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r- 1 i '2 GUARD OF HONOR MONTHY. Dec. enormous branches, that filled the eye with a dozen beech billets burning briskly, and crack "The Gospel Railroad." glistening green and red and, in the embrasure ling underneath and aside it. This genial nnmmiinioatail bv Member of the G. H.

flung open, that he might hear the great clo'pk in the hall strike the quarters. There was a solemn hush of expectation, that made the sensative heart of Grace Carden thrill with anticipation. furnaco warmed the staircase and passages, and cast a fiery glow out on the carriage, and glorified of the front window stood a young holly tree, entire, eighteen feet high, and gorgeous with five hundred branches of red berries. The tree God's car of Salvation, is now passing by, Oh I who'll gora pilgrimage home to the sky the steel helmets and breast-plates of the Rabys on the walls, and the sparkling eyes of the two had been dug up, and planted here in an enor- The clock struck the first quarter dead Ye wretched and needy, ye lame and ye blind, A right hearty welcome on board you will sarty we find. Deautitul women who, jioyy stood opposite it mous oucKet, usea ior mat purpose, ana nuea suence the second the third dead silence.

the pride of their youth," and were warmed to with mould. Close behind the tree were placed But, as the fourth, and with the first stroke of' the heart by its crackle and glow. "Ohl what two of the wax-pillars, lighted, and their flame midnight, out burst the full organ and a glorious fire, this bitter night. Why, I never shone through the leaves and berries magically, voices, with the "Gloria in excelsis Deo;" and, saw such a A a Mim fUnfon. nntnriut um as -that divine hymn surged on.

the lighters ran Our blessed Conductor will help you on board, And gracious assistance and comfort afford He'll see to your baggage, that nothing be lost If is the Yule log, Miss. Ay, and you room th complacency, and settled on the hollv alon the wafla and lighted the eighty And grant a through passage, without price or might go all round and not find its tree. At sight of that, she pinched Mr. Baby's and for tho time, the twelve waxen pillars, fellow, I trow. But our Squire he don't go to arm, and cried.

"Oh!" three times Then. 80 that 88 tne hymn concluded, the room was cost. the chandler's shop for his yule log, but to his ignoring the dinner table altogether, she pulled in a blaze' was Christmas Day." Jut see that your treasures are every one given. own woods, and fells a great tree." her host awav to the tree and stood bfifor it To Christ the Conductor, and laid up in Profanity. Then they went up stairs with the servant, Wuh clasped' hands.

"Oh. how beautiful." and Grace was ushered into a bed-room of vast Heaven For you and your treasure, at whatever cost Must all go together, be saved, or be lost. Mr. Raby looked at the glowing cheek, spark Profanity is one of the greatest sins size, with two fires burning at each end; each to which' man is addicted. fire-place was flanked with a coal scuttle 'full of ling, sapphire eye.

Come," said he after jail there's nothing here so beautiful as the Ohl come, weary waiting one, take the first cannel coal in large lumps, and also with an God abhors and often punishes it young lady who now honors the place with enormous basket of beech billets. She admired train, with death. He will not hold the her presence." Wjth this lie handed her For daylight is passing, and night comes the old-fashioned furniture, and said: "Ob, ceremoniously to a place at his right hand said man guiltless' that takes his name in amain; what a palace of a bed-room 1 This will spoil a grace, and sat down between his two No time to turn homeward, to bid friends adieu me for my little poky room. Here one can roam OrllAQtfl 11 "1-1 i All Heaven is waiting to see the train through. about and have great thoughts." At about eight o'clock, a servant announced ne win suner no person to trample Presently her quick ear caught the.

rattle of candles in the drawing-room. Upon this Mr. uponhlS holy law with impUDity. This train has no depot, or station up town, swift wheels upon the hard road: she ran to the Raby rose, and without giving her any option No wealthy, wise persons of fame or renown window and peeped behind the curtain. Two on the matter, handed her to the door.

with Have ever been willing to leave their abode brilliant lamps were in sight, and drew nearer obsolete deference. And travel with pilgrims, this cross bearing it is, as we know, a use! ess sin: it confirms no man's words. It is the most vulgar sin that ever was let loose he who swears loses at once the respect of his hearers. It is a Tea and coffee came directly afterward, and and nearer, like great goggling eyes, and soon a neat dog-cart came up tp the door. Before it road.

No room for indulgence in any known sin, In snuff or tobacco, in brandv or gin ere they were disposed of, a servant announced the "Wassailers." v. had well stopped, the hospitable door flew open, and the yule fire shone on Mr. Coventry, and his "Let them come in," said Mr. Raby. work for devils, not men.

When you natty groom, and his dog-cart with plated axles; No room for a mason, odd-fellow or knight, Thefschool children and young people of the vniir mar, c0 it illuminated the silver harness, and the roan No walking in darkness, and calling it light. village trooped in and made their obeisances, i horse himself, and the breath, that poured into and sang the Christina's carol: WmUI1 uommun B8.J em No running to Egypt for barley or corn, the keen air from his nostrils, red inside. Mr, But running to Heaven, through tempest and Coventry dropped from his shoulders, with easy storm, God rest you merry gentlemen, -Owper wrote some lines about pro- Let nothing you dismay. fanity which it would be worthwhile Then one of the party produced an image of fr you learn." grace, something between a coat and a cloak, On, on, through the battle, the din and the strife, lined throughout with foxes' skins; and, alight On, on to the evergreen mountains of life. ing, left his groom to do the rest The fur was the Virgin and Child, and another offered com- "No true gentleman ever swore" forts in a box the third presented the Wassail saA wmm9n TTa11 Tf reddishj relieved with occasional white and Christmas in England.

Grace gloated over it, as it lay glowing in the cup, into which Mr. Raby immediately poured fire light. "Ah," said she, "I should never do Christmas time iu' England has been so beau for a poor man's wife -t I'm so fond of soft furs some silver, and Mr. Coventry followed his ex- uuvcu ui vum uy any man, ample. The Wassailers departed and the Squire shows plainly enough that there is went to say'a kind word to his humbler guests, a vein of coarseness within which no tifully described with great minuteness by Ir and things, and I don't like poky rooms.

1 ving, that it leaves nothing to be said by any It was nearly eleven o'clock when Mr. Raby oentlemanl exterior nan hM Grace gave the last, 'swift, searching, all who may follow him. be he obscure or well- i i rejoined, them, and they all went into supper- known. Some of us have been partakers of its coniprenensiye iook oi ner sex, into the glass, private hospitalities, and perhaps of the public and went down to me Rawing room. There she 4 a There were candles lighted on the table, and a m7 D'fd to hear, the blest Supreme, i 1.

-1 j. 1 I npvoiou UU OVOlJf Willi UK hi ceremonies attending the celebration of this iov- found Mr- Eaby and Mr- Coventry, who both tew flere and there uPon the walls-; but the Maintain your rank, vulgarity desDise. ful and solemn time, and none so privileged can her cordiaUy and the next moment room vei7 sombre, and Mr. Raby informed To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise." JI j. ever forget the hearty way in which "rich and uluuer wa8 "nnouncea.

them this was to remind thenj.oFthe moral darkness in which the world laybefore that poor meet together," giving and receiving good "Raby Hall" was a square house with two feeling and loving kindness. Memory recalls a large, low wings. The left wing contained the great event they were about to celebrate. He G. EL S.

At the November meet: ing of the Guard of Honor," Charles Hayden, was elected and 'initiated as then helped each of them to a ladleful of furmi- Christmas time in Sussex, where that pleasant kitchen, brew-house, eta, and servants' bed, ty, remarking at the same time, with a smile, anniversary was ushered in by the singing of rooms a Dove. The right wing, the stables, the Christmas eve carols! Early in the eve- coach-house, The main building, the hall, that they were not obliged, to eat it; there an active member. would be a very different suDner after midnio Ai rv i -m ning small parties of little children, accompa- the best bed-rooms, and the double stair-case, Jiii me JLeueinuer meeting frame Then a. black letter Bible was brought himi Ur i nied by one of their elders arrived, and being leading up to them in horse-shoe form from the and he read it all to himself at a side table. was ciwiasu.

as an xxonorary admitted into the hall, sang carols of which the hall, and, behind the hall, on Jhground floor, After an interval of silence so passed, there Dlember, atd William Woodall was words and music were alike quaint Copper coins there was a morning-room, in which several of was a gentle tap at the bay Mr. Raby elected and initiated as an active and cakes, prepared for the purpose, were dis- the Squire's small tenants were even now pre- went and threw it open, and immediately a wo- member. tributed among them, and they were succeeded paring for supper by drinking tea, and eating by other young persons, and they in turn by cakes made in rude imitation of the infant man voice tull, clear and ringing, sang out An additional by-law was decided side: Christ. On the right of the hall were the two working men called waits. Later in the eve I upon wnich is as lollows Any drawinir.rnnma miti and nr.

tho A he nrst JNoel the angel's did sav. ning, before retiring, a large silver cup, with two remarkable room, into which' the host now hand- Was to thre8 Poor shepherd's, in fields as they person elected to active membership handles, filled with a hot and spicy liquor was in tne "tfuard ol Honor Societv. ed Miss Carden, and Mr. Coventry followed. i lay brought the hostess, who, rising took it, and On a cold winter's night that was so'deep.

This room had been, originally, the banqueting. drank to the health of every person present, each one in turn receiving it and drinking to the hall. It. was about twenty feet high, twentv- i rest. This little ceremony has been recalled wei wia? 811(1 mty leet ana ended In chiefly an introduction to very beautiful an enormous bay window that opened upon the Charual Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Born is the King of Israel.

The chorus was also sung outside. During the chorus one of the doors Opened, piece of writing, that although occurring in a lawn- 14 was entirely paneled with oak, novel, gives a very good idea of how Christmas and caed by old Flemish workman, and adorn failing to appear for initiation at the time of election, shall present himself at the first regular meeting following his election, for initiation if not present at that time, his election shall be declared null and void." Sec. 3d, Article IV. was also revised to read as follows: "Any member proved to be unfaithful to his and Jael Dence came in by it and the treble might be celebrated in tf house, where neither ed here and there with bold devices. The oak money nor labor is spared to give splendor to the havinS Krown old ln a Pure atmosphere, and in a singer, who was a blacksmith's sister, cam in at the window, and so the two women met in the room, and sang, the second verse in sweetest harmony.

These two did not sing like in hospitalities of the season. It is not difficult to district where wood and roots were generally imagine that the scene really did occur just as it burned in dining-rooms, had acquired a is heroTi wonderfully described, and we are rich and beautiful color, a pure and healthy red valids, as their more refined sisters too often do sure that aft, who have not already made them- disn- brwn, with no tinge whatever of black, selves familiar with it, will thank us for intro- Plaster veiling there was none, and nete had ducingthem to the following'delightful extract beeD- The joists and beams, and boards were from their chests and healthy lungs, and duties and obligations as' a member noble throats, and above all, their musical hearts, of the Society -shall- be liable to" they poured out the harmony so clear and full, suspension, and if continuing in said that every glass in the room rang like a harp, unfaithfulness shall be liable to public and a bolt of ice seemed to shoot down' Grace exrmlsinn and nnWinfttinn still there, only not quite so rudely fashioned as of 'old for Mr. Raby's, grand-father had caused from a late work of Charles Reade E. B. A.

Carden's back-bone, and ln the chorus, gentle "On the twenty-fourth of December, Miss them to be planed and varnished and gilded a little in serpentine lines. This woodwork above Cardan nnd Tlflnrw drnva in Pairntmna village, and stopped at the farm. They waited gaVf nob1i.li to T00a and lt0iiae ough there but a minute or two to light the carriage -R-eeaoiy. lamps, and then went up.the hill. It was pitch Tne farther end was used as a study, and one George's bass was like a diapason.

Thoy looked up and saw a star That shone in the East beyond them, far. And unto the earth it gave a great light, And so it continued both day and night. Chorus. Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel, Born is the King of Israel The Sixth Annual Christmas Festival given by the members of the Society and Class, will take place -Monday, evening, the twenty-third of December, at. the Academy, Park Place.

Friends are invited to attend. All tickets are complimentary, and can be had by application to the members of the Class, after the dark when they reached the house. Inside, one 8ide il graced with books, all handsomely of Mr. Raby's servants was on the lookout for bound the other side, with a very beautiful or-the sound of wheels, the visitors no 8an tDat tad an vel mirror in the midst of its need to knock or ring this was a point of honor P11 dummy-pipes. All this made a cozy nook in As the Noel proceeded, some came in at the with the master of the mansion; when he did the grand room, window, others at the doors, and the lower part eighteenth of the month.

What might be called the dining-room part, of the room began to fill with singers and though rich, was rather sombre, on 'ordinary invite people, the house opened its arms I even as they drove up, open flew the great hall-door, and an enormous fire inside blazed in their faces, and shot its flame beyond them out Into the night. occasions; but this nignt it was decorated gloriously. TEV materials were simple wax candles, and holly; the effect was produced by auditors. What is there to evince good taste The Woel ended; there' wis silence, during refinement of education more which the organ was opened, the bellows blown, tnan the style of note Upon and a number of servants came into the room which you write. At llerger Ul- with lighted tapers, and stood, in a long row, No.

865 Main street, the most awaiting a signal from the Squire. delicate tints and most fashionable lie took out his watch, and, finding it was sizes are to be found in envelopes and close on twelve o'clock, directed the doors to be paper. i a magmflcient use or these materials. There were eighty candles, of the largest and, -1 Grace entered a lofty hall, httng with helmets, pikes, breast-plates, bows, cr'oBS-bows, antlers, etc, etc. Opposite her was the ancient chimney-piece and ingle-nook, with no grate, but two huge iron dogs, set five feet apart and on them lay a birch log and root, the size of a man, with twelvo wax pillars, five feet jlllgh, and the size' of a man's calf; of these, four only were lighted at present The holly was not in sprigs, but in.