The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1885-11-27

Like nightmares dim, distorted dreams.
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The coming of Jesus that makes glad is
not a visible appearing to walk again
among the SONS of men. 1t is an appear
ing in his love that makes the heart clean;
an appearing in his truth that strengthens
the moral nature; an appearing in bis com
fort for every sorrow: an appearing in his
courage for every encouragement: an APP
pearing in his laughter of holiness for every
tear of sin; an appearing in his hope that
smites doubts cloud with loves rainbow
glOries that promise the dawning ofa better
day; an appearing in his will by MS done
unto being made in the likeness of his glad
and holy image; an appearing in our death
with his life shifting the shadows of the
grave with the very smiles of our Father
as they break from his heart, glad that his
child has won home at last. Jesus is COM
ing, is come. and that is why Gods sad
and SHINING sons are going. going, mp ont
of their sorrow into his comfort. up out of
their hate into his love, up ont of their
ignorance into his knowledge, up out of
their weakness into his strength. up out of
their ugliness of sin into his beauty of holt
ness, up ont of their Swallowed homes into
his home, bright as his infinite heart ofloye;
up out of the image of self-will and defile-
ment into the likeness of his image and
purity, up out of death into his life, up
out of earth into heaven. up out of self in
to God, along all the dark and shining
way of life anguisI-wrought and smile
hallowed with His own hand leading us
His own pierced hand leading MS for our
glory, the glory in which we shall with
Him be glorified.
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Too slow,
Cannot go.
Too hard,
viii retard.
Twixt hard and slow
achievements grow.
So
There is "a glare in public gaze
That gilds the wrong in silver haze.
And gives to moral bad the crown
That worthy shines, but with goods purple
gown.
He sduuesS lidt He's " ine rose Oh Joy
is the fact that the rose fades, leaving only
the thorn. But the joy that grows on the
burning bush of the beauty of holiness has
this excellence, that the thorns waste away
and the rose only remains, "a flower that
blooms eternal in heaven.
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Beauty and cheer to all lieth near,
But the dim far away lets not the eye stay
Long enough on their face to know their rare
The far away kissed proves the ghost OF the
mist:
But with near lips cstress abiding joys bless.
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Gods time is his own, and he gives it to
us only by the hour And our best pre-
p~aration for the triumphant using of the
new hour is a noble using of the present
hour. If this hour is given grandly to the
glory of God in the good of our brother,
the next win come as a shining angel, bear
ing not curses, but blessings immortal in
its hands: and into our hearts those hands
will empty their treasures.
The comfort of the christian is that with
the shifting of deaths dark wing the final
sorrow has come, with which all sorrow
passes away, and all Joy comes-the JOY
that is always the light Of sorrows
shadows.
Supposition is oft an inquisition.
Sow a ~loafer, reap a nothing.
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SOW Il store box with man's seal,
And You'll reap a worthless cheat.
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The beauty of an autumn leaf is the
glory of a completed life. The splendor
of Autumn is the beauty of we'll done.
Whose lips through every day faithfulness
are shaping to shout well done shall be
smitten through and through with the
TRANSPORTATION of that faithfulness as he
stands face to face with his God.
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A woman's hand is shaHed in idieness
and glorifed in service. Nothing is the
lone for others. is one of the fairest
daughters of God. To be beautiful for
time is the DEVILS hooking disappoint-
ment; but to be beautiful for eternity is
Gods most hallowed satisfaction. The
fading beauty lies in the appearing; the
abiding lies in the serving.
SIS
Untoiled for success
Characters loss must confess.