The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-06-26
SUNDAY READING.
Go to church Sunday.

Go to church Sunday.
Short sermons are the best,
aThe Lord is my shepherd"
blessed are the meek, for they
shall inherit the earth.
aBlessed are they which do hunger
and thirst after righteousness
The happiest man in the world
ought to be the christian.
We want not only more religion
in our hearts, but more heart in our
religion,
There are too many christians in
the church who are like silent part
ners in business,
"our faith is in triumphant
Christ; our love isfor a rejected Christ;
our hope is in returning Christ"
You can put it down as a solemn
truth that If your religion has failed
to sweeten your temper you have the
wrong article
conscience, without the objective
guidance Of revelation, is utterly in
adequate TO lead us to Christ, or to
assure US of the way Of salvation.
A worldly mind esteems no knowl-
edge like that Of the world; but .
wise and pious man, before all other
kinds of knowledge, prefers that Of
God and his own soul.
For the purpose of salvation the
message of'God waits for no additions.
Whatever may be the speculative
mysteries, whose disclosure must be
remanded to the future, not mo-
ment need be lost by him who asks
what he must do 10 be saved.
All men are conscious Of aspiring
after happiness. The heart Of man,
being sinful, cannot be happy; and
being at the same time created for q
better condition than that which it
now finds itself, it cannot be content
with its misery.
The Scriptures teach no such doc.
trine as that the sleep Of the soul
shall be prolonged as that of the
flesh. Wherein then consists that
perfect blessedness which all true be.
levers are to acquire Immediately
after their departure from this worldP
The Psalmist says, II shall be salts.
fed when awake with thy likeness"
"If any pious young sister wishes
to serve the Lord by marrying a Bap-
tist preacher, let her stif around and
take a collection quietly for minis
terial education, W Bggtist Record
Coula,any plan be, devised more
calculated io.6ring tke 6lefgy into
disrepute and sridicule fhan tsnch a
suggestic6iss the above from ., sre-,
igiousl paper
What think Se Of Christi is a great
and most important question. If He
is only a creature, we do wrong TO
worship Him; but if He is divine,
we do wrong to withhold from Him
the homage which mankind owes to
divinity. Jesus Christ is what he
claims to be or else he is an impos-
ter; there is no middle ground. He
could not be a good man and claim
to be what He is not. If He is a
good man, then He must be what He
pretends to be, or else He is not.
A celebrated preacher said the
other day to a graduating classin one
of our principal theological semina-
ries: "Think nothing about filling
the pews. Think everything about
filling the hearts in the pews." It
is on such nonsense as this that our
young ministers are vainly expected
to grow spiritually fat. How can
there be hearts in the pews unless
there are people there? What is the
good Of seeking TO preach to empty
benches? By some of these men it is
considered sin to crowd church
with interested hearers, and theman
who does it is accounted sensation
aIlst'-N' Il o""'
When man comes to the conclu.
sion that he does not know anything
he is ready to graduate. Paul had
the monogram Of Christ stamped on
him......That man who loves bsbitu.
al solitude is a dangerous man......
The man who is really united to
Christ will want TO be united TO
Christ's church. There is nothing
so much lie as a maxim......It is
easy enough to float with the cur.
rent-a corpse can do that; it takes
live man to stem the current.....
When q man stops 10 argue with his
conscience the conscience always gets
the worst Of it.....In that little word
"no" is the pivot upon which many
a moral power has swung"...Th fear
of the Old Testament is the faith Of
the New.....It is possible for a man
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