The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1901-10-03
GEMS OF THOUGHT.

Gods power is aVallaDle poWer.-heV.
j. Hudson Taylor.
Opportunity with ability makes re
nsibility.-BiShop Hunt.
7 press toward the mark for the prize
of the high calling of God in Christ
Jesus.-Phil. 3:14.
Christian nations have combined to
suppress the sale of slaves. Is it too
much to ask that they combine to pre-
vent the sale of iquor?-Benjamin
Harrison.
Christianity is not an abstract creed, a
system of thought: it is not phil
osophical system; it is the influence of
a great soul.-James Freeman Clarke.
| Cheerfulness is the rubber tire on
| life's vehicle. It breaks the jolt when
| ever prudence and industry have been
unable to remove the stones from the
road.
Every true man or woman is con-
ductor of that mysterious life-giving
power of truth and love which we know
as the Holy Spirit, because it ever seeks
to make holy spirits of us.-Charles
G. Ames.
In studying the discourses of our
Lord, one of the strongest impressions
made is of the uniformity with which
Jesus exalts traits of character which
the world little esteems.
A little lifting of the heart suffices, a
| little remembrance of God, one act OF
| inward worship, though upon march
| and sword in hand, are prayers which,
| however short, are nevertheless accept
able to Bishop Lawrence.
There is in this world no function
more important than that of charming
to shed joy, to radiate happiness, to
cast light upon dark days, to be the gold
en- thread of our destiny, the spirit of
cheerfulness, grace and harmony-is
not this to render a service?-The In
gleside.
Progress seems to me indispensable
as an evidence of being led by the
Spirit of God. l need no assurance of
the certainty of the promises. | know
that good work begun shall be carried
on, but that is no consolation till feel
that it is begun.-Ann Taylor.
| know of but one elevation of hui
man being, and that is elevation of
soul. Without this it matters nothing
where man stands or what he pos
sesses, and with it he towers, he is one
of Gods nobility, no matter what place
he holds in the social scale.-Channing
Gas the duty of every day requires"
That is a simple rule. Let it be ponder
ed well. Resolve when you awake that
it shall be to some faithful purpose,
and that your renovated powers shall
be obedient to Him who has renewed
them. Let not the opportunity that is
SO t1eeting and yet so full pass neglect
ed away.-Frothingham.
Are not all true men that live or that
ever lived soldiers of the same army,
enlisted under heavens captaincy, to do
battle against the same enemy,-the
empire of Darkness and Wrong? Why
should we misknoW one another, fight
not against the enemy, but against our
selves, from mere difference of uniform?
Carlyle.
AS the Wisest of our wise have felt
themselves to be but children picking
up pebbles on the shore of the great
ocean of truth, so the saintliest of our
saints have bowed before the Eternal
Holiness in deepest humility, and asked
for grace Of God that they might grow
| ulOlc IcSpOIlSlVc W GHc upWdIu calling.
Douglas Walmsey.
You have no place in which to pour
your troubles except the ear of God. If
you tell them to your friends you but
put your troubles out moment, and
they will return again. Roll your bur
den unto God and you have rolled it i'll
to great deep, out of which it will
never by any possibility rise. Cast your
troubles where you cast your sins; you
have cast your sins into the depths of
the sea, there cast your troubles also.
Never keep trouble half an hour on
your own mind before you tell it to
God. AS soon as the trouble comes,
quick, the first thing, tell it to your
Father.-Spurgeon.