The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1869-07-10

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m II, NJ ss,hs, III y vsd liza hs. been.
And feast on irssments. silsnt and unseen.
MOI vonn1"-ah' Thou Know" "L'ru'
ooe NsSsssa hon. -,,h,, rhv oourt. IN dwell,
How then can 1 presume TO lake . place
Where must needs behold Thy very facei
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IL this Thy royal Wish, Thy sovereign win
Has love yet heishts and depths i have not
nown Il
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All, let me tsrry al Thy blessed feet;
'rwere JOY enough for me, yea, bliss moot
sysoS
m,s,ss 4, ~. .n ns poor ssa one so,y creep
Yet, u thou bid'st II, Master, II shall bel
IN sn At tsble-eys, cen close 70 Thee.
MOTE nu1o'sa' ." ihou sao~''' 70 'Ake IN"
Than 10 have lain uunot,eed At Thy feat
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ppoprp trsp ov TIM p,u,yA oroa, ,osnv
people think that the Bible is a sery sacred
boot vii, tell Won nov n IA sac.od
booS II Won resd hi. hoor ana Ana aorai
ouslities in H. and they arc transSs,raS az
n,in,, sir,nos - 80, az, 81 -, ~ S.s.
. sacred hooL This hont "a .a.res ~ ny,
Iust AZ far az ia taocbin@. ars incnrror yod
In vonr e,nerisnco ana tsol1ne. ~ 10,
III, 'S %r,Ser Al, ,hat no,t ~ ,hn RIM liz u
i Btel e, e you which you i've by; 80 much Of
h,,, - ,,,nob ~ A, y. ~, a. "a. a,,nu {oai
". W. ~ nuen VI ~. 10 uo. my nnan \, Is "
ny, ~ use W y'sr IVu Pu. yosr p,o!e IN your
ooo n ino.e s.anas an tne week,
PernaP' v, YOU Ieaa pncc ony, OF once
~ Hee d as sne case En- may DC ana you aom
cSiiIdron II. ro,,a Az. YIN, MI. .pT youf
u
you read, YOU lower The kev of yonr yoice
for when men want To be religious tbcy Al.
ways take a solemn note; and You read ali
the way through the chapter and are like a
blind man walking along the road where
there are all sorts Of flowers ON both sides'
never seeing n slnoIc one von roaa ,%.s'
and feel a great deal better because thew
have read the Bible to their familyI Now
tell you, the only thing Won read In the Biblc
Is that which jumps into you, and which Won
cannot get out Of you. Il is the vital, iumi-
nous part, and not the dead letter that Won
read, II you read any part of the Bible, sun
pose should set up housekeeping on he
same principle that some people set up their
religious housekeeping A man goes to
nousekeeping' ana gets Bible, with his
naaie On tne inside, aud ms name on the
ou'siue, anu puts on the table In his best
rJonii auu there iles LOT months and years
vu' Uelnk oPeheas-uniess there 10 fn-
h he,a, ,n .ne Ianliy' suppose should go to
M Vu ,r ~ nnd should give an order to
s ao oV sT ior 'nree boxes OF sperm candles,
Mouse !, and .ho S IN, ,hnso 1e oa iaminoas
nouse' anu snoulu Put tnose candles away
y, Ws sne aug anu never nght one OF them :
Th MAJ - .ne use ol CANDIES ont 10 burnf
sars .sS W. sey nsure OF our Master. lie
bn, S Woh,s au puts Saauie unuer oushel,
s,io,, >, go. nm nuu Bu.s on candle
'''eA' -"y "a'a 0eeeH"'
Mr.. CASFIELp's Universalist church,
Brooklyn, has the following creed:
"We believe that the Holy Scriptures of
the Old and New Testament contain a revc.
lation of the character of God, and of the
duty, interest and final destination of man
kind.
eve believe there Ia one God. ybose mn.
ture Is love, (revcaled ia one Lord lean.
Christ, by one Holy Spirit Of Grace who
will finally restore the whole family 81 man.
kind In holiness and happlness.
"We believe that holiness and true han
plness are inseparably connected. and that
believers ought 10 be careful 10 maintain or.
der and practice good works; for thess thing,
are profitable unto men,
IhE Converts are beginning to come into
Tue onaieh In Japan; Two highly intelli-
5 gent men were baptized In February by the
first female convert was received at The same
9 time. One Of these men had, some wear.
ago, been suspected by his parents of beinp
q Christian In the Japanese sense of ma
word, and was confined by them in his room
for 400 days. Meanwhile his teacher, a mar
who Is not yet a believer In Gods Word. bnt
9 who had rejected idolatry and the atheism
of Confucius, land who was then reading IN,
= Bible, sent him appropriate sclcctions from
the Scriptures. Here, In confinement. h,
7; formed the desire to know more Of God.
i Word. When released. he immedIateiy re
0 signed his rank and rendered back hi. az, !,
l. to his prince, and came 10 Yokobama /,
study the Bible only, and this he In. con
tinued to do, with only the interruptions m a
u ill-health and the neces.ity Of snnno,tino
8, himself have rendered unavoidable, Her,
n he met the missloparles. and learned oftben
a the Gospel while teaching one of them IN,
Japanese language. The Preshyterisn III
Q sion now has six members of H. chnrcb i,
Yokohama. Over siyty have anpljed IN an
/, ter the school. A man has come IN NJ
Tbompson twice lately for n nnanti,v =
Bibles and some OF ali The books on Chris
t tlanity, and Insisted on paving for ali
These BOOKS, he said, were for the high
9 priests OF coo anu Ese. IN view OF THESE
n anu otncr iaets, the missionaries arc greatly
n . ,u III 'ner "ofh anu hopetui io'
tue iu'ure'
THE Boston Nation gives an account of q
h church which was led to reject the use O
l. wine at the Lords supper by the followin,
p circumstances
ga drunkard In the place was reformed
subsequently he was converted and becam
- Christian man. He united with the church
but he did not dare to taste the Intoxicating
wine at the eommun ion table. He feared ID
"a taste would arouse his old appetite and sen
him back to his cups. The members of In
a . I'll
he affairs. They read, st Is good neither TO Ga
no flesh nor drink wine, nor ANYTHING whereof
n a brother stumbleth, etc. and they conclude
+. that they had no business TO set temptatio
70 before a weak brother even at the Lord
e Supper. They saw that Christians are boun
rs to avoid anything that will cause brothe
to offend and they found that the Bible mad
- no exception at the communion table-tht
If believer must be thus careful In ever
H. other place not to lead brother astray, b
n ought surely to be thus careful at the Lord
Supper. So intoxicating wine was bapIshc,