Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1858-05-06

the hull? 1t must be fastened TO it
with bolts and screws. before it can
propel the vessel Now a childles
man is just like loose engine. 4
man must be boltcd and screwed to the
community before he can begin to
work for its advancement; and there
are no such screws and bolts as chill
dren."
He has most Christ-like contempt
for the kypocrite, whom he scourgcs
with heavy evangelical whips,-but
the tenderest Christian love for earnest
men struggling after nobleness.
Read this
Il think the wickedcst people on
earth are those who use a force of
genius to make themselves selfish in
the noblest things, keeping themselves
aloof from the vulgar and the ignor-
ant and the unknown; rising higher
and higher in taste. till they sit. ice
upon ice, on the mountain-top of eter-
nal congelation.''
''Men are afraid of slight outward
acts which will iniurc them in the
ewes of others, while they are needless
of the damnation which throbs in
their souls in hatreds and jealousies
and revcnges."
MANY people use their refnements
as spider uses his web, to catch the
weak upon, that they may be merci-
lessly devoured. Christian men should
use refinement on this principle: the
more / have, the more / owe to those
who are less than l."
He values the substance Of man
more than his accidents.
1--WE say man is made What
do we means That he has got the
control of his lower instincts, so that
they are only fuel to his higher feel
ings, giving force to his nature? That
his affections are like vines, seeding
out on all sides blossoms and cluster
ing fruits? That his tastes are so
cultivated. that all beautiful things
speak to him, and bring him their de-
lights? That his understanding is
opened, so that he walks through
every hall of knowledge. and gathers
its trcasurcrs? That his moral feel
ings are so developed and quickened,
that he holds sweet commerce with
Heaven? Oh, no!-none of these
things! He is old and dead in heart
and mind and soul Only his passions
are alive; but-he is worth five hun
dred thousand dollars!
"And we saw man is ruined. >
Are his wife and children dead? Oh,
no! Have they had quarrel, and are
they separated from him9 Oh, no.
Has he lost his reputation through
crime? No. Is his reason gomez
Oh, no. it's as sound as ever Is he
struck through with disease? No
He has lost his property, and he is
ruined. The man ruined? When
shall we learn that n mans life con-
sstcth not in the abundance of the
things he possesseth?' F."
Mr.. Bcecher's God has the gentle
and philanthropic qualities of Jesus ol
Nazareth, with omnipotence added
Religious emotion comes out in his
prayers, sermons, and lectures, as the
vegitative power of the earth in the
manifold plants and flowers of spring
'The sun does not shine for few
trees and flowers, but for the wild,
worlds joy. The lonely pine on the
mountain-top waves its sombrc boughs
and cries, Thou art my SUM- AnC
the little meadow-violet lifts its cup O
! blue, and whispers with its pcrfumeC
breath, Thou art my SUM- And tn,
grain in thousand fields rustles il
the wind, and makes answer, Thou
art my SUM-
$50 God sits effulgent in heaven
, not for a favored few, but for the uni
, verse of life; and there is no .creatur,
so poor or so low, that he may no
) look up with childlike confidence anC
say, My Father! thou art mine' %
!, "When once the filial feeling i
breathed into the heart, the sould can
/ not be terrified by augustness, or jus
tice, or any form of Divine grandeur
for then. to such one, all the attribute
Of God are bw so many arms stretchet
: abroad through the uniuerse, to gothe
D and to press TO his bosom those whom h
lores. The greater he is, the gladde
are ,oe, so that he be our Father still.
$ "But, if one consciously turns ava,
! from God, or fears him, the nobler an'
i grander the representation be, the NOR
terrible is his conception of the Divin
Adversary that frowns upon him.
, The God whom love beholds rises up
on the horizon like mountains whicl
I carry summer up their sides to tn
!! very top; but that sternly just Go'
I whom sinners fear stands cold agains
the sky, like Mont Blanc; and from hi
S icy sides the soul, quickly sliding
e plunges headlong down to unrecalle
I destruction"
He has hard words for such as ge
only the form of religion, or but littl
: Of its substances.
There are some Christians who's
n secular life is an arid, worldly strife
h and whose religion is but a turbi
S sentimentaiism. Their life runs alon
e that line where the overflow of tn
IS Nile meets the desert Ris the Jouno
Y iary line 6ettceen sand and mud t
g THAT gospel tchich sanctions ,gnt
IS rance and oppression for three million
|. of men, what fruit or flower has it I
d shake down for the healing of I'll
IS nations? II IS cursed in ifs orn root