The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-05-31
Jewels of Thought and Devotion.

THE HYPoCRITE
With all his conscience and one eve askew.
SO false, he partly took himself for true;
Whose plous talk, when most his heart dry,
Made wet the crafty crows foot round his eve:
Who never naming God except for gain,
So never took that useful name in vain
Made Him his cat S-paw. and the Cross his tool.
And Christ the bait TO trap his dupe and fool
Nor deeds of gift, but gifts of grace he forged,
And snake like, slimed his victim ere he gorgcd
And oft at Bible meetings. DER the rest
Arising did his holy. oily best
IennySOn.
\ helping word to one in trouble is often like a
switch oD railroad track-but one inch between
wreck and smooth rolling prosperity
However urgent may be the necessity for a
breaking up of old modes Of belief the most
strong minded and discerning. next to those who
head the movement, are generally those who
bring up the rear of it,
We should every night call ourselves to an ac
count What intirnity have mastered to day
what passion opposed what temptation resisted
what virtue required Our vices will abate of
themselves If they be brought every day to the
shrift. Seneca
Peace does not dwell in outward things. but
"I1Iliu lHt Soul W t MAY preserve IL III lit dSt
of the bitterest pain, if our will remain firm and
submissive. Peace in this life springs from acqui-
escence even Ill disagreeable things, not in All eX
emption from sufleringS
The wife of W s Robinson ('.Warrington. the
well known newspaper correspondents i'll her BIZ
ography Of him says:
"A few weeks before his death he sat one day
as was his wont. before his open fire in a media
tive posture with his hands at rest His wife
Ia l.,
smile so well remembered by all who knew him
and said: 1t is curious how the belief i'll the i'm
mortality Of the soul grows upon Inc. As have
been sitting here day after day it has come to me
and | am sure Of it--;is sure OF it. and of living
again, as am that ! am here-lnore sure; for /
don't know hall the time whether | AIN here in
body Or not Ii is just like going into another
room-into that room, pointing to the open par
lor door near him. Why, this world and the
next are joined us closely as my two hands open
ing them and placing them together, one above
the other with palms reversed; there they are-
no break. no break between. no Ct % pass |
feel every day like one who walks BIZ a hedge and
IS looking Tor a gate. gap to go through, to walk
on the other side After that the subject was one
OF common talk, and was spoken of in the midst
OF every day affairs. Frequently when he was
spoken to he would look up, smile and place his
hands as have described, saying only No break
no break. God was very good to him. He had
tried TO lead the people to truth and right in this
life; was II not given him, in some part to lead
them still tarther-to a belief in the life beyond
toward the great Centre of Truth and Right ITSELF
Consider that in this life the things which make
the most ado are not the things which are the
most important. There is nothing on earth noiser
than IA storm beating the shore. and vet what
does 1t do 1t is bred in the desert sea- 1t lashes
Itself ntoa useless rage. 1t thunders in the heav-
ems, and shakes the earth and comes pouring down
and Is broken into a million globules on the I'M
movable rocks BY and by its wrath ceases. it
smooths its brow and the sea is TRANQUIL again
hat has happened! Nothing Nota single thing
has been done
\ mans life goes laundering on, and the things
winch are most III the eyes of men often of the
least possible Importance The rage of nations
me march OF armies, the rise Of inconspicuous
Tribes to power. and their deliqucscence and fad
ing away again-theSc things seem great to men:
but they come and 60, and the earth is no whit
changed, and men are no whit changed. You
might to-day with sponge rub out China and
the world would not know it. There would not
be religion less nor a philosophy less that had
power to do good to mankind. You might to-day
rub out one half two-thirds tour-titths Of the
globe, with their banners, with their armies with
their trlllnpetS, with their PROFESSIONS with their
crowns and scePterS with their grandeur that
makes fools ape them or envy them and ii would
make no difference. They would break as bub-
Die, and fly away dream
80 the things which are actually worth chroni-
cling, and which are being chronicled forever and
forever are the things which no man hears nr
sees This great empty scroll above our heads is
Gods Workshop and he is writing there the his
tory Of time and the world. The scroll itself shall
shrlvel and depart but the things that are written
On that scroll shall never change. Gods records
OF human life are not of drums, or banners or ar
mes or governments inaugurated or oyerthrowp
sand the Almighty With the broken in heart and
the contrite will dwell" and where God dwells.
there Is the center Of the universe and the things
which shall have eternal fame have no registration
or notlce among men. The things which men are
All agos about, and are striving after, are as fleet
lng and unsubstantial as II wreath of smoke
Beechcr.