Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-06-13


anybody else, heis islike lsraelat thetoot
of Mount Sinai down on its belly be-
fore golden calf When man
makes money in order that he may
have more than Stewart has, more
than Astor has, moro than Girard
had, or more than anybody else has
or had, he is calf worshipng anoth-
er calf and that to, right in the
presence of Mount Sinai, with God,
in his dignity and glory, enshrined
in the summit. That is one way in
which o man, if he has more money
than he requires for his personal
wants, can 60 on acquiring beyond
that.
The other way is Tor the man to
feel that money is power for good,
and that he is an administrator of it.
And he that stands in the midst Of
wealth with this feeling, stands like
sovereign. There is no other sphere
on earth where more can be done
than in the realm and dominion Of
wealth. A true man when rich does
not stand thinking whether be is richer
than Stewart or Astor or Girard, but
stands feeling as the clouds do in
June, when they are filed with rain,
and say: "Let us break, and pour
down our treasures on the hungry,
barren, parched fields" When a
man administers his wealth in a spirit
of true benevolence, it is beauteousin-
deed.
The first thing which Christian
loses through sin is communion with
God, aud free access to him-and con-
sequently the first thing to be restored
TO him must be this communion with
his God. Suppose, my brother, you
backslide, there are some things which
you will not lose at once. You will
still be able to pray in feeble style I;
you will still have some sense OF ac-
ceptance, but certainly your enjoy
ment and fellowship with God will be
suspended as soon as you have fallen
from your first estate. Therefore the
blood is sprinkled upon the veil to
show you that through the blood,
and through the blood only, you can
renew your access. You advanced
Christians, you who have lived in the
very heart of God, and have stood like
Millions angel in the sun; you who
have been made to sit at the banquet
ing table, and to drink of the wines
on the lees, well refined you who
have been the Kings favorites, and
like Mephibosheth, have always been
made to sit at the Kings own table,
and to eat of tho choice portions Of
his daintes, if you have lost your
heavenly fellowship, it is through the
blood, and through the blood alone,
that you can again have access to the
heart of God
LOST TIME.-Let any man pass an
evening in vacant idleness, or even in
reading some silly tale, and compare
the state of his mind when he goes to
sleep or gets up next morning, with
its state some other day, when he has
spent few hours in going through
the proofs, by facts and reasoning, Of
some Of the great doctrines in natural
science, learning truths wholly new to
him, and satisfying himself, by careful
examination, of the grounds on which
known truths rest, so as to be not on
ly acquainted with the doctrines Of
themselves, but able to show why he |
believes them, and to prove before
Others that they are true will find as
great difference as can exist in the
same beng-the difference between
looking back upon time unprofitably |
wasted, and time spent in self i'm
provement; he will feel himself, in
one case listless and dissatisfied, in
the other comfortable and happy; in
the one case, if he did not appear to
himself humble, at least will not have
earned any claim to his own respect
in the other case, he will enjoy a
proud consciousness ofhaving, by his
own cxertions, become a wiser, ana
therefore more exalted nature.
Jesus was pre-cminently sympathet-
ic with all around him. He touched
human life at every point--lofty and
lowly. He was not afraid TO confront /
o ruler, nor ashamed to pity and heal
a bcggar He did not draw back his
foot when a sinful woman's warm
tears trickled upon it, nor did he re-
fuse a publican's invitation TO 20 and
be his guest "This man receireth
sinners" was the sneer leveled at him
by the bigoted Pharisees. 1t is
bastard Christianity which "snubs"
honest worth in a coarse coat, or re-
fuses to pity or shelter harlot be.
cause she is vile The Divine Jesus
was "separate from sinners" in that
he possessed an unspotted holiness,
an unworldly aim, and unblemishcd
life He was tempted, and yet with
out sin.
The power of sin ineradicably fixed
in the soul is in truth, the worm that
never dieth and full grown enmity
TO God is in the highest sense the fire
that never shall be quenched. To
suppose there were anything worse
in hell than enmity TO God, would be
20 suppose that there's something bet
ter in heaven than the love of God.
But all the laws of nature require
that the supreme good and the su.
preme evil should correspond to each
other; and that, therefore, as the
enjoyment of the supreme good is the
heaven Of heaven, so malignant aver
sion to that good must be the hell of
hell
Gods commandments hang togath.