Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-10-24

CARErULNHs or SPEeM.-We ahould
walk through life - through the Swisa
mountains. where . hssty word may
bring down an avalanche.
RoCRAsrNArIoN.-Near tho close OF bis
life Patrick Henry laid his hand on the
Bible. and said to friend Here 10 . book
worth more than oil Others; yet 1t is my
misfortune never to have read it with pro.
per attention until lately" William Pitt
when he came to die, said: Il fear that
have. like many others. neglected my re.
ligious duties too much to have any ground
to hope that they can be efficacious on nv
death bed"
FAMILY RELfGloN.-There are doubtless
many causes operating in this age to lessen
the sense of parental responsibility, and Of
course Of filial duty. Prominent among
them is the anti-pedobsptist dogma. strik.
ing as it does against family religion, it in
creases unto more ungodliness" in it, hard.
ening influence upon the masses. in turning
the hearts Of the fathers from the children
from their fathers So fer - it, power
reaches, 1t is destructive of social, civil and
religious order. Its tendencies are seen
In the Anabaptists of the sixteenth century,
and in the Mormons of the nineteenth.
And it is significant fact, that all sys-
TENS Of Social reform" make war upon the
family institution. All unite in forbidding
parents to bring their little children to the
Savior, to consecrate them to him, and
"bring them up in the nurture and admoni-
ton of the Lord" Wherever the power of
the dogma Is exerted, its practical effects
are children left to themselves" despising
all authority, human and divine, neither
fearing God, nor regarding man. Instead
OF "a godly seed" being raised up to perpe-
tuate the church of Christ, we behold on
every hand a!godless. race. "a seed Of evil
doers,' to perpetuate the kingdom of Satan.
Hence the ease with which "spiritu alism y
or "materialism." or any other lying won
der, multiplies it's converts. The truth is,
the converts were prepared in advance by
Parentalj unfsithfulness. in Withholding
children from God, and exposing them TO
be taken by Saten at his will So that all
these rulers of spiritual wickedness have to
do. is to raise their victims gathered to-
gether.'
PEACE LIKE RrvER.-"Away among the
Alleghanies there is spring 90 small that
single OK in a summer day could drain it
dry, 1t steals its unobtrusive way among
the bills till it spreads out in the beautiful
Ohio. Thence it stretches away thousand
miles, leaving on its banks cities, village and
cultivated farms, and bearing on ito bosom
mere than half thousand steamboats," -
This have culled somwhere know not
where nor when. Yet With the bubblinR
fountain in my eye, and roaring waterfall
in my ear. ! say. Beautiful representation
OF a Christians peace. Peace a. . river Z"
Like river in the conanencemest-trick-
ling from some fssure in the heart, singing
its own song as it dropped from leaf to leaf,
from lodge to lodge-now gathering itself
up in little pool. saying to its joyous va
ters "here We rest"-snon rushing on again
to fulfill its purpose. and again it, parent
sea.
Like river in it, progyess-sver widen.
ing and deepening from the ankles" TO the
"knees. from the knees to the "loins," from
the loins to "waters to swim in, . river that
cannot BE- passed ovsr"-rsceiving new tri-
butaries on the right and left, sweeping
away = it rolls on it, healthful stream the
dead and dying remains Of past affections
and former lusts. aud bearing on it, bosom
thousand newly launched hopsa
Like river in its i.f.s~es-holy healthy
gsnsrating-eausing : wide expanss Of 'liv.
ing green to spread out on either sids-
making even the desert Of the soul "reioiss
and blossom = the rose"
Like . river in it, cAamoes-when the
warm sun Of rightsoosness poars his e6ul.
gent rays onJA heart that has sxpsrieneed
the rigors Of . spiritual winter. and mslts
the cold snows and breaks The ies-bound
strsams-or when the shower Of grses fan
ON the hearts hin top, then blssssd full.
ness psrvadsd al it eourss-many "srs.
Vase" through which II pours it, sanctify.
ing strsama
Like river in its se,vsinssios- rolling in.
to. and mingling with the shorelsss, blsassd
- Of perfect Psaes where undulating waves
never rcll in strife o. break in death. Lons
ere the great - II reached, the river q
peace meets the great "trial wave - il ron,
itself inland - II 70 hastea the hour q
union, and give The redeemed sosl . blsased
ssnse-s foeseasts ofsternal felicity a,d A..
tars JOY. There The glssiess lad WIN q
sats = , plase Il bssed rivess ed areana
vAesia shao - - eal)ey With ealla oel1So
~ eauees ~ - GsseGA.
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