The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-01-26

the exacting conditions of his vocation
he is alienated from the life of the world
He represents the other world He is
esteemed for his goodness and pitied for
his lack of common. everyday sense. He
could not be a constable here, but he may
be a candidate for mayor of PARADISE
Rev. J. +. Roberts, Unitarian, Kansas
City, Mo.
ENTHUSIASM IN RELIGION.
New York Herald.
1T is good 10 be zeslously affected nj
ways in good thing. Gala tons. w., Is.
There are two facts which every care
| ful observer must have noticed.
The first is that Satan is an enthusi.
asst. His interest in his work never flags;
his vital energy is always at high pres
sure, and the attract!veness of wrong
dong is urged with an eloquence full
of deadly zeal. He is not simply indus
Wous, Tor ne lab9rs with nnceasing de-
light in thc task he has set himself.
The second is that those whose mis-.
Sion is TO direct US to heaven do SO with
q lisuess air as though ii were not OF
much consequence whether we reach that
destination or not. If an angel from the
New Jerusalem were TO visit us he would
be greatly astonished to find that relig.
ion IS kept in a refrisera tor, while tenn
mtons are always served hot.
And yet what is there within the
boundless realm of possible truth chat
IL better calculated to rouse the enthu-
siasm of mankind than simple and
recreating religion? | do not refer TO
the creeds, for they only serve to en-
mesh and entangle the soul, but to those
spiritual principles which every one can
understand and on which every one can
build house that no storm can shake
Take. for example, the carelessly re-
torn tl.gt asa .1,..
close and intimate relations with God
relations so close that He becomes lit
orally part of yourself and throws the
shadow of His protecting presence over
you. If for the first time that thought
should enter your mind, YOU would be
ablaze with excitement IL would kiudle
the zeal which conquers all things and
stir the soul in its prQfoundest depths.
You can not hold such atoms with
God without becoming God-like, and
there is no limit to what you may do or
may become when His life enters by the
life, for II His will is your will also,
then TO a certain extent His power is
yours. That which is merely worldly will
drop like the frost bitten leaves of au-
tumn and you will take on something
of the divinity of Christ, who has told
us in plain terms that greater things
than these shall We do when the spirit
Of earth gives way to the spirit of
heaven.
Strange things will happen TO a man
who realizes the fact that faith In God
is a miracle worker. Even the physical
system will feel its effects and half the
diseases which drag US at their chariot
wheels will disappear. The mind largely
controls the body, and when the mind is
reetfnl and reposeful every nerve feels
Il tranquilizing influence. Our maladies
are either the result of broken LAWS on
..nt- . he. ~ Of fr.f,
whom we have inherited. The race
should he healthy and vigorous, and If
II IS not so some one on the earti, but
no one in heaven, is at fault. A life that
5 close TO God permeates the body with
"A strong tendency to health. IS ply
toward the highest standard of bodily
excellence.
We must not forget that with the
Christ disease WAS impossible because
the body took on the complexion of mind
and heart, and the nearer wa are to
Christ the nearer we are to health.
Then think of the mental results Of
searching for and finding God m very
thing, of feeling that so far as your eyes
will permit you have the same outlook as
the angels! Think of the happiness
which he must enjoy who can honestly
say. God first; His purposes fret; His
will first. and as for myself, | will be
literally buried in that viii and in those
PURPOSES"
A. present we live such distance
from Him that He seems little more than
a inyth or q grand and boundiess possi
bility. We pass our time in n befogment
of petty aims. OF selfish desires, of small
. pleasures and eXciiements, and our souls
are bound hand and foot by the twisted
cord Of passions and indulgences I'M
worthy of beings whose destiny outspans
the present and rosps eternity, We are
] IA ed only nv unavoidable hut
also by avoidabe cares and worries.
; There is no spiritual quiescence in us,
and the power which Genes from repose
is unknown TO us. The region of serene
submission. of unquestioning faith, has
not vet been explored. When the ord
becomes unworldly. when we realize the
fact that we are children and that we
have n Father. we shall become miracle
workers. and the greatest miracle of all
will he the change in ourselves:
With these thoughts in your heart You
may do all things and bear all things.
Even your poverty will he enriched. for
poverty ceases 10 be a burden when con-
tcntmcnt and love sit side by SIDE. The
daily task will he frightened 10y that
, interior light which is better than tho
, of life will have their cheer, for what
, God thinks is hest for us we can endure.
Life will he only a pathway 10 heaven,
and the future will be illumined by the
r thought that those who have gone are
waiting to bid MS good morning on the
further shore A religion of that kind
, with Gods hand moulding events and
with heaven close to us, ought to rouse
: the utmost enthusiasm of which the
+ human soul is capable.
a George Ii. Hepworth.
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