Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-08-23

Rev. C.. P. Lyford, of the Rocky
Mountain Conference. has been visiting
Boston to obtain loan to finish the
Methodist Church in Salt Lake City. u
Rev. Mr.. Peterson, Norwegian, and
formerly Catholic priest, has united
with the Episcopal Church, and will
Dor as a missionary among his country
men.
The Bactists in Philadelphia began
the century with two Churches and 242
members; now there are forty-nine
churches, twelve missions and $1,000
members. i.
The Baptist Church is the strongest
| Protestant religious organization. in
Kentucky. There are 50 Associations,
| 200 Churches, 700 ministers, and co.
900 white and 30, 900 colored communi-
cants; with two partially endowed col
leges and a number of female semina-
| ries.
Do not think of one falsity as harm
less, and another as slight, and another
as unintended. Cast them all aside !;
they may be, light aad accidental ebat
they are ugly scot from the Smoke of
the pit for all that, and it is better that
our hearts should be swept clean of
them, without one care as to which is
the largest or blackest.-Ruskin.
In contemplation of the vastness of
God we are lost, as a trembling bubble
on the ocean is absorbed by its might
ness. The wonderful ainuteness of
God, circles within circle, circlets
within circlet, points within point,
would circumvolve US forever. Where
then is clew to God, So :sawfully vast
and infinitely minute 20 clew at which
we may grasp, on which we may hold
all through this immensity of the uni
verse, this labyrinth of the creation
Blessed be God! there is clew; and he
who takes it shall not be lost nor dizzy
This clew is simple trust; is made from
our own hearts with love the sweetest
and held by God as a guide Of love thu
strongest.
, Fear not, thou that longest to be al
home. A few steps more and thou AR
! there Death to Gods people is hut {
ferry-boat. Every day and every hour
the boat pushes off with some of the
: saints, and returns for more. Soon, c
believer, it will be said to thee, as il
waste her in the gospel, ;."The Master i
come, and calleth for Jheei" When yOt
reach the boundary of your race below
and stand Oh tile verge of heaven an(
z the confines OF Immortality, then there
will he nothing but the short valley o.
, death between you and ehe pronisel
land the labOrs of your pilgrimage will
have nothing to do but to entreat God a
: Moses did-"I pray Thee, let me go over
t and see the good land that is beyond
l Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Leb
. anon" s5 s- !. l.
Some time since, I wished to enter
strange church with a minister, littl
. before the time for service. We pro
cured key, but tried in vain to unlocl
the outside door with it. We concluded
we had the wrong key, and sent to tn
janitor for the. right one, But he cam
and told us that the door was alread,
unlocked. All We had to do was t
push, and the door. would open. w
thought ourselves locked out, wheI
thore was nothing to hinder us from ell
tering. In the same way we fail to en-
ter into love and fellowship with God
The door, we think, is locked agains
us. We try to fit some key of extraor
binary faith to open it. We try to ge
our minds wrought up to some higl
pitch of feeling. We say, 81 have tn
3 | wrong key; L must feel more sorry;
must weep more.'' And all the tim
the door is ready to open, five but com
boldly, with humble earnestuess, to th
throne of grace. We may enter freely
at once, without having to unlock. tn
door. Christ is the Door, and His Hear
is not shut against us. We must ente
without stopping. to. fit -, our key q
studied faith, for His mercy is nc
locked up. We, must enter boldly
trustingly, not doubling His readines
to receive us, '.just as we are," He
willing already, and We must not sto
to make Him willing by our prayers O
tears.-S. 8. Gem.