April 28, 1868 (4 pages)

Grant PowpEr.—A Giant Powder. Three ges were _ fired in the hardest soft of bed rock in “who hit: charge of the work, says the _ execution in two hours was equal to A blast was put in a huge mass of pipe ~ ¢lay, which was shivered and pulverized " by the discharge. A few days since the ‘Giant Powder was tried in many°of the mites here “and—at Grass Valiey, and generally it was pronounced a failure. A gentleman acquainted with its use is ~_ phowing its power when properly used. He has, in a great degree, removed the " tmpression of ite want of value for blasting purposes, and has reintroduced \.oocasion Mr. Merchant. tried it in the with it, throwing the powder he had seeing it properly used by one who unthe article, he has taken back powder and is using it as an economical agent in working his mine om eu to visionary ideas about new things, tre confident, on seeing the working of the Giant or Dynamic powder, that it is . a valuable invention and soon to. be used extensively, saving time and money. : Rompeny.—The residence of Timothy F. Connelly, Pleasant Valley, was entered on Sunday last between 9 and 1 O'clock and robbed of $800. The occupants were away at Church, and on re. turning they found a window in the rear of house broken open. The house had been thoroughly searched, and the bedding and clothing were thrown _about ia every direction, A box in one of the bed rooms had been opened, and $800 in coin taken from it. A Colt's six shooter was also stolen. Exxgcrien or Orricens.—At a reguJar meeting of the Nevada Lodge, No. 201. 1.0. of G. T., held on last Friday J. C. Leonard ; W. V. T., Emma Giles ; W.R. 8S., D. R. Kenettle; W.F. &., Mrs. M. Hill; W. T., F. Bates ; W.M. ¢.M. Schnee; W. 1. G., Mra. Flintoif W.0.G., Mr. Henzy. et ~ Disraicr Court, April 27th.—Ger_ man va. Wood. Counsel for defendant allowed twenty days additional time to Barber vs. McCormick. On motion of counsel for plaintiff ordered that the the te of John Nuttal, deceased, pa hae for John Nuttal asa party ~ }~ ‘Lamorge va, Ford et als. Cause dismissed. : Forbes vs. Excelsior (iold & Silver Mining Co. On motion of counsel for plaidtiff cause was dismissed. — _ _ Court adjourned to Tuesday morning “at 10 o'clock. eo a gia a EO Tae Sacramento Reporter under* ‘@tands that ason of Governor Haight __ is lying seriously ill at San Francisco. in that city. Mrs. CLEMENS, the widow of the late Hon, Jere Clemens, is now in Huntsville Alabama, engaged in hunting up matetial for a life of the eccentric man, ‘which she is now engaged in compil d soon to be published. “Governor Stantord will visit this county this week to confer with the merchants’ E argument im the Some of our citizens who are not given . ‘than name of Aun Nuttal, administratrix of . Tre ‘The Governor is at present sojourning . (Charch in a body on Sunday last,to the An C. H. Northup, The house was crowdFed to ite utmost capacity, and’ all were pleased with the discourse. We give First es lows,” and yet we come on the Sabbath and ! of the Gospel to hold services « aptly Boo mings the day. ter, Bro. Fox, calls upon us to assemble “for the worship of .” Were I to deliver an address upon a secular day, 1 might pursue a different line of t. I might present more sta and historical facts, and more of workings of the Order. If, ss is the case in many of the you had determined to hold a sec anniversary celebration, I suppose you would have selected some Other Brother as your speaker. “There afe others more fully acquainted both with the wy and practice of Odd Fellowship. But though there be others of our Lodge who might feel “licensed to preach the gospel of patriotism,” or fraternity, they probably would not feel themselves “called of God, as was (the ancient) Aaron,” to preach the Gospel in its fullness. In this respect, then, your speaker is ‘placed tpon a vantage ground. Yet, while I appreciate the privilege of addressing a on this occasion, I would not assume to myself that respect which is intended for the Sabbath day, my sacred office and my Master. Our theine to-day is Love. “Love” is the central sun of the Christian system, It is also one of the cardinal principles of our Order. If By dient greater hip or Truth. & ‘od is love,” and as “ alone is t” we “could-have no gteater as we could have no better, and we can think of no more appropriaté theme than “Love,* And let us consider pane suet that we 4 provoke unto to good works, And what, then, is “Love?’ Love is one of the attributes of God. It is also @ capacity or ability which God has bestowed upon various orders of His ‘creatures. We can better answer what Love és by what it does, In man it is an endowment which may take a right or wrong direction according to the object of its exercise. Thus “If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” “The love of money is the root of all evil.” These and others would be wrong directions, As there are “Degrees” in our Order, so there are endless varieties among the worthy ok a t degrovs in intensity of love. It would require an Encyclopedia to describe them. Love for special persons is known as Friendship. Thatof David and Jonathan is described as “p the love of women”—it was from any base alloy or selfishness.Love of country is patriotism, Love of the human race is variously known as humanity, brotherly love, benevolence, philanthropy. The various out-croppings of this ledge of love are such institutions as Asylums for Magdalens, inebriates and insane ; for the deaf, dumb, blind, lame and for orphans; refuge and correction, work and alms houses ; hospitals; homes for the aged and unfortunate and for disa Lari na ect ae ae ‘ yeaa and Hy yomm ; em peratice, t. Bible, issionary, Masonic and Odd Fellow ties ; and last, but not ‘least, the Christian . ch ; which, in addition te being a humanitarian, is also a Divinely founded organization, and one of the brightest exponents of Divine love. But love is like the kaleidoscope, ever as it revolves, diselosing new and beautiful combinations We cannot but think that one phase j of it is seen in the fact that since Samuel Wildey planted the little acorn of -our Society, (April 26th; 1819), 49 years ago, it has become an Oak of 317,886 branches, (members) 50,000 of whom joined last year, paying nearly $1,000,000, and disbursing nearly a half million dollars benefits. Was it selfishness that did all that? No! There are thousands of members who have never deiived any pecuniary benefits from the Order, and who neither expect nor desire to have, They are men of means—such men become memhag pod the ee it affords of dosystema Thus-the assist needy, Siavomed an tribute to the widow and orphan fund, and help to uphold and spread those principles that bless the world. If a man looked to_ his interests alone,.and those of iis tunity, I should suppose that he would betake himself to an “Accidental & Life Insurance Co.” -rather than to an Odd Fellow’s Lodge. The benefits, in some instances, would . Sasetinie Gee We ble, any more than toa join Te plounen tekst . a would join a Tem: i w prepared ite withthe Church. Many, I know, the way of the Church, But.I think ‘the saying of Christ is applicable : “‘He that is not — us is us.” But the Odd Fellows Lodge is not a church. ‘It has no sacraments and no Gospel Ministry, and does not require faith in Christ as a condition of membership. To say that all Odd Fellows when they die, (as per some obituaries we might conclude), go to a great and happy above, where God presides as a. sort of Grand Master, is a dangerous delusion. We have reason to fear that all Church members are not sayved— why then all Odd Fellows? It does not even profess to be a religious organization and yet “it does not intertere with the duties which a man-ewes te himself, his family, his country or his God.” We cannot prevent men from making excuses for not being Christians any more than we could force them to become Christians. If there areany who think that Odd Fellowship is sufficient to save them without Christ;then would almost any other excuse answer ora well. There are multitudes of Chure members and Ministers of the Gospel, who regard their Saviour and their Church as all sufficient for salvation, and yet they are Odd Fellows ; since, as such they have additional opportunity for getting and doing good. Our text tells us to “follow after love.” “Love” then shall be our leader and, unless we know the direction to be wrong, where ever her foot steps lead, dauntless, untired, we'll “follow” still. Let our minds rise higher in our theme that while we “think upon these thin may the better “approve things t: excellent.” Love loses nothing by contrast with other things of value. The power to do “wonderful works” might be desirable, but love is greater. “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderfal works ? And then will I profess unto them, I ‘never knew you; depart from me ye that work iniquity.” But Christ never said “depart!” te one that loved him.— And if we could “speak with the tongues of men and a could prophesy, and understand all mysteries and nowledge, and had faith even to ret are move mountains, gave all our to feed the — and our bodies to be burn~ ed,” and not an evangelical love, in God’s sight it would pase for “nothing.” The mere pro of “love in word and tongue,” if we have it not “in deed and in truth,” makes us as “sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.” “Let love, then, be without dissimulation.” Love is greater than wealth, for love may command money,but money can never buy love. Lovemay command tears that kingdoms could not buy. A golden key could never unlock the pearly gates of Heaven ; but they — easily to the “open sesame” of ave. It is greater than faith or hope, since faith turns to sight and hope to fruition. Love ‘never faileth.” All others are but vanity. _ In Heaven, ambition cainot dwell, Nor avarice, in the vauits of hell. acy erie whore cha’ had Sel bin, “But tove is indestructible. Its beg flame forever burneth— From Heaven it came,to Hvaven returueth.” Other principles and things are to love asthe scaffolding to the house.— When the house is built the scaffolding * seen down but the house remaineth. x shall perish, but thon (love) re“matnest ; and they all shall Wax sda as doth a garment ; and as a vestureshalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed ; but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.” Society could not exist withont love. As huge boulders are worn away by attrition ; or as immense grate and crumble by frost, and rain, and wind, and sun, so would society dissolve before the the cam influences of ill will. in . fereth rocks disinte. “She Summer's breath, become the ripenfruits of Autumn, “Love isan eternal plant ; whereof the root is fixed in virtue’s ground, the leaves and fruit maintained with virtue’s sun.” It suflong and is kind. It envieth not. It vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up; doth not behave itwelf unseemfy, seeketh not her own, is — provoked; thinketh no evil; rejoices not in inquity, bat rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.’ A whole Psalm, the one hundred a thirty-third; a whole chapter, 1st Corinthians, 13th chap; and a whole book, ist John, have been written to commend brotherly love. Let us, then, “love the brotherhood,” and “let brotherly love continue.” “Love is the end of the commandment out of a be heart and a good conscience and of faith unfeigned.” It is the “bond of pe ” which, like the wheat girdle, keeps thé sheaf from falling asunder, Love beautifies this earth and makes it an Eden. = the — = its Magic wand springs burst forth from the rock as her did centuries ago ‘neath Moses fod. “The wilderness and solitary place is glad for it and the desert blossoms as the rose.” “Oh ! love hath wings on which we fly To breathe in joys unclouded sky, And love hath wings on which we go Down tothe the of wo, Love is a} sorrows’ night, ray, Aad love is wg mang Tulty ftom Heenee, came, A beacon which shines o'er our earthly way.’ Allow me to switch off on a side track to say, that one grand employment of the public now-a-days, seems to be to whistle, and sing, and thamp the fame of a certain Wayward youth, who, “When he feels his spirits sink, ‘ a ey rs Ot Veuve Ciicot Champagne.” This youth has many relatives—their name is légion—but that will not prevent ua from telling who he is— Lighting fis one = Ato 5 He is always ready for a oe Let me say by way of trathful pleasantry that we can show unto this Cham_ tribe “a more excellent way.”— e can better and more readily pull up the sinking spirits of our fellow creatures and ourselves, by lighting our —_ oe faces rive diay ter love, an ways r some Love cares even for the inanimate body, and the fountains of the great deep are stirred by the memory of the loved and lost. Ages ago they said of Mary, “she th to the grave to weep there.” M of the generations of earth have wept as “Jesus wept.”— “Rama” is not the only place in which the voice has been heard of lamentation and Weeping and great mourning. “Rachels weeping for their children and would not be comforted because they were not.” Oh! what is stronger, aad purer, and more beautiful than a mother’s love—uniess indeed it be a true wife’s love for her husband? Labor is rest and pain is sweet before it. But. love not only weeps o’er her dead, she lays away the cold remains with tenderness and care. She builds the tasteful fence, erects the monumental marble, plants,the enclosure with shrabs and flowers, and daily strews the fresh boquet. And to revisit that sacred shrine, love's “pilgrim .is not weary to measure kingdoms with her feeble steps.” And when she who is “a widow indeed and desolate” returns to her dreary home and passes two ranks of sympat 1g hearts to her door, and gathers her ‘little ones about her, beand undefiled befere God and the Father, is this, to visit the widows and fath. erless in their affliction and to himself from the world.” And we may say of our noble Order, stoops to comfort, succor And builas her grandeur.on — j ple arg a see no of the Spring appear; which, ‘matared . . of a triend,” r. command. To “love th to different denominations of Christians. It is others differ from us_they are not newrong unless we.ourselvesare “The mischief . does not come fr thisking diffsregtly but from quarreling about it. He who only loves those who ‘with him loves himself in a glass. “And if yelove those that love you what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.” It is surely possible for Christians to prefer a particular-branc.: without denouncing the Chureh in general Different Charches differ only in non-essentials, not. in fundamentals.— ‘Love will enable us to look at our mighty agreements with the telescope of faith, and to cease looking at our minute diversities with with the microscope of sectarian bigotry, There is one vine and many branches. When the hues of the rainbow fellintoa strife, a well tempered, well spoken cloud thus rebuked their folly: “Fair clouds, know the beauty, and one sun is the parent dren of Israel were on Aaron’s bréeusthearts. A certain Quaker said to Whitefield: “Friend George,t am as thou art, for bringing all into the life and power of the everlasting God ; therefore, if thou wilt not contend with me-about~ my broad brim, I will not quarrel with thee about thy black gown; give me thy hand.” During the Peninsula war, an officer of artillery had just served a gun with admirable precision against. a body of men posted in a wood to his left. When the Duke of Wellington rode up, after turning his glass for a moment in the direction of the shot, he said in his cool way: “Well aimed Captain; but no more; + are our own Thirty-ninth.” I > more on this point, only that if a man has found grace to love his enemics, to return prayers for despiteful usage, blessing for railing and good for evii, then will other obstacles be bat trifling barfiers to his love. t love ig not inconsistent either with correction or reproof. “Open rebuke is better than secret love,” “Faithful are the wounds. ish ; parents who truly love their Pnildren restrain and Bohan them, and. friends show a truer love when they warn us of our danger and admonish us of wrong. Love and ie faithfulness of speech may coincide. oe Love should be constant. We should have but little confidence in that love which like the-blood of St. Januarius only melts and flows once a year, and then only in presence of a crowd, We must translate our love from the dead language of courteous formula into the living age of mutual help and comfort. e must conjugate the word “amare,” to ove, eaenenaly and corsecutively,through all its moods.and tenses, and numbers and persons, by deeds and = by words. The love of some seems “The violet in the youth of primy nature: not Swi not Tc utine Sa palo of sea ena love should “ be “as the uncertain glory of an Aprilday,”” or “as a figure trenched in ice,” or “as a waxen image *gainst a fire which bears no of the thing it was”—but it should rather “pure, warm and : be a. pte jell oo love will . follow ite object through poverty and dis; and even to prison and to death. t while we recognize the brotherheed. of man Wwe must also recognize the Fatherhood of God. We should rather commence with love of God. In “fo * after love” we work the ledge even though the extension leads outside of our own claim. You will allow me then as a Minister of the Gospel to say that 1 do not think that we can love our Brother, unless we first loveGod. To love God with all the soul and strength is the first roy a is the second. that the little gem of poesy “Ben Abou though i fe heentifal though it is tifal : Ben Adem asked ft his ane was among “the names of those who the Lord,” the Bat afterward both truthful and ~~ abaadon his . “Phe migehi ye not that it is the blending makes . ofyeall? As the names ofall the chil. plate, so should love for all be-in our -say no God ‘and human laws.} bo triine me rooney cay Oe paw es Hew bia Ce tetcrbbetnnenee & 4: A a ee » a Sse 2+ Aakes ef ee a cietiliteatatiatoinatetehini os

Grant PowpEr.—A Giant Powder.. Three ges were _ fired in the hardest soft of bed rock in “who hit: charge of the work, says the _ execution in two hours was equal to A blast was put in a huge mass of pipe ~ ¢lay, which was shivered and pulverized " by the discharge. A few days since the ‘Giant Powder was tried in many°of the mites here “and—at Grass Valiey, and generally it was pronounced a failure. A gentleman acquainted with its use is ~_ phowing its power when properly used. He has, in a great degree, removed the " tmpression of ite want of value for blasting purposes, and has reintroduced \.oocasion Mr. Merchant. tried it in the with it, throwing the powder he had seeing it properly used by one who unthe article, he has taken back powder and is using it as an economical agent in working his mine om eu to visionary ideas about new things, tre confident, on seeing the working of the Giant or Dynamic powder, that it is . a valuable invention and soon to. be used extensively, saving time and money. : Rompeny.—The residence of Timothy F. Connelly, Pleasant Valley, was entered on Sunday last between 9 and 1 O'clock and robbed of $800. The occupants were away at Church, and on re. turning they found a window in the rear of house broken open. The house had been thoroughly searched, and the bedding and clothing were thrown _about ia every direction, A box in one of the bed rooms had been opened, and $800 in coin taken from it. A Colt's six shooter was also stolen. Exxgcrien or Orricens.—At a reguJar meeting of the Nevada Lodge, No. 201. 1.0. of G. T., held on last Friday J. C. Leonard ; W. V. T., Emma Giles ; W.R. 8S., D. R. Kenettle; W.F. &., Mrs. M. Hill; W. T., F. Bates ; W.M. ¢.M. Schnee; W. 1. G., Mra. Flintoif W.0.G., Mr. Henzy. et ~ Disraicr Court, April 27th.—Ger_ man va. Wood. Counsel for defendant allowed twenty days additional time to Barber vs. McCormick. On motion of counsel for plaintiff ordered that the the te of John Nuttal, deceased, pa hae for John Nuttal asa party ~ }~ ‘Lamorge va, Ford et als. Cause dismissed. : Forbes vs. Excelsior (iold & Silver Mining Co. On motion of counsel for plaidtiff cause was dismissed. — _ _ Court adjourned to Tuesday morning “at 10 o'clock. eo a gia a EO Tae Sacramento Reporter under* ‘@tands that ason of Governor Haight __ is lying seriously ill at San Francisco. in that city. Mrs. CLEMENS, the widow of the late Hon, Jere Clemens, is now in Huntsville Alabama, engaged in hunting up matetial for a life of the eccentric man, ‘which she is now engaged in compil d soon to be published. “Governor Stantord will visit this county this week to confer with the merchants’ E argument im the Some of our citizens who are not given . ‘than name of Aun Nuttal, administratrix of . Tre ‘The Governor is at present sojourning . (Charch in a body on Sunday last,to the An C. H. Northup, The house was crowdFed to ite utmost capacity, and’ all were pleased with the discourse. We give First es lows,” and yet we come on the Sabbath and ! of the Gospel to hold services « aptly Boo mings the day. ter, Bro. Fox, calls upon us to assemble “for the worship of .” Were I to deliver an address upon a secular day, 1 might pursue a different line of t. I might present more sta and historical facts, and more of workings of the Order. If, ss is the case in many of the you had determined to hold a sec anniversary celebration, I suppose you would have selected some Other Brother as your speaker. “There afe others more fully acquainted both with the wy and practice of Odd Fellowship. But though there be others of our Lodge who might feel “licensed to preach the gospel of patriotism,” or fraternity, they probably would not feel themselves “called of God, as was (the ancient) Aaron,” to preach the Gospel in its fullness. In this respect, then, your speaker is ‘placed tpon a vantage ground. Yet, while I appreciate the privilege of addressing a on this occasion, I would not assume to myself that respect which is intended for the Sabbath day, my sacred office and my Master. Our theine to-day is Love. “Love” is the central sun of the Christian system, It is also one of the cardinal principles of our Order. If By dient greater hip or Truth. & ‘od is love,” and as “ alone is t” we “could-have no gteater as we could have no better, and we can think of no more appropriaté theme than “Love,* And let us consider pane suet that we 4 provoke unto to good works, And what, then, is “Love?’ Love is one of the attributes of God. It is also @ capacity or ability which God has bestowed upon various orders of His ‘creatures. We can better answer what Love és by what it does, In man it is an endowment which may take a right or wrong direction according to the object of its exercise. Thus “If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” “The love of money is the root of all evil.” These and others would be wrong directions, As there are “Degrees” in our Order, so there are endless varieties among the worthy ok a t degrovs in intensity of love. It would require an Encyclopedia to describe them. Love for special persons is known as Friendship. Thatof David and Jonathan is described as “p the love of women”—it was from any base alloy or selfishness.Love of country is patriotism, Love of the human race is variously known as humanity, brotherly love, benevolence, philanthropy. The various out-croppings of this ledge of love are such institutions as Asylums for Magdalens, inebriates and insane ; for the deaf, dumb, blind, lame and for orphans; refuge and correction, work and alms houses ; hospitals; homes for the aged and unfortunate and for disa Lari na ect ae ae ‘ yeaa and Hy yomm ; em peratice, t. Bible, issionary, Masonic and Odd Fellow ties ; and last, but not ‘least, the Christian . ch ; which, in addition te being a humanitarian, is also a Divinely founded organization, and one of the brightest exponents of Divine love. But love is like the kaleidoscope, ever as it revolves, diselosing new and beautiful combinations We cannot but think that one phase j of it is seen in the fact that since Samuel Wildey planted the little acorn of -our Society, (April 26th; 1819), 49 years ago, it has become an Oak of 317,886 branches, (members) 50,000 of whom joined last year, paying nearly $1,000,000, and disbursing nearly a half million dollars benefits. Was it selfishness that did all that? No! There are thousands of members who have never deiived any pecuniary benefits from the Order, and who neither expect nor desire to have, They are men of means—such men become memhag pod the ee it affords of dosystema Thus-the assist needy, Siavomed an tribute to the widow and orphan fund, and help to uphold and spread those principles that bless the world. If a man looked to_ his interests alone,.and those of iis tunity, I should suppose that he would betake himself to an “Accidental & Life Insurance Co.” -rather than to an Odd Fellow’s Lodge. The benefits, in some instances, would . Sasetinie Gee We ble, any more than toa join Te plounen tekst . a would join a Tem: i w prepared ite withthe Church. Many, I know, the way of the Church, But.I think ‘the saying of Christ is applicable : “‘He that is not — us is us.” But the Odd Fellows Lodge is not a church. ‘It has no sacraments and no Gospel Ministry, and does not require faith in Christ as a condition of membership. To say that all Odd Fellows when they die, (as per some obituaries we might conclude), go to a great and happy above, where God presides as a. sort of Grand Master, is a dangerous delusion. We have reason to fear that all Church members are not sayved— why then all Odd Fellows? It does not even profess to be a religious organization and yet “it does not intertere with the duties which a man-ewes te himself, his family, his country or his God.” We cannot prevent men from making excuses for not being Christians any more than we could force them to become Christians. If there areany who think that Odd Fellowship is sufficient to save them without Christ;then would almost any other excuse answer ora well. There are multitudes of Chure members and Ministers of the Gospel, who regard their Saviour and their Church as all sufficient for salvation, and yet they are Odd Fellows ; since, as such they have additional opportunity for getting and doing good. Our text tells us to “follow after love.” “Love” then shall be our leader and, unless we know the direction to be wrong, where ever her foot steps lead, dauntless, untired, we'll “follow” still. Let our minds rise higher in our theme that while we “think upon these thin may the better “approve things t: excellent.” Love loses nothing by contrast with other things of value. The power to do “wonderful works” might be desirable, but love is greater. “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderfal works ? And then will I profess unto them, I

‘never knew you; depart from me ye that work iniquity.” But Christ never said “depart!” te one that loved him.— And if we could “speak with the tongues of men and a could prophesy, and understand all mysteries and nowledge, and had faith even to ret are move mountains, gave all our to feed the — and our bodies to be burn~ ed,” and not an evangelical love, in God’s sight it would pase for “nothing.” The mere pro of “love in word and tongue,” if we have it not “in deed and in truth,” makes us as “sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.” “Let love, then, be without dissimulation.” Love is greater than wealth, for love may command money,but money can never buy love. Lovemay command tears that kingdoms could not buy. A golden key could never unlock the pearly gates of Heaven ; but they — easily to the “open sesame” of ave. It is greater than faith or hope, since faith turns to sight and hope to fruition. Love ‘never faileth.” All others are but vanity. _ In Heaven, ambition cainot dwell, Nor avarice, in the vauits of hell. acy erie whore cha’ had Sel bin, “But tove is indestructible. Its beg flame forever burneth— From Heaven it came,to Hvaven returueth.” Other principles and things are to love asthe scaffolding to the house.— When the house is built the scaffolding * seen down but the house remaineth. x shall perish, but thon (love) re“matnest ; and they all shall Wax sda as doth a garment ; and as a vestureshalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed ; but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.” Society could not exist withont love. As huge boulders are worn away by attrition ; or as immense grate and crumble by frost, and rain, and wind, and sun, so would society dissolve before the the cam influences of ill will. in . fereth rocks disinte. “She Summer's breath, become the ripenfruits of Autumn, “Love isan eternal plant ; whereof the root is fixed in virtue’s ground, the leaves and fruit maintained with virtue’s sun.” It suflong and is kind. It envieth not. It vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up; doth not behave itwelf unseemfy, seeketh not her own, is — provoked; thinketh no evil; rejoices not in inquity, bat rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.’ A whole Psalm, the one hundred a thirty-third; a whole chapter, 1st Corinthians, 13th chap; and a whole book, ist John, have been written to commend brotherly love. Let us, then, “love the brotherhood,” and “let brotherly love continue.” “Love is the end of the commandment out of a be heart and a good conscience and of faith unfeigned.” It is the “bond of pe ” which, like the wheat girdle, keeps thé sheaf from falling asunder, Love beautifies this earth and makes it an Eden. = the — = its Magic wand springs burst forth from the rock as her did centuries ago ‘neath Moses fod. “The wilderness and solitary place is glad for it and the desert blossoms as the rose.” “Oh ! love hath wings on which we fly To breathe in joys unclouded sky, And love hath wings on which we go Down tothe the of wo, Love is a} sorrows’ night, ray, Aad love is wg mang Tulty ftom Heenee, came, A beacon which shines o'er our earthly way.’ Allow me to switch off on a side track to say, that one grand employment of the public now-a-days, seems to be to whistle, and sing, and thamp the fame of a certain Wayward youth, who, “When he feels his spirits sink, ‘ a ey rs Ot Veuve Ciicot Champagne.” This youth has many relatives—their name is légion—but that will not prevent ua from telling who he is— Lighting fis one = Ato 5 He is always ready for a oe Let me say by way of trathful pleasantry that we can show unto this Cham_ tribe “a more excellent way.”— e can better and more readily pull up the sinking spirits of our fellow creatures and ourselves, by lighting our —_ oe faces rive diay ter love, an ways r some Love cares even for the inanimate body, and the fountains of the great deep are stirred by the memory of the loved and lost. Ages ago they said of Mary, “she th to the grave to weep there.” M of the generations of earth have wept as “Jesus wept.”— “Rama” is not the only place in which the voice has been heard of lamentation and Weeping and great mourning. “Rachels weeping for their children and would not be comforted because they were not.” Oh! what is stronger, aad purer, and more beautiful than a mother’s love—uniess indeed it be a true wife’s love for her husband? Labor is rest and pain is sweet before it. But. love not only weeps o’er her dead, she lays away the cold remains with tenderness and care. She builds the tasteful fence, erects the monumental marble, plants,the enclosure with shrabs and flowers, and daily strews the fresh boquet. And to revisit that sacred shrine, love's “pilgrim .is not weary to measure kingdoms with her feeble steps.” And when she who is “a widow indeed and desolate” returns to her dreary home and passes two ranks of sympat 1g hearts to her door, and gathers her ‘little ones about her, beand undefiled befere God and the Father, is this, to visit the widows and fath. erless in their affliction and to himself from the world.” And we may say of our noble Order, stoops to comfort, succor And builas her grandeur.on — j ple arg a see no of the Spring appear; which, ‘matared . . of a triend,” r. command. To “love th to different denominations of Christians. It is others differ from us_they are not newrong unless we.ourselvesare “The mischief . does not come fr thisking diffsregtly but from quarreling about it. He who only loves those who ‘with him loves himself in a glass. “And if yelove those that love you what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.” It is surely possible for Christians to prefer a particular-branc.: without denouncing the Chureh in general Different Charches differ only in non-essentials, not. in fundamentals.— ‘Love will enable us to look at our mighty agreements with the telescope of faith, and to cease looking at our minute diversities with with the microscope of sectarian bigotry, There is one vine and many branches. When the hues of the rainbow fellintoa strife, a well tempered, well spoken cloud thus rebuked their folly: “Fair clouds, know the beauty, and one sun is the parent dren of Israel were on Aaron’s bréeusthearts. A certain Quaker said to Whitefield: “Friend George,t am as thou art, for bringing all into the life and power of the everlasting God ; therefore, if thou wilt not contend with me-about~ my broad brim, I will not quarrel with thee about thy black gown; give me thy hand.” During the Peninsula war, an officer of artillery had just served a gun with admirable precision against. a body of men posted in a wood to his left. When the Duke of Wellington rode up, after turning his glass for a moment in the direction of the shot, he said in his cool way: “Well aimed Captain; but no more; + are our own Thirty-ninth.” I > more on this point, only that if a man has found grace to love his enemics, to return prayers for despiteful usage, blessing for railing and good for evii, then will other obstacles be bat trifling barfiers to his love. t love ig not inconsistent either with correction or reproof. “Open rebuke is better than secret love,” “Faithful are the wounds. ish ; parents who truly love their Pnildren restrain and Bohan them, and. friends show a truer love when they warn us of our danger and admonish us of wrong. Love and ie faithfulness of speech may coincide. oe Love should be constant. We should have but little confidence in that love which like the-blood of St. Januarius only melts and flows once a year, and then only in presence of a crowd, We must translate our love from the dead language of courteous formula into the living age of mutual help and comfort. e must conjugate the word “amare,” to ove, eaenenaly and corsecutively,through all its moods.and tenses, and numbers and persons, by deeds and = by words. The love of some seems “The violet in the youth of primy nature: not Swi not Tc utine Sa palo of sea ena love should “ be “as the uncertain glory of an Aprilday,”” or “as a figure trenched in ice,” or “as a waxen image *gainst a fire which bears no of the thing it was”—but it should rather “pure, warm and : be a. pte jell oo love will . follow ite object through poverty and dis; and even to prison and to death. t while we recognize the brotherheed. of man Wwe must also recognize the Fatherhood of God. We should rather commence with love of God. In “fo * after love” we work the ledge even though the extension leads outside of our own claim. You will allow me then as a Minister of the Gospel to say that 1 do not think that we can love our Brother, unless we first loveGod. To love God with all the soul and strength is the first roy a is the second. that the little gem of poesy “Ben Abou though i fe heentifal though it is tifal : Ben Adem asked ft his ane was among “the names of those who the Lord,” the Bat afterward both truthful and ~~ abaadon his . “Phe migehi ye not that it is the blending makes . ofyeall? As the names ofall the chil. plate, so should love for all be-in our -say no God ‘and human laws.} bo triine me rooney cay Oe paw es Hew bia Ce tetcrbbetnnenee & 4: A a ee » a Sse 2+ Aakes ef ee a cietiliteatatiatoinatetehini os