The Newtown bee., 1889-11-01
THE SECULAR PULPIT. We all do fade as a leaf.- Isaiah.
Inspiration for Life.

A holy life is continual sermon.- [Churchman.
 The best way to see divine light is to put out your own candle.
 God hears not the voice but the heart. [Cyprian.
 Many man has bravely withstood ad- versity who has been ruined by prosper ity.-Tkarl Hugh.
 A string of opinions is no more Christ ian faith than string of beads is Christ ian practice Wesley.
 I find the doing of the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans.- Macdonald.
 We open the hearts of others when we open our own.
 We may laugh about religion when in health, but in sickness we need the rod and staff which the Lord gives to His children.
 How short time is when measured alongside of eternity. How small thy life looks when looked at from the peaks of the ages.-[Karl Hugh. The Sermon.
 The text, my brethren, is found in the annals of Common Sense, Use your odd moments for self improve ment. It is DeQuincey who has left on record this calculation of human life. He SUD- poses that a man lives 70 years, which is little over 25, ,000 days. One fourth of this time is spent in childhood and in preparation for life work. One third is spent in sleep. Another fourth is spent | in caring for the body, in eating and ex- ercising, in pleasure, sickness or idle, ness. So that, of life of 70 years, only about 10 of them are spent in real worh for the good of the world. In the light of such calculation, the words of the text are very suggestive. How many good books you might read through, by having them at hand to pick up whilt waiting for dinner or looking for tht train. How many grand thoughts nigh bless the world from your life, did yol carry note book and, when a though came, jot it down. Did we allow nt vapid, useless moments in our lives, w should grow very fast in all mental ane moral directions. When you have al odd moment, instead of sitting down t. gossip or to fret about your neighbors grapple with some of the problems 0 life. Think them through Ga thing, b. the way, which few people dol and thel give the result of that thought forth t the world. We walk the path of life bu once. How needful, then, to wall I worthily. To so use the hours that Got has given us that we shall grow our selves. For, after all, the great battl of life is the battle with self in conquer l ing passion, prejudice and selfishnes 1 within us. Be, then. a self master, not master over others, by learning I in odd minutes the secret of self con l quest.
 We learn wisdom from failure mor, than from success; we often discove what will do by finding out what vii not GDr Smiles.
 SOUTHBURY. Mrs William Hinman goes to Brook lyn, this week.
 o. w. Amber and wife have visited Mrs G. ". Randall of Shelton. Patsy O'Brien died, Saturday morning about A years old. He was buried at l Ansonia, Monday, the last of a family o1 five children. Bartholomew O 'Brien, thu father, died about 10 years ago. Tht five children grew up, but that fell de stroyer, consumption, claimed them all Only the poor widow and mother sur wives.
 l H. w. Reecher took the Monday morn ling train for Larchmont, New York, tt ! be absent one week. Tuesday, it was dis covered that his tWO-y O-year-old chestnut