Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1878-11-24
THE DAY.

EOAOCIACAo 4CA DCAudy ACdOlAS'
. Oh, for a lowly, cOntrite heart,
Believing, true and clean !
Which neither life nor death can part
From him that dwells within.
y heart in every thought renewed,
And full of love divine;
Perfect aud right and pure and good,
A copy, Lord, Of Thine.
The chief properties of wisdom are
10 be mindful of things past, careful oil
things present, prOvident of things to
come.
Most Of Us pass our lives in regret
! ting the past, complaining of the
! present. aud iudulging false hopes OF
! the future
There are two things which ought to
teach Us to think but 10 eauly of human
glory: The very best men have had
their calumniatoTs, the very worst
| their panegyrists.
There is none under heaven that can
comfort me but thou, my God, the
heavenly physician of souls, that
strikest and healest, bringest into h ell
and drawest out sgain.
To Indulge anger is to admit Satan as
guest but TO indulge In malice is to
close the door upon him as an inmate !;
in the one he finds a transient lodging,
IN the other permanent home.
When alone we have our thoughts
to watch; in the family, our temper :;
in society, our tongues. We should
endesvOr to illustrate our devotions in
the morning by cur conduct through
the day.
He that knows how to pray has the
secret of support in trouble, and of
relief from anxiety; the power OF
soothing every care, and filling the
soul win entire trust aud confidence
for the future.
Duty is a power which rises with us
ia the morning, and goes to rest with
Us at night. 1t Is cO-eXtensive with
the action Of our Intelligence. II is
the shadow which eIeaves to us, go
where We will, aud which only leaves
us when we leave the light OF life
Gladstone.
A man who r, ceives the truth of
God TO give iJ forth again, is like the
sea Of Gali!ee. He is kept clear and
sweet by the passage of the stream.
He who ab>GTOs without giving back
il like the Dead Sea, which is left
stagnaut and bitter because 1T has no
outlet.
The man who lives right and is right |
has more power in his silence than an
other who lives differently has by |
his words. Character is like bells,
" hich ring out sweet music, and
which, when touched accidentally
even, resOund with sweet music.
When misfortunes happen to such
as dissent from us i'm matters of reiig>
on, We call them judgments; when
% those Of our own sect, we call them
Tials; when TO persons neither way
iisu Uguished, We are content to at
tribute them to the settled course of
things.
When once the soul by contempla-
ion is raised To any right apprecia-
lou OF the divine projections, and the
Oretastes of celestial bliss, the glitter
IF the world will 20 more dazzle his
yes than the faint luster of glow
worm will trouble the eagle, after it
hath been beb0ldiDg the sun.-ScOU-
,GL
Murmur at nO,hiDg. II our ills are
eparable it is ungTateful; if remedi-
ess, it is vain. A Christian builds bis
Ortunes on better foundation than
tOicism be is pleased at everything
hat happens, because he knows il
could not happen il it did not please
Sod, aud that which pleases God must
De best.
Two things characterize every
Church that is in the highest cOndi-
ion of spiritual health. The one is
that they all worship, the other that
they all work. The first appertains
more directly To the heart the second |
appertsins as Well to the head, the
hands and purse. The fullest combi-
nation of the two would almost real
re the ideal of Church life in its
highest form Theodore L. CLyIer.
Grace must always be growing. He
hat sits down COntented with the
grace he has, and is not press ng for
ward toward perfection and striving
O grow in grace, and to get the habits
# it more strengthened and cons
irmed, and the actings of it more
cared that he hath no grace at ALL
Henry.
As John Newton, in his old age ,
cad the expression, "By the grace of
iOd, [ am what 1 am" he paused for
moment, and then uttered this affect
ng sOlilOquy: Il am not what ! :
ught to be; an how imperfect and ,
what 1 wish to be; I
bhor that which is evil, and would
leave to that which is good-not W hat s
hope to be soon shall put off NOR i
ality, and with it all sin and inIper-
ectiOn! But though l am not what
ught TO be, or what / hope to be, yet
can truly say | am not what | once
7as, the slave of sin and Satan and
nth the apostle L can thankfully say,
BY the grace of God, l am what |