Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-12-26
THE REPUBLICAN.
RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.


he expects we should sue him before
he pays.
Winged prayers have usually a
winged answer--they are answered
speedily.
BEAUTIFUL AND TRUE.-ln an artl-
Gle in Edzer'S Magazine this beauti- |
full but brief extract occurs "Educa-
tion does not commence with the al |
phabet. 1t begins with a mothers |
look-with fathers smile of appro-
baton or sign ofrcproof-with sis
ter's gentle pressure of the hand, or
brothers noble act Of forbearance-
with birds nests admired and not
touched-with creeping ants and al.
most impossible emmets-with hum
ming bees and great bee-hives-with
pleasant walks and shady lanes, and
with thoughts directed in sweet and
kindly tones and words to mature TO
acts of benevolence, to deeds Of vir-
the, aud to the source of all good-to
God.
ONrHE SAFE SIDE.-A lady in New
York, wanting TO engage a coachman
put an advertisement in the paper tel
ling those who would like the place
TO call at her house. AT the proper
time she found halfa dozen men wait
ing to see her How was she to de-
eide which of them would make the
best coachman ? She had q plan Of
her own. Turning to them, one by
one she asked "How near to the
edge of steep precipice can you drive
my carriage with safety? One Of
them said he would venture within
foot another within eight inches
another four inches but the last one
answered better: ain truth, madam,
I'd keep as far Oh as ever could.
This was the man that she wanted 10
find, and she engaged him at once.
My young friend, how near can you
safely come to doing wrong : Will il
not be better to keep as far of as you
possibly car?
Right thinking is unquestionably
the right road to right living Com
prehensively viewed, men are as their
beliefs are With many exceptions
and limitations, the general truth is to
be excepted, Nevertheless, right
thinking is fundamental. 1t is as val
liable as truth and anything that in
validates the correctness of belief d.
recty or indirectly, invalidates truth
itself, which is the foundation Of hui
man affairs and is the very path along
which men are to walk. Not that !
think right living and right thinking
are poor things, but they show that
tho church has not yet got up the
highest things in Christ's life. The
ideal of life is having tho thought
right, living right, 81 love the world
though it is my enemy" unto suffer-
ing and death, the power Of right
thihking and right living disclosing
itself in nobIer life
Iti great part of the communion
Of saints. to join together in Gods
praises. There is a communion OF
sinners, wherein they combine togeth-
er to dshonor God, and encourage
one another in evil. Eve was no
sooner caught herself than she became
kind of serpent to deceive and catch
her husband A tempter had no soon
er made q sinner but the sinner
became q tempter. As, therefore,
Gods enemies hold communion to
dshonor him, so great reason there is
that bis servants should hold commu-
Mon to praise him, and to animate
and hearten one another unto duty,
MS men that draw on an anchor,
and soldiers that set upon ser
vice used to do with mutual encour.
agements. The holy oil of the sane
tnary was made with many spices,
compounded by the art of the perlu-
mer to note unto us, that those du-
ties are sweetest which are made up
in q communion of saints, each one
contributing his influence and furth-
eraDco unto them, as in winds and
rivers where they meet in one they
are strongest; and in chains and jew
els, where many links are joined in
one, they are richest.
TuE RELIGION OF THE DAY.--A CO.
temporary, the EpiScopdiiaa, has a
low opinion of the halt-hearted religion
which is sopopular with many in our
day, requiring little selfdenial or sci :
aration from the world These words
are earnest and worthy of being
needed:
The religion of the day is an easy
minded re igion, without conflict and
wrestling, without self.denial and sac.
rfce; a religion which knows moth
ing OF the pangs Of the new birth, Us
its commencement, and nothing Of the
desperate struggle with flesh and the
devil, day by day, making US long for
resurrection, deiiverance, Tor the bind
ingof tho hcadyersary and for the Lords
return. 1t is a second rate religion
q religion in which there is no large
ness, no grandeur, no potency, no no
bic mindedncss, no elevation, no self
dcvotcdness, no all constraining love
1t is holiow religion, with fuir ex-
terror, but an aching heart--a heart
unsatisfed, soul not at rest, con-
science not at peace with God a reli-
gion marked, it may be by activity
and excitement, but betiaying all the
time consciousness of wound hidden
and unhealcd within, and hence una
bic toanimate to lofty doings, or sup
ply the strength needed for such do
ings. II is a Feeble religion lacking
the sinews and bones of harder times
very different from the indomitable