Show t TfcB EliEP £'' D1T— A LITERART MaGAZINB 9 ' avenger He remembered most distinctly the threat vhich had made to lawyer Wort ley when a boy and which lie had with sufficient significance endorsed to hi3 own face4 that afternoon in the presence of the revellers' The cirt cumstances of that threat and the neces-sa?- y links of the history of the Blakelys in their relation to our story and how the General obtained a Baronetcy will be found in the future of our story — Suffice here to say that Sir Herbert Blakely had been hunting Europe for the track of young Sir Walter Templar and his friend Lord Frederick D’Locy-frothe time they left England four years before on their continental tour lie had suddenly and when least expected discovered them thatj afternoon and their first meeting he augured as ominous in' the extreme Walter was unchanged ! Sir Walter and Lord Fred- crick w’e re repeating the friendship which bad been so strongly marked between Sir Richard Courtney and the man who had vanquished Sir Herbert at Eton and whom though his memory was sanctified by the grave he still hated as bitterly as on the day when he slunk away from the fight crowned with the derision of the Eton boys Now it was that friendship which had been from the beginning the safeguard of the D’Lacys and hitherto the unsurmouutable obstacle in the way both of Sir Herbert and the General his ff ther whose deep laid plot had besieged and laid in ruins the D’Laey house but nothing as yet had vanquished that friendship which promised to rebuild that house stately and solid as of yore Sir Herbert would have compassed sea and land to break that power of friendship which began with the uncle and father and now continued in the nephew and son and in the hope that some deep lotting might purcliance bring this about e had traced Europe to find their track At the end of his dark revery he started to his feet and drank another glass of brandy “I ’must first find out their certain identity and then’ he muttered with determined wickedness “if my old plot to breed division perhaps hatred such as exists between strong friends reversed holds not good By the Fiend let one or both — well Twere best not to mouth' the matter but to execute !” (TO HE CONTINUED) ' Trutil — They tell us that “Truth never dies0 But if her home as ’we fire informed “ at the bottom of a well” it seems a little strange that she never “kicks the bucket” Yet from her dark home in the still follows tip depths she the feeding rill to its source upon the mountain top and rises from the fountain like Vends from the foam of the sea— as beautiful as tbe fabled goddess rind infinitely more worthy of admiration — Success and Happiness—-- Lord ’Clarendon attributes success and happiness in life to associating with persons niore learned and virtuous than ourselves 40 I The progress of knowledge is slow like the sun we cannot see it moving but 'after awhile Hre perceive that it has dared xlci that it has moved onward objection against tha of Gcd in suffering numberless creatures thatt never sinned plausible justice Under this healing will lie presented any novel or original views concerning God the Universe or Mankind: not binding ourselves to endorse all we present each at their intrinsic value WESLEY ON THE SESURECTION OF ANIMALS What was the original state of the brute creation ? Their state wras suited to their place it was paradisaical) perfectly happy What did the meaner creatures suffer when man rebelled against God It is probable they sustained much loss even in the lower faculties— tlieir vigour strength r and swiftness but undoubtedly they suffered more in their understanding more than we can easily conceive Perhaps insects and worms had then as much under- standing as the most intelligent brutes have now They suffered more in their will in their passions which were then variously distorted The very foundations of their course are turned upside down Will even the brute creation remain in this deplorable condition? They shall be delivered from the bondage of nature are out of Corruption into glorious liberty’ even a measure according as they are capable of ‘the liberty of tbe children of God’ WTien he that ‘ sitteth on the great white throne’ make hath pronounced ‘Behold-all things new’ The whole creation will then undoubtedly be restored not only the vigour atrength and swiftness which they had at their creation but to a far higher degree of each than they ever enjoyed they will Ijy restored not only to that measure of understanding which they had in Paradise but to a degree of it as much higher than that as the un an elephant is bederstanding-oand whateva that of wornl yond er affections they had in the garden of God will be restored with vast increase May I be permitted to mention a conjecture What if it should then please" the allwise Creator to raise them higher in the scale of beings What if it should please him irlien he makes us equal to angels to make Creathem what we are now tures capable of God capable of loving) and enjoying the If it be author of their being objected of what Use will those I answer what use creatures be knowing aie they now t But wliat end does it answer to dwell on this subject 1 May it not furnish us with a full answer to a to be so severelypunished 1 But the objection vanishes away if we consider that something better remains after death for these poor creatures also that they incewise shall be delivered from this bondage of corruption' and shall receive ample amends for all their present sufferings—'Wesley i Sermons Vol 4 Ser 65i r — — KflMte of thought Mind the Parent of Form — Mind or spirit is of itself embodied and living form It is spiritual organism is in absolute per- fection and from Tnind itself all form and beauty emanate The body of man is but an outskrot or manifestation of Ills mind Tf I may be indulged the expression it is the ultimate of his mindPtre nologiccd Journal ' 0 Perennial Inspiration— believes in the perennial EmersoU influence of inspiration Wisdom was not exhausted with Plato? The world of poetry is as rich in Origiiial suggestions as in the days of Pindax and Euripide Sublimity did not die out with' Dante and Milton nor beauty With Phidias and Ha? the jdiael nor are new sects into immysteries of the human heart possible after Shakspeare Strains of a3 ravishing music may spring from the depths of the American forest as from the creations of Beet hoven apd Mozart The individual soul now conceals the elements of poetry and prophecy and the vision of God as in the days of yore V (tow gtoetjs' GEMS FROM THE BEST AUTHORS KINSHIP IN 1 NATURE Arid The foor beetle that Ve tredd upon In corporal suHerance feels as great a pang As when the giant dieS Sluikaptanm ' in the vast as in the ifcihute we see The unambiguous footsteps of the God That gives its lustre to an insects wing ' And plants Ilia throne upon the rolling world (Coicp The vetyVowcr that moulds a tear And bids it trickle from its source That power maintains the world a spher Aud rolls the planets in their course man ' : How jpo'or how rich how abject how august IIow complicate how wonderful is rbin ! ft Connection exquisite of distant worlds ! Midway from nothing to tbe Deity I A beam ethereal sull’d and absorpt ! Though sull’d and dishonored still dMrte L Dim miniature of greatness absolute I An heir df glory I A frail rtfiM of dust GfocL-- ' A wurol ffWajr Ii w i X f NL |