The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-05-03
RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.

There is q great revival at Fulton
n. Y, in which over 40 persons
have professed conversion.
We must be reconciled to sorrow
before we can be truly reconciIed
to God.-IF. ID. Hedge, D. D.
Alas! instead of being temples OF
Gods praiae, how many are but
graves of Gods benefits.-lRowland
Hill.
Religion is the basis upon which
civil government rests-that from
which power derives its authority,
laws their efficacy, and both their
sanction.
1t is folly to break down order as
atheism must, and he is daftest of
idiots or widest of maniacs who
supposes world can be governed
without some thought of God.
John Bunyan was once asked a
question about heaven, which he
could not answer, because the mat
ter was not revealed in the Scrip
lures and he thereupon advised
the enquirer to live a holy life ana
go and see.
To whom is the last hour most
serene and full of hope? Is 1t not
to him who amidst perils and allure
ments has denied himself, and taken
up the cross with the holy resolu-
ton of Jesus Christ ?-lW. E. Chan
ming. D. ID.
Dean Stanley recently said. In
sermon to the printers of London,
that once architecture was the press
and told great thoughts to the world
in stone; but now the press was
architecture, and is building up the
world of ideas and usages.
Silence is in truth the attribute of
God, and those who seek him from
that side invariably learn that med
itation is not the dream, but the re-
atty of life; not its illusion, but its
truth; not its strength.- Mar
tineau.
The robe of righteousness is not
black. Religion is not at all weep
ing, and cross-bearing, and war
wsging. Around the temple of
grace in the heart let us not plant
weeping-willow and nightshade,
but cedar and triumphal palms.
True Christianity does not frown
upon amusements and recreations.
Religion is neither a shrew nor
cynic. It chokes no laughter, it
quenches no light, it defaces no art.
Among the happy is the happiest.
1t knows as well how to act on the
playground as in the church
ETalmage.
Russian children have but one
name. This custom rests on the be-
lief that each name has its repre-
sentative in heaven, who is the |
guardian angel of all those bearing |
that name. It is impossible that any |
one should bear two, because he
cannot be two protecting angels !; |
that is, he cannot serve two masters. |
The only religion possible to man |
is the religion of penitence. The |
of man cannot be the |
integrity of the virgin citizen |
which has never admitted the enc
my; it can never be more than the |
integrity of the city which has been |
and reused, and which,
having expelled the invader with |
blood in the streets, has suffered
great inward loss.
Perhaps the eye of the Omniscent
sees more fragrant exhibition of sell
fishness and unbelief in luxuri-
GUS homes of refinement than he |
sees in some dens of sensual vice, |
where ignorance is SHINING against |
but small light and under powerful |
temptations. Pleasing itself with
ont caring whether God is pleased |
or not is S'sinful pleasure"
ALI Gods developments have
method. No matter how small a |
thing he sets himself to do he does
it with a plan. There is not q blade |
of grass under your feet but he has
a perfect method in its develop
ment. God would never clothe our
fields and woods as he does if he
were to work as we work, in hap
hazard dabs and dashes. here and
there, persevering nowhere, finish
ing nothing, fragmentary patch
work,