Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-11-04
SUNDAY READINGS.

seeing thcn, thejudgment day is great and com
ing reality, and that You and mast render our ac-
count to God. may not reasonably a-l,-What are
the hopes on which you build? What !: ,nut. stand
ing? What preparation are we making for il now
Our life hangs upon hair; So does III. coming The
last great earthquake has begun anl its vibrations
felt from Paris to Frankfort, from Frarkl,rl to
Naples whatever be the issue they are tp,ls rrcyn
the skies, rcyorberating upon the earth ia solemn
tones Prepare to meet thy God!" If lie vino i, to
come quickly, come aud find absorbed in the
things of this world, and careless about the THINGS
OF eternity. what an awful scenCwhat a dTeary pros
pect for us | am speaking the true Word of God
when i'll the prospect of the Judgment seat ask you
to turn from all you have done and suffered as the
ground of acceptance for your good deeds can avail
you nothing to THE blood that cleanscth from all
sin = and to do all that is holy and benevolent and
generous. being taught by the Holy Spirit, as the
evidence and result of your acceptance. Thus lam-
lies so feeling and united and afectionatc here in
stead OF being severed at the last day. the one to
stand at the right hand and the other at the left of
the throne, shall be made yet more united affection
ate and beautiful rejoicing before the throne Of
God and the mb.-Ciummiaas
There lis kind of religious teaching which is very
apt to beray souls The first direction given to men
OF all characters is to set out with firm persuasion
of their reconciliation with God and the enioyment
order of things For right to the comfort of the
promise made to believing Christians can only
be ascertaned by the agreement Of the temper of our
minds and the course of our lives, with the Scripture
characters Of those privileged persons to whom those
promises appropriated; and to expect men To ar
rogate that comfort to themselves, previously to any
degree Of holy conformity in disposition and conduct
TO those descriptive characters. Is to take the chill
drens bread and give it unto dogs is to act without
iowa tI,r;t
fatally to mislead the souls of men. This kind of
teaching too often leads to nothing better than bold
preSumptiye confidence. Whereas, even with evil
dence Of the best sort attending this course the true
Christian Will always proceed on his course trembling
with rejoicing. DR.. Arnold draws the picture To
day pentent justified and full of observation-disclosures
row it may be cast down. and full ofhumiliation and
godly fear. So it will be- and so it must be; till
hariag finished our course, and the work of the tenn
ter being ended, and his power stopped for ever, we
may find there is a peace to be no more disturbed
rest to be no more broken. an assurance to be no
more troubled with fear WelJH
One of the .threexletters written by the Duke of
Wellington from the 6eld of Waterloo, was brief
note which, having enumerated some who had fallen.
ended thus cmphaticaly:-'I have escaped unhurt
the fagcrof ProDtdcnce me-" What the impuIse
was which dictated these extraordinary words we
leave to the opinion Of those who read them When
so long at the highest tension, gave way, and as he
moved among the groans of the wounded. and the
reckng carnage and heard the rout of the yanquish
ed and the shouts of the vicor, fainter and fainter
through the gloom of the night he wcpl. and soon
after wrote the words which have quoted from his
letter. 1t is in such trying hours that man feels his
rail mortality, instnctivey turns to Cot and refer
ring his actions to the will of Him who guides and
all things with reverence says: THE finger
fDr.,T.t
and Euturity.
At the price of a few hours Of suffering which did
not even reach Thy grand soul, Thouhast bought tho
most complete immortality. For thousands Of years
the world will depend on Thee, Banner Of oar con
tests, Thou shalt be the standard about which the
hottest battle will be given thousand times more
alive thousand times more beloved since Thy death
than during Thy passage here below Thou shalt be-
come the cornerstone of humanity so entirely that
to tear Thy name from this world would be to rcnd ii
to its foundations. Between Thee and God there |
will be no longer any distinction. Complete con-
queror of death. take possession of Thy Kingdom,
whittier shall follow Thee, by the royal road which
Thou hast traced, ages of worshppcrs- Life
Of Jesus.
1t seems that the levely and joyful borders of Hea-
ven sweetly ntrudc themselves in this world. There
is, on this side Jordan, in the Wilderness not only
tall Pisgah which affords to the eye of elevated filth
there is also, right the border of the stream
delightful lowland, to which the soft brcezes of |
Canaan come, where the perfume of her vineyards
waited pleasantly and where angels themselves pre-
sent the pilgrims with some ripe clusters as fore
taste of the coming vintage. This land lies on the
verge of Heaven to refresh the dying Saints 1t is
called by Bunyan the country of Beuah" and |
beautifully described in his Pilgrims Progress Now
saw in my dream, that by this time the pilgrims |
were got over the enchanted ground, and entering
into the country of Beuah whose air was very sweet
and pleasant the lying directly through it, they
solaced themselves there for season. Yea. here |
they heard continually the singing Of birds, and |
saw every day the flowers appear in the earth, and
heard the voice of the turtle in the land In this
country the sun shineth night and day, wherefore |
this was beyond the Valley of the Shadow of Death,
and also out of the reach of Giant Despair neither
could they from this place much the |
Doubling Castle Here they within sight |
Of the city they going to; also here met them
some of the inhabitants thereof for in this land the
shining ones commonly walked, because it upon |
the borders of heaven Future Life.
JEsU DULCIS MEMoRIA.
II IL