The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-04-15

terests and empty in his pocket
Mere activity is not christian work.
DiOQenes once got into a barrel, rolled
back and forth, and said be must do some
thing because every one else was doing
something. Let us distinguish usefulness
from uselessness in activity.
The true university is a collection of
boOks.-CdrlylS.
The history of heroes is the history of
youth.-DisrGeli.
Search thy friend for his virtues, thyself
for thy faults.-SpbTgeon.
What to thee is shadow to Him is day.
III. G.. Whittier.
If wished to raise up race of states
men higher than politicians, animated not
by greed or selfshness. Iwould familiarize
the boys of the land with the characters
of the bible-with Joseph and Moses,
Joshua and Samuel, Daniel and Paul-an6
/ would teach them the gentle wisdom OF
Jesus Christ.-John hall.
One act of charity will teach more of the
love of God than a thousand sermons.-E.
". Robertson.
Young converts are generally great
bigois. When we are first converted to
God our brotherly affection too often re-
sembles the narrowness of river at its
first setting out. But as we advance
nearer and nearer to the ocean of all good,
the channel widens and our hearts expand
more and mOre.-SalteT.
Only love to the living God, this and
this only, is the basis of Christian moral
ity, and science will never ind one that
is palmer, nor life one that is surer.-Her-
mann Lot-e.
A countryman once said to me: 'I
was exceedingly alarmed this morning,
sir, was going through lonely place and
i thought l saw a strange monster. It
seemed in motion, but l could not discern
its form. l didn't like to turn
the more looked the more l was afraid.
And who do you think it was? Why, my
brother John" All, reflected i, as he
added that it was early in the morning
and very foggy, how often do we thus
mistake our Christian brethren William
Jdy
When we destroy an old prejudice, we
have need of a new virtue.-0fme. de SaeL
He that rejoices in the iall of his
brother rejoices in the devils victory
st. ambrose.
The idle word is that which profits
neither him that speaks nor him that
hears.-St. Jerome
1t is only in fellowship with Christ that
we can receive those Influences and i'm
pulses which will enable Us to bring forth
much fruit, and thus show that We are his
diseiples.-Spence.
For the encouragement of goung
Christians who think they have no gift of
speech we may recall the case of Mr..
Moody. When the famous evangelist
united with the Rev. Dr. Kinks church in
Boston he impressed those who heard his
first attempt at prayer and exhortation as
being utterly incompetent. Finally DR..
Kirk said to him: Brother Moody, We
all respect your good intentions and
earnestness, but YOU had better not try to
speak or pray in the meetings; your gifts
do not lie in those lines"
Ten years later Dwight J.. Moody was
the prince OF evangelists. His voice has
been heard by more people than any
other since Whitefield and John Wesley.
His power in speech and PRAYER has been
recognized by the foremost orators on
both sides of the Atlantic-by Gladstone
in England and by the late John b. Cough
in America. Best OF all, the people have
heard him gladly, and the divine spirit
has used his homely utterances in the con-
version OF myriads and in the edifcation
OF hundreds OF thousands OF Christians.
The case of Moody shows two things,
viz: the falliblity OF human Judgment
and the possibility by grit and grace OF
overcoming the most stubborn infrlnities
and transforming them into instruments
Of favor and promise.
We say to young disciples, who like
Moses are slow OF speech, remember the
case of Moody. Initiate his perseverance
! and conSecrated pluck. When the late
premier Disraeli made his maiden speech
in parliament he was laughed down.
Gritting his teeth he cried: "You shall
yet hear me" and they did. The finest
aptitudes without application and prac-
tice will amount to little. Applicable
tiles by effort and urgency are trans
formed into helps and hOnoTs. Biography
is full of illustrations and examples OF
this fact, from Demosthenes with the
pebbles in his mouth to cure his STAN
mering to Moody, the gawky beginner
and eventual monarch of evangelists
Nil desperandum.