The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-03-14

and it is derived from the feeling of
self-esteem, on which pride is based.
And vet, the Scripture represents pride
as odious, and condemns it severely. 1t
is condemnable-one kind of pride. I
What is that kind of pride which is to /
be condemned? It is that which leads |
a man to think he is too good for any |
other use than that which pertains to his /
own comfort and satisfaction. You
think you are not proud, because you
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 p
You may be just as proud as he, and
yet you may be slouching and income
ly in your gait Humility does not de
pend upon the way IN which a man car
ries his body it depends upon what
his life is upon what he means to do
with it F.; upon where he puts its, and
and where be 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. 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, sell, you
are proud. I do not care anything
about W hat your exterior is if you are
humble, it is because you consecrate the
powers of your life in the good of 9th
Eers. 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 ". Beecher.
THE TRUEsT WORSHIP IS 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 viii to do and bear :;
{ this is the highest and most acceptable
homage-yea, the truest and noblest
, 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 insiniicant work become
dignifed, exalted, transfgured, as it
were For no work is really insignii-
cant, and no duty mean or small, which
) helps to recreate US in the Divine like
: ness. Let no one understand me as dis
, eouraging or dissuading from oral
! prayer, or of undertaking. its impor-
/ lance as a 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
S prayer. believe Of it be sincerely ut
t tered it opens the soul to heavenly in
! fuences brings US into holier COM
S munings draws us nearer to God and
: the angels shields us with a stronger
$ though invisible panoply: girds us
5 with new strength for the duties and
: burdens and trials of life. Neverthe-
| less, hold that this, and all mere for
l NAL worship, is only a means to that
: higher and nobler kind of worship TO
2 which our Lord referred in His CONVEX
5 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
2 honor the Master, is to keep His COM
2 mandments that no worship is so ac-
= ceptable to Him, because none is so
S profitable to ourselves, as that Of an
/ earnest. righteous and useful life-B.
3 F. Barrett.
S SABBATH Day SUGGESTIONS. know
that nothing comes to pass but what
God appoints; our fate is decrsed, and
e things do not happen by chance, but
every mans portion of Joy and sorrow
= is predetermined
, 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
, the eternal soIati0ns.-CeZiu Bur
leigh.
I think the first virtue is to restrain
the tongue he approaches nearest to
the gods who knows how to be silent
l. even though he is in the right. Cato.
No mans spirits were ever hurt by
4 doing his duty; on the contrary, one
q good action, one temptation resisted
and overcome, one sacrifice of desire OF
. interest purely for conscience's sake,
/ will prove a cordial for weak low spirits
G far beyond what either indulgence OF
d diversion, or company can do for them.
e -PGJey.
e When we pray for any virtue, we
y should cultivate the virtue as we'll a:
r. pray for it the form of your prayers
N should be the rule of your life; every
d petition to God is a precept to man
<, Look not, there, upon your prayers as
ID short method of duty and salvation only
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