INTELLIGENT Americans travelling in Europe are often mortified in witnessing the rudeness of many of their of the Dutch Reformed Church, writes countrymen abroad. Dr. E. S. Porter, from Edinburgh:

and leadership to a corrupt and de- through the car the effect would not have praved class of men. For as this say- been greater. Ingersoll turned literally ing is generally taken, it simply means: pale with rage, and remained silent. My party right or wrong. Or, as some The grand old woman lies under the politicians have put it: If Satan were prairie daisies now, but her courageous put on our ticket I would vote for him act "smells sweet, and blossoms in the to support the party." The standard- dust." bearer of a party ought to be a man of good character, and if not a professing Christian, at least one who shows a proper regard for the claims of the Gospel. For no other person ought a Christian to vote. In ordinary times the essential differences of the political parties are in reality not so vital as to make the triumph or defeat of the one or the other ruinous to the nation. Do not vote for a gambler, a drunkard, a licentious or lustful man; do not vote for an infidel, for a vile blasphemer, for a man who trims his sail for every breeze; who burns incense at every shrine of the Jew and Gentile, to gain votes. It is high time that the Christian voters of the nation should unite their votes for the best men-men of well-attested integrity and of an unblemished moral record. In this respect the Christian sentiment of Illinois has set the country a noble example in the defeat of one of her most brilliant citizens as a candidate for her highest office.

"As yet I have not been at a single hotel from which Americans have been absent for a day. But I have been intensely ashamed of some of them. Their coarse, consequential, fussy manners. prove that while they may have money, they have nothing more except that stitute for character and culture. The stupidity which makes money the subwell-bred English notice the vulgarity of these American fools and are swift to draw the inference that our country is the paradise of swells and snobs. It is not come abroad to learn something, a pity that these pitiable people could and take home a little more modesty than they bring with them. But to Inow how to travel requires large intelcan be expected of those who can neither ligence and liberal culture--and what read nor write the English language with propriety?"

Michael Faraday.

BY THE EDITOR.

NO. II.

SHORTLY after Robert G. Ingersoll was defeated in his race for the governorship of Illinois, he was one day boisterously and blasphemously proclaiming his infidelity on board of a railroadtrain between Chicago and Peoria. After being for some time offensively voluble, he turned to a gentleman near him and defiantly demanded, "Tell me of one good and great public result that Christianity has ever accomplished?" The gentleman, not wishing to open an The loves of men of genius are singuargument with the boaster, hesitated to larly unfortunate. How many of them answer. The train had stopped, and all have married in haste and repented at was silent in the car. Just then an old leisure! Some have no time, others no lady of eighty years, who sat just behind inclination for courtship and marriage. Mr. Ingersoll, touched his arm with her Not unfrequently they marry from a trembling hand and said, "Sir, I do not sense of duty or for purposes of conveknow who you are, but I think I can nience, more than from love. In some tell you of one glorious thing that Chris- people the intellect develops at the extianity has done." "What is it, Ma- pense of the heart. Strong-minded dam?" asked Ingersoll. "It has kept women, as a rule, are poor lovers, intelRobert G. Ingersoll from being gover- lectual, but cold. How large a number nor of the great State of Illinois. If of the best men of genius, from Socrates lightning had that moment flashed down, were ill-wedded! Some judg

Meanwhile Faraday's heart began

ment, discernment and, above all, good sense, are needed in such a matter; but to thaw, as thaws the frozen earth bethe heart must have a controlling voice. neath the spring sun. There was no The heathen, in a manner, got along use to resist it. All his attempts to with a blind Cupid, and their home life, fight down such a power were fruitless. from the gods of Olympus, down to the Who precisely the spring sun in his case slave, was as a rule heartless and home- was, no one but himself knew. Unwitle s. tingly she made a happy havoc in his heart, turning his cynical resolutions upside down;

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Making a dull fool of him who 'fore was wise."

On July 5, 1820, Sarah Barnhard received the following letter from Michael Faraday:

Faraday would hear nothing of love at an age when people usually are the most susceptible of it. In youth and early manhood he thought the pursuit of science was too important to fritter away time on anything else; not even on the charms of woman. To act the gallant as other young men did, would rob him of time, he thought. Besides, I do myself. You know my former he had no taste for it. The following prejudices, and my present thoughts; lines in his note-book give his views on you know my weaknesses, my vanity, the subject at this time: my whole mind. You have converted me from one erroneous way; let me

"What is the pest and plague of human life?

"You know me as well or better than

And what the curse that often brings a wife? hope you will attempt to correct other

'Tis love.

ways that are wrong. Again and again I attempt to say what I feel, but I cannot. Let me, however, claim not to be the selfish being that wishes to bend your affections for his own sake only. In whatever way I can best minister to your happiness, either by assiduity or by absence, it shall be done. Do not injure me by withdrawing your friendship, or punishing me for aiming to be more than a friend by making me less. And if you cannot grant me more, leave me what I possess, but hear me."

Thus a bashful girl unintentionally converted the strong-minded young man into a lover. Unintentionally? Without design or effort? That we do not know for certain. For who would blame this young lady for trying to be as charming as possible when Faraday visited the home of the silversmith in Paternoster Row? Of course he simply returned the calls of Edward Barnard. Are we certain that this was his only object?

At that time a young man, Edward Barnhard, was in the habit of calling on Faraday. His father, a silversmith Like a good girl, the astonished lady in Paternoster Row, near St. Paul's showed Faraday's letter to her father. Church, was an elder in the church "Love makes fools of philosophers," which Faraday attended. The young was his unamiable reply. Beyond this friend saw the note-book, with Fara- he had no advice to give. day's ungallant verses. Of course he What should she do? Evidently, as told his sister Sarah. And she told- often happens in such cases, her mind how many others? He may be a clever was perceptibly perplexed. She must young man, but what a monster! "A woman hater!" thought many of the fair ladies.

say, Yes or No. To say either little word would involve much for her and her lover. In company with a sister,

partly for reflection, perhaps partly for mental diversion, she visited Ramsgate. Three weeks later Faraday followed her thither, pressing his suit. Did he now think of the verses against love in his note book? How this same love now made a "dull fool" of him?

"The heights of Dover" are familiar to all tourists who have ever passed that way. The high hill overlooking the town is the last object you see sailing from this harbor towards France or the Netherlands, and the first to greet your eyes as you approach it by sea. The two lovers make an excursion from Ramsgate to Dover, ascend the heights. perhaps pluck a wild flower here and there as they slowly climb up its slopes. On its top, whilst enjoying the grand outlook over land and sea, they twain pledged heart and hand.

Many had known and admired Faraday as a young man of extraordinary talent, application and promise; had known his insensibility to female charms. What has come over the cool-headed, calm-spirited, enthusiastic man of science? Poor Faraday seems hardly to know himself. He says:

In his book of notes he calls his marriage "a source of honor and happiness which far exceeds" those of all the honors and events of his life; it contributed more than any other to his earthly happiness and healthful state of mind. "The union has continued for twentyeight years, and has no wise changed, except in depth and strength of character." Amid the ardor of his scientific researches and discoveries, he tires of the dull details of things when absent from his wife, and wants to talk of love to her. "The theme was a cheerful and delightful one before we were married; but it is doubly so now. We are happy, and our God has blessed us with a thousand causes why we should be so."

Amid the many marks of honor bestowed upon him, at a meeting of the British Association, held in Birmingham in 1848, he writes to her: "After all, there is no pleasure like the tranquil pleasures of home; and here—even here-the moment I leave the table, I wish I were with you IN QUIET. what happiness is ours! My runs into the world in this way only serve to make me esteem that happiness the more."

Oh!

"I could not master my feelings or prevent them from sinking, and I ac- Few men of science have been as tually at last shamed myself by moist happily mated. Every pleasure and eyes. *** Sincerity takes away all recreation he and his wife must mutually the policies of love. The man who can share. They went little into what is manage his affairs with the care and called society. For that he had no coolness of his usual habits is not much taste. Once a year he would, from a in earnest. Though the one who feels sense of duty, attend the levee of his is less able than the one who does not sovereign. Beyond that he found his to take advantage of circumstances as greatest enjoyment and solace around they occur, still I would not change the his quiet hearth. honorable consciousness of earnest affection and sincerity, for the cool caution and procedure of a mind at ease, though the first were doomed to failure and the last were blessed with success."

The following June, less than a year later, they were married. According to his wish, the ceremonies were attended with as little commotion as possible; there was 66 'no bustle, no noise, no hurry." 'It is in the heart we expect and look for pleasure." At their marriage he was nearly thirty years of age, and she twenty-one. England is noted for its happy homes, its pcculiarly genial firesides. None more so ever graced the domestic annals of Great Britain than that of Michael and Sarah Faraday.

After the day's hard work he walked out on pleasant evenings, "hand in hand with my dear wife, to enjoy the sunset." In writing to friends, he must needs speak of her who, with meek and wifely affection, was his good angel. "We are both very thankful for each other's company, and for the abundant blessings God has granted us." Thus he wrote at sixty-two. Two years later he wrote:

"My wife and I go on our way together; our happiness arises from the same things, and we enjoy it together with, I hope, thankfulness to the Giver of every good and perfect gift."

In 1863, four years before his death, he wrote to her from Glasgow:

"I long to see you, dearest, and to Prince of Wales attended these lectures talk over things together, and to call to to little children, and sent Faraday mind all the kindnesses I have received. their written thanks for the pleasure My head is full, my heart also; but my they derived from them. One deaf norecollection rapidly fails, even as regards bleman attended them because he liked the friends that are in the room with to see the happy faces of the little ones. You will have to resume your old function of being a pillow to my mind, and a rest, a happy making wife."

me.

At a friendly evening gathering, he asked to see the children of the family. The "wee things" had already been put to bed. When the oldest daughter marched them in their night gowns to the foot of the stairs, the dear man was overjoyed with the lovely scene, and said: "Ah, that's the best thing you have done to-night."

Outside of Faraday's letters, we are told little about the excellencies of his wife. They made no parade in the salons of fashion, which they might have done. Whilst the great and noble were proud in counting them among their acquaintances and friends, one never One of his little nieces was a frequent finds either of them toadying to lords inmate of his home. With her childand ladies. Only the few who were sewing in hand, she loved to sit quietly admitted into the more sacred privacies in the laboratory, watching him at his of their home life, saw what a haven of experiments. Now and then he would peace it was. Prof. Tyndall says that please her with a kind word or a nod, Faraday, "in his relation to his wife, or set a glass of water a burning by added chivalry to affection, and to her dropping a bit of potassium into it. loving care his fellow-workers and the She says: "In all my childish troubles world are indebted for the enjoyment he was my never-failing comforter, and of his presence here so long." seldom too busy if I stole into his room Outside of his study hours he sought to spare me a few minutes; and when to unbend in a rational way. Sitting I was naughty and rebellious, how together at their cozy fireside, he would gently and kindly he would win me read to his wife from some favorite round, telling me what he used to feel English author; from Shakespeare, himself when he was young, advising Walter Scott, Coleridge, parts of Byron and other poets. Gray's Elegy he could repeat from memory, when he could remember little else.

Some pleasant evenings they would visit the zoological garden together, where he would laugh at the odd pranks of the monkeys until the tears ran down his cheeks.

me to submit to the reproof I was fighting against. If I had a difficult lesson, a word or two from him would clear away my trouble, and many a long, wearisome sum in arithmetic became quite a delight when he undertook to explain it."

All this shows the truth of the saying that "genius is childlike." The greater He was a warm friend of children, the man, the more humble; the more although he never had any of his own. he is in sympathy with the innocent He would join in their plays, and de- life of childhood. Even in his habits vise games for them. He even founded and language, Faraday shows this. a course of juvenile lectures, which the He abhors obscure phrases and words parents and older friends of the little which fail clearly to give the sense infolks enjoyed as much as they. The tended. When his niece spoke of a children sat on the front seats in the person who had "abstracted" some lecture-room; older people and the phi- manuscripts from a library, he quickly losophers sat back. He simplified his asked: "What do you mean by abchemical experiments, showed them stracted?' You should say stealing; curious things about a burning candle and other every day matters. He said: "I never found a child too young to understand intelligently what I told him; they would come to me afterwards with questions which proved their capability." Even Prince Albert and the

use the right word, my dear."

He was a "delightful" reader, and spoke his native tongue with great beauty. Von Raumer praises him for speaking with ease and freedom, but not with a gossipping, unequal tone." "A great number of Englishmen speak

German Church Architecture in Eastern Pennsylvania,

BY REV. GEO. MERLE ZACHARIAS.

it very badly." Faraday "articulates Fatherland, would reproduce a form of what other people swallow and chew. architecture similar to that in use in It is a shame that the power and har- Germany. Tais remark is mainly mony of simple speech (I am not talk- true as to the material used in coning of eloquence, but of vowels and struction and their interior arrangement. consonants), that the tones and inflex- They were uniformly built of stone, that ions which God has given the human being more durable and churchly. In voice should be so neglected and abused." the oldest specimens this is rigidly adhered to, although in the transition, owing to English pressure, many were built of brick. In their external shape there was a departure from the apsidal form of the church, generally to be found in the structures of the Fatherland. In Relics of German ecclesiastical archi- this country, the square, Swiss form of tecture can still be found on the hills church building was rather in favor. and in the valleys of Berks couuty, Pa. The finial of the windows and doors is Quietly nestled in a vale or perched preserved, the rounded arch with fretted high on a hill, the German church, wood-work being generally preferred. surrounded by its God's Acre, radiates One of the oldest and the best preserved a peace and preaches a grand sermon examples of this early period in Gerof silence, which in tone and majesty is mano-American architecture is the Tri"Sui generis." Here on the Lord's nity Lutheran Church in Reading, Day the worshippers are gathered from Berks county, Pa. This building is near and far. No false idea of religious standing in its original plan. The worship manifests itself in social con- tower of the church faces the God's venticles and cottage gossip clubs. The Acre, whilst its side fronts the street. services of the church and the reading Its central windows have rounded of "Die Bibel" constitute their reli- arches with triple divisions. Three gious pabulum. To them the "Old large doorways with rounded arches Church" is indeed religiously grand in pierce the very thick wall. And yet, its rigid simplicity, and wonderfully in one striking particular, it varies attractive with its whitened walls from the oldest churches in other localiwine-glass pulpit, square altar and piped organ. Here their ancestors worshipped, and there they sleep in the God's Acre. Within, they heard of the City of Peace; without, they rest in its bosom. In the sacred walls, the congregational polity requires der Vater to sit on the right, die Muter on the left hand side of the church-on the hill-side they sleep side by side, awaiting the resur

rection.

ties, being built of brick; in this it seems to have been the model for most of the churches in Berks county. It is a remarkable fact that the style of a county metropolitan church building. serves as a pattern after which are copied the rural churches. For this reason structures from good designs should be erected in county-seats, and pastors of metropolitan churches should ponder long and well over such designs before making their final selection. I this way churchly edifices will be erected, and the architectural taste of our membership advanced.

It is very evident that a highly educated and refined ministry superintended the construction of these early churches. This can be explained by the fact that the missionaries who were The Oley Reformed Church is the the "Fathers of the Reformed and best preserved and the best example of Lutheran Churches" in this country what may be called Germano-American were all men who had received a Uni- architecture. Following the almost unversity education in the Fatherland; varied custom, its builders placed the side more than this, they usually belonged of the church facing the road. This is to families prominent, socially and readily explained by the position of the religiously. Very naturally and pro- sanctuary proper, which with its chanperly the "Fathers of the Church" in cel, altar and pulpit, faced the main emigrating to this country from the door-way. It will be remembered that