Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1887 — RELIGIOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

RELIGIOUS NOTES.

Cudworth: Things are sullen and will be as they are, whatever we think them or wrish them to be. Mrs. Whitney: We must rest in the rims God puts us in. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call .to-day hia own: He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy work,for I have lived to-day. —Dryden. “In outskirts of Thy kingdom vast. Father, the humblest spot give me; Set me the lowliest task thoii ha.st ;' --- Let me repentant work f or Thee. —Helen Hunt Jackson. The late Rev. Dr. Raffles, of Liverpool, England, found the original manuscript of Bishop Heber’s hymn. “From Greeland’s Icy Mountains,” on the file of the printer for thg society for the propagation of the gospSlT The hymn was written at Wrexham, to be used in a service in behalf of the society. Why Idly seek from outward things, The sngwerinwar.l silenoe brings; W'hy stretch beyond our proper inhere •And age, for that whieh lies so near? Why climb the far-off hills with pain, A nearer view of Heaven to gain? Yoji may be nearer to Christ than you think. Those men who went stumbling along the ro§d to Emmaus, weeping and mourning that their Christ was gone; poured into his very ear the tale of their bereavement. They told him of their trouble—-that they had lost Christ; and there he was talking with them. In the midst of their victory, and they did not know it. New York Evangelist: Everyday religion is the foundation o f the thoroughness, which is another word for truthfulness or honesty. Workmen that slight their work, whether they make shirts for a living or sermons, build houses or ships,-raise flocks or families, will be some day or other found out. We want clQthe.s..t.ha.t. will not rip, vessels that will not leak, and bridges that will not break down. So we want characters that will stand temptation, and not snap asunder under the sudden pressures of life. Presbyterian: “It is unfortunately the habit of many people, and it is a habit that was formed in youth, to finish oniy that part of their work that is in sight. The part that is not seen is -left with rough edges, or long stitches, or, if possibles work is only done that is seen. Years,-centuries ago, in Greece, there live 1 a .sculptor . whose work teaches us a lesson. A sculptor was employed to erect a statue in one of the Grecian temples, and on Reing asked why he carved the back part, which was to be set into the wall, with as much pains as the fruit, he replied, “The gods see it.” Andrew Fuller: When in any writing I have occasion to insert these passages “God willing,” “God lending me life,” etc., I observe that I can scarce hold'my hand from encircling these words in a parenthesis, as if they were not essential io the sentence, but may as well be left out as put in. V. hereas, indeed, they are not only of the commission at large, but so of the quorum, that without them all the rest is nothing; wherefore, hereafwr—l will write these w ords fully and fairly without I any inclosure about them. Let critics | censure it for bad grammar, I am sure ■ it is good divinity.