The Haslingden Gazette. — 1914-07-25 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

LYTTON. • •  Of all unsuccessful men in every shape, whether divine, or human, or devilish, there is none, wrote Froude, equal to Etunyan's Mr. Facingboth-ways—the fellow with one eye on heaven, and one on earl!; who sincerely preaches one thing, and sincerely does another, and from the intensity of his unreality is unable either to see or feel the contradiction, and is in reality only cheating bin.lf and mils neighbours. This of all characters upon the earth appears to as to be the one of which there is no hope at all, a character becoming in these days alarmingly abundant: and the abundance of which makes us mind even in a It incke an inexpressible relief.  • • • Up that waits to do a great deal at once M rat vt•r do any.  Kindness is shewn in a readiness to forgive injuries. Offences will conic—they must coin.. There is not one of us bin will, at some time. be wounded in the house of our friend; or sold and betrayed by one we trusted; or maligned by one we loved. Ii must be i.e—the laster said it would be so. We shall ho mistaken and mire judged. Hasty words will be spoken in anger about us and ours, and birds of ill-omen will carry them to on. Our good will be called evil; our very sorrows will become reasons for visiting us with reproaches and reproofs. When we look for comfort we shi !I receive stripes, and our tears will, for a season, become our meat dnv and night. It always has been so. It always will be so. Well. amidst it an, we must forgive. Yes, seventy times seven, if our brother offend, we must still forgive. Oh, to hear a Christian say. "I cannot forgive it!" is enough to make one's ' heart stand still! It is such • contradiction. It ,is like saying that the sun cannot give light, or that the earth cannot go round, or that winds cannot blew. Forgiveness is as natural to love as fragrance is to flowers._  The most precious thin.: we have next to grace is time, and we owe an account of our time ILI we owe an account of or glare. Ho who seeks strength will seek the strone. The soul finds itself in the atmosphere of greaser souls, in touch with the things and thoughts that are infinite. For spiritual strength there must be touch constantly with spiritual being, the constant nearness in thought and desire to those unseen forces and that life which even the most unthinking must realise at times.  Noble thoughts are the garments royal of the soul.  The gospel comes to men just as they are. W.isever your condition may be, the gospel, deslared the late C. 11. Spurgeen. is suitable to you. If you have used a life of vice, the goi•pel comes to you, and says, "Repent ye therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out" You may. on the other hand, have lived a life of self-righteousness; if so, the gospel bids you lay aside this worthless righteousness of your own. which is as filthy rags, and bid: you put on the spotless robe of Christ's righteousnom. You may be very tender-hearted, or you may be quite the reverse; your tears may readily flow, or you may be hard as the nether mill-stone; but, in either case. God', gospel is exactly suited to you. Yee, blessed be the name of the Lord, if a sinner be at the very gates of hell, the gospel is adapted to his desperate condition, and can uplift him even out of ;he depths of despair. • • •  Duties ere the education for eternity. which is endie,s duty. • • •  A soul necupied with great ideas best perf,rms small duties; the divines, views of life penetrate most elearly into the meanest emergencies. In truth. wrote Or, Martineau, nothing is degrading which a high and graceful purpose ennobles, and offices the most inenial cease to be menial the moment they are wrought in love.  T.:e highest virtue of all iv victory over ourselves.  The increase of suicide is one of the alarming oi the time. Reaction front the intense life which men are lisirng, the disappointment which often follows the mad rush for wealth. and the 1,--d-iinr in many live, of the restraint, of reli. gurus faith. are mine of the causes. Jr young gnu', who had known a bitter disappointment, and to whom the heavens seemed blank and the earth barren. went, in his despair. to a friend. The friend was sure that, deep and real as was the sorrow, there was much lift in life for the young man; and Ire talked with him so loudly. to hopefully. AO sternly, that the your, man rose in shame and gratitude, and took up his work again. •'To be or not to be, that is the question.'" na.mlily quoted the young nian. " No. Iliad is eot the question at all." was the stern reply. "The question whether we are to be or not is a quo-Iron we were not asked at the twrgiunit,. and have TIO right to raise. We cannot &h-ems it with knowledge either of the joys that remain or the duties that are impemling. To Is' or not to be' is the question ot the staue. pi:mounded by A half-crazed chamtter in a plot, the meaning of which is still a question debated by critics. The question for the real man on the itage of life is, 'Being, how shall I make the most of lifer For we are whether we like it or not; and we have no right but to be and to be the most and best we caa."  • • • Patienoo, humility, and utter forgetfulness of self are the true royal qualities.  • - • We are raised by science to an understandinre of the infinite wisdom and soodneas which the Creator hat displayed in all His works. Not a stop can we take in any direction without perceiving the inost extraordinary traces of design: and the skill everywhere conspicuous is calculated in no vast a proportion of instances to promote the happiness of living creatures. and etpecially of ourselves, that we fool no hesitation, declared Lord Brougham. in concluding that if we knew the whole scheme of Providence every part would appear to be in harmony with a plan of absolute benevolence. Independently, however, of this moat consoling inference, the delight is inexpressible of being able to follow the marvellous works of the Great Author of stature, and to trace the unbounded power and exquisite skill which are exhibited by the mod Isis 1/44^, well ',the mightiest. parts of His eritcm.