The Penn's Grove record., 1883-09-01
Sunday Reading.

with his enemy ; but in passing 1t over
he is superior.
Adversely is the trial of principle
without it, a man hardly knows whethei
he is honest or not.
Be loving, and you will never wan
for love be humble, and you will new
er want for guiding.
Life is a battle. From its earliesi
dawn to its latest breath we are stIPg
Cling with something. ~
The worst enemy which the churcl
has in this world is the open saloons
The saloons of to-day are doing more
to empty Sabbath-schools and paralyze
the church in her efforts to make the
world better, than all other agencies
combined. -Lerer.
lie that has never known adversely
is but half acquainted with others Oh
with himself. Constant success shows
us but one side of the world, for, as it
surrounds us with friends who will tell
us only our merits, so it silences those
enemies from whom alone we can learn
our defects.
Life is not s very different, as one
might think, east or west, in country or
in city. Anywhere a man may be a
gentleman if he will. Anywhere one
may do honest, faithful work, if he
will. Anywhere one may live a pure
and noble life, doing good, il he will,
and these are the works of a man.
TIE true use of Sunday morally is to
spend it reviving ones moral conscious
ness or conscience. There is a portion
of our nature that is dwarfed six days.
Sometimes it is dwarfed by selishness,
sometimes by solitude, again by evsd-
ing our family kindness and filial or
parental affection. Sunday should be
the restoring day for mans self respect,
the rest-day for his more enslaved fac
ulties, the joy day of his week.
How TO ENJOY LIFE.-Avoid all
boastings and e~xaggerations, backbit-
ing, abuse, and eyil-speaking, slang
phrases, and oaths in conversation |; de-
preciate no mans qualities, and accept
Inequalities of the humblest kind in a
hearty and a~ppreciative name avoid
giving offense, and, if you do offend,
have the manliness to apologize infuse
as much elegance as possible into your
thoughts as well as your actions and,
as you avoid yulgarities, you will in
crease the enjoyment of life, and grow
in the respect of Others.
THE IRREvERENcE OF THE Ace
In his sermon last Sunday, MI. Tai
mage spoke from Isaiah vi, part of
verse 2, describing the glory of the
seraphim. He deplored the irreverence
OF this age toward parents, and toward
serious and sacred things. st is the
finite confronting the infinite it is like
a tack-hammer trying to break a thun-
derbolt, - he said. "Don't be fippant
about God don't joke about death ;
don't make fun of the Bible don't de-
ride eternity. The brightest and
mightiest of angels take no familiarities
with God"
Whatever advantage we may possess
over others, we should not permit it to
make us vain, or to fill us with self
conceit. "Pride," we are told, ssgoeth
before a fall, y and is indeed often one
of the principal causes which leads to
that end. 1t naturally excites the en-
Wy and opposition of others and neces-
sarily leads to trouble. Little minds
are pulled up with a sense of their
greatness and Importance, but the truly
wise and good are always humble and
unasssuming. Our true wisdom is to
cultivate a spirit of humility under the
most prosperous circumstances. We
should never permit our present attain
ments, moi the prospect of future adj
vancement, to make us vain. God can
easily humble our pride, and make us
feel how little we are.
SIN our midnight explorations we
saw that all the scenes Of wickedness
were under the enchantment of the
wine cup. That was what flushed the
cheeks of patrons who came in. That
was what staggered the steps of patrons
as they went out. The officers of the
law tell us that nearly all the men who
go into the shambles of death, go in in
toxicated-the mental and spiritual
| abolished for the time that the brute
may triumph. Tell me that a young
man drinks and / know the whole story.
| If he become a captive of the wine cup,
he will become a captive of all other
| vices. No one ever knows drunken
ness alone that is the carrion crow
that goes in a flock, when you see that
beak ahead you may know the others
are coming. In other words the wine
| cup unbalances and dethrones the
better Judgment and leaves n the
prey of all evil appetites that may
choose to alight on the soul. "-Tal-
mage.
BREAD UPON THE WATERs.-Many
are the illustrations of the truth that a
great result may flow from an apparent
ly trivial cause.
The following story well illustrates
this truth. 1t is related by the dis
tinguished Archibald Alexander, who
was a professor in the theological
seminary at Princeton. DIR. Alexander
says
In attending commencement at Dart
mouth college, in 1901, | became ac-
! quainted with Rev. DIR. Packard, OF
| Shelbourne. Mass. In travelling with