The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-09-03
CHURCH LOCALS
AND RELIGIOUS NOTES OF GENER.
AL INTEREST.

things we bring them The paragraphs
following are from the strongest and best of
our strong and good men. God reaches
the heart and saves the life, through the
intellect. The man thus saved, saves 9th.
ers. The one OILY mission OF man in this
world is to save man. Falling short of this
he falls short of the end Of being. But
now be seated and partake of these won>
derful dishes.
PRINCIPAL Fairburn says: You will
make new conditions through new men.
New conditions will not make old men,
young men, with fresh glad life within
them. This is the great achievement of
Christ. He makes men and through the
men He makes He saves the world.
ALEXANDER McLauren, one of the grand.
est men OF the English Baptist church says:
A mans prayers for others are very fair
thermometer of his own religious condi>
ton. What he asks for them will largely
indicate what he thinks best for himself.
And how he asks it will show the frmness
OF his own faith and the fervor of his own
feeling.
ZIoN's Herald, one of the brightest and
most spiritual of The Methodist Advocate
family gives this choice thought:
The strong life is the life which gathers
up all its forces to live in the present. The
burdens of the past and future weaken by
taking away from the concentration es>
sential to full activity. Leave the past
with the sovereign grace which looses us
from its disheartening weight The future
belongs to God, not to US. To-day only is
| ours"
AND the following strong meat is found
in the United Presbyterian, weekly vsi-
tor very high plane, intellectually and
religiousy
THAT daughters purity is safe whose
Christian mother shares every secret of
her heart; that sons character is hedged
about, who has for his most confidential
friend Christian father They are in
danger who wear mask in the presence
of kind parents, and uncover the heart
and inner life only to those who have no
right to receive such condolences
The following from DR.. Talmage, is in
harmony with all Christian experience.
The man or woman of God, fully realizing
the spirituality of religion. will utter a
hearty amen to this:
Il believe there is such thing as taking
the pitch of Christian devotion in the
morning, and keeping it all the day.
think we might take some Of the dullest,
heaviest, most disagreeable work of our
life and set it too the tune of Antioch and
Mount Pisgah. A violin, chorded and
strung. if something accidentally strikes it,
makes music, and suppose there is such
a thing as having our hearts so attuued by
divine grace that even the rough collisions
of life will make heavenly vibration
AS an expression of the good religious
condition of our community there has
been good attendance of christians of all
churches in the meeting at the Methodist
church.
The. Praise Service" at the Methodist
church last Sabbath from to ten a. M,
was one Of the most effectual and deeply
spiritual meetings OF the protracted se-s
vices.
Bur few communities of our State, no
larger than this, with as many churches,
all open and at work, could present such
congregations as the ones of last Sabbath,
in the Methodist church. From all the
usual points ofjudgment, numbers, social,
intellectual and religious worth, these were
grand congregations.
REV. j. A. Burrow, Jr., who has been
with US since Monday week, preaching
twice each day, have impressed all who
have heard him, as possessing, in the
highest degree, the preaching genius" He
is plain simple, earnest, spiritual
There is no sensationalism; no personal
display no attempted patented oratory !;
no show of learning no hair splitting in
Bible criticism; no playing at preach
ing" He is so consecrated and so devout
in his inner life SO forgetful of self; so
far removed from the professional and so
in love with humanity-so anxious to save
men-that the most simple and familiar
things of the Bible, used by him have a
new attraction, new beauty, new and
strange power,
THE Methodist chu oh Sunday night was
literally packed, besides number OF chairs
and extra seats, in the aisle. Not in many
day has there been such host in that
old brick church. And the best statement
that can be made Of the people, that packed
and jammed as they were, we saw no
movement, work or sign, OF WEAKNESS or
lack Of interest.
IT was a source of regret to him and to
al h.. D.