Worldliness Described

WORLDLINESS: Described. Worldliness Brazil is the spirit of childhood carried into man- forest-dwellers call the matador, or “ murderer.” hood. The child lives in the present hour: Its slender stem creeps at first along the ground ; to-day to him is every thing. The holiday but no sooner does it meet a. vigorous tree, promised at a distant interval is no holiday at than, with clinging grasp, it cleaves to it, and all: it must be either now or never.

Natural climbs it, and, as it climbs, keeps, at short inin the child, and therefore pardonable, this tervals, sending out arm-like tendrils that emspirit, when carried on into manhood, of course brace the tree. As the murderer ascends, these effeminating, leavening, puffing up, estranging When night came, the banker said, “ My son, is worldliness.

The most distinct illustration ligatures grow larger, and clasp tighter. Up, given us of this is the case of Esau. Esau up, it climbs a hundred feet, nay, two hundred came from the hunting-field worn and hungry : if need be, until the last loftiest spire is gained the only means of procuring the tempting and fettered. Then, as if in triumph, the parmess of his brother’s pottage was the sacrifice asite shoots a huge, flowery head above the of his father’s blessing, which, in those ages, strangled summit, and thence, from the dead carried with it a substantial advantage.

But tree’s crown, scatters its seed to do again the Even thus worldliness has that birthright could be enjoyed only after work of death. years ; the pottage was present, near and certain : strangled more churches than ever persecution S. Coley. therefore he sacrificed a future and higher broke.