The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-08-27
" ritten for the MONITOR.
LITTLE SERMONS.


Written for the MONITOR.
LITTLE SERMONS.
BY J.. NJ. $.
There is not enough wealth in the world
to compensate for the deed that ought not
to be done.
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Righteousness, not riches, is life's truest
aim and only abiding gain.
Carving images and painting pictures
and bowling to them cannot do honor to
God. Nor can beautiful ritual or perfect
creed speak his praises. The true honor to
God is the doing of his will; and all wor-
ship that is not held to this is an idle moth
ing.
An engine does not leap to its full
strength at once. 1t comes to its full
power gradually. And so of successes.
We must come to them by quiet begin
nings, increasing their strength and fire.
quency until full steam is at it's full toll.
Mi nth holds fellow hands with serious
ness in making characters vine green
leaved with goodness and rich-clustered
with purpled purity.
God is the end toward which all actions
actions of the clean, faithful hand and low
ing heart as lone unto him, deserving and re-
ceiving it's reward from his own blessed and
bountcous hand. Even the things of daily
Gods sending through them answer to
the prayers which say ''Give us this day
our daily bread" are Gods service and
from him will receive its full reward, not
in daily bread only, but in heavenly worth,
making the soul nobly immortal.
The man of mortgages feeds famishing
on farms.
Habit is a chain, soft and pliabie enough
once to be broken by a little child's blow,
but now strong enough to defy a giants
strength.
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slow 10 the Held at morning,
Swift from the field at night;
such workman, you cannot trust him,
When he is out of your sight.
Who would get to heaven at last, must
have heaven in his heart and blossoming
from his hand.
When from the heart is banished sin,
No hopeless grief can enter in.
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Helplessness is defeat. Unless our
daughters are trained to self help, there
may come a time when for lack of skill
and power to help themselves, the heavy
hand of awful failure will crush them in
the dust. When for them we put all their
eggs in the basket of matrimony we can
not feel sure that some ones foot " i'll not
crush into the basket and beget a grief
which will bring moral disaster upon
them. Let their lives be SD shaped that
alone they can fight life's battles and win
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peace assured that it will he well with
them when our loving voice is stilled and
our strong arm is low lying in dust and
shadows of helplessncss.
Gods hand His blessings do often hold back,
That man for their coming may weave larger
sack.
Running rashly into danger is holding a
dagger for self-slaughter. The rash hand
holds not the truth safely nor wins it GER
tain victory. Though its canse he most just,
rashness helps the enemy. Es,llew it,
therefore, for a wise caution and the
purpose which attempts it has a burning
heart of carnestness; is held by the cool
and careful control of patience.
A sunny heart flashes dark tears through
and through with laughter until they go
like dew drops before the suns warm
kisses.
As the blossom is wrapped up in the
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himself. And as the blossom for great
est richness needs the best soil, 81 man for
his highest success needs the most favor
ing soil of opportunity.
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The wear and tear of trade may be nm
IA, orable to the immediate beauty of
! character. But to characters final beauty
it has under hand of integrity the relation
ship of works, home din to the perfected
| cathedral with its soft lights and mellow
music.
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Cowardly fear may bring the soul into
the refuge of the Rock of Ages. But If it
does not there become brave in the moral
nobleness of Jesus its flight has been in
vain, and IFS safety is danger.
Where half the truth is believed is a
good place TO begin the proclamation of
the whole truth. And yet pride in that
half truth may lift an unsurmountable
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