Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-06-27
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That is a bad religion which makes
us hate the religion Of other people
The slower orders" are those who
do nothing Tor the good of mankind
The rich aud poor are but differ
ent venticles of the same heart OF hui
manity.
Keep your mind above your thoughts
and your thoughts above your ex-
pressione.
Love not only occupies the higher
lobes of the brain, but crowds out
the lower 10 make room for its expan-
sion.
A teacher who is attempting to
teach, without inspiring the pupil
with a desire to learn, is hammerlng
on cold iron.
An exchange says: "When you are
angry don't write. Words when
spoken are air, but when written
they are things"
Death to the good man is the com
ing of the heart to its blossoming-
time. Do we call it dying when the
bud bursts into flower
If there were a free market for sal
walton in that day when the trumpet
of God shall awake the dead, how
many buyers there would be then
There is a whole sermon in the
saving Of the Persian "In all thy
quarrels leave open the door Of recon
citation" We should never forget 1t,
/ believe with all my heart in God;
but do not believe in human idleness.
Celestial power uses human effort.
The Spirit of God usually works most
where we work most
Love is the law of the universe
emanating from God, binding myriad
worlds together in the boundless
space, and harmonizing all their mo-
tions without conflict.
Fear begets falsehood and, as fear
is the principal instrument in procur-
ing family obedience, fear has been
called, with striking and fearful sig
nifcance, "the epidemic of the nurs-
cry"
Let any one firmly believe that the
soul is permanent, and live upon that
belief, and soon existence is perma-
nent too; the world becomes veil of
brighter glory that lies behind it
the condemnation Of unbelief is lifted |
off, since the mind, conscious Of its
rooted being, does not wait for immor-
tality, but is passed from death unto
life.
We should hear praying ofa nigh
ty sort if believers sympathized with |
men in their ruin; then groans and
tears would not be so scarce; then
the soul pouring out itself in groan-
ings which cannot be uttered would
be but an ordinary thing. Then shall
we prevail with God, through the
precious blood Of Jesus, when we feel
Intensely thesinners need.
Let me commend TO some of our
brethren a child's version of a sermon
delivered in Chicago last Sunday.
The preacher urged that Christians
should be active to Christ. "They
should serve Him, not with breath
alone, but also with the hands and
feet" One of the audience, leading
home his little boy of six or seven
years, asked him if he understood
anything in the sermon.
"Oh, yes l hear preaching nova
days"
"Well what did you hear this morn
ing?"
"The minister said we should stop
blowing and 90 10 work."
More force and point can often be
got into "slang" phrase or word
than can be conveyed by any Of the
more elegant forms Of expression.
Orators aud writers of wit and judg- |
ment often select from the patois of
children and peasants the rough bolt
that will best hit their mark. II was
tho stone from the brook that killed
Goliah. "Stop blowing and 60 to
work" contains the gist of sermon.
Once let the people get poisoned with |
the wretched falsehood, that in order
to carry on the work of the church,
and meet its cost, they must contrivc
some roundabout device Of sale or fair
or picnic, mixture Of merchandise,
cajolery, and merry making, by which |
the few shall be deluded into parting
with more than they want TO give,
and the many shall be educated into
the worse delusion Of supposing they
are not to surrender anything to |
the Christ who died for them, without
an ostensible equivalent taken back,
and you strike at the root of all
Christian charity while the name is
on your lips. You cast up treach-
erous highway for the Lords feet.
You hide out Of sight the central re-
atty Of sacrifice, which is the giving
up to God Of that which cost the eel.
fish heart something. You eat out
the heart of the church to extend its |
outword prosperity. No scheme to
endeavor to carry up missionary zeal
will bear inspection, which interposes
aworldly or self-secking or ambitious
motive between the soul and the Sa-
viour.
1t cannot be that earth is mans on.
ly dwelling place. 1t cannot be that
our pure life is bubble cast up by
the ocean ofeternity to float mo.
ment upon its waves, and sink into
nothirgness. Else why is its high and
glorious aspirations which leap like
angels from the temple of our hearts
forever unsatisfed WHY ia il that