Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-01-15
Religious Intelligence.

Time is short, and if your cross be
heavy remember you have not far to
carry it.
Twenty-three thousand three hum
dred and eighty-four Jews reside in
Paris, and about 40, 600 Protestants.
The sun is MOI more obviously the
source of light than the Bible is the
source OF divine knowledge.-Hodge.
God made man to go by motives, and
he will not go without them any more
than poat without steam, or balloon
without gas. .-Beecher.
The Jel0ish Messenger is startled at the
announcement of one Emanuel Moses
Schlamobitz, who proposes to convert
all the Jews to Roman Catholicism.
Dean Stanley does not believe in
apostolic succession. In sermon re-
Gently preached by him in Edinburgh,
he showed that as matter of history
there are no successors to the apostles.
These died and appointed no one in
their stead.
1 can show more than one tongue
tied church members Whuse life is a
power in the community. He can
open his purse for the Lord easier than
he can open his mouth he can glorify
his his master by bearing much fruit in
godly living. But in public meetings
"his strength is to sit STILL"
Did any of our readers, asks the In
terror, eyer know Of a congregation
no went heavily in debt for a new
church, and who did not soon thereaf-
ter snub and ship their pastor? The
church debt makes people cross, ILL
natured, critical, and the minister is
the most natural object in the world at
which to shoot splenetic arrows.
"Come, mother, give me some medi-
cine" said an ailing boy; 81 don't
want to die yet, for I've no acquaintance
in heaven" "Why, yes, my boy.v
said his mother, "there's your dear old
grandfather, and little LaIny, the gard
ner's daughter, and Harry Stone, too,
died only last week" "Well," said
the little fellow, " Harry and always
did quarrel, and the gardner's girl
speaks nothing but Dutch, and / have
grown so since grandpa died he would
not know me when / got tbere!"
1t is terrible when man feels Gods
purposes will be fulfilled, and there
fore he has nothing to do with it. No
fatalist believes i'm the fixity and GER
tainly of the fulfillment of Gods de-
crees more firmly than / do; but when
he enters that therefore he need do
nothing towards the conversion of
men, think him a fool, because he
might as logically draw an inference
against eating, drinking, breathing,
working. There is never a man that
abstains from spiritual action on that
account but knows that he is an idiot
while he Is doing it, and not reasoning
according to common sense Spur
geon. -s-1- f-,
The sexton of New York church
having to be away from his duties one
day, got substitute, who was not ac-
quainted with the congregation, and
became much excited when he saw an
old man come into one of the pews and
raise peculiar-shaped ear-trumpet to
his face. Springing to his side he said
something in low voice, whereupon
the gentleman endeavored to raise the
trumpet to his ear, but was prevented
by the sexton seizing his hand.a With
increasing voice and excitement he
said /: "You mustn't, sir. You must
MT blow that horn in here. If you do
/ shall be obliged to put you out" And
the good old man, pOcketing his bugle,
heard nothing of service or sermon.
The Working Church says: "Gail
Hamilton has been throwing stones at
the patriarchs again. 1t requires more
than average good judgment to deal
wisely with the faults Of good men,
These are sometimes very grievous, but
the standing ofimperfect saints, ancient
or modern, is not determined by the
number and size of their faults, but by
the victories which, by the grace Of God,
they win over such sins as they preceive
in themselves. He that overcometh'
will get the divine acceptance, whether
he pleases Gail Hamilton or not and
it hardly ssems worth while for her to
abuse Jacob when he has ben in Heaven
four thousand years, and she upon earth
only-well, she writes young.n