The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-03-20


say, What a proud fellow he is p
You may be just as proud as he, and
yet you may be slouehing and income
ly in your gait. Humility does not de-
pend upon the way in which man car
ries his body; it depends upon what
his life Is upon what he means to do
with it upon where he puts its, and
and where he keeps it, and what service
it renders. They are humble who
think that everything in them is fit to |
serve others with and they are proud |
who think that God made them of such |
fine material that other people ought to |
serve them, instead of their serving |
other people. I do not care how sweet |
you are, or how beautiful you are, if !
you make other people serve you, and
keep yourself IN the attitude of being
served, and so manage that every
wind brings to you some good fortune,
and every net that is drawn comes laden
with wealth for you, and the center of
everything with you is self, self,-yo
are proud. I do not care anything
about what your exterior is if you are
humble, it is because you consecrate the
powers of your life in the good of 9th
ers. In the other case you expect 9th
ers to serve you; and there is the
antithesis. Such view of moral bene-
fit, of spiritual excellence in life, that
one thinks himself and his endowments
too good to be devoted to inferior things
that is pride.-H W Beecher.
THE TRUEsT WORSHIP IS A Holy
LIFE.-The conscientious and faithful
performance of our duty is whatever
sphere Providence may place US /; doing
as well as we can, whatsoever our hands
find to do; cheerfully accepting and pa
tiently bearing whatever the Lord in
His wisdom may sect fit to appoint,
humbly acknowledge Him as the source
of all power and will to do and bear;
this is the highest and most acceptable
homage-yea, the truest and nobIest
kind of worship we can offer unto God.
And in the light of this new truth, how
does each little, common, everyday
duty-our rough, dirty, and sometimes,
seemingly insinifcant work become
dignifed, exalted, TRANSPORTED, as it
were For no work is really insignif-
cant, and no duty mean or small, which
helps to recreate us In the Divine like
ness. Let no one understand me as dis
couraging or dissuading from oral
prayer, or of undertaking. its impor-
lance as means of bringing us into
that state in which our very desire and
purpose shall be an offering acceptable
to God. On the contrary, I believe in
prayer. believe Gf it be sincerely ut
tered) it opens the soul to heavenly in
fiuences brings us into hOlier COM
munings; draws us nearer to God and
the angels shields us with a stronger
though invisible .panoply: girds us
with new strength for the duties and
burdens and trials of life. Neverthe-
less, hold that this, and all mere for
NAL worship, is only means to that
higher and nobler kind of worship to
which our Lord referred in His CONVEX
sation with the samaritan woman. I
hold that right living is better than
right believing that doing is higher
and nobler worship than praping that
the best, yea, the only right way to
honor the Master, is to keep His COM
mandments that no worship is so ac-
ceptable to Him, because none is so
profitable to ourselves, as that of an
earnest, righteous and useful life.-B.
F. Barrett.
SABBATH Day SUGGESTIONS. know
that nothing comes to pass but what
God appoints; our fate is decrsed, and
things do not happen by chance, but
every mans portion of JOY and sorrow
is predetermined.-Seneca.
When God will educate a man, he
compels him to learn bitter lessons.
He sends him to school to the necessi-
ties rather than to the graces, that by
knowing all suffering he may know also
J the eternal consolations.-Cel Bar
leigh.
1 think the first virtue is to restrain
the tongue he approaches nearest to
the gods who knows how to be silent
even though he is in the right. Cato.
) No mans spirits were ever hurt by
> doing his duty; on the contrary, one
. good action, one temptation resisted
and overcome, one sacrifice of desire or
} interest purely for conscience's sake,
will prove a cordial for weak low spirits
far beyond what either indulgence or
diversion, or company can do for them.
, -PGLey.
When we pray for any virtue, we
should cultivate the virtue as we'll as
pray for it; the form of your prayers
should be the rule of your life; every
petition to God is a precept to man.
l Look not, there, upon your prayers as a
, short method of duty and salvation only.
but as perpetual monition of duty; by
what we require of God we see what He
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