Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-11-23
RELIGIOUS MIsCELLANY.

Inc hret step 70 self-knoWledge is self
distrust. "i non
He must be thorough fool who can
learn nothing from his own folly.
.- The ancients dreaded death; the Christian
can only fear dying.
Man without religion is the creature Of
circumstances. Religion is above all cir
cumstances, and will lift him up above them.
In darkness there is no choice IL is
lipbt that enables us TO see the difference
between things and it is Christ that gives
us light.
The errors of the good are often very diff
cult TO eradicate, from being founded on mis-
taken views Of duty.
Selfdepreciaiion is not humility, though
often mistaken for it. Its source is oftner
mortified pride.
Religion presents few difficulties to the
humble, many to the proud, insuperable
ones to the vain.
When searching into the hidden things of
God, we are forever forgetting that we only
hHoW an part.
Some minds are like selves; they retain
all that is worthless, while all that is good
passes through them.
Good temper is like sunny day; it sheds
brightness over every thing; it is the
.sweetener Of toll and the soother of disqui-
etude.
1t is an easy matter to commend patience
when there is no danger of any trial, to eH
tol humility in the midst Of honors, to be-
gin fast after dinner.
ANYoYANcEs-Wo Would you touch a nettle
without being stung by it?-Take hold of it
stoutly. Do the same to other annoyances,
and few things will ever annoy you.
"Let the thoughts of crucified Christ"
said one, t'be never out of your mind. Let
them be your sweetness aud consolation,
your honey and your desire, your reading
and your meditation, your life, death and
resurrection.
READING THE BmLE.-I will answer for
it, the longer you read the Bible, the more
you will like it, it will grow sweeter and
sweeter and the more you get into the
spirit of it, the more you will get into the
spirit of Christ.-Romai1e.
AS it is the sun that ripens, as it is the
sun that gives color and flavor, as it is the
sun that is required to do all things in the
life of plant; so, in the life of every man
the power of God on the soul is indispensable
to the developement of the higher faculties
and their development in their highest
forms.
Your departure from time will be dismal
if it be only the force OF, sickness that drives
you away, and not the face of Jesus that
draws you-if you see plainly the grisly
hand and the leveled shaft of the destroyer
TO fly from, but not the open arms and
smiling embrace of the Saviour to leap into
A Coon PRAYER.-A little African was
one day heard to pray thus, "Lord Jesus
my heart bad too much. Me want to love
you, me want to serve you, but my baG
heart won't let me. o Lord Jesus, me can
make me good. Take away this bad heart
o Lord Jesus, give me new heart o Lord
Jesus, me sin every day. Pardon my sin
0 Lord Jesus, let me sin no moreW
DIE TO SELF.-Live as near to Jesus as
you possibly can but die to self. 1t is {
daily work Jesus is as sun that shines
on the other side of the mountain, and nov
and then a sunbeam comes over the top; W,
get q glimpse, sort of twilight apprehen
sion Of the brightness of the sun, but sci
must be much more subdued, before we car
bask in the beams of the ever blessed Jesus
or say in every thing, "Thy will be done."-
BeUeridge.
Some men do not believe in the Bible
but do believe in virtuous formulas. As i
such formulas were not offhsoots of the Bible
They do not believe in RELIGION but they d.
believe in equity and justice and purity
and truth. AS if these things were of al
age. They are under the influence of re
hgion, and truth is the product of religion
and may be traced back to divine influence
So that the persons presented as exception
to the truth that man can not live withou
the power of God in the soul, prove thi
TRUTH rather than disprove it.
THE FIFTH CoMMANDMENT.-Anol old school
master said one day TO q minister who had
come to examine his school,
~ believethe children know the Catechism
word for word"
"But do they understand it, that is the
question ?" said the minister.
The schoolmaster only bowed respectfully
and the examination began. .-l
A little boy had repeated the fifth com
mandment-Honor thy father and thy
mother-and he was desired to explain it
yesterday l showed some strange gent,
lemen over the mountain. The sharp stones
cut my feet, and the gentlemen saw they
WIZ anu SuN0 nS SOLl6 money JC
buy shoes. gave it to my mother, for she
had no shoes either, and thought could
60 bare-footed better than she could"
The BIBLE TRuE CHART-Ahl the wa
man reads the Bible-how much that de
pends upon his necessity. have untollet
the chart Of the coast many a time, par
ticularly in these latter days, since ther
has been so much interest attached to il
l have gone along down with my finger
and followed the shoals and depths in anC
out of this harbor and that and imagine
lighthouse here and lighthouse there tina
were marked on the chart, and have looked
at the inland country lining the shore ant
it has been matter of interest to me, b
be sure. But suppose / had been in tina
equinoctial gale that blew with such vic
lence, and had had the command of shi
off the coast of Cape Hatteras, and tn
Lighthouse had not been in sight, and m
spars had been split, and my rigging ha
been disarranged, and my sails had bee
blown away, and had had all could d
to keep the chip out of the trough of th
sea, and had been trying to make som
harbor, how would have unrolled the char
and with two men to help me hold it, on &C
count of the reeling and staggering of tn
vessel, looked at all the signs, and en-