Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-03-22

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and it is derived from the feeling of
self-esteem, on which pride is based.
And yet, the Scripture represents pride
as odious, and condemns it severely. It
is condemnable-one kind of pride.
What is that kind of pride which is to
be condemned ? 1t is that which leads
a man to think he is too good Tor any
otheruse than that which pertains to his
own comfort and satisfaction. You
think you are not proud, because Won
do not hold your head up, You see a
man going through the streets. and
walking with great pomposity, and
stepping with a stately air, and YOU
say, What a proud fellow he is r.
You may be just as proud as he, and
yet you may be slouching and income
ly in your gait. Humility does not le-
pend upon the way in which a man ear
ries his body it depends upon what
his life is; upon what ha means to do
witt it upon where he puts irs. and
and whore he keeps it, and what service
it renders, They are humble who
think that everything in them is tit to
serve others with and they are proud
who think that God made them OF such
fine material tina. other people ought to
serve them, instead Of their serving
other people. | do not care how sweet
You are, o how beautiful you are, Il
you make other people serve yoa. 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,-you
are proud. ] do not care anything
about hat your exterior is if Won are
humble, it is because you c~onsecrate the
powers OF your lie in the good Of 9th
ers. In the other case you expect 9TH
ers to serve YOU; and there is the
antitlesis. Such a view Of moral bcne-
fit, Of spiritual excellence in lie, that
one thinks himself and his eudowments
too good to be devoted to interior things
that is pride.-H. ". Bsechcr.
The TRuEsr WORSHIP IS 4 HoLY
LTE,-The conscientious and Idithf,S
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-yca, the truest and noblest
kind Of worship VT can offer unto God.
And in the light Of this new truth. how
does each little, common, everyday
dutr-our rough, dirty, and sometimes.
seemingly insiniticant work become
dignitied, exalted, transfgured, as it
We're. For 10 work is really insignif-
cant, and no duty mean or small. which
helps TO recreate us in the Divine like
ness, Let no M understand me as dis
c%ouraging or dissuading from oral
prayer, or Of undertaking its impor- {
lance rs & mean Of bringing us into Y
that state in which our very desire and
purpose shall be an offering acceptable !
to God, On the contrary, / believe in !
prayer. I believe if il be sincerely Mt I
tered it opens the soul to heavenly in
huences; brings us into holier com {
munings draws MS nearer to Cod 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. Neyerthe- j
less, | hold that this, and all mere for
nal worship is only a means to that
and nobler kind Of worship TO
which our Lord referred in His CONVEX /
sation with the samaritan woman. "
hold that right living is better than q
right believing that doing is higher |
and nobler worship than praping that
best, yea, the only right way to p
honor the Master, is to keep His COM Il
mandments that no worship is so ac- d
to Him, because none is so O
profitable to ourselves, as that Of IN v
earnest. righteous and useful Efe.-B. t.
p. BarreH. T.
SABBATH Day SUGGESTIONS i know D
nothing comes to pass but what :
God appoints; our fate is decrsed, and ,
things do not happen by chance, but !,
mans portion OF Joy and sorrow !
predetermined Seneca. I
When God will educate a man, he A
,ompels him to learn bitter lessons. =,
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lies rather than to the graces, that by ~
knowing all suffering he may know also =,
.he eternal consultations .-Celia Bur i
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/ think the first virtue is to restrain
-he tongue he approaches nearest to
,he gods who knows how to be silent =
even though he is in the right.-Cato. a
No mans spirits were ever hurt by 4
LONG his duty on the contrary, one h
good action, temptation resisted h
md overcome, one sacrifice of desire or h
interest purely for conscience's sake, a
will prove q cordial for weak low spirits f;
Jar beyond what either indulgence or II
diversion, or company can do for them. Il
-Patey. d
When we pray for any virtue, we "
should cultivate the virtue as well as o
pray for it the form of your prayers Ii
be the rule of your life every a