children would soon demolish the artificial fences that society has built between classes. It is the tendency of children to recognize no distinctions between people except in personal character. This is a tendency which God has placed in the human heart to be strengthened by exercising it, It is the power which God provides to work out the problem of universal brotherhood. All the powers of the soul, as well as the faculties of the intellect, may be developed; and each has its special field, and its seasonable time for culture. Innocent heart of childhood is the field, and the tender years of imperishable impressions is the season for sowing those seeds whose harvest will be the universal manumission of the race from all social bondage.

As already said, great progress toward universal brotherhood is made by the association of the children of all classes in our public schools. Yet still greater progress would be made if direct and didactic teaching of altruistic principles were methodically given in our schools, and if the appropriate literature were read to, or by, the children and the parents. To insure tranquility among our present economic turnmoils, there must be a new American type of citizenship. Men who are kind to all, not from policy, nor from conscience, but from pleasure. Our teachers must be, to begin with, men and women of genuine kindliness. Children are marvelously quick to discern the counterfeit in character

School officers must also see to it that the schools are furnished with, and the pupils are profited by books that narratate the unselfish service of heroic men. There are enough books of this kind without running any risk of contravening the instruction of any church authorities. Narratives of generous men, and of heroic men

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need no skill or art to make them attractive for children. The simple recital of how men risk their lives to rescue men is thrilling, and would soon make the dime novel seem insufferably dull.

We often read of boys who are led astray by trashy literature. Occasionally we meet men whom the story of Hannibal or Alexander, or Napoleon, of some other destroyer of men has made a selfish neighbor and a bully in his home. Children worship heroes and hate tyrants, in the playground as well as in history. They can also be taught to detect the unjust oppressor in financial matters, and to love the benevolent and unselfish. Children, we know, hate the boy who abuses smaller boys. They will just as readily despise the capitalist who uses his capital to injure a weak rival, as they do the boy who uses his muscle to hurt a smaller boy.

All this is beautiful theory; but it seems visionary. While this may be true, yet it is true that the land is thirsting for the education which will about this condition of things. And our schools and all connected with them in authority should strive to do what can be easily done toward giving this altruistic education to the children of to-day, we shall have, in the next century, very much less selfishness and oppression, and much greater recognition of mar's universal brotherhood, in the factory as well as in the church.

Several things indicate that men deem it more and more their duty to use their superior advantages to help. the distressed rather than to surfeit themselves with the good things: which their wealth can procure. A large number of young women of great wealth and leisure devote their time and money and personal supervision, to help, to protect, and to elevate the degraded and oppressed and

destitute in our cities and large towns.

During the great "stringency" about a year ago, men of money were readier than ever before to help others to liquidate or to maintain

their credit. Had it been fifty years ago, the "Baring Bros." would have been crushed. But the progress of universal brotherhood by 1890 had been great enough to be applied in matter of finance.

BEDD Y DYN TYLAWD.
IOAN EMLYN.

Is yr ywen ddu gangenog,
Twmpath gwyrddlas gwyd ei ben,
Fel i dderbyn o goronog

Addurniadau gwlith y nen,
Llawer troed yn anystyriol

Yn ei fathru'n fynych gawd, Gan ysigo'i laswellt siriol,

Dyna fedd y dyn tylawd! Swyddwyr cyflog gweithdy'r undeḥ A'i hebryngodd ef i'w fedd; Wrth droi'r briddell ar ei wyneb

Nid oedd deigryn ar un wedd;
'Nol hir frwydro a thrafferthion,
Daeth i ben ei ingol rawd;
Noddta dawel rhag anghenion
Ydyw bedd y dyn tylawd.

Mae'r gareg arw a'r ddwy lythyren
Dorodd rhyw anghelfydd law
Gyd-chwareuai ag e'n fachgen.
Wedi hollti'n ddwy gerllaw;
A phan ddelo Sul y Blodau,
Nid oes yno gàr na brawd

Yn rhoi gwyrdd-ddail a phwysiau
Ar lwm fedd y dyn tylawd.

Ar sedd fynor nid yw'r Awen

Yn galaru uwch ei lwch;

A chyn hir, drwy'r las dywarchen,
Aradr amser dyna'i swch;
Un ar llawr fydd yr orphwysfa,
Angof drosti dyn ei hawd;
Ond er hyny angel wylia
Ddaear bedd y dyn tylawd!

THE POOR MAN'S GRAVE.
'Neath the dark-boughed yew-tree yonder,
Lifts a verdant mound its head,
As if waiting for the tender
Dews of heaven to deck its bed;
Oft the spot has been abused,

Yea, its fragrant grasses have
By regardless feet been bruised:
'Tis the poor man's lowly grave.
Band of union workmen bore him
To his final resting place;
While beneath the sod they laid him,
Not a tear suffused one face;
After years of sore vexations,

Glad farewell to earth he gave;
Calm retreat from all privations
Is the poor man's lowly grave.

Yon rough-hewn two-lettered head stone,
Cut by th' inexperienced hands
Of his playmate, fond companion,

Cleft in twain, no longer stands;
And when comes the bright Palm Sunday,
No kind friend, or brother brave,
Lays a wreath of green, or nosegay,

On the poor man's lowly grave.

There, the Muse, enthroned on marble,
Sits not, mourning o'er his lot;
And, ere long, time's ploughshare subtle,
Will o'erturn the verdant spot;

With the ground 'twill then be level.
From oblivion naught will save;

Yet, unseen, a watchful angel
Guards the poor man's lowly grave!
New York City.
AP DANIEL.

MAN.

Oft ruled by woman, though themselves are kings,

Grandly heroic, vain in smaller things,
They do great deeds-and great rewards
they claim;

They live for money, if they die for fame.
Mastered by passion, changing for a freak,
Their hearts are soft, but very seldom break.
Each for himself creates a mimic throne,
And claims a court to worship him alone.
Their larger minds despise the meaner sins;
They strike with swords, they do not prick
with pins.

Brave to the world, they face home trials ill;

They eat the fruit, and blame the woman still.

DOROTHEA A. ALEXANDER.

LINES ON THE DEATH OF LITTLE JOHN KUNKLE.

To-day I am sadly thinking

Of a little new-made grave;
Of a mother's heart nigh breaking,
Of the grief that grave has made.
She has parted with her darling-
It seems so hard to bear!
As the shining locks she kisses
Of his silken, golden hair.
Be comforted! God has taken
Your darling baby John;
In his arms he now is folded,
As the angels carol their song.
"Welcome" they joyously sing,
"Great rejoicing is here to-day;
A darling babe has joined our band,
Great joy! sing praise! and pray!"
Oh, mourn him not, dear mother,

When your immortal robe you'll don,
A little angel will come to greet you—
Twill be your baby John.
Wilkesbarre.

MRS. J. A. KUSCHKE.

THE RECORDS OF THE ROCKS

GLACIAL AND GENIAL AGES.

On our earth, as we find it to-day, we have at the North Pole an intensely glacial condition, which extends for hundreds of miles around. So severe is the climate that all attempts to penetrate the icy solitude and reach the Pole have been hitherto unavailing. Encircling the Arctic regions we have the temperate regions of our globe, which manifest great

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varieties of climate, even along the Further same circles of latitude. south we come to the sunny regions, which seem never to have been invaded by the desolation of the Ice age. In a similar manner we subdivide the Southern hemisphere. There is intense glaciation at the South Pole, and there is a temperate region intervening between it and the tropics. Owing, however, to the large proportion of the Southern Hemisphere which is occupied by the ocean,and owing also to the imperfection of our knowledge of the geological phenomena of the lands in the south temperate regions, we are not able to speak with the same degree of confidence with regard to the glaciation of the Southern Hemisphere which we have felt when speaking of the Northern. Such is at the present moment the condition of our globe so far as glacial phenomena are concerned. It may be described as the normal condition.

Putting the information together which we have procured, we are enabled to sketch in some degree the circumstances attending the advent of an Ice Age. We must imagine that the cap of ice and snow which is normal at the Pole commences to enlarge its boundaries. It refuses to remain confined within that Arctic circle which we are now fortunately permitted to regard as its legitimate vades the temperate latitudes. Cenhome, and it creeps downward and inturies and perhaps even thousands of years must have elapsed before the ice had completely occupied the area destined for glacial devastation. Doubtless the progress was intermittent. The ice-sheet advanced during the winter, it retreated during the summer, but each advance exceeded the subsequent retreat, until at last the southern limits of the glacial districts were reached. Then some of

the fairest regions of our globe lay crushed for ages beneath a superincumbent load of ice, hundreds or thousands of feet in thickness. The life, both animal and vegetable, which had formerly abounded in these countries in the days when their climate was still temperate, had necessarily retreated before the enroaching ice, and now sought for generations the hospitalities of southern climes. It was, however, not designed that the desolating presence of an icesheet should be eternal. Amelioration began at last to take place in the climate. The ice withdrew each summer more than it had advanced during the preceding winter. Doubtless the transformation was a very slow Centuries must have been required before the icesheet had completely retreated within its original boundaries, and the climates of the entire hemisphere had regained their

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normal condition.

The records of the rocks, however, sometimes suggest a far more agree able picture. We have learned that our hemisphere was once covered with ice, but we may also learn that there have been times when condi tions widely different have prevailed. The climate has once been more mild and more genial over the northern hemisphere than that which it now enjoys. Sunshine and warmth have abounded within the Arctic circle, and, it would seem, as far as the Pole itself. There have been times when Greenland merited the attractive name it bears. A luxuriant verdure has clothed its shores, and stately forests have adorned the land now smothered beneath a thousand feet of ice; even in the vicinity of the dreary North Pole itself, as far as the hardihood of Arctic explorers has carried them, the remains of what seems to have been a charming vegetation have been discovered; plants which are too tender

to withstand the rigours of an ordinary British winter without protection, appear at one time to have flourished within a few hundred miles of the pole. In the Arctic solitudes there were once fresh-water lakes, whose margins were fringed with large reeds, white water-lilies, which demanded a mild climate, floated on their surface. Just as the icesheet, when it prevailed during the glacial epoch, suggests a climate incomparably more severe than that which we now posses,s so these genial conditions indicate that our hemisphere must have also enjoyed intervals in which the climate was far more benign than that which we at present experience.

I would, then, have you think of our earth, or more accurately of one hemisphere of the earth, as robed from time to time in three different garbs. There is, first, the garb of extreme glaciation which prevails during an Ice Age; the second is one when what may be described as a perennial summer prevails in the land, and extends even to the vicinity of the Pole itself; this we may call the genial garb. There is, thirdly, an intermediate garb, where the climate has neither the severity of the Ice Age nor the mildness of Genial Age. This intermediate state may be illustrated by the condition in which we find our earth to-day, and in which it has been during the centuries known to human history.-"The Cause of an Ice Age," by Sir Robert Ball, Royal Astronomer of Ireland.

We may come to look upon the death of our enemies and adversaries, even long after it has occurred, with just as much regret as we feel for that of our friends, viz., when we miss. them as witnesses of our brilliant suc cess.-Schopenhauer.

WALKING WITH GOD.

BY MR. THOMAS JONES, KANSAS CITY, MO.

To walk daily with God ought to be our highest aspiration. The Christian way is straight and narrow. Our temptation and tendency is to seek other company than that of the Master's. True fidelity and loyalty, however, to our Christian Endeavor pledge and principles means a continuous and uninterrupted walk with God. This will cost something, but everything of value has its price. No one can have a beautiful character without first cherishing beautiful and doing noble and Christianlike deeds. To become Christianlike means to live like Christ. That implies selfdenial and holy living; in short a close walk and communion with God.

"And Enoch walked with God" is one of the shortest and perhaps the best biographical sketch in the entire Bible. The real test of our "walking with God" will come up daily in what we are wont to regard as the little things of life. We are too prone to be watching against some great temptation in our lives and constantly barricading our hearts against the major vices, and the first thing we know a swarm of little sins and temptations have unconsciously crept into our hearts and lives and are moulding our characters in a way entirely different from what we would like. As young people we are all anticipating a bright future and carving out a great destiny for ourselves, and partially waiting for a great opportunity to come along so that we can distinguish ourselves, forgetting that great opportunities, as a rule, come only to those who are faithful to the little duties the so-called inconsequential things of life. One must be

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great in small things before he can be truly great in taking care of the large things. Christ's example and teachings should be a constant inspiration to us to be watchful of what we too often regard as the trival things in our daily round of duties. Just as cents make dollars and minutes make hours, so does the conscientious performance of every duty go to make up a symmetrical and perfect character. The patient and continuous welldoing of things that are unapplauded by the world, but that contribute to the happiness and well-being of some cheerless heart and our aiming always to present the loveable side of our nature to the world, will do much to show that it is possible for young people to walk daily with God in the face of a strong current of wordliness. May the spirit of the Master dwell richly and abundantly in each one of is the earnest prayer worker and brother.

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ADD TO YOUR VOCABULARY. A certain father constantly told his daughter, "Girls, get new words into your vocabularies!" It was plain his admonition was heeded. Seldom were girls met whose language was as varied and picturesque as theirs. They were never at a loss to express exactly what they intended. They used different phrases to describe different feelings and sensations, and the proper one appeared where it was needed. After talking to the average girl, to whom everything is "awfully sweet," or "simply dreadful," and whose terms for joy and grief, assent or denial, can be confidently predicted, it was a pleasure as well as a relief to listen to these bright young people, whose conversation showed what