Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-01-13
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 10. 1855.

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OF earthly glory, faint the blaze.
And soon the transitory rays
In endless darkness die.
The nobIer beautie s of the Just
Shall never moulder in the dust,
Or know sad decay;
Their hon0rs time aud death defy,
And round the throne Of heaven on high
Beam everlasting day.
THE TWO GREAT COMMANDMENTS.
This is the fr-t and great command
To love thy God above
And this the seclnd-as myself
Thy ncighbor thou shalt love.
Who is my neighbor? He who wants
The help which thou canst give
Aud both the law and prophets say
This a. and thou shat live
lRoscoE
Our RELATIONS TO Concur relations TO
God will be most clearly diseerned and better
discharged, when We love mercy, deal Justly,
and walk huubly among men. If we are not
Christians relatively and universally, then are
we not really if dishonest in our dealings
with men, il is biasphemy TO talk of our COM
munion with God. Where is our title to the
skies, so long as we pollute earth with sins
of heart, hand OF tongue Have we a mon
ey transaction, personal Depreciation, or
secret sin of any kind, that we should be
ashamed to have proclaimed upon the house,
tops: If so, then are the pretensons we
make TO superior sanctity the most aggravat-
ed crimes we commit " What a God must
he be, said poor Asiatic of The Spaniards,
" who has such bloody men for his servants
and children Ie cannot serve God and
mammon," said Jesus. 1t Is imposs Bile to
make your religion one thing aud your bust
ness another.
Those persons who have the highest notous
in, tl,nolntry- ,nPtp h f,o o,l
contracted feelingr He who stickles most for
his 1.-THE of mint, annse, or cummin. will be
most tacile to omit tie weightier matters of
the law in every sense which seems to him
to conflict with his avowed and furiously de-
Tended creed. In all such Instances, vulgar
famiari " or morbid gloom, takes the place
of Christian simplicity; they engender strife
by their dogmatic dsputativns, and create
prolific discord aud heart bucniugs where the
innoyious quietude of a wise faith would diff
fuse perpetual charity and peace. Thou, D
man Of God, flee these things" Remember
that it is only while We exercise ou mental
endowments and spirtual graces without af.
fectation and without wrath, that we are graf
flied to impart, while we receive delight.
Everywhere in the Gospel are we warned
against dangers Of this kind. According to
what we are told in the seventh of Matthew,
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ion, and puts on appearances, only to keep
the spirit of charity out of his heart, and TO
quiet his conscience, without striving after a
holy liie-entcrs way which seemeth right
to him, and pursues it not only to the grave,
but even to the throne of God. where, alas
before heaven shut and hell opened, he learns
the truth too late.
The conclusion OF the whole matter is, that
q religion entirely of notions Is no religion
The absence of beneicent action attests the
absence of everything valuable in lfe-the
heart has no pulse of affection, and the hands
create nothing good. 1t is only as notions
melt into charity and flow out in noble prin-
ciples, warm aud benedcent, that existence
becomes blessing, and God is honored.-
When a human heart dissoves in peuitence
and devotion under the mild look Of Him who
said, 'let your light so shine" then does it
become well-sprng Of life to him that hath
it, refreshing to himself and blessing to all
mankind Nag0ca.
READ Your BIBLE.--It will improve both
the mind and the heart to read the Bible with
reelection and study 1t as well calculated,
at least, as any other book that can be named,
to improve the mind, to train the intellect =
to give you subject for thought, and mode of
expression. Not Milton, nor Dante, nor
DIlakeSJGdTS, ilOE any OltleEs HAS JULIET pOtlTg
than the Psalms, and Job, and Isaiah. Says
Sir W. Jones, and such scholar and ac-
quanted with so many languages, should
have been a good judge-I have regularly
md attentively perused these Holy Scriptures,
and am of the opinion that this volume, in
dependently of its Divine origin, contains
more true suFlimity more exquisite beauty,
more pure morality, more important history,
and finer strains of poetry and eloquence, than
can be collected from all other books, in what
ever age or language they may have been
written This is indeed a noble testimony
but tile same in substance has been borne by
hundreds of good men, who have made the
oracles of God a chief study for their life time.
For storing the mind with the best thought
and expression, for its history, its poetry, its
doctrine, read the Bible constantly.
But for its hight toned ard pure morality,
so vastly rising above all 0ther books, let the
Christian, yea, every MARI Edy the Holy BIZ
BILE. 1t equally comfortB the experienced
Christian-and guides the young man in
safe path. Said our own DR.. Franklin -
young man, my advice to you is, that you
cultivate an acquaintance with and form be-
lief in tho Holy Scriptures; this is your GER
tain interest" And the learned DR.. Samuel
Johnson recommended thus to friend -
"Young man, attend to the voice of one who
has possessed a certain degree Of fame in the
world, and who will shortly appear before his
Maker; Read the Bible every day Of your
life '-MorRiag Star.
We must not look round on the universe
with awe, and one man with sccm for man,
who can comprehend the universe and its
laws, SIS greater than the universe which can
not comprehend itself" God dwels in every
human being more intimately than in the out
ward creation. The voice OF God comes to us
in the ocean, the thunder the whirlwind;
but how much more of God is there in his out
ward voice, in the institutions of reason, in
the rebukes Of conscience, in the whispers Of
the Holy Spirit would have you see God
in the awful mountain, and in the Tranquil
valley, but more, much more, in the clear
judgment, the moral energy the disinterest-
ed purpose, the pious gratitude, the immortal
hope, Of good man. Claiming.
GIVE HIM ALI--An Indian, who heard a
sermon in Christian settlement, was NOV.
cd by the claim that he should give up all to
God The duty pressed upon his heart he
returned to his wigwam: he meditated much
upon it, and at length solemnly resolved TO do
what God required. First, no took lis fife
and set it apart for the Lord, then his fishing
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