Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-05-04
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luH anu negotiating, ClluDluG, pounding,
hammering for twenty years. forty years
hlty years. One great long drudgery has
their life been Their face anxious, their
feelings benumbed, theirdays monotonous
What is necessary to brighten mp that
mans life, and to sweeten that acid dispo
sihOn, and TO put sparkle into the mans
spiritsf The spicery Of our holy religion.
Why if between the losses of life there
dashed a gleam Of an eternal gain; If be-
tween the betrayals Of life there came the
CLEAN Of the undying friendship of Christ;
if in duh times in business we found min
istering spirits flying TO and fro in our
Office and store and shop, everyday life,
instead Of being stupid monotone, would
be a glorious inspiration, penduluming b3-
tween calm satisfaction and high rapture
How any woman keeps house without
the religion of Christ to help her is a mys-
terry to me. TO have to spend the greater
part of ones life, as many women do, ia
planning for the meals, in stitching gar
ments that viii soon be rent again,.and de
ploring brcakages and supervising tariy
subordinates and driving off dust that
soon again viii settle, and doing the same
thing day in and day out, and year in and
year out until their hair silyers, and the
back stoops, and the spectaces crawl to the
eyes, and the grave breaks open under the
thin sole of the shoe-oh it is a long mon
otonyl But when Christ comes to the
drawing room, and comes TO the kitchen,
and comes to the nursery, and comes in
the dwelling, then how CHEEKY becomes Ill
womanly duties She is never alone now;
Martha gets through frettiug and joins
Mary at tho feet of Jesus.
All day long Deborah is happy because
she can help Lapidoth; Hannah, because
she can make n coat for young Samuel;
Miriam, because she can watch her infant
brother; Rachel, because she can help her
father water the stock; the widow Of Sa-
repta because the cruise Of oil is being re-
plenished. O womau having in your
pantry nest Of boxes containing all kinds
of condiments, why have you not tried in
your heart and life the spicery of our holy
religion? Martha! Martial thou art care
full and troubled about many things; but
onething is needful, and Mary hath chosen
that good part which shall not be taken
away from her"
SOME RELIGION IS IESIPID,
Imust confess that great deal Of the
religion Of this day is utterly insiPid.
There is nothing piquant or elavating
about it. Men and women go around
humming psalms in u minor key, and
culturng melancholy, and their worship
has in it more signs than rapture. We do
not doubt their pieUy. Oh, no But they
are sitting att feast where the cook has
forgotten to season the food. Everything
is fiat in their experience and in their con
yersation. Emancipated from STA and
death and hell, and on their way 10 mag
nifcent heaven, they act as though they
were trudging on toward an everlasting
Botany bay Religion does not seem TO
agree with them. 1t seems to catch in the
Wiudpipe and become tight straugulGtion
instead of an eXhilaration.
All the inhdel books that have been writ |
ten, from Voltaire down to Herbert Spen- |
Ger, have not done so much damage TO
our Christianity as lugubrious Christians |
Who wants % religion woven out of the |
shadows Of the night? Why 80 growing |
on your way to celestial enhancement? |
Come out Of that cave and sit down in the
warm light of the Sun of Righteousness |
Away with your odes 10 melancholy and |
Ueryeys "McIitations Among thoIombs." |
Thon let our songs abound,
And every tear be dry;
We're marching through Emmanuels |
ground
To fairor worlds on high.
have to say also, that wo need to put
more spice and enliyenment in our relig
ious teaching, whether it be in the prayer
meeting or in the Sabbath school, or in
the church We ministers need more fresh |
air and sunshine in our lungs and our
heart and our head, Do you wonder that
the world Is SO far from being converted |
when yen find SO little vivacity in the pull
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