Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-03-28
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

RELIGIOUS AND EDOCA iONAEs
There wants nothing but believ-
ing prayer to turn the promise into a
performance.
The passion of acquiring riches in
order to support vain expense cor
rupts the purest souls.
There is no Christian duty that is
not to be seasoned and set off with
cheerfulness. -Ililton.
1t is great mercy to enjoy the
gospel of peace, but a greater to enjoy
the peace of the gospel.
When a great truth really fills the
mind it naturally seeks to find express
sion in speech. 1t is then more diff
cult to restrain ones self from speak
ing than it is to speak.
If God tells us any thing, we ac-
cept it as sure, unquestionable, infalli-
BILE truth. If he walls any thing we de-
sire to leave it vailed, for the limit of
revelation is the limit of our faith.
The piety that Christ smiles upon
is piety that will stand pinch. and
face storm; that would rather eat an
honest crust, than fare sumptuously on
unholy gains; that gladly gives up its
couch of ease to sally of on its mission
among the outcasts; that sets its Puri-
tan face Ike fin; AGAINST fashionable
sins. Oar Young People.
Like the air, the church must press
equally upon all the surfaces of So
ETY.; like the sen, flow into every
nook of the shore-line of humanity;
like the sun. shine on things foul and
low as we'll as fair and high; for she
was organized, commissioned and
equipped for the moral reformation
of the whole world - Bishop Simpson.
1t is seldom borne in mind that
without constant reformation-that is
without a constant return to the fount-
ain head-eyery religion, even the
most perfect, nay, the most perfect on
account of its very perfection more
even than others, suffers from its con-
tact with the world, as the purest air,
suffers from the mere fact of its being
breathed. -MaG Muller.
The Lord loveth the cheerful CIV
er. Remember Jesus commends giving
according to the ability OF the doner.
Mark xii Ala. tells that Jesus sat
over against the treasury or contrihu-
ton box at he Temple, and beheld how
the people cas-. money into the treas
ury. and then in that wonderful homily
LII ID %L wi, civ
Buds and Blossoms,
In avoiding iole words, our Saviour
does not mean that we shall always
talk about religion, but that our mo-
tive in all we say shall be to use the
wondrous faculty of vocal expression
which he has given us for his glory.
He did not mean that we should be
gloomy, reserved, communicative,
afraid to open our lips. lest we should
say something wrong, but / Il the in
tention Of our lives should be by our
words to please Him and advance His
kingdom. = Christian, at Work.
-"Would the ladies be in favor of a
uniform marriage law, do YOU Think"
asked a member Of Congress of one Of
his fair constituents; and she replied:
Very likely, if the uniform were a
pretty one and had handsome man
in it"
An Arab. when one day the ques-
ton was put "How do you know there
Is a God?" turned with apparent in
t dignation upon the questioner, and re-
piled: How do know whether man
or a camel passed my tent last night?
] can tell that from the foot-marks;
| there can be no mistake about them.
sence and character or Jenovan.-
Friendly GveetSse.