The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-04-27
Levels Of Thought and Devotion

1cWGiS vi ilUuyl:t diiu UeEUliUit.
Better to hope, though clouds hang low,
And 10 keep the eyes still lifted,
For the deep blue sky will soon peep through,
When the ominous clouds are lifted.
There was never night without day,
Nor an evening without morning;
-tad the darkest hour, the proVerb 90es,
i the hour before the daWning
GHE CHRISTIANS FAITH. Those who stand
out>lle of Christianity and wish to remove ii
- aI circumference from the earth must do
something vastly more than show that its pre-
yu5ng opinions are false. They must, like
Jesus aud Paul and John, set mighty moral
movement going. They must organize grand
CT life thau what Is IN Christianity, and produce
Uart glowing fruit. The very moment that a
Ilrrgl movement flows on aud surges to some
IUln- more divine and beautiful than that which
Christianity now oilers to our toiling humanity,
mat very moment will Christianity be remoY-
r3; hut not until then. II must be put aside
X ii >uhlimer enthusiasm, not by superior in
i,ll"ctual correctness. Paul and John might
have argued forever about the talsities and
rru3lies of the ancient religions, and they
would not have subyerted them. But they
ci,uc with glorious message out of their own
t"1Tt~ lite. and organized it into practical ac-
t,Viiirs, and set men TO living it, and 50 they
'rlumphed and put new glory into history.
Prove HAT The creed Of Christianity is false,
aHj you but touch its skim the heart is still
heHIng. and life flames upon its brow. Give
tlc world Il gia Gder soul, working into nobler
every day activities, and it Will gladly welcome
the dj>riacng poWer. But give the world only
Ilt.i more .,,.t inn, tI,a iii st.t4,nants md
N., A. NM NOR lj,,llt into thinos Inf LindIe
uu VHrnih. no glory in human hearts, and we
INty be ,erc thai the world will still cling to
I4e >un-bljght. familiar way along which so
t'in,ljin@, .,,len,Iors f4shaI Thiy universe j.
--t o. f,i.noln ,,-hosn b,ra nnalitias mo to ha
t.t,i,.I. Il i .. soul intn which we n,,st
.tp CHRISTIANITY welcome. and assi,niiates
ra,y rhaiIgbt but IL will never Give wav to a
,1I,.Iabt Il v-iu yi,ld its snlpnd,l crown only
IN i-,.'r vJirb s3rinl. exnlfant from m'n,s
.yo.H nature. It bows down to no Darwin or
~,.rtal. tnoIoh il or9tetl,lIy accents thei. bril-
I'.ut lalor~. Only when a new Christ comes
win am,ler hone and promise from the skies
Ni'n burning SOU 10 MAKE our common daily
H'''"'' "'H m ~ is''lii', ','hioM ie'ae IT,
lr-.'n ehitu' ineie hns1 be lfesh ana
1lt' l"it"A ~ 'he e.e' hn Hou liiIo iluihah-
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Ni'N iGt Vli, -" w notlce now liiu.h
tI''o iAI'H'H e"c" suVceedihS !eaI seems 10
i5.'l> d." - ''n We leLieh l' nov ~ our
u t GERM l 81 year aP ia+ et '.er
space almost any amount of work and play?
Bui now We become so engrossed that holy
aays and holidays are alike invaded; and after
I'll J. done, no" much Is left unfinished. and
no" many schemes remain untrled. 1t is the
SAWS The i9;r + " pnbertson chat lites last
Iui.inrS, i hnoun in earnest and if i tban
midway between the cradle ana tne crave that
a man 'boaius to marvel that he let The DAYS Of
,outh ga Inv 50 half enioveJ. 1t is the pensiye
*. ID
-A".1nh Ieellii3, IL j. me sensation OF Daii sad
RI tHIl We experience Wheh lhe longest DAY
N 1ne year i PAST; ana every day thal follows
y >3"ricF ana the ll%flt laihttr' ana the leeblcf
NhaooNs lell ,ll"l nature Is haslehlhg WIN 81
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