Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-02-15
For the Bugie.
Sparks from Flying Train Of Thought.

lie who never allows himself to hate, has
one foot in Heaven.
My selfish nature rcvolts at the thought that
Gods love is infinite to all.
is to distrust God.
The prosecutor bclieIes that God has no
love toward him whom he persecutes.
With God to wish is to will, and to will is
to bring to pass.
God cannot desire what lie cannot accom-
plish.
Our ascent to God appears to be His descent
to us; just as the sun seems to rise and set.
God docs not accommodate Himself to US,
but conforms us to Himself.
1t is natural to man to mistake distrust Of
God for reverence for Him.
III will take due care Of my conduct to-
ward my fellow men, God will take care Of my
standing toward Him.
Is not man as sacred to God, as God is to
MANI
II pray to God for His Spirit, and get It, i
shall be inspired. If do not believe can get
1t, ought not to pray for it.
II am sometimes inspired, in those blessed
hours l may sit oil the same bench with Paul.
=. 1 am " saved by faith" but who shall guaran-
tee me against the loss of faiths
Ii my eternal destiny is in my o,cn keeping,
al am of all men most miserable"
God is neither troubled nor Indifferent con-
corning my eternal welfare; why should bel
If am assured that l am immortal, what
more can ask of God
If l treat every man as an immortal, then l
fulfil Gods law.
Angels are only brethren of mine who have
been some time at homes and learned the ways Of
the house of many mansions.
If God loved me before was born, will He
not love me after am deadi
Jesus knew that in the Kingdom Of Love all
were like little children, because he was like q
child himself.
1t were to be wished that We knew as much
of Jesus as we do of the theologians' Christ.
Great truths are not to be looked at, but to
be felt and looked from.
We ought not so much to strain after Z" holi-
ness" as to be genuine men, capable Of common
duties.
"Holiness" cannot drive q stage, nor hold q
plow genuine man can do both, and God
loves him none the less.
God is pleased with the innocent sports of
children; but fear the theologians would put
little manacles on the squirrels to keep them in
" serious frame of mind.'
When the modern clergy enter the pulpit,
Jesus stands without and weeps.
God will damn sinners of all classes, but
save the men.
To be destined to any state for an endless fu-
ture, is to hare been destined to that state from
an eternal past.
If the dead should try to re-appear, the GER
emonts which they would find hardest to BURST
would be the dogmas of modern theology.
The Kingdom of Heaven and the re-appear-
ing of the departed ought not to come in this
age, for such events would interfere with the
plans of the church.
1t It's cheaper to save the souls of the heather
whom we have not seen, than to free the op-
pressed whom We have seen.
The precious things of the early church were
her poor and needy, those Of the modern church
are Wealth, Popularity, and " Law and Order"
1t is easier to "save SOUL" than to lend its
owner five dollars without taking a note. The
one act costs prayers only, the other costs love.
To render great marvel creditable, it is best
to locate it in very remote past, or in a very
distant future.
Jesus insisted on a good lifo; the church in
sists on good faith.
The Church teaches us to trust in the mer-
its" Jesus taught to 'rus. in God because He
10 God,