Show RELIGIOUS NEWS AND THOUGHT GATHKRJSD FROM THE RELIGIOUS AND SECtTLAIL PRESS Words ot Wisdom and Thoughts Worth Pondering Religioua and Moral Subjects Why art thou cast down 0 my soul I God be thine why this dejection I he uplifts thee why art thou so near the ground The dew of love is falling 0 withering heart revive re-vive And vhy are thou disquieted within me What cause is there to break the repose of thy heart Wherefore Where-fore indulge unreasonable sorrows which benefit no one fret thyself and dishonor thy God Why overburden thyself with forebodings Hope in I God or wait in God There is need of patience but there is ground for hope The Lord cannot but avenge his own elect The Heavenly Father will not stand by and see his children trampled on forever as surely as the sun is in the heavens light must arise for the people of God though for a while they may walk in darkness Why then should we not be encouraged and lift up our head with comfortable hope For I shall yet praise him Times of complaint will soon end and seasons sea-sons of praise will begin Come my heart look out o the window borrow the telescopic glass forecast a little and sweeten thy chamber with sprigs of the sweet herb of hope Who is the health of my countenance and my God My God will clear the furrows from my brow and the tear marks from my cheek therefore will I lift up my head and smile in the face of the stonnC H Spurgeon Who Is on the Lords Side This was the theme of Canon Wilber forces sermon preached in Westminster Westmin-ster Abbey at the opening of the annual an-nual meeting of the league The sermon ser-mon was an eloquent one He said Sometimes a person will insult mo by asking me which side of the temperance tem-perance question I am on Which side aim I on Well you go to the drunkards drunk-ards and the profligates and the wife beaters and the torturers of children and the tavern keepers and the makers mak-ers and purveyors of the deadly drug and find out whose side they are on and then in Gods name put me down on the other side Go down to that wretched hovel where sits that poor mother worse than widowed with her worse than orphaned babe at her breast her hearts blood dripping away drop by drop put your ear down close to her heart and hear which side she is on and then put me down on her sideThe Imagination of man is not able to conceive any hell more foul than the drinkcursed slums of a densely populated English town You who are shielded by the purer surroundings of your quiet homes imagine thbt we are fanatical and speak in terms of exaggeration ex-aggeration It is because you do not know what drunkenness is and we do because we have descended into hell Michael Angelo before he painted the altar piece for the conventual church of Florence had the coffins of the newlyburied opened and placed beside him that the hideous anatomy of death might be burnt into his soul enabling him to reproduce it with terrible effect In like manner the hideous anatomy of drinkcursed men and women is burnt into ojir minds because again and again we have descended into hell Guard Your Faith There was a shipwreck in midocean The captain and several of the crew on a dark night got out Into the lifeboat I life-boat The wind blew out the lantern Have any of you a match asked the captain After a long search just one match was found On shore that match would not be worth half a rem but now it was the most valuable thing they have because in order to be picked up by a passing vessel they must have a light The sailors takeoff take-off their coats cold as it is and hang them around the match when it is struck that the wind may not blow it out Your faith worthless in itself as the world may deem it is the light that attracts the attention of God and the It is the thing that angels saves you Guard it at whatever expense ITo I-To be wrecked in faWn is to be wrecked wreck-ed in character Churchman Not in Vain Our present labor is not in vain We i are living for eternity The good things 1 I we do now will live with us and outlive death and the limitations of time i What we learn in childhood and youth stays with us The alphabet remains with the poet as he sings the marvelous lyric or the sublime epic the muitipli I cation table serves the great secretary I who manipulates the finances of the I nation Neither do we unlearn the j faith received from our mothers The i lessons of discipline in the family where we are taught obedience temperance tem-perance and self sacrifice are the first steps in that righteous purity and perfect per-fect obedience practiced by the saints and angels in heaven Now we are laying Up treasures in heaven The beginning be-ginning of the kingdom of God is within with-in usReformed Church Messenger Defend the Right Abuses in politics are a consequence of human weakness The more ignorant a people the more frequent abuses are If instead of being sup iJk i5i k 1 + posed to know the law every man really knew It he would vindicate his rights and obtain justice in the majority ma-jority of cases Unfortunately there is a certain amount of inertia in us all which prevents the seeking of reparation whenever the damage done us is not very great Sometimes Dt is true we are inspired by a laudable feeling of forbearance when the question ques-tion is one of fact and that an isolated iso-lated one but when It is a question of principle or of precedent it is the duty of every man to defend h sown s-own rights as well as the rights of those who are injured in his person Maurice BlOcks ho a Child Can Understand A preacher who preaches In such a manner that children cannot understand under-stand him is not fit to preach the gospel gos-pel There is nothing in this world which so arrests the attention and captIvates cap-tivates the plastic minds f children asa as-a plain unvarnished presentation of the story of the cross The same gospel I I that was intended for men was asr > intended in-tended for children If men are but children of a larger growth children are I but men of a smaller growth Herald and Presfoyier I The Spirit Not the Letter We want more common sense in the f administration of justice a brushing I aside of the legal cobwebs and as little I as possible of the science of artificial statement Then we may expect a I great increase of convictions for crimp and a consequent inculcating on the I criminally disposed of a wholesome I fear of wrongdoing Catholic Standard i and Times i Public Sentiment Public sentiment is everything With I public sentiment nothing can fail without with-out it nothing can succeed Consequently Conse-quently he who molds public sentiment senti-ment goes deeper that he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions HoI Ho-I makes stautes and decision possible or I impossible to be executed Abr haox I TJ |