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CHRISTIAN So, also, Rom. 8 : 7; 1 Cor. 16: 16 j James 4: 7, and many other texts. The meaning we give is required by the antithesis between the Jeivs in verse 4G and these Gentiles. The former were indisposed to eternal life, and _ sq betoed. not; theao were predisposed to eternal life, and so believed. The permanent faith of the soul was consequent upon the predisposition of the heart and the predetei urination of the will.” —In this ease, as in many another, our readers must Choose for them selves between the opinions and inferences of the conflicting schools of theology. We are glad to help them to a larger measure of ma terial by the aid of which.,to. frame a wise judgment in the premises.— £. 8. Times. --------------------- ♦---------------------------- Modern Blasphemy. The arrogance of Roman Catholic assumption is well put in the fol lowing quotation from a sermon of Archbishop Manning, the principal representative of the Pope in Eng; land. Defending the modern dogma of the Papal Infallibility, he puts the following language into "the mouth of the Pope : “ You tell me I ought to submit to the civil power, that I am the subject of the King of Italy, and from him I am to receive instruc tions as to the way I should ex ercise the civil power. I say I am liberated from all civil subjection, that my Lord made me the subject of no one on eaith, king or other wise ; that in his right I am Sover eign. I acknowledge no civil superior. I am the subject of no prince, and I claim to be more than this. I claim to be the Supreme Judge and director of the con sciences of men, of the peasant that tills the field, and the prince that sits on the throne; of the house hold that lives in the shade of privacy, and the Legislature that makes laws for kingdoms. I am the sole, last Supreme Judge of what is right and wrong.” That any man should dare to utter such impious and revolting words is a melancholy proof of the depths of deception into which an intelligent man may sink who has chosen the bondage of a corrupt ecclesiasticism in preference to the liberty of Christ. But more than this, we read these sentences in the light of an organized and deeply concerted spiritnal Jesuitism that is actively working in order to bring our country under the power- of the Church of Rome.— Christian Monitor. After Marriage. . One frequent cause of trouble in married life is a want of openness in business matters. A husband marries a pretty, thoughtless girl, who has been used to taking no more tfiougtiK^ io lio^ she should be clothed than the lilies of the field. He begins by not liking to refuse any of her requests. He will not hint, so long as he can help it, at care in trilling expenses—he does nut like to associate himself in ker mind with disappointments and self-denials. And she, who would have been willing enough in the sweet eagerness to please of her HERALD. 9 dom. For he compresses the Ten Commandments into that one rule of holy obedience and consecration which he pressed home upon the heaVt when he said, “ Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy for the morrow shall take thought for th*? things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” There are no troubles that wear upon the temper,—that sap the foundations of all peace and com- strength, and thy neighbor as thy self.” Deeper than this we cannot go for a foundation of religion; higher than this we cannot rise for a standard of life ; nothing broader, fuller, more complete and final can weJiave’as ’a^untarid ruTe oT con- secration, it is the most spiritual conception of religion that the philosopher can form, and at the jauofL ..time . .. and- practical rule of piety that can be given to a child. This principle, settled within the soul as the one aim and law of its life, is the good treasure of the heart, out of which all good things are brought forth.— Dr. J. P. Thompson. cause there is no provision made in the divine economy for help to bear them. We have no promise that strength will be given to sustain us under the weight of imaainary burdens. Real trials, bravely and patiently Lome, are moral forties, strengthening and purifying in their influence, lifting the soul to higher levels and broader outlooks. But „ii. is anLy.Ly receive come, one day at a time, and taking no thought for those of the morrow, that they will yield us the full measure of good with which they are fraught.— Faith Harper. or fancies of her own whatever, falls into habits of caieless extravagance and feels herself injured when at last a fertnnstrance comes. How much wiser would have been per fect openness in the beginning! Wealth of the Bible. “ We have just so much money to How much is your Bible worth ? spend this summer. Now, shall we Scientific men are trying to show Sources of Unbelief. arrange matters thus or thus ?”• us, through the newspapers, and was the question I heard a very J Unbelief come^,„eftener.from ir- thmugh philoHophie’papersihaVour young husbamlask bis still younger reverent association than intellec race is descended from the monkey. bride not long ago; and all the tual doubt. The sneer of a Voltaire Get out of my way with your womanhood in her answer to this has killed more than all his argu- abominable Darwinian theories! demand upon it, and her help at -ments. A jesting tone of talk on Scientific men cannot understand planning and counselling proved religious things, is to take the the origin of this world. We open not a thing to be despised, though name of God in vain as truly as the our Bibles, and we feel like the hitherto she had “ fed upon the vulgar oath ; and when I hear him Christian Arab, who said the roses and lain upon the lilies of who calls himself a Christian, or a skeptic when asked by him why he life.” I am speaking not of mar gentleman, indulging in burlesque believed there is a God : “How do riages that are no marriages— .of this sort, I at once recognize 1 know that it was not a man in when Venus has wedded Vulcan some moral defect in him. Intellect stead of a camel that went past my because Vulcan prospered at his without reverence, is the head of a tent last night ? Why, I know him forge—but marriages where two man joined to a beast. There are by his tracks.” Then, looking over true hearts have set out together many who think it a proof of wit; the setting sun, the Arab said to for love’s sake to learn the lesson of but it is the cheapest sort of wit, the skeptic: “ Look there, that is life, and to live together until death and shows as much lack of brains not the work of man. That is the shall part them. And one of the as of moral feeling. I would say it track of a God.” We have all these first lessons for them to learn is to with emphasis to each Christian things revealed in God’s word. trust each other entirely. The who hears me, never indulge that Dear old book 1 My father loved most frivolous girl of all *' the rose nabit, never allow sacred things to it. It trembled in my mother’s bud. garden of girls,” if she truly be jested at without rebuke ; but hand when she was nigh four seore loves, acquires something of woman keep them as you would the mina- years old ; it has been under the liness from her love, and is ready to ture of your mother, for no vulgar pillow of three of my brothers plan and help and make her small hands to touch. There is an anec when they died. It is a very sacrifices for the general good. Try dote of Boyle that he never pro different book from the book it her and you will see.— Oar Conti nounced the name of God without once was.— Ex. nent. an audible pause; and whatever you think; I recognize in it the die —- Proud of Hid Mother. The Rule of Life. tate of a wise heart. We need this There are few eminent men who reverence in the air of our social Though Christ takes away our have not said that their success in life, and its neglect will palsy our sins by his cross, aud covers our life was largely owing to their piety. — Rev. Dr. Washbarn. disobedience by his righteousness, mother’s teaching, and who have — — ■ • and offers to our weakness his been proud to honor her. The fol Borrowed Troubles. helping hand through faith, still he lowing is an illustration of this accords to his duciples no lowei I think it was Sidney Smith truth: type of religion than that which he who recommended taking “ short The mother of John Quincy himself observed. Nay, rather did views ” as a safeguard against Adams said in a letter to him, writ he put new life apd emphasis into needless worry ; and one far wiser ten when he was only twelve yefcrs the fundamental law of the Deca than he has -said : “ Take, there old: logue as XhcJaw of his own king fore, no thought for the morrow, “ 1 would rather see you laid in
