Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-08-08
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ted, and DO not attempt to bo more
amusing and agreeable than is consis-
tent with the preservation of respect
Some one has sweetly said of those
who die young, that they are like the
Alpine lambs which shepherds bear in
their arms to higher and grecner pas
lures, that the flocks may follow them.
Find fault when You must find iault,
in private, if possible, and some time
after the offence rather than at the
time. The blamed are less inclined
to resist when they are blamed with
out witnesses
When you meet with neglect lot it
arouse you to exertion; instead of
mortifying your pride, set about les
sening those defects which expose you
to neglect, and improve those excel
lencies which command attention and
respect.
While ten men watch for chances,
one makes chances; and while ten
wait for something to turn up, one
turns something up; so, while ten fail,
one succeeds and is called a man Of
luck or favorite of fortune. There is
no luck like pluck, and fortune most
favors those who are most indifferent
to fortune.
1t costs something TO be a true
Christian To be mere nominal
Christian, and go to church, is cheap
and easy work. But to hear Christ's
voice, and follow Christ, and believe
in Christ, and confess Christ, requires
much self denial. 1t will cost us our
sins, and our selfrighteousness, and
our ease, and our worldliness.
An hypocrite comes hardlier to
heaven than a gross sinner, and hath
far more obstacles. As he that must
he stripped is not SO soon clothed as
he that is naked, and as he climbs not
tree so soon that must first come
down from the top of another tree
where he is perched, so it is here.
A BRIEF SERMON. "A Rochester
clergyman made the following re-
marks in the pulpit on Sunday
morning.
81 am informed that lady who at
tended a funeral in this church last
Sunday, lost in this house as she thinks
valuable breastpin The article is
valued at as much as five hundred
dollars, it is said. i hope that the
latter is not a member Of this congre-
cation; and that if any one of you
should be the owner of such costly
jewelry, it would not be worn when
you come to the house of God on the
Sabbath, but that all would adorn
themselves for such occasions in
meek and quiet spirit. If any one
has found the lost jewel, they arc re-
quested to leave it with the sexton"
VINO MADE ALL THArY-It is re-
lated that when Napoleon Bonaparte
was returning TO France from the ex-
pedition to Egypt, group of French
officers entered into discussion con-
cerning the existence of God. They
were on the deck of the vessel that
bore them over the Mediterranean
Sea. Thoroughly imbued with the
infidel and atheistic spirit of the times,
they were unanimous in the denial of
this truth.
1t was at length proposed to ask
the opinion of Napoleon on the ques-
tion, who wasstanding alone wrapped
up in silent thought On hearing the
question, is there God he raised his
hand and pointing to the starry firm
ament simply responded, "Gentleman,
who made all that"
How TO Avon CALyMNY.-"If any
one speaks i'll OF thee, said Epictetus,
"consider whether he has truth on
his side, and if so reform thyself, that
his censures may not affect thee"
When Aximander was told that the
very boys laughed at his singing, "Ah
said he, "then | must learn TO sing
better" Plato being told that he had
many enemies that spoke i'll of him,
said: at is no matter ! shall live
so that none will believe them"
Hearing at another time that an init
mate friend had spoken detractingly
OF him, he said 81 am sure he would
not do it if he had not some reason
Ior IT," This is the surest as well as
the noblest way OF drawing the sting
out ofa reproach, and the true method
of preparing man for that great and
only relief against the pains of cal
umny.
Perfect love carries all other feel
ings with il and in it, And no man
knows how to be a Christian till he
knows how to love Christ with a
sense that Christ's love is such as to
be enough greater than all his faults
and deficiencies to enable him 10 bear
them. do not need to 20 back TO
show how il is that we do not pre.
sumo upon this love, and sin against
it. We canrot, if We realize it TO be
divine outpouring 1t is not in hu-
man nature to tresspass against good
ness such as Gods, where it is real
lied. 1t would reverse the very ac.
tion of tho mind The two states are
incompatible with each other. Love
cannot dishonor love, from reasons
which are fundamental TO human ma.
ture and experience shows that no
man strives so hard to be free from
imperiections and sins as the man who
feels that he is swallowed up in the
depths of divine forgiveness and d.
vine love.
He is poor Christian whose face
is onl ly seon, and whose voice is only
heard. during times of rovival Al