enthusiasm. While the satires of Pope, Swift, and Addison are doubtless the best in our language, we hardly place them with our great literature, which is always constructive in spirit; and we have the feeling that all these men were capable of better things than they ever wrote.—William J. Long, "English Literature."
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SAVAGES AT OUR DOORS
Less than three thousand miles from the
city of New York, and about a third of that
distance from San Francisco, there is situated,
in the upper reaches of the Gulf of
California, a small island, worthless even for
so mean a purpose as the raising of goats,
but nevertheless a center of attraction for
the ethnologists and archeologists of the Old
and New Worlds for many generations.
This rock peak, rising from the quiet waters
of the gulf, is known as Tiburon Island.
Tiburon is a Spanish word which, translated
into English means "shark." The waters
around the islet are literally swarming with
these tigers of the sea, and the inhabitants of
the island are said to be no less ferocious
than the sharks. Tiburon is peopled with
a handful of Indians, the only aborigines of
their kind in the world, known as Seris.
They are reputed to be cannibals, to be so
fierce that none of the mainland tribes of
Mexican redskins ever dare invade their
shores, and to possess the secret of manufacture
of a peculiarly deadly poison, with which
they prepare their arrows before battle.—Wide World Magazine.
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SAVED AS BY FIRE
Rev. C. H. Spurgeon used to tell this story:
A woman in Scotland, who was determined
not to have anything to do with religion,
threw her Bible and all the tracts she
could find into the fire. One tract fell out
of the flames, so she thrust it in again. A
second time it slipt down, and once more
she put it back. Again her evil intention
was frustrated, but a third effort was more
successful, tho even then only half of it was
consumed. Taking up this half, she exclaimed,
"Surely the devil is in that tract,
for it won't burn."
Her curiosity being excited, she began to read it, and it was the means of her conversion. It was one of the sermons published in "The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit." (Text.)
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SAVED IN SERVICE
The value of discipline to develop the soul is pointed out in this verse by Charles C. Earle:
Forbid for me an easy place,
O God, in some sequestered nook
Apart to lie,
To doze and dream and weaker grow,
Until I die.
Give me, O Lord, a task so hard,
That all my powers shall taxéd be
To do my best,
That I may stronger grow in toil,
For harder service fitted be,
Until I rest.
This my reward-development
From what I am to what Thou art.
For this I plead;
Wrought out, by being wrought upon,
By deeds reflexive, done in love,
For those in need.
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Saving—See Discovery, Benefits from.
Saving by Good Habits—See Resolutions,
Good.
SAVING DISAPPROVED
Down with the little toy savings-bank! I
believe it teaches children to be selfish. I
hate to see a child, a sweet, innocent child,
with dimpled hands and a laughing face,
clutch the penny or the nickel you give it
close in its little fingers, and run first to drop
it into the greedy, miserly "savings-bank,"
and then come back to thank you. We
teach the child to be selfish when we give it
a penny to drop in the missionary-box and
fifty cents to buy a toy for itself; to dole out
a penny a week for charity and keep the
savings-bank rattling full. But haven't I a
savings-bank in my home? Indeed I have;
and I'd like to see you or any other man,
except one of my dear friends the Vanderbilts,
pour money into the top of that savings
bank as fast as the prince can draw it out of
the bottom. That's the way to run a bank.
Make her useful; milk her. "Mr. Speaker,"
said the California legislator, "may I ask
how much money there is in the State treasury?"
The speaker estimated about $40,000.
"Then," said the member, "I move to rake
her. What good does the money do locked
up? If you don't spend it, some alderman
will get hold of it."—Robert Burdette.
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