Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-04-04
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And smiles We know true,
Are warmer than the summer time,
And brighter than the dew
II 10 not much tho world can give,
With all its subtle art,
And gold aud gems are not the things
To satisfy the heart
But, o, IL those who cluster round
The altar and the hearth,
Have gentle words and loving smiles,
How beautiful is earth!
The MAiNsPRING.-Her is one of
Spurgeon's best sayings, illustrating
the fact that there may be morality
without religion, but cannot be religion
without morality:
Teaching men morals is as though
i had clock that would not CO. and
turned round one of the cogwheels
but faith takes the key and winds up
the handspring, and the whole thing
runs on readily"
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 q fire of their
own kindling, for day or two which
doth rather sutfocate with its smoke
than warm them and at length they
doth lie down in sorrow, and are cloth
ed with everlasting shame.
The tendency towards good, the
quickness to grasp it and the con-
stancy in wishing it; the intensity,
supleness, and tenacity of the springs
which this tendency puts into play
the liveliness, force and precision of
the efforts towards the ends aimed at
are the elements which, like SO
many letters, form by their combina-
tions the intrinsic guage Of the man
and determine his value
Brethren, is your life held with
Christ in Godi Do you hate sin
heartily, and strive to subdueitY Do
you love Jesus entirely, and strive to
initiate him? Do you seek TO do good
TO all men, and TO win them TO Christi
Do you live as you pray, or only pray
as you live? Do you make every
cross to be crown, and out of weak
ness grow strength in the power of
your Godg If so, than are you in
deed Christ's peculiar people, zeal
ous of good works"
A minister once prayed in the pull
pit that "the Lord would bless the
congregation assembled, and that
portion of it which was on its way to
church, and those who were at home
getting ready to come, and that in
his infinite patience he would grant
the benefit OF the benediction to those
who reached the house Just in time for
that" The clergyman succeeded in
breaking up a bad habit which had
resisted all legitimate appeals.
Oh how easy it is TO deceive our
selves, and to sleep and wish that
heaven may fall down into our lap
Time, custom, aud a good opinion of
ourselves, our good meaning and our
lazy desires, our fair shows, and the
worlds glistening lustres, and these
broad gaudy ornaments and deckings
of religion that bear bulk in the church
is that wherewilh most satisfy them
selves but a pillar watered with
tears for the sins of the land, is rare TO
be found among us.
ERRORS OF THE WoRLD.-The little |
have seen of the world teaches me
TO look upon the errors of others in |
sorrow, not in anger. When / take
the history of one poor heart that has
sinnod and suffered, and represent to
myself the struggles and temptations
it has passed through, the brief pulsa-
tions Of JOY, the feverish disquietude |
of hope and fear, the pressure of want, |
the desertion of friends, / would fain
leave the erring soul OF my fellow-man
with Eim from whose hand it came.
Sorrow sobers us, and makes the
mind genial; and in sorrow we love
and trust our friends more tenderly,
and the dead become dearer to us.
And just as the stars shine out in the
night, so there are blessed faces that
look to us in our grief, though before
their features were fading from our
recollection. Suffering! Let no man
cheat it too much, because il is good
for him, and il will help to make him
sure Of his being immortal. 1t is in
sorrow-tho night of the soul-that
we see the farthest, and know our
selves natives of Infinity and sons and |
daughters of the Most High.
The LAST TIME-There will be.
dear reader, last time TO us with ali
things earthly-a last time to speak
Of the goodness of God, and urging
sinners to come to this fountain OF life |
A last time we shall have of speaking
10 brother or sister, or kind father
or mother. There is 10 be, there
must be, a last time to all these privi- |
leges which we now enjoy Do we
rightly consider these blessings The
present is ours; it may be our last
Let us wisely improve each dav and /
moment, as though indeed il were our
last; then shall we be prepared for
the unknown future
HoNoRARY MEMBERS OF CHURCHES.
An editor having stated that he never
knew person to be an honorary
member Of a church, one Of his CORE
spondents replies; 1.-TWO thirds of the
members Of my church are honorary
members They don't come to PRAYER
meetings they don't attend Sunday
school they don't add to the life Of
the church They are honorary mem
bers. They are passengers in the