Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-10-04

writer thinks that in too many churches
worship ismore 4 ftIif dress parade, and
display of finery, rather than matter
of devotion. if"F
The Shah Of Persia refused to receive
an elegantly morocco bound Bible from
DIR. Cummings congregation in London,
because as the head of the Persian re-
ligion he could not touch the flesh,
blood or skin of an animal. He accept
ed one bound in red velvet. .--f
The United Brethren Church will
celebrate its one hundredth anniversary
in 1874. The first congregation was es-
tablished in IVA by Rev. William Otter
bein. This Church is similar to the
Methodist in doctrine and many customs
but excludes members of secret societies.
The Primitive Methodists of Ireland
are not TO be absorbed by the Episcopal
Church, as was reported, but will return
to the ole Irish Wesleyan body, from
which they seeded in 1916, from a Diff
,erence on the subject of the sacraments,
they deeming themselves members of the
Established Church, and receiving the
ordinances from its ministers. st
Several ecclesiastical bodies including
Presbyterian, Congregational; and Uni
yersalist, have appointed delegates to
the Evangelical Alliance Conference.
1t has been repeatedly published that
the Conference is composed of delegates
from branch alliances, which have
adopted its basis. No ecclesiastical
bodies are represented by delegates in
the Conference.
Sickness takes us aside and sets us
alone with God. We are taken into His
private chamber, and there He converses
with usface to- face. The world is afar
OF, our relish for it is gone, and we are
alone, with Gods Many are the words
of grace and truth which He then speaks
to us. All our former props are struck
away, and now we must lean on God
alone. The things of earth are felt to
be vanity; man's help useless. Mans
sympathy deserts us; we are east who'll
ly upon God, thai we may learn that
His praise and His sympathy are enough.
"If it were not for pain, says one, 81
should spend less time with God.s' If l
had not been kept awake with pain /
should have lost one of the sweetest ex-
periences l ever had in my life. ''The
disorder of my body is the very help
want from God if it does its work be-
fore it lays me in the dust, it will raise
me up in beaven.-The Penny Post.
Complacency in the completed work
of life will be great in proportion to its
nobleness, and spirituality. There are
many works of life i'm which the worker
may fifty feel satisfaction; many yarie-
ties and gradations of honorable labor
concerning which il is a great word to
say, sit is finished"
We are always finishing something
something that will not recur; contribu-
ting some completed thing To the pro-
world; sending before us some work 10
Gods Judgement. Every day portions
of our life are let go, and their works do
follow them. And by and by the final
winding up will come, not of one thing
only, but of all things i'm one for the
life of man is a unity made up of many
parts, each action separate, and yet q
component part of the character and in
fluence of the whole. Concerning some-
thing every day, we have to say, cit is
finished" and ar length we shall have
this to say concerning the whole.
What will be finished, and what will
the finished thing be? What the life tn
which we add the last touch, and upon
which we pronounce Judgment. as we
surrender it to Him who gave it? Will
it be a life of selfishness that is finished,
life of frivolous pleasure, a life Of ig-
nominious sin; or a life of mere mer-
chandise, or intellectual pursuit, or
Of noble moral character, of unselffsh
service to men, of spiritual piety toward
God life. of great principles and holy
preferences, Of lofty spiritual pursuits
and communings and joys; a life of God,
with God, in God,-the eternal life. sos.,
It is great and solemn thing to live /;
to finish product of the living soul; to
finish life itself. All must saw. set is
finished;" but to be able to say it is
grandly and nobly and holly finished
to be able to pronounce judgment upon
it with piOus satisfaction and humble
faith-this is the grandest of all things
next to the swell done'' of the Master.
What quickening, contagious power
there is in a life greatly lived! A mans
death is often the manifest embodiment
of his whole life. 'ssMark the perfect
man. and behold the upright; for the
end of that man is peace" The centur-
ion who saw Christ die was constrained
to say. "Truly, this man was the Son of
God" The penitent thief who saw
Christ die was constrained to address a
prayer to Him. Even the hardened and
unspiritual smote on their breasts as
they beheld. The lofty dignity, the
calm resignation, the magnanimous
spirit, the moral majesty of the dying
Christ could not be resisted. There is
no testimony, no power of appeal like
the completed life, the peaceful death, OF