The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-05-13
Extract, from Boechcr,. Life Thoughts.

Gods harbor OF the sanctuary. They rise on
Sunday, but ebb Monday aud are down and out
all the rest ot the week. Men write over their
store door, " Business is business and over
the church door, Religion is religion' and they
say TO religion, " Never come in here aud to
business 4" Never 20 in there "Let us have
no secular things in the pulpit they say; Eve
get enough OF them through the week in New
York There all is stringent and biting sci.
tishness and knives, aud probes, and lances.
and hurry, and work, aud worry. Here we want
repose. aud sedatives, aud healing BALM AL
is prose over there here let us have poetry.--
We want TO sing hymns aud to hear about
| Heaven and Calvary; in short. we want the
pure gospel, without any worldly intcrn'A'
ture." Aud So they dtsite to sp'nd pious.
quiet Sabbath, full uf pleasant imogininps and
! peaceful reflections; but when the day is gona
all lie laid aside. They will take by The throat
the first debt whom they meet, and cxcloim,
| " Pay me what thou owest II Is MoudOy."-
Aud when the minister ventures to hint to them
something about their duty To their fellow men
they say 20, you stick to your preaching.--
| You DO not know how 10 collect your own debts,
and cannot tell what man may have to do III
hrs intercourse with the world" Got's law is
not allowed to 10 into the week Ii the mer-
chaut spies it in his store, he throws it oycr the
! counter. II the clerk sees ii IN the bauk, he
| kicks it out u. the door. Ii ii is iound In the
street. the multitude pursue it, peltins it with
stones, as it il We're wolf escaped irom me
uOgcric, aud shouting. Back with you You
have got out of Sun lay! There Is no reIiSlon
in all his 1t is nero sentimentaism. Reu-
gIon belongs to every day 10 the place OF busi-
ness es much as to the church.
High in an ancient bslry there is clock, and
on week the old ssxton winds II up; but 1t
has neither dial-plate nor hands. Tue pendu-
| inm swings AMI tn re it goes ticking, uckng.
day in aud day out, unnotced and useless. What
| nll all, - - 1arlg q
to itself, but never showing it, that is the mere
sentimentality o! religion, high above lille, IN
the religion of airy thought; perched p IN tho
tip of Sunday, but without dial or pointer To
let the week know what o'clock 1t Is, oi ilnie,
or of Eternity
AS grow older, aud como nearer to death,
| | look upon II more and more with complacent
JOY, and out of every longing hear God say
80 thitsung, hungCriug one, come 10 me-. -
What the other lie viii bring know mol, only
that shall awake III Gods likeness ana see him
as he is. Ii child had been born aud Speub
all his life in tho Mammoth Cave, how mpos-
sble would it b. ior him to comprehend the
upper wo,,d His parents might tell him of
its life, and light, and beauty, aud its sounds of
joy; they might heap up lhe sand into mounds,
aud try to show him by pointing to stalactt-s
how grass, and flowers aud trees grow out OF the
ground, till at length, with iaborous thinking.
the child would hucy he mad gained u true idea
OF the unknown land. Aud yet, though he had
longed to behold it, when the day came that he
was to so forth, ii would b. with regret for the
familiar crystals aud the rock hewn rooms, and
the quiet that reignad therein. But when he
came up some May morning, with ten thousand
birds singing in the trees, aud the heavens bright,
and blue, and full Of sunlight, aud the wind
blowing softly through tho young leaves, ull
a-glitter with dew, and the landscape stretch
ins away green and beautiful TO the horizon,
witt what rapture would he gaza about him, and
see how poor Were all the fancyings und the in
expectations which were made within the cave,
Of the things which grew aud lived without;
and how would he wonder that he could have
regretted to leave the silence aud the dreary
darkness of his old abode ! So when we
emerge from this cave of earth into that land
where Spring growths are, aud where is Sum
mer, aud not that miserable travestle which wr
call Summer here, how shall we wonier that
we could nave cIunS SO ionlly to this dark and
barren lifr
Beat on, then, heart, and yean for dying.
have drunk at many fountain but thirst came
again | have fed at many bounieous table.
but hunger retured; have seen many bright and
lovely things, but while guzed, their luster
faded. There is nothing here that can give me
rest but when behold thee, q God, shall be
satisfied
There is new word much usel il is ism,
+ Christian principle to the life OF society, is
} called an ism, so long mrn fight it, but glo-
rlous evidence OF tho divinity OF Christianity
as soon as they are defeated by it, Selfish mtn
abhor all sms OF benevoen 6 proud men all
isms of condescension the gripping hand hates
l the open palm; greediness abhors moderation;
? and self-love thinks the love of Others to be
spend thrift. And thus it comes to pass that
isms are founl and dreaded almost only amons
the great humanites of the day. II il I've All
ism to upIit the poor to defend the slave; to
maintain everywhere the right, though to do IL
S overthrow time -honored dlnsiitutious-then God
! Almighty is the Father of iSns and has been
: propasstng them since the world b-gsn and
! he will lead the CHURCH. from one ism TO ano til
; er, till it stands in Zion snd before God,
\ Il am suspicious of that church whose M M
S bers are one in their beliefs and opinions When
a tree is dead, 1t will lie any way slivs il will
' have It's own growth. When mems deafness is
; in the church, aud their life elsewhere, oil will
be alike. They can be cut nnl polished any
way. When they are alive. they are like u
= tropical lorest--some shooting up, like the ma
hog,ny tree sumo spreading. like tbs vine !:
some darklng like the shrub; some lying, herb
like, on the ground bat all oheyn their own
laws of growlh--a common law of growth vsri-
; ousiy expressed in each--snd So contributing TO
{ he richness and beauty of the wood.
-God has appointed certain insects, birds,
ana oedSls 10 Dc dastrOyHrs. Ihey consume de-
eaylng matters; they roll up aud feast on filth.
70 their palate life is unsrasoned and inspid, but
death has flavor, Such, also, are minnr critics
in literature, cynics in morals aad hsresy hunt.
ers in religion.
1t is not work that kills m,n it is worry
4 work is healthy; you can hand v put more up
on a man than he can bear Worry is rust up-
on the blade. Ii is not the revolution that de
stroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear
secretes acids bat love aud trust are sweet
juices.
"A church nay have c's-l that shall be-
like Jacobs ladder, uniting earth and heaven,
and angles OF exposition may run nmby up
and down upon II bttore the congregation and