The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-21
FOR SUNDAY.


Gone forth without a word
OF gratitude to Thee.
To Thee, for kindness done,
To Thee, for blessings won.
Gone forth to live again
In haunts of sinful men,
Where Thy dear name is scorned;
There vainly they will seek
Their purity to keep.
Gone forth unarmed, unrneet
With Joyous step and fleet,
Forth to fight lifes battle,
Without one fervent prayer,
One plea for guidance there.
Dare condemn them, Lord?
], who so oft have swerved
And Strayed from duty's path,
ecause forsooth twas hard,
And my vain pleasures married?
Dare condemn them Lord?
L, who for blessings poured
In countless measure down
On my unworthy head,
Have few thanksgivings said?
Blessings so rich and great,
That oft beneath their weight
MY trembling heart has asked,
Why am thus endowed,
And sheltered from each cloud?
'Tis not for me to spurn
These erring ones, but turn,
Like Him, the grateful one,
In thankfulness for all
Thy blessings great and small.
'' 30 1[Churchman.
The children of Israel were commanded
in regard to the mamma, to ''go out and
gather a certain lot every day." 1t was use
less to gather twice as much on Tuesday and
intermit the labor on Wednesday. God had
so provided that spasmodic CATERERS should
be discouraged to the uttermost, and the
blessing should come upon the steady going
ones And it is self evident that the faith
fuI Christian w hO rppiectS Of the m T1S
of grace, and is always present, will miss
none of the blessings that God may bestow
upon the congregation in the course of the
year.
The worst thing parent can do to a boy,
is to pamper him. A boy can be fed to death
and nursed to death. He can be killed by
motherly kindness and fatherly guardian
ship. Boys are only young animals with
minds or with what one day Will be minds
The most essential part of a boy is his stom-
ach. The next important members of his
organism are his legs. Good, strong, sturdy
legs, and stomach able to digest anything
in the way of food and any amount of it.
make an equation for boyhood Do not,
then, keep your boy in the house, doting
father, but give him bat, ball, sled,
pair of skates, anything he needs for out
door amusement and send him out of doors
Go with him yourself, if possible. Skate
with him, race with him, be boy with him
now, that he may be man with you by
and by. sdnt.Hu
Leave consequences to God, but do right
Be genuine, real, sincere true, upright
god like. The worlds maxim is, Trim
your sails and yield to circumstances. But
if you would do any good in your genera
ton, you must be made of sterner stuff and
help make your times rather than be made
by them. You must not yield to customs,
but like the anvil endure all the blows
until the hammers break themselves. When
misrepresented, use no crooked means to
clear yourself Clouds do not last long. If
in the course of duty you are tried by the
distrust of friends, grid up your loins and
say in your heart, 81 was not driven to vir
tue by the encouragement of friends, nor
VIII be repealed from it by their GOODNESS. -
Finally, be Just and fear not; corruption
wins not more than honesty; truth lives
and reigns when falsehood dies and rots.-
Sturgeon. te
Recently in illustrating his theme-"A
man in Chrlst''-Mr. Spurgeon told a story
that is worth repeating. He says: Some
Christians remind me of the little boys who
go to battle. All frightened and shivering
they enter the water just little-up to
their ankles they wade and shiver again
but the man who is really in Christ is like
the practiced swimmer who plunges into the
stream head first, and finds water to swim in.
He never shivers. 1t braces him; he re-
joices in it. And see how at home he is in
the river grace. 1t has become his element.
Now for him TO live is Christ He has de-
voted himself, his substance. and all that he
has to the glory OF God. This is the man
who understands the happiness of religion
in manner far beyond the conception of
the half professor who has only religion
enough to make him miserable. l some
times illustrate this by a quaint American
| story. 5f-a
9"Boston's Basilica." as Trinity church on
| the Back Bay is now called, was consecrated
| last Friday. The wide and lofty arches
which span the nave and transept, the height
of the ceiling in the great square tower, and
the richness of the decorations render the
| interior very impressive. The four great
pillars are Scolored dark green, and the
rectangular compartments of the vaulted
| ceiling have the same tint The cap
itals of the four columns support
ing the quadrangular tower are gol-
| den, and broad bands of gold stream upward
over the arches In the four angles of the
| tower are colossal frescoes of David, Paul,
jeremiah and Isaiah. There are touches OF
purple over the shoulders of angels and
| cherubs, but the walls of this great gallery
are golden and from the vault of the tower
! hangs the chandeliers crown of lights
with heavy chains. The arch of the chancel
is also ceiled in gold. Elsewhere the pre-
yailing tints of the decorations are violet,
pink and blue. .-gof brI ~ Ell
Some time since the minister of certain
Congregation church adopted a plan to in
| terest the members of his flock in the study
| of the Bible. 1t was this At the Wednes-
day evening meeting he would give out a
| topic to be discussed in the ensuing week,
| thus giving week for them to study up.
One week this subject was St. Paul After
the preliminary devotional exercises the
| minister called upon his deacons to speak
to- the question: One Immediately rose
and began to describe the personal appear
ance of the great apostle to the Gentiles. He
said ST Paul was a tall rather spare man,