The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-10-17
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

DlOtteu unReIs makes greater DlOt.
God made the soul TO correspond with
truth. Truth is its own evidence, as the
lightning flash is, as the blessed sun
shine is.
If We would begin by thanking God
for all the joys we owe him, we should
have little time left to complain Of our
veXatiOns.
If you are not right towards God, you
can never be so towards man; and this
is forever true, whether wits or rakes
allow 1t or not.
There are many things that are thorns
to our hopes until we have attained
them, and envenOmed arrows TO our
hearts when we have.
The vision OF a noble character, the
glimpse of new kind of virtue, does
not perish. A thing of goodness, like a
thing Of beauty, is a joy forever.
WhOsoever would be sustained by the
hand of God, let him constantly lean
upon it.; whosoever would be defended
by it, let him patiently repose himself
under 1t.
think when God makes his presence
felt through US, we are like the burning
bush; Moses never took any heed what
sort of a bush 1t was-he only saw the
brightness of the Lord.
There is a natural and necessary pro-
gression from the extreme of anarchy
TO that of tyranny; arbitrary power is
easily established on the ruins of liberty
abused to licentiousness.
No one can over.estimate his own
weakness, or the dangers to which he
Is constantly exposed; no one can over
state the strer 9Th, safety and comfort
of constantly abiding in Christ.
How idle boast, after all, is the i'm
mortality of a name! The idol of to-day
pushes the hero of yesterday out of our
recollection and will, in turn, be sup
planted by the successor of tomorrow.
When man pulls out his sixpence
and gives that when he is laying by
thousands of pounds, can only con-
slider that he forms pretty accurate
measurement of the value Of his reli-
gion.
Willmot, the infidel when dying, laid
his trembling, emaciated hands upon
the Sacred Volume, and exclaimed,
solemnly and with unwonted energy,
"The only objection against this Book
is a bad life !"
Things are saturated with the moral
law. There is no escape from it. Vio-
lets and grass preach IL; rain and snow,
wind and tide, every change, every
course in nature is nothing but dis
guised missionary.
There are regions beyond the most
distant nebulous outskirts of matter;
but no regions beyond the divine good
ness. We may conceive of tracts where
there are no worlds, but not of any
where there is no God Of mercy.
"If two angels" says Newton, "were
sent down from heaven to execute the
Divine command, and one was ap.
pointed to conduct an empire, and the
other to sweep a street, they would
feel no inclination to change employ
ment.
Keep your face toward the Sun of
and you will have before
you nothing but its bright light and
comforting heat. But turn your back
to it, and before you will be shadows
and darkness, and the chill will enter
your soul.
Alasl how little can human beings
read each other. "The heart knoweth
its own bitterness, and a stranger in
termeddleth not;" yet, after all, why
"Alas?" Is 1t not better that 1t should
0e so, than that our inmost soul should
be legible to allH
BY loves delightful influence the at
tack of i'll humor is resisted, the violence
of our passion abated, all the injuries of
the world alleviated, the bitter cup of
affliction sweetened, and the choicest
flowers plentifully strewed along the
most thorny paths of life.
We ought to have room for enthu-
siasts, even if they violate every rule of
grammar. A grand, laundering, ham
nering, laundering, whole-hearted
Boanerges is worth a regiment of very
prim reverend gentlemen, meek as
milk and-water, and soft as boiled par
ships.
To talk of doctrinal preaching, as
from practical preaching,
Or of practical as severed from doctrinal,
Is total perversion of terms. Doctrinal
preaching that does not lead to practice
and practical preaching that is not
based on doctrine, are alike absurd and
pOwerless.
elbow much easier it is to do great
thing than little thing" said DR..
Bushnell In commenting on success
full effort to win somewhat dissipated
young man to a new life in Christ, in
stead of laboring to induce him to give
lp one bad habit or another. Time is
Dften lost in Gods service by not at
enough, by not striving after
great things.
You may have strong, eagle-eyed
you will probably be en-
lbled to do great things In life, to work
wonders, to trample upon impossibili-
les. You may have sanguine hope
we'll, your life will pass brightly, not
yloomily. But the vision Of God as he
Q, to see the King in his beauty, is
,ouchsafed not to science nor to talent,
,ut only to purity and love.
"Refrain from these men," said Ga
nallel, "and let them alone; for If this
counsel or this work be of man 1t will
,ome to naught; but If 1t be Of God ye
,annot overthrow 1t; lest haply ye be
'ound even to fight against Cod" Now
'this counsel or this work" has stood.
Nay, more, 1t has not only become the
accepted religion of the whole civilized
world, but modern civilization Is built
lpon 1t.
As the tremulous needle, however
EASILY affected by foreign influences,
never ceases to vibrate till 1t finds rest
n the centre of attraction, so the sensi-
i've soul of the Christian, too easily
disturbed by external forces, finds no
'est but In God. If for moment the
,nemy Is permitted TO harass with aocu"
ations of guilt, In Him 1t finds pardon
md peace. In weakness 1t turns to Him
or strength--in darkness, for light; In