The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1876-12-07
RELIGIOUS.

The main object OF the gospel is to es
tablish two principles-the corruption o
nature, and the redemption by Jesus Christ
i Pascal.
Ii the Christians course had been mean
for path Of roses, would the life Of thu
Author of Christianity have been a patti
strewed vita thorns , IL. More.
You may discover tribes of men without
police, laws or cities, or any OF the arts OF
life; but nowhere will you find them with
out some form of religion Blair.
l have lived long enough to know what
/ did not at one time believe-that no So
ciety can be upheld in happiness and honor
without the sentiment Of re!igion.-[La
Place.
Too many embrace religion from the
same motives that they take companion
in wedlock, not from true love or the per-
son, but because of large dowry.-T Hosea
Ballou.
There is something in religion. when
rightly comrrehended, that is ma.culine
and grand. 1t removes those little desires
which are "the constant hectic of fool. u
-[Cecil.
What We must DO is TO make the actual
possibilities of life our ideal. Ii lies in
human power not 10 construct the godIike,
but to recognize it, and thus to gain it,
[Carl Ritter.
What can be more foolish than TO think
that all this rare fabric of heaven and
earth could come by chance, when all the
skill OF art is not able to make an oyster
-[Jeremy Taylor.
Sterne says in his Koran, 81 never drink
Il cannot do it on equal terms with Others.
1t costs them only one day, but me three
the first in SHINING, the second in suffering.
and the third in repenting."
ave have los. a great deal by our reli.
gIon," womsn said to her husband.
yes" replied her husband; "you lost a
bad temper, snd lost bad habit of drink
ing, and a ragged coat.-[Vermont Chroni-
Gle.
The Lord takes up none but the forsakep:
makes none healthy but the sick; gives
sight to none but the blind; makes none
alive but the dead sanctifes none but SIN.
ners; and TO all these he is precious.-[Lu
ther.
Oh all actions on earth procrastination
the soonest and most easily becomes
habit. And OF all habits it is the most in.
1t is an invisible network of fet- |
tiers stronger than brass. Duty, neglected |
Tor a week, will then seem 30 arduons. and |
The sloth in which one has been INDUCING
will become 80 enervating. even paralyzing
70 all activity, that a week often settles the
character for lifetime, yes, forever.
"Ah, it's Fad and terrible thing +, 500
nigh whole generation of men and women
protesting TO be cultivated, looking around
n purblind fashion, and finding no God
N this universe. lsuppose it is reaction
rom the reign of cant and hollow pretense
protesting to believe what in reality thew
10 not believe. Ard this is what We have
'ot to. All things from frog spawn : the
'ospel of dirt the order Of the day. The
lder / grow-and / now stand Gpon the
rink Of eternity-the more comes back to
ne the sentence in the catechism, which I
earned when child, and the fuller
ND deeper Its meaning becomes
What is the chief end of man? TO elo-
NY God and to enjoy him forever, No
osPel OF dirt, teaching that men have de.
cended from frogs through MONKEYS can
yer set that aside."-CGlyie.