The age-herald., 1901-07-07

When glint of sunshine rarely thrills
 The darkness of the valley keep
 Who dreads the path, however steep, That leads unto the sunny hills?
 When in the dim, unlindly night
 Of vain self-seel1ing grope we far,
 Who welcomes not the faint white star That sheds Its faithful ray of light? "When, disenchanted and astray,
 By vague, uncertain beacons guiled,
 Who scorns the leading of a child, That shows, at length, some fairer way?"
 Along the path trod by those that are self-seeking, vainglorious, covetous and ungenerous the imps of evil, unseen mes sengers of the damned, are for ever ac- tive in the world of human unhappiness.
 Eternal vigilance is the price which the spirit of unrest pays for souls lost in wrong and grief; and none of us needs doubt that the black watch of despair will suffer none to pass unmarked by the red brand of the transgressors shame.
 None who transgresses shall escape the penalty in this life or in the life to come.
 Whosoever bears false witness or lies to the hurting of another; whosoever is sinful in the nameless ways forbidden, or Is wrapped up in self, or is covetous, unclean of spirit dishonest or grasping, he or she shall answer for the wickedness this side the valley of the shadow.
 The vain and unhappy few who ac- knowledge no power that is not human cannot escape the avenger. They are as oP Inc poor. frail, erring wronged one who is so low fallen that only the Father of us all gives heed to her cries.
 Those whose gods are themselves, and who to their gods are ever praying while they prate, can claim no freedom from the penalties fixed against all mankind.
 No learned degree, from undeserved doctor of divinity downward or upward, can save from punishment those who are righteous of themselves alone.
 
 These facts are known to all save the hopelessly ignorant, who are incapable of perceiving the relation between cause and effect, and constitute familiar and irrefut- able proof that for wrong doing there is an ever-present punishment, penalties which are quite apart from social dis grace and the laws exactions: the torture inflicted by the man within the breast, that conscience which "hath a thousand several tongues and each tongue bringing in several tale," and every tale proclaim ing the guilty a villain.
 Thus: and so is constituted black screen of sin upon which breaks the white light of the eternal truth that for every good deed done in the world there is in the world an ever-present reward. UT = a s . whether they sit in their own parlors or on their own door steeps, are looked on by many as common people, Not many coatless people will be found at church. even on the hottest of Sundays. Those who might like to take off their coats will leave them on, not because they fear being charged with irreverence. perhaps, but because they are afraid they will be called vulgar
 Tn these days of progressive faith, comfort seems to be more desired than grace by many; and so we have heated churches in winter and nearly empty churches in summer In the day of the worlds greatest faith, when every white man not a Hebrew was a church-going Christian, there were no heated churches, none with cushioned pews, and few with any seats at all.'