Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1858-11-11
Raacherisrns.

Our people, nomadic as the Arabs, i'm
petuous as the Cloths and Huns, pour
themselves along our western border.
carrying with them all their wealth and
all their institutions. They drive schools
along with them as shepherds drive their
sheep, and troops of colleges 60 lowing
over the western plains, like Jacobs
kline.
Our children that die young are like
those spring bulbs which have their
flowers prepared beforehand. and have
nothing to do but break ground and
blossom and pass away. Thank God for
spring flowers among men, as we'll as
among the grasses of the field.
When a man unites with the church,
he should not come saying, | am so holy
that | think | must go in among the
saints but Oh brethren, | find l am
so weak and wicked that I cannot stand
alone so, if you can help me, open the
door, and let me enter"
1t is with the singing of a congrega-
ton as with the singing of the wind in
the forests, where the notes of the mil
lion rustling leaves, and the boughs strik-
ing against each other, altogether make
a harmony, no matter what be the indi-
vidual discords.
There are many Christians who like,
about once in twelve months, to have a
good revival in their hearts. They think
that. like the year, they can make up for
freezing and showing all winter, by a
period of intense heat in the summer.
Many men want wealth not a compe
tence alone, but a five story competence.
Everything subserves this ; and religion
they would like as a sort of lightning rod
to their houses. to ward off, by-and- by,
the bolts of divine wrath.
When we think of the labor required
to rear the few that are in our household
the WEAKNESS, the anxiety, the burden
of life-how wonderful seems God
work for he carries heaven, and earth,
and all realms, in his bosom.
One of our great troubles, as ministers,
is to keep people from wishing to be
awfully converted. There are those who
will not come into Gods kingdom unless
they can come as Dante went into Para
dise-by going through hell.
A week filed with s~elfishness, and the
Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises,
will make a good Pharisee, but a poor
Christian. There are many persons who
think Sunday is a sponge with which to
wipe out the sins of the week.
Not parties, but principles. Let US be
of no party but Gods party, and use all
other agencies as we use railroad cars
travelling upon one train as far as it will
take us in the right direction, and then
leaving it for another.
A lie always needs a truth for a handle
to it, else the hand would cut itself which
sought to drive it home upon another.
The worst lies, therefore, are those whose
blade is false, but whose handle is true.
The church has always been SO fearful
of amusements that the devil has had the
care Of them. The chaplet of flowers has
been snatched from the brow Of Christ,
and given to Mammon.
The abettors of slavery are weaving
the thread in the loom, but God is ad
%justing the pattern. They are asses har-
messed to the chariot of Liberty, and
whether they will or no, must draw it On.
There are some people who forever add
a but them to every positive assertion,
and so always make q drain or sluiceway
by which the heavenly stream of Gods
favors escapes from them.
Many Christians are like chestnuts-
very pleasant nuts, but enclosed in very
prickly burs, which needs various deal
ings of nature and her grip of Frost, be-
fore the kernel is disclosed.
A man ought to carry himself in the
world as an orange tree would if it could
walk up and down in the garden-swing-
ing perfume from every little censor it
holds up to the air.