The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-02

from tomorrow. IL Is not so light q thing
as IL seems to choose images Tor thought
What II IL that forms the central picture
I'm that inner eliza ber OF your bearf il
II the picture OF AN actress OF doubtful
character, or is 1t some one whom you
San reverence as you do your mother? A
good thought cannot live in bad heart.
What sort OF source are our thoughts
arising from? Have no temporary rea-
tions hat you do not wish to to eternal.
Think no thoughts that you will wish to
dismiss soon. 80, whie you can, what
soever things are pure, think on these
thugs. There is place in our thinking
where the voluntary passes into the in
voluntary. We say of an old man. that
he is very sober now, but he was wild IN
his youth. But has he really changed his
compartment Ask him, and be viii tell
you that the Old images OF sin are with
him still. All those monstrous shapes
stand by dis bedside, and call TO him In
his dreaWs. ana say: We are your
thoughts. we are your deeds. We belong
TO you; you cannot drive us away. The
mind Is a ravenous thing. Ii VIII have
something TO feed on. And when II Is
weary, or unoccupied, il will 60 back 20
the old life that is long past. Even
disciple of Jesus is
CURSED WITH MEMoRIEA
Through Paul's letters you hear the re-
frain, 81 am not meet 10 be called an
apostle because prosecuted tho church
OF God.'i
Make up your mind that your social re-
lations for the next ten years will be the
socal relations OF life time. III your
reading Is earthly, sensual, devilish, now,
il will change 20 reading that is pure and
lovely and or good report very soon or
will not change at all. III your female as
sociates are those bent upon the most
respectable fl!rta;ions possible without
losing caste, IL will require an Immediate
and God-assisted effort 10 get away
form this moral twilight into the upliit-
ing influence OF a woman's smile who
has devoted herself frat unto God.
There have been instances in history of
violent changes by the hand OF the AL
mighty, of mems surroundings. But we
are safe in saying tnat our redemption
depends upon the social roietion that we
form for ourselves. with the two or three
years before Us. Remember that only one
Enoch was translated, only one Thomas
was granted a special appearing OF Jesus,
one Cornelius had a prophetic vision OF
mercy. Paul, by flash OF celestrial light,
was snatched from his Pharasaic com.
pany, and too many are waiting for God
to change their society for them. Gods
way OF working is usually through your
friends. DO not look for the unusual
experience That has ruined many more
than il has saved. Tie man who enters
the pearly gate does not float through
The ordinary Jonah
REMAINS IN THE BELLY
of the shark.
IL you intend to enter the kingdom OF
heaven, now is the time. Ad astrs, per
aspera through struggle to the stars-is
one OF the best notices OF the ancient
world. Ii finds its perfect expression Is
Jesus motto: "Whosoever would coma
after Me- let him Take Up his cross and
follow Me" W hat have been your social
relations today? With whom among the
mighty dead have you oonvcrsed? Have
you climbed the heights with Moses and
listened to the matchless words of the
Angclsof the covenantg Have you visited
Paul in prison, ana heard him say:
"Christ is in You the Hope of Glory?
Have the glowing pages of Johns revels-
tion been opened before you, where with
him yuu saw enc on -whese-pesture was
written: "King OF Kings and Lord OF
Lords? Have you followed Jesus to tho
hill outside the city wall? Have those
great companies OF angels and the spirits
OF just men made perfect, and the people
still among us whose faces have the
Christly glow, have these incompatible
companion been your companions?
NEXT SUNDAY EVENING
The address Will be "Young Men and
Women Of Duty-Looking Upward"