The Hickman courier., 1873-07-26

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fort of believing, with all our heart and
mind and soul, that universal intelli-
gence and universal love preside that
we are leaning onthe 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 hIet never
ceases to beat with sympatt love.
Beecher. -
WHAT IS INSPIRATION Pit is the di-
rect action of the Divine Spirit upon
the human mind. 1t 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 true 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 a
sparrow falls to the ground without
him, that he is in every leaf that hut-
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 unyisited 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. - Christian
Union.
SABBATH-DAY SUGGESTIONS. "A house
uninhabited soon comes to ruin, and a
soul uninhabited by the Holy Spirit of
God verges faster and faster to destruc-
tion. Toplddy.
HE that is contented with w. 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.
,7vssr-r,iD Aa.s.S seAiSiO1S, fOv5 It's Desl
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 deptlN of the
empyrean to oblivion of oui cares.
This is the artist that gloriGes life.
Let us see how he does it.-Forthing-
ham.
THEY who do not love religion, hate
it. The rebels TO God perfectly abhor
the Author of their being. They hate
him with all 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
ace and alarm them. Edmund Burke.
IF YOU deliberately take the position
of non-praying men, you must avoW
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, you
can scale them by your own powers
without the aid of God or man.-Johr
| Kennedy.
If PAIN did nothing more for us thar
to fill us with a burning sympathy
which not only made us scrupulousll
careful not to infict pain on others, bu
also to do all we possibly could to re
lieve and remedy the suffering aroun,
us, we might well bless the Lord God ol
high for his mercy to men, and say witt
hearts full of faith and adj ~, witt
eyes open to every fact of hi .sircum
stances, with minds enlightened by th
deepest and most careful reflection
"It is the Lord, let him do what seem
eth him good. - Charles Voysey.
GREAT virtues are rare and the occa
sions for them are very rare and whe
they do occur, we are prepared fo
them we are excited by the grandeu
of the sacrifice; we are supported eithe
by the splendor of the deed in the eye
of the world, or by the self-compls
cency that we experience from the pei
formance of an uncommon action. Lii
tie things are unforeseen; they retur
every moment they come in conta,
with our pride, our incidence, OF
haughtiness, our readiness to take o
fense they contradict our inclination
perpetually. 1t is, however, even l
fidelity in little things that a trne an
constant love to God can be di
tinguished from passing fervor
spirit. -
How TO DEAL WITH DoUi Be new
afraid of doubt. We are X the fC
eternal of wrong, and there is no WI
for us 20 get clear but TO prove q
things and hold fast Make free use
the intelligence God has given 20
only taking care to use it In conscious
supreme allegience to right and to Go
Your questions then will only be yor
helpers, and the faster they come q
better will be your progress in Il
truth. Never settle upon anything
true because it is safer to hold it th
not. To accept the Bible only becau
t it is safest, as some persons do, Al
: as some ministers very lightly preac
/ is to do the greatest dishonor both to
!, and TO the soul. Such faith is coward
and is even lie besides. 1t is basins
!. religion, not in truth, but in the d.
S trine of chances, and reducing the $
d vation of God to bill of insurance.
y the Bible is true, believe it, but do ]
II mock it by assuming for creed
n mere chance that it may be. For
K same reason take religion, not beca'
r. it will be good for your family, or &c
n for the state, but because it is the ho
l. age due inherently from man 20 G.
a andthe kingdom of God. Have it a
law, never to put force on the mind
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