The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-07-31

To make Us Thine yet that we might not part,
As we At aTst did board with Thee,
Now Thou would'st taste our misery.
There is but JOY and graef;
II either viii convert us are Thine;
some angels used the first II our relief
Take up the second, then my double line
Furnish Thy table to thy mind
Ahaietion, then, is ours;
We are the trees, whom shaking fastens more,
While blustring winds destroy the VontOn bowers
And rufae al their curious knots sud store.
sIy God. SO temper joy and woe,
That thy bright beams may tame Thy bow.
George Herbert
The FINAL HoUR.-In that hour when
the more we are loved the more help
less is love in that hour when the richer
We are the less able are riches to do
anything in that hour when the more
there is about us the less is it flavor
some and desirable in that hour when
heart and flesh fail, We need the COM
fort of believing, with all our heart and
mind and soul, that universal intelh-
gence and universal love preside that
we are leaning on the arm of God who
is never weary that we are guided by
an eye that never sleeps that we are
safe, and saved by heart that never
ceases to beat with sympathy and love,
Bsecher.
WHAT IS IEsFRATToN PIT is the di-
rect action of the Divine Spirit upon
the human mind. Il is the presence of
God in the soul to illuminate it. 1t is
the Heavenly Fathers direct personal
guidance of His earthly children. Such
a relation is implied in any trne Thought
/ of God. What is our sonship toward
him but just this, that, if we will let
him, he will come into the closest fle-
lowship with us, and walk hand in
hand with us We say that not 8
sparrow falls to the ground without
him, that he is in every leaf that fut-
ters In the wind, the every where-pre-
sent, all-upholding Spirit of the uni
verse. And can we even imagine that
the heart of man alone is unvisited by
| him? Can we suppose that the soul
that in love and trust looks up TO him
fails of the Immediate, illuminating, vi
talizing presence of the Spirit of all
truth and goodness This is the very
heart of Christian faith. -Christiaa
linton.
SABBATH-DAY SUGGESTIONS house
uninhabited soon comes to ruin, and a
soul uninhabited by tha Holy Spirit of
God verges faster and faster to destruc-
tion.-TopIady.
He that is contented with just grace
enough to get to heaven and escape hell,
and desires no more, may be sure that he
hath none at all and is far from being
made partaker of the divine nature.
CONTEND that religion does its best
as poetry; it fulflls its true mission
when it speaks to our imagination,
makes us dream, encourages us to as
pire, lends wings to our fancy, and
opens all the bOundless depths of the
empyrean to oblivion of our cares.
This is the artist that gloriiies life.
Let us see how he does it.-Forthislg-
ham.
THEY who do not love religion, hate
it. The rebels to God perfectly abhoI
the Author of their being. They hate
him with ell their heart, with all
their mind, with all their soul and with
all their strength" He never presents
himself to their thoughts, but to men
aee and alarm them. Edmund Burke.
IF YOU deliberately take the position
of non-praying men, you must ayov
tnat in the matter of moral excellence
you have nothing more to desire. You
have risen as high as you can, or at least
as high as you care. Or if there b,
nights above your present level which
you may hope or wish to rise to, yoE
can scale them by your own powers
without the aid of God or mAn.-JohY
Kennedy.
= IF PAIN did nothing more for us thar
to fill us with q burning sympath,
which not only made as scrupulousll
2 careful not to inhiet pain on others, bu
also to do all we possibly could TO re
3 lieve and remedy the suffering sroun'
2 us, we might we'll bless the Lord God ol
high for his mercy to men, and say wit
= hearts full of faith and alteration, wit
T eyes open to every fact of human oircum
t stances, with minds enlightened by th
deepest and most careful reflection
at is the Lord, let him do what seen
; eth him good. Charles VoyseB
GREAT virtues are rare and the Occs
sions for them are very rare I; and whe
they do occur, we are prepared fc
: them we are excited by the grandeu
= of the sacrifice; we are supported eith'
bv the splendor of the deed in the ey'
! Of the world, or by the self-eompl
cency that we experience from the pc
:. formance OF an uncommon aotion. Ii
tie things are Unforeseen; they retul
every moment they come IN eOnta
! with our pride, our Incidence, ol
! haughtiness, our readiness to take {
fense they contradict our inclination
:. perpetuaIly. It is, however. even
n fidelity in little things that a true a
constant love to God can be d
tinguished from passing iervor
u spirit.
ia How TO DIAL WITH DoUBT.-Be new
afraid Of doubt We are in the
= eternal of wrong, and there il no v
= for us to get clear bat 70 prove
J. = things and hold FAST Make free use
the inteIligence God has given yc
= = only taking care 10 use it IN q conscious
- supreme allegienee to right and TO df
ne Your questions then viii only be 70
40 helpers, and the faster they esme 1
- better will be your progress in
truth. Never settle upon anything
Z true because it is safer 20 hold II Il
- not. To accept the Bible only beca'
lat Il is safest, as some persons do, a
at as some ministers very lightly pres
iii Is to do the greatest disbonor both Z
-, and 20 the soul Sach faith IL oowsri
T., and is even lie besides. Il is basin
I'd. religion, not ia truth, but in the d
his trine Of chances, and reducing the
nd walton Of God 20 bill Of insurance.