The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1890-02-20
RELIGIOUS READING.
ristx nEAprva-Dn. CHALMERS.

IT look upon Baxter and Doddridce n
two most impressive writers, and from
whom you are most likely to carry away
the impression that preparation for ctcr.
nifty should be the main business and
snIiety Of time.
But after all. the Bible should he the
daily exercise Of those who have decidedly
embarked ia this great business, and II read
with the earnest sense and feeling of lts
being Gods MESA o., IL peruscd with the
san,e awe and yenrration, and confidence,
rs If the words were actually coming out OF
his mouth: IL while YOU read, you read
with the desire and the prayer that II might
be with understanding and profit you are in
II far more direct road to become wise unto
salvation than any other that can bc rec
ommended To you. There is no subject on
which people are reader to form rash opin-
IONS than religion. The Bible is the best cor.
rcctive To these. 4 man should Sit down 70
il with the determination of taking his les
son Just rs he finds II. of founding his creed
upon the sole principle Of Thus saith the
Lord and deriving his every idea and his
every impression of religious truth from the
authentic record Of Gods will. His regular
and earnest study of the Bible was one Of
the first and most noticeable effects Of Mr..
Chalmers conversion. His nearest neigh
bor and most frequent visitor was old John
BonthrOw, who. having once seen better
days, was admitted to an easy and privi.
legged familiarity, in the exercise of which
one day before the memorable illness, he
said To- Mr.. Chalmers, j find you are busy,
Sir with one thing or another, but come
when ] may, | never find you at your stud
les for the sabbath oh an hour or two on
Saturday evening is quite enough was the
ministers answer.
But now the change had come, and
John on entering the manse, often found
Mr. Chalmers ponng eagerly over the
pages of the Bible. he difference was too
striking to escape notice and with the free
dom given him, which he was ready enough
10 use hc said, i never come now, Sir. but
] find you at your Bible All too little
John, all too little was the significant re-
rly.'-LUs Of DR.. Chalmers.
The trucst philosophy Of prayer Is learned
In the deepest distress. 1t is then God Is
everything TO us; the helper of the helpless.
Faith il pure reason. That NAV seem u
strange paradox but IL is literally true; moth.
ing Is So reasonable rs to believe the Word
Of God who cannot err -S9urgsoa.
II will follow thee, but what fearful
possibilities are wrapped up IN that one IN.
nucent little word II has the power of the
keys Of the kingdom of heaven Morning
Stdr.
There is such difference between coming
ont of sorrow, merely thankful tor rciei,
with trust in Him who has released US
NVpS BrOOks
Remember, dear reader, the love Of men
ana women Is very sweet btt all must pass
away, and what will you do If you have no
wealth that iadetE, no love but the love
that dies, when death shall come2-Splr.
gSoH.
God, who is liberal IN all his other gifts,
shows us by the wise economy Of His Provi.
GenCe how cIrCumspcct We ought To be in
the management of our time, for he never
gives US two moments together.
Plain, straightforward morality and every
day righteousness are better than all emo.
ton and dogmatism and all churchsm, says
the world, and Christianity says much the
same; but plain, straightforward righteous.
ness and every day morality comes most
surely when man is keeping close 10 Christ.
--NirldreH.
Al the best things and treasures Of this
world are not 20 he produced by each gen
GRAFTON for itself but We are all intended,
not 10 carve our work in snow, that will
melt, but each and all of us to he Continu-
ally rolling great, white, gathering snow.
ball higher and higher, larger and larger,
along the Alps of human power.-HDskiH.
The presence of God in n church is never
secret. II is not proclaimed in the peal
ing thunder, the rushing wind or the shak
ing earth. Its first token is the still small
voice. But il is yOicc--not bo.sicrous,
and not even heard at first by the multi.
tude. But IL is "a voice of power, aud when
ii utters itself, it always tells with strange
and wonIrOus effect. .--BlittnDya RI-'.-'