American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-07-29

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screaming from the rock, and, spreading
his wings, fans the air with heavy stroakes,
in an instant the birds are in the forest and
the squirrels out Of sight in their holes
So when AVERAGE is aslsap. tastes. ike
graceful squirrels. play in aud ont. and
ten thousand kinduesses. lika littIe,birds,
Ay to and fro; but when itwakes. ene
scream, and all the good has gone into nest
and coverts.
A man respected in society betakes him
selfto his cups. saying, II can leave off
when ! please He might more reason
able jump from precipice five hundred
feet high. and say, II don't intend.to go to
the bottom. When Ihsve fallen half way
Ishall turn around and come up again. -
The first time I've comes home late at night
he is little troubled. Concience whis--
pers. "You have done wrong" an appro
bativeness exclaims. "Yess what will peo.
pie say of you?" and pride starts up and
says, care you not ashamed not to have
more respect for yourself?" But combat
ivness calls out, L dent care l shall do as
like" So bis bad habits streangthens,--
He looses bis standing in society and in
business. The merchants ofwhome he
used to by goods, and who would come
down TO their store dore to welcome him,
now give him an Indifferent "goon -mor-
ming" or sit at their writing. and at
leangth tell him that he can have credit
there no longer. The truth of bis altered
position flashes upon him, and his better
feelings urg him to reform, but he tbrnsts
them aside and crowds them down and
says, II will do as / please. I will drink
so help me devill" aud thus he goes on to
the end of his career. Was there not self
denial here? Did not the man, constantly
deny his higher nature for the sake of his
lower? Yet so lis. Like the wrech who,
when his house is on fire, leays his wife
and daughter, and the sweet baheiin the
cradle. to perish in the flames, and rushes
to rife his stroug boxes and save bis gold
and jewels. so. when everything is at stake
the cursed crew of wicked men leave all
that is noble and immortal, aud run riding
their appetites and passions to save the
! pleasures which are thereinl The devil
calls for a thousand self deuials where
Christ calls for enc; self.denials the most
heartless, the most cold and urpaying, and
which grow harder and haader TO the end
while Christs lf-denials are easier and
eaaier every step ofthe way towards heav'
en-. | do not ask you ifyou are self-deny'
ing--every man who has left the cradle
has come into relm where he must beal
the cross--I ask you you are denying
yourself rightly. The only difference be.
tween Christian and worldly self denyal i,
in the thing denyed. The world denies
the higher for the lower? Christianity de.
MES The lower for the higher. and Chris
invites us to come into his kingdom tina
we may learn the true way Of self denial
that We may let Love sitregent. in the high
est chamber Of the soal, with Concienc
for its prime minister, and so harmonic
and direct all the discords and quarrels O
the lower stories. Every gardener know
that it is the topmost bough which bears tn
sweetest and brightest colored fruits. Will
those upon the lower branches are sour an
green. Christian living is living righ
beneath the sun. in the topmost boughs q
character; worldly livingis living in th
shaded lower branches.
Many people mske self denial an end
and think they are good in proportion a
they are gloomy. Their faces are worr
long and thin with grim psin. Their Sun
days are tied-up days, bound and restriced
They are alwsvs looking for something i
which to deny themselves. Now you ar
never to aim at self-denial as thing de-
sireable in itself. Aim at some positiv
good. and when lower feelings clutch {
you and would hold you ta,k. shake theI
of. and say to them, mo! i must bav
this higher life. - y +
4 Some peopleere troubled because the
! have no self.denyals. Their temper is S
n sweetaud even, tits so natural for them
!, prefer what is good and pure, that the
never have those experiences ofwbich the
a hear from other Christians. Such nee
have no anxiety; rather let them be tbanl
fal and;go on their way ofjoy.
Self.denial is easy incorporation to Il
EluantityA Itis much harder to be- trutl
ful and half-honest than it rs to be truthf
and honest throughout. There is 'notbir
: which pays You back so sWeetE as dut
which were difficult TO be prdformed.-
:. Make your own way bard and God W
make it easy. The only way in wbit
you can have progress in the divine life,
u byresolutely meeting every duty 1t
! barde when an engine begins with slc
I revelations to move the ponderous train, b
] ! when molioI is gained, It clears the tra'
. and drives everything before it. The
are many Christians who have no head
. no momentum--and when they have al
!. thing to do, it is always dead pulling Al
scream of steam and whistle. II is
u shame for Christian to be year after ye
ss overcoming the same obstacles. Y
q ought to be fighting still. butt should
u with enemies who camp far out Of sight,
: those with whoms you begin the fray,
10 Victory behind the banner, and hattie |
!, fore it--that should be the way with
IL Christian. etes :
y The highera man stands on the scale
- his manhood in opposition to his be.stho,
the greater his power. The man who
3. the spirit Of God in bis soul. rules eve
4 subordinate thing, and denies bis lower
le ture for the sake of that which is high
le isa witness for Christ whatever chur