The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1865-08-03

Your JEwELs.-One day DR.. Payson
went to visit mother who was disconsolate
from the loss of child. He said to her as
follows:
"Suppose now some one was making
beautiful crown for you to wear, and you
knew it was for You, and that you were to
receive it and wear it as soon as it should be
done. Now, if the maker of it were to come,
and, in order to make the crown more beauti-
full and splendid, were to. take some of yOur
ie,cels to put into it, should you be sorrowful
and unhappy because they were taken away
for little while, when you knew they were
gone to make up your crown"
The mother said that no one could con-
ceive of the relief, the soothing, quiet influ-
ence which this comparison had on her mind.
BEAUTIFUL WORDS OF BISHOP GREGORY
ON MATTHEW 20:22.-" The disciples were
already longing for high places; the truth
recalls them TO the road by which they must
gain the heights. Blythe bitter cup Of sOrrouo
ne attain to glory. What is that (which He
had heard from His Father, and would make
known to all His servants, that they might
be His friends p John xv. 49, 1t is not
the inward blessedness of love, the feast of
the heavenly country, of which, by the
breathings of His love, he daily gives our
souls some foretaste. For in loving the
heavenly things which we have received, we
already know that which we love, love being
itself knowledge. The friends of the Lord
proclaim the news Of the eternal home by
word and life; they enter into it through
sorrows. But let him who has attained to
the dignity of friend of God, look on him.
self as he is in himself, and on the gifts re-
ceiyed as something sublime, exalted above
himself"
LOOKING UP.-When, in the instruction
and admonition of others, we have faithfully
done our duty, we shall be willing, if we are
in right state of heart, to leave the event,
with entire calmness of mind, in the hands
of God We know not what shall profit,
whether this or that; but we may be assured,
to say the least, that God will do his part, as
wei as we have done ours, although perhaps
in different way from what we expected
81 have Observed" says Bunyan, {" that o
word cast in by-the-by, hath done more exc
cution in a sermon than all that was spoken
besides Sometimes, also, when l have
thought / did no good, then did the most
of all and at other times, when | thought
l should catch them, l have fshed for no.
thing"
AS COP WILLs-While we admit the
duty of ever bearing the Cross, we are to re-
member that we must bear it just where God
in his providential dealings sees fit to impose
it upon us, without assuming the responsible
ty of either soaking or stunning it. We
shall find that God has placed it in the whole
course of our life, and at precisely the right
place; and all he requires Of us is to bear it
with faithful heart when we meet it.
"LEsT ANY MAN SHOULD BoAsf."-Our
very graces should humble US as we'll as our
sins-as the latter, because they are ours, so
the former, because they are none Of ours
Believer didst thou ever write one letter
without Gods guiding thy hand? Didst
thou ever shed one peuitential tear till God
smote thy rock, and melted thy heart?