Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1853-03-26

Don't quarrel with your neighbor, even
though he denies you your just rights II j.
better TO suffer in peace, than to get angry
and maintain your ground. There is moth
ing so much TO be deprecated as a quarrel
The tooth-ache is nothing to it. We car
only compare it TO writ at your heels-and
twenty, had there not previously been hard
words and harder thoughts. There can be
nothing equal TO a quarrel. If we were a
preacher, once year we should Ireach
from the text, Live peaceably with all
men," Look at that neighborhood, family
or church, that is cursed with a quarrel and
what does it present. A cage Of things un-
clean. Hatred, envy. chickering's, hard
words, and base insinuations,l move on the
face of all that was destroying
peace, JOY, and every virtue. And alas
how difficult it is TO end a quarrel, when il
gets into the church or family We should
rather attempt to dam the waters Of the Pc
nobscot in April. Every one feels right
with himself no matter what he has said or
done that was wrong-and every one looks
on his neIghbor as an enemy and scoun-
drel. We tell you to keep out of quarrel,
Don't permit it to enter church. 1t has a
long tail, and before you can find its end.
the church may be torn in splinters, and
scattered to the four winds. 1'-@
Reader, avoid quarrel-run from it as
from pestilence. Give up a few dollars
an inch or two of land, or any thing reason
ble, rather than have dispute that will de-
scend to your children, and find no end Till
the third or fourth generation. We know
it is sometimes difficult to move on smoothly
with certain characters; but If you never
suffer your temper to be riled, your tongue
to be unhung, or your dander to start up, we
think you may weather all difficulties, and
remain in peace with every body. to the
close Of life. At least, you can have the
satisfaction Of knowing that you have done
your duty, which, to reflect upon, is no mean
comfort. Portland Transcript. ,ss.s ss.1
Storm in the Polar Sea.
One Of the grandest scenes that can be
witnessed in this world, is storm in the
Polar Sea, and the collision Of the mountain
icebergs which tower in some instances sew
eral hundred feet above the level of the sea.
The ocean violently agiiated, is at all times
sublime and awful sight, but when, in ad
dition, it encounters immense masses, which
it has set in motion with a violence equal to
its own, its effect is prodigiously increased.
At one moment, says Beechy, in his Voyage
towards the North Pole, it bursts upon the
icy fragments, and buries them many feet
beneath its waves; and the next, as the
buoyancy of the depressed body struggles
for the re-ascendancy, the water rushes in
foaming cataracts over its edges, whilst ev-
cry individual mass, rocking and laboring in
its bed, grinds against and contends with its
opponent, until one is either split with the
shock, or, is upheaved upon the surface of
the other Nor is this collision confined to
any particular spot, but is going on as far as
the sight can reach, and when, from this
convulsive scene below, the eye is turned to
the extraordinary appearance of the sky
above, where the unnatural clearness of a
calm and silvery atmosphere presents itself,
bounded by dark hard line Of stormy clouds,
as if to mark the confines within which the
efforts of man would be of no avail, the
reader may imagine the sensation Of awe
which must accompany that Of grandeur in
the mind of the Sailors Maga-
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