Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-02-01

"Be {, mp rate in food, modest in
apparel, careful in speech, civil in
manners, prudent IN counsel, strong
in adversely, humble in prosperity,
grateful for favcrs, cheerful under
contempt patient in affection dis
Greet in all your actions"
II is blessed thing for Christians
to know that they are rooted and
grounded in Christ. 1t is good to
have an experience in which you may
testify of the grace Of God IN your
heart and that you shall be able to
say, "Who shall separate us from the
love Of Christi shall tribulation, or
distress, or persecution or famine or
nakedness, or peril, or sword."-
Christian World.
It is true that in spiritual things
quality is more important than guam
tity, and the effectiveness Of church
rs not altogether to be measured by
the number Of its members, but at the
same time it is true that this fact Is
often perverted to give countenance
to Incidence. The Lord wants every
man and woman in the community in
his church, and no plea that the quail
ity of our members is excellent will
excuse us from having so few OF
them.-7he Waterman.
VITAL QUESTIONS. Can you say be-
fore MIN who is the searcher OF hearts;
before him at whose dread bar you
must soon appear, can you say that
God has made you to differ from
what you once were? Can you say
that God has called you out from Inv.
ing in sin and made you sensible,
sin-burdened, sln.convlnced and sim
hating soul? Can You soy that yon
have that in your soul which did not
once possess, that will not allow you
to 20 IN sin? When the fear Of the
Lord is implanted in the soul, that
sinner cannot live and delight In
transgression and sin as formerly.
Can you say that God has called you
away from trusting in any works Of
your own. and you have felt it SOL
emmy settled as a certain fact in your
mind, that you are not only guilty
and ruined, but lost and undone for
ever for anything that you can do to-
wards saving yourself?, ....... With
out true, sound beginning to mans
religion, even that which God has
traced out in his word, the fear Of
the Lord" and a conviction of sin, all
is false and rotten and will leave the
soul at last to find that all was delu-
aion. prov. Xxx, John xiy-vD. II
called my son out of Egypt. .......
Can you say that God not only
showed you that you are naked, guilty
and ruined by union to fallen parent
and your own actual transgressions,
but that il ever you are cleansed and
clothed it must be in the blood and
righteousness of Jesus!
"other refuge have none,
Hangs my helpless soul on thee"
-Selected.
FRETru1NHss -- The one canker
which ruins and disiptsgrates many
a home is nothing more or Less than a
fretful temper. 1t is not cruelty, not
indifference, but peevishness. It is
the multiplication of thousand need
less rules and irritable injunctions.
It is the inability to praise, and the
readiness to blame. II is the DISPOSE
lion to ignore q virtue, but never for.
get a fault. The earslessness of a
servant or the thoughtlessnass of a
child, Is permitted to cloud the
brightness of a day filled with the
beneicence of God. A single dish
upon table under-done or over
cooked converts all the wine of life to
vinegar. Causes too trivial to be
named without shame, are the begin
nings of a strife whose angry and
turbulent emotions surge and swell
throughout the day. Not a line of
the decalogue is broken. but the
whole spirit of the gospel is violated,
and the home, although professedly
Christian, is devoid of that love
which is the bond of perfectness."
Gross immortality, judicial sunder-
ing o. the sacred ties OF marriage are
not com mon in such families 80 read
this, but the ideal Christian home.
where mutual forbearance reigns, and
only kindly words are spoken, is not
easily found. Patby ebullitions Of
temper may not fiji tho divorce courts,
but they do fill the club E9ops, No
where more than IN the privacy of the
home is it necessary to remember the
apostolic Injunction to be 'slow to
speak, slow to wrath" and to remem-
Der that the wisdom which cometh
down from above is first pure, then
peacable" These are the RRrks OF q