Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-06-24
&c MS OF THOU G H 7.

Grave are the prints of the footsteps of the
angel o: eternal HE
There is no grel without some beneficent
provision to soften its intcnseness.
There is but breath of air and I beat Of
the !.eart betwixt tiis world and the next.
Never court the favor Of the rich BY tiatter-
ing either their vanity or their vices. .. :
Frequently review your conduct and note
your feelings.
When YOU tuk how good your parents are,
lust think how much better must tina! being be
who made them.
Soeak with calmncss and deliberation on all
occasions, especially il circumstances which
tend to irr!lats.
Some connoisscurs wonld give hundred
pounds for the painted head o! beggar, who
would threaten the living mIedicant with the
stocks.
There is Only one objection to the people
WHO ,lcan well, and that is that they can never
spare time 70 cary on: their meaaing.
Never resent Il supposed injury, till yon
know the views and motives OF tae author OF
it: nor any occasion re,aate.
The seeds of love can never grow bnt nn-
dcr the warm and gen&i influence of kind feel
inrS and aiieci5na;e nIaaaerS.
.Always takc tie part OF an absent person
who is crnsurc, il, company, SO far as truth
and ,.ro?ri,ty will allow.
Usefulness is confined to no station, and It's
astonishing how muc! coed may be done, ant
what NAY DC effected by limited means, united
with beueyn!racc Ok heart and activity OF mind.
The hapnincss OF oar lives depends much on
TIE actire performance Of Tie duties OF our
station; nor have we any right to infer t!atit
they are not properly discharged, they would
be better if we movedin more exalted sphere.
Music serves to make HON, pleasant by
engaging many OF its inmate in a delightful re:
creation, and thus dispclling the sourncss and
gloom which frequently arise from petty dis
putcs. from mortified VANITY, from disco"tent
and envy.
The apparent motion Of the earth is from
the rising to the setting sun, when her real mo-
ton is from the setting sun towards the rising.
so is it with man, lie taucics himself journeylng
from life to death, willie in fact lie is Journey
in.r from death unto life.
iyaricc. the accumulation Of wealth for its
own sake. brings with its own punishment in
the driving up of every fount of human affec-
ton within us, in the disruption of every tic
with which the charities Of life are bound, and
in the conversion of the heart into a substance
harder than the neither millstone.
God and love arc every where; in light in
colors, in flowers, in the beauty OF man, in the
happiness of animals, in the human mind, in the
endless spheres, as the sun shines on all alike,
vet differently, and is majestic on the ocean,
sparkling in dew drop, ruddy on the ripe
fruit. silver on the stream, many colored in tho
rainbow, and pale and tremulous in the moon.
If there be situation wherein woman may
be deemed to appropriate angelic attributes it
is when she ministers as only woman can, to
the wants and weakness of the invalid Whose
hand like hers can smooth his pillow? whose
voice so ctltctually can silence the qucrelous-
ness Of his temper, or soothc the anguish of
his disease! Protlered by her, the vaincd hath
IN added zcst, and even the nauscous medica.
mcnt is divested of its loathsomencss.