Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1868-01-23

Lift me % purer cline;
kct me cast away my load,
Let me now draw nigh 10 Cod
Gently, loving Jesus, speak,
End in calm this busy week
Draw the curtain Of ropose
While my weary oyelids close;
Steal my spirit while ! rest,
Give me drcamings pure and blest
Raise me with a cheerful heartj
Holy Ghost, thyself impart
Then the Sabbath day win be
Heaven brought down to earth and me.
So long as you see one star in the
sky, the sun is not risen so long as
one leak admits the water, the ship is
not safe so long as one sin reigns in
mans heart and is praeticed in his
life, Jesus is neither his Savior nor
his King.
REPENTANcE.-False repentance has
grief of mind and humiliation only
for great and glaring ofiecences, until
il supposes pardon for these offences
obtained. True repentance is a con
tinued war against sin, a permanent
inward shame for its defilements till
death sounds retreat.-[ Venn.
If there be any of you that have
had such a sense of the awfulness of
religion, let me ask you, Did you ever
think Of the awfulness of not having
ity Ifyou have felt that TO live a
Christian life was such a tremendous
thing, did you ever reflect that not to
do it was a thousand times more tre-
mendous2
"CoME"-I verify think there isnot
a sweeter word in the Bible than the
word "come." am sure that when
it fell from the lips OF Jesus, when the
Spirit and the Bible uttered it, when
it was echoed by the tongues of apos-
ties aud saints, and, in all these cases,
was addressed 10 the weary and heavy
laden-to those who were athirst with
spiritual needs--it was so full Of grace
and truth that it could not be exceed
ed in preciousness by any word from
human speech. And this word fcome'
is the keynote Of the gospel "Come,'
withwhatever thirst you faint; "come
and drink come and take the water
of life freely"
Moral FoRoE.--The iron of iron,
the fire Of fire, the ether and source
Of all elements, is moral force. We
delight to trace these powers Meth
cd, patience, selftrust, perseverance,
love, desire Of knowledge, power Of
persistence, Of enduring defeat, of
gaining victory by defeat, these are
forces which never lose their charm.
Even in war-whiCh is organized
brute iorce-moral power is eminent
Good ammunition and good muskets
we must have; but these do not gain
the battle. You may have a noun
tain Of iron, every pebble slug-it is
all in vain without the brave hands
to use, the cool head to command, the
good cause which fires every brain in
the service
ALI moral truth comes TO us with an
imperative demand for the submission
of the will. 1t asks not merely to be
recognized, to be respected, or even
to be accepted by the mind, but to be
made the law Of the life. The char
acter of God, the person and the saving
work Of Christ, the treasures of wis.
dom and grace in the gospel, are not
TO be treated as a mere spectacle to
be gazed at with interest or applause.
Christ is more than an object of per-
ception, or a theme for admiration.
He claims to be obeyed and trusted
in. The submission Of the mind to
his teachings, and of the will to bis
commands, and the response of afiec-
tionate confidence to his promises. are
all included in the fuliillment of the
one word, BELIEVE. Until the springs
Of motive are reached, so that what
we call our faith is really the prevail
ing impulse Of the life, we are yet in
our sins.
THE Cross BEFORE THE CRowN-
The way to the crown is by the cross.
We must taste the gall if we are TO
taste the glory. If justified by faith,
we must suffer fluctuations. When
God saves a soul, he tries it. Some
believers are much surprised whom
theyare called to suffer They thought
they would do some great thing for
God; but all he permits them to do is
TO suffer for his sake. 60 round to
every one in glory each has a differ.
ent story TO tell, yet every one a tale
Of suffering But mark, all were
brought out Of them. II was a dark
cloud, but it passed away. The water
was deep, but they reached the other
side. Not one there blames God for
the way he led them thither. "Salva-
tion! is their only cry. Child Of
God, murmur not at your lot. You
must have palm as well as a white
robe. Learn to glory in tribulations
also
RELIGION Is BUSINESS. The North
British ReUietD says "The pressing
need Of our faith is not simply faith.
tul evangelists toproclaim its doctrines
but legions Of men consecrating their
worldly vocations, witnessing to that
truth on which so much skepticism
prevails, that Christianity, so received
as to become an integral part Of man,
is omnipotent to keep him from evil,
not by taking him out of the world,
but by making him victorious over it.
He is a most worthy disciple of Christ
who, like Pallissy, or Buxton, or Bud.
gett, or Perthes, exhibits religion as
the right use of a mans own self-as
the one thing (Which gives dignity and
nobility to what is in itself sordid and
earthly-as the handspring Of earnest
and successful strivings after loftier
ends and q nnrer life-ns the nn,rnr