The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-09-20
Jewels of Thought and Devotion.

! come to Thee - o, Lord-tor strength and pa
thence
70 do Thy will
Help me. o. Father, in this world Of duty
My place to fill
may not 60 and labor i'll Thy leyard
Where, through ions hours,
Brave men and patient women toll, and from Thy
presses
The red wine pourS.
My work at home lies with the olive branches
Thoust planted there.
70 train them meek Y for the heavenly garden
Needs all my care.
may not in the woods and on the mountains
Seek Thy lost sheep:
At home a little flock Of tender lalnbkins
ms mime 10 keep.
Thou giyest to Thy servants each our lite work;
No trumpet tone
VIII tell the nations, in triumphant pealing.
How mine done
But twill be much if when the task is ended.
Through grace from Thee
ave Thee back undimmed the radient Jewels
Thou gHveSt me
'iod had yoked to Guilt her pale tormentor Mis-
cry, Bryant.
Natures thai have much heat and great and VIC
lent desires and pertnrbations are not ripe for ac
uon till they have passed the meridian of their
years. Bacon.
Man, being essentially active, must find in ac-
uVty his joy, well as his beauty and glory and
labor, like everything else that is good is its own
reward [WhPplc.
Pride Of origin. whether high OF low springs
from the same principle in human nature: one is
but the positive, the other the negative pole of
single weakness. Lowell.
The greatest man is he who chooses right with
the most lnvincbe resolution; who resists the
SpreSt temptations from within and without who
bears the heaviest burdens cheertlllv: who is
camest Ill storms ard most fearless under menaces
dnd trownS: whose reliance on truth on virtue
and on God is most untaltering
There is floating idea in the minds of most OF
MS that great perls and great trials work sort of
charmed change in our lives This is seldom more
than deluSion. The lessons Of life are for the
most part, slowly learned The page is often care
lessly turned and hurriedly passed BY. on which
our great Father has written much that he would
fam have rs study.
The minister should preach as if he felt that.
although the congregation own the church. and
have bought the pews, they have not bought him
tbs soul IS worth no more than any other mans
but 1t Is all he has and he cannot be expected to
sell it for d salary The terms are by no means
equal. If a parishoner does not like the preach
ing. he can 90 elsewhere and get another pew but
the preacher cannot get another soul. [Chapin
No man Is just what he seems to be. Everybody
is beng changed. God is preparing for "a high
er state OF existence. BY the things which we
suffer or endure, by yokes and burdens by wounds
and sickness by failures. by all manner Of oyer
whelmings i'll this life. he is working out in us
that stature which shall vet appear in glory We
are unknown. We are walking ncognto We
are scholars gaining our education. Little by lit
tie we are receiving our robe, equipage. 1t
doth not appear; but by and by. if we endure un-
to the end we shall drop the growths of this world
and raise out OF its conditions into the lowering
and rnt-bearing period-into the life that IS IL,
come-and then we shall know the meaning Of
these earthly distemperatures and those who
have washed their garments white in blood those
who have been perfected by suffering will stand
highest, most radiant and most joyful Beecher
AS the trials Of life thicken and the dreams of
other days fade one by one in the deep vista of
disappointed hope; the heart grows weary of the
struggles and begin to realize our insigniti
cance. Those who have climbed to the pinnacle
of fame, or revel i'll luxury and wealth. go to the
grave at last with the poor mendicant who bcgS
pennies by the waysde, and like him are soon for
gotten. Generations after generations, SAYS an
eloquent modern writer, have felt as we feel and
their fellows were active in life as ours are now
They passed away vapor while Nature wore the
same aspect of beauty as her Creator commanded
her to wear. And so, likewise. shall it be when
we are gone. The heavens will be as bright over
our graves as they are now around our path the
World Will have the same attraction for Offsprngs
YET unborn that she had once for ourselves and
that she has now for our children. Yet a little
WINE ana all tins will have happened. Days will
continue to move on, and laughter and song will
be heard III every chamber in which we died and
the eye that mourned for us will be dried and
Will gllsten with joy, and even our children will
cease to think Of us, and will not remember to
lisp our names. Goodrich