The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-02-19

all right her laces futtsred, her cal
rings swung like pendulums, her jugula
| vein and others introduced themselve
to the crowd, her eyes bunged out lik
inverted China bowls, and oh, my! how
VIC perspired with sympathy! and w
felt as rested when she slid safely dowr
and out of that upper register and let he
heels touch the roses on the carpet once
more, as we did when our youngest eo
down from the topmost beam of the
barn in reach of a gooscberry switch.
She seemed discouraged, but she
climbed up once more and jumped off
poor thing, and I judge from appear
ances she had to give up the "be-yu.
tiful bode" at last. They called her out
but she bowed, heart-broken.. like, and
went away backwards.
"NETER MN SPAKE LIKE THIS MINI
Never was truth made 50 vital as when
il fell from the lips of Jesus. II was no
novelty in Jesus To call God Father.
Tho word had been used before often
enough. But the world, by al its wis
dom, had not learned to know God as its
Father. Now, little children, by the side
of their small cribs, say in infantile trust:
"Our Father, who art in heaven" and
the martyr at the stake cries out in as
sured faith Father, into Thy hands 1
commend my spirit" Jesus, because He
was vitality conscious of the Fathers
love, has made mankind also conscious of
it. "To them who believe in Him, to
them gave He power to become the sons
of Gsd." 1t was no novelty when Jesus
taught men TO overcome evil with good,
to bless those who cursed them, help
those who prosecuted them, love those
who hated them. The thing had been
said before but now it was done. Now
it was said and done so livingly that it
was not mere far-off ideal but a COM
fact, an actual event in human
life, a safe rule to go by. To tell of a
future life was no novelty. The Egyp-
tians taught a future life in all it's min
utest detaih. Nearly every ancient ma
ton believed in immortality. And yet
it is true that life and immortality
were brought to light by the Gospel"
Before they were vague possibilities,
dim conjectures. But he who believes
in Jesus has eternal life abiding in him.
Faith in Immortality becomes part of
the texture of his soul as it was part
of the texture of the soul of Jesus him.
self. He was the Immortality, the resur-
rection, the eternal life. He did not
prove it by elaborate but unconvincing
as Socrates in the PhedO
nobly argued for it, expectant of death,
amid the laurels and myrtles of an Athe-
MAN summer day. But Jesus was full
of that immortal life which dispels all
images of decay, and puts death at an
impossible distance. These vital truths
arc the deepest, and also the highest.
They have a character of the infinite
about them. Who has not noticed this
in reading the words of Jesus? No com
ever exhausts their meaning.
The words grow more luminous, their
meaning decpens while I am thinking
about them. That is why Paul speaks
of the breadth and length and depth and
height of the love of Christ, the knowl-
edge of which "passeth knowledge"
That whichsis vital is inexhaustible. We
eat and drink and come again, and the
banquet is still spread, new, every morn
ing, with daily bread for the SOUL
James Freeman Clarke.