Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1876-09-21

anu SpreduS It's DIducfltc Wtu0 dIOuu'
it, and produces, year after year, ii
stores of leaves and flowers and fruits
you might as we'll imagine it to be tn
fashioning of mans hands, an ingeni
Gus device of his, which he feeds ant
nourishes, as to suppose the same o
the system of Christianity, which a
you have seen entwines its roots thro
all the shadowy institutions of the ell
der dispensation, and, standing tall anC
erect in the midst of the new, defie
the whirlwind and the lightning, the
drought aad the scorching sun, and
like. the prophets vine, speading iti
branches to the uppermost parts of the
earth, and gathering all mankind un
derneath its shade, and feeding them
with the sweetest fruits of holiness.
PLEASE TO BE PERSUADED.-He
comes to the church. But he talks c,
taking his certificate TO DR.. IS
church at the next communion. Elder
So-and So must go and spend a social
evening with him, and persuade him
out of leaving the church which he has
promised to stand by. He has pew.
But he has given notice that if any
one inquiries for pews the committee
can rent his. Could not Deacon Thus
and-So stop in at his Office, and have
a friendly talk with him, and let him
know that we hope he will always feel
at home and keep his accustomed
place. He comes in the morning when
'dOctrinaP sermon is preached, and
tells neigbor This, that he for his Part
would like to have some practical SER
mons. Now perhaps Miss That will
drop in and speak casually of the
course of Sunday evening lectures on
the svlces and virtues of every day.
Then work presses, and he is too tired
in the morning and comes in the eve
ming when the ten commandments are
discussed, and wishes he Lad more
gospel preaching. Legalism is Jewish.
Mrs. The Other hears of the diSSatisflc-
tion and stops to tell of the minister's
talk on the Gospel History every Fri
day evening. He gave twenty-five
cents for missions, and wishes that
ministers would not be forever beg
ging. He is approached for the Cen
tennial fund, and declares his opinion
that the gospel ought TO be free. He
hears that Mtssrs. This, That, and The
Other, have given a thousand dollars
apiece, and says the eficiousness and
vanity of some people is astounding.
He was sick, and the minister neglect
ed him simply because he refused to-
have the minister informed, and be-
cause by law of nature does any sick
ness inside of the house change the
color OF the bricks outside, so that the
domino may see and run and comfort
n NJ nf
complaint is modified with ointment of
gracious words it breaks out in a new
spot. When one attack of feverisness
is ponlticed and the inflam nation has
subsided here, 10 the rising there!
Where is the perSuation Committee?
What shall be done? Is anything
worth doing? How raany ounces of
worry and yards of tact is fair barter
for such an one? 1t is hard to let men
go. Is is not harder sometimes to have
them stay?-Christian Intelligencer.
Two KINDS OF SIN. There are sins
of the perception that you cannot rid
yourself of by one stroke. They are
like poison mixed in the atmosphere. |
You cannot take cubic foot out of the
and purify it, and thu |
make the rest wholesome and fresh,
for the poison is in thousand other
feet. So there are sins of thought and
feeling, bigotry and misapprehensions,
that spring from this or that relating
to the mental faculties, and you cannot
get rid of them save by growth. You
must get rid of them just as trees, the
pines for instance, get rid of their gum
my excrescenceS. 1t takes five years
for a tree TO get rid of its knot either by
binding it or sloughing it off, and then
it is rid of it. 1t takes five years for Il
man to outgrow the sins of ignorance.
How many things we did back there,
that we would not do to-day? 1t takes
ten years for q man to outgrow his big
some men TO outgrow their bigoiry, 50
slowly do they grow in these things.
There is law OF growth in moral
things, and there is no sense in min.
lister or anybody else exherting men to
be SO and SO, to do this and that thing,
whicn it can only be done by the long
process of many lsbors, and much exer-
Else and prolonged experiences.
But there are sins that do not inhere
in intellect, and are not driven out of
rs by any growth of the intellect, or of
The mind, or of the heart. There are
sins that come to man as viper
comes into his room. They coil them
selves in front of enc, and they lift their
heads deffantly, and make ready for
their spring; and they must be killed,
if they are killed at all, by a blow, by a
stroke. There are sins that creep into
a man as Indians used to creep into
tents, till mans whole being is pos.
with the evil he did not
know was getting into him. One can
not rid himself of such sins slowly.
They must be driven out of us by
and a determination that
summons ali the resolution a person
AN command. They have to be thrust
,ut of one as a thief is thrust out from
your chamber window when you have
he advantage and are ready to pitch
him. Let US remember, then, that
here are some things that we cannot .
,e delivered from gradually. If we
ind that we ere getting into any hab-
is that begin to possess us-like the
owe of liquor, or any of those thingsl
which take hold of the f1eshlyl
md lower side of our nature, let usl
axe the evil one by the throat, set our ,
ingers and press them close till The
yes protrude from its head, and the !
wicked life goes out of it. Stranguia-
ion is the DEVILS worst foe; we should
hoose the way to get him the most at
disadvantage; aud as the Thugs KILL
d from conscientious motives, so we
90 can kill him from conscientious l
motives. Indeed, conscience is the .
evils hangman and was foreordained E
{ God to be. 1t is the one power that 0
be internal world fears. "Resist thei
evil and he will fee from you."-l'
olden Rule. o.