The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1870-02-24
SUNDAY HEADING.

but lying in it that browns.
Time borders upon eternity. 1t re-
quires but an instant to make passage
from one to the other.
PRAY AND WAIr.-While Father
Hyacinthe was in this country, a
friend, alluding to the popularity of
his present status, asked him, "Under
these circumstances what are you goa
ing to do?" His reply was, 81 am go
ing to pray and wait. 1t would be diff
ficult to conceive more beautiful or O.
more evangelical answer, or a state of
mind more fitting, under peculiar ex-
igencies. These two things,-to pray
and to wait, seem to embrace our
whole duty as intelligent and depen-
dent beings, whose wisdom and help
come only from God. And we thank
Father Hyancinthe for so valuable an
apothegm, so conciseiy expressed and
so full of truth. .--Refector.
OF the few explicit statements made
about heaven, there is nothing more
beautiful and satisfying than this :
"There shall be no night there."--
There is much night here. So often
the shadows come down over us, and
shut us in like shroud So sombre
grow the evenings, an so few the stars!
1t must be radiant country, where
it is daylight forever and forever
"Neither sorrow nor crying."-
Nights bring sorrow, frequently. Sor-
row, makes night wherever sorrow
comes. Many are the mornings bright
and golden which have turned into the
darkest night ere the noontime.-
Thank God, all ye sorrowing ones,
that there is coming a morning, which
shall be dimmed by never cloud
which shall never glide into evening
which shall shine on through ages of
eternity unchanged, unchanging.
DOUBLE UP YOUR EYEs."-A lit
tie boy of perhaps two years, was
kneeling beside his mother, one morn
ing, while his mother was engaged in
prayer, and getting into some mischief,
his mother opened her eyes and gave
him a look of reproof.
"DoubIe up your eyes mamma; doub-
lie up your eyes," said the little fellow.
He knew it was wrong to play dur
ing prayer time, and be did not wish
his mother to see him, If her eyes
were closed he imagined it would be
all right.
My friends, is this little boy the only
one that does wrong, and imagines it
is all right, if no person sees him p
All many there are who forget there
is One who always sees them. Gods
eyes are always open. He sees the
bad as well as the good. Remember,
then, thatalthough mamma, ,and all oth-
er persons may "double up their
eyes" Gods eyes are never shut.
Is THE BIBLE THE WORD OF GoD?
THE Bible the word of God? Mo-"
says a young sceptic, who has been
reading an infidel book. ''No! it is an
invention of men,"
But the Bible claims to be the word OF
God, does it not?
"Yes the men who wrote it pretend
that they spoke as they were moved
by the Holy Ghost, and that what they
said was "Thus saith the Lord. y
But that was only a cunning deception
in order to make men the more readi-
ly believe it."
If the Bible is not what it claims to
be, it is, you think, an imposture, ard
its writers were deceivers and liars?
''Yes, this is what believe !"
Good men would not lieand deceive,
would they
'LOf course net"
Then the Bible you are sure could
not have been written by good men?
~ feel certain it was not"
And if not the work of good men, it
must be the "invention" of bad men
"T believe it was"
Now answer me candidIy does the
Bible condemn sin, and threaten bad
men with punishment
Eyes"
Does it forbid and condemn lying
and deception:
EYES,"
Does it declare that liars shall
perish that Annanias for lying was
struck dead and that false prophets
who speak deceit in the name Of the
Lord, and all who love and make a
lie shall be shut out of the Kingdom of
Heaven?
at does"
And would bad men-false prophets,
deceivers and liars, make book that
condemns their own sins, and threat
ems themselves with everlasting pun
ishmentp
"rhey would not be likely to, GER
tainly."
Then the Bible could not have been
written by bad men, could it?
81 must admit it is not easy to see
how it could"
ifthen as you admit it could not be
the "inYention" Of bad men-because
they could be guilty of an imposture,
who else could be its author but God :?
And if it is Gods Book, why not be-
believe it, and obey it?
The political contest In New Hamp-
shire grows hot. A secret organiza-
ton known as the "Lahor League, u
has been formed, it Is said, as an offset
to the labor reform movement.
A grave in Independence Ohio. was