Daily national Republican. (Washington City [D.C.]) 1870-1872, 1870-03-05

HYMN.


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She doth Thy hottest score" A''F
The voices OF the day perpie.Snid vex,
we tTust ourselves to hna liz
Or, nfoudiy free, prefer 70 ''
,-,,-, dsyfall, still and SWEET
~ ~ .,h.Jows fold Us TO my Ieetl
. sou shntspsr 10 the dark We hear
ig,I sii5F to me none else 10 neat"
Sg ssssI' N behiod the mssk Of death,
Raj m skest the snowfall eloquent
a. summers stir In eArth's green tent.
CLOSE unto winters quiet breast,
summer, sleeping babe, Prss,sdj
TIL waking. me she safe Will hold
Ills bloom aud freshness nAnifold.
unlsht and wintot cold and sioomi
marble mystery Of the tombt
dolls hieroElyphs to man are yei
Scaled visions OF what ye shall be,
BETTER 10 biessedness copeeAled
From sight, than Joy to sense reyehled'
Thanks Tor this happy mortal BREATH
Cong gGiiondiist and BoiioH Recorder.
WHAT OF THE ERRTNG.-The following
beautiful extract from the speech recently
delivered by Mrs. Celia Burlelgh, before the
New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association,
will be read with pleasure;
NV friends, has Il ever occurred to you
what q commentary upon our civilization
are these lost women and the attitude OF
society toward themP A little child strays
away from the home enclosure, and aWhole
community il on the alert TO ind the wan
derer, and returns IL to its mothers arms.
What reIoiclugs when Il IL found, what
fearful sympathy, what heartiness OF con-
rratulat,onl There are no comments upon
the poor. tired feet, be they ever so miTy, no
reprimand for tho torn garments, no lack OF
tears for the tear-stained face.
But let the child be grown to womauhood,
let her be led from the enclosure OF moral
ity by the voice Of affection, or driven nom
Il by the strong scourge OF Nant-What nap
mans thepl Do Christian men and women
10 In Quest Of heri Do they provide all
SossIble help for her return, or, II she re-
turns Of her own motion, do they receive
her with such kindness and delicacy as So
eure her against wandering Rgainl Far
from II. At the Grst false step she 10 de-
nounced as lost. Lost, echo friends and
relatiyesi We disown YOU don't ever come
near us TO disgrace us. Lost, says society
indlherently. How bad these girls arc!
And lost, irretrievably lost, Is the prompt
verdict of conventional morality, while one
and all unite In boiling every door between
her and responsibility. Ali VIII not these
lost ones be required at our hands In the
great hereafteri
Ia MAN assumes to be large-hearted and
benevolent, and sits down to cat his abund.
ance OF from silver dishes aud casts the frag-
mcuts into waste baskets, while within q
stones throw Of his doorway, pinched-facec
children, with blue veins standing out from
their forsheads, aud hollow eyes deep-sunkel
In bony sockets, are crying In vain for bread
that man Is either ignorantly or witully ny
ing q lie. II one pretends to have deep an
absorbing love for another, yet never mer
lions the name OF that friend without blush
ing, aud sees his rights violated and hi
works condemned, nor raises tone OF n
monstrance or Tebuke, that one is pursuin
a career Of deepest Hypocrisy. 1t is precisel
90 with plety. Where genuine grace Is rad
cal In effect, absorbing, reyolutlonizing, u
nature Is made all over, inside, outsido AT
clear through. Not that 1t ceases to deal
evil often aud strongly; but that II year
most for what Is good, aud that the goC
denomlnates over 1t. The true Christia
can no more avoid talking and living so 9
20 reveal his desires, his gratitude and b
can escape breathing. Is this an lncomprt
hensiblc anomaly, In view Of the natiy
proneness of our heartsl No more than ID
eueeessions Of bright star-shine and sombl
cloud darkness on winter nights. No moi
than the fluctuations Of pleasure and pa
In our seusuous experiences. No more this
the alterations Of sorrow and JOY In o.
mental rcalizations. God can mlngle u
grossness Of carbon and the ethereal glo
Of the sunbeam In sparkling damon
30 be can attach upon our gross and grow
ing instincts the redeeming and eralting ell
ments OF his own grace, aud make our 81
full natures shine resplendent with the rehe
tIons of bis own glory.
We ARE two-sided beings. We ha'
natures with double capacities, which Al
very disslmllar In form and working. Tn
same man who cuts throat, might, ha
proper direction been given to faculties tha
lie unexerclsed and unappreciated some
where In the recesses OF hia ruined being
have found his congeuiAl and absorbing OF
cupation In relieving misery, helping the IL
digent and founding hospitals for the Sich
The mission OF religion which is divine,
TO turn the angel part OF us outward. Tn
devil In us will still have being, but q sui
dued and restricted being. We may be ovel
come by temptation or carried away by tn
revlvlng force OF Unborn deprayitles "
will not deliberately and from choice cas-
ourselves on the side OF evil. When a QueI
ton Ia presented which calls upon US TO DE-
eide between God and the world, aud whe
the Holy Spirit warns US TO decide arighI
we will let the world go, even though II doe
strain every nerve and fibre OF our strengt
to do so.
THBcardlnal beauty OF the Christian splr
Is Its broad aud underlying love for human
lty, lts tenderness, Its gentleness, Its dept
OF friendship. The pealing church bell ii
Vites, weary, way-worn hearts TO rest, /
every tone that rippleA upon the air. II
omen portals stand like notes Of cousta
urging, bidding those who are tired OF q
cold blasts and the darkness without,
enter aud md rest and comfort. Every pt
Ia an anchorage ground OF hope, and eve
pulpit from which the bread Of life is right
broken, a beacon point Of promise. F
taose are but material indices CT the male
tic facts which lay behlnd-of the long CO
unued mercy and unchanglng goodness
our Almighty Father; OF the suiferings, u
death, aud the present mediation OF OF
Blessed Saviour; Of the mission Of the Ho
Spirit, who sweetly leads the feet OF the
lisying up the winding steps that end at Z
beautiful gate.
IHAva sEES q Steam-tug start Its propell
which ehurned the water for a few momen
but the tug did not move from the Wha
A stout hawser still held 1t to the pier.
soon as that strong line was cast OF Il
nlmble vessel shot OF Into the stream.
Il Il that some awakened sinners SNAKE
START towards better life. But present
they stop-fal back-and sink again 10
hardened impenltence. Tho reason is tn
they never cut loose from the sins they low
best.-T. L. Cuylsr.
al THASK GoD," says Richard Baxte
I" for that word whatsoever II God hi
said there wac mercy for Richard Baxter,
am so vile n sinner that would ha
thought he meant some other Richard Ba
tor, but when he sRys whosooyer knC
that includes me, the worst OF all Rlcha
Bakers"
An eloquent temperance orator was I
Gently Interrupted 10 the midst OF an earne
address by the interrogatory, "What sha
We do With all the grain that Is now requln
for disabling Z" "Feed the drunkard's wi
and children with 1t. They have gone hui
CRY long enough" was the ready reply.
THn sinners way of pleasure is far frol
being everlasting, for even here the win
cup OF sin first Yields tho sweetness Of II
toxicatioD, afterward 1t becomes inslp
with safety, after that 1t grows bitter viii
Temorse, aud as for the dregs thereof VIII
hell burns within them.-SpurgsoH.
A CLERGYMAN died few years since
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