The young man was expressing the opinion of many older tan himself when he said to his mother:  “I should like to be just such a Christian as father is, for no one can tell whether he is a Christian or not.”  This father is like the clock  attached to a certain church , which possessed neither face nor hands, bur which was wound up by the sexton on Sundays and continued by tick year after year, affording an apt illustration of the religion which many are content to possess.  The movements   of the clock were as regular and accurate as anyone could desire, but, inasmuch as it kept the time to itself, no one was the better for its existence.,    C.H. Robinson D.D.

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