[Copyright, boult Klopich, UN.]
WasuiNuroN, l'.c 31. 'ii this bolt
day discourse Dr. Taltuafe taken the
; i pportuuity ot offering nome very prac?
tical iud useful suggestions; te.it,
Panton ic, !>. "We upend our years us
! .1 tale tlint is tnld."
Tlie 1st ucl il cn were 40 y eil rs lu tb*
: wilderness. and aluin g 38 yean of the
IO nothing is recorded of them, and, I
' suppose, nu other emigrants had a
biller or more uninteresting time than
tbej lad. So they gol to idling stories
ics concerning themselves or con
(.?arning others; stories about the brick
kilns ol Egypt where they hud toiled
in Slavery; stories nbOUt how thc wu
tere, ol' thc Ked sea piled up into pul
s at their iTDKatiag; story of tbe
lantern hine; in the heavens to golda
them by ulgbt; story of ibises destroy
lng thc reptiles of the wilderness;
stories of personal encounter, lt must
have been an awful laing to have hud
ftOtblng to do Tor 88 years except to
ftl lost every time they tried to escape
from Hie wilderness. So they whiled
IWaj the time in story tolling. In
Iced, (here Were persons whose Hiv
! business was to narrate stories, and
they were paid by such trifles us they
?ouid pick up from the surrounding
listeners. To such Instances our text
efl :-s when lt says. "WV spend our
years ns a tale thut is told."
At this tremendous passage from Hie
year IS'.KI to the year IMO it will do us
ull good to consider that our whole life
. is a story told a footl story or a bael
[?tory, n tragic story or n mirthful story.
