The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-11-29
FOR SUNDAY.


"And he shall sit as rstneT and purifier
! siiUey."
! IT'S sweet to feel that He who tries
The silver, takes his seat
Beside the fire that purifeS,
! Lest too intense a heat,
Raised to consume the base 0loy,
I The precious metal too destoy'
"Tis good tc think how wei he knows
The silvers power to beir
The ordeal to which ii goesi
And that with skill md care,
He'll take il from the nre when NJ
For his own hand topollsh IL.
'Tis bIessedness to tnow that he,
The piece he hak begun
Will not forsake. till ne can see,
To prove the vort Wen uohS,
An image, by its figntness shone'
The perfect imaes OF His own.
Then Great Re,ner, sit thou by,
Thy promisTt to fulfill;
Novsi NV tIy7 hand, beneath thine eye,
And meltn at thy will,
Oh rnay tie work forever shine,
Refiectirs beauty pure as thine.
Did anv5ne ever hear of a person who,
because tiere is counterfeit money in circu-
Iation. ~ould have nothing to do with
money Why then reject Christianity be-
causeihere are bogus Christians in circula-
ton 1t is very strange that so trivial aud
unreasonable an excuse should be so often
offered
Not to suffer our transient moods to par
or dependency; not to cast shadow over
our homes when we do not feel too bright
ourselyes-these are thoughts we ought all to
take to heart. Speak cheerfully, even If
there be no cheerfulness in the spirit The
determination to throw off all outward man.
ifestation of inward struggle and pain is often
a superb tonic. Whatever the burden be, do
not try to bear it alone. Take the sacred
way to the mercy-seat, and cast every sor-
row there.
Nothing hurts man more than to seem
small and ignoble in his own eyes. 1t is the
slavish feeling that degrades the shaved A
base ambition makes the man that cherishes
il base. No one can debase you but your
self. SANDER, satire, falsehood, injustice
these can never rob you of your manhood.
Men may lie about you; they NAV denounce
you, they may cherish suspicious manifold
they may make your failings the target
of their wit or cruelty; never be
alarmed; never swerve an inch from
the line your judgment and conscience
have marked out for you. They can not by
all their efforts take away your knowledge
of yourself, the purity of your motives, the
integrity of your character, and the gener
osity of your nature. While these are left
YOU are, in point OF fact unframed
Nothing outside yourself can ever make you
smaller tnan you are to-day. If you shall
dwindle; if leanness and inability shall come
to any faculty; if you shall lose what makes
you an ornament to that rank and order o
intelligence to which you were born-th'
loss will be self-indicted one. Self-degra
dalton is the only degradation man car
know.
There is no sorrow that is peculiar to any
human being. In the myriad experience.
of the human family the same scenes o
trial, temptation and affection are re
enacted from year to year. The unnum
ibered human hearts, framed and formed
in all their deepest sympathies by ONT
creative hand, have in them lines and char
| acter'stics of likeness; and the joy
and sorrows of any heart may tinC
their counterpart in hundreds of thou
sands of Others. There hath no temptation
taken you but such as is common to man.
| Reproach, betrayal, bereavement, affection
| desolation, the breaking of tender ties, anC
| the sundering of loving hearts-all these arr
| but the common sorrows of world that j
| filed with pain, and signing, and tears
/ However much we may deem our own con
dition exceptional and peculiar, or howeve
strange our Affections may seem to be, wheI
| compared with what has occurred in our owl
narrow circle of observation, yet those SAM
experiences taken up into..the broader circle
4 that opens before the Divine mind may b
| doubtless paralleled in every point by TIN
experiences of others around us. But
| there were a sorrow or a trial which mortal
had never known, yet there is this consola
tion-our Master, our Leader, our Helper
was touched with the feeling oil our infirm
tiles" and was tempted in all points lik
as we are, yet without sim" He has passed
through this weary pathway, and Hi
footprints, marked with blood ar
everywhere before us. We may come t
Him with tender and confiding love. an
tell to Him the story of our grief withou
hesitation and without reserve. He know
eth the way we take; He watches us throug
every fiery trial. He sits as refiner OF 81
ver carefully watching that which is S
precious tn Him, until He shall see His ow
image reflected in the motion mass. Ma
God grant us grace to bear our peculis
trials, and to overcome in the conflicts tina
are appointed to us; that at last, having SUI
fered with Christ, we may reign with hii
| in ,,aacc and inu and hlassndnacs fnrnun.