Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-08-31
SU.VD.9Y RE.4DEyG.

SUNDAY RE.4DttG.
FoR CONsIDERATION.-It would be
well Tor the disciples of doubt and un-
belief, in our day, to consider what
would be gained by the rejection OF
Christianity and the adoption of the
negative creed of the scientists and the
philosophers. 1t is pertinent to ask
before hand what we shall iOse, and
what we shall have left in this fancied
slysium of unbelief-s world without
u God, nature -without-a teacher, man
without Saviour, sin without atone
ment, and death without immortality.
Some of these things they can obiiter-
ate from their creeds, and from the
minds of men. But Others there are
which will not vanish at their bidding.
The world is still here. human ma.
ture is here. Sin is here. Suffering
and sorrow, disease and death are here,
fixed and irrevocable. Faith in Chris
tianity gone, the hope o. heaven gone,
the light of immortality gone, the
peace of God and consultations of the
cross all gone, and in their place athe-
ism, mateTialism, fatalism, sensuality,
|selfishness, annihilation and despair
holding universal jubilee.s What wo'd'
the world be, and what would human
life be worth? What would it be but
to anticipate before the time the doom
of world that had forever perished?
Yet this is the goal, the ultimate and
only goal, to which the almost idolized
leaders of modern scientific free thought
would bring US in their attempt to sub
vert the fundamental facts of Christi
anity.-Herald and Presbyter.
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The PROVINCE OF FAITH.-The on
iy antidOte that has ever been found
for skeptical plind ia faith. 1t is not
science. 1t is not argument. 1t is not
any process of reasoning but the simple
faith of childhood. 'Ye believe in
God. believe also in me- This is the
requirement OF the great Teacher. Let
us not deny or conceal, or any way
modify this essential truth, that in
things pertaining to God and eternal
life man must live by faith if he lives
at all. Faith is essential to the soul and
nothing on earth can supply its place.
The faith of childhood is not more IND
portant to the child, than the faith OF
manhood is to man, in all its inter-
course with God. Not by reasoning,
but by believing is he born again. Not
by reasoning, but by believing does he
enter into the kingdom Of God. Here
is the precise province of faith, where
sight and sense and science fail. And
this faith is as essential to the man OF
science, with all his gifts of intellect
and knowledge, as it is to the little
child. 1.-The can't believe, then he can
not be saved. Hence, the greater need
for him to pray: Lord, increase our
faith Lord, help thou our unbelief.'
There is but one law for all who would
enter this kingdom. Except ye be
converted, and become as this little
child, We shall in no case enter the
kingdom of heaven Faith is the cure,
the only cure of the great Physician.
| All others fail. All others leave the
soul in sin and. arkness.-Exchange.
READING THE BIBLE.-Read your
Bible Slowly. Take time, even if you
have but little time. A great mathe-
tician once said, if his life depended
upon solving problem in two min
utef, he would spend one OF the two in
deciding how to do it. So in reading the
Scriptures; if you are pressed for time,
land this ought to be rare case), then
lspend the precious moments on por-
ton of chapter. When you feel that
the mind and heart begin to drink in
the sentiment, even of single verse,
then stop and drain the heavenly chal-
ice, because the Divine Spirit is filling
the cup. 1t is true, solemn and inter-
esting thought, that we are to wait, to
llinger, to tarry for the blessing to come
from the word before US.
To search the Scriptures with clear,
unmoted eye sof meditation secures
treasures of knowledge known only to
him who thus coolly ,piously, and phil
losophically studies the Word of God.
Let any man give us the reason why,
when the Scriptures are read so much,
memory retains so little, the quota
tions are so laundering and incorrect,
1if the reason is not found in the fact Of
hasty reading of the Word OF God.
There, as elsewhere, man must reap
as he sOws.
RECEIPT FOR SERMONs.-The follow
ing was found among some old family
papers, written, it is believed, by Dr.
Salter, master of the Char-erhouse,
I761-1777: "A Receipt how to compose
a Sermon:-Take some scraps out of the
best books you have; weigh them, and
sift them thoroughly; then divide
them into three parts, for dividing
them into more is generally thought to
lcrumble too much; work these well,
land handle them neatly, but neither
mince nor chop them. Season the
whole well with due proportion of
salt; put in nothing that Is too hard or
difficult to digest, but let all be clear
and candid; it should have some fire,
for that will raise it, and prevent its
being heavy; you may garnish it with
a few flowers, bat not so thick as to
hide the substance; take care that it's
not overdone, for, as it Is the last thing
served up if it's not inviting, some of
the company may not not taste of it;
in hard frost or extreme cold wealth
er, it should be done in twenty min
utes; in more temperate, it may take
half an hour; if it's done in quarter
of an hour it's fit for king"
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THE DEGRADATION OF DRINK
Among the ill effects of drinking hab-
Its, none is worse than that upon the
victims own soul. IntoXication, how.
ever slight, blunts the finer sensibili-
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