The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-06-18
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LITTLE SERMONS

narrow way Of righteousness with the
sunlight Of brother love and Father care
all about us shining, we are in the shining
/ that shineth more and more unto the per-
feet day. But who thinks he has already
attainedunto thatday is yeti the dark, aud
/ the. shadow Of a spiritual pride is all about
! him. My brother is being made | will
| not Judge him as if he were made. no more
than 1 will Judge the timbers on the dock
that are yet to be ship, nor the almost
formless piece of marble that is yet To be a
| statue glowing with strange and wonderful
beauty. Happy he who knows his brother
to be but being made and hath for him.
therefore, the largest charity aud the most
patient hope
That heart is morally dead that does not
stir at the moral misery of the world,
though it be beautiful in refinement and
happy in physical comfort. just as that
heart is brutal that does not stir 10 its
depths over the physical misery Of man.
lie whose check is sealded with brothers
er's hurt, who aches with the injustice of
a brothers wrong is in the footsteps Of the
Master, and has His blessed spirit breath
ing throughout the soul. But who is SO
self-enwrapped as to care nothing for his
brother is in fellowship with the devil,
and viii come to the grief and misery Of
moral ruin, coming, too, by way Of deiiber-
ate, moral self-slaughter
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The near and not the far is the heart Of
true happiness and success. In longing
after the far duty there is heart-break, in
touching the near there is laughter break
ing To It's song i'll the heart. In thinking
OF the far away success there is but the
misery Of disappointment: in laying hold
of the possible within our reach we are
ungrieyed of failure, and arm in arm sue
cess walks with MS. Dream of the future
and waste to-day Forget the future in
to-days's duties done, joys laughed in and
griefs nobly met, and tomorrow win come
with a brighter face IF awakening than
magic brush Of dream could ever paint
Now is the time Of joy; to-day is the day
Of success. Now and to-day are not only
the time of the souls salvation, but tie
time of laughter, the hour Of success, and
the now Of noby meeting grief and win
ming to the heart its soul of goodness Ia
yonr now make your then beautiful; in
yonr to-day write the fine melodies that
the lips Of your tomorrow will sing with
that fine euchantment of faithfnlness that
leads tie soul to heaven 10 the rythmi-
cal beat Of inspiring song.
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In the common blood af creation is the
tie Of mars brotherhood and who would
obliteFate and destroy this bond sets his
hand against the Omnipotent Maker Of all
men. Who does not honor this bond Of
brotherhood. does not honor tie Thinker
who has thought all the races OF men from
a common heart beat Every man is my
brother demanding from me a brothers
love and duty; and his Father and my
Father will ask of us the fnIfillment - our
brotherhood. the helping Of each other to
know the Father and grow like Him in do
ing His blessed will in the midst Of this
darkness out of which we are being born IN
to His own eternal beauty
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God has freishted every thing in nature
with message to man, hat with eager
ears he must listen for its voice, and with
earnest eyes lie must watch for its face Of
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sweet-voieed angels to the deaf and the
blind. Every leaf is the rustling of an
angels wing, every flash of beauty is the
CLEAN Of an angels eye, every hour is an
angels footstep, every laughter is the voice
Of an angel singing, every grief is the
shadow Of an angel falling atlwart rs as
It's radient hands open with some priceless
treasure from our Father. The very air
is full Of ministerng angels sent forth from
God ON mission Of love. Faith secs them.
touches ofglory on the soul Love every
" here: love at the root of all things; the
universe but the thought of loving heart
and taking shape and growing towards lis
blossom. Every one of us has an Almighty
Father, and through imperieeton and pain,
through grief and JOY, through life and
death, through all lifes sad mysteries.
these are written in pain. His hand is at
work. and ii bears a wound as the indabi-
table seal Of its loving faithfnlness. BE of
good eheer What is written inthe mystery
Of pain is written in love, and we shall yet
be able 10 read its meaning in shining let
tiers ana with singing hearts.
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Life's worth lies in what a man does.
What he has is only opportunity; what he
docs is opportunity turned inte achieve
ment What he has is only seed; what he
does is harvest. 1t is Of the deeds dome
that we are to give an account. And in
this will be considered the deeds not done,
for the man who hid his one talent re-
ceived punishment for not having wrought
it into two And So must every man lac at
work with what he has, be it little on be il
much. working il into noble doing that
will bring upon him, from God, noble
judgment A little growing the harvest