Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-02-22
A sermon in four words on the vanity OF
earthly possessions
..Shfouds have NO pockets"

..Shsouds have NO pockets"
n;.sa:d BY an Indiana paper that up
wards Of ten thousand persons have become
church members in that State - the result
Of the revivals experienced thsre.
II thou bssrest slight provecations with
pstiencs Il shall be imputed unto thee for
wisdom and il thou wipsst them from Thy
remembrance, thy heart shall feel rest, thy
mind shall not reproach thee.
PAM -OoWardios In min
lister 10 baser thsu in soldiers ~ how
much our warfare 10 more honorable. A
faithful reproof will get more love and hon.
or n the last, than . sinful and fawnis0
dissimulation. Though Paul repsevsd the
DECENTRALIZATION Of Peter, yet Peter praiseth
The wisdom OF Paul. A man can have no
worse enemy in the world than Aatlerisg
and fawning minister. that dsres not deal
plainly with his Conscience. We are In
much more danger 70 wrong tho souls Of
men BY our oil than BY our salt,-by eur
praises than BY our reproofs.-l Bishop
Reynolds.
AB.AurlsuL SENrIMExr-Dr. Chalmers
beautifully says 1.-THE little that | have
ssen in the world and known Of the hist,-
~ of mankind, teaches me to look upon
their srrevs in sorrow, not IN anger.
When take the history Of one poor heart
that has sinned and suffered, aod represent
to myself the struggles and temptations it
passed. through; the brief pulsations Of
ioy: the tears Of regret the fsebleness Of
purpose; the scorn Of the world that has
i,ttle charity; the dssolation Of tho souls
sanctusry, and threatening voices within ;
health gone, happiness gone; | would fsin
leave the erring soul Of my fellow man
With HIM from whose hands it came"
TIE TnrB YEAR OF rns LoRD.-"Con-
slant Reader wishes to know whether We
date our years from the FIRST Of January i'm
mediately preceding, or from the 6rst Of
January Immediately following, the birth Of
Christ. The truth is that we date from
neither the ono nor the other. Our present
reckoning owes it's origin to the supsrticial
calculations of Dyonisius Exignus, Roman
abbot Of the sixth century. lie placed the
birth Of cur Lord in the year 754 from The
building Of Rome CA. U. CO. Hcrod, how.
ever, who, by tho Evsngelsts, is said "a
have caused the murder Of the innocents o.
ter the birth Of Christ, died in $50 U. o.
according to the unexceptionsble testimony
of Flavius Josephus. (Conf. Antiquities Of
the jews, b. xiv, e. ID, sec. g.; b. xvii, g
8, sec. /. Wars of the Jews, B.. iv, .. %
sec. 81. Our Lord, therefore, must Ger
tainly have been born before that. Exam
inine Suetonius (Aug. >. 27) We fad thai
Augustus ordered three censuses to Be a.
ken, and FROM . stone tablet dedicated Il
that Emperor, and found in temple Of
Ancyrs, 10 Galatia, We perceive that they
we're ordered respectively In 726, TAG and
766 u. G. The second must undoubtedly
DO that of which St. Luke speaks iii, D.
It took considerable time, however, to hav.
. document promulgated over nearly th'
whole civilized world considering which
70 may safely SIT down the natal year o.
Christ at 743 U. c.. especially as this yea,
comedies exactly with what the Evslgelis
says, that in the fifteenth year Of Tiberius
Christ twas beginning about the age o
thirty years" Iuke iii, 23.) IT'S. the IF
teenth year Of iherius' reign, minus thirty
years, makes it 74s U. G. This. then, i.
the true year OF the birth Of Christ, ant
consequently we are six years behind time
Whether, also, cur Lord was born on til,
25,h Of December is very doubtful Ever
jerome, in his sermon on the Nativity
says: "Therc are different opinions as I,
whether Christ was born or whether he wal
baptized on that day." The question, then
about the true year Of the Lord, in tn,
sense ia which it has been agitAted SO much
Of late, should concern Us very little. w,
are in the wrong anyhow, whether we writ,
1868 or 1859. Ii should be 1874. v.
i-TCincinnatj Com.