Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-05-30
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ny but il certainly disarmsit.
The two poles could sooner meet,
than the love OF Christ and the love
Of the world.
Some people believe sometimes that
they hate flattery, when they only hate
the manner of fattering.
The trimmer to popularity is trai-
tor to God. His presence destroys
unity and zeal of action.
A business that does not challenge
the scrutiny of God, and the approval
of a good conscience, cannot be consis-
tent and proper.
When tbs world crowds Christ out
Of the heart, duty becomes simply
cold, irksome, hard duty, and the wor-
ship Of God bore.
Vice and ignorance are the necessa-
ry companions Of each other and we
can no more reverse it than we can
reverse the stars in their course.
Brother, religion is not a tumble of
principle thrown together without
system, order, affinity, and compile
tion They form complete zone to
encircle you round about,
One of the most truly contented ex-
pressons / ever knew Of was that
which fell from the lips of a dying
minister. He was asked whether he
wished TO recover or not. He replied ;
"Really, my friend, do not care
which. If | die, / shall be with God I;
if live God will be with me-"
The blessed dead say to us, "Weep
not; rather follow the way which
will bring you where we are one
gets here by loving God, serving him
with all ones heart, through the
mourning, the separations, griefs, de-
pressions, tears that fill up the whole
of life. Heaven is at the end we
must pass through trials as the soldier
does, without fainting or dismay,
across battle fields to glory"
1t is God swill that sooner or later
we should be separated the one from
the other, and that in these separa-
tions our heart should attach itself
more strongly to him, and turn en-
tirely towards the place whittier those
we miss are gone. The death of our
loved ones teaches us to detach our
selves from life, and all that goes on
in this poor land of exile, and to have
no other than heavenly hopes.
A prosy member ofthe church rose
in a meeting and said "My friends,
the devil and 1 have been fighting for
more than twenty minutes. He told
me not to speak, but / determined
that would. He even whispered that
| spoke too often, and that nobody
wanted to hear me but was not to
be put down that way-and now that
/ have gained the victory, must tell
you what l have in my heart" Then
followed a tedious harangue. Com
ing out of the session-room, the good
pastor inclined his hand so that his
mouth approached the ear of the bril-
liant member, and whispered, "Broth-
er, think the devil was right"
Lovers OF biblical antiquities will
rejoice to hear that the excavations
now being made in Syria have result
ted in the discovery, at Nadir Sarape,
Of a Hebrew house dating from about
the second century before Christ
Some of the rooms, with their con-
tents, are in perfect preservation,
among the latter being number of
Hebrew books, showing that the
house belonged to a literary man.
Besides the books of Moses and the
Psalms OF David, there is collection
ofHebrew poems, absolutely unknown
to the Orientals of our day. These
interesting remains, many OF which
bear traces of Egyptian origin, have
been sent to the Asiatie Society of
London.
1t is comforting to think we have
q God over our heads, to look after
us and rule u.s. Alas what could we
make of ourselves, if left to our own
shift 1t is more comforting that we
can call this God our own God, and
call him more our own than we can
call houses or lands, or aught that we
have, our own. The funess of the
Deity, and the property in the same,
is very satisfying and the more so,
"that no man can take this Joy from
us" But that this fulness of the De.
ity for our more easy and familiar
participation of the same, should
dwell bodily in a created nature, and
particularly ours this gives all salts
faction possible, that poor, necessi-
tous creatures could want or desire.
An absolute God could not answer
our exigencies; His majesty would
astonish, and his justice terrify, our
guilty and misgiving minds. But
God dwelling in the human nature,
and there exhibiting all the divine
glory for our contemplation, and all
the fulncss Of the Spirit for our vivifi-
cation and consolation, this raises the
soul to the highest pitch of humble
confidence, admiration and joy.
1t is'aith's work TO claim and chal-
lenge loving kindness out of all the
roughest strokes of God Do that
for the Lord which We will do for
time time will calm vour heart M