Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-07-11
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BE always at leisure TO do a good
action, never make business an excuse
for avoiding offices of humanity.
Those who would preach Christ, but
not Christ crucidod, miss the very
soul and essence Of our holy faith.
The moro self is INDUCED, the more
II demands, and therefore, of all mon
the selfish men are the more discon-
tented.
1t is far cheaper to work ones
head than ones heart to goodness
can make hundred meditations
sooner than subdue one sin in the
soul.
If there be any attainment which
has seemed to you up till now to be
impossible, long after it, If it be any
excellence Of loveliness, or any emi-
nenco Of grace, let your soul be en-
larged.
Let us watt in prayer upon God and
prepare to be heard, for God has great
floods of grace TO give, according to
his riches in glory by Christ Jesus
will he deals out large things to those
whose faith is large,
To convert men to character is the
great thing, not to convert them to
belief, and character alone converts
character. The effective churches
are men and women who have made
temples of themselves.
We hnuA not tho least sympathy
with that dignifed dullness which
puts everybody to sleep, nor that rhe-
torical brilliancy which glitters mere
ly to amuse but heaven save us from
the opposite extremes. Polished plat
itudesare pardonable; clap trap, bonn
bast and impertinence are beyond for
giveness.
Let us not dictate to God. Many
n blessing has been lost by Christians
not believing it to be blessing, be-
cause it did not come in the par1ic-
ular shape which they had conceived
to bo proper and right. To some the
divine work is nothing, unless it as
sumes the form which their prejudice
has selected.
A desire for learning is not learn
ing; and a desire for virtue, is not
virtue. Such desires, it is to behoped,
will lead to wisdom and to godliness;
but Christian character cannot be as
sumed in n moment, when the desire is
awakened. And amid the excitement
of deathbeds, there is hardly opportu-
nifty for the awakening ofcalm earnest
purpose.
Rowland Hill said to young Dan
iel Wilson, afterwards bishop of Cal.
cutta, Humility is n sweet and guar
dian grace. III saw you pert and
proud, and wanting to 90 without
the Lord, would not give farthing
for you or your preaching either but
if you are humble and child-iike.
afraid to take a single step unless the
Lord point out the way, then you
will be owned and blessed"
We walk here, as it were in the
crypts of life; at times from the
great Cathedral above us, we can
hear the organ and the chanting ofl
the choir; wesee light stream through
the open door, when some friend goes
up before us-and shall we fear TO
mount the narrow staircase of the
grave that leads out of this uncertain
twilight into tho serene mansions ofl
the life eternal?
Heaven is not place TO be bar
gained for on a death bed or at life's
close. 1t is not place into which
you are to be ticketed by Priest or
by Pope, or by the Lord himself The
future world cannot be cheated of its
due, and we cannot be cheated of our
due by the fright of sick room. or
by forced prayers on sinking ship. |
We are all our lives long shaping |
with resistless energy the characters .
by which we are to be judged in ac- |
cordance with the words, 1He that
IS unjust let him be unjust still and
he that is filthy LET him be filthy /
still and he that is righteous let him
be righteous still and he that is holy
let him be holy still"
The same law of continuance will
belong to us in the future world ns
in the present, because we shall be
the same beings there as here. You
are to-day simply the result of your
past life. You entered upon this
morning the man or woman which
your whole previous experience had /
made you. The past with its sorrow |.
and JOY, with its sudden changes and
gradual movement, all the incidents
and feelings OF your life have deposit.
cd their sediment to make the solid
and beautiful earth of your character
this Sabbath morning. SO when Won
awake some morning in the other
world you will be precisely what
your whole previous life has made
you.
There is an unending influence
connected with all that we doc say
We can never undo the things which
we are doing to day. We can never
unsay the things which we are saw
ing to day. When they have trans.
pireo they leave their everlasting
influence upon us. Some men think
to themselves, l will become wealthy
and then / will be honest or horo,.y.'
lent. But during that long time of
dishonesty or selfshness. Won arc
putting stones into the str1eturs ofI
your everlasting life, which YOU can
never remove; you arc marring the
beautiful temple of your character.