Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-04-01
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TIE be successful and happy costs some
thing. Assure yourself that if you yield to
efeminate suggestions you sink. Noby
determine at the hazard of some WEAKNESS
and some smart, to pass contentedly through
trials and labors, till BY honesty and perse-
verance you become merchant. Consider
how many man now in Wall street came
dowa with all his personal effects in one
bundle. Away with home sickness and
querulous imbeciHty! Tear up those whin-
ing epistles in your private memorandum,
and write perseverance. Quash every dis
position to make changes except where they
tend to moral benefit, or Knowledge of bus-
ness. 1T is ill transplanting a tree which
thrives well in the soil.' Let the cheer
fulness of contented mind evince itself in
deference and in submission to those who
control your time, and in uniform good ia
ture and courtesy and good will to your
companions in business With such princi-
pies and resolutions, and with reliance on
Divine Providence, you may boldly hope
Brace your nerves to meet every engage
ment and, however poor, you will be sure 10
succeed. DISMISS from your soul all belief
In the divinity of modern pagans called Luck
and stake nothing on sudden windfalls. in
human nature says Playfair, 'there is no
struggle which seems more unequal, at first
sight. than that of man without connections
or capital, against the man who has both;
yet there is no contest which so constantly
terminates in favor of him who appears to
have the disadvantage
'.GAa A sf0THER LOVE BE SUPPLIED =,
No! thousand times, no! By the deep,
earnest Yearning of my spirit for mothers
love; by the weary aching void in my heart; !;
by The restless, unsatisfed wanderings OF my
affections, ever seeking IN object on which
to rest; by my instructive discernment of the
true maternal love from the false--as
would discern between lifeless statute and
a breathing man; by the hallowed emotions
with which | cherish in the depths of my
heart the vision of grass-grown mound in
. quiet graveyard among the mountains; by
the reverence, the holy love, the feeling
akin to idolatry with which my thoughts
hover about an angel from among the SER
aphs of Heavenly all these, | answer,
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Dear reader have you mother? Then
on your knees remember the Giver of this
greatest earthly good, and as you offer to
Him the incense of grateful heart, OH
mingle with the obligation prayer for
those to whose quivering lips is pressed the
orphans bitter chalice.--RuM Cleaning.
ae CON PROVIDENCE
=s / believe the Lord has always, ready pro-
yided, some kind Samaritan, Journey ing, as
if by chance, on the very path the wounded
Traveller lies, and who arrives just at the
very moment when soil and wine' are es-
pecially needed. believe, too, that the
Lord, in the workings OF that providence
which il over all his works, and which suf-
ferethnot sparrow nor hedgling to fall
to the ground unpermitted of him, whenever
he has bruised or torn one of his flock
needing tenderer hand than usual to nur-
ture and to heal it, has that hand ready to
stretch out and help, has one close at hand
to supply the wants of one whose own heart
has been. perhaps, touched and. prepared by
sorrow for the special work of sympathy
with some other torn and sorrowing one OF
the family. We are apt to say of such ap.
parently accidental circumstances: sHow
fortunate!' But faith lifts up the curtain
and sees Gods hand at work, and cries out,
1T is one of the Lords mercies. Il Rev.
B. Boucher. %
- DREAMLAND.
God has reserved sleep for his own world
Therein, as time is annihiated, remain CEN
turtles in which the spirit shall act. Therein
are Iyes--histories of the past--back into