The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-28

/ way" and you stop and your cheek grows
pale. Go forward and you will find the lion
chained, and If not, why you can chain him
if you will. Never give way If You are in
the right path-neyer give way! Forward,
not backward, lies in the path of usefulness
and honor, the path on which rests the light
of Observation-Disclosures,
A Methodist paper requests all who have
any sort of patience in listening to the slow,
| dragging singing in some of the church SER
vices, to sing the following stanza, written
by Alfred Taylor, to the tune of "Joyfully:"
Dismally, dolefaily, downward we drag,
Making our music most mournfully lag;
Singins the songs..of salvation so slow,
Groaning and grunting along as we go.
Painfully poking DER pious old poem,
Droning so dull they don't know what to do,
Pleased when the plodding performance is
through.
The miraculous cure said to have been
wrought upon Mr.. Moody should have been
attributed to f. w. Fields of Chicago, one
of his co-workers: and in spite of contradic-
tons, the circumstance is reaffirmed BY his
| friends One leg having become some two
/ and half inches shorter than the other
from hip disease, and the use of crutches
having become necessary, it is said that
Fields prayed one night for restoration in
order that he might be more efficient Sun
day-school worker. When he awoke in the
morning, the limb was restored TO its nor
nal soundness and length, and all the ex-
cruciating pain previously experienced had
gone.
Did you ever find lying in some neglected
| spot, buried among the grass, perhaps, some
old tool, which you remember sharp and
bright and useful, but now covered with
/ rust, and useless? The rust and its dull edge
have come OF It's long rest Had il been con-
stantly used it might have been broken, but
| it never would have been that dull, useless
| thing while it lasted. 1t is just SO with hui
man beings. lnactiOn is worse for them
than hard work. Unused talents rust. The
mind that is never sharpened grows dull.
One who has not done what he might finds
his power gone at last Sometimes, when
minds lie useless and hands are folded, the
soul rusts also.
| Though the word of God is indeed written
| for the instruction of all. yet TO you who are
in trouble and from whom the Lord hath
| taken children, and whom He hath exercised
| otherwise, there are some chapters, some
particular promises in the word of God made
in an especial manner, which would never
| have been given, so as they now, if you
had your portion in this world like others.
IL is no small comfort that God hath written
some Scriptures to you which He hath not
| to Others. Read these. and think God is like
| friend who sendeth a letter to a whole
house and family, but who speaketh in HIS
letter to some by name who are dearest to
| Him in the house.
1t is not the proper thing to come to
| church after the service has been opened.
| Where circumstances have made it imprac-
ticable to be early, the late conner may be
justified on the grounds that it is better to
come late than not at all. But it is a. fact
that some people have a habit of coming
late, and it is very plain to those whom they
disturb that they might have been in time
had they taken pains to be so. Invited TO
dinner they would regard it very rude to
keep the other guests waiting, or to make
disturbance by, coming five or ten minutes
after the dinner is served. But it is almost
an unheard of event, probably it was never
| known, that Christian congregation had
the privilege of beginning its public devo-
tons without being Immediately afflicted
by the arrival of those who come tearing up
the aisle while others are trying to pray or
praise.-New York Observer.
If all the Christian women all over the
land who spend so much time on 'unmak-
able dogs and cats on canvass" on fashion
and dress and in fashionable calls, would
| each of them reach out for but one child
year, lift it from the slough of filth and sin,
clothe its body, feed its soul, provide for ITS
education-the world would be converted.
We teach more by what we are than by what
we say. 1t is the deeds that last the longest
| If that Christian woman who exclaimed to me
| the other day, II think il no longer a cues
ton of duty as regards the Sunday school
when one has a family would only stop
| and think what would become of the Sun
day-school if all the fathers and mothers
were withdrawn and only young people were
| left to conduct it, she would learn the great
est lesson of her life; for if she is child of
God, He does not want her idle in His king
dom.
Not all the same gifts? 1 admit that; some
are not called to teach, yet there is not one
of us but can do something to help on the
| good work. The world is dying for want of
| sympathy. One of Americas greatest poets
told me she had made it a duty never to
| pass newsboy or a bootblack, washer
woman or day labororer without kind
word; it cost her nothing, it went a great
way with them. Go thou and do likewise.
Study to show myself approved of God, a
workman mot an idler) that needeth not to
be ashamed. God will bless your efforts.-S.
| s. Workman.
A story was told of street boy in London
who had both legs broken by dray pass
/ ing over them. He was laid away in one of
| the hospitals to die, and another little crea-
ture of the same class was laid near by, pick
| ed up sick with famine fever. The latter
| was allowed to lie down by the side of the
little crushed boy. He crept up TO him and
said, Bobby did you never hear about
| JeSuSY mo, never heerd OF him."
| Bobby, i went to the Mission school once,
andEthey told us that Jesus would take you
to heaven when you died, and you'd never
have hunger any more, and no more pain, if
| you axed him." 81 couldn't ask such a
| great big gentleman as he is to do anything
/ for me-" But he'll do all that you ak
him." 'How can 1 ak him If
don't know where he lives, and how
| could 1 get there when both my legs
is broker Bobby, they told me
at Mission school as how Jesus passes by.
Teacher says as how he goes around. How