Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-04-03
8fligiOus MlisteIIanp.

| COMING DowN.-By coming down i under
stand thus: Learning from the many mortifca-
tons, disappointments, and rebuffs which we must
all meet as we 60 on through life to think more
hum0ly OF ourselves, Intellectually, morally, So
ciaily, physically esthetcally; yet while thinking
thus humbly of ourselves and our powers. 10 re.
solve that we shall continue TO do our yery best.
and all this with a kindly heart and a contented
mind Such is my idea Of true and Christian
coming down; and ] regard as true hero the
man who does it rightly. 1t is a noble thing for
man to say to himself, al am not at all what
had vainly fancied myself; my mark Is far, very
far lower than / thought it had been: had fan
cied myself great genius, but find i am only
man of decent ability: / had fancied myself
man of great weight in the country, but find
| have very little influence indeed: / had fancied
that my stature was six feet four, but find that
/ am only five feet two: had fancied that IN
such competition never could be beaten, but
in truth have been sadly beaten: had fancied
(suffer me, reader the solemn allusion) that nv
Master had mtrusted me with ten talents, but /
find have no more than one. But viii accept
the humble level which is mine by right, and with
Gods help will do my very best there l will
not kick dogs nor curse servants; viii not try TO
detract from the standing of men who are clever,
more eminent, or taller than myself; / viii hear
tily wish them we'll / will not grow soured
moping, and misanthropic / know / am beaten
and disappointed, but / viii hold on manfully
still, and never give upl" Such, kind reader, Is
Christian coming downl-Recreofions efa County
PaTson.
Do You LIKE CoSrRoyFRsYs-l like contro-
versy when il is thoroughly honest. 1 do ad-
mire to see two large and generous minds az
proach subject from opposite quarters, and then
10 watch the new lights that fash over it and
show it in thousand relations that were not OBJ
vious before. 1t lifts US out of the ruts of our
sect and party, in whose tread-mill we had been
grinding all our lives, and mistaken il for the
universe. But controversy with small minds is
the smallest business that is done in this world
1t slides inevitable into word catching, and ends
in pers Qualities. The moment i saw a man
consciously trying to put my language 10 a diff
ferent use from what had put it myself, would
stop short with him, and say 81 am glad TO com
pare ideas with you. but lhaye no time for word
catching To say, DIR. johnson did, Il
can't furnish meaning and brains too" is not
courteous. The only controversy that con
vinces the controversies is a friendly compari-
son of beliefs, each turning the Others round and
viewing il under all the angles Of reflection. 1t
| Is not this sort Of controversy, but fighting with
word-mousers, that Mr.. Holmes must have in
mind. "You know that if you had bent tube,
one arm of which the size of pipe stem, and
another big enough to hold the ocean, water
would stand in the same hight in one as in the
other Controversy equalizes fools and wise
in the same way, and the fools know it-Monfk
ly Religious Magazine"
DEAD. Yer LrvING.-The cedar Is most useful
when dead. Ii is the most productive when its
place knows il no more There is no timber ike
it. Firm in the grain, and capable of the finest
polish. the tooth of no insect will touch u, and
Time himself can hardly destroy il. Dfusing
"A perpetual fragrance through the chambers which
it cells, the worm will not corrode the book which
it protects nor the moth corrupt the garment which
il guards all but immortal itself. il transfu-es ifs
Every Christian is useful in his life but the soodly
cedars are most useful afterwards. L,tlaer is
dead, but the Reformation lives. Knox, Mel
ville and Henderson dead but Scotland still
retains Sabbath and Christian peasantry,
Bible in every house, and school in every par
ish. Bunyan is dead. but his bright spirit still
walks the earth i'm Il Pilgrims Progress" Cow
per is dead, but the golden apples" are still
fresh as when newly gathered in the "silses jas-
ket' of the Olney Hymns. Eliot is dead, but the
missionary work is young. Henry Martyr is
dead, but who can count the apostolic spirits who,
phenixlike, have started from the funeral pileg
Howard is dead. but modern philanthropy is only
commencing its career. Raikes is dead, but the
Sabbath schools go on.-ReU. j. Hamiifon.
THANK You-"Mother, said little girl. IL
gave poor beggar- child drink of water and
slice of bread, and she said, Thank you,' to me
so beautifully. and it made me SO glad shall
nerer forget it,"
Now children can do great many things worth
a "thank you" Kind Offices are everywhere and
at all times needed; for there are always sick
ones sorr0wful Ones poor ones, besides dear ones.
to make happy by kindness; and it goes further
towards making home happy than almost any
thing else. Kind offices also are within every
body's reach, like air and sunshine: and il any
body feels fretful, or dscontented, or repining,
OF unthankful, and want medicine to cure il,
would saw do "thynk y0u's" worth of kind
4 h<r ,xxfI1 he
Ii is a wonderful sweetener Of life. Try it,
Fiorers Of Spring time.
KEEP YouR CHARAcrFRs USsPorrED.-Moneg
is good thing, especially in these hard time +.
but there Is something thousand fold more val
liable. Ii is Characteristic consciousness Of a
pure and honorable life This il should be n
mans first aim to preserve at any cost. In such
times of commercial distress, while some are
proved and found wanting, Others come forth
tried as by FIRE. Here and there one comes out
of the furnace far more Of man than before.
Amid the wreck of his fortune he stands erect
a noble specimen of true manhood We have
occasionally witnessed an example Of courage In
such a crisis, of moral intrepdity, that deserved
all honor. Let ii be the aim of every business
man, above all things else, TO keep this purity
unstained. This is the best possession-this IL
a capital which can never be taken from him
this is the richest inheritance which he can leave
to his children.-Euangelist.
"wHERx THE DEVIL CAN nor CoxK, HE WILL
SESD."-A proTerb Of very serious import, which
excellenty sets out 20 the penetrative charac-
ter Of temptations, and the certainty that they
will follow and find men out in their strictest re
treats. IL rebukes the absurdity of supposing
that by any outward arrangements. cloistered re
tirements, fights into the wilderness, can he
kept at distance. So FAR from this, temptations
will inevitably overlap all these outward and
merely artificial barriers which may be raised up
against them for our great enemy Is as formid-
able from a seeming distance as in close combat
,chere he can mot come, he soiH send.-Trenoh.
rE- DIR. Arnold, when at Laleham, once lost
all patience with a dull scholar, when the pupil
looked up in his face and said: why do yOI
speak angrily, sirf Indeed, am doing the best
L can" Years after the doctor used TO tell the
story to his own children. and say. 81 never felt
so ashamed of myself in my life. That look and
| that speech have never forgotten. Is not this
a very suggestive fact for many parents and
teachers, and for masters, too, who are ofttimes
impatient and unreasonable with youths OF this
class?
rE- The truth is precious as il is divine. Thc
truth is precious, because nothing else is so near
mans present and future welfare. There is not
a sin, crime, wrong. bad thing in the world
but, sweep away the dust of earth around IL. Il
stands upon lie: and falsehood is the foundation
of all evil. Sin came in with lie, and the dev
told our mother, he has told many of her
daughters since, you may sin and not suffer. Th'
} ruin of man stands upon lie.
FORGIVENESS
Where without love Is not 10 live,
blest the words, '.Forget''-"Forgivei
Forget the fault that might estrange
Hearts that long years could never change;
Forgefl before the seed takes root,
And Yields its bitter "Dead Sea fruit ~
Forgivei you would be forgiven,
BY man earth, or God in heaven
II but 20 gire, more blest Il viewed
Than to receive IN earthly gsod-
, Sure 20 Tor0ire e more should prize,
Whose span encircles earth aud skies.
r cT- He who is passionate and hasty, is gen
, orally honest 1t is your old, assembling hypo
, crite of whom you should beware. There's D.
deception in a bulldog. IL is only the cur thai
: sneaks up and bites you when your back J.
turned.
EARLY VIcE-Lord SALISBURY recently stated
as the result Of his personal Investigation. that 20
all the adult male criminals in London, not tvs