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Bates College SCARAB The aB tes Student Archives and Special Collections 5-1897 The aB tes Student - volume 25 number 05 - May 1897 Bates College Follow this and additional works at: http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student Recommended Citation Bates College, "The aB tes Student - volume 25 number 05 - May 1897" (1897). The Bates Student. 1966. http://scarab.bates.edu/bates_student/1966 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at SCARAB. It has been accepted for inclusion in The aB tes Student by an authorized administrator of SCARAB. For more information, please contact [email protected]. For Positions to Teach, APPL V TO • • • • TEACHERS' CO-OPERATIVE ASSOCIATION OF NEW ENGLAND, 36 Bromfleld Street, HOSTON, MASS. Rates Students have boon very successful with us. P. B. SPAULDING, Manager. Positions Oiled, 2,178. Bond for Manual. WIG GIN & CO., Apothecaries. 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' 127 A CHAT ABOUT NEW HOOKS '29 The BATES STUDENT is published each month during the college year. Subscription price, $1.00. Single copies, 10 cents. Literary contributions are cordially invited, and should be addressed, Editorial Department, Bates Student. All business communications should be sent to the Business Manager. Entered as Second Class Mail Matter at the Pust-OIHcc «t Lewiston, Mo. REIN IN Do You Intend to Teach? If so, you will do well to investigate mutual Life insurance Go., our new system. OF PHILADELPHIA, PA. No Commission POSITIONS yt Charged Unless Jm Actual Assistance After the Cash Values. GUARANTEED. second Year I Loan Equal to Cash Values. Is Rendered. Policies nwu n_ ii.i.... Paid-Up Values. Correspondence In all parts of the United States. Contain Extension Features. For particulars inquire of J. P. SPHAGUE, Bates, ".18, or write to Insure while young, when premiums are low. J. P. SPRAGUE, Agent, UNION TEACHERS' BUREAU, No. 23 Parker Hall, Bates College. No. 1 Beacon Street, - - BOSTON, MASS. THE BATES STUDENT. VOL. XXV. MAY, 1897. No. 5. THE MOTLEY. swept away in the sea of sound; and As light as arrow, shot tho silver deep the unconscious wood under her fingers An osprey's Hashing wing; thrilled like a sounding-board to the A splash, a graceful lling, A shining flight to heaven. mighty vibrations. The ruffled surface seemed to calm in sleep, The earnest minister, who had spent As ne'er a hreath were given. his whole soul in the day's theme, real- A silent glance, unconscious, robbed the heart. izing for himself with overwhelming A sad, sweet fancy slipt, intensity the sacrifice and the triumph Where those bright eye-gleams dipt, To dreamless isles of death; of the Redemption, was uplifted in A deep, dull calm whose surface may not part, thanksgiving and adoration like a rapt Dim years of woe beneath. saint of old, on the wings of the music. Yet while the sunlight seems to fall, T'll gaily dance and smile, Allelulia! Allelulia! As joyous all the while, Victorious he liveth evermore! Nor list to mocking Grief's wild call. I'll wile the envious throng The breathless hush that the ceasing With sip and soaring song, anthem left behind it was broken by Till slumber steals for aye the rustle of a people released from At twilight of life's day. —''M. strong tension before the Easier bene- diction dismissed a reverent congre- THE ORGANIST. gation. THE musical portion of the congre- " Now the God of Peace, who brought gation held its breath, not to lose again from the dead that great Shep- a single note of the surging harmonies herd of the sheep, Christ Jesus, make of the closing Easter chorus. Higher you perfect in every good work to do and higher rose the carol of the vibrant His will . through Jesus Christ, sopranos, weaving with the mellow ten- to whom be glory forever and ever. ors a glorious shining maze of melody Amen." against the strong, deep tones of alto Over the motion and hum of the slow and bass, and surrounding the whole progress to the doors, rose the tones of figure, sustaining it, and bearing it the organ once more, in a theme so onward and upward, swelled the mighty grand, so solemnly joyous, that it was manifold voice of the great ore an, a fitting culmination for the mingled A melody-starved little teacher in the emotions of Passion Tide. Forgetting congregation gripped the arm of the everything but his music, till he almost pew beside her, as if she feared to be felt himself one with his instrument, lOfi THE BATES STUDENT. the organist mounted from height to And the organist let his love for sweet height of exaltation, till the slam of sounds conquer his shyness, and sat in the vestry door warned him that the a silent rapturous corner through one sexton had began to close the building, or two red-letter evenings, and in his The intricate harmony modulated gently gratitude endeavored bravely at the into one deep, long-drawn chord ; and next choir rehearsal to discuss these after the minute of unearthly hush that heavenly occasions with his patron, succeeds the postlude, the man rose who, not wishing his protSgt to feel and, leaning against the great organ, embarrassed by obligation, promptly his cheek upon the fretted panel, looked turned the subject, with the ease of a slowly about the dimming church. man of the world, and left the organist Half a dozen of the younger singers stranded high and dry by the retreating still lingered in the far end of the gallery, tide of talk. Bat this had the effect of settling hats and shouldering into coats rendering him so shy before the other's with a pleasant bustle. The organist superior culture and resource that his gazed after them a-little wistfully as next attempt was even more constrained they trooped away.