Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1865-04-06
8elmont Chronicle
St,cIairsviIIe, Ohio, April 6.
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&sNS from bt0 e1Skets.
Tns sGsNvs.-Wh nat servants shall we
have to wait upon us in the grave p
What friends to visit us? What Off
cioIs people to cleanse away the moist
and unwholesome cloud reflected upon
our faces from the sides Of the weeping
vaults, which are the longest weepers
for our funeral P Jeremy Taylor.
RESISTING TrMrrATioN.-Frcquent
and fierce is the devil in his attacks, on
all sides besieging our salvation, We
therefore must watch andbe sober,a r,an1
everywhere fortifv ourselves against is
assault; for If he but gain some slight
vantage ground, he goes on to make
for himself = broad passage, and by
degrees introduces all his forces
Chrysostom.
SscRST PRAYER.--In public and pri-
vate duties VS. may admit of the com
pany OF others to join with us; and, if
thHy be such rs fear God, the more the
better. But in secret duties Christ and
thou must whisper it over betwixt your
selves; and then the company Of the
wife OF thy bosom or thy friend that is
rs thine own soul would not be wei
come Flaved,
Az lLLITERATE PCLPtT. Admitting
ignorant, sordid, illtcrate persons to
this function is to give the royal stamp
to piene of lead. I confess God has
no need Of any man > parts or learning
but certainly then he hath much less
need of his ignorance and i'll behavior
A blind man sitting in the chimney
corner is pardonable enough; but sit
ting at the heln, he is intolcrabIe. L
mon will be ignorant and illiterate lei
them he so i'll private and to themselves
ana not act their defects in high place
to make themselves visible and con
spicuous. If owls will not be hooted
at, let them keep close within'the tree
and not perch upon the upper boughs
- South.
HUmLrr it is with respect t.
all graccs. so particularly as to thi
clothing of humanity; though it makes
least show, yet come near, and you vii
see 1t both rich and comcly and though
it hides other graccs, yet when they dt
appear under it, as sometimes the,
will, little glance of them so make
them much more esteemed. Rebecca
beauty and her Jewels were covered
with n veil but when they did appcr
the veil set Off and commenced Their
though at distance ithid them Leigh
ton.
SECTARIANIsM i hate dividing princi
pie. and practices ard, whateyc, others are
am for peace and healing; AZ d ifiny bloc
would be sufficient balsam, ! would pladl
part with the last drop of it for he closn
mp Of The bleeding wounds of difference
hat are rmongst triiO Christians -! Mat
thew Henry.
Ps,AcnIN0. The true learning of a 60,
pei minister consists not 10 heing able {
talk Latin auentlyxor TO dispute in philo.
ophy, but in being able to sneak word i
season TO ~esry souls. -lPhilip Henry.
STsoEaITr. - M son, 1irc me thu heay,
whatsoever else we tender unto God, If hi
be wanting, i is but tho carcass of duty
i Ezekiel Hopkins.
RREcEPT AND EXAMPLE. Though tn
werds OF the wiss be as mails fastened by tn
masters OF assemblies, yet sure their exam
pies arc the hammer to drive them in /,
take the deeper hold, - Thomas Fuller.
A GUILTY Conscience. The conscience
is like fre under pile of green wood
long ere it hurn; but.once kinded it flame,
beyond qnesching. 1t ia not pacifi abb
while sin is.within to vex it. The ham
will not Geese lhrobblng so long SIS tn
thorn is within the flesh La vain he stri
veth 10 feast away cares, 81 eep out thought,
drink down sorrows, that hath his .tormer
ter within him. When one violently offer
To stop a source of blood at tho nostris,
6nds way down the throat, not withou
hazard of sufocation. The stricken dee
runs into the thicket, and there breaks o
the arrSv; but the head sticks still With
him AMI rsnkles to death. Fitting an,
shifting ground gives way to further al
guish. The unappeasel conscience will no
leave him until it hath showed him hcl
nor then neither. Lot thcn this fool kno,
that his now scared conscience shall b
quiekenej; his death. bed shall smart f
this Thomas Adams.