Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-07-06


ventiOns.
If thy conscience smite thee once,
it is admonition; IL it smite the
twice, it is condemnation.
The oftener we renew our inter
course with God, the greater will
be our devotion.
What is the true character OF that
Great Being who made, preserves
and governs all things?
Lord, if l am right, keep me so; If
i am not right, make mo so; and lead
me to the knowledge of the truth as
it is in Jesus.
If good people would make their
goodness agreeable, and smile in
stead of frOwning III their Writ ne,
how many would they win to the
good cause.
Some good Christians have u great
deal OF trouble in this world. The
reason of it is that God Is preparing
them for very great happiness in
heaven.
Temperance and labor are the two
best physicians of man; labor sharp
cns the appetite, and temperance
prevents him from INDUCING to ex-
cess.
When our eyes are blinded with
tears, we cannot tell how near God
is to us; the very darkness in which
we mourn may be but the shadow
of his wings.
When we ourselves are mOnu-
ments of Gods mercy, it is tit we
should be patterns of his praises,
and leave monuments to others.
No possessions are good but by
the good use we make of them;
without which wealth. power,
friends and servants do but help to
make our lives more unhappy.
As it respects general habits a pa
rent can scarcely teach a child n
more valuable art than dispatch
without hustle; nor can anyone that
values his time cultivate a more val
liable one for himself.
No man is so poor that he has not
friends whose happiness Is linked
with his fate, and whose hearts will
be wrung with anguish Mt his pun
ishnent or his suffering.
The resolutions and engagements
of the unrenewed heart are like
those of one half awake. He prom
Uses TO rise, but instead Of perform
ing, instantly falls fast asleep.
The love of God is a guard against
error in conduct, because il is a
guard against those evil influences
which mislead the understanding in
moral questions.
In some measure the love of God
supplies the place of every rule. lie
who has it truly within him, has lit
tie TO learn.
TIerschel, the great Astronomer,
declares that ninety or one hundred
hours, clear enough for obserVa-
tiOns, cannot be called an unproduc-
tive year.
Conscience is none other than God
in the soul. IL conscienceis hushed,
God has left the soul. Oh, soull
give heed to the still small voice.
Keep this thought in your heart
of hearts-thst God Is good and ma
ture benoficent. fmen are misera-
bic, it is because they deserve to be
80, or because it is to their ultimate
advantage.
Opposition to the death penalty is
thus met. The debt of nature should
not DO paid, if it can't be collected
without an execution"
Were anyone to ask me, what is
the worthiest object of our most ar
dent pursuit, and what we should
give the greatest possible diligence
to obtain, l should answer, holiness;
because il comprehends all that Is
good and great-its end is everlast-
ing life.
Other evils may, in the end, prove
useful to us, but sin is unchanRea-
bly, and eternally evil; the bane Of
every heart into which il enters,
and the destruction of all those who
are not rescued from its power, and
delivered from its punishment.
From the scheme of mans re-
demption we learn that sin must be
something far moro hateful In its
nature, something Of deeper maIig-
nifty, than is generally understood.
The forgiveness that is with God
Is such as becomes him-such as is
suitable TO his greatness, goodness,
and other excellencies OF his nature
such as, that therein he will be
known to be God.
The young are like the horsrman
who with whip and spur urges his
stced to faster gait. To them life
moves too slow. The old are like
the same rider with bit and curb la
boring hard to hold in his steed.
To them time moves to fast
Ii the world is my home, death TO
me will be eternal Punishment. III
am stranger and IA pilgrim here,
death Is but a messenger from my
Father calling me home.
Every faculty of our being, every
means of existence and happiness,
every comfort and blessing of life,
comes from God, and shall we take
the gift and deny the giver?
Perfect holiness, Adam doubtless
possessed Immediately after he was
created, and while he continued in
the garden of innocence. But he
transgressed the law and fell; and
falling drew his entire posterity af-
ter him.
Between the finite and infinite,
there must be an infinite disiance:and
it there be and infinite distance be-
tween the intellect of Gabriel and
God, what must be the distance be-
tween ours and his
In watch, when we observe
springs and wheels, great and small,
each SO lifted, as to concur TO an or
derby motion, we acknowledge the
skill of an artiiicer. How much
more is the skill of an artiiiccr NO
cessary TO keep in harmonious mo-
ton the machinery of the miycrsc2
Make il law to yourself TO ncdi-
tate before you pray, as also TO
make certain pauscs, TO see ii your
hearts go along with the lips. They
whose hearts desire nothing, pray |
fer nothing.
. that our hearts were stretched /
out like tents, and that the ewes of 1
our understanding were as brivht /
as the sun, that we might thorou9b- |
ly know the riches of the uIori0ns
of the saints, ana what
is the exceeding greatness of his
power towards us, whom he accent
ed for pure and most holy, through
our believing.