Show RELIGIOUS NEWS AND THOUGHT GATHERED FROM THE RELIGIOUS AXD SECULAR PRESS Words of Wisdom anti Thoughts Worth Pondering on Religious and Moral Subjects THE CHERUBIC PULGRI3I I Translated from a German book written more than two hundred years ago 1 Gods spirit falls on me as d vurops on arose a-rose I I but like a rose my heart to him unclose un-close i The soul wherein God dwells what church can holier be Becomes a walking tent of heavenly majesty maj-esty Lo in the silent night a child to God is born And all Is brought again that eer was lost or lorn Could but thy soul 0 man become a silent night God would oe born In thee and set all things aright Ye know God but a Lord hence Lord his name with ye I feel him but as Love and Love his name with me How far from here to heaven Not very far my friend A single hearty step will all thy journey end Though Christ a thousand times in Bethlehem Beth-lehem be born I hes not born in thee thy soul Is all for Hold there Where runnest thou Know heaven is in thee Seel < est thou for God elsewhere his face thoult never see I In all eternity no tone can be so sweet As where mans heart with God in unison I doth beat Whateer thou lovest man that too become thou must God if thou lovest God dust If thou lovest dust Ah would the heart be but a mansrar for the birth God would once more become a child of earth Immeasureable is the highest who but knows i And yet a human heart can perfectly in close It MADAM IS NOT YOU The great hearted Senator Colcniltt of Georgia says There is nothing on earth which I despise more than the selfish egotist who says your son and mine wont drink let every man take care of himself A rich man goes to the postoliice and takes along his only child a boy four years old He flings down the lines as he has done a thousand times leaving the boy in l the carriage But while he is in the office the horse takes fright and dashes down the street with sufch speed that his feet strikeout strike-out sparks at every step A good woman screams out Save the child My God save the child A selfish man says Madam it isvnot your boy go in and mind your own Tsusiness This Is the style of the liquor interest Not my children child and I dont 1 core for my neighbors GHRISTIAA LIFE Christian lifejis to be active Christ was I busy He wenjt about doing good He led his disciples on many a journey He was on a search for lost souls and he made himself often very weary The zeal of his mission was like a tire eating and burning him up The son of man was seeking to save the lost The disciples who followed him about became busy I men tireless workers all we may well I beU vehe American Friend I HEARTS THOUGHTS WORDS DEEDS I Kind liars art the gardens Kind thoughts are the roots Kind words are the blossoms Kind deeds are the fruits Episcopal Recorder A SWEEOVMIMJHD WOMAN So great Is the influence of a sweet minded woman on those around her that It is almost boundless It is to her that friends come In seasons of sorrow and sickness for help and comfort one soothing sooth-ing touch Gt her kindly hand works wonders in the feverIsh child a few I words let fal from her lips In the ea of a sorrowstricken sister do much to raise the load of grief that is bowing its victim down to the dust in anguish The hus band comes home worn out with the pressure pres-sure of business and feeling irritable with the world In general but when he enters the cosy sitting room and sees the blaze of fire and meets his wifes smiling face I I he Miccumbs in a moment to the sooth soot Ing influence which act as the balm of Gilead to his wounded spirits that are wearied with the stern realities of life Ine rough school boy flies into a rage from the taunts of his companions to find solace in his mothers smile the little one full of grief with her large troubles finds a heaven of rent on its mothers breast and so one might go on with instance I in-stance after instance of the influence that I a sweetminded woman has in the social life with which she is connected Beauty is an insignilicant power when compared with hers Churchman I FINISH K fcfRY BIAY i Half the worries of life are imaginary that is we persist in crossing bridges before be-fore we come to them in the natural way and fret about it when if we would only accustom ourselves to thinkng that we ca live but one day at a time what loads of unavailing care we might escape Emerson Em-erson gave His daughter some advice on this subject that is applicable to all He says Finish every day and be done with it For manners and for wise living It is u vice to remember You have done what you could some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in forget them as soon as you ca Tomorrow is a new day you shall begin i well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered by your old nonsense This day for all that is good and fair I is too dear with its hopes and invitations to waste a moment on the rotten yesterday SPRAY SHOT AT THE SAlMON A liquor journal says Drunkenness is a crime that deserves punishment Why not also punish the producers of drunkenness the manufacturers of drunkards drunk-ards Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime it is a crime and the encouragement encourage-ment of drunkenness for the sake of profit on the sale of drinks is certainly one of the most criminal methods of assassination sassination for money ever adopted by the bravoes of any age or countryJohn Ruskin Liquor is at the bottom of all our poverty pov-erty I the tax for It were lifted there would not need to be a man woman or I child without bread There cannot be amore I a-more pitiful or contemptible sight than a I m t quarrelling over and bemoaning his taxes while tickling his palate and burn i ing up his stomach and his substance j I with glass after glass of whisky J G Holland I know much is said about the prudent use of ardent spirits but we might as well speak of the prudent use of the I plague of fire handled prudently around among powder of poison taken prudently every day or of vipers and serpents introduced in-troduced prudently into our dwellings to I glide about as n matter of courtesy to our visitors and of amusement to our children Lyman Beecher I I I I DARING TO DO OUR DUTY I II I Neither let us be slandered from our i t I I duty by false accusations against us nor j frightened from it by menaces of destruc i tor to the government nor of dungeons Ito I-to ourselves Let us have faith that right makes might and In that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty a we understand Abraham Lincoln 1860 SUCCESS I Human society canno succeed unless men possess a due regard for their neighbors I neigh-bors good and the Individual will not obtain success if he does not know and I I I insist upon his Godgiven rights Rev Father McCaffrey McCafreyCILDREl CHILDREN The secret of the management of children child-ren is love not that foolish love that sees In them no faults or overlooks these faults but that tender watchful love which corrects them not In anger no child should ever be so punlsheu in anger but in sorrow sorrow the child ca see and which will touch the heart Rev Father Care THE GREAT UiSTfAJIED They have no place in storied page No rest in marble shrine pge They age are past and gone with 3 perished They died and made no sign But work that shall find its wages yet And deeds that their God did not forget Done for the love divine These were the mourners and these shall be The crowns of their immortality Ohl seek them not where sleep the dead Ye shall not find their trace No graven stone is at their head No green gross hides their face But sad and unseen in their silent grave I may b the sand or the deepsea wave Or a lonely desert place For they need no prayers and no mour ing bell They were tombed in true hearts that knew them well They healed sick hearts till theirs were broken And dried sad eyes till theirs lost light We shall know at last by a certain token How they fought and fell in the fight Salt tears of sorrow unbeheld Passionate cries unchronicled And silent strifes for the right Angels sigh shall count them and earth shall That and sne die left her best children to battle SIR EDWIN ARNOLD IT CAN BE ENFORCED No paper ha more violently assailed the commissioners for enforcing the Sabbath Sab-bath law respecting saloons than the rtptng New York World yet from that paper we clip the folowing I shows you what the police have i accomplished said Acting Inspector time until Brooks There never was a unti recently when the Tenderloin could not be counted on for a big batch of lrre sand s-and police cases of all kinds With the faaicons closed crime decreases and naturally turally arrests are fewer I never knew of such n quiet Sunday before in the TendeMoin as yesterday This one sentence of Inspector Brooks ha more weight than a ton of antipro hibition theories With the saloons closed crime decreases What is true about Sunday closng would also be true for every day in the week POLITICS AND KEMGION Carry your religion into your politics Call nO man master but the Lord Jesus Christ Vote against corruption against bribery against bossism against the rum power and even though you vote alone you will not be throwing away your vote I will be registered in the estimation o God ancTsoine day he will reward you openly Rev E C Sweetzer FORGETTING DISAREEABLES Blessed is the man or woman who has the happy faculty of forgetting disagreeable disagree-able things Harrowing scenes will now and then obtrude themselves upon ones vision but why should you hang them upon the walls of memorys picture gallery gal-lery The Workman DO SOMETHING Go and do something for the least of these That 15 how we york for our I Christs wHo have been lifted up DO their errands enter into their sacrifice with them b0 a link yourself In the divine di-vine chain and feel the joy and life of it Tho moment you give yourself you shall feel that Lutheran THE TRULY IRA YE SOUL The truly brave soul does not quail before o shrink from lifes hardships but heroically faces them assured that they a a part of that divinely ordained life discipline which fits the soul for an eternity of bliss This life is the school in which faithful diligent brave students whic faihful digent bre sudents are fitted by severe discipline for the I glories of the life which is to come The Reform Church Messenger PATTEXCE WITH OTHERS He who walks through life with an even temper and a gentle patience patient with himself patient with others patient with difficulties and crosses he has an I everyday greatness beyond that which is won in battle orchanted in cathedrals Dr Dewey BROADEN YOUR SYMPATHIES Broaden your sympathies by personal I contact with and earnest service o all classes and conditions of men Chnstian Leader Universalist EXAMINE YOUKSELF When you find yourself inclined to think ill of anybody else you would dowel do-wel to make a close examination of your own moral state The American Friend THE DIFFERENCE The irreligious man is a imperfect creation ation the irreligious woman is a monster sterProf John Stuart Blackie HEART WORK The true culture of personal beauty Is Miller not external it is heart workJ R THREE GR1AC32S A means of grace that brings no grace is a disgrace Christian Standard THE LARGE FAMILY I we may draw an inference from certain cer-tain discussions which have recently interested in-terested readers here and abroad the new woman whoever that nebulous personage maybe Intends to frown upon the large family One child or two at most it is gravely asserted should sat isfy the mother heart and fill the mother arms so that she may have time for dvrtes and pleasures and the pursuit of ambitions in which child bearing and child rearing play a very subordinate part She around whom the large family gathers the family numbered by six or seven or nine children sons and daughters daugh-ters growing together in beauty developing devel-oping in ithe world of the home as only I brothers and sisters can is regarded as I an object of pity if not of contempt I With a lofty disapproval of the intentions inten-tions of the Creator who made the race man and woman one the complement of I the other these latterday champions of woman written with a capital look scornfully on the wife who is satisfied I with quiet home work and ways and who j I I accepts motherhcod as her crown of gory i I her highest dignity and her dearest joy I i I They forget or ignore in their i compas siJ rf Ige 1 sion for the woman who bears more than I one babe that with every little one whom I she cradles against her breast the mothers moth-ers whole self is renewed so that she renewe puts on beauty like a garment and is literally blessed among women when she broods over her child In the old days and the old races the chfldlpss not the manychllded woman was the object of commiseration Am I not better to thee than ten sons exclaimed I ex-claimed the husband of Hannah as over I i and over she implored with passionate I entreaty the gift from God of the child so long withheld Dear as the husband was the bond between him and the i woman drew more closely when they called a little child their own One has frequently noticed sometimes with wonder that the middleaged mother of a large family actually looks and certainly feels younger than her contemporary who ha either had no I children or only one or two Strangely enough the large family is as easily I brought up and educated and in the end turns out usually as well a the small one The more crowdeej the nest the closer the fledgelings prestStogether I Self denial family love family loyalty thrive better where there is reason for their exercise and growth I There are good times In the family circle large enough to have enjoyment within itself and not depend altogether on outsiders The mirthful dance the games the evening songs the studies the mutual pride the protecting of the younger by the older and the uplookin youngr younger to the older are possible pos-sible in the large as they are not in the small household And she who stands nt the helm guiding Influencing controll Ling molding her sons and daughters nee long for no wider privileges nor yearn for greater responsibility |