Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-05-27
THE LORD's PRAYER. have

The LoRD's PRAYER.-We have
lately fallen upon something very diff
ferent from the usual poetical para
phrases of Sacred Writ. 1t is versi-
6cation of the Lords prayer-an orr
son, the brevity and condensation of
which ought to be lesson to those
who indulge in many words when they
pour out prayer and praise. 1t has
lately been published in London, is
composed as a duet, and harmonized
for four voices, with an accompani-
ment for the organ or the piano-forte.
II runs thus:
"Our Hea venly Father hear our prayer;
Thy name be halowed everywhere
Thy Kingdom come; thy perfect will
In earth as in Heaven, let all fulfil;
Give this days bread, that we may live;
Fcrgi We our sins as we forgive;
Help us temptation to withstand;
From evil shield us by Thy hand;
Now and ever unto Thee,
The kingdom, power, and glory be, Amen"
Here nothing is redundant, nothing
wanting. The music, simple and mel
odious, is said to be worthy Of the
words.
TIE M1sER. Everybody has bad
word to say Of the miserly man. The
preacher, the moralist, the wit, and the
satirist are equally severe on the poor
miser- whose very name was assigned
him by the Romans to signify that nc
is wretch. Miser-miserable. The
author Of the "Tin Trumpet says
pointedly enough: IA miser is enc
who, though he loves himself better
than all others, uses himself worse !;
for he lives a pauper in order to enrich
his heirs, whom he naturally hates be-
cause he knows they hate him." But
an old satirist has put the case more
pointedly still, yet hardly beyond truth:
elbow many man, from love Of pelf,
10 stuff his Golfers, starves himself;
Labors, accumulates and spares,
TO lay up ruin for his heirs;
Grudges the poor their scanty dole;
Saves everything except his soul;
And always anxious, always vexed,
Loses both this word and the next !"
COURSE OF NATURE.-Why may not
imagination trace the noble dust Of AL.
exander, till he find it stopping a bung-
hole? AS thus: Alexander died, AL
exander was buried, Alexander return
eth to dust !; the dust is earth Of earth
we make loan. And why Of that loan
whereto he was converted, might they
not stop beer barrel ?-Shakspeare,
A TR1LL1oN.-F people have any
, idea of the vastness Of trillion. No
trillion Of seconds has elapsed since
the creation of Adam nor will that
number have elapsed until February 1
!, A. D. 25, 1926! For trillion of Sec
onds there are 34,610: 587 years, 81
: days, 1 hour, 46 minutes and 40 Sec
, onds.
PoLITENEss.--True politeness con
sists not merely in strict adherence
to forms Of ceremony; it consists il
exquisite observance Of the feelings O.
7 others, an invariable respect for thos'
feelings. By this definition it claim!
! alliance with benevolence, and may
; sometimes be found as genuine in the
cottage as the court.
BAD CoMpANY.-Bad company il
like nail driven into post which at
ter the first or second blow, may bt
drawn out, but with little difficulty
) but being once driven up to the head
the pinchers cannot take hold to draw
it QUIT can only be done by defac
; ing or destroying the wood.
Coon SMILE IA fool in higl
station is like man on the top Of /
monumeat-everybody appears small t.
him, and he appears small to everybody