Articles

  O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science, falsely so-called, which some professing, have erred concerning the faith. We find the above text in 1 Tim.

If we are awake to the dangers surrounding us, we may guard against them; but if we are deceived, we are indeed lost. The present age is one in which so much of what purports to be wisdom is forced upon the people, that they are given scarcely time to consider its utility.

The divine elevator of the human race, physically, morally, and spiritually, is the truism that Truth demonstrates good, and is natural; while error, or evil, reproduces itself, and belongs not to nature nor to God. Truth is the power of God which heals the sick and sinner, and is applicable to all the needs of man.

A London paper tells of Bob, the firemen's dog, at the Southwark Fire-brigade station in London. Whenever the fire-bell rings, Bob is in a great hurry to be off.

Our little compositor is in her ninth year, and no doubt is the youngest known in the trade. She sets the type, justifies her own lines, but is not yet able to empty her "sticks.

It is strange that people reflect not more on how deeply storms, injuries, vile or mean things sink into a childs memory. If this be thought of, it is plain there is more loveliness when no forgiveness is needful than when it is granted, nor shall you be able to heal by any entreaty or by any means such a lesson of spirit as you may make in an instant in a young creature.

The word temperance, in these days, is coming to the signification of abstention from intoxicating drinks. A special rather than its broader, and more general and accurate meaning; and it is in this more limited sense that I use it.

I want to tell you how the mammas away up in Lapland keep their babies from disturbing the minister on Sunday. Poor babies! I suppose it is growing bad style everywhere to take them out to church; and I suppose, too, that the ministers are, privately, as thankful as can be.

There is but one thing needful, to possess God. All our senses are so many ways of approaching Divinity, so many modes of tasting and adoring God.

Now it came to pass after many days, that there abode in the city of Denver, which lieth in the land of Colorado, very many mighty men—men of great renown, learned in all the medical and surgical wisdom of the age, and in the quackeries also; and they said, Behold, it is good for us to be here; for lo! the land is full of invalids, and we shall wax sleek eating of the fat of the land. And they bought and laid by in store, and builded them houses and barns, and whole blocks, of the money which they received from the suffering and diseased; who, like Asa of old, when he was diseased exceeding great, "yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians; and Asa slept with his fathers.