Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-07-08

Yet have known thee, Death, with gentle hand
The True SECRET OF HAPPINEss.-The
reason why men are unhappy, is because they
do not act in harmony with the Divine mind.
While all the planets revolye around the sun
rs their common centre, their movements all
harmonic; but let their laws of attraction be
broken, and the most direful confusion would
ensue. Now, i'll the world Of mind, where
all finite minds are bound to the infinite mind,
and act in harmony with him, their conduct
hsrmonizes with each other; but, when that
attraction is broken, and each one acts accord
ing to his own separate will, their ways must
constantly be coming in contact with Gods
ways and with one another, and disorder and
misery ensue. Now the Gospel shows man
how he may be a worker together with God.
1t tells us that God order is an order of uni
form benevolence. His great object is to do
men good and he who labors to do men good,
sympathizes and harnonizes with God, and
will as certainly be happy as God himself is
happy.
Selfish men have often, almost by accident,
done deeds which harmonze with the divine
plan, and have experienced emotions to which
they were before strangers. young man,
who had inherited a princely fortune, was
still so extremely wretched, that he determin-
the dark waters, and put an end to his miser-
able existence. On his way deep groan fell
upon his ear, and led by the pale rays of the
moon, he passed through a narrow and dark
alley, till he came to a wretched howell. he
bowed and entered the door of this miserable
abode, and sight fell upon his vision such as
he had been unaccustomed to behold. There
were poor man and woman, with seven
children, lying upon the ground in state OF
starvation.
For the first time, it seems that the bosom
of this young man began to swell with gener-
Gus warmth; and, thrusting ms hand into his
pocket, he took out handful of gold and put
it into the hands of the starving people. Now,
as he looked upon these joyful countenances,
and the blessings of many that were ready to
| perish fell upon him, he felt as he had never
| felt before; for he had accomplished a nobler
| act than he had ever accomplished at any pre-
| vious period in his whole life. He left the
| house with a deep impression that he had been
| pursuing happiness all his days in wrong
direction; and this circumstance seems to have
led to his conversion to God, for he afterwards
devoted his large estate to purposes of philan-
thropy and religion. Here we see the ineffa-
bic glory of the Gospel, in discovering to men
the true way of happiness. lNoyss.
PRAcTIcAL APPL1cATIoN.--A curious Incl
dent occurred, some twelve or fourteen years
since, illustrative of the peculiar manner of
Mr.. Binney, when preaching in chapel near
London. Delivering charge to the People,
on the Ordination of their Minister, he made
some apparently irrelevant remarks upon the
Duty of Christian Courtesy in the Temple of
God, commenting on the frequent inattention
in allowing persons TO stand in place of wor-
ship, when there was room near at hand in
the pews. And he could cite, he said, an in
stance from his own experience. He was
preaching, he said, in chapel not over crowd
ed, and in one Of the aisles of the chapel stood
young woman, apparently not too strong ora
robust, leaning upon pew in which were
only two young men-only two young men
and would you believe it, said the preacher,
there they sat, and never opened the pew door
for that young woman-there was no occasion
for them to vacate their seat, although that
might not have been too much in crowded
chapel, had they been gentlemen, and had
she been servant girl-no; there they sat.
How strange the coincidence, continued the
preacher, sit was just such chapel as this
the aisle was inst like yonder aisle-aye, it
was just this day of the week too, just this
day of the month, yes, and this very year
and IN this very place--it IS this very night
there is the plaee-there is the aisle-there the
pew"
1t is not long since, at the anniversary of
Chestnut College, upon the moving of one of
the ministers beneath him, he said, "There
now! forget it! the cresking of that mans
boots has put what had to say quite out of
my mind. Lamps Of the Temple.
SIN LEAVES ITS MARK. Mr.. Cough, in lee
ture before the Young Mems Christian Asso-
cation of London, discoursing upon the COR
rupting influences of bad associates, alluded
to the inevitable penalty Of mental suffering
which every transgressor incurs. "What you
learn from bad habits, and in bad society,"
said he, "you will never forget, and it viii
be lasting paug to you. tell you in all
sincerity, not as in the excitement of speech,
but, as | would confess, and have confessed
before God, would give my right hand to-
night, if l could forget that which have
learned in evil society-f could tear from
my remembrance the scenes which have
witnessed, the transactions which have taken
place before me. You cannot take away the
effect of q single impure thought that has
lodged aud harbored in the heart. You may
pray against it, and, by Gods grace conquer
it, but it will always be thorn in the flesh
to you, and will cause you bitterness aud an
guish.
LET US Ass1MILArE TO THE GooD.--Marga-
ret Fuller beautifully says: alt Is marvel
whence the perfect flower, (water lhy.) de-
rives its loneliness aud perfume, springing as
it does from the black mud over which the
river sleeps. and where lurk the Shiny eel and
speckled frog, and the mud turtle, whom con-
tinual washing cannot clean. 1t is the same
black mud out of which the yellow lily suck
eth its obscene life and noisome odor. Thus
we see, too, in the world, that some persons
assimilate only TO what is ugly and evil froy
the same moral circumstances which supply
good and beautiful results--the fragrance Of