The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-02-21

2 tar better than barren joy.
BY NAME.
What tenderness of personal attachment
/ there is in that phrase, He calleth His own
sheep by nalnel" What an intimacy it be-
| speaksl Every disciple, high or humble, is
} better known by Jesus than any child by its
own mother. All our peculiar weaknesses,
all our wants and griefs and back-sldings,
as well as our pc uliar capabilities for His
service, are perfectly plain to Him.
The valley Of death is no new place to
Him; for He has not only trod it Him
self,-He has led myriads of His redeemed
ones through it.
On toe resurrection morn, we shall find
that Jesus the Shepherd has come out of the
tomb before us, the first fruits of them that
sleep Even into Heaven He enters as
Our Forerunner.n And so all through the
believers experience his loving Leader is
seen going on before; and the whole duty of
a Cody life is summed up in that single
word-tollowing Jcsus.-Dr. Z. L. CUyler.
vIsIBIEHEss OF THE RELIGIOUS LIFE.
Conservation to Christ must reveal itself
and justify itself in the visible conduct of
life Our Christ is a revealed Christ. Heis
a Christ of the world and for the world. He
is not clustered Christ: He does not keep
himself in the clouds. nor in the dazzling
h
deeming work for us, was done in the sight
of men on the conspicuous places of the
world. He did not atone for US in the far
heavens. But he made our common walks
illustriOus by His footsteps on them, and our
common places luminous and glowing by His
endurances in them. Bethlehem was a town
ofnO great distinction till His birth in it lifted
1t to a glorious renOwn. Nazareth was de-
spised village until His life in it gave it
wider fame than any royal city of the
Caesars Geths name and Calvary have in
spired the poetry of the people by their
voices of pathos and agony beyond any other
great endurances Of heroes and martyrs, be-
cause the memory of his voluntary and
priceless suffering reverberates and thrills in
their enduring and unforEotten names. lie
was in the world; he was seen among us.
The tones Of heaven were in his human
ing eyes. The help of heaven was in his
hand. We beheId his glory, the glory as of
the only begotten of the Father.
Since he went away, his followers, by
open confession and conduct, have repro
duced his life in lowly and unworthy ways
it may be, but in methods and experiences
which he has graeiously accepted and
blessed, and on which he has pronounced
his well done"
1t is not enough TO experience religion in
the closet. 1t is not enough 10 come alone
TO God in repentance and faith, and to make
loyal VOWS in private. They who follow the
Master viii follow him openly, before kings
and popu'ace, in country and in city, in the
temple and by the well-side. He would
have no disciple ashamed of him. He
would have all who love him confess him
4 before men.
St. Paurs life was a life of declaration.
He said; Il stand unto this day, having
obtained the help that is from God, testify
ing both to small and great" He was an
open eonfessor. He wanted to know Christ
and the fellowship of his sufferings. He
would have gone into another Gethsemane
and borne cross upon another Golgotha.
He said: I'll fill up on my part that which
Is lacking Of the Affections of Christ for the
Church. He knew what was meant when
"a wrote: 81 bear in my body .he marks Of
ouu 0ord Je-us'i (Gal. 6:7l.
ilv dav NJ, if we are Christs. must know
Of this. Our Christian life must
orld, happy h hthe world. As IN olden
lie bsle her aged nus, as sepi,i ai'a and
- and friends farewell, ,d 50 .t must
Il asleep in the arms of j,uast know
er funeral was preached by him to to
ritter beside her open grave, 1iib
Ie presence ola large concourlee1t, 9. Of
friends, and we laid her awsier to
await the resurrection me- Their
-ay her aged husband find 81 s5i.s as led ID
rt in the hope of joinin6 sulsi be : our
ia land where there isad t0s = s I
o the dutiful son, wgaees Of the World World.
How your dear coftened awakened re
10 foflowad Chr. souls, and Christian
1ertake her in thetbeii Il ga Gbrst OF the
irer than day." rpret the meaning of dis
RopEpr.T ible fruits Of discipleship. 4
Alust learn that IT means .
T.ngd in his loving spirit, in his /
S0heahy, in his attractive grace.
llat religion is not mere pro-
"The Memo it carries a large generous,
eing preparelarkness and wretched souls
- y be made clear 20 them; that
OneS, with see the peril of sin and the
owls will L-erance, the attractions of the
20 VII heaven. There was profound
written the words of him, who was the
! The world, 10 his disciples when he
"a DounH, EYE are the light Of the world"
the sIver, we must make it clear that our
on1Ian is one of helpfulness. Help was
Oh one who was mighty to save when
was laid on Christ, and the
rdetul cry of the heavy-laden to him was
1rd help US. Men need it now. Involved
'rV'sin, tangled in the meshes of worldliness,
ken captive By Satan at his viii, t y
OU.nt the helping hand Of brother for their
--a.le II IS for US tn give it in his name.
y The Joy of giving it, the Joy of helping to
save a brother, is the sweetest joy this side
of heaven; it is akin to the joy of Christ,
who for the Joy that was set before him,
endured the or IS. Jeanne Deans words in
the Heart Of Midlothian" are, 1T is ma
when we sleep soft and make merrily our
sells that we think on other peoples suffer-
ings. But when the hour o trouble comes
10 the mind or to the body. and when the
hour o. death comes to high or low, then It !
Is IA what we hae dune for oursels, but
what we hae dune for Others that we think
on maist pleasantly" This is the Christian
way to live; and, so living, We shall never
die.-Dr Hart IL Nelo York O5seTver.
THE Corean armor IS made of many
thicknesses of canvas. 1t is for the
most part patterned after their othe-
costumes as to shape, but the outer
garments are made probably two to
two and half inches thick by sewing
one piece of canvas upon another and
incasing the whole in a coarse hemp
cloth. The hat, made in the same
way, is pointed at the top and has
wings to protect the face and ears. 1t
is an extremely hot garment to wear /
and would beapt to curtail active ex-
ertion.
IN instructing her how to handle the {
weekly wash, Germantown lady told
her servant, fresh from Castle Garden, !
to take the horse to the kitchen, and !
hang the clothes on it to dry. The 5
following morning the household We. @
aroused by the noise, and inves-
tigation showed that Bridget had !
backed the family horse from the sta
BILE into the kitchen, and had tried to e
cover it with wet clothes, but the ami !
NAL objected to the treatment.