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.
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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
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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