Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-04-01

a sight to charm the soul of an artist
and to inspire with joy the heart OF an
angel. God loves joy and not gloom.
The gloomy Christian misrepresents
the Heavenly Father; he practically
says that God is a hard master. A long
face on a Christian man is truly a
false face. Do not tell me that men of
the world are joyous. They never know
genuine joy, such as they might know
If they we're men of God They call
life of sin a life of pleasure. 1t is a
life of slavery. He who serves the
devil serves a hard master. There is
great difference between joy and
happiness. Happiness is just what
ternal. Joy is not dependent upon
what happens; joy springs up from
within the soul. We must live with
Christ If we would gain His image.
A few minutes in the day with God
will change the whole day: 1t will
soften the spirit; 1t will sweeten the
life; it will beautify the home; it
will make the heart joyous and the
face radiant.
If you can do nothing else for God,
you can carry shining face. Charles
Kingsley finely said, IF you wish
your neighbors to see what God is like,
let them see what He can make you
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Master Even so let your light shine
before men, that they may see your
good works, and glorify your Father
| who is in heaven"
LIFT UP YOUR EYES AND LOOK.
BY Bishop William A. Quayle.
In everything give thanks; for this
| is the will of God in Christ Jesus con-
corning you" Thess., Sis.
A good man and great said this:
In everything give thanks" Nobody
but a good and great man could have
said it. The sentiment is like Mount
| Lycabettus from whose top all of
distorted Greece lies under the eyes
| without straining an eyeball. All life
lies at the base Of mount of vision
and of praise like this: In everything
give thanks" The fact which is
meant to be lifted into light at this
moment is that there is a devotional
element in all things whatsoever. We
say grace before meals, except we be
| heather. We should say grace before
labors and battle without or within
| Of toll nf
| Journeys and husking corn or going
to picnics OF a stroll through sun.
| burnt fields for the sheer love of the
crisp grass under foot and the hot
sky overhead. Blessings lie about us
thick as blades of grass along green
| hillside.
If the giving thanks to people for
all trivial services be the easy test
of the gentleman or the gentlewoman
much more shall the giving thanks
| to God for all sorts of benefits be
good manners toward God. How shall
the ungrateful toward God think them
| selves genteel?
On radiant day in August, when
the windings of quiet river are lit
goldenly with the tawny green OF
swamp grasses, which answer to all
winds with weary reluctance, and the
swallow dips with grace unphrasable
| to the surface of the stream where my
boat floats, and life is very wonderful
and God Is very nigh-why is not that
a good place for devotion? Why should
some du1l-souled sectary with dull pru-
derry Of religion think that reading a
| page from Scripture is more godly
than reading this illumined page from
the Scripture of the living God who
has writ in sunlight and laughter and
| the Eight Of birds as certainly as He
has written in the Holy Book?
Are we to think 1t is more pious to
| pray on the cold flags of dark cathe-
dral than on the sunny floor of Gods
cathedral of the sky. Really, which
is more accepted will not make long
| parley in the heart which devoutly
loves God, the God Of every lovely and
every living thing, or such as watch
! the out-of-door Christ in His goings
through the meadow lands and across
| the winding hills OF by the sea where
the fisher boats gather at the gray OF
every morning. or through the wheat
fields in the ripening grain. Where He
was at home and at prayer we may
safely be at prayer and at home.
Father, / thank thee" says the
Christ; and lin everything give
thanks" says His brainest follower.
And for one / will take this advice
and will find provision for devotion in
everything, books. folks, church, labor,
song, tears and cares And for the
least and the largest to the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ will
make my alteration for the Christ, my
| Saviour and my King.
SERMONETTES.
| The world gets no light out of py-
! rotechnic sermon.
| Most of us would be miserable if we
| could manufacture no enemies.