Milford chronicle., 1889-01-11


/ ensign on the highest promontories Of worldly
power, can have any effect upon a mans in
tellect but elevation and enlargement Now,
1 Icomrnend godliness as the best mental dis
cipline-better than belles-lettres to purify
the taste, better than mathematics to har-
ness the mind to all intricacy and elaboration,
better than logic to marshal tho intellectual
! forces for onset and victory. It will 70 with
Hugh Miller and show him the footprints of
/ the Creator in the red sandstone. 1t will 60
with the botanist and show him celestial
( glories encamped under the curtain Of u water
( lily 1t will go with the astronomer on the
/ great heights where God shepherds the great
1 flock of worlds, that wander on the hills of
heaven answering his voice as he calls them
all by their names.
HOW RELIGION PREVENTS DEsPoNDENcY AMI
GLoOMINEss.
/ Again l remark that godliness is profitable
! for ones disposition Lord Ashley, before be
went into great battle, was heard to offer
/ this prayer: 80 Lord, l shall be very busy
today; if l forget thee, forget mo not. " With
I such q Christian disposition as that, a man is
/ independent Of all circumstances. Our piety
/ will have a tinge Of our natural temperament.
/ If a man be cross and sour and fretful natur-
ally, after he becomes a Christian he will
/ always have TO be armed against the rebellion
( of those evil inclinations; but religion has
4 tanned the widest nature; it has turned fret
/ fulness into gratitude, dependency into good
/ cheer, and those who were hard and ungOv-
/ ernable and uncompromising have been made
/ pliablo and conciliatory. Good resolution, re-
! formatOry effort, viii not effect the change,
/ 1t takes a mightier arm and mightier hand
to bend evil habits than the hand that bent
/ the bow of Ulysses, and it takes a stronger
Ill IL 1..,fr H..
| A man cannot go forth with any human
weapons and contend successfully against
these Titans armed with uptorn mountain.
] But you have known men into whose spirit
the influence of the Gospel of Christ came un-
! til their disposition was entirely changed. So
/ It was with two merchants in New York.
/ They were very antagonistic They had
done all they could to injure each other.
! They were in the same line Of busi-
/ ness One of the merchants was con-
verted to God. Having been converted, he
/ asked the Lord to teach him how to bear him
self toward that business antagonist, and he
was impressed with the fact that it was his
duty when a customer asked for certain kinds
/ Of goods which he had not, but which he
knew his opponent had, to recommend him to
go to that store. suppose that is about the
/ hardest thing a man could do; but being
thoroughly converted to God, he resolved to
| do that very thing, and being asked for a
certain kind of goods which he had not, he
said: ''You go to such and such store and
you will get it." After while merchant
number two found these customers coming
SO sent and he found also that merchant
number one had been brought to God, and
he sought the same religion. Now they are
good friends and good neighbors, the grace
Of God entirely changing their disposition.
'Oh," says some one, "Ihave a rough, jag
ged, impetuOus nature, and religion can't do
anything for me-" Do you know that Mar
tin Luther and Robert Newton and Richard
Baxter were impetuous all consuming ma
lures, yet the grace Of God turned them int
the mightiest usefulnessl A manufacture
cares but very little for a stream that slowl
runs through the meadow, but a strong t,
rent that leaps from rock to rock, and rus
with mad energy through the valley and
toward the sea. Along that river you wiz
fluttering shuttles and grinding mill
flashing water wheel. And natur
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mendous, that is the natur
turns into greatest usefulness. Oh, h
who have been pugnacious, and
please, and irascible, and more both
the mote in their neighbors eyot
the beam like ship timber in t
10 have been entirely change,
Of God, and have found out T.
is profitable fol-tho life that
for the life which is t. ne
RELIGION Is GOOD
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