Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1877 — Bear One Another’s Burdens. [ARTICLE]

Bear One Another’s Burdens.

Whether our brethren’s burdens are external afflictions, or the infirmities and sins of human nature, we must stoop to help them in sorrow. If the burden is sin, the task is no light one, considering our natural dispositions. It would often be easy to upbraid, to expose, to denounce, but to stoop and help them conquer their weakness. and like loving comrades on the battle field, when a soldier is wounded, join hands and bear him to a place of safety that he may recover, this is the spirit of Christ; this the kwing, sejv»ee which. Christ asks of and which, whsu

done for His sake, will give us a new impulse in the Heavenly life. Let us seek this spirit by earnest walk with God, by close abiding in Christ, and then the very things in our churches which become stumbling blocks to many; which lead others to ask, “ Where is the true church r* and to seek in new notions and organizations a purer body, will to us become stepping-stones to a purer atmosphere and a nolier life. No one in modera times can have more to contend with, toth in and out of the church than tbe Apostle Paul, but with his motto, “ One hing I do,” with his one aim to become like Christ, ever pointing him onward, every breeze from every quarter, whether blowing hot from the scorching sands of persecution, or cold from the bleak wastes of slander and treachery, swelled the sails ot his faithful vessel and bore him forward to his Master’s welcome; for when many, even in the church at Corinth, which owed its very existence to his labors and prayers, turned against him, so grandly was the spirit of service for, Christ’s sake perfected ’n him, that he could say, “ I will most gladly spend and be spent fop you, though the more abundantly Hove you, the less Ibe loaeli.” (2 Cor. xii. 15). — Rro. Wm. M. Haigh, in Standard (Chicago). The State Penitentiary of Western Pennsylvania has a library of ‘4,000 volumes. The average daily population during the last year was 337. To these there were issued "from the library 28,843 volumes, including 7,882 works of fiction, 3,151 biographies, 1,017 poems, 2,753 histories, and 2,757 books of travel. The results of tliis reading have been most encouraging; many of the prisoners have taken an active interest in literary pursuits, and a few have even d»ne creditable work on their own account. Mrs. Robb, of Corpus Christi, is fairly en itled to her name as the Cattle Queen of Texas. She owns 75,000 acres of land, inclosed by twentv-three miles of fence, on which 15,000 beeves per annum are fattened for market. Her husband, who died some years since, refused an offer of SIIO,OOO for one breed of his stock, which has since been largely increased. The banking capital of the State of California is stated at $200,000,000.