Church review . oneout of every twenty-five citizens, werejailed there tinder the ininquitousdebtors laws of the period. One ofWashingtons first acts of private char- snails, we must go about not only withour eyes open, hut with our minds open. \w aeed to be constantly jog-ging ourselves to notice this thing andthat or else we are apt to torgel theexistence of anything except what isin Id uii plainly before our eyes. Wemust he constantly recollecting thatbecause a thing is invisible, it is nonethe less real. For instance, if we goout into the street now in broad day-light, and look up at. the
Church review . oneout of every twenty-five citizens, werejailed there tinder the ininquitousdebtors laws of the period. One ofWashingtons first acts of private char- snails, we must go about not only withour eyes open, hut with our minds open. \w aeed to be constantly jog-ging ourselves to notice this thing andthat or else we are apt to torgel theexistence of anything except what isin Id uii plainly before our eyes. Wemust he constantly recollecting thatbecause a thing is invisible, it is nonethe less real. For instance, if we goout into the street now in broad day-light, and look up at. the sky, we donot think of there being anything thereabove us except what we see, the bluesky and the white clouds. And yet weknow, if we will only think of it, thateven now overhead there are all thebeautiful burning stars, Orion and thePleiades and the Great Dipper, wheel-ing across the sky, just as fair andsolemn as at midnight.—Edward Row-land Sill. from the little noisy troubles of life.—George S. V. S. SUB-TREASURY, WALL STREET, NEW YORK. Standing on tho site of Federal Hall, where Washington was inaugurated as first Prasident of the courtesy of old Diniinion Steamship Co. ity was to give fifty guineas to theSociety for the Relief of DistressedDebtors, an act that won him a pub-lished card of thanks from the prison-ers. The jail survives to this day asthe Hall of Records, near the CityHall, and is still beautiful, as it has aright to be, for it was a modified copyof the fane of Diana of Ephesus.—New York Herald. SUGGESTIVE. Do what your nands find to do, butdo not reach out and take what doesnot belong to you and which was nev-er intended for you.—Anon. We have no business to go about onlyhalf attending to what is all aroundus. Many people go through life assnails do. carrying their whole worldon their backs; seeing and thinking ofnothing except clothes and food andtheir little daily circumstances of pleas-ure or trouble. If we mean to be any-thing
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