Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-09-26

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SABBATH HEADING.
Cons HAND IN ALL-Ihe statesman and
the soldier are but instruments in the hands
Of the Great DisFoser fleets and armies
are but parts of that mighty machinery
which an invisible power sustains in move
ment; national calamities and national sue.
cesses. the confusion of public counsel and
its restoration to yigor, the sudden prostra-
tion Of the public mind AMI its sudden
strength, may be but the surges of that
great tide, whose fiowings obey no power
be meath the skies. II human eyes could
penetrate those clouds in which the Al
mighty, perhaps in compassion to our ma
lures, invests the dazzling agencies of his
will. We might see those beings whom he
makes "as the wind and the flame of fire"
sweeping perpetualy on the wing, and ef
fecting those catastrophes Of Kingdoms
which, to the human understanding, raust
always remain only splendid perplexties-
Dr. CToleg
CnEEgruLLSEss.-Ihere are not a few,
who. even in this life, seem to be preparing
themselves for that smileless eternity to
which they look forward, by Lanishng all
gayety from Their hearts and all joyousness
IRON tn ir cOuntenances. | meet one such
in the street not unfrequently, u person OF
| Intelligence and education, but who gives
me and all that pass such a ray less and
! chilling look o! recognition, something as if
he were one Of heavens assessors, come
down to doom every acquaintance he
met that have sometimes begun to sneeze
on the spot, and gone home with a violen
cold. dating from that instant | don't
doubt he wolld cut his kittens tail off, if
he caught her playing with it. Please tell
me who taught her to play with it,
Holmes.
| POSTURE N PRAYER.-A recent number of
the American Presbyterion published in
Philadelphia, contains an editorial on post
ure in prayer. We make the following ex-
tract:
Standing is not always a reverent post
ure On entering prayer meeting the
other day, a brother was standing and pray
ing very earnestly, but h's hanG's were a,
his pockets We need not describe our
feelings at such "a sight, but We hope We
may be spared such spectacle in ali time
to come. Let all things be done decently,'
that is, in becoming and proper manner,
said the Scripture, and in order. No man
would speak in such position to lady, to
the Governor as Governor to the President
as President How much more carefully,
then, should he order his speech and gesture
before him who is the King of kings and
Lord of lords!
! SPoHlSG VILLAGE CuoRIsTEE TO MAKE A
| CnIEr JuoriCE-Lord Tenterdens early des
tination was changed by disappointment
When he ard NJ Justice Richards were GO
ing the Home Circuit, they visited the Gu
thedral at Canterbury together. Richards |
commended the voice of singing man in |
the choir "Ah!' said Lord Tenterden, |
"that is the only man l ever envied -
When at school in this town, we were can
ddates for chorister's place, and he OBJ |
tanned it."
NONE STAND ALoSE-It is in the provi-
dence of God that none stand alone We
touch each other; man acts Oh man heart |
on heart We are bound up with each 9TH
err hand is joined in hand wheel sets
wheel.in motion; We are spiritually linked
together, arm within arm we cannot live
alone, nor die alone we cannot say, will
only run risks with my own soul | am
prepared to disobey the Lord such pleas
ure or such a gain. but do not want to
implicate others; | only want to be an
sw werable for myself This cannot be-
Each living soul .has its influence
on others in some way and to some
extent, consciously or anconsciously; each
has some power, more or less, direct or in
liract mind onlDr, oh,Il |
acts on children; servants on their fellow
servants masters on those they employ
parents on their children; friends on friends
Even when We do not design to influence
others, when we are not thinking, in the
least degree, Of the effect of what we do
when We are unconscious that we have in
iluenced at all, when we do not wish our
conduct or way of life to affect any but our
selves, our manner or llfe our conversation,
our deed, are all the while having weight
somew where or somehow; our feet leave their
impression. though We may not look behind
us to see the mark
Coop OLD MAS.-A good old man is
the best antiquity, and which We may with
least vanity admire; one whom time hath
beer thus long q working, and, like winter
fruit, ripcned when others are shaken down
lie hath taken out as many lessons of the
world as days, and learnt the best thing in
1.-THE vanity Of it. He looks over his
former life as q danger well past, and would
not hazard himself to begin again. The
next door of death taps him not, but he ex-
rects it calmly as his turn in nature; and
fears more his recoiling back to childish
ness than dust All men look on him as a
common father. and on old age. for his sake
as a reverent thing. He practices his cx
perience ON youth without the harshness of
-eproof, and in his council is good company
He has some old stories still Of his own see
ing to confirm what lie says. and makes
them better in the telling; yet is not trouble
some neither with the same tale again, but
remembers with them how oft he has told
them. He is not apt to put the boy on
Younger man, nor the fool on boy, Tut can
distinguish gravity from a sour look and
the less testy he is, the more regarded. You
must pardon him if he likes his own times
better than these, because those things are
follies to him now that were wisdom then
vet he makes US of that opinion too when
we eee him, and conjecture those things by
so good q relic. He goes away at last too |
soon whensoever with all mems sorrow but |
his own; and his memory is fresh when it |
is twice as old.-Bishop Earle.
| The REV. DR.. CUNNING ON THE ATLANTIC |
TELEGRAPu-The Rev. DIR. Cumming preach |
cd OneSabbath evening from Revelation. on
the text, And there shall be no more sea-"
These words he applied by deduction TO the
recent happy accomplishment of the Allan
tic electric junction. The reverend orator |
declared that he had been led to this exem-
plification by passage in a newspaper ar
ticle, which said that henceforth there was
no Atlantic to separate the parent and the
child. but that the two Kindred countries