And 2,000 people in the Bowery bread-line on these freezing nights.
At the extraordinary meeting held in the Bowery Mission, where five hundred men from the bread-line met at the invitation of the Rev. J. G. Hallimond to talk over the facts of their situation, it was made perfectly clear that a large proportion of the company had nothing whatever the matter with them as individuals. They were skilled and sober mechanics and clerks, capable of rendering valuable services to society and eager to do it. (Text.)
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UNEXPECTED, THE
At the critical period of the American
Civil War when General Hooker was succeeded
by General Meade, neither Meade nor
Lee desired or expected to fight a battle at
Gettysburg, Lee wishing to have it at Cash-*town
and Meade on Pipe Creek, but both
were drawn into it against positive orders to
the contrary, and yet that battle proved to be
the turning-point in the fortunes of the
war.
Many of the greatest results in history
and in individual lives turn on circumstances
wholly unforeseen by man,
which some call accident or chance, but
which the wise know to be an over-*ruling
Providence. (Text.)
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Unexpected Value—See Appreciation.
Unfaith—See Confidence, Lack of; Time
Brings Fortune.
Unfaithfulness, Penalty of—See Respect,
No, of Persons.
UNFORGIVING SPIRIT, THE
La Tude, a young Frenchman, for a
trifling offense, was seized and thrown into
prison by order of Madame de Pompadour.
There he remained until her death in 1764.
Two years before she died he wrote this unfeeling
woman: "I have suffered fourteen
years; let all be buried forever in the blood
of Jesus." But she remained fixt in her determination
to show him no mercy. This
young Frenchman remained in prison almost
thirty-five years. (Text.)
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UNFITNESS
A man who weighs one hundred and fifty
pounds on the earth would weigh only two
pounds on the planet Mars, and so could
hardly stand; while on the sun he would
weigh two tons and so would sink, like a
stone in the sea, into its hot marshes. Each
man is too light for some places, too heavy
for others, and just right for others. Failing
in a work for which he is unfitted often
brings him to his true place.
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See Attainment, Superficial.
UNHAPPINESS OF THE GREAT
How well do the instances cited below illustrate the oft-quoted sentence of Augustine, "Restless are our hearts, O God, until they rest in Thee."
Sheridan, idol of his day, had for his last
words: "I am absolutely undone." "Take
me back to my room," sighed Sir Walter
Scott; "there is no rest for me but the
grave." Charles Lamb said: "I walk up
and down thinking I am happy, but feeling
I am not." Edmund Burke said he would
not give a peck of refuse wheat for all the
fame in the world.
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Uniform as a Preparation for Fighting—See Dress Affecting Moods.
UNION
Where such things can be done in nature as are described below there should be hope of a time when the varieties of human nature, varying sects, creeds and practises may be merged into a common Christian type.
An orange-cucumber, or cucumber-orange,
as the name has not yet been decided, is a
freak combination raised by Howard S. Hill,
a cucumber grower of Gardner, Mass., which
he is cultivating as a new dish to tickle the
palate of exacting diners.
The new fruit or vegetable resulted from an experiment made by Mr. Hill. At that time an orange-tree was in full bloom in his cucumber hothouse at the same time that the blossom of the cucumber vines first appeared. Mr. Hill transferred the pollen from the orange-blossoms to several cucumber flowers.
The first appearance of the fruit was the same as that of an ordinary infant cucumber, but as the fruit grew, the result of the inoculation became apparent. The cucumber, instead of lengthening out, remained round like an orange, with the orange-bloom scar, but the skin was that of a cucumber, with the same corruptions. When ripened the new product assumed a bright orange color,
