The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-07-05


Reason, the manful. blankly stares and reels.
While Love, the childlke. consciously o'erwrought
trleS out III anguish to the God it feels.
Truth is the ground of science the centre where
III all things repose, and is the type Of eternity.
Narrow minded men. who have not a thought
beyond the sphere Of their own outlook remind
one OF the Hindoo maxim, The snail sees nothing
but It's own shell, and thinks it the grandest palace
i'll the universe
Dickens wrote There is nothing no. nothing
beautiful and good that dies and is forgotten An
infant prattling child dying in its cradle. will
live again. in the better thoughts of those who
loved It, and play its part. though its body be
burned 10 ashes or drowned in the deepest sea
There Is not an angel added to the host of heaven
but does its blessed work on earth in those that
loved 1t here. Dead. Q, if the good deeds of hll-
man creatures could be traced to their source how
beautiful could even death appear, for how much
charity, mercy and purified affection would be seen
10 have their growth III dusty graves"
The household is the parents kingdom Only
here can each ind food for every faculty.
Here is ownership between husband and wife :
ana there Is 10 triumph greater than that which
one heart has achieved over another heart. There
Is no obligation so crowned and royal as the obi
CATION OF one to another in love There is such
hnnorlng, such praise. such rcciprocatiOn without
word or sign, but as it We're through the very mvs-
terry OF life itself, in the realm of atfect; h. that
two who are welded in sacred love are to each
other treasures such to be found in no
other relation OF life. The man is king in the
household and the woman is queen; and both
man and woman desire and need food for every
faculty which God has given them for love power
Beccher.
WEAKNESSES, trettulncss, discomfort. are the Gle
mcnts that make ii life discordant with its own
high theme, and with all goodness and greatness
a = hn,, tl,f,It hnpt
compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in
MANNER quickly return TO thyself and do not con
tlnue out of tune longer than the compulson lasts :
Tor thou wilt have more mastery over the harmony
by continually recurring to it The grandeur Of
lie may come through its combats but its sweet
ness comes through the cherry portal OF content
ALLIANCE.
Set your love at work find it enplovncnt If
need be, hunt up class of BOYS or girls and teach
them the Bible. Make il a law of vour life never
TO FAN III Your part of the work Of the church
"rk for Christ, and You will love him You can
not be lazy for hlm; You cannot love him in neg
lcct Of duty: Won will not find your way to heaven
byskulking away from honest Christian toll Put
Your every day labor into harness Say "a part of
Inns days work Shall go TO Christ 5 treasury" In
NeStment OF money in the church will make it
seem more yours, and draw your whole being at
ter It into Christian fellowship. For where Your
treasure Is, there Will your heart be also. Meth
odst
The Bible does not need defence 50 much as il
needs proclamation 1t defends itself wherever il
Is known. Deepin every soul there dwels forever
witness to the truth. whose clear eve and steady
voice VIII see and respond to it wherever it is
known. We do not need to implore men to be
hevc the truth. We on need that they shall APP
prehend It, and then may defy them to deny it.
And thus the Bible. as eternal truth needs no
other argument for It's support than itself clearly
preached There defenders of the truth who
think it otherwise They treat the Bible as Il
weakly infant which must be bolstcred up and
carefully sustained, lest it fall And SO they bring
together their learning and philosophy, their hu
man reasoning and research, which they use ;ts
proof to Keep the Bible up. trembling all the while
lest one OF these should fail, and the truth unsup
ported sink t" its hurt. But the Bible disdains
all these appliances. Ii is no weakly infant 1t
has more than giants strength, and can not only
stand unalded, but can walk forth alone conquer
ing and to conquer. prof Seelyc
Though cannot make the sun stand still in
the midst of heaven, can do what will be the
same III effect BY putting the work of two DAYS
INTO one. we can make one day equal to two. By
rrowding the year that is before us with generous
purposes and vlrtuOus efforts and noble sacrifices
we can make it equal to twenty years of ordinary
life 1t is sometimes said that the repentance
which Is to save is not the repentance Of DAY
and this is true, if all the fruits of repentance are
meant to be included. But the repentance which
consists i'll solemn and religious change OF inten
ton and OF heart this is, or at least may be- not
only the repentance of day but Of an hour
had almost said Of Il moment, of any moment-ot
this moment Atterward, have nothing to do
but to 90 on. If we are living when this wear eX-
pires, what unspeakable satisfaction it will give
MS that the interval has been heightened out to
twice, to quadruple. to tenfold its usual dimen-
slons, considered as measure of real life BY the
number and excellence of the deeds with which it
has been filled; that every day has been a step
toward heaven. Remember, also. that this will
depend, not on what we wish then but on what
we determine and what we do, now [Dr James
Walker