the interesting parish church of ,pinhoe1 near ,exeter1 appears a very curious alms-box surmounted by the figure of a man who seems1 from his costume and general character1 to date from the period of ,james ,i4 ,he holds two books in his hand--representing most probably ,bible and ,prayer ,book--one of which bears the inscription1 ,ye ,poor ,man of ,pinhoo1 #agjj1 but from information with which the vicar of the parish1 the ,rev4 ,frederick ,w4 ,pulling1 has kindly supplied us1 it appears that the books were added in #ahgi-hj1 when the church was restored4 ,previously the figure held a small flimsy box in front of him4 ,he was1 however1 placed on the present handsome oak box bearing the inscription1 ,remember ye ,poor1 and the old flimsy box was removed4 ,the present box was constructed from some very ancient timber from the roof of ,salisbury ,cathedral1 when under repair4 ,what the figure was originally intended to represent--whether a beadle1 the dispenser of charities1 or a relieving officer--is not known4 ,curiously enough1 the parish records are quite silent as to the figure1 and when1 some time since1 it was repaired it was sent to the eminent antiquary and ecclesiologist1 the ,rev4 ,mackenzie ,walcott1 who said he had seen only two such figures before4 ,the wooden backing is of ,jacobean style1 and was designed by the architect in #ahgi to strengthen the whole structure4 ,god ,bless the ,kernel4 ,after the marvellous achievements in his two ,chinese campaigns1 which were sufficient to have made the reputations of a dozen ordinary colonels1 ,gordon came back to ,england in #ahfe as poor as when he left home4 ,during the next six years1 which he spent in ,gravesend as an engineer1 the future keeper of ,khartoum devoted a large portion of his leisure to visiting the sick and to teaching and training many of the ragged and neglected boys of the rough neighbourhood4 ,so truly did these poor lads love their colonel that it was not uncommon to see chalked up on the walls the singular inscription1 ,god bless the ,kernel4 ,their gratitude was apparently stronger than their orthography4 ,when ,englishmen reflect how ,gordon placed his ,divine ,master first in every enterprise of his life1 they must feel that no institution intended to honour the dead hero at ,khartoum can be a worthy memorial which is not grounded on the rock of ,christianity4 ,christmas ,cards and ,gift-,books4 ,christmas is pre-eminently the season of universal good-will1 and the custom of conveying seasonable greetings by means of the attractive ,christmas card is every year becoming more general4 ,amongst the publishers of these mementoes ,messrs4 ,raphael ,tuck and ,sons take front rank1 and the specimen box of cards1 calendars1 story-books1 and illustrated texts1 recently received from them1 affords ample proof that the variety and artistic excellence which have always characterised their productions are well maintained this year4 ,some of the cards are veritable works of art1 and deserve more than the temporary appreciation usually accorded to such2 but the palm for novelty1 both in design and treatment1 must be accorded to the calendars1 many of which are most original in conception1 and all are daintily and tastefully produced4--,for years past we have been accustomed to look for a ,christmas book from ,mr4 ,andrew ,lang1 and this season he has edited an edition of ,the ,arabian ,nights ,entertainments1 which ,messrs4 ,longmans have published in a charming cover1 and with a number of clever illustrations by ,mr4 ,h4 ,j4 ,ford4--,another suitable gift-book for children is ,his ,big ,opportunity 7,hodder and ,stoughton71 a brightly written story by ,amy ,le ,feuvre2 whilst for young people what more inspiriting and interesting work could be presented to them than the life-story of the pioneer missionary1 ,mackay of ,uganda1 of whose biography a new illustrated edition has just been issued by the same publishers4--,we have also received the current yearly volumes of our contemporaries1 ,good ,words and ,the ,sunday ,magazine 7,isbister ,co474 ,these would both form valuable additions to any ,sunday-school library1 and are also admirably adapted for use as prizes or presents4 ,illustration3 7,from a ,photograph47 ,,the ,,laughing ,,god ,,of ,,china4 ,compensation4 ,an ,irishman being bound over to keep the peace against all the ,queen's subjects1 said1 ,then ,heaven help the first foreigner ,i meet6 ,we are reminded of this when we see people civility itself to a good servant they are afraid of losing1 or to the strongest-willed person in their home1 and then relieving their pent-up feelings by being rude to the rest of the family4 ,laughter and ,war4 ,have you any gods around here8 inquired an ,english traveller in rural ,china4 ,oh1 yes1 replied a venerable ,celestial2 the three ,pure ,ones1 the ,god of the ,fields1 and the ,goddess of ,mercy4 ,my old friend1 ,i am afraid your gods are not a few4 ,foreign teacher1 said the old man1 verily1 verily1 our gods are ten thousand and thousands of thousands4 ,some are of stone1 others of wood1 clay1 or bronze4 ,one may be purchased for a farthing1 another will cost #bjj4 ,the ,laughing ,god in our illustration is a representation in coarse pottery of ,quantecong1 supposed to be the first emperor4 ,there are laughing ,buddhas for sale1 and some few images of beneficent mien2 but the great horde are intended to inspire awe or terror4 ,the second illustration is a well-executed terra-cotta figure of a deified warrior4 ,the drawn sword and beard are similar to those of ,kwante1 the ,god of ,war1 regarded as the head of the military department in ,china4 ,in #a1fjj state temples dedicated to him the mandarins worship once a month1 and in thousands of smaller temples he is honoured with sacrifices of sheep and oxen4 ,his worshippers believe that he was a general1 who just about the time that the ,prince of ,peace came to this world in great humility made the enemies of ,china to tremble4 ,the elevation or manufacture of gods is a simple affair4 ,the keeper of an idol shop collects the heads1 limbs1 and trunk that he has moulded out of mud1 unites them in one ill-proportioned figure1 slips a frog1 snake1 lizard1 or centipede into the hole in the back1 and the idol is ready for dedication and worship6 ,the calm1 colossal ,buddha at ,peking is seventy feet high1 but it can only witness to a blind feeling after ,god4 ,an ,ancient ,manuscript of ,st ,matthew4 ,the romance of ,new ,testament manuscripts is again enlarged2 this time by the discovery of a papyrus fragment containing a part of the ,gospel according to ,st4 ,matthew4 ,the precious sheet was found in the ,libyan desert1 about one hundred and twenty miles south of ,cairo1 by ,messrs4 ,grenfell and ,hunt1 the discoverers of the ,logia4 ,it is thought that this fragment may be older by a hundred years than any other manuscript of the ,new ,testament hitherto available4 ,its value1 had it been a whole book instead of two leaves1 would have been priceless4 ,even so1 it is of singular interest4 ,its actual history1 of course1 is beyond discovery1 but its appearance amongst the world of scholars reminds us of the strangely varied channels through which ,greek manuscripts of the ,new ,testament have come down to us4 ,there is the romantic story of the discovery1 in a monastery on ,mount ,sinai1 of the priceless manuscript known as the ,codex ,sinaiticus4 ,there is the scarcely less valuable ,codex ,alexandrinus which the ,british ,museum now guards2 that came to ,england as a gift to ,king ,charles ,i4 from a ,patriarch of ,constantinople4 ,there is the great manuscript which is one of the glories of the ,vatican ,library at ,rome1 where it is believed to have been ever since that library was founded4 ,there is the ,codex ,ephraemi at ,paris1 its ancient writing partly legible beneath a much later work written over it--a manuscript which once belonged to ,catherine de ,medicis4 ,there is another palimpsest brought to ,england from a convent in the ,nubian desert4 ,there is the manuscript presented by ,laud to the ,bodleian1 and supposed to have been used by the ,venerable ,bede4 ,in truth1 the history of these treasures is full of romance1 and it is but fitting that new discoveries should furnish other examples of the strange ways in which the text of the ,holy ,scriptures in various parts and forms has been preserved for us4 ,illustration3 7,from a ,photograph47 ,a ,,god ,,of ,,war4 ,humours of ,hymen4 ,while nothing can be so distressing to a clergyman1 whose duty it is to solemnise marriages1 as irreverence or flippancy1 he can hardly fail to be amused1 if many of his people are poor and his area is wide1 at the occasional results of a genuine ignorance1 or a legitimate nervousness4 ,a well-known church in ,central ,london can furnish several singular and recent experiences4 ,it is not often that either of the contracting parties comes furnished with a prayer-book1 but on a certain occasion the bride1 a rather strong-minded-looking lady1 did so1 and insisted on holding it sternly and steadily under the nose of her future spouse4 ,in repeating the passage in which cherish occurs1 a bridegroom1 in a faltering voice1 expressed his willingness to love and to 'perish4' ,oh1 sir1 ,i do feel that nervous6 once pleaded another embarrassed swain in the middle of the service4 ,a widower1 who was extremely awkward and stupid in making the responses after the minister1 apologised by saying1 ,really1 sir1 it is so long since ,i was married last that ,i forget6 ,another bridegroom1 though middle-aged1 seemed somewhat diffident with regard to his responsibilities1 and answered to the inquiry1 ,wilt thou love1 comfort1 honour1 etc48 ,to the best of my abilities ,i will4 ,a year or two ago1 the roof of the particular church of which we are thinking was being renovated1 and the interior was a maze of ladders4 ,under these a superstitious bride earnestly begged not to be compelled to go1 so she was considerately conducted to the chancel by a circuitous route4 ,there was a wedding last year at which a tiny bridesmaid made her appearance4 ,as he had married her parents about six summers previously1 the clergyman thought he might venture to take her by the arm and to place her in her proper position behind the bride4 ,considerably to his surprise1 the small damsel hit out at him in a most workmanlike manner straight from the shoulder1 and the edifice resounded with a terrific yell of defiance1 ,me won't6 ,me ,,won',t6 ,illustration3 7,photo supplied by the ,church ,missionary ,society47 ,,indian ,,orphans ,,at ,a ,,breakfast ,,supplied ,,by ,,missionaries4 7,a scene during the recent famine47 ,some ,new ,books4 ,one of the most interesting biographies of the season is that of ,bishop ,walsham ,how1 which has just been issued by ,messrs4 ,isbister1 prefaced by an excellent portrait of the late prelate4 ,the ,bishop was principally known by his work in the ,east of ,london1 where he was greatly loved by clergy and parishioners alike1 and many excellent stories are related apropos of his cheeriness and tolerant good nature in dealing with the mixed elements of his crowded diocese4 ,the memoir seems full and complete1 as1 indeed1 it should be1 the biographer being ,mr4 ,frederick ,how 7a son of the late ,bishop71 who had access to all the private memoranda of his father1 and was naturally acquainted with every incident of interest concerning him4 ,from the same publishers comes an excellent work by our contributor1 ,dean ,farrar1 on ,great ,books1 in which he critically reviews the life and works of ,bunyan1 ,shakespeare1 ,dante1 ,milton1 and other master-spirits4 ,though admittedly written for young people1 the volume contains much that is valuable and interesting to older readers4 ,messrs4 ,isbister have also recently issued a volume of sermons by the ,rev4 ,stopford ,a4 ,brooke1 under the title ,the ,gospel of ,joy4 ,whilst we do not endorse all the views expressed by the author1 yet at the same time we are bound to confess that ,mr4 ,brooke's eloquent addresses teem with happy and suggestive thoughts4--,a daintily produced volume reaches us from the ,scientific ,press in the form of ,mr4 ,j4 ,t4 ,woolrych ,perowne's account of his recent journey in ,russian ,central ,asia1 published under the comprehensive title ,russian ,hosts and ,english ,guests in ,central ,asia4 ,in many respects the journey described was quite unique1 and the interest is considerably increased by the number and variety of the excellent illustrations which are scattered throughout the book4--,table-talk with ,young ,men 7,hodder and ,stoughton7 is the title which the ,rev4 ,w4 ,j4 ,dawson gives to his recently published series of pen-conversations with young men4 ,mr4 ,dawson's practical1 straightforward and cultured talk on such diverse subjects as ,the ,art of ,living1 ,christianity and ,progress1 ,civic ,responsibility1 etc41 is not only brilliant but highly instructive1 and the book is one which should find a place on every young man's bookshelf1 for it will richly repay careful and constant perusal4--,we have also to acknowledge the receipt of ,comfort and ,counsel 7,hodder and ,stoughton71 containing quotations from the writings of ,elizabeth ,rundle ,charles for every day in the year2 ,the ,children's ,year-,book of ,prayer and ,praise 7,longmans71 compiled by ,c4 ,m4 ,whishaw2 a useful and informing little volume on ,diet and ,food 7,j4 and ,a4 ,churchill71 by ,dr4 ,alexander ,haig2 ,a ,cluster of ,camphire 7,passmore and ,alabaster71 containing short1 sympathetic addresses by ,mrs4 ,c4 ,h4 ,spurgeon to those who are sick and sorrowful2 and ,the ,daily ,homily 7,morgan and ,scott71 a series of brief1 pregnant discourses on the books of the ,bible from #a ,samuel to ,job1 by the ,rev4 ,f4 ,b4 ,meyer4 ,out of the ,eater came forth ,meat4 ,samson's riddle is an everlasting proverb4 ,out of the devouring famine that last year devastated ,india blessings have already come to many provinces4 ,a conquered race find it hard to love and trust their rulers1 but in their trouble dwellers in the famine districts saw the practical side of ,christianity4 ,in the midst of universal rejoicing ,england was moved with compassion1 and provided food for the starving4 ,government1 in many instances1 entrusted missionaries with the distribution of grain4 ,the ,indian people are slow to act and strong to endure4 ,thousands perished because they could not or would not realise that relief was within reach4 ,parents gave their last morsels to their children1 and then lay down to die4 ,orphanages overflowed1 and new ones had to be erected4 ,where an open shed and light meals of milk1 rice1 and curry meet the ideas of home and housekeeping1 this is easier than it sounds4 ,after a famine the number of ,christian adherents to missions is always multiplied1 and the supply of pupils creates new demand for teachers4 ,it must be acknowledged that the taunt of being rice-,christians is sometimes justified1 though there is little doubt that genuine gratitude to ,god1 who moved ,his servants to help them1 has caused numbers to turn to ,him4 ,abraham's ,vineyard4 ,this piece of land is close to the ,holy ,city1 and now belongs to the ,society for the ,relief of ,persecuted ,jews4 ,when the necessary excavation for building was begun1 ,abraham's ,vineyard revealed signs of former glory and prosperity4 ,tesselated pavement1 vats1 baths1 and a columbarium hewn out of the rock1 showed that it had once belonged to a householder with taste for luxury as well as an eye for exquisite scenery4 ,the baths and vats have been converted into cisterns for rain-water1 and the place has become the scene of industry4 ,the earth1 in past years again and again reddened by battles1 now yields peaceful harvests of grain4 ,all the ,jewish refugees are not1 however1 cultivators4 ,soap-making from olive oil and alkali grown on the ,jordan ,plain1 glue-making1 stone-dressing1 quarrying1 are industries which offer many of them an honest living4 ,the idea of the founders of this society was to give relief and employment to the ,jews1 especially in ,jerusalem1 until they are able to found colonies on their own account4 ,the experiment of ,abraham's ,vineyard has succeeded1 and the ,jews have carried the work farther1 as the trade in ,jaffa oranges and olive-wood ware testify4 ,,our ,,christmas ,,number4 ,,christmas ,,arrows 7the ,extra ,christmas ,number of ,,the ,,quiver7 is published simultaneously with this part1 and contains a complete one-volume story by ,m4 ,h4 ,cornwall ,legh1 entitled ,the ,steep ,ascent1 copiously illustrated by ,frank ,craig4 ,in addition will be found a seasonable article by the ,rev4 ,dr4 ,preston1 on ,christmas ,chimes from ,jerusalem 7illustrated by ,mark ,zangwill72 a contribution by the ,rev4 ,canon ,mc,cormick entitled ,christian ,hospitality2 and a long fairy-parable by ,e4 ,h4 ,strain which bears the title ,the ,star ,ruby1 and is illustrated by ,h4 ,r4 ,millar4 ,christmas ,arrows also contains full particulars and conditions of our scheme for providing ,christmas ,stockings for poor and friendless children1 as well as the ,voting ,form which any reader is at liberty to use to recommend suitable cases for the receipt of our ,christmas gift4 ,,roll ,,of ,,honour ,,for ,,sunday-,,school ,,workers4 ,the ,special ,silver ,medal and ,presentation ,bible offered for the longest known ,sunday-school service in the county of ,leicester 7for which applications were invited up to ,october #cast7 have been gained by ,,miss ,,anne ,,harrison1 #db1 ,humberstone ,gate1 ,leicester4 who has distinguished herself by fifty-eight years' service in ,harvey ,lane ,baptist ,chapel1 ,leicester4 ,as already announced1 the next territorial county for which claims are invited for the ,silver ,medal is ,,sussex1 and applications1 on the special form1 must be received on or before ,november #cjth1 #ahih4 ,we may add that ,wiltshire is the following county selected1 the date-limit for claims in that case being ,december #cast1 #ahih4 ,this county1 in its turn1 will be followed by ,durham1 for which the date will be one month later--viz4 ,january #cast1 #ahii4 ,the names of members recently enrolled will be found in our advertisement pages4 ,,new ,,quiver ,,waifs4 ,to be ,selected by our ,readers4 ,for many years past our readers have generously taken the responsibility of maintaining a waif at ,dr4 ,barnardo's ,homes1 and another at ,miss ,sharman's ,orphanage in ,southwark2 but1 as the present waifs are now growing up1 and will soon be out in the world1 the time has come for another selection4 ,for this purpose1 we have obtained particulars of eligible cases1 which we submit to our readers1 and1 as we look to them for a continuance of their kindly help in supporting ,,the ,,quiver ,waifs1 we feel that they would prefer to choose the new little ones who are to be so known4 ,we would1 therefore1 request our readers to send a post-card 7addressed to ,the ,editor of ,,the ,,quiver1 ,la ,belle ,sauvage1 ,london1 ,e4,c471 stating for which waif in each of the two sets they desire to vote1 and the children with the highest number of votes will be elected4 ,the post-cards should reach the ,editor not later than ,december #cast1 #ahih4 ,it should be particularly understood that this course will imply no pecuniary obligation whatever on the part of the voters1 as we shall rely solely upon the voluntary contributions of our readers to furnish the total requisite sum for the maintenance of the waifs1 which amounts to #ca per year4 ,all donations will be acknowledged in ,,the ,,quiver month by month4 ,particulars of ,cases4 ,i4 ,for ,dr4 ,barnardo's ,homes 7one vote73-- ,,albert ,,le ,,vasseur4--,eight years of age--mother left a widow with ten children--totally unable to support them all--when discovered there was no food or money in the house4 ,,charles ,,salt4--,seven years of age--mother a drunken and disreputable tramp--father little better--parents without a home and constantly ill-treating the child4 ,,john ,,harrison4--,seven years of age--found in streets begging in ragged condition--father dead--mother disreputable--,john somewhat lame in walk1 owing to injury to the right knee in infancy4 ,,ii4 ,for ,miss ,sharman's ,orphanage 7one vote73-- ,,rose ,,heelis4--,aged two years--was born shortly after her father's death--mother has died of consumption--promises to grow into a very nice child1 and is full of life and spirits4 ,,ethel ,,robinson4--,aged six years--father killed by an accident--mother in lunatic asylum--relatives too poor to help4 ,,lily ,,pavitt4--,aged ten years--mother dead--father deserted children--an aunt took the child1 but was unable to support her4 ,,the ,,quiver ,,funds4 ,the following is a list of contributions received from ,october #ast up to and including ,october #cast1 #ahih4 ,subscriptions received after this date will be acknowledged next month3-- ,for ,the ,quiver ,waifs' ,fund3 ,a ,glasgow ,mother 7#ajast donation71 #as42 ,j4 ,j4 ,e4 7#acast donation71 #es42 ,r4 ,s41 ,crouch ,end 7#gth donation71 #es42 ,e4 ,m4 ,b41 ,jedburgh1 #cs42 ,r4 ,dendy1 ,eastbourne1 #cs42 ,anon41 ,alford1 #as4 ,for ,the ,quiver ,christmas ,stocking ,fund3 ,jessie1 ,agnes1 and ,cyril1 #bs4 #f;d42 ,m4 ,t41 #es4 ,for ,the ,ragged ,school ,union3 ,r4 ,h4 ,b41 #bs4 #f;d4 ,for ,the ,indian ,leper ,mission ,fund3 ,a ,thank-,offering1 #as4 ,for ,dr4 ,barnardo's ,homes3 ,an ,irish ,girl1 #acs4 ,also #gs4 #f;d4 from ,diomedes sent direct4 ,for ,st4 ,giles ,christian ,mission3 ,thank-,offering1 #as4 ,,the ,,quiver ,,bible ,,class4 7,,based ,,on ,,the ,,international ,,scripture ,,lessons47 ,,questions4 #ac4 ,what was the great sin of which ,zedekiah1 king of ,judah1 was guilty and for which he was punished8 #ad4 ,in what way was ,zedekiah punished8 #ae4 ,what prophecy was thereby fulfilled8 #af4 ,in what way does the writer of the ,epistle to the ,hebrews contrast the revelation of ,god to mankind under the old dispensation with that of the new8 #ag4 ,quote a text which shows the relationship of the angels to the human race4 #ah4 ,what is the special characteristic of the ,gospel of ,st4 ,john8 #ai4 ,quote text in which ,st4 ,john asserts the truth of the ,incarnation of our ,lord ,jesus ,christ4 #bj4 ,what reference to ,st4 ,john the ,baptist was made by the last of the ,old ,testament prophets8 #ba4 ,it is said of our ,lord1 ,he came unto ,his own1 and ,his own received ,him not4 ,quote passage from the ,old ,testament which shows that this passage refers to the ,jewish people4 #bb4 ,from what circumstance should we gather that ,nathanael was a diligent student of the ,old ,testament8 #bc4 ,in what words did our ,lord show forth ,his divinity in speaking to ,nathanael8 #bd4 ,in what way did ,st4 ,john the ,baptist point out to his disciples that ,jesus was the ,messiah8 ,,answers ,,to ,,questions ,,on ,,page #if4 #a4 ,manasseh defiled the ,temple at ,jerusalem by setting up an idol therein 7#b ,chron4 xxxiii4 #g74 #b4 #b ,chron4 xxxiii4 #ad4 #c4 ,manasseh1 having been reinstated in his kingdom by the ,assyrians1 gave up his idolatry and did all he could to restore the worship of ,god in the land 7#b ,chron4 xxxiii4 #ad-ag74 #d4 ,prov4 iv4 #ad1 #ag4 #e4 ,prov4 iv4 #ah4 #f4 ,in the reign of ,josiah the king sent to ,huldah the prophetess to inquire as to ,god's will concerning the people 7#b ,kings xxii4 #ad-bj74 #g4 ,the copy of the ,law which ,moses had written was found 7#b ,kings xxii4 #h2 #b ,chron4 xxxiv4 #ad74 #h4 ,in the reign of ,amon1 king of ,judah1 we are told the people worshipped the sun1 moon1 and stars1 and all the host of heaven 7#b ,kings xxiii4 #e74 #i4 ,in the reign of ,josiah1 who burnt men's bones on the altar at ,bethel 7#b ,kings xxiii4 #ae1 #af2 #a ,kings xiii4 #b74 #aj4 ,jehoiakim threw on the fire the roll on which ,jeremiah had written at ,god's command a warning to the king and his people 7,jer4 xxxvi4 #bc74 #aa4 ,jer4 xxii4 #ac1 #ad2 #b ,kings xxiv4 #d4 #ab4 ,jehoiakim was bound in fetters to carry him to ,babylon1 but was slain at ,jerusalem and his dead body cast outside the city 7#b ,chron4 xxxvi4 #f2 ,jer4 xxii4 #ai74 99 99 99 99 99 ,transcriber's note3 ,minor typographical errors have been corrected without note4 ,irregularities and inconsistencies in the text have been retained as printed4 ,missing page numbers are page numbers that were not shown in the original text4 ,the illustrations have been moved so that they do not break up paragraphs4 ,mismatched quotes are not fixed if it's not sufficiently clear where the missing quote should be placed4 ,the cover for the e,book version of this book was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain4