The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1867-12-01
SUNDAY READING,

SUNDAY READING.
IDLE Wonps,-" Every idle wordr' Oh
blessed God what shall become of thoss
who love TO pirate continually t-Jreny Toy
Tor.
-Archdeacon Hare says that often people
fancy the world is becoming OhffAmn
when. In fact, Christianity is only bectniing
worldly. @a ffA
MISTAKEN METBoDs. Rev. NJ. Fl. Gala
y CHER, in noticing some incongruiies in the
education Of children, laid he knew of d
woman who used TO tie her boy TO q bed pos,
on Sunday-while she went to church Sand
made him learn the hymn beginning, "Thine
earthly Sabbaths, Lord. we love.
IRRITAHrrlTY OF ILlxEs .-Those who are
blessed with health can never know, ill the
are In turn called upon to suffer, what heroic
strength of spirit lies hidden under the m
of Silent, accomplishing suffering how
strong the tenptaiibns are to be unrsasona-
BILE, pettish, or repining; how diffcclt Il is
= TO be grateful, and still more to be amiabie,
when the irritation Of svs1 nerve renders
the most skillful attendance irksome, aud
the dearest presence burden; when tina ir-
4 ritated frsme lnathest the suushine uf D stsle,
and drdads the tear and the cloud, whepp' all
l'ispan nod weariaesss and sbitksrnAss! i At
the healthy lay these things ever to heart,
and while they scrupulously perform their
duty-while they reverence the fortitnde and
patience of the gentle and resigned, let them
hAve pity on many poor md queruloGA sui-
ferer.
SPIRITUAL rGRowrns-If you 10 to the bot.
sha or of -. IL. Il.
divine influence acting upon him, he will not
rice ind develop, any more than the Kernel
of corn will sprout and grow. Do you think
becausevyou tickle your ground with guano,
that that Is the reason why soas corn grows?
Can you say, "Sun, ] do not want your helm;
own this ground; | have some guano oyer
it, and the seed will grow?- u can you say
to the showers, III own this ground; / know
how to raise crops; need not your helpgt |
should like to see the farmer that could do.
clare himself thus Independent of the sun
] and shower, and raise crop. The seeds
need the vivifying influence Of the san md
of the shower to call forth its latent life; and
the hufnaa soul needs divine mower In sits
expansion, as much more than the seedAas
1t is greater than a seed. There is no such
thing as lifting up the great human raee ex-
cept the arms Of God reach down and lift it
mp. We are Goddess race, but we are
raco with God, and it 10 BY the araca of
God that we are what we. ore, ir We have
made one single step efupward presressl-
IL. ". Beechcr.
THE SUNDAY SToSE.-In one Of our Eng
lish coal mines there is a constant formation
of limestone. caused by the tri.klng of wa
= ter through ihA rocks. This. YATES con tins
a e. eat nI.rnJ psrticlessof lithe shich 1re Se-
posted 10 The ihine, aed ssthc.xaar passes
Of, these become hard, and form limestone.
This stone would always be white, like mar
bic. were it net tha. men are working in the
mine, aud, Us fbe hfsck dur fisD from the
coal, II mixeswith the soft fiint, aud, in that
wsy. q black stone Is erned- o. sMEA
In the night, when there is no coal-dust
rising, the stone is white: then again, the
next day, when the miners are at work, nm.
other black layer Is formed, and 50 Id, aiter-
Lately, black aud white, through the week,
until Sunday comes. Then, il the miners
keep tho Sabbath, much larger LAYER of
white stone will be formed than before.
There will be the white stoue Of Saturday
night and the whole of Sunday, so that ey-
cry seventh day the white layer will be about
three times as thick as any of the others.
but il they work cnfthe Sabbath, fhey ses il
marked against them in the stone. Hence
the miners call It T" The Sunday Stone.h
Perhaps many who now break the Sabbath
would try to spend il better, ii there were q
Sunday Stone " where they could see their
unkept Sahhaths with their black marks.
= Remember The sabbath day 70 keen it
holy "-Ch risttua reusxly, 80
The SEARCH rca TIM SHEEr.-The rare
power of Richard Weaver-the English evan.
geist-over the roor wanderers in the city
and country. to whom be breaches, is indica>
ted in the following extract from 4 sermon on
The Lost Sheep:
Now, this woman that lost her piece of
silver, wasn't it just natural that she should
think more Of that one than Of the other nine
che had got safe in her purse? Aud wasn't
it just natural that the man should care more
about his one lost sheep thal ahoat the mines
whine that hadn't strayed aEayl -Here,s
farmer owns a hundred sheep. Well at might
he counts 'em and he makes one short. He
goes over them again, perhaps he's reckoned
wrong. No, it's only nine'y-nine again. He
goes IN to his wife, vino is sitting by The kitch
en- hre, waiting till lie comes to supper
why lasss there's one gone. Poor thing, he
must have got over the walt" (Ah! the
devil salSays ready to help . poor sheep Of
Christ over the wal.) He starts in search
Of BAN. Bye-aud bye he ssesihe foot, marks,
---ah, yonder heisl But now be has TO mind
where he tresds,; he has smake sprisg now
and then over some hog9y place, and. the land
is all sopping wet, But he sees the track oil
the wanderer, aud now he hears. ''Ba-a,'' and
the great soft eyes of the creature STARE up al
him from quagmire. as if to say. 'sOh, mas,
ter help me out" He isees him M. and
puts him over his shoulders, and the black
mud dnps down hrs jacket; but he doesn't
mind that. At last he comes to the brook
that skirts his orchard and then be washes All
the filth av.y and the poor thing tro,s into
the fold with such HAPPY bleat, ss IL to saw.
THANK you, sir" Now, thst's how Jesns
fetches back his wanderer. Only he doesn't
put him across bis shoulders; he puts him
into his bosom, and then he takes and washer
him in the fountain opened for sin and FOR
uncleanness, the fountain fIled with biz own
precious blood.