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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 167, 12 July 1873, Page 4

"James," said a young wife to her husband a few days after marriage, "you were honest enough fo tell me that the chimney smoked, but why didn't you tell me that you smoked yourEelf." A certain city was about to be destroyed. The women were allowed to leave, and were told that they might carry away on their backs whatever they most prized. Each woman took a man.

We learn from a correspondent in the English Independent that the special DisBenting worldly temptation of the day is dancing ! The Melbourne Daily Telegraph has had to give way to the increased coat. of paper, and come out in a smaller form. A retired sea captain who had made the tour of continental Europe and the Holy Land, was asked how he was impressed by his visit to Jerusalem. "Jerusalem," said he "is the meanest place 1 ever visited ! There is not a drop of liquor in the whole^town fit to drink." Professor Tyndall has succeeded by the aid of a column of water two hundred and sixty feet high, in compressing air to one-eighth its original volume. When allowed to escape it rushed out so violently as to cause so intense a cold that the moieture in the room was congealed into a shower of snow, while the pipe whence the air issued was edged with icicles. Care and its Cure. — We are living in a word full of- cares, anxieties, and troubles; yet, thank God, we can in some sense become free from them, and obtain theircure. Weallknowwhateareis; we all feel it more or less, many times a day. It is an evil, a great evil, a bitter Consequence of the fall A>'am at first did not know it; he rested in God as his portion, guide, and helper, and so he had constant peace ami quiet. But after the fall care came in. As thorns and briars naturally spring up in the curse-blighted earth, so cares and fears naturally spring up in our sin f ul, corrupt souls. This distracts our minds, mak^s us unhappy, and hinders our spiritual growth and prosperity. Christ says — "The cares of the world choke the seed, and it becometh unfruitful." Our Father in Heaven, who is greatly concerned for the welfare of all true Christians, wishes them to be free from cane. "Be careful for nothing." But how can we help being careful ? We are weak, erring, not knowing what a day may bring forth; Satan is ever suggesting dark thoughts and fears, we fancy that all is going wrong; all going to wreck. We soon find by painful experience that we cunoot keep ourselves from care, that our best friends cannot help us, that God only can keep us. He only can supply the cure and the preservative, and He does it. He is the Physician in this as in other things, let us look at His prescription, and begin constantly to use. ♦ Be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be. made known unto God." Here is the remedy, here is the secret of uncarefulness. Ever prayerful, and so never careful. When your heart begins to be overwhelmed, run at once to the Rock that is higher than you. When you feel oppressed, cry like Hezekiah, •' Lord I am oppressed, undertake for me." Like the disciples, tell Jesus everything, great or small, important or insignificant This is the fulfilment of that word, "In the world ye shall have tribulation, but. in Me ye shall have peace." Try this fro*m day to day in all your cares and trials, personal, family, spiritual, temporal, public and private; hring the»n at once without delay to the Lord, and you will constantly be getting rich, mixed, precious experiences of His love, faithfulness, and power.