The Lake County star., 1877-05-24
RELIGIOUS.

3 Learn that happiness Is not ositside,
but inside. A good heart and q clear
conscience brings happiness, which
no riches and no circumstances alone
ever do. -.,...e., .,1e,
They that will not hear Christ say.
"Come unto me" In day OF grace,
shall hear him say, .sDepait nom me"
In q day Of)udgment.
All the events Of life are precious to
him who sees In everything the hand
Of his heavenly Father. No wind can
blow wrong; no event be mistimed; no
result be disastrous. II God but cares
for our inward and eternal life, and II
by our earthly experiences he is un-
folding 1t, and preparing for. Its full
and perfect disclosure shove, then
nothing can befal US but prosperity.
Every sorrow Ia but the setting OF some
luminous jewel of JOY. Our. very
mourning is but the enamel around
the diamond, and our very hardships
but the metallic rim that holds the opal,
cleaning In splendOr with strange In
terror fires. Our times (some read It
our opportunities) are In Gods hand;
and therefore he knows how to choose
the best time for bis bestowment or
our deliverance, and we must wait for
it, Matthew Henry. een-M
Many minds are in state Of great
distress about the spread OF error.
do not know what is going to happen
to England according to the weeping
prophets The signs Of the times are
very bad, and the would-be .prophets
say that deadful storm Is coming OIL.
MY barometer does not indicate any
thing Of the kind, but theiss stand at
"much rain" or stormy" Not long
ago walked with q very excellent
man, whose name / win not mention.
because think he must have been Ill
that morning. He told me that he be-
lieved that he should live to zee the
streets of London run with blood, on
account of the unbridled democracy,
the atheism and the radicalism of the
times. In fact, he thought thatevery-
thing was out Of joint, and we were
going-I do not know where. 1t is
not long ago, and remember that /
pulled him by the sleeve, and said,
"But, my dear friend, God Is not
dead" Now, that Is my comfort.
God is not dead, and he will beat the
devil yet. AS surely a. Jesus Christ
won the victory on the cross, He will
win the victory over the worlds sin.
It is true It is q hard time for Chris
tianity, and infidels are fighting us
with new arguments; but when /
think of them / feel inclined to say
what the Duke of Wellington said at
Waterloo to his generals, "Hard
gentlemen hard pound
Ing! but we will see which will pound
the longest" And so we say. It may
be "hard pounding" for the Christian
Church, but we shall see who can
pound the longest. HithertO-these
eighteen hundred years or more-the
Gospel sun has gone on pounding, and
has neither been spiked nor worn out.
AS for our opponents, they have chang
Our Gospel cannon has blown their
guns and gun-carriages and gunners
all to pieces, and they have had to set
up new batteries every year or two.
They change their modes, their argu-
ments, their tactics, but we glory in
the same cross as Paul did. and preach
the same Gospel as Augustine, and
Calvin and Whitefield, and the like.
All along the testimony Of Jesus
Christ has still been the same. The
precious blood has been exalted, and
men have been hidden to believe in
Jesus. Pound away, gentlemen! We
shall pound the longest, and we shall
win the day. III we believe God in
that fashion, let us turn around to our
brethren, and say to
them, ''Sirs, be of good cheer for I
believe God, that It shall be even as 1t
was told me.n,-[Spurge0n. .,.u