The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-26
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Developing Character.
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from the plane of individualistic sell
fisbness to that of social and collec-
tive sympathy and mutual interest,
is II possible to develop a nobler
civic character and honorable citi-
zenship. f. Phillips, Baptist.
How God Gives.
God has never stinted His Giving.
His bounty has been measureless
since the beginning of time. No
man can name or understand the
free gifts of God. To be giving, Civ
ins, giving and to keep no count Of
HIS Sits is part of the very nature of
God, for His name is love.-Rev. J.
B. Clark, Methodist.
barriers to Progress.
Excuses are never steps to pro-
gres; usually they are barriers 1t
does not take any great amount of
ability to devise an excuse. In fact,
the persons who are most adept at
giving excuses are usually the shirk
ers, the towards and the inefficient.
-Rev. e. NJ. Sovitt, Baptist.
Selecting a Guide.
Let it be the passion of your lives
to know God. Take Christ as your
spiritual guide. All questions and
mysteries may not be resolved at
once, or ever in this life; but you
will walk onward in an increasing
light, and some day you will see
tn nnI l. olcn
you have been known.-Rev. c. II.
Patton, Presbyterian.
Conquoring Circumstances.
1t is common saying that I'VE
are creatures of circumstances"
This is true only so far as we are
willing to have 1t so. THE remark
of greatness" said Maccaulay, "is to
rise above ones environment and
conquer circumstance" But II we
are left to ourselves, the probabili-
ties are greatly against it.-Rev. F.
Russell, Methodist Episcopal.
Thinking About God.
When you think of God do you
like to think of Him on the grandest
scale you can conceive, to gather
around your thought of Him all the
best, the holiest, the most tender and
loving and solemn suggestions your
mind can create or receive? Or do
you hate to believe, do you take
pleasure in reducing faith to a mini
mum? In a word, are you and 1
people of faith, or are we of a faith
less generation?-Rev w. w. Will
son, Methodist.
The Real Memorial.
There have been countries, an
cient Egypt, for instance, where
death has had more than its right
full share of thought. There the
chief occupation of king was to
build himself an imperishable tomb,
in which his imperishable mummy
should at last be housed. In our
time and land, we believe it is better
to be remembered for the good we
have done than to be mummitied;
better to build a Christian home Of
JOY than Il pyramid of pride.-Chris-
tian Herald.
Wedding Out Evil.
Samaria needed some one to re-
mind it of the actualities of God, to
put conscience before curiosity: to
interrupt the bargain-counter theory
Of life. 1t took hold--it wrought.
And whenever religion and ethics,
ethics and religion, are united, then
and there the public mind responds
and trickery and villainy have to
of the lancet is not pleasant; but 1t
gets rid of the fostering poison The
only way to cure felon Is to cut the
bone.-Rev. Matthew Clark, Baptist.
How Blessings Come.
The greatest blessings arrive by
the way of sorrow. One who has
never suffered cannot enjoy life's
richest blessing. One who has never
been encircled by the brightness of
the day. The sweetest songs of earth
have been sung in sorrow The rich
est things in character have been
reached through pain. The human
heart yields it's noblest music in the
winter of trial. A glimpse of the
heavenly life is given in the Apoca-
lypse, and this truth is set forth in it.
The redeemed are singing their
praises to God.-Rev. Wallace Smith,
Episcopal.
Defining Our Philosophy.
The German philosopher said that
the philosophy you have entirely de-
pends upon the sort of man you are;
Your bent; what kind of twist ma
ture gave your mind when she put
1t together. You may educate the
fussy, pedantic little man beyond
all reason, plow him deep and cult
vate him, but when the crop comes
you find that nothing positively will
grow in him except a fussy, pedantic
little view Of things. How did this
man come to be this kind Of person?
Ask his mother. He was born that
way; it is his original bent.-Rev.
c. S. Patton, Presbyterian.
Praying for Strength.
A man was ever left In the lurch
who, feeling his own inability to