The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1883-10-06
Religious Sentiments.


No, is a surely, honest fellow,
speaks his mind rough and round at
once.
--"Wheelbarrow religion" is what
Richard Baxter said some persons had
who lived in his day that is, they
went along when they were showed.
The same may be said of many living
to-day.
God never accepts good inclina-
tion instead of good action, where
that action may be done nay SO much
the contrary, that if good inclination
be not seconded by good action, the
want of that action is made so much
the more criminal and inexeusable.
I'm the estimation of the thinking
class, men of deeds are held in high
esteem. but the unthinking prefer men
of CAB 1t is not the men who do, but
/ the men who say, that generally attract
the greatest attention and, for the time
being, produce the greatest sensation.
But sound and sense are two very diff
terent things, and we should be govern
ed by the former and not the latter.
Self-Praise. sesHsFF ID
Remember the good old rabbi who
was awakened by one of his twelve Sons
| saying: "Behold my eleven brothers
lie sleeping, and am the only one who
wakens to praise and pray" "Son, !"
said the wise father, "you had better
be asleep too, than wake to censure
your brothers." No fault can be as
bad as the feeling which is quick to
seek and speak of other peoples wrongs.
The very habit of a godly life helps
to keep one from temptation and sin.
There are times, perhaps, when spirit
uality is at low ebb in the heart, and
little of Gods sweet love seems to have
place therein. Then this habit of cor
rect living-a habit acquired through
years of watchful prayer and persistent
purpose---holds the man 10 circum-
spectness, and keeps him from many
things that might soil his soul.
In order to enjoy the present it is
necessary to be intent upon the pres
ent. To be doing one thing and think
ing Of another is very unsatisfactory
mode of spending life. Some people
are always wishing themselves some
where but where they are, or thinking
of something else than what they are
doing, or of somebody else than to
whom they are talking. This is the
way to enjoy nothing well, and to please
nobody.
What the Bible has Accomplished.
| The least and most hopeful among us
are, know, sometimes disposed to des.
pondency and almost to despair, as they
witness such floods of lawlessness and
infidelity swelling and sweeping ovel
our OVID and other lands, dashlng dowI
SO many of the old landmarks of moral
ity and religion. But we may all TAXI
courage in thinking of all the great ant
glorious things which the bible has al
ready done for mankind since the open
ing of the christian era, and which car
never be lost. From what other sourc,
has all true civilization, directly or in
directly, eman ated ? Whatotherinflu
ence has so elevated humanity, so liftet
the poor and humble, 80 freed the op
pressed, so enlightened the ignorant, s
inculcated peace and good will amonI
the nations, 80 proclaimed the brother
hood of man under a common father, 8
restrained and rebuked vice and crime
and brought the indispensable sanctio
future responsibility and future judg
ment to the support of earthly laws an
human government ? From what othe
pages than those of the bible have a
the noble philanthTepies Of modern time
deprived their incentives and examples
What can legislation do but confel
that all its laborious statutes are lit
more than the detailed application
existing society of the laws first prom
ulgated on Sinai, and of the two gres
commandments into which those Law
> were condensed and crystalzed by Hi
who died on Calvary And eve
science, after all the marvellous disco
= cries it has of late accomplished, an
/, all the signal triumPs it is daily achie'
ing now soaring to the skies, question
) ing each particular and comet and +
: motest nobula, and analyizing the tin
% and texture of the sun itself no
y sounding the depths of the sea, sI
. spreading out its countless content
animate and inanimate, to be the su
. ject of an exposition for princes to i
augurate and the world to admire no
= : searching and exploring the caves al
caverns of the earth, and laying bare
: our insatiate gaze the long-buried tres
: uros of 1lliou or Assor, or the hard
less interesting outcomes of mounds al
= shell-heaps in our own land and nc
y suspended over the broad current whi
:. had so long separated two great sist
" " cities that 81 upendous bridge over whi
q - travel and traffic may pass unimped
- - from hour to hour, and look down up
- - the tall ships sailing freely benea
- them-even science, say, in all t
~ ~ just pride of these and hundred otl
W successes, has never found, never a
can find, any other fixed and steadf
point of departure, or any other s,
he and final resting-place to fall upon, sc
ny in that sublime announcement, in /
n very first verse of the bible: ''In