The Portland daily press., 1870-08-13

REMEMBER THIS. "a pure faith will new
er hold to its own unless il be associated will
pure practical charity.'
FAITH which works by fear only leads TO 3
setfish, dishonest repentance, if to any, and
leaves the soul at the gates of DEATH
The greatest pleasure in life is love: tbe
greatest treasure, contentment; the greatest
possession, health; the greatest ease, sound
sleep and the best medicine, true friend.
TIME is the only gilt in which God has
stinted us; for He never intrusts rs with q
second moment till He has taken awav the
ufSt' ana never leaves us certain of third
SINCERITY is speaking as we think, beliey-
ing as we pretend, acting as we profess per-
forming as we PROMISE and being as we an
pear to be.
THERE is one single fact which one NAV
oppose to all the wit and argument of intideli-
V-namely that no man ever repented be-
ing Christian on his death-bed
TO EVERY ONE who, though weak, strives
10 be ST. ong, to every one who strives to live
TO please God, for such Gods love reaches ey-
erywhere.
PRAYER-God loves to have us pray with
earnest simplicity. Better in Gods SIGHT are
me, ,he broken and heartfelt lispings of child
.ual lIe hiSh-hown utterances of some who
ihliiN themselves wonderful in prayer.
RELIGION is not harmlessness nor ,,ou.1;
ty, nor iormality, but it is a WALKING hu tni,I.
that Is, regulating Thought and tee1inG 49,,
and deed, not by visible, but by Times in "Ili
BILE and eternal. i'i'is'-
A MAN MIGHT frame and let loose n star ~
roll in its orbit, and yet not so memorable y
thing before God as lac who lets 90 a golden
orbed thought to roll through the generation g
of time.
THERE are a thousand things we so,c
more than God, without being sensible of H.
lie whom we love is he whom we are most
Arid to offend. Let us Try our love by this
rule."-Bishop I. Wilson.
Nor to believe that tie Bible is Gods mos.
sage is voluntarily to deprive ourselves of a
true, well-founded knowledge about God and
our future state. 1t is returning to darkness
it is to ruin our own prospects, and perhaps
also the welfare OF many others with us.
A MUDDY STREAM, flowing into one clear
and sparkling, for time rolls along by itself.
little further down they unite and the whole
y impure. so youth, untouched by sin, may
'or snort time keep its purity in foul compl-
ny' uut little later and they mingle.
A MAN who knows how TO take b;s mind
with all It's sensibililes, aud brine IL into tnna
win d'Vlne love, and who knows how in cor
~ it tremendously through all the ho W car r.
the day, SO that il shall all the time he in t, ~
with other mlnda, has very little to learn 'j hn
fore he goes to Heaven.-Beecher. W.
RELIGION is majestic in the State if NAV
be grand in the Church-in the church build.
ing great institution, in the state swayine
the destinies OF millions of men, Rat niet1
looks lovelier and sweeter at home. not ar
rsyed in her court dress, nor set eff in her
church regimentals. but dressed in her homeIv
weekday, worll-day clothes. 1t is a little
striking that the word piety, which SO often
rings in the Christian church, is only once
in the English Bible, and then coupled with
the admonition to show itself first at home.
!, THERE is beautiful legend Illustrating the
olessedners of performing our duty at what
ever cost to our inclinations beautiful Wis
ION OF our Saviour had appeared to a monk.
anu In silent bliss he was gazing upon it