The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-15

| converted. Hunter and CroSley, the Can
adian evangelists, are conducting the meet
ings.-The Central Vest, Omaha.
The Presbyterians have a theological
school at Saharunpur, India, which lately
sent out graduating class of seven trained
native preachers, who are becoming pastors
of nativs churches that pay their whole
salary. This is the third class sent forth
by this institution, and during the coming
| year there will be over twenty students re-
celving Observation-Disclosures (Baptist)
Happy is the man who, having secured an
interest in Gods gracious providence by
becoming spiritual child Of God through
| faith in Christ, rolls all the burdens Of his
heart and all the trials of his life upon the
! Lord who careth for him. God is to that
mans soul ''the God Of all comfort" The
attitude of his mind makes him happy in
God. He is calm, serene, and self collected
when otherwise no would often be ex-
tremely miserable ''The secret of the
Lord" is with him.-The Independent.
Blessed be the man, who when the way
is rough and the storm mutters, can and
will look up at the frowning clouds and
say, "God is our refuge and strength; a
bravely on in his way of faithfulness. We
need God at all cially in a
strait. Faithfulness is always beautiful
1t is great triumph for Goa, for the
church, for humanity, when it stands erect
and steps to the sweet harmony of Gods
will-when there is sorrow in the heart,
affection in the home, or hindrance and loss
in the pursuits of life. Oh, for fewer
Christians who drift with the winds Oh,
for more who are stable as the rocks
The st. Lonts Mid Continent
There is no doubt that professed
Christians have for long time made too
much Of doctrinal systems, and supposed
right views and opinions, and given far too
little attention to purity of heart and right
living. The heresey of thinking contrary
to the standards of the church has been
much more severely condemned than the
heresy of living contrary to the teaching of
the scriptures. Greed has been exalted
above deed. The extreme has in these
last days begotten its opposite; deed every
thing and creed little or nothing. But
even this extreme may serve good pur-
pose in leading people away from its OPP
posite. The result may be the exaltation
of creed and deed-the true faith and the
true life.-Christidn Standard.
THING TO BE AVOIDED.
One of the most dangerous legacies of
the middle ages to later generations is the
habit of looking into ones self continually
and carefully taking account of ones fail
ureS and sins. A thoughtful, meditatiye
life Is very different from an retrospective
life. The fact that one is always mourn
ing over his sins is the very best evidence
that one is failing to do his duty in the
world about him. The man who is bent on
the work of the hour will not be uncon-
scious of his sins, but he will have very
little time to devote to their analysis. The
happiest life is one which is largely con-
cerned with the life of others, one in which
mans thoughts are taken away from
himself and fastened upon the needs and
interests of those about him. No man ever
got out of his weaknesses or his sins by
continually thinking about them; the only
way to get out of them is to work out No
man ever saved himself by thinking;
thought without action is futile and barren.
In this great universe an intelligent man
ought to find some more interesting objects
of thought than his own imperfections
They will never be cured by being looked
at; they will only become distorted. Look
at them long enough to see what they are,
and then look away at the work that can
excessive introspection is always disease:
science it betrays a morbid temperament
or selfish indulgence in the magnifying of
ones own Importance. The cure for this
sort of mental and spiritual infrmity is the
bracing air of a healthy, active, natural
life. Put your heart into human relations
and your hands to good works, and you will
dispel the shadows which surround you.
We were put here to work out our own
salvation: no man ever yet thought it out.
Christian Union.