Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-11-02

Nothing we do on earth for Christ
can ever To forgotten in hcGyen.
Whenever Gccd man stumbles
the devil is sure to call attention to it,
To become Il servant OF Christ
means TO be delivered from all other
masters.
Every time n promise OF Gods
is tested somebody's faith is made
stronger
Whenever we call upon God in
earnest lie will be sure 10 hear and
answer US,
The salvation of men is Che only
thing God seems 10 have eyer been IN
q hurry about,
No man is in earnest for God who
is not doing all he can to bring about
the salvation Of his brother.
Obedience is mark by which the
true children of God may be known.
They obey, not because they are COM
manded to, but because they love to.
When Christians get so much IN
earnest that there will be sonl.saVing
stations in the nelghborhood of every
saloon and theater. the world will be-
gin to come to God IN earnest.
All the peace and favor of the world
can not calm troubled heart; but
where the peace IN which Christ
gives, all the trouble and disquiet Of
The world cannot disturb it. All out
ward distress to such mind is but
as the rafting of the hail upon the
tiles to him that sits within the house
at a sumptuous banquet. -ArchbtSh-
OPP Leighton
We never live SO well as when we
1--we on the Lord Jesus simply as he
ia, and not upon our enjoyments and
raptures. Faith il never more likely
to increase in strength than in times
which seem adverse to her. When
she is lightened Of trust in joys, ex-
periences, frames, feelings, and the
like, she rises nearer heaven. Trust
in thy Redeemer's strength, thou be-
nighted soul; exercise what faith
thou hast, aud by.andhy he shall rise
upon thee with healing beneath his
wing. Go from faith to faith, and
thou shalt receive blessing upon bles-
sing. -SpwGeon.
Our very activities may be a cause
of back.sliding if they so ill as to
leave no time to be alone with God
Leanness and starvation comes from
,overwork and undertaking. Christ
was very busy in doing, but He often
spent the whole night in solitary com
munion with God. We will keep
strong and vigorous spiritually If we
spend the day in intense religious &C.
tivitles, and spend many an all night
with God, and often rise up as Christ
did great while before day to go
out into the mountain to pray. But
absorbing work, and feeble and no
praying, will bring barrenness and
death to the soul.
In all our actions we must remem,
Der that we do not stand alone in this
world. Every action has an influence
beyond ourselves, and for that we are
in some measure responsible. y #
While 1t may te perfectly right for
you to do a certain thing, it may not
be in accordance with the spirit Of
love for you to it. The spirit Of love
is to dominate you in all that you do, |
even as our blessed Master told us,
for his command was that we were to
love our neighbor MS ourselves. Now
no man should do anything that |
would injure himself, Even SO he
should not do anything whereby his
nelghbor should he injured. This |
claw of love-" If carried out, would |
solve many Of tho difficulties that !
cause SO much friction in modern life, |
and make things ran much more
smoothly than they do now. 1t
would make us more careful as TO our |
amusements, and in our keeping of |
the Sabbath day. And all this sim
ply because we love our neighbor. |
"A. r. SchaHtler, ID.
There is no journey of life but has
its clouded days; and there are some
days IN which our eyes are SO blinded
with tears that we find it hard to see
our way or even read Gods promises.
Those days that have bright sun
rise followed by sudden thunderclaps
and bursts of unlookedfor sorrows
are the ones that test certain Of our
graces the most severity. Yet the law
of spiritual eyesight very closely re-
sembles the law of physical optics.
When we come suddenly out Of the
daylight into room even moderately
darkened, we can discern nothing;
but the pupil of our eye gradually
enlarges until unseen objects become
visible. Even SO the pupil of the eye
of faith has the blessed faculty Of en-
larging in dark hours of bereavement,
so that we discover that our loving
Fathers hand is holding the cup Of
trial, and by and by the gloom be-
roF1er luminous with glory. Tho