Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1887 — RELIGIOUS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

RELIGIOUS NOTES.

Do all the good you can in the world, and make as little noise about it as possible. Paul Faber: If, when thou makest a bargain, thou thinkest only of thyself and thy gain, thou art a servant of manmon. Mme.de Stael: %The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. London has a great problem. It has 2,600,000 people unable to get into a place of worship. In central London, with 2,000,000, there is only accommodation for 600,000. Spurgeon: You must not suppose that the whole of religion is wrapped up in the day or two or week or two which surround conversion. Godliness is a lifelong business. No endeavor is in vain; Its reward is in the doing, And the rapture of pursuing Is the prize of vanquished gain. —Longfellow. Louisa M. Alcott: A quiet life often makes itself felt in better ways than one that the world sees and applauds, and some of the noblest are never known till they end, leavrnjf a void in many hearts. The gospel according to St. Mark, in raised Chinese characters, has been published for the use of the blind in China. This is the 250th language in which portions of the Bible have been printed for blind Scripture readers. Sometimes one has more flowers piled on his coffin and grave than he ever had given to him in all his life. We want our flowers while we are living. The dead are past all that. If we would do good, ielrus do it while we are alive to those who are living. The Interior: We are not afraid to go alone on a journey to a strange place where we are sure that a friend will meet us at the end of the journey. Thehusband in a distant city telegraphs to his wife to come to him, and he will bp at the station to receive her. She has faith in him. She sits amid strangers in the cars all day. She enters the depot filled with strangers at night. But there is the one familiar face, there are the outstretched arms of love, and the loneliness that faith cheered during the journey now ends in joyous fruition. But our blessed Saviour does not ask us to go far away in the spirit world with the assurance that he will meet us by and by. He comes down to the starting point of the stange journey. He takes us to himself the moment we enter the chariot of death. Gotthold, the eminent German court preacher, says: “God is a center to the soul; and just as in a circle what is nearest the center is subject to least motion, so the closer the soul is to God the less the movement and agitation to which it is exposed. Make the experiment upon a level area; sink the Btaff into the ground and attach to it a line, and around it, as a center, describe a circle of considerable extent; then bid some friend walk aroung that circle while you do the same around another drawn at a short distance frpm the staff. You will find that th&t-your friend will io walk long .an,4,.Jast to accom■plign Kil taskrtraffr'titat' a'ltrsv' step's''' will be enough for yours. It is the same with the soul. The greater its distance from God and from spiritual and heavenly things, the wider the circuit it Will have to make, the faster it will have to speed without knowing why, and the more it will seek but be unable to find rest. He, however, who, by devotion and tait h, love and resignation, keeps as near as possible to God finds that which his heart desires.” “Press on.” This is a speech, brief, but full of inspiration, and opening the way to all victory. It selves the problem of all heroes; it is the rule by which to weigh rightly all wonderful successes and triumphal marches to fortune and genius. It should be the jnotto of all, old and young, high and low, fortunate and unfortunate, so-called. "Press on!” Never despair, never be discouraged, however stormy the heavens, however dark the way, however great the difficulties and repeated failures. “Press on!” If fortune has played false with thee to day, do thou play true for thyself to-morrow. If an unfortunate .bargain has deranged thv business, do not fold thy aims and give up all as lost, but stir thyself and work the more vigorously. Let the foolishness of yesterday make thee wise to-day. If another has been false to thee, do not thou increase the evil by doing false to thyself. Do not say the world has lost all its poetry and beauty; ’tirnot so; and even if it be so, make thine own poetry andp beauty by living a true, and, above all, a religious. life. ' - ;•■/> -" Ho. not arce|t any imit&t'on or substitute Hall's Catarrh Cure which is manufactured ly F. J. ..Chaney ed.a_ Jini/:--".T _ r new bo accept any but the genuine will deaefvai -\-iT g„t something that is irferior. «."l A’ iggiats.