Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-11-17

known. You need not make dress-parade
in conference or church meeting, or at
the coruess Of the street. When you con.
fess, confess real sins, mot fictitious ones;
sins you committed yourself, and not those
of your remote ancestors. And let the
practical part of it always be, going back
to the wrong spots, aud doing right, maxi
ing restitution.
What is charity7 1t is not a broad talk
about liberality, and then being the sting
lest peddler of the ware in all the world.
Ask the Thirteenth Chapter of Corinthians,
what charity isl There is charity Of the
heart, charity of the BRAIN. charity of the
tongue; thinking no evil, doing no evil,
speaking no evil; living blessedness COW
ering all life What is salvation? Saliva
| ton. says one, why, it is success in diplom-
acy at the high court; it is the working OF
the strategy that has outwitted the counter
strategy, by which the culpri, is allowed to
go out of court and take care of himself
|
doing of whatsoever thou doe-t W tn the
heart, not hypocritically; with the heart as
unto God for the highest reason. Ask
Jesus about the right hand or the left hand,
and the ground on which he assigned the
goatfod, and the ground on which He as
signed the sheepfold, if you want to know
what the basis of salvation is with Him
! It is life, live as lie lived; an estate
wrought out, as He and His disciples COM
| manded it to be wrought out. If you
want 10 know what salvation is turn to
Paul's declaration Of it, where he speaks of
the fruit of the spirit. Don't ask for any
better salvation than that; just run over
that catalogue of fruitage. If you want to
know what salvation is, just look into
James know he was a moraIlst but one
with whom morality was at no discount Go
and ask the Apostle Peter what salvation is
He says, if you want to make your glorv
and election sure, which means choice.
that is, it is a grand thing to be-
lieve in election, the meaning of the word
if you want to make that sure, do these
things which il ye do, We shall never fail
/ What are these things Add to your
faith virtue. to virtue knowledge, to knowl-
edge temperance, to temperance patience to
patience Godliness-of character, of course
Ito Goodness, hrotterly kindness. and to
brotherly kindness, charity Beautiful
catalogue; how finely the climax comes. 1t
is not my climax; if there is any inspira-
| ton in the New Testament, it is climax Of
Inspiration.
| So much for the Biblical view of saliva
ton. l know that is not easy, as men
count easiness. 1t means work. it means
business; that word which rings so musical
ly in your ears. 1t has money in it, too;
you will lay up the treasure you hope for in
that kind OF business, if you are deigent
aud fervent in the spirit Of it. 1t is not so
easy to do that, as it is to get another to do
it for you That is what the boy sais in
college, when he got his classmate to learn
his lesson for him, but it was mighty hard
with him in the world after he got out.
For his friend was not always by his side,
and substituted figuring made but poor
| figuring in real life. You want to appear
in no borrowed colors; you must be glow
ing with the power that can color you from
its own hues and glories. You don't want
to be called what you are not. But it takes
work to be real always, to put off all shams.
Noble men hate them; they desplse NUM-
| fcence sometimes, hen it is an mpeach
ment upon their worth, their valor, their
self prospect. @ o 81
| Christianity is no premium upon idle
ness. it is a premium upon work All life
is hard that is worth anything. He is
| good for nothing who cannot endure hard
ness; who sinks at the first tread, who
wits at the first glance of temptation
Sometimes men long to get back into the
old paradise, where we suppose the world
began. But what is that good for7 Do you
suppose the whole toll and stress and heart
ache and brain-acbe of the Infinite are on
! ly to get US back there, where character, or
the lack of it, withered down and melted
away at the first passing breeze that tested
| it.
| What is life made OF? It is made Of
what you think, what you speak, what you
do; of whatsoever things you do always
| and everywhere. Do then all as unto the
Lord. But that does not require you to
leaTe the shop, the farm. the counting room,
your industry in any form. Are you
toiler in mind? Think from the highest
motive, put forth brain, heart aud tongue,
as unto the Lord say for the highest
| reason, unto the ultimate sanction Of all
action. Then We are creatures of law and
God, making the whole world we live in all
alive by the supernal light and glory. Till