Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-09-05
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ont Providence, nor would ! leave
il without a Saviour.
A person may believe as he pleases
about things; but things will not,
therefore, be as he pleases.
If you desire the common people TO
treat you as gentleman, you should
conduct yourselfas gentleman should
to them.
Not few sock to accommodate
truth to their views and feelings; il
is wiser to accommodate our views
and feelings to truth.
There was serpent in the Para
disc of man. There will be nc ser
pent in the Paradise of God. That
alone will make vast difference
Little faith is safe, but it is not so
happy or so useful as that of great
faith; and no one should be content
with little when he might have much.
The Lord has made us and ordained
us that we in our measure may work
together with him. 1t is his office to
bless our efforts; but it is at once our
privilege and our duty each one of us
to yield ourselves as the instruments
Of the divine purpose.
An old clergyman once said, "When
come TO die, shall have my great
est grief and my greatest JOYS my
greatest grief, that l have done so
little for the Lord Jesus; and my
greatest joy that the Lord Jesus has
done so much for me-"
MAKE COOP BEGINNING. The
first weed pulled up in the garden, the
first seed set in the ground, the first
dollar put in the savings bank, and
the first mile Travelled on journey,
are all important things. How many
poor outcast is now creeping and
crawling his way through the world,
who might have held up his head and
prospered, if, instead of putting off
his resolutions of amendment, he had
only made beginningl
SUFFERINa.-There is a great want
about Christians who have not suffered.
Some flowers must be broken before
they emit any fragrance. All the
wounds of Christ sent out sweetness
all the sorrows of Christians do the
same. Commend me to q bruised
mother-a broken reed--one like the
Son of Man. To me there is some
thing sacred and sweet in all suffer
ingj it is so much akin to the Man of
Sorrow,
Go TO CHRIsT.-Jesus Christ is al
ways near you. Go TO him as your
Master for grace TO study, TO love,
and to follow his instructions. Go to
him as your Lord, that you may love
and serve him faithfully, and fulfill
all his commands. Go to him as your
Pattern, that you may follow his ex-
ample, and initiate his virtues. Go
to him as your Saviour that he may
cleanse your heart from sin and make
you pure in his blood. Go to him as
your King, that he may give laws to
your soul, and that you may obey his
laws, and never rebel against his au.
thority. Go TO him as your Shepherd,
for you are one of the lost sheen he
came to seek, that you may be kept
from straying from his blessed fold.
LOVE ANXIOUS TO PLEAsE.-They
that love friend will inquire of his
servants, What doth your Master
like best, and what doth he desire TO
eat 7 because they would prevent him
with kindness, and not have him TO
ask for it \; and they are marvellous
careful of whatsoever may displcase
him. A soul truly BUNDLED is not
content unless God may have his will,
and therefore comes to the faithful
ministers of God, and saith, How may
l please God better, and how may /
come to entertain the notions of his
Spirit betterY Show me what duties
must be done and what sins must be
avoided. You know Christs will, and
what will please him; | beseeeh You,
advise me, that l may hear, and pray, |
and walk, and approve my heart so
to him that nothing may displeass
him.
A man that does wickedness easily, |
is not far from damnation, and if tits
dishonesty, if it is any of the forms Of |
pride or selfshness, if it is any one of |
the malign passions, and it is unfold |
ing itself almost without your notice
or your consciousness, and some other |
discourse as this brings the fact TO |
your mind, andleads you to ask YOUR
self whether there is not cause for ap-
prehension in the ease with which YOU |
are doing wrong, do not let the mon. |
itor go UNDECIDED IL is timo for vou, |
young man, il is time for you. Young |
maiden, to be alarmed if you are ap. |
preaching that condition of which | |
have been speaking. 1t is a serious
thing for q man TO come TO a state in |
which he does wickedness and does
not know that it is wicked. It il ne
cessary that the wheels that roll so
easily in wickedness should be blocked !
And if any have thought, because
they have come to a state in which |
they suffer less restraint; if any have
thought, because they are walking
now with great Joy and pleasure in
ways that once they would have been
shocked TO believe they ever could en-
ter; if any have thought, because
these ways are smooth and howery.
that they were safe, and that they had |
no occasion for alarm about them.
selves, let them be warned that these
ways in which they are now walking
so easily and with so little concern |
are the very ways which are described |
in the word of God as ways which