Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1878-11-27

not.
What is more unhappy than the
happiness of sinnersS
The pleasure OF doing good is tho
only pleasure that never wears out
Human things must be known TO be
loved but divine things must be loved
TO be known.
desire, while in the world, to go
with the gospel stream, though little
one, for il runs into the ocean Of etern-
al lite.
God promised forgiveness to your
repentance but he has not promised
tomorrow to your procrastination.
Ho that will be hero will barely be
man but he that will be nothing but
docr Of his work is sure OF his man
hood
Give man such heart as the Son
of God describes in the beatitudes,
and whole universe of sorrow cannot
rob him Of his blessedness.
The character Of wise man consists
in three things To do himself what
he tells others to do to act on no oc-
casion contrary to justice, and to bear
with the weaknesses of those about
him.
Ah well il is for us that God is Il
loving Father, who takes our very
prayers and thanksgivings rather Tor
what we mean than for what they are
just as parents smile on the trailing
weeds that their ignorant little ones
bring Tor flowers
There is nothing nobler on earth
than taking care that somebody else
shall not suffer needlessly. The child
who grows up with such spirit al
ways active in him, may make his
home in heaven upon earth and he
will never know what it IS TO be unlov.
ed or iriendless.
But If you have to walk with a
crutch or must keep indoors, or sit
wrapped in a loose gown, do not con-
clude you ara supertluity. He who
bears heroicaIly physical distress, and
looks for the sunshine that falls upon
the sick pillow, will make record that
will read well when words are no
, more.
= Whatever strange and scandalous
cccentrcities the ministry has some.
times witnessed, this is certainly true,
and is salways aysoncouraging that no man
permanently succeeds init who cannot
make men believe that he is pure and
devoted, and the only sure and lasting
way TO make men believe in ones de-
votion aud purity is to be what one
wishes to be believed to be.
"Sing, sweet nightengale," said a
t shepherd TO the silent songstress, on
f lovely evening in the spring. "Ah,"
replied the nightengalc, "the frogs make
such noise that have lost all pleas
ure in singing dost thou not hear
/ them 2" 81 hear them indeed" return
) ed the shepherd; "but thy silence is the
1 cause OF my hearing them" What
'esSVh W Nu' o.,
often alioWs tne Worus VI 'no "'o'''S''
CT 10 oe neOru'
; II ia not the great sermons that ac
compish tho most beneiicence for the
world. They are good in their places,
but for practical effect the earnest
o heartIhs'ructioh .nae % sNen -
:. more iamlllar ministry Is .nat wn'cn'
!. IN the long run, prouuces .ne oos. ro-
q suit III Is goou 'nIhg 10 naSv ,ioos
large enough lor nias's M tna' . M sual .va' ,;.',
h the nags OF the haoions' ous 'no'e 'lni,
Q Der IS needed ior FENCES anu h,o"cpu ,c
n than ior the haV'es oi 'no Moi'u. ino
= forests that oring US comfort ior oui
homes are the real peheiac'ors'
n pol;,;ors ac,ivitv ia but the more
|. ;n,nnse NAV of tho moral nature its
n n,oyomcpt under the leading facts of
4 mr. sniri,nsI relations in life A false
d religion il the most fatal of anodynes
; TO the CONSCIENTIOUS insigntoi tno iulnu,
and times oil quiet submission 70 LUIS
5 external tyranny OF prlest r'.uai anu
creed, should be instanced, not as OK
amples of the activity of the moral SEN
tments, but of their repression and
perversion. The fungi that feeds up
on a tree, consuming It's native quality,
are no measure of its own vital force.
:, n,. ,,,,, ,e
,. sins committed in concert is distributed /;
d and that if there be thousand men
's banded and handed together in wick
81 edness each shall have but the one