Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-08-13
RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.

RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.
Religion worships God, while super
stition profanes that worship.
The preacher and the teacher must
possess the accent of conviction.
Our character is but the stamp on
our souls of the free choice of good or
evil we have made through -Gcikie.
The way to obtain peace with our
friends and success against our enemiee,
is to make God our friend and keep
ourselves in His love.
The reason why we find so many
dark places in the Bible is, for the most
part, because there are so many dark
places in our hearts.
Prayer and praise are like the double
motion of the lungs; the air that is
drawn by prayer is breathed forth again
by thanksgiving.-Goodpln.
1t is the worst devel when he cannot
see any devil, for then perhaps the ras-
cal has got inside of us and is ready to.
give us deadly stab.-Spurgeon.
Study rather to fill your mind than
your Golfers, knowing that gold and
silver were originally mingled with
dirt, until avarice and ambition parted
them.
There is a good deal of piety in the
world which goes fishing on Sunday,
and then sin gs or whistles a Moody
and Sankey hymn to keep up the form
of religion.
Let your religion be seen. Lamps do
not talk, but they do shine. A light
house sounds no drum, it beats no gong;
yet far over the waters its friendly light
is seen by the mariner.
The worst days of darkness through
which have ever passed, have been
greatly alleviated by throwing myself
with all my energy into some work re-
lating to others.-LiRcOln.
He through whom God speaks is for
the time wholly under divine influence.
The Divine Spirit never stammers. The
voice of inspiration comes to us in full,
round tones.-&anddrd.
There is no greater instance of weak
and pusillanimOus temper than for a
man to pass his whole life in opposition
to his own sentiments, and not dare to
bewhat he thinks he ought to be.
allow many Gods are there" was
once said to little boy. "One," was
the reply. "How do you know there is
only one?" because there is no room
for more, for the one God fills heaven
and earth"
In the height ofthy prosperity expect
adversely, but fear it not; if it come not,
thou art the more Sweetly possessed of
the happiness thou hast, and the more
strongly confirmed; if it come, thou art
the more gently dispossessed Ofthe hap
piness thou hadst, and the more firmly
prepared'-Frdncis QudrLes.
If the church would have her face
shine she must go up into the mount
and be alone with God. If she would
have her courts of worship resouDd
with. eucharistic praises she must open
her eyes and see humanity lying lame
at the temple gates, and heal it in the
miraculous name of Jesus.-BishOp
Huntington.
The success of the gospel under the
circumstances of its first application is
one of the most wonderful events in
history. The obstacles to be overcome
were too great to be surmounted by
human effort alone. Nothing but di-
vine impulse could have caused it to
make such progress as was accomplish
ed during the first century.
Who shall say that the hand that
ehastens is not the hand of love, when
it leads out of the conceit and danger of
self-pride, and the inordinate eXaltas
ton of selfplanning and sufficiency
into the experience where life is enrich
Cd with the fruit Of humanity and those
fikfsies which havS their soqzpariRu Di-
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Laws ars rs sh1ll, ths caSko< contsiD-
ms tlit j6l%1. In After years, when the !.
level b sek, Whef the prifzciple Is liked
IA ON mature, the laW is laid aside. Let
the young practise virtue under re-
traiSts e hesds b, Md in age the prac-
tiee VIA b hattrai.
A true love of tie church will not get
up and look out The first thing to see
what kind of atay it is going to be; but
the habit of church-going will be so
formed that he win not have to decide
the question anew every Sunday morn
ing. HE that observeth the wind shall
not SOW, and that regardeth the clouds
shall not reap.-Jndson.
There are some persons who are con-
stantly asking for special rules OF life.
They would have an individual Bible
with particular instructions for each
hour of their lives; but Christ dealt
with great principles which are to be
the basis and motive Of all action, and
from these, with the aid of his Spirit,
we are to draw out our own appliea-
tions.-Golden RlGe.
One Of the best answers an inhdel
ever received was made by an old lady
to whom he remarked that he didn't
believe in God he couldn't see. "Do
you believe you have any brains?" she
asked. "Of course" was his reply. "Did
you ever see them% The answer came
family, "No." "Did any one else ever
see them%'-and the controversy came
to sudden close.
While the idea of the Protestant Sab
bath is trailed in the dust, we cannot
expect to have prosperity. Integrity
among men must be built upon the
granite Of the fear of God. Summer ir.
religion is as inexcusable as irreligion in
any other season. And Christians should
look at home and see whether or not
they are guilty in this thing.-Christidn
h,teligencer.
Inspiration has no explanation: it
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