The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-12-20
FOR SUNDAY.


The look of sympathy, the gentle word
spoken so low that only angels heard;
the secret act of pure Self-sacriice,
Unseen by men but marked by angels eyes:
These are not lost.
The happy dreams that gladden. all our youth,
When dreams had less of self and more of
The ehildIike faith, so TRANQUIL and so sweet,
Which sat like Mary at the Masters feet:
These are not lost
The kindly plans devised for Others good,
So seldom guessed, so little understood;
The quiet, steadfast love that strove to win
Some wanderer from the woeful way of sin:
These are not lost.
Not lost, o Lord, for in Thy city bright,
Our eyes shall see the past by clearer light,
And things long hidden from our gaze below,
Thou wilt reveal, and We shall surely know
They were not LOST.
New York Daily Witness.
Rowland Hill was once requested to preach
a sermon to the elect. He promptly replied,
Have the goodness to mark the elect with a
piece of chalk, 50 that L may know them,
and will preach to them" The request
was not insisted on.
1t is folly to pretend that one ever wholly
RECEIVERS from disappointed passion. Such
wounds always leave a scar. There are faces
| can never look upon without emotion;
there are names / can never hear spoken
without almost neutrality-suspicious..
DR.. Cuyler writes to the COngregatiOnalist
TO propose ''that no church building should
ever be undertaken until the whole sum re-
quired to complete it is subscribed. If the
building is to be only partly constructed, let
the sum required for that part be guaran-
teed " He also protests that it is not to be
regarded ''as the province or the duty OF
Christian churches to engineer and tow
along quite ali the benevolent and philan-
thrOpic enterprises in the community. Pas
l.. III -.
time, thought and money of the church de-
nanded for them. There is terrible dan
ger that the church militant will soon be-
come the church mendicant.'
The Golden Rule says: "Men are not
monsters; earth is not hell, and the full
manifestation of the logical and ultimate
results of sin upon character is not beheld
here. The human soul is like an instru-
ment of music tangled and out of tune. 1t
needs returning; it needs the Masters hand
and the Masters touch. The strings are not
torn from the frame; the keys are not dis
placed; they are not loosened; the discord
comes from their temporary condition. A
fall, jar, wrench has wrought confusion.
Set them in order; bring them up to the
line of the correct note; then sweep them,
and what melody, what power, what liquid
sweetness OF sound will come out of them.
The celebrated painter, Benjamin Robert
nay non, gave the IOllOWlOR dO1nlraDle al
vice to his son at a very critical time of life:
You are quite right to read history; make
yourself master of the history of Greece and
Rome. The English people are in many re-
spects not unlike the Athenians without
their art, and like the Romans without their
prohigacy. Read your Bible daily. There is
no more interesting book in the world
md it Is becoming more necessary to
-ead and study il, because already
perceive a tendency among our scientific |
men, in all their pride of knowledge and !
What they call discovery, TO set the Bible |
side as an oriental legend. Do not believe |
hem. The Mosaic account of the creation |
5 the most simple and the most natural, |
md will be found, you may rely on it, con-
irmed by science when science has got /
lown TO real facts. Generalization, founded |
IN our present knowledge of the laws of ma
ure, is the very thing which our present &C
uaintance with those laws does not justify
am convinced that 10 thoroughly estab
ished and settled theory will be found to
the truths revealed in the Bible.
hut you are too young yet for me TO enter
lrther on the subject. / only tell you of Il
D put you on your guard. You will find
aany men, old and grown up men, who will
lugh OF the Bible Don't believe them.
are all very well; but the differ
ntisl calculus, my dear boy, can never prove
r disproye the existence of God. Read
our Bible, do your. duty and leave the rest
, God.