The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-01-24
THE SHINING WAY.
Words of Wisdom for the Legis-
lator and the Citizen.
Gleanings by the Wayside for
Earth's Weary Pilgrims to
Ponder over.

| True sympatny draws US very CLOSE u
the sufferer.
The Mormons do everything in the name
of the Holy Ghost.
| Religious sects and organizations must
be judged by their fruits, and not by the
estimate the world places on them.
There are people of pleasant speech and
charming address, whose principles are
deadly, and contact with them is danger
| Gus.
Our character is but the stamp on our
souls of the free choice of good and evil
we have made through life.
All should watch and pray lest the
principles of the wicked one enter the
sacred precincts of the heart and over
come good with evil by leading into sin.
Among the Chinese heaven is odd, earth
is even and the numbers l, 3, 5, z, 8 belong
to heaven, while the even digits are of the
earth earthly.
Science no less than religion demands
that those who neglect her acquaintance
in youth must come back to the prlnci-
Piles of childhood in order to obtain it.
A revival is in progress among the
Scandinavians at Salt Lake City and they
are leaving the Mormon chuch in large
numbers.
The deepest peace is to rest in the
thought that to be true to duty is more
than all earthly gains or honors, and to
have consciousness of having chosen
that better part.
Keep still. When trouble is brewing
keep still. When SANDER is getting on its
legs keep still. When your feelings are
hurt keep still till you recover from your
excitement, at any rate. Things look
differently through an unagitated eye.
A true perception of the gospel is the
entire forgetfuness of self, utter absence
of any pretentiOn, and the complete and
utter refusal to accept the worlds praise
or judgment.
Kind words produce their own image in
mems souls, and beautiful image it is.
They soothe and quiet and comfort tho
nearer. They shame him out of his sour,
morose, unkind feelings. We have not
yet begun to use kind works in such album
dance as they ought to be used.
We may be hindeled in what we con-
ceive to be the work of the Lord either by
God himself or by Satan. The Lord
binders when the thing we propose is not
just the thing the Lord has for us to do,
or when he does not propose for us to do
it in the way and at the time we propose.
"The Scottish Church and University
Almanac" gives facts and figures regard
ing the Presbyterian churches of the little
kingdom. The Established church is
credited with membership of 579,043, the
income last year being G3S5,506. The
Free church had an income of 1892, and
the income of the United Presbyterian
church is set down at e36S,OO9 The first
of these has rich endowments. The other
two are voluntary organizations and de-
pendent upon themselves for support.
Jointly the Free and United Presbyterian
churches represent little over one-half
of the population.
According to the Rome correspondent
of the London Chronicle, the projected
conference on the slavery question, in
which it was expected all the European
governments would be represented, has
been abandoned by the pope. This, how
ever, will not affect the propaganda of
Cardinal Lavigerie on the question. The
cardinal is represented as being delighted
with the increasing popularity of his
crusade in Italy, and particularly in the
liberal camp. His plan of campaign in
cludes 500 volunteers for the mission field
On the eve of her leaving Calcutta the
Marchloness of Dufferin gave reception
which was attended by 700 native ladies.
1t was something wholly unprecedented,
and it is argued that the appearance on
such an occasion of so many of those
native ladies, accustomed to a life of alb
solute seclusion, is due largely to the in
fluence of the Zenanar missions. The
argument is strengthened by the fact that
these native ladies have pledged them
selves to help on the good work which has
been begun, and which has for it's object
the amelioration of the condition of their
own sex in India.
A London clergyman named Baxter,
who has become noted for his interpreta-
tions of Scriptural prophecy, has been
lecturing on "Revelation." In a recent
announcement of his subject he says:
"Only eight more Christmases before
Britain is desolated and becomes a red re-
public, as one of the ten red republics
predicted in Revelation, xviii, which are
to give their power and strength to Napo
leon, the antiChrist, who, as a leader of
the papists, Mohammedans, socialists and
communist, ia TO make war with Chris
tians and overcome them during the final
forty-two months Revelation, xiii, 5.
A preliminary proof is to be furnished by
the greatest war ever known between 1889
and 1891, changing twenty three kingdoms
into the ten mentioned (Dan., vii, PA,
which afterward become, in Revelation,
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