Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-11-24
SPECTRA.

Good is a product It is not Gre
atable. It must be the result of puIt
choice, the deposit of a soul. Wher
therefore anyone argues that God canno
be benevolent, and yet allow SO much eH
in the world; or evil at all, pain, misery
disappointment, | answer, the man doe
not understand his own logic. You can
not say that afgood God will not arrange.
scheme that involves temporary disorde.
is that be the only road to any good at al
Chips and litter and confusion are the /
way to completed art.-PoweH.
Wait till God tells you, and stand faith
full at your post.-Epictetus.
Perhaps we should not pray to God ''t r.
keep US steadfast in any faith,' but cor
| ditionally that It be right one."- .Shea
stone.
We call it our duty to leave to
world its gaiety and its thoughtlessne
but too often we leave to it its grace,
gentleness, and courtesy, and self-ccntI
-Hetty Bo7vman.
Truth bears the impress of her own
vinity, and, though reason may not
able to take cognizance of the fact, s.
| may be filling the chambers of tt
tsoul with light and glory that is ne
born of'earth. Duff Porter
What I am to be hereafter I must be be.
coming now. For, day by day, an
growing fxedly into the attitude which
bear my sorrows in, and from under them
my look heavenward, whatever it is, is be-
coming eternal with me.-Monufto1a.
Although reason is right judge, yet i
ought not to pass sentence in an inquiry
of faith till all the information be brought
in; all that is within and all that is with
out; all that is below and all that is above
all that concerns it in experience and al
that concerns it in action; whatsoever
pertinent observation and whatsoever i.
revealed.-1eyemy Taylor.
That hundred men capable of leading
the devotions ola community, and ricl
enough to be their instructors in ethic
and spiritual life, should come togethe7
and make no light and send forth no chez
would create a doubt of the power G
Christianity; but that they should ex
tinguish the little light which they foun.
in the place of their meeting, and leav
behind them an unsavory memory of 70,
malism, GOODNESS, routine or quarrelsome
ness, would be to SANDER the cause whic
they should commend
care we not in danger of exaggeratin
the theological interest attaching to tn
present unknown process by which &c
created the first germ fife? AS a cher
zeal question it may be Of the highest !:
terest, but need itbe SO very interest
theologically: Great ought to be c
compassion for the weak brother who
faith in God would be shaken because
chemist should succeed next year in pl
ducing vital cells out of a hermet cal
sealed vessel containing only ;the ell
ments OF protoplasm." -. Il. Abbott.
SsNe thought the whole world won
see thy glory, that thou shouldst
Caesar and we twelve l.ings amons
whom the kingdom should be divid,
that each of us should haye six discipl
for princes, counts, and nobles" (Tht
would be the seventy-two disciples,
that was the number Thus had t
dear apostles already beautifully parcel
out the land according to Platonic drea
and human reason. But Christ desert
his kingdom far otherwise: "He VI
loveth me and keepeth my word, shall
loved Of my Father; and we will CO
unto him and make our abode with hi
--MdytiM LstAer.