News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1898-12-14
RELIGIOUS.

some duty.
A mans best capital is his industry
If he can sell it.
Many renounce the world who are
not able to renounce self.
Filial reverence is one of the best
evidences of sound heart.
A woman always has an idea that
she can tell one lie and then quit.
The divine life within us comes from
God, and is entirely dependent upon
Him.
In prayer or worship everything
depends upon God taking the chief
place.
As creature it is your blessedness
to be nothing, that God may be all
in you.
After leaving college it would be a
good idea for some men to go to
school.
That was a wise advertisement,
"Wanted--a boy who always obeys
his mother"
The secret of success in life is for a
man to be ready for his opportunity
when it comes.
One result, of giving to God is to
make us feel that all we are and have
belongs to Him.
1t is not easy to even for a follower
of Christ to humble himself and ac-
cept second place.
Begin each day by tarrying before
God, and letting Him touch You
Take time to meet God.
Education benefits a man but little
if heis unable to recognize an oppor-
tunity when be meets it.
Just yield yourself in the faith of a
perfect trust to the ever blessed Holy
Trinity, to work out all Gods pur-
pose in you.
The mama of one day was corrupt
when the next day came. | must
have every day fresh grace from
Heaven.
God delights in nothing but His
Beloved Son, and can be satisfied
with nothing less in those who draw
nigh to Him.
Never be discouraged because good
things get on slowly here, and never
fail daily to do that good which lies
next your hand.
Bow before God until you get some
sense of the greatness and blessedness
of the work to be carried on by God
in you this day.
There is success bound up in every
effort. The hour of triumph may be
far distant, but in the sight of God
it is here already.
Thought is quick as lightning, and
quick as lightning can it multiply eff
fectual prayer. Actions can pray;
sutferings can pray.
Do not believe statements that
other people are "Working hard" for
you. If you do not work hard for
yourself, nobody else will.
Who is dumb? He who does not
know how to say kind things at the
proper time, are not entirely free
from the charge OF robbing God.
The giving of our means to God is
as much a religious function as is
praying to Him, or speaking of our
religious convictions to Others.
II you want to spend your last
days in lunatic asylum, the way to
do it is to keep wrangling over ques-
tions that have nothing in them.
How much do we owe to God?
That question we must answer first
and then we shall be able to Judge
whether we are giving God His due.
Ifyou only give what is left after
you have spent as much as you need
on yourself, you are not showing
that you care very much for Gods
work.
You and | need something better
than this world can give us. The
fact is that it cannot give us any
thing after awhile. 1t is a charming
world.
Let every approach to God, and
every request for fellowship with
Him be accompanied by new. very
definite and entire surrender to Him
to work in you.
bless Christ for the present salts
faction of religion. 1t makes man
all right>with reference to the past;
it makes a man all right with refer
ence to the future.
There is not the slightest hope of
any wholesome religious and soul
converting influence in any family
where the parental authority is
trampled under foot.
AS | need every moment afresh the
air to breathe, as the sun every mo-
men tssends down its light, 80 it is
only in direct, living communication
with God that my soul can be strong.
This world is a poor foundation to
build on. 1t is q changing world, and
it is a dying world. The shifting
scenes and the changing sands are
only emblems of all earthly expecta-
ton.
There is no life on earth so happy
as a really Christian life / do not
mean a sham Christian life, but a
real Christian life. Where there is a