Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1866-12-05

InAr's thy endlng-Achns lora
sunken eye and haggard micn,
TnAr's thy endng--beaaty queen
bending form and wrinklea face,
THAr's thy ending-queen Of graeel
sDus. to dust" and nought beside,
THAr's thy ending--4ueen Of pride
"Here to day, and gone to morrow"
TnAr's thy lifetime-child Of sorrow
Heavenly grace, nought else can span,
THArs thy ONLY hoPe-poor "man.'
We expect everything and are pre-
paired for nothing.
Our vanity is necessarily the enemy
of our selflOve.
It's by becoming more unhappy that
we sometimes learn to be less so.
Loving hearts are like beggars !;
they live on what is given them.
BY acting as we ought to think, we
end by thinking as we ought to act.
The most dangerous of batteries is
the inferiority ofwhat is around us.
He who has ceased to enjoy the
superiority Of his friend, has ceased to
love him.
Let us go always beyond the duties
marked out, and keep within the
pleasures permitted
Every man who is "diligent in bust
ness, serving the Lord" is a sermon
brimful of the energies Of life and
truth, a witness to the comprehensive
ness and adoption of Christ religion,
a preacher of righteousness in scenes
where none can preach so effectively
or so well.
Oh how humane, how divine, how
god-like, was the love that irradiated
the cross of Christ. Who can wonder
that that instrument of his death-the
once accursed cross-should be fixed
forever as the emblem of the spirit,
the power, by which the world is to
be subdued to God?
Your feelings and frames are moth
ing; your ceremonies, and notions,
and creeds, and ordinances, and formal
participation in worship, are all moth
ing without Christ but with trust in
Him there is not a height of glory
and honor in the whole universe to
which a creature can attain, TO which
you may not ascend.
We are called to be ourselves holy,
as Christ was holy, in all manner oi
conversation. We are called TO be
followers of God as dear children
yes, TO be perfect in our limited, finite
sphere, as the Deity is perfect in his
unlimited, infinite sphere and we
hold that no belief is unto salvation
but that which incites us to godliness
Go not in the path of evil, deluded
men, but esehew everything which il
false and ignoble Then in thee shal
begin a heaven of the mind and soul
a heaven not dependent on the un
scriptural conditions which men may
make, but upon the laws of mans in
tellectual aud spiritual n;:ture-upor
the condition Of activity, labor anC
love.
The Christian is repeatedly called ;
soldier in the New Testament, anC
his course compared to a warfare
Though we often repeat this saying
with general notion of lis fitness
we are, perhaps, not apt to realize il
To realize it, that is, TO BRING int
actual consciousness and practice, i
TO make the highest attainment il
Christian life.
But controversy cOnvinces nobody
If any man does not see the divine il
Jesus, why waste words TO prove it t
him? While we argue about il on tn
plane Of the logical understanding, TIA
truth escapes us both, and leaves u
more barren than before Only a
we see, do we know. The testinon
Of the humblest disciple is wiser Iha
the reasons of the greatest philosopher
MERCHANT PREACHERS. "A clergy
man, if very faithful, may have, j
the course Of year, some two O
three hundred opportunities wherei
he may preach Christ. His studies S
seclude him that be can seldom mingl
with men. But a Christian merchan
has, by his habitual intercourse wit
men, Thousand opportunities eac
year for commencing unto them th
truth of his religion
Morality is a very beautiful part O
Christians superstructure, but Il
not a foundation. Other foundation
remember, no man can lay, than tina
is laid. We have seen some melai
choly crashes in the moral careers
men; we have heard some terribl
falls in dying chambers. They wer
the downtumblings Of a false hop
that was bottomed on the sand. Whe
the floods came and the winds smot
on it, it fell, ahd great was the fal
thereof.
Somebody has wrought miracle,
either God or man Which is il nos
credible to hold, that mai has wrourh
signs and wonders, or God throug
mang Why should not willing an
a free willing God be as original an
surprising in his new spiritual metl
ods and fresh manifestations of grac
and love TO man, as ia his newly cr,
ated worlds, and his original on q
new animals and types Of being W
concede the artist originally shall W
deny it to the great Artist and divin
Mechanican
| wonder that men do not put som
feathers into their dying pillows
wonder that people do not soften IN
mattresses on which they shall fnall
die, breathing difficulty away the
last breath, by thinking that the
have made beds of softness for enr