Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-10-23
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dies within me; when I read The epitaphs
ofthe beautiful, every inordinate desire
goes out; when meet the grief of pa
rents on tomb stone, my heart melts
with compassion when see til, tombs
of parents themselves, consider the van,
ity of grieving for those whom we must
quickly follow when see kings lying by
the side Of those who deposed them, when
see rival wits placed side by side, or the
holy men that divided the orld by their
contests, reflect with sorrow and aston,
ishment on TIE little competitions, fac,
tions and debates of mankind when l
read the dates Of tombs of some that died
but yesterday, and some six hundred
years ago, | consider that great day when
we shall all be coten poraries, and make
our appearance together.
Bsg~A life without the divine influence
upon the soul, is life of ignorance and
imbecility, No man can come to himself
except by coming to God. There is many
and many flower that never will bloss
som in our climate because it needs more
of tropical heat than our climate affords.
1t is heat that brings it to itself. There
is many man that never knows what is
in him because he has not tn heat of the
eternal tropic which is required to make
him grow, in stem, blossom, and fruit =
beca use he is Withholding himself from
God because he is sitting in darkness,
being an unbelievcri and because in shut
ting himself out from God he shuts him
out from himself
BEas~ A man that does not know how TO
be bad noes not know how to be good
Men say that when q bad man becomes
good, he is apt to be very good man. 1t
is 50, but beirg bad has nothing to do
with it. An energetic man is as energet-
ic in goodness as in evil. The mah that
has bottom force, power that penetrates
every part oG his nature, when he becomes
good, takes the royalty of that force into
his higher nature though before it may
only has been in his baser nature.
BY sorrow and by joy; by joys
which are bright calors by prayer by
influences of the sanctuary 10y your
pleasures; by your business; by reverses /;
by successes ard by failures by what
strengthened your confidence, and by
what broke it down by the things that
you mourn over-by all these God is wor-
king in you, And YOU are to be perfect,
not according to the tLing that YOU plan,
but according TO the divine pattern.
Rsy~Think about yourself and what YOU
want, what yos like, what respect people
ought to pay to you, what people think of
you, and then TO you nothing will be pure.
You will spoil everything you touch, you
will make sin and misery for yourself out
Of everything which God sends you, you
will be as wretched MS you choose on eArth,
or in heaven either.
neA9lf growing on the highway of life
men are found blossoming into excellence
and purity and love and fdelities, how
much more would they abound in these
things if they were planted in the garden
ofthe Lord, where their roots would run
out into divine truth, and where their
head would be lifted up in the conscious
rains and sunlight of Gods influence?
GeBpThe world is full of wise maxims
drawn from experience to teach mep to
be strong bodily aud in secular affairs
But when man attempts TO get above
the average of human culture, and devel-
op himselfas a spiritual and moral crea-
ture, living net b. sense, but by faith,
then he finds the world penurious in its
provision.
ne6' DO good for thise own satisfaction
and care not what follows, Cause no
gray hairs to any one; nevertheless, for
the truth, even gray hairs are to be dis,
regarded.
RJ"Duty is the little blue sky over ev.
cry heart and soul-over every life large
enough for a star to look between the
clouds, and for sky-lork happiness to rise
heavenward through and sing in.
D6A-Man is 10y far The most complex
thing in creation. lie has been called the
mcrocosm, ns if in him, in little, was
something OF everything in creation.
pSa.God hears no moro than the heart
speaks and if the heart bs dumb, Heay-
en- will certainly be deaf
N6a-God never gives faith, but lie
brings His child into a situation where it
will be tried. r
h9sLife's contradictions are many
Salt water gives fresh fish, and hot words
produce GOODNESS.
pas1 Vanity Fair thinks the most crowd
ed summer retreat Of the season was tina.
from Manassas To WAshinpton