A company of thirteen, all heads of families, have commenced the observance of the Sabbath here. We design to organize a Sabbath-school next Sabbath. We are having the most encouraging meetings I have ever held. A Baptist minister, with his good wife, has taken a decided stand for the truth. We confidently expect to organize a church here of good substantial members. J. D. Pegg.
March 13.
SEATONSVILLE, KENTUCKY.
By S. Osborn
HAVE been holding meetings near this place for more than a week. The work is advancing, both in love for the truth and prejudice against it. The Disciples are very much stirred on account of the truth's having taken their preacher and school-teacher. In view of this fact they have sent for one of their able men to debate the subject of the Sabbath and the law. We commence the discussion the 18th. S. OSBORN.
March 16.
The Virtue of Holy Dissatisfaction
To SAY, “I shall be satisfied,” is an indication of Christian faith. To say, “I am satisfied,” proves one to be possessed of a low ideal—or of no ideal. He who is satisfied with himself, or with his work, has made as yet no high attainment; nor is he likely to make it. It is wrong to be discontented; but it is right to be unsatisfied. Peace, even the peace “which passeth all understanding,” is not at rest, like the sluggish pool; it floweth “like a river.” Not what one is, or what one has, but what one sees and strives to reach to, is the measure of one's quality and worth. He has never done good work, who thinks that his work could not be bettered, or that it is done as well as he wanted to do it. He is good for nothing who thinks he is good enough.—S. S. Times.
Ostentation and Learning: A Quiet Reflection
I HAVE seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; at mid-day, when he is highest, none at all.—Bishop Hall.
DOMINIC
By D. Wise
I HAVE somewhere read an old legend, which, however false in fact, contains a precious lesson. It states that, some centuries ago, a man, resident in Egypt, became a convert to the Christian faith. The spirit of the times favored asceticism; and he, being of a contemplative mind, conceived the unnatural idea that if he could retire from human society, and spend his days in solitary contemplation, he should attain to the perfection of human happiness on earth. Filled with this thought, he bid adieu to the abodes of men, wandered far into the desert, selected a cave, near which flowed a living spring, for his home, and subsisting on the scanty crop of roots and herbs which sprang up spontaneously in the adjacent glens and valleys, began his life of meditation and prayer.
He had not spent many seasons in his hermitage before his solitary heart grew miserable beyond endurance. The long, weary hours of the day, and the dreary, interminable night, oppressed and crushed his listless soul. In the extremity of his wretchedness, he fell upon his face, and cried, “Father, call home thy child! Let me die! I am weary of life!”
Thus, stricken with grief, he fell asleep; and in his vision an angel stood before him, and spake, saying: “Cut down the palm-tree that grows beside your spring, and of its fibres construct a rope!”
The vision passed away, and the hermit awoke with a resolution to fulfil his mission. But he had no axe, and, therefore, journeyed far to procure one. On his return, he felled the tree, and diligently labored until its fibres lay at his feet, formed into a coil of rope. Again the angel stood before him and said, “Dominic, you are no longer weary of life, but you are happy. Know, then, that man was made for labor; and prayer also is his duty. Both are essential to his happiness. Go, therefore, into the world, with this rope girded about thy loins. Let it be a memorial to thee of what God expects from man!”
This beautiful legend illustrates a truth which every young man should engrave on his heart—that industry is essential to the enjoyment of life. It is a law of the human constitution that mankind shall find their happiness and their development in action. And it were as easy to grasp the forked lightning, or to stay the fiery waves of the volcano, as to contravene this law. Nay! it cannot be; for He who said, “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground,” has established this inseparable connection between industry and enjoyment. Industry implies regular and habitual devotion to a useful pursuit. It is covetous of moments, and guards them as a miser his grains of gold. Moments, to the industrious man, are as flowers to bees; they furnish him with the opportunity of accomplishing his ends. He beholds in them the fractional parts of his life, and applies the maxim of the economist to their expenditure. His rule is: “Take care of the moments, and the years will take care of themselves.” He is assiduous, not as “a hen over an addled egg,” but to bring benefit out of his assiduity. He knows that it is possible to be always “busy about nothing,” like Procopius, the Macedonian king, who wasted his life while busy in making lanterns! or, like Prince Bonbennin, in Goldsmith’s “Citizen of the World,” who was never more idle than when traversing his kingdom, searching after a pretty “white mouse with green eyes.”
Behold yon graceful and sprightly “swallow” zigzagging over the clover-field, skimming the limpid lake, whisking round the steeple, or dancing gayly in the sky! Behold him in high spirits, shrieking out his ecstasy, as he has bolted a dragon-fly, or darted through the arrow slits of an old turret, or performed some other feat of hirundine agility? And notice how he pays his morning visits—alighting elegantly on some house-top, and twittering politely, by turns, to the swallow on either side of him; and after five minutes’ conversation, off and away, to call for his friend at the castle. And now he has gone upon his travels—gone to spend the winter at Rome or Naples, to visit Egypt or the Holy Land, or perform some more recherche pilgrimage to Spain or to the coasts of Barbary. And when he comes home next April, sure enough he has been abroad: charming climate—highly delighted with the cicadas in Italy, and the bees on Hymettus—locusts in Africa rather scarce this season; but, upon the whole, much pleased with his trip, and returned in high health and spirits.”
Such is the severe satire which the popular Rob’t Hamilton employs to chastise that large class of busy idlers which abound in Europe, and which is fast multiplying in America. How degraded a thing is life thus spent by a fashionable young man of the world, whose “chief end” seems to consist in puffing cigars, and in conforming as near as may be to the example of the swallow in the above picture. No wonder that long before such young men attain meridian, they exclaim, with “Croaker,” in Goldsmith’s “Good-natured Man,” that “Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humoured and coaxed a little, till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.” Shame on such young men! Beside them, the twittering swallow is honorable and elevated. The bird was made for such a life, and thus fulfils its destiny; but that silly youth was made to be a MAN!—to commune with God, to labor in the holy charities and sublime duties of life.
To be industrious, then, a young man must have a useful pursuit and a worthy aim. He must follow that pursuit diligently. Rising early and economizing his moments, he must earnestly persist in his toil, adding little by little to his capital stock of ideas, influence or wealth. He must learn to glory in his labor, be mechanical, agricultural, or professional. He must impress himself deeply with the idea that a life of idleness is one of the direst of all curses. The doctrine that labor, even of the humblest character, is dishonorable, he must resolutely trample in the dust, as false and dangerous; and contend that an industrious, honest scavenger is really a more honorable man than the most fashionable dandy, who idles away his time on the pavements of Broadway, in ladies’ drawing-rooms, in cafes, and in theatres. Thus, eschewing false ideas, and making every moment fruitful of some good to mind or body, to himself or to others, he cannot fail of a plenteous harvest of advantages as life advances. “Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings. He shall not stand before mean men.” “The hand of the diligent shall rule.”
—Rev. D. Wise.
Education in the Home
There is a process of education constantly going on in every dwelling which care and thought can make an unspeakable advantage, and at the same time contribute to make a happy home. To keep objects of pure and high interest before the children's minds, in a natural and suitable way—to have them supplied with such books as will occupy and interest—to talk not so much to them as with them about objects—to take note of and encourage any advance they make, and to direct the flow not of a part of, but of the whole of their life—physical, mental, moral without apparent interference or violence; this happy art—to be sought, prayed for, labored for—under God's blessing, goes far to make a happy home. The tastes of children are naturally simple. Your child's wooden gun, cut with your own hand, perhaps, and made a link of connection between your little boy and you, may be more to him, more influential over his character, more potent in binding his heart to you while living, his memory to you when you are167dead, than a costly gift that you ordered at the store. And when you, living a loving, natural life before your children, and with them, bend the knee in their midst, and speak to God of them and of yourself, there is a powerful restraint being put on natural evil, there is a pleasant type of Heaven where the whole family that is named after Jesus shall be gathered together.—Dr. John Hall.
Growing Old
Softly, oh softly, the years have swept by thee,
Touching thee lightly with tenderest care,
Sorrow and death did they often bring nigh thee,
Yet they have left thee but beauty to wear.
Growing old gracefully,
Gracefully fair.
Far from the storms that are lashing the ocean;
Nearer each day to the pleasant home light;
Far from the waves that are wild with commotion,
Under full sail, and the harbor in sight,
Growing old cheerfully,
Cheerful and bright.
Past all the winds that were adverse and chilling,
Past all the islands that lured thee to rest,
Past all the current that wooed thee unwilling,
Far from the port and the land of the blest.
Growing old peacefully,
Peaceful and blest.
Never a feeling of envy or sorrow
When the bright faces of children are seen;
Never a year from their youth wouldst thou borrow;
Thou dost remember what lieth between.
Growing old willingly,
Gladly, I ween.
Rich in experience that angels might covet,
Rich in the faith that has grown with thy years,
Rich in the love that grew from and above it,
Soothing thy sorrows and hushing thy tears.
Growing old wealthily,
Loving and dear.
Hearts at the sound of thy coming are lightened;
Ready and willing thy hand to relieve;
Many a face at thy kind words is brightened—
“It is more blessed to give than receive.”
Growing old happily,
Blest, we believe.
Eyes that grow dim to the earth and its glory,
See but the brighter, the heavenly glow!
Ears that are dull to the earth and its story,
Drink in the songs that from paradise flow;
All their sweet recompense
Youth cannot know.
Fourscore! But softly the years have swept by thee,
Touching thee lightly with tenderest care;
Sorrow and death did they often bring nigh thee,
Yet they have left thee but beauty to wear.
Growing old gracefully,
Graceful and fair.
Whoso Keepeth the Law Is a Wise Son
4. Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son.
LITTLE DUTIES.
A LETTER-CARRIER in one of our large cities, a few months ago, found on reaching the postoffice, after a long round of delivery, a letter in his bag that he had overlooked. It would have taken him half an hour to return and deliver it. He was very tired and hungry. The letter was an ordinary, unimportant-looking missive. He thrust it into his pocket and delivered it on his first round next day.
What consequences followed? For want of that letter a great firm had failed to meet their engagements; their notes had gone to protest; a mill closed and hundreds of poor workmen were thrown out of employment.
The letter-carrier himself was discharged for his oversight and neglect. His family suffered during the winter for many of the necessaries of life, but his loss was of small account compared to the enormous amount of misery caused by his single failure in duty.
Another case: A mechanic who had been out of work a long time in New York went last September to collect a small sum due to him. The gentleman who owed it, being annoyed at some trifle, irritably refused the money. The man went to his wretched home and, maddened by the sight of his hungry wife and children, went out to the back-yard and hanged himself.
The next day an old employer sent to offer him a permanent situation. There was a life lost and a family left paupers because a bill of a dollar or two was not paid at the right time.
The old Spanish proverb says, “There is no such thing as a trifle in the world.” When we think how inextricably the lives of all mankind are tangled together, it seems as if every word or action moved a lever which set in motion a gigantic machinery, whose effect is wholly beyond our control. For this reason, if for no other, let us be careful to perform promptly and well the duties of life—even the most trivial.
THE DEBT TO MOTHER.
MOTHERS live for their children, make self-sacrifices for them and manifest their tenderness and love so freely that the name, Mother, is the sweetest in human language. And yet sons, youthful and aged, know but little of the deep anxiety, the nights of sleepless and painful solicitude which their mothers have spent over their thoughtless waywardness. Those loving hearts go down to their graves with those hours of secret agony untold. As the mother watches by night, or prays in the privacy of her closet, she weighs well the words which she will address to her son in order to lead him to a manhood of honor and usefulness. She will not tell him all her griefs and the deadly fears which beset her son. She warns him with trembling, lest she say over-much. She tries to charm him with cheery love while her heart is bleeding. No worthy and successful man ever yet knew the breadth and depth of the great obligation which he is under to the mother who guided his heedless steps at the time when his character for virtue and purity was so narrowly balanced against a course of vice and ignominy. Let the dutiful son do his utmost to smooth his mother's pathway, let him obey as implicitly as he can her wishes and advice, let him omit nothing that will contribute to her peace, rest and happiness, and yet he will part from her at the tomb with his debt to her not half discharged.
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WAIT
By Laura C. Nourse
To sit calmly down and wait, to be able to keep our hearts from uncharitable thoughts and our lips from hasty utterances in this age of hurry and strife, of quick deductions and lightning calculations, requires much of moral force, of rigid self-control, of firmness of purpose, and, above all, a nearness to God that will enable us, always and everywhere, to exercise that charity so prominently brought out in the New Testament Scriptures, and which so eminently characterized the life and teachings of Christ, the Son of God.
How many of us have ever comprehended the meaning of the word wait, or attempted to put into execution our well-defined ideas concerning it? We are hasty in our judgment, quick in our condemnation, bitter and unsparing in our censure. We coolly and calmly criticise the opinions and actions of friends and enemies alike, and putting ourselves in the rightful seat of the Judge of all the earth, pass upon our fellow-men sentence of condemnation. With surpassing effrontery and boldness, we even dare to enter the inner chambers of the heart, and with ruthless and relentless hand, wresting from the sorrowful lives of those around us their secret griefs and sorrows, their misery and suffering, heartlessly parade them before the world, and unfeelingly pass upon them our hollow and flippant judgment: a verdict many times utterly devoid of justice.
God is just, and tempers justice with mercy. Do we? Do we ever consider it necessary to pause, to wait until we can calmly and justly weigh the evidence, until we know something of the, it may be, peculiar circumstances which have conspired to produce the act that we condemn?
Do we forget in our pitiable self-righteousness that we are weak and human? And do we dare to hope that He who “was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin,” will not deem it needful, for our fuller development and furtherance in the divine life, to subject even us, to just that measure of temptation that has proven too great for our fellow? Shall we stand the test, and be able to “cast the first stone?”
Even in the petty details of everyday life, how much need have we to learn the meaning of patient waiting, to study the motives, to understand the purposes of those with whom our business or social relations bring us in contact. We need to keep our own hearts pure, our own lives above suspicion, our own lips from hasty words; and, doing this, we shall be better able to exercise the great gift of charity; to remember our own frailty; to wait for the development of motives and the justification of actions. Let us exercise forbearance with the failings of others, and seek by loving sympathy and gentle, kindly acts, prompted by hearts which beat in unison with the great heart of God, to remove temptation from the pathway of the weak, to comfort and strengthen those who shrink and falter beneath the burden which the cruel griefs and sufferings of this poor life have put upon them, to help other lives into the life of God, and other souls into the kingdom of Heaven. So shall we be ever ready for the lessons a loving Father designs to teach us, whether they come through pain and affliction, or the brighter rays of sunshine and prosperity.
Let love without dissimulation rule our lives and govern our acts, uniting us in a common bond of sympathy to God and humanity, and in the end gaining for us a sure entrance into life everlasting.
“In patience and faith, let our hearts be still
’Neath the toils of each passing day;
Let our Father teach us what lessons He will,
In his loving and merciful way.
Thus sitting in meekness at Jesus’ feet,
As slowly we learn each line,
The bitter and dark will be clear and sweet,
Made plain by a light divine.”
LAURA C. NOURSE.
Subduing Passions and Laying Aside Prejudice
IT is the work of a philosopher to be every day subduing his passions and laying aside his prejudice.—Addison.
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