1900
The Nashville Christian Advocate says: "It has been said that duty is an angel with a sad face, and the saying contains at least an element of truth. Some duties it is easy for us to perform. We take them up with a sense of joy and delight. But some are hard and difficult. The sight of them makes us shudder and draw back. None the less must we look them squarely in the face. It may be that the very things which we regard with most repugnance have in them just the discipline that our souls most surely need."
—The Ram's Horn, Nov. 17, 1900, p. 21.
Showing posts with label discipline. Show all posts
Showing posts with label discipline. Show all posts
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Thursday, July 5, 2007
Strenuous Peace
1905
The Rev. Father Hopkins, superior general of the Order of St. Paul, in whose abbey at Alton, England, shelter is given to worn-out merchant seamen, remarked to an audience recently that the peace of the abbey was more assured by his ability to "take a man by the scruff of the neck and throw him out" than by his ability to preach or pray.
Episcopal Awakener
The servants at Fulham palace, the bishop of London's residence, are roused each morning by what is probably a survival of the old rousing-staff formerly used in churches to "stir up" dozing members of the congregation. The lodge-keeper, whose duty it is to arouse the servants, is armed with a slender rod, about 15 feet long, with which he knocks on the antique casements of their bedrooms in the quadrangle within the gates of the large western archway.
1910
Curbing the Appetites
If the biceps require the dumb-bells, if the intellect require mathematics, logic and classics, so the appetites and desires require careful disciplining if the fullest life is to be obtained. — Rev. A. A. Brown, Episcopalian, Akron.
The Rev. Father Hopkins, superior general of the Order of St. Paul, in whose abbey at Alton, England, shelter is given to worn-out merchant seamen, remarked to an audience recently that the peace of the abbey was more assured by his ability to "take a man by the scruff of the neck and throw him out" than by his ability to preach or pray.
Episcopal Awakener
The servants at Fulham palace, the bishop of London's residence, are roused each morning by what is probably a survival of the old rousing-staff formerly used in churches to "stir up" dozing members of the congregation. The lodge-keeper, whose duty it is to arouse the servants, is armed with a slender rod, about 15 feet long, with which he knocks on the antique casements of their bedrooms in the quadrangle within the gates of the large western archway.
1910
Curbing the Appetites
If the biceps require the dumb-bells, if the intellect require mathematics, logic and classics, so the appetites and desires require careful disciplining if the fullest life is to be obtained. — Rev. A. A. Brown, Episcopalian, Akron.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Trumpet Calls — Sentence Sermons
1896Ram's Horn Sounds Warning Note to Unredeemed
Wine opens the damper to let all the fires of evil in a man burn.
God sends danger only where he has first sent courage.
To love an enemy is a sure way to please Christ.
A brewer's horse fares better than a drunkard's child.
Bridget starts her fire with coal oil. The devil uses alcohol.
The man who does not look ahead will soon have to fall back.
There is no sign that a man inflamed with drink may not commit.
Every moderate drinker is leading an army of boys toward the pit.
If we not hear God to-day, he may refuse to hear us to-morrow.
Appetite for drink is the devil's iron chain on the drunkard's neck.
The easiest time to let drink alone is before the first drink is taken.
It is when we are most helpless that Christ is most willing to help us.
The sparkle in the wine is made by one of the devil's sharpest teeth.
It is a long step toward heaven to be born in a home where Christ is loved.
One of the hardest things for some men to forgive is a difference in creed.
The man who serves the devil has to begin his day's work before breakfast.
Many a man puts his family in the dark to help the saloon pay its gas bill.
Many a man has started out to reform the world, and stopped at the first house.
The devil has gained his point when he convinces us that little sins work no ill.
The man who begins by drinking some time may end by having to drink all the time.
No man can grind down another without first placing his own soul under the millstone.
The Christian should never complain of his hard fortune while he knows that Christ is his friend.
If you would teach children to hate drink, give them the first lesson before they leave the cradle.
The man who has not decided that he will never drink, has more than half decided that he will drink.
When a man gets up early in the morning to drink, he is apt to spend the day in doing nothing else.
Our money is not doing us the good God would have it do us, if it is not doing anybody else any good.
If you are in the habit of going to sleep in church, you do not help the preacher any by occupying a front seat. — Ram's Horn.
Saturday, May 5, 2007
Derelicts
1895
"These are the wrecks of abandoned vessels turned loose to be carried hither and thither by winds and tide. They form one of the serious dangers to ocean navigation. In spite of all efforts to rid the sea of them, many of these unguided prowlers still drift and toss up and down the deep, threatening every passing ship with wreck. May we not find in this a parable? Derelicts — social, moral, religious — are the chief danger to safe sailing on the ocean of life. And such are found drifting everywhere. Your son and daughter and yourself would be safer if it were not for these wrecks of humanity lost to conscience and morality and to God. Every ruined soul threatens others with ruin. One misguided or neglected youth may, in the course of a lifetime of drifting and sinning, wreck a hundred others. It is a peril, as well as a crying sin, to let any boy or girl be turned adrift without moral restraint or guidance, or to allow those already lost to continue drifting while we put forth no effort to arrest or save them. Prevention is better than cure. Parents should see that the hearts of the children are so anchored to Christ, and their lives so trained for Him and ruled by His love, that no derelicts shall go forth from their homes." — Cumberland Presbyterian.
"These are the wrecks of abandoned vessels turned loose to be carried hither and thither by winds and tide. They form one of the serious dangers to ocean navigation. In spite of all efforts to rid the sea of them, many of these unguided prowlers still drift and toss up and down the deep, threatening every passing ship with wreck. May we not find in this a parable? Derelicts — social, moral, religious — are the chief danger to safe sailing on the ocean of life. And such are found drifting everywhere. Your son and daughter and yourself would be safer if it were not for these wrecks of humanity lost to conscience and morality and to God. Every ruined soul threatens others with ruin. One misguided or neglected youth may, in the course of a lifetime of drifting and sinning, wreck a hundred others. It is a peril, as well as a crying sin, to let any boy or girl be turned adrift without moral restraint or guidance, or to allow those already lost to continue drifting while we put forth no effort to arrest or save them. Prevention is better than cure. Parents should see that the hearts of the children are so anchored to Christ, and their lives so trained for Him and ruled by His love, that no derelicts shall go forth from their homes." — Cumberland Presbyterian.
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