The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-05-27
OUR SUNDAY COLUMN.

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| from is doubtless the very best place for
him to 60 to.
Sin, all sin, Is fruitless; it blossoms
fair, but always deceives: What fruit
had we in these things whereof We are
now ashamedY
He who commences with certainty
will end with doubts, but he who is con-
tent to begin with doubts may end with
certainty.
From the bottom of my heart | hate
those people who found sects. Ishould
hate truth itselfif it were the founder of
sect.
Virtue has been described as an awk-
ward habit Of doing things differently
from other people. 1t creates great
mirth in fashionable circles.
A distinguished English prelate says
that the man who spends pounds upon
himself and pence upon the cause o.
God, is simply monster.
When the new light we beg for shines
in upon us,there be those who envy and
oppose, if it come not first in at their
easements.
Amy one can drift; butt takes prayer,
religious principle, earnestness Of pur-
pose, contant watching to resist the
evil of this world-to struggle against
the tide.
Let your religion be seen. Lamps do
not talk, but they do shine. A light
house sounds no drum, it beats no gong;
and yet far over the water its friendly
light is seen by the mariner.
People who are always on tenter
hooks, straining after admiration or
effect, had they the beauty of seraphs
and the tongues Of archangels, must
inevitably become nuisances.
Carlyle, after emptying his culver of
more satirical arrows than any brother
essayist, coolly says: Sarcasm l now
see to be, in general, the language of
the devil; for which reason l have long
since as good as renowned it"
In the depth Of the sea the waters are
still; the heaviest grief is that borne i'll
silence; the deepest love flows through
the eye and touch; the purest joy is I'M
speakable; the most impressive preach
er at a funeral is the silent one whose
lips are cold. d..
You will find among your acquaint
ances that the best cultivated men are
the least conceited; the pedantic are men
of less understanding; when they get
into n higher level there comes along
with culture more and more of child
like simplicity.
The American Christian society for
promoting Christianity among the Jews
reports that there are $1,000 in Cincin-
cinnati, and 100000 in the United
States, closing with an appeal to all
Christian societies for cooperation in
advancing the work OF evangelization.
We want such an access Of truth that
the general mind can be fed with a
worthier conception of God, which will
make every thought of him inspiring as
the dawn Of the morning, and will ban
ish the superstition that this life is the
final state of probation as an insult to
his plan of eternal education and CHI
mera Of a barbarous age.
am beginning to give up my belief
in the possible happiness of life. APP
parently, people were never meant to be
lappy. Small flashes of pleasantness
come and 60; or it may be that in some
few lives are ecstatic moments such as |
have been dreaming of, and then all is
over. But many people go ploddingon
to old age in a dull, straight road, with
little sorrow and no joy.
We want an intelligent pulpit The
demand is every where for intelligence
and power. If the people are to listen
to preacher, they expect him to bring
such q message as will instruct not only,
but impress them at the same time.
Mere exhortation and rhapsody are no
more in place. The religious mind has
grown beyond these 1t is the intellect
of the pulp which at the present time
secures to it hearers.
However slow the progress of man.
kind may be, or however imperceptible
the gain in a single generation, tie adj
vancement is evident enough in the long
run. There was time when the most
part of the inhabitants of Britain would
have been as much startled at ques-
tioning the truth Of the doctrine of
transubstantiation as they would be In
this age at the most skeptical doubts on
the being of a God.
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