Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-07-18
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lift her from the sands. We are like
that frozen ship, ofwhich we read the
other day, frost. bound in the far of
Arctic sea: until the Spirit of God
shall thaw the chilly coldness of our
natural estate, and bid the life
floods of our hearts flow forth, we
must lie, cold, lifcless, cheerless, pow
erless. The Christian, like the mar
iner, depends upon the breath OF
heaven. or his bark is without mo-
ton. We are like the plants Of the
field, and this genial season suggests
the metaphor: all the winter through
vegetation sleeps wrapped up in her
frost garments, but when the mystic
rious influence of spring is felt, she
unbinds her cloak to put on her vest
of many colors, while every bud be-
gins to swell and each flower to OPEN
And so a church lies asleep through a
long and dreary winter until God
the Holy Ghost looseth the bands of
lethargy, and hearts bud and blossom,
and the time of the singing Of birds
has come.
WHAT Is NOT CHARITY.-It is not
charity to give penny to the to street
mendicant, ofwhom nothing is known,
while we haggle with a poor man out of
employment for a miserable dime. Its
not charity to beat down aseamstress
to q starvation price; to let her sit in
her wet clothes sewing all days to-
deduct from her pitiful remuneration
if the storm delays herprompt arrival.
1t is not charity to take poor rela-
tive into your family and make her
slave to all your whims, and taunt
her continually with her dependent
situation. 1t is not charity 10 turn
man who is out of work into the
streets with his family because he
cannot pay bis rent. 1t Is not charity
TO exact the utmost farthing from the
widow and orphan. 1t is not charity
TO give with a supercillious air and
patronage, as if God had made you,
the rich man, of different blood from
the shivering recipient, whose only
crime is that he is poor. 1t is not
charity to be an extortioner-not
though you bestow your aims by
thousands.
Oh that little word "now" 1t is
often the saving word to sinners, and
to the Christian it is the quickening
word. Tomorrow Who shall tell
how many souls it has destroyed, de-
vouring them as the grave devoureth
the slain Alas for the mischief OF
that demon word, tomorrow. And
who shall say how many Christian
churches have been deprived of blessed
enlargements by the policy which
said, "Wait a littleY Out on this
horrible advicel Waitl Impossible !
Death waits not He'll makes no
pausel Sins stays not in its mad ca
reer. If the devil, and death, and
hell would wait, we might have an
excuse for lettering; but, meanwhile,
Forward 70 must be our motto. Now,
even now, my brethren, prepare for
the blessing, for God is ready to give
it when you arc ready to receive it.
When the valley is full of bitches, the
bitches shall be filled when the wells
are made in the valley Of Baca, then
shall the pools be filled.
TAKE HOLD AND LTT.-A teacher
of the Freedmen in one Of the South
ern States was sitting at the window
of her room watching two negroes
loading goods in q cart One Of them
was disposed to shirk the other one
stopped, and looking sharply at the
lazy one, said, "Sam, do you expect to
20 to heaven p "Yes" "Thon take
hold and lift" There are a great
many Christians in our churches and
Sabbath schools who expect to 90 to
heaven. that would do well to strength
en- their hope Of going there by Ia
king hold and lifting some Of the bur-
dens which they let their brethern
bear alone.
FOLLOWING THE LORD Fully
Walking once in a pitchy dark night
in company with friend who knew
the road well, l said to him, 81 shall
follow you, so as to be right After
little / stumbled intoa a ditch. "You
have led me into a ditch" / said
"Then you have not followed me ex-
actly," was the reply, "for / have
kept free" l had to acknowledge
that ] had gone a little to one side,
thinking that of no consequence. So
it is, thought l, with the Christian
following Christ; as long as he fol-
lows him exactly he is safe but when
he turns aside, however little, he is H. !
able to stumble into the ditch.
Do not show me the shapely man
do not show me the man that lives in
ease and comfort; do not show me
the man that has never known what
suffering or trouble was but show me
the man that has gone through sick
ness, and losses, and misconstruction !
show me some man that has borne
the striies and storms oflife, and that,
though worn and Scared, has tri-
umphed over them all, and say
"God bless you, old battered hull |
There is more in you than merely a
man. There is in you what the grace
ofGod has put there-Christian man.
hood"
o, Christian, with all the power
thou hast received, thou has not pow
er enough 10 live for another second |
except as the Spirit OF God quiokcn
thee. All thy past experience, all that
thou hast learned and acquired, must
go for nothing, except daily and per-
petually, moment by moment, the
Spirit Of God shall dwell in thee. and