The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-10-11

Graded and rocked by wind and cloud
Safe pllowed on the summit proud
Ntcadlcd by that incircliHg arm
Which holds the universe from harm
knew the Lord my soul would keep
pom his mountain tops asleep.
Lucy l-mcom.
\ good word Is ali easy obligation but not to
speak i'll requires only our silence which costs us
nothing. lTilletson.
We may despise the world, but We cannot do
without H. Baron Wessenberg
OF the acts of c0wardice the meanest il that
which leads one to abandon good cause because
It Is weak and join bad cause because it is strong
Eternity is the divine treasure house and hope
- the window by means of which lnortals are per
united 10 see, as through glass, darkly the things
winch God Is preparing lMunttord.
Whatever expands the affections or enlarges the
sphere OF our relations to the universe and all that
II lnhablts, i'll time and eternity, the great and
bcnefcent cause of all, must unquestionably re
line our nature and elevate us i'll the scale of be
ing, lChanning.
Life is itself neither good nor evil it is the
scene OF good or evil You make il and if YOU
have lived day You have seen all one day is
equal and like all other DAYS: there is no other
light, no other shade; this very sun, this moon
these very stars this very order and revolution Of
things IS the same your ancestors enjoyed and
That shall also entertain your posterty.
The poor at your doors the destitute in the by
ways and alleys cellars and attics of town and
CITY, are your brothers and sisters Beneath their
rags and your broadcloth flow tides OF kindred
blood: currents of life from a kindred source: and
neither time eternity can dissolve the ties that
unite you to them, and them to YOU. Such con
>lngmnty OF blood should be of the heart also
loI should acknowledge them and love them :
remembering that the results of Your feeling and
and touch with magic fingers. interests of two
worlds
Dreadful limits arr set in nature to the powers
of discrimination. Truth tyrannizes over the un
willing members Of the body Faces never lie it
is said No man need be deceived who will study
the changes of expression. When a man speaks
the truth III the spirit of truth his eve is as clear
as the heavens. When he has base ends. and
speaks falsely, his eve Is muddy, and sometimes
asqmnt. have heard an experienced counsellor
say that he never feared the effect upon a jury of
lawyer who does not believe in his heart that his
client Ought to have verdict Emersons Essay
on spiritual Laws.
GLORIOUS the scene when Enoch was trans
lated or Elah's chariot of fire appeared in the
whirlwind and took him to his glory; yet more
glorious was the scene when, surrounded with his
disciples, the risen Savior slowly and majesticav
assembled by his own power and glory before them
while blessing them, and IL cloud received him out
OF their sight, How unspeakably glorious then.
Will be that full result of his resurrection and as
Censon when crowding from every country in
glorious resurrection bodies shining as the sun at
one and the same moment, the myrads and myri-
ads Of his saints Of every age all gathered in
to his presence, where is tullness of 10y. and are
forever with the Lord. L. Bickersteth.
Even Pharasee will ask Christ to his house to
sit at meat with him-he is willing to entertain
great religious leader at his table; but it is not
every one who will stoop down and unloose his
shoes: for that very Pharasee who made the feast
never brought HIM water to wash his feet, or gave
him the kisses OF welcome; he proved the insia
certify of his hospitality by forgetting the little
things. will be bound to say Martha and Mary
never forgot to unoose his shoe latchets and that
Lazarus never failed to that his feet were
washed. Look, then. pray You, as Christians to
the service of Christ III the obscure things in the
things that not recognized by the matters What
have no honor attached to them, for by this shall
your love be tried. ISpurgeon
Here is a very good, virtuous man; but he is
ignorant he has no spiritual conceptions; he lives
from hand to mouth the whole world is to him
what he can see and feel and Of what use. will he
be i'll the heavenly land unless you make him diff
ierent from what he is. by IA miracle
go to the top OF Mount Washington, and find
there httle black spruce that has just sprouted
or that has grown one summer; and look about
and see what has been the fate of the old spruces
and perceive that they are high the noun
tain and the cold and wind are 50 severe that none
Oh licln nave Deell aDle 10 grow more tnan q loot
in height; and 1 say, Here is this little spruce
If it stays here it will never be any higher than
these scraggy growths that hug the ground. So
will take it up and carry it to the Hudson River
valley, where the weather is warmer, and where it
will have Il chance to grow" And do Won suppose
il will never be any taller than the stunted spruces
Mount Washington When it is taken away
from extreme winter and Storm and is given op-
portunity and culture, it will spring up and grow
more and more till by and by it will be a hundred
feet high with wide spreading branches
Take Il man who in this life has experienced
every form of adversely, who has been pinched
and pushed by the winter and the storms of mis-
fortune and take away from him the coarser ele-
ments of life, and give him spiritual culture in the
life to come where he is blessed with better com
panionship, and with more congenial surroundings,
and where he is i'll the presence of Almighty God
himself, where he sees us he is seen and knows as
to stature with which nothing is comparable
earth lBeecher