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Feb. GUARD OF HONOR MONTHLY. Th Two Coins. blessed is the work in" which we are engaged, Bible for this object; buf; now we feel that we must ask help from others, for we have a work in hand that truly claims the support of all. who and I believe with some detrree of success.

But with a saloon on almost every corner, is it a town to- halt on God's cause in out city. Need wonder that many fall Into the snares thus set more be said to convince the world of tho power for them but for all such who have been led Ben Adam had a golden coin, one Which he put at interest with a Jew; Year after year, awaiting it lay, i Until the doubled coin" two pieces grew; And the two, four, bo on, till people said: ful influence exerted by a number of young men astray we are always ready tfj take by the hani and. shield them by our influence that they fallibanded together, with Christ for their Xieaaer, notflffam and christian principles for tfceir guide, inins principles for their guide, 44 How rich Ben Adam ial" and bowed the ser The Spider's Bridge. One chilly dy I was left at home alone, and after I was tired reading Robinson Crusoe, I caught a snjder and brought him into the house to play with, Funny kind of play-mate wasn't it "Well, I took a wash-basin and fastened up a stick in it like a liberty-pole, or vessel's mast, and then poured in water enough tp turn the mast into an island for my spider, which I named Crusoe, and put him on the "As soon as he was fairly In talking with a young man whose parents not, for I believe you will agree with me, that much good hasijeen done by our influence with keep a saloon, he said, We never allow a man each other. to get drunk in our Raloon I despise a drunkard and could kick him into the Rutter." This is the vile head.

Ben Selim had a golden coin, that day, Which to a stranger asking alms he gave, Who went rejoicing on his unknown way. Ben Selim died, too poor to buy a grave; Many have been the changes whicn have, taken place in the year which is faBt drawing to feeling.the tippler has for the drunkard, and still he follows in his track until he too finds he has a close. Some of our members who were with us at our last celebration, are in distant States lost all control of his appetite and cannot stop But when his soul reached heaven, angels, with laboring for the advancement-of Christ's King when at last he feelsAe is sinking into a drunk pride dom, and often do" we receive letters frona them Showed him the wealth to which his coin had ard's grave. It is the aim of our Society to lift telling us the good we did them when they up the fallen, as well as to save others from fall multiplied. cast away, he anxiously commenced running round to rind the road to the mainland.

He'd scamper down the ing. 3 were with us, and then they urge us to continue on in the work. But one of our number has been called to cross the dark river of Death this Other temptations that are to be met every day, are those of anger, fighting and unkindly The President's Address. feelings towards those who continually annoy mast to "the water, stick out a foot, ge it wet, shake it run' round the stick year; we mourn iue iu beloved brother Mortimer SwaUow, still we us; ana snouia we yieia in me ieass uj our tempers, they are not slow to take advantage of ihe that God Has been very merciful to us. As we We have been requested to print the- address of the President of the Guard tor Honor sat in the room below last Christmas, which of iXLLXJi VI VLLJ Lilly 1 01V-4Uj MlXl UUlLA 1U11 back up to the top again.

Pretty soon opportunity to, throw reproach on our Society, us thought that in a few Bhort months one who of December at the annual Christmas Festival ough but one member has been to blame, and that under severe Notwithstanding was in our midst would be called home, never to meet us more till at the Judgment Seat of God, it will be interesting to many who were not able the opposition we have met with, we have eve' it became a serious matter, with Mr. Robinson, and he sat down to think it over. As in a pioment he acted as if he wanted" to shout for a boat and was afraid he was going to be hungry, Let us so live then, that when we too are called we-may be ready. It is not probable that we to ho nraflnnt that oTAninir 1 Beloved Teacher, Friends and Brothers work we have prayerfully gone at it, and what, who are here to-night will all meet here a year hence. It may be that God will call me to leave We havn nRHAmhlul hrn for a.

tumfnIH nhinnt. I at first, first, to celebrate the'anniversary of the birth of yielded ur combined efforts- and w.e haTe the friends I have found, before anotner 'year tso I put a little molasses on the stick. shall pass away, or it may be some of you A fly came, but Crusoe wasn't hungry our Leader, the Lord Jesus Christ, and secondly never failed to see a good result, as a ciass we because it is the desire of our Director and haT had encounter the disadvantage of a A i if room not of sufficient size to enable us to ait may be called. We know not, but, my friends, for flies just then. He was homesick let us work while the day lasts, and do aU the i i A with comfort and too close to allow us to breathe work, aa of our frinndH oa nnamhlA Tt I wim vmuiiwid, ou wv for his web in he corner of the wood good we can, forat best life is short -n-u tn taA the pure air.

However, of these inconveniences, the average attendance warmest Welcome to whatever njorment we 01 -l. I Ik. rraar hat Vinon flhoilt BlXW eaCU for the past has been aoout sixty eacn Thanking you for the patience and interest with which you have listened to me, and hoping that my remarks have given you a glimpse of the work of our members that will increase your shed. He went slowly down the pole to the water and touched it all around shaking his feet like pussy when she year may be able to offer you to-night Have I not Sunday. Thus you see that by the efforts of a pleasant duty to perform? Ask the soldier who has returned from the war to relate some our laitniui leacuer, uiuou yj wets her stockings in the grass, and suddenly a thought appeared to strike interest in our prosperity, I will give place to that which will doubtless be more entertaining.

John H.1 Oakes. class of half-a-dozen has increased rapidly, until to-day it is one of the' grandest sources for good him. Up he went like a rocket to the incident of the struggle for right, and see with what a degree of pleasure he will comply, with your request It is my privilege to relate some agreeable incidents not of a war between two in our city. There has been an average aitena. ahce of four strangers every Sunday, making a total of sixteen hundred and sixty-four since the top and commenced playing circus.

He held one foot in the air, then an- other, and turned round two or three i-r 1 1 1 nations, but of a contest between right and wrong as experienced in our Society and class class was organized; add to this number the andfmy friends, do not think that in the incidents names on our roll, which are two hundred and thirty-six. and you have nineteen hundred persons I relate I exaggerate any of thevarious temp who have directly heard the Word of God urged times, lie got excited ana neariy stood on his head before I found out what he knew and thatwas this: that the draught of air made by the fire tations which surround our members on every hand. We all have our-weak points, and it on their thoughts in our class. Of the number many have hSfi privately talked with, and admitted that to have been the first time they had seems to me as if the adversary wai well aware what they aret for in the place where we are Tobacco versus Intellect. At the nearest recollection the internal revenue report of last, year showed that the United States consumed about ten million cigars during that time.

Many old smokers prefer the pipe to the cigar, and probably as much tobacco is consumed in that way as in cigars. However out of the way numerically tae previous statement may be, it is" true that they are in this 12,294 manufacturers, of cigars, and they employ 71,491 men. Wherever tobacco can be raised, the farmer been in the House of God for years. Thus you would carry a line ashore on which he would escape from his desert island. weakest we have to meet the strongest attacks.

But before I go farther let me explain to. those see that we have been encouraged to press on in this good work. lie pushed out a web that went noat- wlware not familiar with the Class and Societyi About one year ago we -were told we would ingin the air until it caught on the. their origin and object, and the position they have to vacate the lot on wnicn our uncom table. Then he hauled in the rope fortable building now steads.

'With no money until it was tight, struck it several hold. What is now known as their Young Men's Bible Class of Wells Street Chapel was started on Exchange street in the same building we now occupy. Miss C. Mulligan was its teacher, and had five or, six pupils. Steadily its numbers imes to see if it was strong enough to hold him, and walked 1 with which to help ourselves, and no prospect but that the school should 1 be given up, what should we do.

The subject was brought up in our Class Prayer Meeting! which hi held in our room belovsvery Friday evening. A meeting was also called at the house of our teacher, and some good men interested in the school were hought he had earned his liberty, so increased, till the teacher saw thftta greater influence could be exerted bv a closer union of put him back in his wood-shed the class with each other, hence the idea of the it One, of the most profitable crops, and cpnsequently is very apt to cultivate it. Its use increases from year to yeajj in a greater ratio than the population. People differ so widely as to again. Hearth and Home.

Guard of Honor which has been the means of making so many of us better men. The Society was organized March, 1868, by the election of a present, and while they talked of oui wants, we prayed God would bless their efforts in our behalf, and that something might be done to relieve bur wants. While still in the meeting we received the news that a subscription list had An old colored man was left in ihtfrge of a telegraph' office, in New its effects that it only just, whenever a candid statement is made of any test to give i't publicity. Uecently, at the Orleans, while the operator went out set of officers, the adoption of a Constitution and Pledge. It chose for its Leader-the Lord Jesus Christ, and for, its motto, "Watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation." Its ob-ject was the instruction of its members, the acquiring- of good morals, and mannners and to see a man." A 44 call came over been started, and that a good sum had already been subscribed.

With a prayer of thankfulness to God we separated, each feeling that a new work rested on him. Our teacher took the list, he wires, and Uncle Pete' shouted at Polytechnic school in. Paris, one of the professors inquired into the habits of the instrument as loud as he could, good habits in general. Many were the disad De operator isn't yer The noise vantages tmder which the young Society labored, and together with Mr. Curtiss, by earnest and hard work for eight hours each day, succeeded the one hundred and sixty students there, and then made a comparison between their devotion'fo study and ceased instantly.

and it is hut justice to our Director to say, that in raising ten thousand dollars. Previous to this many an "enjoyment has she denied herself that to smoke. He found that one hun she might give pleasure to its members, and thus A Frenchman who had been anx keep them from the sins they might have fallen our teacher rhad instituted a system of mite collections, furnishing each member who wished with a small box, into which he should drop any money he might wish to give' to charitable purposes. Thus by our united contributions quite into for well she knows, by her experience with ious to attend Quaker Meeting was asked how he liked after his first experience. "How Hike it? it was us, that young people will have entertainment, and if they cannot get it in a good place, then they resort to ihe saloon and other places pf sin an amount was raised, which was handed to the Treasurer of the School Fifty dollar? was sent to the sufferers by the great fire.

Some was enough to kill the devil." "That is dred and two were smokers and fifty-eight never used, or said they never used, the noxious, weed. He then found that in each gradeSnJhe school the students who did riot outranked those who did smoke, and that the scholarship of the smokers steadily deteriorated as the smoking continued On account of several trust; and vice. At her own expense she had a beauti- ..1 precisely what it is for, friend," answered one of the broad-brims. tui mm uuui lui uui uoo, huu iu many uiuor sent to a Sunday School in the West, of which ways has she endeavored to cive us the onnor-1 one of our members is ooperuitendent some tJ tunityof good healthy enjoyment i was expended in our own city. Since 'we have One of the strictest articles in our Pledge is been trying to build a Chapel, we have given Would you take the last, cent a that of total abstinence from anything that can our mites to the brick fund these mites have thus far amounted to one hundred dollars.

intoxicate, and let me here relate one' of the many temptations which we have to meet ''We are out with some companions are thrown into The Guard of Honor Society wishing, to worthy reports of such a nature the Minister of Public Instruction in France issued a circulaV to the' directors of colleges and schools for' person has for a glass of soda water?" asked a Yankee youth. "Yes," responded the unthinking proprietor whereupon hopeful pulled out a cent and got the drink. aid in the good work, has started a paper called the 44 Guard oj Honor Monthly," thj company of those who indulge in the glass; we are. asked to drink and refuse we are then urod to take but rm fnr the scrintiou for which is fifty cents a year. It is so bidding tobacco to students as injurious to physical tfnd intellectual development But a writer In a Paris "medical There were easjr ways that ran iournal comrjlains that the use of I wuv DUA VI friendship, but with a prayer to God to sustain arranged that the advertisements nearly pay the us, and the remembrance of the Pledge we have expense of printing.

Our teacher, Vho edits taken in the society, we, in the face of scoffing the paper, gives her services for nothing, so that and insult, again answer no. I ask, is there a every fifty cents you give Is nearly clear profit father or mother here who has a son who is in for the CliapeL If asked to take a copy, do not the habit of using intoxicating If so, is refuse, when you. can do so much good with so- he a joy or tomfort to youT No, you answer, little effort It lias always been our pleasure better were he in his grave than ever to become 'nce we have-been a Class- and Society to help a drunkard. Such a parent realize hbw others, making ouj own expenses light as'pos- around the base of the hill Difficulty, but the name of "the one was Danger, and of the other Destruction; tobacco will not probably cease entire ly so long as Sunday schools furnish meerschaum pipes as prizes to the best only ngnt way was Biraignt up "the hilL scholars. ITartord Courant,.