Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-01-09
THE REPUBLICAN.
RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.
To seek religion young, win save
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An ungodly man is one who is de-
taohed from Goo, and cleaves to him
self aud the creature a godly man is
one who is detached from himself and
the creature, and adheres to God with
all affection. The solo basis Of godli-
ness is an essential union with Jesus
Christ, and the godliness itself is the
new life which springs from it.
The eheavenward instinc ofthe heart
isweighed down by native criminality,
and bound down by contracted deprav-
ity; but when Divine mercy enfran-
chises it, the region of peace into
which it is brought by the guidance
of tho Paraclete, is felt to be its own
natural rest; that for which it was
designed by every character Of its
inward frame, and that for which it
blindly painted in all its wanderings.
A soul without prayer is like soli-
tary sheep without a shepherd. The
tempter sees it and lures il away into
his snare. But the soul, in social con-
verse with God, is emptied Of every.
thing, is alone with God in the Spirit,
at rest and in silence, giving place to
God and things divine, from which
aloae result truth and strength and
life and salvation. How precious are
such times How sweet the hour
The velvet moss will grow upon the
sterile rock-the mistleloe flourish on
the withered branch-the ivy cling to
the Wondering ruin-the pine and
cedar remain fresh and fadeess amid
the mutations of the dying year-and,
heaven be praised something green,
something beautiful to see, and CRATE
ful to the soul, while in the cold hours
of fate, still twines its tendrils round
the crumbling altars and broken arches
of the desolate temples of the human
heart
Signals through the Atlantic cable
are made by light, which flashes the
messages to the operator in a dark
room. The Evangelist thus comments
on the wonderful fact 1t suggests
beautiful analogy TO spiritual truth
the communication Of the human soul
with Goa. Thought is swifter than
the lightning; and if in a second of
time, spark fly from continent to
continent, why should it be thought Il
thing incredible that the desire of a
human heart should thus be waited to
the throne of God?
BAD BARGAINs.-What Jeremy Tay-
lor finely says, may well breed solemn
reflection in our minds, as 10 the mo-
tives which guide us, even in our good
deeds; for il is said of those who
made long prayess to be seen of meh,
"Verily, say unto you they have
their reward, +" even such as they de-
sired and sought, but no more His
words are "Hc that does good works
for praise or secular ends, sells an ines
timable jewel tor a trine; and that
which would purchase heaven for him,
he parts with for the breath of the
people which at best is but air, and
that not often wholesome"
EARLY IMPREssIoNs.-A great part
of the education of every child consists
of those impressions, visual and other,
which the senses of the little being
are taking in busily, though uncon-
sciousIy, amid the scenes of their first
exercise and though all sorts of men
are born in all sorts of places-poets
in towns, and prosaic men amid fields
and woody solitudes-yet, consistently
with this, it is also true that much OF
the original capital on which all men
trade intellectually, through life, con-
sists of that mass Of miscellaneous
facts and imagery which they have
acquired imperceptibly by the obser.
vations of their early years.
A New Zealand girl was brought
over to England to be educated. She
became u true Christian. When she
was about to return, some of her play.
mates endeavored to dissuade her.
They said, "Why do you go back to
New Zealand +? You are accustomed
to England now. You love its shady
lanes and clover fields 1t suits your
health. Besides, you may be ship
wrecked on the ocean. You may be
killed and eaten by your own people
everybody will have forgotten you"
"What p she said, "do you think that
i could keep the Good News to my
self! DO you think that / could be
content with having got pardon, and
peace, and eternal life for myself, and
not 60 and tell my dear father and
mother how they can get it tooY /
would go, if had to swim there !"
BEAUTIFUL ExTRAcT.-The follow
ing eloquent paper on time, we believe
is from the pen of Pauldng:
81 saw a temple reared by the hands
Of man, standing with its high pima
Gle in the distant plan. The storms
beat about 1.-THE God of nature hurl-
ed his thunderboldts against it, yet
it stood firm as adamant. Revelry
was in the halls, the gay, the happy,
the young, the beautiful, we're there.
returned and 10 the temple was
no more. Its high walls layin scatter
ed ruin; moss and grass grew rankly
there; and at the midnight hour the
owls long cry added TO the deep soil.
tude The young and gay who had
reveled there had passed away.
/ saw child rejoicing in his youth,
the idol Of his mother, and the pride
of his father. returned, and that
childhad become old. Trembling with
the weight of years, he stood the last
of his generation, stranger amidst
the desolation around him.