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1<S ALL THINGS, CHARITY. KALEIGH, N. C„ THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1890. NUMBEIt'ld. The Christian sun. TERMS Of SUBSCRIPTION t (cash ir advanok.) One year, postage Included.*8 SixfUanum. * “ i Od TERMS Of AI)VERTII8m > I .> / '< '».*•*' ‘ -1 * Tie square, ten (loos, nrst Insertion #1 m, Kor each tmosequeot Insertion. 50 One sqnarelhi'e* months... % 00 One square six months.8 , Onesquere twelve mouths.15 00 Advertisers changing weekly mat i make a special agreement. Yearly advertisers wilt pa) monthly or quarterly In advance. Transient advertisements to be paid (or on nsertion, The Christian sex. PUBLISHED BVBT THtTKSfixV BT Riv. J. PRESSLEY BARRET! UUH PRINCIPLES: ■ ■ i'he Lord J mivb Christ is the only Heart P ol the Church. 1. The name Chrietlan, to the exclusion of all party or sectarian names. 3. The Lloly Bible, or the Scriptures ot the 01<1 and New Testaments, a sufficient ule of faith and practice. 4 Christian character, or vital piety, the_ only test of fellowship or ritembership. 5. Th.. right of private judgment and the libf iij of conscience, the privilege an d duty o', all. The CalmnoNH of Christ. IIY URV. JAMBS JMTTH.K, D, D. Be waa oppressed, and He was afflicted,yet lie opcnerrnot His mouth: He was brought as n lamb to the slaughter, and ns a^aljeep before her shearers Is dumb, so fife openeth not Hib mouth—Isa. 53: 7. There is one trait in the character of (Jhfist that is seldom i bought of— hit edhnnrtt In the contemplation of His wisdom, power, and love as re vealed in His words and works we have lost sight of this admirable trait of character; and yet it is one of the most lienutiful. We should study it carefully,-for there is no one thing that we all need more than the calm spirit of tfhsns: He encountered all forms of danger, temptation, and sorrow, and was perfectly calm under them all. lie was self possessed and calm in the presence ot physical danger. Once when crossing the little sea of Galilee with his disciples ‘there arose a great storm of wind and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was full. And He was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow; and they awake Him and spy unto Him, Master, carest thou %not that we perish? And He arose, and rebuked the wind, and said uuto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm ’ He was as calm in the face of this storm as though all was as quiet ns a May morning. This calmness came from His conscious pbwer to control the sweeping winds and rolling waves. He knew that they were subject to His command. The Chiistian may ' have the same spirit of calmness in tflfr presence of .the physical danger, hut tins comes from trust in the wisdom, love, and [lower of Christ. Confidence in Him gives calmness and peace of mind. Little May, only seven years old, often accompanied her father, who was captain of u large vessel which ran from New York to Liver pool. One night she was awakened by a servant, who told her to dress at once and prepare to leave the yes sel, for it was on fire. She was gteatly frightened for a moment, and then asked: ‘Is lather on board?’ When told that he was, she lay down and went to sleep, saving: ‘Father will lake care of me.’ Christ is our pilot, and 11c will take care of us. His promise is: ‘Do, l am with you alwav, even unto ihe end of the world.’ An other source of calmness to the Chris tian in the presence of physical dan ger is the assurauce that, death will end all suffering, and introduce him into* the joy of Heaven. A Dutch martyr feeling the flames, sauf: ‘Ah, what a small pain is this compared with the glory to com©/ How calm St. Stephen was in the piesence of physical danger, and when sinking in to death under the storm of stones hurled upon him by Ins enemies be calmly prayed: ‘Lord Jesus, receive my spirit/ Christ was calm under the most powerful temptation. We are api lo think and Feci that He tfas so pure and elevated lhat lie dbufd not be tempted as we are, hut tins is a mis lake. lie was subject to lernpla lion just as man is. ‘He was in all points . tempicd' like as we are, yet without sin.’ Temptation came to Him in every form that theycome to us. The tempter tried Him in all those things that move and govern men Under strong temptation men become excited and lose self con trol.® This makes them weak, and they fall easy victims lo the tempter. How calm Christ was under all His temptations, and Jiow completely He governed His passions. The Chris tian may have the same calmness in nature though not tn degree. This comes front a realization of the pres ence of God. Moses ‘endured as seeing Him- who is invisible.' Then the glorious rewaid promised to the fHitbtuI inspires the mini with the sjMt it of calmness. Tins hope holds tlie soul steady. A fleet of a hundred vessels lay at anchor in a port of the Mediterranean when a fearful storm burst upon them, and drove all save one upon the shore. The wonder was how that one held its anchorage, it was found that’its anchor had grap pled on another, which was firmly embedded in the rocks at the bottom of the sea. The soul anchored in Christ will ride out all the storms of temptations. (Heb. C: 17-20.) The fact .that, though yealdmg to fernpta tion may bring pleasure for Ijhe pres ent, it will in the eud result in misery, anus the soul with moral strength, and inspires it with the spirit of calm ness. Christ was calm under msult, He was insulted in every possible way,but was calm under all His ill 1 real men'. W hen delivered into the hands ol His enemies to be crucified, the soldiers ol the governor look Him into the com mon hall, and they stripped Him, and put on Him a scarlet robe. And when tuey had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon His head, and a reed in ids.right hand: and they bowed the knee before Him, at id mocked Him, saying, ‘Hail. King ol the Jews; and they spit on Him, and took the reed, and smote Him on the head ' He was as calm under all this ill treatment as when conversing with bis disciples amid the quiet scenes ol the mountain. This calmness was not the result of moral cowardice. Men are sometimes'quiet under abuse beet use they are cowards. Not so with Christ. (Ie was not afraid to call things by their right names, nor to denounce wrong in the strongest teims when proper to do so. The Christian may have this spirit of calmness, and meet insult as Christ did; but tins is one of the hardest things for him to do. tfye need this sweet spirit ot calmness, for insults will come. The inspiration of ,:alm ness comes from three causes: The consciousness of the presence of God, the conviction that we are right, and tbe realization that angry excitement will only add fuel to fire. Christ was calm in His indignation against wrong, hje was sometimes indignant, and His whole nature thundered against evil; but it was not the indignation of anger. His calm ness came from the nobleness of His spirit, the consciousness that He was right, and that truth and justice would triumph ip the end. With the same convictions and spirit the Christian may enjoy the same calmness. uunsi was quiet in the presence oi His enemies when they were seeking to kill Him. Once he visited Nazareth, where He had been brought up. On the Sabbath he entered i he Synagogue, and preached a beautiful sermon. The people were angered to think that one who had been brought up among them, and worked as humble carpen ter, should preserve to preach to them and tell them of their spiritual needs. They tell that it was an insult to their persoua! dignity, ‘and they rose up, tmd thrust Him out of the city, and led'Hun unto the brow of the hill whereon' their city was built, tuey might cast Him down headlong. But He passing through the midst of them, went His way/ How calm in the midst of that angry furious mob of religious bigots. This calmness came fiorn two considerations: 'l. The assurance that even if they did kill Him death could not hold Him in bondage. (John 22; 10: 17-17.) 2. The consciousness that He was dying for the good of suffering hu inanity. The consciousness that He is right, and working for the welite mg of the race inspires the soul of man with an invincible spirit, and holds him in calmness. The Chris tian may have this spirit of calmness in the midst of the greatest danger, for he knows that Christ is with him, and that he is right, thrice armed is he who knows that his cause is right. Emperor Valcns called Bishop Basil before him to answer tor holding a creed different Irons his. The Emperor asked him if he was nut ashamed to profess a creed different from his King. He answered that it was better to stand alone with the truth than with all the world on the side of error. The King's officer became angry, and asked, ‘Ary you not afrpj f to oppose me?’ ‘Why should l fear?' replied Basil. The officer in great rage cried out,’ ‘confiscation, banish ment, torture.’ ’‘Have you nolhiug else?’ asked the Bishop; ‘lor nothiug you have spoken of has any effect on me. He who has nothing is not afraid of confiscation. As to banishment, you cannot banish me; for the earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof, whose stranger and pilgrem I am. And as to torture the first stroke would kill me; and to kill me is to send me to glory.' Christ was calm in the midst of sorrow. Some can meet temptation and danger with calmness; but sor row unnerves them. How calm Christ was when his dear friend Lazarus died, and wheu he was suf fering more than the agonies, of death in the garden. His sensitive nature shrank back from the terrible death that was before him, and he prayed earnestly to be deliveredJram. it; but he was caim even m this intep.se earnestness This calmness did not come inaaiioihiiity. Some men are so stoical in their nature that they are to a great extent insensible to suf fering, but this was not the ease with Christ. The Christian may have the same spirit of calmness in the midst pf the greatest sorrows, uyt from in sensibility: but from divine strength flowing into the soul through faith in und communion with Christ, and the gloripus hope that all suffering and soj'row will soon end in the joys of Heaven. VJ’illiat «»0 HIIVU his lncnds. This is a great trial. A man may becalm wben ill treated by bis enemies, but fail when forsaken by bis friends, It is hard to have those we have loved and trusted turn against us. The severest wound that 'Jcasar received when he was murder ed <ia* the thought that Brutus his friend was among his murderous ene mies, and the most painful n ought to Uhristl in his last hours on earth was that his disciples had forsaken llim. He was sustained by the con scious presence of Ilis lather. lie reveals the source of His strength when, He said: fBeliold, the hour cometh, is now come, that ye shall be scattered, every man to his own, and shall Ijgkyc Me alone? and yet 1 am not alo^R because the Father is with me’’ The Christian may have this sweet' spirit of calmness even when forsaken by those whom he has loved and irustbd; for he fcnoWs that Christ will never tail him. Christ was calm in prosperity. Some can tpdurc adversity with calm ness, but are ruined by prosperity. They possess their souls in calmness fin trial, and rejoice ifr afflrction; but -are unsettled by prosperity’ Success develops latent tendencies to pride and haughtiness that adversity curbed. Christ was- calm in tile 1 hour of tri umph. When the people were won to hitb by: his great works, and shouted His praises as He road into Jerusa lem He was culm and unexcited. The Christian may have the same spirit of calmness in prosperity that Christ dttf^and from the same cause. Christ was calm in private life. Men are olten oalm in public, and are held so by considerations that loose their goVenormg power in private life. They give vent to their discon tent and bitter feelings in private life. They are irritable and bitter in their families The glimpses that the New Testament give us of the private life of Christ snow how calm and sweet spirited he was among His uear friends. What a beautiful pic ture we bave of Him in His connec tion with the family of orphan chil dren at Beibany. At the last supper when he knew that His enemies wrere seeking to murder Him, and that oue of His disciples was plotting to betray Him into their bands, He was calm and sweet spirited. There were no bit ter reenugs id ms ueari,noi. an mm mu word escaped His llpsf. His calmness came irom having all His passions under the Control of reason and a clear sense of right. Some men are calm, and people admire their talm ness; but they are quiet because there is no force m them. They have the dead calm of a stagnate pond of water. This was not the calmness of Christ. Christ was calmn in death. His was a painful ilealb, hut He was calm apd committed his spirit into the hands of His Father. The Christiau may have the same calmness in death, and walk quietly down into its shadows knowing that there is a bright laud beyond. Hr. Judsou said; T am not tired >fmy work, neither am I tired ol the world; yet when Christ calls me home, 1 shall go with the. gladness of a hoy bounding away from school. Death will not take Me by surprise: do not be alraid of that. I feel so strong in Christ ’ The calm confidence of Christ in the absolute certainty of his religion influencing the whole world is helplul to Chris tian men as they get discouraged. A woman anointed him; men found fault; but He calmly remarked, ‘Wheresoever this gospel is preached in all the world this shall be told for a memorial of her/ It is only a re mark by the way, yet here it is; has come down to us, and will keep on going down through the centuries. Go, He told his apostles, into all the world and preach my gospel. Had He considered the difficulties of traveling in the earlv days? Had he thought qf the difficulties of lan guage? His disciples were poor. Had he asked where they were to get the money to pay traveling expenses and boardi bills? Men cannot travel for nothing, or live upon nothing, or support their famlies upon nothing, yet he said go, go everywhere, go at once, ami for their only help, ‘1 am with you/ What ai bold conception this of Christ; with wbat calm confi deuce He sent them. How came He With this confidence in himself, of greatness only in obedience lo him self? One mav get wonderful proof of the divine ongiu of Christianity if he will meditate for a little while upon the calm confidence of Christ, which nothing shook, or could shake. Colleges and Universities, (Herald of Gospel liberty.) Noi one in the country would lie able to live and grow and deserve the name tl At were nhf fur.aid.,., ia ■ Maine form,outside of that which comes fiiiin tuition fees Read the loliowingvex tract: ‘The New Ydrk Pott of June 20th contained news from nearly all the colleges and universities of this country,as to improvement, etc., and the New York iSnn seems to have aggregated the figures,1 saying that ninety-four of'our'colleges received in gifts during the past year the great sum of $3,624,579, and the total of their preseut endowments is $61,765, 449. The most richly endowed of these institutions is Columbia College ot New York. It received landed pro perty from the Trinity Church cor poration in 1764, and from the state in 1814, which has grown in value with the growth of the town, until now it yields a yearly income of $342, 000, and therefore is worth $7,000,000. The oilier property ot the college, consisting of lands, buildings, and apparatus, not productive of income, is of an estimated value of about $1, 000,000* more, making the total capi tal $9,000,000. The advantages accruing from this gi'eut endowment are enjoyed by the students ol the col lege, sigh they pay only $130,000 a >ear m fees, or not one-third ol the cost of maintaining the institution. They receive thereat as a gift The college which comes next to Col umbia in the amount of its endowment is Harvard, with $6,853,000; and lust year from gifts in money alone it re ceived $160,000. This total sum includes only the « interest bearing property. The investment in buildings library, and apparatus, a vast amount, is additional. The students pay only a small part of the expenses, the rest coming to them as a benefaction; for every cent of the income,whether from tuition tees or endowment, is paid out for their benefit.’ To a greater or less extent this is true of all the smaller colleges of the country. Since not one pays its ex penses with tuition fees, is it not clear that colleges are n*f| maintained to make money, but to afTord facilities for educetion according to the amount of income they can get from endow ments and gifts from private individ uals whatever may be their receipts from tuition fees? .It the state does not supplement the receipts at her universities their doors must close. If the denominations do not endow or continue to give their denominational colleges they must languish and die, and with the death of denominational schools and colleges the departure of the denomination will soon be at band. 1 We must educate or we perish., Re iberaber Christian Biblical Institute, Union Christian College,Starkey Col lege,E!on, Le Grand, Lmcolny Weau bleau, Franklinton, and our Christian Correspondence College in your pray ers, your insurance policies, and your wills. Do not make the mistake of supposing that we^ can do without endowments and gifts for colleges. D. A. Long. y\ Missionary Meeting. At the American Methodist School, having about one hundred girls in at tendance, there was held on the night of May 16th their regular monthly missionary meeting. The principal presided, while girls ot the school acted as secretary, treasurer,and quite a young girl as organist. After the formal opening exercises a letter from the Bible woman, whom the school supports, wus read, after which twenty young girls marched in line to the front, to the time of the music of the organ, and sang with the same spirit and tone that the same number of girls of an American school would sing. The words of the song were in English, and not committed, but read from their song books. Mis. Scr'awton was introduced and gave a talk to the ,girls, through one of their number as iafn preter, about ftorea. The school winch she has established was started with one scholar, and that one not a very 'pidm tsing one, being a child of a widow, the mother was willing to be relieved of her as a burden ot care; the second pupil was a victim of a fever very much dreaded by this people, and had been laid outside ot the city wali, where she was picked up by Dr. Scranton and placed in his mother's school alter her recovery. The school at present numbers twenty-nine.’ As a result of the Christian training given the girls the first Christian home among the natives—lias been formed, and there may be heard the reading of the Bible and their prayers to the great God morning and even ing. The neighbors wonder at the marked difference of their homes iroin this one, and can not fail io see that the difference is one brought about by the young wife's training. There is one other school for girls in ‘rOboren,' numbering hut six pupils; thus it may be seen that fath ers and husbands think that their daughters and wives need know noth ing else but to sew and cook as their slaves, not helpmates. Except ihe children and despised class ot women and very aged, none others are seen on the streets in day light, but are privileged to go at night when all the men are supposed to be indoors. The girls, who are tretrottieq wuen very young, are to their father-in-law’s house where they arc kept sojiietimes in utter con tinetnenl. A geutlenian’s house is inclosed by two walls; the outer wall, a very high one, is the location of the servants' quarters. No carriages except the sedan chair are used, because of the narrow and rough roads with their wide ana deep ditches, which the men must jump, much to the discomfort of the occupants. The gates of the city arc closed at a signal from a bell or bells, when-the keys are carried to the palace at the capital where they are kept until morning, and unless you have a special order from the king, though you arrive two minutes after the signal is given, the gates can not again be opened that night. The dress ot the women is novel, consisting of a waist reaching to the armpits, where the skirt of red, green, or yellow is tied, over which the everpresent long, white apron is worn. The drapery for the head covers the lace as well, exposing duly one eye. This country once rich and pros poious has been devastated by wars and,consequent famine, so that tears are entertained by .them of preserving their national existence. Mrs. Scran ion has been iu this country tor live years, and is visiting Japan to take note ol the conduct of schools and then: equipments as to building and l appliances. There seems to be little to encourage work in this field, yet her faith is strong in the promises of God to reward the prayers and efforts of his children. How much more have we in Japan to encourage and reward ns, where the people are gratetnl and appreciative, as a rule, for all effort in their behalf ! Mrs. Scranton asks that our prayers be given for the stftf cess of the work in her field. Alice G. Rhodes. Japan. Children in Worldly Families. We postpon&the education of chil dren. VVhen they are ten years of age we wake up a*d try to correct this or that habit, /it is too late. 1 believe that if parents do not make an impression upon a child for Christ and for heaven before ten years are past they never will make any impres sion. Talk about people beginning life at twenty-one; lile is decided be tween ten and twenty in nine cases out ol teu. The following fitty years are not of so much importance in the formation of character as the first twenty^ A man wakes up at fifty years of age and says: ‘I must become a Christian; here and now I yield my heart to God.’ He goes home a Chris tian. He has spent Ins life in worldli ness and sin. He sa\s: ‘Now let us calf the family together and have prayers/ Where are the family ? One in New Orleans, one in'Cincin nati, one in Bo ston, two in eternity. Ah, he cannot call his family together! I write it for the benefit of young parents—parents of twenty-five or thirty or thirty-five, now is time for family prajersjnow is the lime to call your family together. 1 do not think I was ever so much impressed by a picture as I was by one, although it was only a rough wood cut, that I saw in a window m Chamouni,Switzerland, a representation of a group of people that had been trying a few months be tore to climb the Alps. You know that people who climb the Alps have a rope put about the waist, and guides go ahead and guides come after. The. rope connects them all together, so that if one slips the others may save him from fatality. Well, this group of eight or ten people were on the side of the mountains all , tied together, passing along on a very slippery place, and one slipped and dropped, and the others slipped and were going! down this precipice, wheu one man, with more muscular power than the others, struck his foot into the iceberg and halted; but the rope broke ! Fifty years from now, at the foot of that glacier, the others will be found. Here is a whole family bound together by a cord of affection, wandering on the slippery places ol worklliness and sin. All given up to the., world. No Christ in that family. All bound together and on the slippery places Passing on down, the father, at fifty yfcars of age,-strikes his foot against tne ‘ltock of Ages’ and halts. But the rope breaks !— Tulmage. Christ’s Jewels. ‘They shall be mine in the day I -make up my jewels.’—Mai. iii. 17. In the city of Amsterdam is a place famous for polishing diamonds. Wheu a diamond is first found it has a rough, dark outside, and looks like a common pebble The-outside must be ground off ahd the diamond be polish ed before it is fit for use. It takes a long time to do this, and it is very hard work. The diamond has to be fixed verly firmly in the end of a piece of hard wood or metal. /Then it is held close to i the surface of a large metal wheel, which is kept going round. Fine diamond dust is put on this wheel, because noting else is bard enough to polish the aiamond. This work is kept on for days and months and sometimes for several years betore it >3 fiaiahedy ^AntLifA diamond is intended to be used in the crown of a king, then longer time and greater pains are spent upon it, so as to make tt look as brilliant and beaoti-: ful as can be. Now Jesus calls his people Uis jewels. He iutends them to shine like jewels in the crown he will wear in heaven. To fit them for this they must tjp polished like the dia mond Has God awakened you out of the deadly slumber of the natural mind ? has he drawn aside the curtains, and 'made the light of truth to tall upon your heart,, reveidiug the true condi tion of your soul ? has he made you start to your feet, alarmed, that you might go, and weep as you go, to seek the Lord-your God ?-has lie made you exchange the careless smile of gaiety lor the tears of anxiety—the loud laugh of folly, tor the cry of bitter distress about your soult are you ask ing the way to Zion with your face directed tk.therw.ard ? then take heed, 1 beseech you, of sitting down con tented in" this refuge of lies. Remem ber, be is not a Jew which is one out wardly; remember, no outward ob servances', no prayers, or ehurcbgoing, or Bible reading, can ever justify you in the sight of God. We must carry up our affections to the mansions prepared above, where trinity is the measure, felicity is the state, angels are the Company, the Lamb is the light, and God is the por tion of bis people for evermore. If the way of heaven is narrow, it 18 not long; and if the gate he strait, it opens into endless life.—Jieilgious hrrald. Every Day. Every day my hope grows brighter, Every day the burdens lighler, And my weak faith grows more strong, And more cheerful is my song, And God's mercies seem more ten der, As earth’s pleasures I surrender; With the bread of heaven be feeds me, By the band he gently leads me, O’er the blessed, blessed way. —Ex'. How ro be Happy.—Once upon a tune there was a king who had a little boy whom he loved very much, and so he took a great deal of pains to make him happy. He gave him beau tiful rooms to live in, and pictures and toys and books without number. He gave him a graceful, gentle pony that he might ride just where he pleased, and a rowboat on a lovely lake, and servants to wait on him wherever he went. He also provided teachers who were to give him the knowledge of things that would make him good and greaubut for all this, the young prince was unhappy. He wore a frown wherever he went, and was always wishing for something he did not have. At length one day a magician ca:ne to the court. He saw the scowl on the boy's lace, and said to the king: * ‘1 can make your son happy, and turn his frowns into smiles, but you must pay me a great price for telling him this secret.’ ‘All right,' said the king, ‘whatever you ask 1 will give.' So the price was agreed upon and paid and the magiciau took the boy into a private room. He wrote some thing with a white substance upon a piece of paper. Next he gave the boy a candle and told him to light it and hold it under the paper and then see what he could read. Then he went away. The boy did as he had been told and the white letters turned into a beautiful blue They formed these words: ‘Ho a kindness to some one every day.' The prince made use of the secret and became the happiest boy in the realm. How to Love God. A woman once said to her pastor:‘I do love God very much, but want to love Him more; how can I?’ ‘iou must become better acquainted with him,’ was the reply; ‘we love those who are worthy of our love in proportion as we become acquainted with them.' . ‘How can I get better acquainted ?’ she asked. ‘Study the Bible more,’ he said.‘God speaks to you, reveals himself to you, in the Bible. Read in the New Testa rnent the life of Jesus, and imagine you had been with him as John and Peter and Mary were. And pray more. Tell him all your joys and troubles and needs. He will answer you, and every answer will draw Vou closer arid closer to him. Then try to please him in everything you do and say. We always love those whom we try to please. Love makes us wish to please the Lord, and love rewards us when we have done it?' The woman followed these rules, simple as they were, and her love to God grew and spread all through her heart. It made her very happy, so that all who Knew her said: ‘What a bright, cheerful person she is; I can’t believe she ever has any trobble.' And yet, she'did have a great deal ol trouble, but the love ol God so filled her heart that it seemed like wings to lift her up above it all. If she had been asked if she had any trouble, she would have smiled and said: ‘I don’t believe I have: the minutc.it comes Jesna takes ir all away.' ‘Love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.’ He that dwelletlyu love,dwell eth in God, and God in him. The very essence of our religion is love. The love of God shed abroad in the heart by the Holy Ghost brigh tens life and prepares for death. Love is the atmosphere of heaven,and none can be admitted there who have not first learned to love. ‘Teach us, Lord at length to love.’ — Word and Work. ‘‘Unto You, Therefore, Who Believe, He is Precious.w It we have Christ, we have alljwith out Christ, we have nothing. You can be happy without money, without liberty, without parents, without friends, it Christ is yours. If you have not Christ, neither money, nor liberty, nor pareuts, nor friends can make you happy. Christ with a chain ts liberty: liberty without Christ is a chain. Christ without anything is riches; all things without Christ is poverty indeed. <* There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.—F. 11. Faber. NUGGETS OF GOLD. The mystery is Gcxl’s; the promise is yours. The hope of immortality makes he roes of cowards. Labor rids us of three evils tedious ness, vice, and poverty.— Carlyle. He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place. One Lord, one Faith, one Baptism, one God and Father ot all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.—Ejph. iv, 5 6. We judge ourselves by what we feel Capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.— Longfellow. He that hath tasted of the bitterness ot sin will fear to commit it; and lie that hath lelt the sweetness of mercy will fear to offend it. . There must be brain service, hand service, foot service, purse service, as well as lip service, if we would see the answer to our prayers. The highest truth will not save me further than as it brings me to the Saviour, that he may give, and I may get, eternal life.—Dr. John Duncan. Never be discouraged by triflles. If a spider breaks his thread twenty times, he will mend it as many. Per severance and patience will accomplish wonders. It is not by change of circumstances but by fitting our spirits to tue cir cumstances in which God has placed us, that we can tie reconciled to life and duty.—F. W. Robrrtson. i True contentment depends not upon what we have, but upon what we would have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too lit tle tor Alexander.—Lacon. When two truths seem directly op posed to each other, we must- not ques'ion either, but remember there is a thrid—God—who reserves to him self the right to harmonize them.— Madame Oswetchin. ‘Without the grace of God,’ says Augustine, ‘what is man other than what Peter was when he denied Christ?’ John Bunyan, looking upon a stag gerard, said:—-‘There goes John Bun yan but for the grace of God? Pontius Pilate, in condemning Je sus to be crucified, contrary to the voice of his own conscience, and after repeatedly declaring that he found ‘no 1301? in him, published himself to the world as a judicial monster. By that act he achieved an immortality of infamy. Geometrically, the cross is formed by one straight line crossing another. And spiritually it is fbrmed the same way. It is the crossing of our will, our desires and tendencies, our pas sions, by the straight, unerring, un bending wili of God. W herever our wills do not run parallel with God’s will there must be a cross, ■ ‘ The simple sensualist, of whatever type, however high in the grade of his r sensuality," is sure at last to become a • perfect bankrupt. Death, when if comes, a^ soon it must, will explode his theory of life. He has no princi ples, no joys, no hopes, no treasures, which can survive that event. He has no treasures laid up in heaven. One of the most important things that the Christian can do for the cdl ture of his owq piety is to acquire the habit of systematically and devoutly reading and studying the Bible. By - this habit he will ‘grow in grace’ by growing ‘in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ? The more he reads the Bible the more precious will it become in his experi Mrs. Gliphant asks,:.‘Is there any - shock, any pang , that life can give, v... equal to tkSttaf suddenly perceiving a touch of baseness, a failure of honor, a lower level of moral feeling, in jhose who are most dear to us?’ When -the prepossessions ot affection’ are thus driven away, only the heart knows or can know its bitterness. O do not wing this barbed arrow at the bosom ot lovej, Dr. Parkburst, of New York1 city, in a sermon, recently said: ‘If you vote for a man that you know to be a bad man, and be is elected, bis official acts are your acts. If you, do not vote for a good man, and a bad man is elected, bis-■bad-aet»-aye-yoMi‘ actr*: This is a very strong wav of stating tbe moral and responsible participa tion of the people in tbe official acts of these who represent them and tbe right way we think. Edward li ving went t.o see a dying boy once, and when he entered the room, he just put his hand on ihe sufferer's head, and said: -,Mv boy', God loves you, and went away. And the boy started from his bed, and he called out to the people in the house, ‘God loves me! God loves me!1 One word; one word! It changed that boy. The sense that God loved him had overpowered him, melted him down, and hegfin the making of a new heart. _Prdf. Drummond.
The Christian Sun (Elon College, N.C.)
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July 31, 1890, edition 1
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