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V _________________________________â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"- _____________________.â€"â€"â€"â€" l ‘ YOUNG FOLKS. The Gingerbread Tree. Oil, do you know, and do you know, Tue tree where risen doughnuts grow. And in a shower come tumbling down, All sugary and crisp and brown? And did you ever chance to see The plum cakes on this charming tree 2 And reaching o'er the fence perhaps A stem just strung with gingersnapsl The house stands close beside the street ; Around its roof the branches meet. If on look up, above your head Fa 1 down great squares of gingerbread. 0.ce when I went inside the door. Through the wide window to the floor A bough came bending all apart, And tossed me in a jelly tart. Whoever lives there, I must say, Though he is lame and old and gray, What a rare gardener he must be, And, oh, how happy with that tree I My mother says that very few Gingerbread trees she ever know, And none shook down, it seems to her, Like this, an apple turnover. Some days it drops upon the ground, Soft, soft, a frosted heart, and round, And sometimes, when the branches stir, Such cookies rain as never were. And you can guess, oh, you can guess, That if ’tis too far at recess, Yet all the children, as a rule, Go slow there coming home from school. Hirriet Prescott Spofi'ord. ____â€"â€" THE SUN. BY THE REV. EDSON A LOWE. “ Let’s go out aid see the sun I” That's what I said to a lot of boys and girls the other day. I had a telescope, and when I showed itâ€"all polished brassâ€"to the juveniles, you should have seen the way they forgot that Rilph was “ old man “ .in one game, and Busy was ” it ” in another; and we all walked out to see the sun. You may be sure that my eye was resting upon my own sweet friend, Elizabeth, who is so timid. She walked alone out in the field, athered odd little flowers, and was always Ico‘king in a “ I-see-eomething-that-ycu- don’t-see ” kind of a way. “ Well, boys, you know God says ‘ I am a sun,’ and I wish to-day we might find out what it means. Let's stop and think, and see what We know about the sun. All of you try and tell me something about the sun while we are walking over to that cool, shady hill.” ‘f The sun gives light," said Tom. “ What also gives light 1" I asked. “ The moon I" cried Alice. “ Oh, but that's the sun's light I" cried Tom. “ The moon's only a looking glass reflecting the sunlight,â€"~the way I did in school the other day." “ Yes ; but what also gives light 2" " Gas and lamps I” said Tom. “ But gas is made from coal," I said; “ and coal was once wood that grew by the light of the sun, and so gas-light is sun- light of bygone years preserved in the earth. But does the sun do anything beside give light 1‘“ “ Best I” cried several. “ Well, I should say so i" said Bess. “ Why did I bring this sack ?" “ I'll carry it, Bass," said John. John comes from Philadelphia. He's and the boys didn’t know visiting here; whatto think of this politeness. all liked him. He is so manly. “Yes,” I said, “the sun gives us heat. Now, boys and girls, I want you to think. Stop lau hing and talking and fooling. and thhk. i you can't think for a few minutes, I don't want you to go along. thinking society to-day. Tell me what the sun docs." “ The sun makes the flowers grow," said Bess timidly. " Den do sun made dis daisy,” said dar- ling Elizabeth. "The sun makes the clouds rise out of the ocean down south, and sends them to give us water," said Nell. “ The sun makes the snow by holding back his boat," said Ralph. “ I wish it would snow," said innocent Elizabeth. “ Why," cried Alice, " if the sun does all this, he does almost everything 1 Think of the light, and how much we need it to see, and of the heat, that makes the flowers and plants and trees blossom, and of the water and the beautiful clouds, the brooks and waterfalls and springs and everything I" "Yes," I said: "we must take every- thing and put it at the feet of the sun. It belongs to him.” " De sun has no feet." said Elisabeth. And we all laughed. But then I heard John say : " When we stop and think, the sun does almost everything ; doesn’t he 2 ‘ “That’s just it,” I said. “ When we ‘ stop and think.‘ But we never do. And do you know that's just the way with God? When we stop and think, we are surprised that we can forget him who made us and the sun and the world. Now, let us remember that God wants us all to ‘stop and think.’ We know a great deal about him, and we must not treat him the way we do the sun, â€"-forget all that he is doing." Here we reached the hill, and I began to adjust the telescope. Tom tried to find the nest of a robin that flew from a maple tree. Ralph had gotten into mud, and was clean- ing his shoes. Elizabeth was singing: 2‘ God mate my life a little light, Within the world to glow," But we and gathering a bunch of dandelicns and John was holding Bessy‘s sack, and, with others, was watching me intently. very Birds and flowers made the air fragrant and melodious, and it was a bright and Bow, our great Newfoundlsnd d , was following Elissbeth,â€"-hs was her ex sprawled on the Er, and rolled and growled. He was as v daisies. happy day. nurss.â€"but now he as the rest. “ ow, what are we going to study 7" I asked. And all answered : “ The sun I“ "Not exactly," I sud. After a few minutes, while I was adjust- ths telescope, Tom said, as if he were asha’rnsd: “God. “That’sit I" I said. “God.’3 “Which would you rather imamâ€"God or thesunf i asked. Rog-a named nudiwenton: We’re a "Now, I want you all to turn your eyes right at the sun, and tell me how it looks.” N one of them could do it. “It hurts 1" they cried. “My eyes are too weak. How can we see the sun 2" I asked. "Through the telesco e l” “Cm you see God?" asked. "No." "Who is the telescope that shows us our Father in heaven 2" Rilph said, "Jesus." “Ah, yes. We cannot see God ; but Jesus has revealed him to us, his great love for us, and his will that we should be saved. And Jesus ismore attractive and more useful and necessary that this telescope.” And I went on fixing the eye-piece. “Look out, sweetheart l" I said to Eliza- beth. Don't let the light shining through the telescope strike you. It will burn on.” y Elizabeth opened her great brown eyes, and stood back in the grass; and Neil asked : I “How can we look through the telescope, then I" “ We cannot," I answered. “ The light is too strong. We look in the side of the telescope, and see the light fall upon a little glass running slanting across the telescope.” Tom said, “ I'll look through the end I” And he blustered up to the instrument. “ It will put out your eye I” I said. “ And that’s the way we see God. No man can see God and live. You notice, a whole flood of light oes through the telescope ; and we can on y look at a faint little reflec. tion of the sun off here on the side. And so Jesus could have told us great truths about God that we were not able to bear ; but he only told us one simple and sweet gospel,â€" abont the love of God for us and his own loving death for us. Come here, Eliza.- beth I” And I picked up the curly darling, and let her look at the sun first. We all stood still, and, after a few minutes she asked : “ Is that God ‘2" “ No, sweetheart. That‘s the sun , but God is as bright and lovely and good.” “ Now, Tom I" I said, as I fixed the teles- cope. Tom looked. ‘ The telescope is moving ‘2” said Tom. ‘ Oh, no I" I said. “ You are mistaken. ” Tom looked again. “ Indeed, sir, the telescope is moving I" And I told them that the whole earth is moving, and we cannot see it until we look at the sun, and then we see how rapidly we move. And it is just the same when We look at God in Jesus Christ. We see that we are moving on into eternity. We forget it, and do not know how valuable time is until we look right at God ; and then we see We have no moment to lose in God's service. And if the children knew God, they should serve him at once. The boys and girls all looked at the sun. and I had them watch it closely. They saw the black spots upon its surface. They saw in these spots a black space in, the middle, called the umbra, and a lightepzedge around it, called the penumbra {and they. enjoyed watching the flakes of flaui'e','the'ifringes and sprays, playing about the edge of the spot. They saw the surface of the sun'looked as if it were movingâ€"little tiny spots of rice, rising and falling, coming and going. The edge of the sun had a dime bordering it. “ It is edged like the lace on Bessy's col- lar,-â€"isn't it '2" said Alice. N“1What apretty little thing it is i” said rl . i " I see cute little banners and streams, pufl‘s and sprays and arms," said Alice. " See any hands ‘2" asked Eliz .beth. “ Now, boys and girls, can you see Anille?" I asked. “ It is five miles away.” “ I think I can," said Ralph. “ Do you see the blue mountains over there ? ’ “ Where Y" several asked. “ Over there I They are thirty miles away.” At last some of us thought we could see the mountains. " Now, do you think you can see the sun, which is ninety-one mil‘ion miles away I" They all looked thoughtful. “ Well, I think we can," said Tom. “ But you cannot,” I said. Then they all rolled over in the grass and laughed. “ Excuse me, sir,” said John very polite- ly ; “ but I think I can see the sun." “ Oh I well." I said, of course, you see what you call the sun ; but that is not much like the real sun." "Why not i" asked Nell. “ Well, you remembar these spots! How large do you suppose they are ‘i" " As big as you are,” said Bess. “ See there I" I said : “ how little we know about the sun by simply looking at it. That spot is a hole in the outer surface of the sun, and is easily large enough to let our earth pass into it without touching the sides. Professor Young, of Princeton Col- lege, tells of one that was large enough to let eighteen earths like ours enter it side by side. l'ou know the rroon is a long distance from the earth (two hundred and forty thousand miles). But you can imagine how large the sun is when I tell you that, if the earth wore at the centre of the sun, and the moon revolvin around it, it would only be a little over he f-way betwaen the earth and the outside surface of the sun. You know the Himalayas are the highest mountains in the earth. Now, try and think of forty- fire Himalayas piled upon one another, ris ing and falling through thousands of miles. That is the kind of asurface the sun has.’ 1‘ “We do not see all that,â€"do we 2” asked 'ell. “ No I” they all answered. “ So we cannot see the sun, even with a telescope,” lsaid. “ We can see a little picture If It ; but the real, great, powernt sun we cannot see. And that's the way it is with God. Oh, how great he is I How glorious! We should always speak of him reverently, for he is so mighty, so infinitely exalted! He made ths sun and the heavens full of suns. And oh I my boys and girls, we should fear and love our great, great God. Now, tell me, is the sun all glory l" I asked. " It has spots on It." said Tom. “Yes, Tom; so it has. And you will find that there are blemishes that seem to mar our God. But those spots on the sun are not black. They look so ; but, if I had the instruments, 1 could show you that they are a deep ohsrry~rsd, the richest color in the sun; and they are not blemishes, all though they look as if they were. And that's the way it iswith God. People think there are blemishes on his character ; they a that sickness and deathandsinand showthst Godlsnotgood. But roallyare. Ifwekncwhowtosse them, I am sure we would find in them perhaps the greatest glory of God.” We then started home. Btu asked a number of questions. She did not know the sun really is so large. I found the nearly all enjoyed studying about the sun, at their interest in God was harder to arouse. John was the only one who thought God was more interesting than the sun. 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