Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-07-03
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but this we must needs learn that
forgiveness of sins,, Christ, and the
Holy Ghost are freely given unto us at
the only hearing of faith preached,
Notwithstanding our horrible sins and
demertts.
w hat thou givest to the noore
thou securest from the tkiefc, but what
thou with-holdest from his necessity. a
thiefe possesses. Gods excheauer is
the poore mans box :: when thou
strikest tally, he becomes thy debtor.
-Quarles.
He is, indeed, the wisest and hsr,-
picst man, who, by constant attention
of Thought. discovers the greatest op-
portunities of doing good, and with
ardent and animated resolution breaks
through every opposition that he may
improve these opportunities.-DodeJ-
ridge.
For Christ when he cometh is
nothing else but joy and sweetness to a
trembling and broken heart, as here
Paul witnesseth, who setteth him out
with this most sweet and comfortable
title, when Ire saith ''Who loved
me and gave Himself for -
Let our conduct not fall away
from the spirit Who have begun to
be spiritual and heavenly, have cnly
spiritual and heavenly thoughts and
actions, for the Lord hath said, They
that honor me, | will honor. Ye are
not your own, with a great price ye
arc bought. Glorify and possess God
in your body.
Death is the harmless thing that
a poor shepherd suffered yesterday, OF
a maid-seryant to-day and at the
same time in which you die, in that
very night, a thousand creatures die
with you, some wise men and many
fools und the wisdom of the first
does not quiet him. and the folly of the
latter does not enable him to die.
1t is good and safe rule to So
Journ IN every place as if you meant to
spend your life there, never omitting
an opportunity Of doing a kindness, or
speaking true word, or making &.
friend. Seeds thus sown by the way
side often bring forth an abundant har.
vest You might so spend ycnr sum
mer among the people that they and
their descendants should be better and
happier, through time and eternity, for
your works and your example.
You can have no heaven after
death of which you have not sown
the seed before death. Keep
strict watch over your thoughts and
affections, over your imaginations and
wishes, for according to their char
acter Of the demons or angels that
keep you company. With what spir-
1t your soul is associated in the body,
into the hands of the same will you
fall when you are loosed from the
body.-John Pujyord.
Never threaten children. Say to
the stubborn boy, ''Do this or that -
without suggesting any punishment in
ease Of his disobedience Simply order
him, as matter Of authority, and let
him obey YOU not because you have
threatened him with punishment, but
because you have ordered him. If he
lisobeys you, punish him not because
you have held up the fear of penalty
before his eyes. 1t is curious how
much more power man has when he
thus concentrates his will upon boy,
than when he virtually gives the boy
the choice between obedience and suf-
fering. g.-Lhurles Bu1ton.
If ever man on earth was in real
right earnest, it was Christ: If ever
man looked on life, and on the world.
and on the sins and sorrows Of men in
their reality, and spoke as one that did.
he did so No one that heard him
could ever feel that he was mocking
his misery, that he was playing with
his disease. He spoke as one who felt
himself in the presence Of awful p1-v-
er5 of death and woe, who knew all,
aid in the depths of his soul felt ALL
This the common people loved this
they welcomed as the thing they need
ed, the only thing that met their case.
Therefore they heard him gladly. Let
his servants go and do likewise, and
they will hear them gladly, too
North British Reuiew.
The world has had 5000 years to
bring in It's ''more excellent way
What has it devised, apart from the
Bible, to heal the sores of the broken.
wounded, bleeding heart? What has
Rome, in her ages of martial glory, Or
Greece, in her era Of philosophic cult
ure and refinement, done to solve the
vexed problem Of aching humanity?
" hat streams Of comfort has the rod,