The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-04-02
LITTLE SERMONS.

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goodness. for it is eternal A heart golden
with it is the only thing worth living for;
and every hand OF doing, little or great,
must be set TO the work Of fashioning that
gold into a cup into which Gods own hand
will distll the wine of immortal joy.
| Every deed has immortality stamped upon
d it. Every deed is immortal good or inn
mortal bad Every deed is the dross Of
the devil or the gold Of God And when
| the balances drop on the side OF the dross.
/ the devil takes the soul; when on the side
Of the gold, God takes it, On every bad
deed the devil stamps his image, and that
is the coin that passes current in hell. On
the gold Of every good deed, God stamps
his image, and that is the coin that passes
current in heaven. And forever man
must spend what be has earned. Every
day you are cnriching or impoyerishing
yourself, my brother, and remember that
you are doing it with your eyes open. You
are choosing through the die of each day,
eternal povertyor eternal wealth.
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1t is easy to sail with the tide and fair
wind; it takes skilful seaman and a fine
boat to sail against it in an unfavoring
wind
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Thoroughness is a seed Of success.
A thought is an embryonic act.
a good deed is sown not only in the
heart of another. but in our own heart,
and our own hand shall reap its harvest.
Likewise the bad. In everything mans
self is the field he is sowing with every
hand of doing; and himself shall be his
harvest. Every deed is born in the image
Of mans soul and every deed in its own
image begets the soul into new potency Of
being.
So
To be Gods, that is the only worthy and
abiding aim for life The heart that God
owns by the power Of his cleansing love,
taking hold of mans choices in the line of
righteousness, is jewel for the crown of
His everlasting triumph.
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Education in the hands Of Jesus Christ
is the lever that lifts earth to heaven.
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It is the burning finder of many hearts
that makes the conAagration of love
So
Beauty is a bond by which the hand tina,
can sign it grows rich in spiritual treas
ures.
So
\ furrou at time will ring harvest-s
chime.
Hatred is possessed as easy rs dirt The
kingdom of love is won by selfs hard con
quest.
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A foolish friends chatter is poison. but
a rise friend S advice is food
To live cut the best faith one has to-day
is to walk, if not IN the light. then toward
it.
Every mans life hangs on the toueh Of
Gods mercy Every man is alive to-day
because God has been mcrcifnl to him
If a man has candle burning in the
little dark cell of his ignorance, does that
free us from the obligation to lead him out
into the sunlight and freedom Of larger
and more perfect knowledge? suppose
that the heather with their little light get
at last to heaven, shall we refrain from
flooding their path with the truths full
light2 Because man away off through
thousand ages Of eternity is going to have
all the good that is in Gods heart to
give him, does that absolyc us from doing
him all the good we can now Tie fact is
that we are to do every good we can, little
or great, for every man we can in the
whole world, and let God take care of
heaven and hell. Fulfilling this obligation,
God will take care Of us; falling to fulfill
it, we pass into the eternal prison house of
selfislncss, out Of which we cannot come
until We have paid the utmost farthing.
Can We do any man any good is the ques-
ton out of which unfolds ananswer. whose
period is heaven or hell.
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A man mnst need before hen feed.
So
Desire is The taste Of the soul whereby it
chooses its food or its poison
1t is useless to catch bird for a bat
tered and broken cage.
Enthusiasm is the heat of the sonl
which warns the seeds Of truth and pur-
pose into life.
Money righteously earned and christianly
used is charmed with everlasting blessing.
now To WASH BLANKETS