Des Arc weekly citizen., 1867-04-13
SUNDAY READING. Religious Miscellanies.

Present to an ordinary man the max : im,r."Lovc your enemies" you may hear him sigh as he answers that the saving is divine, and lie fears that he never will practice it. The reason is that he has an enemy and fully under stands what it is to love him, and also what it is to hate him. .-Esco Homo.
 The man who holds and expends money is merely the clerk of the man who enjoys and profits by what money buys. Money, at most, is merely the material from which happiness. honor, usefulness and character, may be built. To have the material, without shaping it to the noblest ends, is like holding a 5. great many stones, or throwing them away, a,M8
 A negro in Philadelphia lately gave his idea of faith in Gods promises, in the following words: "Dar is a brick wall an de Lord he stand dar and say to me, Now want you to go troo dat. ain't agoing to say Lord I can't. I got muffin to do abcuttit. All I hay to do Is to butt agin it, and it's dc Lord s business to put me troo."
 Here is one of Spurgeon's best say iugs, Illustrating the fact that there is morality without religion, but cannot be religion without morality:
 Preaching men morals is as though l
 
 had clock that would not go, and turned round one ofthe cogwhells but faith takes the key and winds up the handspring, and the whole thing runs on readily. tHHf
 Beware of delusion in the matter of your salvation. Woe, woe forever- more to them that lose that prize. For what is behind when the soul is once lost, but that sinners warm their bits of clay houses at fire of their own kind ling, for day or two, which doth suf- locate with its smoke rather than warm - them and at length they doth lie down in sorrow, and are clothed in eycrlast- ing shame. H
 s The tendency towards good, the quickness to grasp it, and the eonstan- cy in wishing it; the intensity, suple- ness, and tenacity of the springs which this tendency puts into play, the livli- ness, force and precision of the efforts towa&ls the end aimed at---are the cle- ments which, like so many letters, form by their, combinations the intrinsic gauge of the man and determine his value
 Brethren, are your lives hid with Christ in God? Do you hate sin heart fly, and strive to subdue it? Do you love Jesus entirely, and strive to imi- tate him? Do you live as you pray, or only pray as you live? Do you make every cross to be crown, and out of weakness grow strong in the power of your God? Ifso, then arc you Christ ''peculiar people, and jealous of good works"
 A devout, ignorant Spanish priest felt the need of adding private prayers of his own to the batter nosters; but he did not know how 10 do it. So atmorn ing, humbly bending his knees and lifting his eyes and hands to heaven he would dcvoutly repeat the alphabe and then add:
 70, good God put the letters togcth CT to spell syllables to spell words, tc make snch sense as may be most Tn, glory and my good"
 Administer onccpmyed in the pulpi that sthc Lord would bless tue eongre gation assembled, and that portion O it which was on the way to church ant those who were at homo getting read, to come, and that in His infinite pa tience he would grant the benefit O the benediction to those who reached the house just in time for that" Tn, clergyman succeeded in breaking up bad habit which had resisted all legiti mate appeals. 'F,sA
 O!how easy il is to deceive ourselvc andsto sleep and wish that heaven ma, fall down into our lap! Time, custom "''N ' s5VVN pltu+ti ipi OutctlNtr3 ou good meaning and our lazy desires, ou fair shows and the worlds. glistenins lustres, and these broad, gaudy orna ments and deckings of religion tha bear bulk in the church, is that where with most satisfy themselves; but pillow watered with tears for the sin. of the land, is rare to bc found amone us; s. A4as
 The little I have seen of the worl, teaches me to look upon the errors Q others in sorrow, not in anger. Whc, take the history of one soul that ha suffered and sinned,a and reprcsent t mysels the struggles and temptations has passed through, the brief pulsation of joy, the feverish inqnietndc of hop and fear, the pressure of want, the de sertion of friends, would fain leav