Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-05-02
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THE Harry MORN

The HAPPY MORN
The happy morn is come.
Triumphant DER the grave
The saviouricaves the tomb,
0mnipotent to save
Captivity is captive lead,
For Jesus hveth, who was dead.
There are scores Of young men, well
intentioned, warmhearted, no lovers OF
evil. but adrift from their homes, or
with homes as uhattractive to them
as so many of our homes to any young
man may well be, who yet have no
place of resort for good companion
ship, for amusement, for an evening OF
rational recreation which is not in di-
rect contact with coarseness, gambling,
vice, and poisonous drinks. Even to
enjoy themselves it is requisite that
they snuff the airs of hell. There are
thousands of persons, rich and poor,
young and old, in the most astonish-
ing ignorance of useful science and
art, and TO whom cleanliness and ven-
tilation are unknown who regard the
body as necessarily afflicted with all
the ills it now endures, and have no
conception of the health and delicacy
of which it is capable, and of the real
Joy of which it is intended TO be the
medium, while the thought of Gods
glory, as crystalized in the snowflake,
or dropping from the tongue in words
soft as wool, and electric as the light
ming, is utterly inconceivable. This
fact is terribly serious, and calls for an
immediate and ample remedy. 1t is
not to be treated lightly, but TO be de-
plored and done away with at once.
WILD OA-s-In all the wide range
ofaccepted maxims there is none, take
it for allin all, more thoroughly abom-
Unable than the one as to the sowing of
wild oats. Look at it on what side you
will, and l defy you TO make anything
but a devils maxim of it, What a
man-be he young, old or middle aged
-sows, that, and nothing else, shall
he reap. The only one thing to do
with wild oats is to put them careful
ly into the hottest part Of the fire,
and get them burnt to dust, every seed
of them. If you SOW them, no matter
in what ground, up they will come,
with long, tough roots like the couch
grass, and luxuriant stalk and leaves,
as sure as there is sun in heaven-a
crop which it turns ones heart cold to
think of The devil, too, whose spe.
cial crop they are, will see that they
thrive, and you, and nobody else, will
have to reap them; and no common
reaping will get them out of the soil,
which must be dug down deep again
and again. Well for you, if, with all
your care, you can make the ground
sweet again to your dying day.
The greatest of temporal blessings
is health of body, and the greatest of
spiritual blessings-that which in
cludes all spiritual blessings in one
is health of soul. Health of soul is
the full possession, harmonious action,
and right direction of all the faculties !;
it is the joy in lite, and joy in the
present, and looking forward with
out dismay; with infinite hope in the
future contentment with all that life
may bring, and resignation in all that
life may take away; it is aspiration
without uneasiness, progress without
friction, freedom with perfect peace
This health is found in God alone, ard
without the sense of immediate con-
tact and communion with him, there
is no true health for man. The infin-
lite Father alone sufiices, and alto.
gether sufices
Everybody has been taught to pray
daily, "Thy kingdom come" Now,
if we hear q man swear in the streets,
we think it very wrong, and say he
stakes Gods name in vain" But
there is n twenty times worse way
of taking His name in vain than that.
1t is to ask God for what We don't
want. If you do not wish for his
kingdom don't pray for IT, But if you
do, you must do more than pray for
it; you must work for it, And, 10
work for it, you must know what it
is we have all prayed for it many a
day without thinking.
l have seen a professedly Christian
mother more wrought up over the
mud brought in upon her carpet by
her boys shoes, than over the lie that
sullied his conscience and proclaimed
him q coward. ! have seen her exhib-
it more anxiety when detained from
church to hear from her daughters
lips how this and that one was dress
ed than what the man of God said
concerning the great themes of death
and eternity. All, thought 1, will she,
through her instrumentality, find
those children at the right hand on
the last great day!
remember M'Cheyne says, "Christ
gives last knocks" That is a very
sorrowful thought. He knocks at the
door, but there is such thing as q
last knock, and some of you will get
your last knock before long. He will
never knock again; you will never
have another warning nor another in
vitation, but he win say, "Let him
alone, let him alone" You perhaps,
will feel the easier, but ah if you do
not wake here, you will wake else
where; and if before long God does
not startle you into repentance, you
will startle into everlasting despair.
Few realize how much frequent
indulgence in small fretfulness can do
to neutralize the social effect of Christ
ian love and faith, however sincere
To the mass of the world manner is
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