The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-12-26
The beauty of holy life constitutes the most


/ The beauty of holy life constitutes the most
eloquent and effective persuasive to religion,
which one human being can address to another.
We have many ways Of doing good to our
II creatures, but none SO efficacious as leading a
yirtuous, upright and well ordered life. There
il an energy, moral suasion in good mans
life, passing the highest efforts of the orator
genius. The seen but silent beauty of holt
ness speaks more eloquently of God, and du-
ty, than the tongue of men and angels. Let
parents remember this. The best inheritance
4 parent can bequeath child is virtuous ex-
ample-a legacy of hallowed remembrance
land associations. The beauty of holiness
! beamng through the life of beloved relative
or friend, is more effectual to strengthen such
asd do stand in virtues ways, and raise up those
that are bowed. than precept, command, en-
treaty or warning. Christianity itself, l be-
lieve, owes by far the greater part Of its moral
/ power, not to the precepts orparables OF Christ,
/ but to his character The beauty of that holi-
ness which is enshrned in The four brief biog-
raphies of the Man of Nazareth, has done more
and will do more to regenerate the world and
bring it to an everlasting righteousness than all
other agencies put together. 1t has done more
1 to spread his religion in the world, than all
thai has ever been preached OR written on the
evidence of christianity.
| Henry Ward Beecher has very 'realizng
| sense" Of what good coffee is. He writes thus:
| /" Breakfast is ready. A most useful and salu
tary custom is that of breakfast. One may
| work with the hand without breakfast, but not
with the head-the machine must be wound
| up. The blue must be taken out Of your spir
| It's, and the gray out of your eyes. A cup of
| coffee--real coffee-home Drowned, and home
ground-home made, that comes to you as
dark as a hazel eye, but changes to golden
! bronze as you temper it with cream, from its
birth. thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet,
neither lumby nor frothing on the Java; such
cup Of coffee is match for twenty blue de-
wills, and will exercise them all 1nvoluntarily
| one draws in his breath by the nostrils The
/ fragrant SAVIOR fills his senses with pleasure
for no coffee can be good in the mouth that
E'does not first send a sweet offering of odor to
1.-THE nostrils."
\ Professor Robert Hare, of Philadelphia, has
|received from spirit, the following informa-
5tion in regard the financial peculiarities of the
other world: Hence it will appear that we
have no occasion for gold or silver, which per-
isheth with the using, but the currency of
moral and intellectual worth. confined in the
! mint Of divine love, and essayed by the stan
dards Of purity and truth. Our bank, whose
charter is eternal, and whose notes are never
subject to fluctuations and always payable on
demand, is none other than that's great bank of
heaven, whose capital stock consists of an in
finitude of divine love, mercy and benevolence, |
of which our heavenly father is president and
director, and in which his beloved children,
the whole human family, are shareholders.
Old Hicks was an awful snorer. He could
be heard farther than a blacksmith's forge; but
his wife became so accustomed 10 it, that it
soothed her repose. They were very domes-
tic. couple slept apart for many years;
AT length the old man was required to attend
court some distance. The first night after his
departure, his wife never slept wink; she
missed the snoring The next night passed
away in the same manner, without sleep. She
was getting into very bad way, and proba
bly, would have died, had it not been for the
ingenuity Of a servant girl. She took the cof-
fee mill into her mistress chamber, and ground r
her to sleep at once.
During the heat of the battle at German
own, while the bullets flew as hallstones, one :
3achelew, of Monmouth, was leveling his mus r
let at his enemy, when the lock was carried c
away by ball. Undismayed, he caught mp t
he gun of comrade just killed by his side,
md taking aim, bullet entered the barrel and
visited it around like cork screw. Still I'M n
launted, our hero, Immediately kneeled down, d
Inscrewed the whole lock from the twisted
nusket, screwed it on to the musket from which O
he lock had been torn. and blazed away at
he enemy He was a boy of old rs.
In reply to complaint of the cost Of clergy
,en's salaries, a friend of the clergy pertinent
' inquiries: 'Dd such croakers ever think n
lat it cost thirty-Gve millions of dollars opay
le salaries of American lawyers; that twenty al
,illions of dollarsaare paid out annually to j
eep our criminals, and ten millions of dollars y
, keep the dogs in the midst of us alive, while A
MY six millions of dollars are spent annually A
, keep six thousand ministers in the United G
tates.
rev. Mr.. Gates recently married Mr.. Jo- G
,ph Post to Miss Martha Rails. If this match S
ont make a good fence, we should like to
low what will.
Always laugh when you can't is cheap a
achine Mirthfuness is philosophy not well N
lderslood. 1t is the sunniest side of exist
zee. st# II
The young woman that was driven to dis al
action, now fears that she will have to walk ~
4ck.
lit has ever been my opinion, that cheerful st
sod natured friend is SO great blessing that :
admits of no comparison but itself.
Society, like shaded silk. must be viewed in =
| situations, or its colors will deceive us.
What's whiskey brnging?" inquired deal
in that article. q
Bringing men to the gallows," was the re-
y. ..* "
The Great Red River Remedy! st
LETHIFUGE. ..5. =
A new and Invaluable discovery, a.
TAS now reputation established beyond doubt :,
J. as specific for the of premontory symp- -
ms of e I'D @ u II Rs a, T.
CHOLERA MORBUS, D1ARRHEA, "
ID allderangr ments of the bowels 1t it also GER IL
I'm CURE for Nervous and SICK HEADACHE, SICK n
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