The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-10-26
Jewels Of Thought and Devotion.

When the end comes, and we must say good-by,
And ann going to the quiet land
And sitting in some loved place hand in hand,
For the last time together you and l.,
We watch the winds blow and the sunlight lie
Above the spaces of our garden home,
SOFT BY the washing OF the western foam,
Where we have lived and loved in days past by:
We must not weep, my darling, or upbraid
Inc quiet death who comes to part US twain;
Bul know that parting would not be such pain
Had not our love perfect flower been made
And we shall find it in Gods garden laid
On that sweet day wherein we meet again
Little drops of rain brighten the meadows.
and little acs OF kindness brighten the world.
The very hope of Heaven under troubles is
like he winds and sails to the soul.
BE true be true. be true. Show freely to
the world. If not Your worst. Yet some trait
whereby III" worst may be inferred. Haw-
thornc.
Mean spirits under disappointment. like
small beer in Il thunder storm, always turns
sour. Randolph.
Every spirit builds itself house; and be-
Nond it, house world: and beyond lis world
heaven.
We think too much upon what the gods have
given Us, and too little why. walter Savage
Lander.
He is richest who is content with the least ;
lhNNif''N
The devil tcmptS Us not. It's we tempt him,
Reckoning his skill with opportunities. Felix
Holt.
Poverty i the griinme>t foe the world holds
ii serpent that STILES talent ere talent can
rise, that blasts genius ere genius can be
heard, that ~oWs hot hate by cold heart, and
turnS the germ of good into the giant of evil.
Ouda.
The Divine Spirit is like the mothers heart.
1t is universal and infinite. 1t is the mother
soul OF the universe, with infinite power, and
sweetness, and beauty, and glory, shining
down upon all men, good and bad. high and
low, ignorant and educated, and stimulating
them To be better, TO be nobler. to be higher
and what time any man accepts the influence
of the Divine Spirit, and co-operates with it.
that moment the work is done by the stimulus
of God acting with the practical energy and
viii of the human soul. Beecher.
lou never could drive me into the kingdom
of God by fear; and you never could keep me
ont OF it il YOU brought before me the view of
Christ which makes him sweet and lovely.
could be drawn, but | could not be driven.
There are persons who need to have coarser
experience of violent feeling. long continued.
before they can be converted. There are per-
sons who can be converted only after profound
convictions of sin, and oit-repeated struggles
against them, Such conversions are ignoble
Not only are they not typical of the best form,
but they are typical of a mean form. They are
genuine; but they are genuine on a lower plane
than they ought to be. Beecher
JOY Is prize unbousht. and is treeSt, purest
in its flow when it comes unsou@ht. No getting
into heaven rs place will compass ii. Iou
must carry it with you, else il is not there.
You must have it in you rs the music of ii
Well-ordered soul, the fire OF Il holy purpose.
the yelling up, out of the central depths, OF
eternal springs that hide their waters there.
Horace Bushnell.
y celebrated clergyman said 1t j, not the
work | do that wears on me, it is the work |
can't do, and don't do, that kills me- And we
venture now to say that this draft on sympathy
and heart power which the modern researches
of beneyolence lay On ministers in large centres
j. more wearing than all their definite work.
What they see, and cannot do that is what
draws on their very life. Beecher
1t takes long while TO teach men that they
must return to the good Old way of making
money and their living. For some years moth
ing was so popular as speculation. If men had
only ten dollars they could not torbear to i'll
vest it in some of the eXaggeratng, speculative
enterprises of the day. and whether they lost
or won the influence was the same. They had
tasted of the way. and they would taste more.
Judgment. prudence, caution and honesty Suf-
1ercd feartully as a consequence, but it viii re
quire a long education and severe training to
yet the passion killed and the taste turned the
other way. When we are ready to come back
10 the belief that money ought 10 be earned be-
fore il is owned, and that the slow processes of
legitimate trade are surer and safer than the
ht>iy efforts of commercial gambling, then,
and not till then, will there be real enterprise
IN business. and Il true revival OF trade [ nit
ed PRESBYTERIAN.