St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-07-04
Reiginns Rrading.
When Shall We Seek God ?


II: l.
To-day, if we will hear his voice
harden not your hearts. Heb. 3: z.
Seek We the Lord while he may be
found, call We upon him while he is
near. lisa. SIS :6.
Boast not thyself of Tomorrow; fol
thou knowest not what a day may
bring forth. Prov. 81: l.
Give glory to God before he cause
darkness, and before your feet stumble
upon the dark mountains. Jer. ID: 10.
Behold, the voice of the cry of the
daughter of my people: The
harvest is past, the summer is ended,
and we are not saved. Jer. 8: 10, 20.
Now is the accepted time; behold
now is the day of salvation. 2 Cor. 6: 2.
A TELLING EPITAPH.-There GER
.tainly could not be a grander or more
beautiful tribute of praise rendered to
any man than the simple inscription on
the mural tablet of a Christian church
in Aneityum, in the South Seas, to the
memory of the Rev. DR.. John Geddie,
the pioneer missionary in that field:
WHEN HE CAME HERE,
THERE WERE NO CHRISTIANS:
WHEN HE WENT AWAY,
THERE WE'RE NO HEATHER.
Surely God says truly, that "honOr
shall uphold the humble in spirit"
- "They that feared the Lord
spake often one to another, and the
Lord heard it, and hearkened, and a
book of remembrance was written for
them" 1t is a striking picture that rep
resents the Almighty as hearkening in
tentIy to the conversation of good men,
and taking notes of it in "a book of re-
membrance."- Observer.
DIR. BACON's VIEW OF IT.-As for
all those theories which tell the sinner
that if he dies in his sins he shall have
another opportunity; which forget the
grandeur and awfulness of Gods moral
government which undertake to know
more than Christ dared to teach about
the Fathers tenderness which insist
that the divine justice eXhausts itself in
merely reformatory discipline, and
which tend to exclude from legislation,
as well as firm theology, the very idea
of punishment have no fellowship
with them, and if l had a pulpit, no
preacher of those theories should stand IN
it acith my consent Behold, nOW is the
accepted time, and nOW or nerer is the
deep undertone of the gospel in its call
to repentance and its offer of salvation.
Rev. Leonard Bacon, ID. ID.
ABOVE ALL THAT WE ASK OR THINK.
Our Heavenly Father always sends
his children the things they ask, or bet
ter things. He answers their petitions
in kind or in kindness but, while we
think only of ease, he consults our
profit. We are urgent about the body :;
he is about the soul : we call for present
comfort he considers our everlasting
rest and therefore, when he sends not
the very things we ask, he hears and
answers us by sending greater than we
can ask or think.-R. Cecil.
OUR.-Much of the practical difficulty
of the Lords prayer lies assuredly i'll
the first word of it. How can we look
round upon the people whom we.
habitually feel to be separated from
us by almost impossible barriers, who
are above us so that we cannot reach
them, or so far beneath us that the
slightest recognition of them is an act
of gracious cOndescension upon people
of an opposite faction from our own,
whom we denOunce as utterly evil
upon men whom we have reason to
despise; upon the actual wrOng-Goers
of society, those who have made them
selves vile and who are seeking to
make it vile: and then teach ourselves
that in the very highest exercise of our
lives these are associated with us; that
when we pray, we are praying for them;
that if we do not carry their sins to a
throne of grace, we do not carry our
own; that all the good we hope to OBJ
tain there belongs to them just as much
as to us ? Yet all this is included
in the word "our"!-F d. Maurice.
Our Daughters.
Perhaps one of the most lamentable
errors of the present day is the manner
in which our girls are trained. While