along the lines, having a presentiment that there was something wrong. He found that a stream flowing from the Jura mountains into Lake Geneva had become a torrent, and overflowing its banks had swept away about thirty yards of the permanent way, leaving the rails suspended in the air.
As the Geneva-Lausanne express traveling at sixty miles an hour was due in a few minutes and would be precipitated into the torrent with its sixty passengers, Allaman ran to his little house for a red flag and stopt the express fifty yards from the suspended rails, and then returned home pleased with the fact that he had prevented a terrible accident. Some days ago the news of the affair arrived at the Bern headquarters of the Federal Railway Company, and the Swiss managers thought that such an act on the part of a gatekeeper should be rewarded.
Allaman received his reward this morning for saving the express and its sixty travelers from destruction. The reward was 8s., which works out at 1-1/2d. a life.
If the accident had occurred the Federal Railway Company would have been obliged to pay between £8,000 and £10,000 damages.—Pittsburg Sun.
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REWARD, THOUSANDFOLD
In India a number of years ago there
lived a good Christian English judge who
was a warm supporter of missions. It came
to his ears that a certain rich native, possessor
of an indigo farm, had been cast out
of his home and had lost everything because
of acknowledging Christ as Lord. "Let him
come to me," said the judge, "I will employ
him as a household servant." So Norbuder
came and was child's attendant in the judge's
family. Every evening after dinner the
judge assembled the household for family
prayers, and read the Scripture from the
native version. One day he came to the
verse, "There is no man that hath left home
or parents or brethren or wife or children
for the kingdom of God's sake who shall
not receive an hundredfold and shall inherit
everlasting life." The judge paused
and looked at the dark eyes fixt on him, and
said, "None of us have left houses or lands
or wife or children for Christ's sake but
you, Norbuder. Will you tell us, is it true
what this verse says?" Quietly Norbuder
took up the Mahratti Testament and read
the verse through. Then he raised his hand
and said, "He says He gives a hundredfold;
I know He gives a thousandfold."
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Rewards, Pecuniary—See Motive, Mercenary.
REWARDS, SPIRITUAL
Here is a boy, who, in sweeping out the
shop to-morrow morning, finds sixpence
lying among the orange-boxes. Well, nobody
has missed it. He puts it in his pocket,
and it begins to burn a hole there. By breakfast-time
he wishes that sixpence were in
his master's pocket. And by and by he goes
to his master. He says (to himself, and not
to his master), "I was at the Boys' Brigade
yesterday, and I was to seek first that which
was right." Then he says to his master,
"Please, sir, here is sixpence that I found
upon the floor." The master puts it in the
till. What has the boy got in his pocket?
Nothing; but he has got the kingdom of
God in his heart. He has laid up treasure
in heaven, which is of infinitely more worth
than sixpence. Now, that boy does not find
a shilling on his way home. I have known
that to happen, but that is not what is meant
by "adding." It does not mean that God is
going to pay him in his own coin, for He
pays in better coin. (Text.)—Henry Drummond.
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Rhythm—See Music, Good Cheer in.
Riches—See Wealth, Comparative.
RICHES, IMAGINARY
A Russian folk-story tells of a man who
entered a diamond-mine in quest of riches.
He filled his pockets with precious stones,
and forthwith flung them all away to make
room for larger ones. Thirst coming on, he
was dismayed to find that there was no
water. In his delirium he imagined he could
hear the flow of water, which proved, however,
to be the flow of gems and jewels running
in rivers and falling in cascades.
Only one thing could meet his need
in his dire distress, and that was, not
imaginary wealth, but real water. So it
is with the soul. (Text.)
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RICHES UNREALIZED
George MacDonald, in one of his stories,
tells of a father and his daughter who lived
in an old Scotch castle in poverty, while all
the time in a secret cupboard were masses
of jewels which had been put there by an
ancestor long years before.
Many a soul is living in poverty of
life and experience equally ignorant of
