Sharp County record., 1886-12-09

I other daughter, whose face was um,o,,
with the brightness of another world y
the day when the Lord took her into ,y
Heavenly keeping years ago l should aas
wonder if, after all, these parents pass tSH NV
evening of their life in the same church aU
differences of church preference overcoma W.
by the JOY of being in the house of GnS
where their children were prepared ~.
usefulness and Heaven.
But can give you recipe for rpnir,
your children. fpgrily contend in tbe
household that yC 'hurch is right and tbo
church of your co mon is wrong Brnn
sneer and carcat, E, to emphasize Won.
opinions and your children will make NJ
their minds that religion is a sham, anS
they will have none of it. In the northeas,
storm of domestic controversy the rose of
sharon and the lily of the vaIIor
will not grow. Fight about ano:
tolic succession; fight about election and
free agency; fight about baptismA
fight about the bishopric; Robi y
about gown and surplice, and tha
religious prospects of your children will ba
left dead on the field You will be as mn,
fortunate as Charles, Duke of Burgundy
who in battle lost diamond the value ofa
nation. for in your fright you will lose tbo
level of salvation for your entire housa,
hold. There is nothing against the advo.
cacy of your own religious theories. Uso
all forcible argument, bring all telingl.
ustrations array all demonstrative facts
but let there be no acerbity, no stingipe
retort no mean inslnuatiOn, no supercij
iousness, as though all others were wrong
and you infallibly right
Take hint from astronomy III,
Ptolemaic system made the earth the cen. l
ter of the solar system and every thing
was thought to turn round the earth. BDt
the Copernican system came and made
the sun the center, around which the
nlanets revolve1. The bigot makes hi,
| little belief the center Of every thing, bn
the large Christian makes the Sun Of
Righteousness the center, and all denomi
nations, without any clashing, and each
its own light aad in its own sphere, re.
| volving around it.
Over the tomb of Dean Stanley, in West.
minister Abbey, is the passage of Script
ure: "Thv commandments are exceeding
| broad.n Let no man crowd US on to path
like the bridge Al Sirat, which the Moham.
medan thinks leads from this world over
the abyss of hell into paradise, the breadth
Of the bridge less than the web Of astarvei
spider, or the edge Of a sword or razor,
off the edges of which many fall. No; while
the way is not wide enough to take withw
any of our sins, it is wide enough for all
Christian believers to pass without peril
| into everlasting safety.
But do not any OF you depend upon what
YOU call a sound creed for salvation, A NAV
NAV own all the statutes of the State Of <
New York, and yet not be lawyer, and
! man NAV own all the best medicine treat
ises, and not be a physician; and aman may
own all the best works on painting and .
architecture, and not be either painter Or
architect; and a man may own all the
sound creeds in the world, and yet not bea
Christian. Not what you have in your heal .
or on your tongue, but in your heart and in |
your life, will decide every thing
In olden times in England, before tho
modern street lamps were invented, every
househs,l. was expected to have a lantern
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