Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-02-16 00:00:00

nee, and soon' a numla
'of the sleeper under` an
The first. ivmp-

conscience dies,

e spirit is, that we are di3ean-
and feel between us and heaven a
We have been outwardly proper, the

r upon 'any immoralities of any
Serious nature. We • have been externally good and
moral, and pass in the world' for -respectable ; but we feel
that our morality is rather the fear of loss than the hatred
of sin. We shrink from the' touch of evil, because our
reputation would be shrivelled ; the consideration of the
loss has some constraint upen us, and makes us keep a
tight hand on our passions. If we do not possess the
rifts of others, and if by some tortuous or legal route we
3ould.honestly :dispossess them, pe'rehance we should not
.prink committing the deed. We follow only the
id ways.of the world.. We cloak 'our sin, and,
of respectability, while the heart, fearing
would go -out into open wrong. Somek
wildly ont, and injure others, bait the
t, and chains it, and keeps these open wrongs
f the restrictions which custom has

give it a charat

But AV

in, it is 'not then a Ques-
,astoniary, or what is allowed.
t is not a matter of. what the' law forbids, or
lie lawi of reputation 'discountenances. It is a
ertaia good which immediately becomes a hatred of sin,
,nd shunning of evil as sinful. It is the eyes that are
pon us, and the penalties about us to keep us good beings,
nd keep us from open Dr. Livingstone says
hat Europeans, when they get out to those African • isles;
ct in a curious manner. Aye, freedom does it. The eye
foes not rest there on that which they case for, there are
Derr no pains and penalties which they cannot avoid,
ad so out comes the heart in all its defilement and
irruption, and expresses itself. The spirit has been
ept down by the tight hand of civilisation. .and law,
ad now that hand is taken from it, and back it springs
ad takes its natural form. But he whose life is guided
-eligious truth, by the teaching of God's wordL-=to him
ais sinful, =dile does not owe his absence cf evil
your eyes or your laws, 'and ..your unseen , vice
s heart rejects, because it La sinful ix the
,ht of. God. God's love. 'to him in creating him
us? gave hint such high ends —God's wisdom speakium'
him through this word: God's mercy is ever active for
s servant in raisin; him up by his spirit, when ke
::ongly resists the impulse of temptation towards sin.
ins man is changed'; the fountain now is pure, and .
ice the pure stream. He is not- now .the white se...
lehre, for his righteousness. exceeds flint of the Scribes
d Pharisees. His righteousneis 'goes down into the
atha of the heart. We should speak of dray, as being
second result of this truth which flocs with us every-
Religion is not a thing reserved for

)n of what is c

special act of observance. It a life going
[ll us through all our live-long. day. Duty
ncrely the life of every man in this complex society of
s. If every man did his duty in lus own place,
iightway: how beautiful would the world became. If
lanthropic effort is wanted, it is becansc men have not
Le their duty. Men have negleoted to_ do their duty

and -at the workshop,--and at the office, and

wherever' he may be situated

Thimes arc the great

,
centres of the world, and each man's own home. is a

centre to him, and marriage •i 3 the central idea of home,

Two hearts In .sintpathy; in union, uniting their love in
thin tineerhin devious' life. -As the central idea of home

marriage is grandest ' roult of pOffeot tritst;