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PACIFIC CHRISTIAN MESSENGER, FRIDAY, JAN. 17, 1879.
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France, they are least hated, or dis­ blunder is made that no tact even
The Negroes! Missionary
Jesus was again in heavpn, and was
How to be Always Fresh.
trusted.”
quite repairs, we are led to wonder
Meeting.
sending I<ack messages to his churches
To hold his power as a writer or a ¡ by the Patmoa preacher, his words
Likely other people could be equally what the world would be without it.
There are those who often speak successful were they to apply them­ Somebody once said that without hope
speaker on religious topics, a man were full of references to the Old
I
disrespectfully
of the negroes, and selves wite as much diligence. A true the world would be naught, for, des­
must be fresh, if not original; bright Testament Scriptures. Jesus was the
ridicule
their
religious
zeal; but, with Jew is not ashamed to be a Jew. Let titute of that, we should not perform
and striking in his forms of statement, model preacher and the model teach­
a
little
application,
the
whites might Christians also learn to be Christians the simplest operations of life; we
if not absolutely novel in the truth he er ; and unless a preacher or a teacher
»
presents. He can not long keep up claims to have more knowledge about learn something from them. The one and act like Christians, and many of should not go out of the door lest we
the interest of his hearers or readers if divine things, and more original below is a lesson to the point:
them will get along much better. It should fall down ; we should not lift
At
a
missionary
meeting
among
the
he gives them nothing but the tritest thought upon religious subjects, than
is acting like the world, that causes our hand to our head lest it should
sayings, or the merest commonplaces Jesus had he had better keep as close negroes in West India, it is related so many professing Christians to remain- there. Quite . as badly oft’
resolutions were degenerate. All this might be ex­ should we be without tact ; all the
of thought;' or if he is continually to the Bible as Jesus did, in his relig­ the following
adopted:
repeating himself in his own little ious teaching and preaching, if he
flavor of life would be crude as some
plained were it necessary.
Resolved, That we will all give
round of personal opinion and fancy. would be always fresh, always wise,
undisguised acid ; there would be a
Tact.
How to be always fresh on religious always accurate, and always effective. something.
perpetual recoil among the atoms of
Resolved,
That
we
will
all
give
ac
­
themes, is therefore an important
Many people are so ignorant of all family and . social life as of oil and
But the method of Jesus as a teacher
question to preacher and teach ¿r and I and a preacher is not the method most cording to our Ability.
the convenances and proprieties of life water ; every sharp thing, would bit .1
Jiesoived, That we will all give
editor, and hardly less so to parent and commonamong those who speak or write
that they have no other idea of tact and hurt; peace,harmony,enjoyment,
friend. It is worth considering by in his name. There are comparatively willingly.
than as a species of hypocrisy, and would be things of no existence., Cer­
At the close ®f the meeting, a lead­
every Christian.
*
never fail, on opportunity, to charac­ tainly it must be conceded that tact
few who realize that they can find
ing negro took his seat at the table
To, be always giving out that which
terize it as much, But to the nund is to our nerves what beneficence is to
fresher thoughts on religious themes
with pen and ink to put down what
is fresh, a man must be always taking
capable of the least discrimination our morals. Ic is, moreover, a thing
in the Bible than outside *of it; that
each came to contribute. Many ad­
in that which is fresh. No mental
the two are as wide apart as are the easily cultivated ; its presence is one
they can be more striking and more
vanced to the table and handed in
cistern will hold a life supply of the
north
and south poles. For hypocrisy of the sure signs of gentle breeding,-,
pointed in their preaching and teach­
their contributions, some more, some
waters ofknowledge. Communication
is
the
dumb-show of lying, but tact is and its absence, always leads us to
ing by the unexpected use of Bible
less.* Among the contributors was an
must be kept open with an ever-flow­
rather
a method employed to avoid believe people sprung from clouds ;
declarations than by anything which
old negro who was very rich, almost
ing fountain, to meet a neverending
lying.
Hypocrisy says, “ There is no for, save for the awkward exceptions
is original with themselves. Quite
as . rich as thb rest combined. He
demand as the spigot. When the in­
pit here,” and skips gayly,across ; but alwaysacknowledged to prove the rule,
too many have the idea that—Bible
threw down a small silver coin/,
coming of the waters is cut off’ the
tact, saying nothing at all about the where people of culture and of gentle
phrases are threadbare, but their own
“ Take dat back again,” said the
end of their outgoing is not far away.
pit, cries, “ Ah, how pleasant it is in behavior are to be found, there is tact
are fresh and novel; that the contents
chairman of the meeting; “ dat may the other direction; let us go that to be found with them.— Bazar.
Indeed, the distributing-pipes cannot
of the Bible are already familiar to the
be ’cording to de first resolution, but
empty themselves when they lose the
way !” Hypocrisy never hesitates at a
world, while the contents of their
not according to de second.” The old lie; tact never allows occasion for one.
pressure of a new snpply from their
Charles Lamb on Wine Cup.
minds are a treasure yet inexhausted,
man accordingly took it up, much
original source; hence, as soon as a
Tact is, in fact, the great lubricator
if not inexhaustible. More persons
“ The waters have gone over me.
enraged. One after another came of life; it oils the machinery, smooths
man stops learning, he inevitably
are prompt to tell what they think
But
out of the black depths could I
forward, and all giving more than away trouble, looks far ahead, perhaps,
stops teaching—to any real advantage.
about a Bible theme than are careful
be
heard,
Lwould cry out to all those
himself, he was ashamed and again to see it, and turns things into another
The original source of religious knowl­
to ascertain reverently what God
who
have
but 3et a foot in the peril­
threw in a piece of money on the channel. But however tact avoids
edge is the Bible : that, in fact, is the
knows—and lias declared—about it.
table, saying, “ Dar, take dat.” It the necessity of falsehood, it does not ous flood. Could the youth to whom
only source of such knowledge; and
As a Hartford pastor recently put it.
was a valuable piece of gold, -but it. suppress the truth; it simply pre­ the flavor of his first wine is delicious
without a continual re-supply of his
“ Many people come to the study of
was given so ill-temperedly that the vents reference to the facts; it has a as the opening scenes of life, or the
mental furnishing from the Bible no
their Bibles, saying, ‘ Hear, Lord; for
entering upon some newly-discovered
chairman answered, “No, sir; that
man can retain freshness as a religious
sort of self-respect which does not
thy »ervant speakethOr again,
paradise,
look into my desolation and
won
’
t
do.
Dat
may
be
’
cording
to
de
writer or speaker or thinker. To this
consider itself as using deceit when
those who really believe that the
be
made
to
understand what a dreary
first
and
second
resolutions,
but
not
rule there are positively no exceptions;
•4 merely keeping its own business in its
truths of the Bible’are more to be
thing
it
is
when a man shall feel
’cording to de third.” The old man own breast.
there never was one. Just so surely
desired than gold, yea, than much fine
himself
going
down a precipice with
was obliged to take it up again. Still
as God knows more about religion
Tact has, moreover, a way of sur7
gold, are often readier to stand over
open
eyes
and
a passive will—to see
angry with himself, he sat a long mounting difficulties that no other
than all mankind put together, just so
the mine of precious ore and deliver a
his
destruction
and have no power to
time, and nearly all were gone, and power has. Hypocrisy, so to say,
surely the book which God has written
discourse on the value anti uses of,
stop
it,
and
yet
to feel it all the way
then he advanced to the table, with a burns its ships behind it; it puts it
on that subject has more in it than all
gold, than to dig into the mine and
smile on his countenance, and laid a back against a lie and fights, but tact emanating from himself; to perceive
. other books put together ; and just so
bring up specimens of the ore to tempt
large sum on the table. “ Dar, now, always keeps its retreat open, and al­ all goodness emptied cut of him, and
surely the man who gets his knowl­
the eyes and to satisfy the longings of
berry well,” said the presiding officer, ways has forces in reserve. Tact sel­ yet net be able to forget a time when
edge of religion directly from that book,
those whom they address. It is only
“ dat will do; dat am cording to all dom makes the assault; it never con­ it was otherwise; to bear about the
and who keeps up getting such knowl­
the worth of the gold which gives any
piteous spectacle of his own self-ruin
de rizolutions.”
edge, from the same unfailing source,
quers; it wins without battle, "When
worth to a lecture on gold. When the
—could he see my fevered eye, fever­
This
narrative
contains
in
a
nut
­
has the best knowledge, has it freshest,
we would show any one that he is
gold itself can be had in abundance,
shell the wholeformula of benevolence. mistaken,” P ascal declares, " our best ish with last night’s drinking, and
and can use it to greatest advantage.
the lecture on its preciousness can be
The first duty is to give; the second courage is to observe on what side he feverishly looking for this night’s •
No other man is so sure as he to be
fairly dispensed with. He’who scat­
is to give according to your ability ; considers the subject—for his view of repetition of the folly; could he feel
always fresh and striking and forceful
ters the gold with a free hand will
the third, which is equal to that, is it is generally right on this side—and the body of the death out of which I
in his presentation» of religious truth.
surely
have-the
lead
as
a
benefactor
of
If ever there, was a preacher, or a
to give willingly.— Brethren at Work. admit to him that he is right so far. cry hourly with feebler and feebler,
the
poor
in
contrast
with
him
who
outcry to be delivered—it were
teacher, who had a right to draw on
He will be satisfied with this acknowl­
The Dreaded Jews.
enough to make him dash the spark­
his own resources, and to limit him­ talk.-» about old with the glibbest
edgment that he was not wrong in
ling beverage to the earth in all the
self to his own ideas of religious truth tongue. He also, who brings out of
The
London
Spectator,
iq
substance
his
judgment, but only inadvertent in
pride of its mantling temptation.—
it was Jesus of Nazareth ; yet he was the Bible its hidden treasures, will be
says, that “the dread which the Jews not looking at the whole of the cause.”
Cynosure.
pre-eminently a Bible student from a fresher and a more effective, speaker 1
are awakening in Eastern Europe al­ And tact never had*a higher exposi­
his earliest to his latest ministry on or writer than he who tells of the 1
most equals the dread felt for them in tion. Yet tact is as different from
*—‘We aro stepping on far and’
earth, and his preaching and his teach­ abundant treasures which the Bible
Western Europe six hundred years cunning as it is again from falsehood. fast. The signs of the times are all
ing from first to last gave evidence of contains; or than he who proffers any
ago, and is based on the grounds. They Cunning goes about seeking devious around, and they who list may read.
his close and ever-fresh acquaintance other treasures as a substitute for 1 display a wonderfultalentfor accumla-
ways ; it feeds on itself; it becomes a The handwriting is on the wall ; the
with the already existing Scriptures, these.
tion
with
which
Christians
cannot
disease ; it deceives itself and debases fiat has gone forth ; the ancient em­
To-day there is no book in all the
even while he was himself preparing
compete,
and
which
tends
to
make
of
itself all the time that tact is moving pire shall be subverted ; thè dominion
added Scripture» for his followers. The world which comprises snch a wealth '
them
an
ascendant
caste.
It
is
gravely
on
serenely in a loftier atmosphere— of superstition, already decaying, shall
one glimpse given to us of his boyhood of unused thought, and such stores of
asserted
in
the
Roumanian
Parliament
loftier,
at any rate, since tact is at break away, and crumble into dust ;
finds him a scholar in a Bible school; novel material for practical use in 1
that
the
true
difficulty
in
the
way
of
least
the
child of intellect, while cun­ and new life being breathed into the
and his declaration concerning his oc­ writing and speaking, as the Bible.
allowing
them
the
equal
rights
which
ning
is
often
the offspring of mere, confused and chaotic mass, it shall be
cupation of them was that he was Nor is there any human mind whi$h 1
were
secured
by
the
Treaty
of
Berlin,
idiocy.
clearly seen, that from the beginning
about his “ Father’s business;” the can gain from all sources outside of
is the certainty entertained by
There is nothing more useful in a
that
book
such
freshness
of
thought,
there has been no discrepancy, no in­
very best business in which it was
Roumanians and Servians that they family, as a cushion to every fall, a
congruity, no disorder, no interrup­
possible for him to engage. The be­ such richness of new illustration, such
would gradually oust the peasantry buffer to every blow, than this agree­
tion, no interference : but that all the
ginning of his public ministry was in startling novelty of pertinent and
till they possessed the whole land. In able tact; it always knows the right
events which surround us, even to
an exposition of “ the book of the pro­ pungent application of important Hungary it is asserted, even in
thing to say, the exact thing to do ; the furthest limits of the material
practical
truth
to
every
conceivable
phet Isaiah ” in his home synagogue
Reuter’s telegrams, that they have it knows how to lift the pleasant hand creation, are but different parts of a
at Nazareth. His very latest earthly condition. of life, as may be obtained purchased so many estates as to make
at the very moment for smoothing single scheme, which is permeated by
discourse was in a talk with two of through a closer and longer continued 1 an alteration in the Constitution
ruffled plumage; it knows no debatable one glorious principle of universal and
his disciples on their way to Emmaus, studyof that Book of books. Preachers, 1 needful and in Germany, literature is
questions how to put others into such undeviating regularity.”— Henry T-
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after his.. xeauxrectioiu...when “ begin.- teachers, and parents—the wisest and full
of
the
success
of
the
Jews
in
oust
­
good
humor that in can carry its Buckle.
ning at Moses and all the prophets, he iest of them—have yet a great deal to 1 ing the ancient families.
point
;
it never alludes to a forbidden
expounded unto them in all the Scrip­ learn from the Bible. If they negleet 1 Their remarkable success in politics,
subject;
it turns conversation from
—When I hear a person who has
tures the things concerning himself.” the study of that book, they will grow and their instinct for acquiring dangerous approaches; it never sees
broken the laws of the land, railed at, ’
dry
and
stale-
in
thought
and
in
ex-
1
He did not tell those disciples what
pecuniary
control of the Press, are what is best unseen; it does not and hear people cry, “ Oh, he is a vile
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he thought,or what he knew, about the pression, from whatever else they are observed
in
all free countries,'and have answer to that which requires a wretch; he deserves his sentence;’
Messiah; he told them what God had seeking to learn. If they are constant ' recently called forth pamphlets, and scathing reply if heard at all; it re­
for my part I can’t throw a stone at
said on the subject; and that was just in prayerful and expectant study of 1 even books, penetrated with a most members names and faces; it has the
him,
but I see that if God were to
the freshest and the best thing that the Bible, they will be fresher and ’ energetic hate. Considering that a apropos anecdote ; if it does not go
leave
me to myself, I should commit,
could be said on it; just the thing fuller, brighter and broader, in their '
mental and spiritual acquirement and hundred years ago the Jews were a- out of the way. to blame; where it as foul crimes, and a thousand timeSJA.
surest to make their hearts burn with­
despised caste, their fist into a dread­ can not praise it is silent, and it never worse.
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in them as they heard it. When activities, than otherwise they possibly ed order has been singularly rapid— consents to mortify any.
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Jesus was tempted of the Devil, he could be.
to® rapid, some imagine, for them to
Thus tact, it would appear, is a
—Do not allow yourself to rest “
Let,
then,
this
be
the
prayer
of
every
battled his adversary with Scripture;
be perfectly safe in their neW position. species of kindness, a dislike to wound satisfied while you can point to
and all the way along his life, in his child of Ood as he comes to the book
The explanation of their success is, as well as a desire to give pleasure ; nothing valuable that your hands
public and private teaching, he was of God: “ Open thou mine eyes, that I we presume, that their peculiar perhaps also a species of selfishness in
produced, nor anything which you
pointing his disciples to the truths of may behold wondrous things out of capacity exactly suits the conditions its automatic shrinking from crying, can call your own, bought wit^
thy
law.
”
The
wonderous
things
are
the Scriptures, and enjoining it upon
of modern life, and their best defense quarrelling, and discomfort of any money earned by, your own labor.
them t<? search those Scriptures for there. He who finds the moat of them would be this—that in -the country kind.
themselves, if they would have knowl­ shall be ever the freshest teacher of where they are most perfectly free,
Once in a while, when some great
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