The National tribune., 1892-08-11
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c. C. FRIENDS: was deeply interested In Brother
Hargrove's advice to girls. Indeed. every one OF
us would profit by IL if we would only pause and
think twice. Ny heart aches when read Of so
many being penniess and pleading for help,
through the terrible curse Of drink.
Dear friends. do you not believe there is many a
poor down-trodden hoy who would rise IL k!nd
friends would entreat HIM to leave of hts vie way
OF living and come back to friends ready and will
ing to receive him? Tell those poor souls how
many a mothers heart is rent and bleeding. how
many a dear sisters heart yearns, how many an
Hged father weeps with bowed head, all because
they love them dearly. | say boys beware of
the first gisss.-Maggie N. Gardner. Milford. Mo.
G. G. FRIENDS: Divine worship ought to be DIR
first duty in life; but alas. where is he who can
truibfuliy, God and the Kingdom of Heaven
first, man and the affairs OF Tie world last" We
need not neglect our business, or sacrifice daily
appointments. in order TO pray. There is a time
FOR work and Time for rest We find time and
patience for all that Is necessary, unnecessary,
for our temporal welfare but how negligent in the
performance Of the more important dutics of the
spiritual welfare We live from day to day
from month To month. and from year Ia year with
out hours pious reflection and we profess to be
observation-disclosures of Christi Ambition carries
away. We are swept from the grace of God in
the ghripools of passion, caught Ina the dark yor-
of sin, and IL we do not strive to check this
ward course will find fsail bark OF life
lect the spiritual life for what does il profit
If he gain The whole world apd lose his soul"
and IA true Christian life is very beautiful.
We pni aside nil worldly thoughts aud ,empia-
tons bow in Divine worship aud enter into COM
munion with our God. How soemn, how beanti-
full the picture; and yet il is real and practced By
the faithful throughout the Christian world
Ia is for the sake of man and not of God" says
Blair, that worship and prayers required;
not that God may be made more glorious. but that
man may be made better; that lie may acquire
those pious. yirtuous dispositions in which his
highest improvements consist" Says Victor Hugo:
" j believe in the subliniiy OF prayer"
1T is the property OF the religious spirit 10 be
the most refining influence SAYS Emerson; and
George Washington tells That religion is as
necessary reason reason is TO religion"
Daniel Wesbster has said: Religion is a ncccs-
sary aud indispensable element in any great
human character"
Now. there are two kinds of worship. Sunday
worship and family or private worship. The most
refined homes. homes Of great aud good men.
the homes where. at certain times and with devout
hearts, the members unite in private worship.
There is the true spirit OF piety; there the ideal
homei
"a house without family worship has neither
foundation nor covering" says Mason.
Measure not men by Sunday without regard
ing what they do all The week after" has been
truIhfuily said. We have tnnci To be thankful for
pence, prosperity and free. united country aud
let not forget TO breathe prayer for its brave
deienders.-Lizze {. Eclsert Hastings, MINI.