Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-10-31
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The sweetest word in our language
is Love. The greatest word in our
Language is God. The word express.
ing the shortest time is Now The
three make the greatest and the
sweetest duty man can perform.
Did Christ die, and shall sin live Z
Was he cruciied TO the world, and
shall our affections TO the world be
quick and livelyy Oh where is the
spirit of him who by the cross of
Christ was cruciied to the world, and
tho world to him!
John Howe once observed two men
in violent passion. Their mutual
cursing shocked his religious sensibi-
iUies, lie looked at them, raised his
hat, aud said in solemn voice
~ pray God to bless you both =
This prayer so impressed the quar-
relsome men that they ceased their
strif1 and thanked Mr.. Howe for his
suPplica,ion.
An ungodly man is one who is de-
tached from God and cleaves to him
self and the creature godly man
is one who is detached from himself
and the creature and adheres to God
with all lhs affection The sole basis
o, godiiness is an essential union with
J sus Christ, and the godliness itself
Is the new life which springs from it
therefore emphatically called in
the Scripture "godlness in Christ Je-
ens,'
A soul without prayer is like sol.
iiary sheep without a shepherd. The
iempter sees il aud lures it away into
his snare. But the soul, in social
converse with God is emptied of ev-
erything, is alone with God in the
Spirit, at rest and in silence, giving
place to God and things divine, from
which alone result truth and strength
and life and salvation. How precisus
are such times How sweet the hour
Of prayer.
Iblre is no salvation but by the
free mercy of God no mercy but
through the meditation OF Christ; no
interest in Christ, except by faith in
him; no justiSing faith but that which
works by love and purities the hear
no love TO Christ which does not in
clude love 70 his people his example,
bis preoepts no genuine love to his
people which does not influence a
man to do good TO them as be has
ability and opportunity.
Bunyan, speaking of the fruits Of
bis ministry, says; 81 have observed /
that a word cast in blythe by, hath |
done more execution in a sermon
than all that was spoken besides
Sometimes also, when | have thought |
/ did no good, then did the most of
all and at other times, when thought
should catch them, | have fshed |
for nothing" In this respect Bun
yan's experience is not unlike the ex-
perience Of other ministers Would,
likewise, shcy could say with him
"Never can | be satisfied unless some
blessings do attend my work. If / 4
be fruitless, it matters not who com.
mends me; but if / he fruitful care
not who condemns "
When it is said that God can suffer
and does suffer, people are shocked
Que Of the most potential arguments
that acts upon mems minds in consid-
ering the question Of the divinity of
the Lord Jesus Christ, is, that it was
unworthy Of the dignity OF God, who
Is supposed TO be the sum Of all per-
tectness, 10 suffer. Now, that God
should suffer IN any way that indca-
ted moral obliquity in any way that
indicated that be had violated laws
10 any way that indicated that he
Lad not the wisdom and power 20
10 avoid those courses which lead to
suffering - that he should suffer in
frcb way as that is derogatory to our
conception of the divine nature. But
that One who is the perfect God [
who is without variablcness or shad.
NV Of turning who is infinite in pow
er and wisdom; who is the Creator
oi AL sentiment beings that, beginning
at the seminal point, work their way
Up from weakness to strength and
WHO, during The long period 10 which
icy are subject TO temptations, and
ar, perpetually falling into sin, is uni
veISal father and universal mother
represents, in other words, those ele-
mentswhich are more perfectly shown
20 Us in father and mother than in
a-y Other iorm-that such an One
stould be a sufferer; that he should
be-.uw painstaking and care upon
aen that be should put his expert
erce in the place of theirinexperience;
sad his love in the place of their hate:
that he should pour out bis soul for
them as a universal inspiration and
power; that he should do these things
notwithstanding that men are poor.
and mean, and debased, and wicked.
and Gngratcful, and proud, and selfish
aud that he should do it, not by vir
tue of any arrangement or plan, bat
on account Of the inherent and ever
lasting qualities Of the divine charac.
ter--this is an astounding revelation.
And II is the first conspicuous feature
of Christianity which tells us that
there is ia God which makes him self
sacrificing, selfabnegating; that there
IS that in him which leads him to suf
fer, not on account Of any relation Of
obedience or rdisobedience, but that he
may lit up the low, strengthen the
weak, cnlighten tho ignorant, save
the lost. This is the great revelation