Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-04-11
DAILY DEMOCRAT.



To remove stains from the characser-
get rich.
Before you scold BE- sure that you are
right Yourself lie that atts npts to cleanse
q blot with blottcd fingers makes great
blur.
An attempt 10 to be snads to unite the
Episcopal aud Presbyterian churches 10
Ireland.
The poor pittancs Of seventy years IS not
vo,th bsing q villain for. What matters u
il your nsig hbor lies in . splendid tomb!-
Sleep you in innocence.
II know Of no great sxpsundsr Of moral
psircipie, know Of no eloquent teacher OF
divine truth, Who 10 more useful IN Gods
world than business man. who carries MS
religion into his business.
A Lsssoy vnom Sf. BeRSARD.-St. Ber- |
osrd compared God, in relation with man,
- : writer Of pointer Who guides the hand
Of little child, and only asks one thing Of
;,-thst il will not move its hand, but will
allow it to be guided.
0op Cousrs brother and sister wsre
playing 10 the dining-room. when their
mother set basket Of cakes on the tea-ts-
BILE and went out.
"How nice they look |" said the boy,
reaching to take one. His sister earnestly
objected. and even drew back his hand, re-
pes,ing that it was against their mothers
direction.
"She did not count them" said he.
.But perhaps God did, . answered the SIS
| ter.
So he withdrew from the temptation, and
.;,tinp down. seemed to mediate. "Ysu
are right" replied ne, locking at her with
cheerful vet serious air, "0od does count.
for the Bible says tho hairs Of our heads are
oil numbered"
REDEMPTION SuPsRNATURAL.-From nfst
to last, Christs gospel is something super
natural. In the course Of nature man fell
| in the course Of nature he 10 lost. II saved
n al. Il must be done cut Of and above ma
ture. The mind and hand Of God must
protrude from heaven to snatch tho victim
| from the laws Of earth. Redemption 10,
therefore. wholly supernatural. Revelation
itself 10, and must b., miraculous. The
facts of The redemption work, from The in
csrnstion to the ascension, and ofths saving
process. from regeneration to final sanctif-
cation, are . scheme Of supsrnaturalisu.
Tus CnuRcH, NsoArivsLY.-Ged never
meant his church to b IN asylum for indo-
leuce and selfshness-a chapel Of case,
where formal professors may sleep 10 quiet.
and laxily dream about their hopes and
privileges. 1t 10 net receiving vault, in
which the corpse of dead religion may b
deesntly laid away, and never Be seen or
heard Of any more. Nor 10 il . pleasure
ground, whose trees are grown merely for
ornamest but . garden, . vineyard,
whore every plant 10 expected to bear fruit,
and 10 only . cumbersr OF the gsound II It
do not.
MissaY AND MERcY.-It was old lsaak
Walton Who said, every misery that l miss
10 . new mercy" saying worthy Of The
profeundsst philosopher. It 10 only too
true that misfortupes come to % on wings,
but retire with limping pace; and YET one
half the world are ready to meet ealamisies
half way, and indirectly to Welcome them.
There 10 scarcely al evil 10 life that we can
not double BY pondsring upon it sseratch
will thus become . serious wound. and
slight illness even be made to end in death.
by the brooding apprehension Of the sick (;
while on the other hand, mind accustomed
to look on the bright side Of oil things will
repel the mildsw and danpness Of care BY
ito genial sunshine. A cheerful heart paints
the world AZ it sees it, like = sunny land
scaps; the morbid mind depicts it sterile
wilderness.
RoBsar CoLLYss says:-"Out Of your
life there flows, every day, some spiritual
iuf uencs - true in its nature and degree ~
any ever known. You may never write .
book, or even letter; but then, no mere
did Jssns Christ. No mistake can be great
er than to suppose that have done my du-
~ by my home, In filling it with plenty, or
my children, in securing them the best
teachers; or that have been true to my
marriage vows, because have KEEP, myself
pure, and never stintsd my wife in her sx.
penses; or to Church and State because
have voted right on election days. and been
in my time . deacon. Oh friend, tell
you unspeakably more 10 that mysterious
and most holy influence Of . sound, elastic,
cheerful human soul, in . body to match.
sec once in . while home, in which | am
Just - sure that is impossible for the chill
dren to 60 radically wrong, as it is for the
planet to turn the other way upon her axis.
The whole law of their life, OF their spirit
ual gravitation, is fixed by the strong, sweet
father and mother. resolute, above oil, to
preserve this right attraction, though there
-. =. I... - ,o,r..d a,,l.r.
my ~ 'a'' - e1"1
WORN OUT CoSsciEScEs. Josh biiiinel
gives us, among many other good things
which are sprinkisd among MS very many
things which arc not good, the phrase,
"worn-out consciences
Inc world 70 inli oiworn-out conscisncss'
Ihere 10 not one man IN ten who mas not
han consc'snces which asserted itssli
strongly ana frequently during childhood
Some Of these young consciences have
grown stronger and bolder With years. and
more ana more insist upon obedience.
Others, and far the greater portion, have
yielded. IN measure, their prerogativs q
a9toefa'1' ana merely suggest, IN the way
OF adv'ce, what tney nave right to com
mand. iness consc'snces are not entirely
worn Gus they nave simply gwen up tne
ac'ive confess. tney nave learned 20 Ak'
me eashy. Msn listen 70 'nc'r eov'ce, un
,ess' inusee' .neJ a.e 100 mueh eacssd &c
near H. ana sneu tske counsel OF tneir rec
son wnetner they shall ioiiew that :o'ice Of
nos THESE are the consc'encss which are
most common IN inc business worid-in
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