Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-03-11

! NY VAL be doue''-each eve aad morn
etlt De that waited prayer upbornc
but not in words alone All no.
lie who wouid true devotion show
Must earu to act As well as speak
Nor rest till all be taught to seek
In Christian meekness to fulhl
The preoepts of Gods holy will
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BE KIND IN LITTLE THINGS
Little acts of kindness, gentle words,
loving smilcs-they strew the path of life
with flowers: the sun seems to shine bright
er for them, and the green earth to look
greener; and our Father in heaven, who
said love one another looks with favor
upon the gentle and kind-hearted.
To draw mp the arm chair and get the
! slippers for father, to watch If any little
service can be done for mother, to help or
assist sister, how pleasant it makes home
y little boy has hard lesson given him
at school, and his teacher asks him if he
thinks he can get it. For moment the
. little boy hangs down his head, but the
next he locks brightly up i can get my
sister to help me- he says That is right,
sister, help your little brother; and You are
binding tie round his heart that may save
him in many an hour of dark trial.
[ do not know how TO do this sum, but
brother will show me-. says another boy.
Sister, I've dropped stitch in my
knitting; | tried to pick it up, but it has
run down, and cannot Tx it, The little
girls face is flashed, and watches her sis
ter while she replaces the naughty stitch
Oh, [ am 50 glad she says. as she re-
ceiyes it again from the hands Of her sis
ter all nicely arranged You are a good
girl, Mary Bring it to me sooner next
time, and then it viii not get 50 bad, says
the gentle voice Of Mary, as the little one
bound. away with a light heart to finish her
task
If Mary had hot helped her, she would
have lost her walk in the garden Surely
it is better to do as Mary did than say,
Oh, go away, do not trouble me, or to
scold the little one all the time You are do
ing the trifing favor.
+ Brothers sisters love one another
bear with one another. If any offend, for
/ give, and love him still and, whatever
may be the faults of others, we must not
forget that, in the sight Of God, we have
faults as great and perhaps greater than
theirs
Be kind to the little ones-they will
often be fretful and wayward Be patient
With them and amuse them. How often
whole family of little ones are restored
to good humor by an elder sister proposing
some new play, and perhaps joining in it
Or gathering them round her while she re-
latcs some pleasant story.
And, brothers, do not think, because
YOU are stronger, it is unmanly to be gentle
to your little brothers and sisters A truly
noble heart is never joined with pride and
rudeness. When see youth kind anc
respectful to his mother, and gentle anC
forbearing to his brothers and sisters,
think he is likely to grow up to be usefu
man And that this may be so, pray t,
God to give you his Holy Spirit that you
heart may be right in his sight.
DO l Lire a LIFE Of Faith.-I see nucl
in the Bible about faith IF ! haste to it
pages with guilt on my soul, and ask HOY
I shall be forgiven, it tells me to have faitl
in Christ. If [ enquire how / shall over
come the world, it still points to faith a
my means of victory and if I go to seel
the means Of success in my daily warfare
pilgrimage, and pursuit Of Heaven,
7 sweetly tells me ] must look to Jesus
Hence, | believe that faith is not merel
; ope act, performed when God for Christ
sake, forgiyes sinner, but succession I
acts repeated every moment until faith
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