Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1862-04-16
LONG FACED PlETY.


Ipe, His dress was rigidly plain, and his
| wife was not INDUCED in the vanities of
milliaery and mantla making. lie never
ljoked. lie did not know what joke
was any further than to know that it wns
Il sin. lie carried n Sunday face through
the week. He did not mingle in the hap.
|py social parties Of the neighborhood. He
was q deacon. He starved his social ma
ture because he was q deacon. Hereirain'
| ed from participation in a free and gener-
Gus lite because he was a deacon lie made
! his children hate Sunday because he was
deacon. lie 50 brought them M that
| they learned to consider themselves un'
fortunate in being the children offs deaN
con. They were pitied by other children
! because they were the children OF dca-
con. His wife was piued by other women
because she was the wife of deacon
Nobody loved him. If he came into a
circle where men were laughing or relating
stories, they always stopped until he left.
No one ever grasped his hand cordially, or
slapped him on the shoulder, or spoke Of
him as good fellow, He seemed as dry
and hard and tough as pieoe Of jerked
beef There was no softnesI Of character
no juciness-no loveliness in him.
Now, it Is no use for me to undertake
to realize to myself that God admires such
n character as this. do not doubt that
II loves such man as this, as He loves
all men but to admire his style OF man
hood and piety is impossible for any intel
! ligemt being. 1t lacks the roundness and
sweetness, that belong to truly admlra>
be character. Such a man carIcltures
Christianity, and sclres other men away
FROM it. Such man ostentatiouSy pre-
sentS himself MS one in whose life religion
IS dominant. 1t is religion that is snppo5.
ed to rub down that long fee, and in
spirc that stiff demcanOr, and 10 make him
every point an unattractiye and unloYable
man. Of course, it is not religion that
does anything of the kind, but has the
credit of it with the world, and tho world
does not like it. 1t looks around and sees
a great many men who do not pretend 10
religion at all, and yet who are very Iowa
bic men. II religion can transform a
pleasant man into a most unpleasant one,
and change free, bright and happy home
into dismal place of slavery, and blot
out a mans aesthetic and social nature, the
,,'IJ ,,',l,
U'' S'a ~ r,a,aonhoi nbronio
disease and do not blame it. II is not
r,i.,oi,a ~ 'I'o' ,Ho ,rnn ra,mro @ ~ Ch,i.,iani,y
,,l,o,' C,hr;,Iiors ,l'on,saI,.o, o,to,,,ir ,ncL
q ievous errors ABOUT it.
suppose God is attracted to very much
II q sane ,tvln of character that men arn
Cbris, loyaj a vonrg man NJ first siobt
Who locl,od III. ,.rT tIir, essential tH his
highest monbood Brt Uo loved the
ki1d ,,r man Uo enY, hofore lin, He was
umri,ht frorL; -haor,o6 oman minded and
htioSt. and "Io.ns hohsId him lovad
linz y Tharo ara non yLo,,, ono cannot
hahn loving and odnirirr thoprh thev
lack oreat many ibjnoS. -tbinSs very
"naadfuI" To make Them Terrocl men.
Now mt il to GOOD causcieucjous men
and women wLetbar thev do not take
more nleosure in thn society ~ II warm
hearted oenoroue cbivahou. we)l.l,d
man of the world. than in the society of
orv Of thai class Of ghon the deacon |
have mepljoned is a tvne. know they
do. and ,hey capno, IcIp it.
There is moro of that which belongs 10
first class Christian character in the
former Than in the latter. and # | were
caIlnd unou IN tast the two mon by com.
u,ndina them IN sell what they have and
give TO the poor. | should be disappointed
were the deacon to behave the oeN''
character which relSloh uoes hot lIucu'I