Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-07-03
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Folly OF NEGLEor-Most Of the calani
ties oi life are caused by sin pie neglect
BY neglect Of education children grow up
10 ignorance By neglect farm grows up
10 weeds and brian; by neglect house
goes TO decay: by neglect sowing mao
will have no harvest; by neglect OF reap
ing the harvest will rot in the field. No
worldly interest car prosper where there is
Neglect; and Why may it not be so IN relig
ion! There is nothing Ia earthly affairs
hat is valuable that will not be ruined il
II IS not attended 10. and Why may it not
he 60 with the concerns OF the soulf Let
40 one infer. therefore, that because he is
no. drunl a. d, or an adultersr, or a mur-
ierer, he will be saved such an infer
-nce wou d be as irrational as 1t would
he for a man TO infer that because q man is
not murderer HE farm will Trodnee har
vest, or that because he-ls not an adult-r-r
therefore his merchandise will take care of
itself Salvation would be worth nothing
if it cost no .ff,rt; and there wilt be no sal
walton where NO effort IL put forth.
The PAsT.-When the GUNNER Of yonth
10 slowly wasting away on the nightfall Of
age, and the shadow Of the past becomes
ieeper and deeper, and life wears to its
close, it Is t,eassnt to look through the vista
OF time upon the sorrows and ielicities Of
our earliest years If we have home to
shelter, and hearts to joice with us, and
friends have been gathered together around
our fresides, then the rough place OF way
fsring will have been worn and smoothed
away, in the twilight OF life. while the
many spots we have passed through will
grow brighter and more beautiful. Happy,
indeed, are they whose intercourse with the
world has not changed the tone OF their
hoer feelings, or broken those musical
chords Of the heart whose vibrations are
20 melodious, 90 tender and touching in the
evening OF age.
HoME-A mans house should be on the
hilltop of cheerfulDess and serenity so high
that no shadows rest upon it, and where
the morning comes so early. and the eve
ming tarries so late, that the day has twice
as many golden hours as those Of other
men. He is to be pitied whose house is in
some valley Of grief between the hills, with
the longest night aud the shortest day
Home should be the centre Of Joy, equato
nal and tropical
The ScRIrTUREs.- Scriptures are a
depth that few can wade far into, and
none can wade through; but ye, all may
come to the brook and refresh themselves
with drinking of the stresms Of its living
waters, and 20 in little way, according to
their strength and stature.
REPLY TO TUE SoofFER young il f.
del who was soothing al Christianity, be-
cause Of the misconduct of its professors.
the late DR.. Mason said
Did you ever know an uproar to be
made because III infidel went astrsy from
the paths of morality I" The infidel admit
ted that he had not Then don't YOU see,
said DIR. NJ that, by exp citing the profes-
sors of Christianity to be holy, you admit
it to lie a holy religion, and thus pay it the
highest compliment in your power" The
Young man was silent.
REMEDY FOR SLEEPING IN CHUecH Nv
dear Colonel, perceive you slept during
sermon last sunday; it is a very bad habit,
| -a d a worthy divine TO one OF his parish
ioner- "Ah, Doctor, could not posiblS
| keep awake. | was so drowsy." "Would Id it
! not be we'll, Colonel to take little snuff
to keep YOU awake - Doctor" was the
reply. would it not he well to put . little
snuff m the sermon
FRESHNESS OF TIE BIBLE The learned lie
| Cl.rc tells US that while he was compiling
| his Harmony he was so struck with sdmi
ration of the excellent discourse OF Jes 6,
| and so il fl ,med with the love of ! is most
holy doctrine that he fhought he rad then
but just began to he acquainted with what
he had scarcely ever laid out of his hands
| from bis infancy.
Queen Elizabeth, who spent much of her
time in reading the test writ Dge Of her owl
and former ages, has left on record the fol
lowing:
Il walk many times in the pleasant fields
of the Holy Scriptures. where | pluck the
goodlisome herbs of sentences by praying,
eat them by reading digest them by mus
ing, and Law them up at length in the high
seat OF memory bv gathering them tog-th-
er. so that, having tasted their sweetness, l
NAV less perceive the bitterness of lifc -
During the time that DR. Kennicott was
employed on his PolygIott Bible, it was The
constant Office of his wife in their daily
arings to rad to him those different por
tions to which his immediate attention wsi
sled. When preparing for their ride, tf G
day after this great work was completed
upon her asking him v hat book she should
take, 90" said he, let US begin the BIZ
ble.
IMvENsE SIZE OF THE PYRAMIps-A Uni
ted States naval chaplain who has recently
visited the grand pyramid of Cheops, in
Egypt. wading in the deep sand fourteen
hundred feet before he had passed one
of it's sides, and between five and six thou
sand feet before he had msde the circuit
says, that taking a hun lred New York
churches of the ordinary " dth, AID arrang-
ing them In q hollow square. twentg five
on q side, you would have scarcely the base.
ment Of this pyramid take another hun
dred and throw in their material into the
hollow square, and it would not be full
Pile on all the stone and brick of Philadel
phia and Boston, and the structure would
not be as high and solid as this greatest
work of man. One layer of block was long
since removed to Cairo for building pur-
noses. and enough remains t. supply the
demands of city of half million of people
for q century, if they were permitted free
" to use it.