The Republican journal., 1877-02-08

once looking from window Il luui
That lay III silence underneath the sun
land OF wide green meadows, through which ran
TWO rivers, slowly broadening to the
thus, rs looked, know moi how whence,
was borne into my uneXpectant soul
That thought, late learned by anxious -witttd
The infinite patience Of the Eternal Mind.
Patience doth conquer bv out-sutlering all
Our opportunities to do good are our talents.
Who has not known i'll fortune. never knew
himself. or his own virtue.
Genius is the gold in The mlne talent is the
miner who works and brings it out.
BE rs the little child who eats and sleeps
and grows. God gives YOU the best nouri>h-
ment, although not always the sweetest to the
Taste Madam Guyon.
Beware of him that is slow to anger Anger
when it is long i'll coming is the stronger when
it comes. and the longer kept. Abused pa
Hence turns TO fury. Quare>.
The most original modern authors are not so
because they advance anything that is new. but
SIMPLY because they FnOW how to put what
they have to say rs if it had never been said
before. Goethe.
Wealth is potent in its own sphere, but i'm
potent beyond it. 1t can put telegraph under
The sea and cover the land with a network of
wires as with Il SPIDERS web. 1t can build
railroads and bridge oceans. 1t can buy houses
anu lultS ana every lHdltTldl advantage. Dul
here It's power stops. 1t cannot purchase good
ness, or Justice, or genteness. or patience. or
love, or true friendship. 1t cannot do anything
10 make character stronger or life SWeeter. 1t
can say to the minister, | Will feed You and
GOthe yOu while YOU are making men better
and 10 the teacher. will take care of YOU while
You are making men wiser, bat it can do moth
ing without the brain OF W i>dom or the heart
0i goodness. 1t can build railroads, but if cam
not build men.
We read pretty story of st. Anthony, who
beng III The wilderness, led a very hare, and
strict HE, nlSonurII that none At that time did
The like, 10 whom came voice from heaven
saying, Anthony, thou art not perfect as il a
'obhitr That dWtlleIh Al Ale Xandria. 4 nthUny,
hearing TIN. rose nt forthwith and took his
tan and travelled iii he came 10 Alexandria,
where he found the c0llblcI. The cObber WAS
d7t0niailed 10 see SO reh erend father come 10
his house, hen Anthony aid unto him, ONE
and tell me thT Whole conversation and how
thou snende>t thy time Sir. said the eohbler,
Is for me, good works have none, for my life
~ but single and slender, | am bur Il poor cob
bier IN the morning, when | rise | pray for
The whole city wherein dwell, especially for
ali such nPigliborS and poor friends AS / have
ater, l sei me at my labor, where spend the
whole day in gettn" my living, and keep HE
from AL falschOOd, for hate nothing so much
A. l DO dereittu mess wherefore when | make
any man promise, keep it, and perform it
truly and thus spend my time, poorly, with
Any wife and children, whom | teach and in
Struct, a. TAI my wit wi serve me, TO fear
and dread God. And thi~ T. The sum Of my
simple lite.
When viii the world understand that the
0l0gy ~ not ChrlstlanitVr one il human. the
other divine. When will The world understand
that nothing il truer than truth; and that truth
j. no more sacred when it comes to US through
verbal revelation than when established upon
unimpeachable evidence Again and again, in
The history Of tIe world haze theological dog
mas gone down before truth of science That
which men have believed through their inter
probation of revealed truth, has not been able
to stand a moment before The scientific demon
-tration of its falsy. Theo ogians have fought
against it, and they have invariably been driven
10 the wall. Truth, wherever found. is sacred
because it is TRUTH and had its birth in God
Mans opinions of truth never sacred be-
cause they have their birth in his imperfect ana
fallible reason. We know of no reason why 4
theological dogma IS any more sacred than I.
political dogma We cannot understand why,
III The interest of Christianity, il may not be a
freely discussed and examined and controve.t-
ed aS II dogma III political economy. At any
rate, we propose to do it whenever we haVf o.
rasion. We re happy 10 believe that the 5, Jrld
j. beginning 10 apprehend that, after all our dis
putes and discussions upon dOgmatir Christi
anity, religion consists of love to God and love
10 man, and has its final result and grand con-
summation in character. DIR. j. q. Holland.