Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-05-18
Orient Pearls at Random Strung.

The gates of heaven are low-arch-
ed, we must enter upon our knees.
AS well could God cease to be, as
cease to be holy.
The Gospels glory is, that it is
the ministration of the Spirit.
The great privilege of believers is
that the Lord manifests himself to
them as he doth not to the world.
No other foundation of holiness is
there in the universe than the Coz
whom we adore.
Leave God to himself in the mod
delling OF his DEGREES and dispense
tions.
We lost ourselves by a vain de-
sire otter wisdom, we return to
God by the foolishness of the cross.
It is one of the striking character
istics OF the Omnipotent, that he is
strong and patient.
Correct ideas Of God, aud of our
selves. are the beginnings of all
moral Improvement.
AS Gods will is the standard and
criterion of holiness, so his nature
is essentially characterized by holt
ness. 1t is holiness.
The man who cultivates the
habitual impression OF the divine
presence lives in an atmosphere pc
cullarly his own.
Why should any person refuse to
give God the glory of all his perfec-
H.Ns FF.rfa arns n ltNa In
Christ!
The divine being combines in his
character and administration, all
that is great and good, fair and ex-
ccllent, venerable and lovely.
Man fell by pride, he is restored
in a way OF humiliation. He fell by
self-,lcpeutlence, he is saved by SELF
remuneration.
"Who shall, not fear thee, o Lord,
aud gloriiy thy name,n say the blest
inhabitants OF heaven, "for thou on
ly art holy"
Religion pure religion-in this
world, is an insurance against fire
in The next, for which honesty is the
best policy.
Our faith most holy Surely Sol
ONION could not show the Queen of
Sheba so much treasure in all his
kingdom, as is lapt up in these
words.
Upon every reading of the Bible,
il grows more precious 10 the Chris
tian, as it did to David; because it
is not only the discovery, but il is
become also the conveyance CT the
unsearchablc riches of Christ.
There are four grand arguments
for the truth of the Bible; the mira
cles it records, the prophecies, the
goodness of the doctrine, and the
moral character Of the penmen.
If the goodness of God is so admit
rably seen in the works of nature,
and the favors Of providence, with
what noble superiority does il
even triumph in the mystery OF re-
demption.
God is a spirit, infinite boundless,
iliimitable, unfathomable in his con-
captions and capacities; but we are
finite, circumscribed, aud weak in
our conceptions.
In the works aud ways of the
Eternal One, the christian finds a
subject of exalted contemplation, in
comparison with which the highest
inquiries of human science sink into
insignifcance.
He is not TO be envied, although
the voice of fame should pronounce
him TO be the first of philosophers,
who sees nothing in the universe
but matter and motion.
There are a thousand allies OF re-
hgion in the many aspects of nature,
to the heart which education grants
not wholly to the avoeations of life,
but opens to the remote relations of
things, and the hour of musing.
The life of the active Christian is
the labor of the bee, which all day
long is flying from the hive to the
flower, aud from the flower to the
hive; but all his business is confined
to fragrancy, and productive of
sweets.
The subjects of religious knowl-
edge are transcendantly important.
Its object is not to instruct us in
physical or moral science, but in
the divine character and govern
ment; not in the history of time,
but in the realities of eternity.
If we he Christians in earnest, GER
tainly the inner-rOom of our hearts,
which is the holy of holies, is re-
served for the Almighty-the outer
courts may be for the common re-
sorts of lawful cares and desires
L. s,,1 hras IL
shall have his fixed habitation here
forever.
Men are disposed to treat with
lenity and indulgence those impro-
prieties to which they are then :
selves inclined, which they would
visit with the full weight Of
punishmeuts, offences TO the com
mission of which they themselves
feel no temptation.
Every new triumph which the
mind of man achieves in the field of |
discovery, binds US more firmlv 10 !
our Bible; and by the very proper
ton in which philosophy multiplies |
the wonders of God, do we prize |
that book ON which the evidence Of |
history has stamped the character /
os his authentic communication.
When God mmifests his authori- /
~ in the command, it is then pow /
erful: when lac. manife.ts his good I
ness and truth in the promise, il is
fuIi of sweetness; when he mani
tests his wrath in the threatening
IL awes the soul; when he manifests
his glory in the face of Christ, it is
ravishing, reforming, attracting.