Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-05-04
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a slcadfast faith bcgcts a constant

IL i no humiliation 10 a0gravate
sin above Christ's saving power.
1t is unreasonable for a creature
TO be proud, much more the sinner.
A son honoreth his father, and a
servant his master.
Let reason 90 before enterprise
and counsel before action.
A good name is:to be chosen rath-
or than great riches, and loving IA
vor rather than gold and silver.
Rousseau says: Men can better
philosophise on the human heart,
but women can read it better.
They that deny themselves for
Christ, shall enjoy themselves in
Christ.
We cannot feel the pleasures of
devotion while the world is our de-
light.
To have a portion in this world is
a mercy; to have the world for
portion, is misery.
Whatever we make an idol of will
be cross to us if we belong to
CHi io1 +" CuAS 90 " uS II VIC no not.
God will do whatever he pleases.
and what pleases Him ought to
please US.
fyou follow Satan, you will find
the tempter prove tormentor; i'll
YOU follow the spirit, you will find
the counsellor prove comforter.
Have you sins. or have you none ?
II you have, whittier should you go,
but to the Lamb of God, which TAX
eth away the sins of the world?
It much commends any blessing
TO see the love and favor of God in
it, which is more TO be valued than
the blessing itself.
Wisdom and truth, the offspring
of the sky, are immortal but cum
ming and deception, the metcors of
the earth, after glittering for mo-
ment, must pass away.
The grand constituents of health
and happiness, the cardinal points
upon which everything turns, are
exercise for the body and occupation
for the mind.
No characteristic of man, no exhi-
bition of his mind, takes such a
striking and placid illustration as
the quality of decision from the his |
tory OF our species.
Dying persons are generally more
doVout than others, because they
see their misery; that nothing in
this world can help them, and that
God is their only refuge.
The burden of the gospel is love; |
but it is a love which speaks the
commands of God with authority, |
and insists upon obedience to Him |
as the only way of safety and life.
All the ways of man are clean
in his own eyes" He looks with |
affected, it may be with honest, sur
prise at the sins, follies, and crimes |
of others. which he may already |
have committed in the same or in |
differing forms.
Ii is above nature, it is contrary |
to nature, to make u full surrender |
OF ourselves to Gods sovereign and |
absolute will. Grace alone can ena-
BILE US to say, from the heart, :" Thy
will be done"
When we sec thousands of men in
a field, marshalled under their res
pective colors, all yielding exact
we infer that there is a
General to whose orders they are
subject.
Our whole lie should speak no.
thing but thaukfulness; every con-
dition amt place we are in should
be a witness of our thankfulness:
this will make the times aud places
we live in the better Tor Us.
As the sun ripens aud sweeteus
fruit by Shining upon it, without
which it would be sour and unsayo-
nv, so il is the sunshine of Gods IA
vor that sweetens all earthly bless
iugs, without which they would be
but crosses and curses to them that
profess them.
The spirit of true religion breathes
gentleness and afIability; is social.
kind aud cheerful; far removed
from That gloomy, illiberal super
stition and bigotry which cloud the
brow, sour the temper, defect the
spirit, and impress moroseness on
the manners.
Moral suaSion of itself will never
change the heart, or bring the sim
ner TO Christ. The Scriptures ex-
pressly assert this. They assure us
that no man cometh to Christ unless
the Father draw him.
What can be more wretcbed
sight than to see a starving miser
mortify his passions without reli-
gion ?-to submit to such voluntary
hardships TO no purpose, and lose
the present without providing for
the future?
Never lose an opportunity of see
ing anything beautiful. Beauty is
Gods handwriting-a wayside sac
welcome it in every fair
face, every fair sky, every fair flow ,
er, and thank Him for it, he ioent- d
ain of all loveliness and drink II i'm. G
simply aud earnestly, with your Q
eyes it is a charmed draught, "a cup |
IF blessing.