Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-05-28
THE HIGHER LIFE
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Love as a Weapon.
Perfect love casteth out fear, be
cause fear hath torment II woI
ries us. causing fretting and anxiety
because II keeps our thoughts cir
cling aroung self and self-interest
There is no fear In love, because
takes us out OF ourselves and make
us spend ourselves In the service Q
others.-Rev. nj. Edwards, BAPTIST
What Christ Asks.
A surrendered heart makes musi
In heaven. For Gods gift to us h
asks the gift OF ourself to Hin
Nothing less will satisfy Him. b
His mercies He is moving us to Hin
His every gift is repetition of HI
invitation. my child. give Me tn
heart"
Just to be glad is praise.-Rev.
b. Clark, Methodist.
Duty of INSTRUMENTATION.
A life often fails to make a lastin
impression because of its diffusion
What we call genius is frequentl
only the child of application. To at
tempt everything and to accomplls
nothing is a fatal folly. While W
are striving to know somethin
about everything we must zealousl
try to know everything about some
thing Rev. Edw. Clark, Baptist.
Our Vain Seeking.
How unlike God we are. We hav
not time to enjoy to-day, because W
are forever seeking to live to-mor
row in to-day. When our tomorrow
comes, we shall then fix our atten
ton on the succeeding day or days
We try to express its joys, its sol
rows, and again and again we nm
in this anticipated attitude the caus
of the wrinkled brow, the apprehen
sive eye and the hesitating tone
Rev. r. Boyd, Unitarian.
What Christ Suffered.
We know that Christs was a ser
sitive nature. but this is not sayin
that He was not brave. And Their
is no reason to believe that He, i
anticipation of His death, woul
yield to the thought any more tina
an ordinary man So, therefore, be
cause He suffered even unit
death, as He did, In the Garden Q
Gethsemane, is, in itself, an argu
ment that He was hearing more tina
the anticipation. Rev d. Anderson
BAPTIST
Equality for All.
oh, il does not matter much q
what degrees between the Equato
and the Pole of earthly experience
we have to pass our lives; when tn
account comes to be made up at las
we shall be all pretty much on a
equality. All earthly condition
have nearly the same quantity of tn
raw material of pain and pleasure
and the amount of either actual
experienced by us depends not o
where we are, but on what we are
Christian Herald.
Mystifying the Public.
Mesmerist, astrologer, sorcere
mind-reader, medium-whatever th
title of the panacea or the platitud'
there is always a considerable PEI
centage Of the community that love
to be mystified or fuddled with Ion
words, and there are always quach
ready to gypsy shilling by stroll
ing the large bump of guillibilit
creeping into houses to lead cal
tive silly women Gas Paul says)-
and. we may add. sillier men, Re
ID. Anderson, Baptist.
The RituaIistic Tendency.
The Puritan simplicity in publ
worship, simplicity so rigid an
severe as to be trial to sinners an
an act Of penance on the part {
saints, was but recoil from Roman
ist mummeries, and like all recci
went to the other extreme. re
some years the pendulum has bee
swinging in the contrary direction
until ritualizing tendencies are al
nearing in churches whose demon
national lineage would seem to poll
them otherwise.--Rey. Fl. p. Dewe
Presbyterian.
How we Should love.
"Fatherly love carries with it IL
brotherly love. John afirms III
love is not love when it is set on
upon God the Father and restraias
from our brothers. He that losei
not his brother knoweth not Goo
when our love to God and to o.
brother has grown into full strengi
1t proves a splendid power in OF
lives. elevating US to meet all occ
sions. freeing us from all fear, 81
ing us grand inspirations and eve
making us bold to meet the test
Judgment day.-James Block, Co
gregationalist-
Trusting Ourselves.
To trust to. ones self alone. ho'
ever resolute, is to lean on broke
reed. The faith which, above q
insure the victory is faith in Go
Do. not leave him out of the recko
ing. To have such patron Is
make sure OF success, for he has /
finite resources. To have SUI
backing is to laugh at difficult
for Omnipotence in behind US.
Cod he for us. who can be again
US? by my God have leaped ov
a wall." said David, reviewing b
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