Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-07-11
MUCH IN LITTLE.
Here Vanity assumes her pert gri.
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Of mind TO endure the misiortunes Of
other people.
) That which often prevents us from
| abandoning ourselves to a single vice,
is the fact that we have several.
Among the mass of mankind, graft.
tude is nothing but o strong and secret
desire TOR still greater benefits.
People are never made so ridiculous
by the qualities they possess as by
those which they affect to have.
The world proposes rest by the re.
moval of burden. The Redeemer
gives rest by giving us the spirit and
power to bear the burden.
"Wby don't you get out ofthis crush ?
Are you blockhead p cried O gentle
man to his coachman. "No, sir, I'm
blocked in
Out West, when a group of citizens
has horse-stealer under consideration,
they generally drop the subject after
short discussions.
"If Smith undertakes to pull my
ears" said Jones, "he will just have
bis hands full, now" The crowd look.
ed at the mans ears, and thought so,
too.
II you suppose that the merit Of
your faith has put away your sins, you
are not Christian, and you have not
faith; for faith will look to Jesus, not
at itself.
Many with the best means of grace
never come to repentance, but rather
grow hopelessly confirmed in hardness
OF heart while others, with nothing
but their Bibles, become accomplished
and eminent Christians.
We certainly ought not TO treat liv-
ing creatures like shoes or household
goods, which when worn out with use
we throw away and wero it only to
teach benevolence to human kind we
should be merciful to other creatures.
The general cry is against ingrati.
tudc, but sure the complaint is mispla-
ced, it should be against vanity. None
but direct villains are capable of willfhl
ingratitude but almost everybody is
capable Of thinking he hath done moro
than another deserves, while the other
thinks he hath received less than he
deserves.-Pope.
A young clergyman, whose reputa-
tion Tor veracity was none of the best,
ventured to differ with an old doctor
of divinity as to the propriety of whip
ping children. "Why," said he, "the
only time my father whipped me was
for telling the truth" "Well," retorted
the doctor "it cured you of it, didn't
ltT
'ls it true, mamma" inquired lit.
tlo girl, "that a-Quaker never takes
his hat off?' at is true, my dear"
answered the fond mother; "it is q
mark Of respect which he thinks he
should pay to no man." But then
tell me, mamma" answered the clever
child, show does Quaker manage
when he goes to have bis hair cut2"
Time is short. Eternity is long.
Time will soon have an end TO every
man. Eternity will never have an end
81 any man. We shall all soon reach
the shore of time. Eternity has no
shore. Timeis measured. Eternity is
immeasursble. A very small portion
of time is allotted TO the earthly life
of one man. An eternity past, and an
eternity to come, are the lifetime of
God.
Mr.. Moody says many men come
with great hurrah, claiming TO be
Christians, but their everyday life
contradicts their professions. Thus,
he knew one man who "sang hosannas
and was very much worked upon,
whose landlady suffered for a board
bill which he was able to pay, but
which he neglected" He also says he
does not believe in the Christianity
(which can find time to read the sun
day newspaper, but has none for the
Bible"
"All men forsook me" is Paul's own
account of himself, "But the Lord
stood with me, and strengthened me-"
Here is golden hint for tho young
who are put to their mettle in refusing
a sinful fashion, or in bearing a jibe at
their conscientious scruples. The young
man who can be laughed into q glass
of wine or game Of cards or ball
room, may set himself down as a pitia-
bic coward who can be pushed back
by straw. If he is more afraid of
companions sneer than of Gods frown,
he is doomed.
The true evidence that q man loves
God is found in his love for man. God
in man is the true God to love. 1t
was divinity in Jesus that made him
loveablc and made worshipping him
no disrespect to Deity. If we do not
love the God VIC see in our brother,
how can we love the God we cannot
see2 No greater mistake can be made
by any than to treat Christianity as if
il were a creed, or o system of cold,
inanimate, inarticulate truth. Intel
lectual belief, however true and scrip
tural, is not piety. There is no gen.
uine faith that has not in it the ele-
ment of efficient principle as the body
helps us TO interpret and manifest the
soul, but as the body without the soul
is dead, so faith without the vitality
of an operant principle is dead also
Religion should And its staunchest
advocates among the business men Of
q country among those of the wisost
experience in human affairs, and most
familiar with tho practical working
of things; for these know well that
public prosperity and proponderating
vices cannot co-exist in community;
that, by as much as you sink single
street or section of a city in drunken.
ness or any other vice, by so much do
you detract not only from its capacity
TO produce, but also TO consume. An
ignorant, imbrutcd population buy LID
tic. As you press man down TO the
level OF an animal, you contract the
circle of his wants. His value as a
customer is lessoned as his vices in
crease. You might aswell Danish one
half the best custom OF city as TO al
low public morality 10 fall away TO
that Golden Rule.
A TEXAS Woop SroRY.--sYou'd hard.
ly believe now what | am going to tell.
In Texas we use rawhido straps, or
thongs, for traces, and in wet weather