Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1872-12-26
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/ Have a rocking-chair in some large
room, at the top of the house, all cosey.
Iquiet and clean, and In some of the oId
! familiar tunes of tbs village church Of
your childhood, sing by the hour. with
an open mouth and loud voice-not on
a pehny-whistle. pitch--the rsalas. and
! hymns, and spiritual songs of Watts
and Wesley, of David and Moses. and
deuteronomy and all of thern.U Sin0l
away and rock eway, and don't Re
lafraid If your neighbors do think Won
iare Methodist; for if you are a live
one, the angels won't be ashamed of
you; but while you are singing, think
what the words mean, and let vour
/ heart go out in that meaning; think.
ltoO, OF the many who used to sing these
same songs with you, side byside in the
same pew, but who can sing them no
more now, for their lips are still in
death, and their sweet voices are
hushed in the churehyard grave. to be
heard no more until you iofn together
| liu singing the hallelujahs of the skis.
Holm Halt.
Industry toour part is not superseded
by the greatness and freeness of Gods
grace. As when schoclInasler teaches
a boy gratis, the youth cannot attain fo
learning without some>oppIication of
his own; and yet it doth not therefore
cease to be free on the teachers part.
because attention is required from the
Il learner. So it is bere.-E E44gTousasith
/ While Israel marched through the
4 wilderness, the blackest night had a
|, pillar of fire, snd the brightest day q
"a pillar of cloud. So in this world.
things never go 80 well with Gods
lsrael but they have still something 10
groan under--nOt SO Ill but they have
lstill comfort to be thanked for. In the
4 Church militant, as in the ark Of old.
ltherear both rod and pot of n1anna.
-I-EArrowsnsith.
] My soul, thou art now as bird in
the shell-in a shell of fesh-which
shortly break and let these 90. This
feeble vessel of ibe body will certainly,
lere long, be split on the rock of death,
and then must thou, its present pilot,
forsake it and swim to the shore of
leternity. Therefore, o everlasting
cresture see and be sure thou content
not thy-eif with transitory portion
} AJrolrsn'itd.
4 To be Over-thrifty in our expenses
upon God, whether of time, money, or
, labor, is the worst piece of husbandry
lin the world ATroirspaith.
We lO7e half our real joy and privi-
, 'tlege, no doubt, because we do not ap-
preciste the personal love of God to us,
I'VE do not recognize his personality in
J. Everything we accept from him. Our
daily experience is Gods word to US. A
mother writes a letter to her six child
} rem: it is but one letter, yet each child
: gets the letter. God does for each one
lof us as if there were not another
iBeecher.
Do you ask. why not do away with
the Church, if its members make so
many mistakes? Would YOU take
away the lighthouse because careless
mariners, through wrong observations
run their ships high and dry upon the
shore? Would you put out the lamp
! lin house because moths and millers
|. burn their wings in it t?-Beecher.
: Suppose wife prays for the CONVEX
lsion OF her husband; it is a good PRAYER
; and she watches to see if God viii con-
I vert him. At the end OF week, he is
not converted. She pravs harder; in a
: month he Is not converted, especiallyif
ishe is scar and ill-natured-that makes
) a difference. If she is mean and tattl-
ling, probably he will not be converted
in two years. But If, with her praying
hi -.
/ ton of mind, more gentlenesS and pa
: thence, the man begins to feel ne is
living with a nobler spirit than he
! dreamed of. By and by, his old, dry
eye will mcisten, his lips begin to
4 nutter prayers; at last, ne gives her
1 hand a grasp and says, 'I'll go with
4 lyou-in Christ we'll walk together all
the rest of our life" How did the
spirit answer those prayers? BY max
ing that woman live the life of the
spirit; by her pursuing courses that,
according to natural law, win produce
such result Beecher.
Some roll on tide of prayer; the
divine mind is always stimulating
them. There is no good thing in us
that does not come from following the
good in. God. The coming of flowers
shows the sun has been there before
/ they were. All our desires to reach
/ the skies are blessings. To think that
we are paupers, and God stingy, is a
miseonceptiOn ofGod. God does more
/ for us than we ask or Think Beseher.
4 The DEVILS brOadswoFd, in this world
/ has often been the needle with which q
woman sews to earn hpr daily bread.
l think the needle has slain more than
the sword of war; Reecher.
/ But the noblest heart on earth Is but
a triekling stream from a faint and
wasting fountain, compared with. the
iineffable soul and heart of God. the
Everlasting Fatherl The pity of Gcd
\ is like a fathers in all that il tender.
lstrong. and full, but not in scope and
power. For every one of Gods feelings
moves In the sphere of the infinite.
His pity has all the scope and divinity
which belong to power, wisdom, Justice!
Yea. power, wisdom, and Justice are
Gods lesser ways, and come toward
/ that side of his being where there would
he restriction, If anywhere; while love
and mercy are Gods peculiar glory. In
( these he finds the most glorious liberty
OF the divine nature.-T Beeche-
A iudicieus silence is always better
than truth spoken without charity.