Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1864-08-19
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llIFt lduSHdSG VI CNSt H"'N, '"U"
knowest love thee
Show me thy faith by thy works. IL
the demand of St. James BE careful
to maintain good works, is the counsel OF
St. Paul and the testimony OF the whole
Bible is, that faith without works is dead
We are not called into the vineyard to
sit idle, to fold our hands, and TO 60 to
sleep. They that sleep, sleep in the
night; bat believers are children OF the
light and of the day, and have much to
do. In amending our habits, in cuI-
tvatiug our hearts, in resisting temp
tation, in conquering besetting sins, in
fighting the good fight, to keep the faith,
our banner flying, and step by step, win
the way to heaven, how much have we
to do SO much that an idler were As
great a contradiction in terms as a dis
honest, lying, or liceGtious Christian. -
In respect even Of our own interests and
spiritual welfare, may we not use the
words OF Nehemiah, and say to the world,
when with smiles or brow of care, it so
licits our hearts and time, ! baYe a great
work 10 do, therefore | cannot come
down = But no man liveth to himself ;
no Christian al least. And in a world
bleeding from so many wounds, so brip-
full of sorrow, and suffering oppression,
and ignorance, and wrong, and crimes
where sinners perish round US as in a
great shipwreck, some dashed on the
cruel rocks, and others drowning in the
waves, and all by their dangers crying,
Help, we perish ?-instead Of having
nothing to do, might we no; wish to have
a thousand heads to plan, and a thousand
hearts to feel, and a thousand hands to
work the zeal Of Paul, the wealth of
Solomon, the years of Methusaleh =
Let Us pity the world, and endeayor
praying and working, so to shine, that
others, seeing our good works, may be
guided to heaven.
Nothing superduou5 has entered th4
human miod from the creative hand.
Every distinct element has its function.
Suppression, therefore, is not the proper
Of excess. We aust educate,
and not uproot.
There is a mysterious feeling that fire.
lnenlly passes like cloud over the
pirit. 1t comes upon the soul in the busy
,uste of life, in the calm and silent re- I
reals Of solitude. Its powers are alike
upreme over the weak and the iron
hearted, At one time it is caused by
he fitting Of a single thought across the II
mind. Again, a sound will come boom +
ng across the ocean of memory, sad and
GLENN as the deathknell, oyersbadowing
II the bright hopes and sunny feelings
# the heart Who can describe and yet
Who has not felt its bewildering indu-
,nce? Still, It is delicious sorrow; and
ike a cloud dmming the sunshine Of the
liver, although causing momentary
shade of gloom, it enhances the beauty of ,
brightness.
Heaven gives US enough when it gives
is opportunity.
The instant the head is laid on the J.
pillow is that in which conscience delivers
It's DEGREES. Ii it has conceived any evil
design, it is surrounded by thorns. The
softest down is hard under the restless
head of the wicked, In order to be
harry, one must be on good terms with G
ones pillow, for the nightly reproaches it T
can make must be heard yet it is never $
so delicious, so tranquil, as after a day on
which one has performed some good act
or when one is conscious of having spent T.
it in some useful or substantial en-
ploymont.
The country is in greater danger from
the worldIinrss and vices of its citizens I
than from the power and malice of its
foes. Tie Divine judgments have not a
led to repentance. The pressure Of woe a
has not brought soberness of feeling. &
The peril of national bankruptcy and ruin &.
ioes not incite to economy. The eager
ness for exciting pleasures was never f
more marked, nor the increase Of dissipa- =
ion more deplorable. The love of
money and resort to reckless measures
o gain it have become a mania, and 10. d,
sane asylums will soon receive large c
reinforcement of incurable PATIENTS
Great revivalS Of religion are needed to u
arrest and subdue these fearful evils
Only as the future world is clothed with
more reality than the present, and Divine 81
principles control human passions, can "
he madness of the hour be checked. ASH
esus stilled the tempest by a word, so
be Spirit, by His presence, can hush ihe
eaviDg pillows of worldlness, and cure y,
he madness of the hour. n