Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1859-03-02

He has given US means and ends, but we
blindly work at cross purposes. and take
wrong means for right ones. making His
word of none effect, by our traditions
When we ask him for bread, h gives US
bread; His children in all kindness. but
ignorantiy, give us oflenlimes stone
Do not Ieproach or think meanly of your
selves for not being happy. If you were
absorbed in dress, visiting, pleasure-seek-
ing, you would have no discomfort bui
would it be better so? If you were iden-
tiled with any great work, anything
which could enlist your whole being. you
feel that it would be different but wo.
rnen seldom have great work to do
Their work is great only in its results. in
the spirit with which it is done. 1t is a
vast conglomeration of little things You
are where God has placed you, or suffer
ed you to be placed, and for our purposes
now il is all the same. II, in truth as in
poetry, love could take up the harp Of life,
and smite on all the chords with might,
then this chord of self would, trem bling
pass in music out of sight, and this would
be better. This self-abnegalion is per.
haps indispensable 10 womanIy complete
ness. Until this chord has been touched,
there is no diapason. The depths of the
soul are uns'irred. There is a power ly-
ing waste, a fountain unsealed. No
character canbe perfect which is not sym
metric il. You may, you ought TO love
Christ with can o'ermastering love-" but
the two are entirely distinct. One can
not take the place of the other. Every
earthly affection should indeed be bap
tized in the heavenly-but only baptized,
rot transmitted. do not think God ever
intended il should be.
Have I found you a remedy? No;
certainly. l have only pointed out what
would be remedy. if found, but no
searching will ever bring it. 1t comes
unsought, If it comes at all What good
have l done you, then? None at all
far; but here IS point where l wish to
utter note of waning. Here is where
you are in danger of misiaking the seem
ing for The real Faint and iamish;ng
yeu will eagerly pluck the fair looking
apple, and it will turn 10 dust and ashes
in your mouth. You would better have
died OF starvation. Because God has
made you SO that love is your life and
breath, and YOU pant and gasp without
il, you are not TO iphsle foul malaria,
under the mistaken impression that it is
noun ain air. II it be pure. the more
you breathe OF it the better, only be sure
it is pure Therefore do not love indis-
criminately. An over ripe apple falls at
the first gust. whether into lilly-white
hands or on the unheeding ground. Do
not you so; nor be content with a slight
preference-a pale, nerveless, Pickering,
uncertain emotion. that brings as many
misgivings asheart throbs. l have heard
Of girls pausing on .he threshold of an en-
gagement, "at a stand to know what 10
doI' Never allow yourself to be in such
a position. If you don't know what 10
do, ii is the stronges; of all providential
indications that you are to do nothing
By all means, give yourself the benefit
of the doubt. Friendship with all; en-
tangling alliances with none," is good
motto for women as we'll as for nations
Faithfully adhered TO, it will keep you
free from those little attachments which
insensibly but surely fritter away your
power to form lasting and noble one
while it will no more prevent your SOU
from going out to meet its Lord and King
when his trumpet sounds, than the seven
green wiibes had power 10 restrain the
Hebrew athlete when his spirit returned
to him, after its ignoble sleep on treach
erous bosom.
Do not affect motive in love. Ii is
not q question of motive, but of fact.
have no faith in marrying to do good
The end does not sanctify the means
If you do all the good you can with your
own individuality, l do not believe God
will bold you responsible for snything
more. Nor. in my opinion. does the re-
spectabiliiy of sinners diminish the enor
nifty Of the sin. Missionaries, an excel.
lent class of men / have no doubt, bury
their poor wives in Hindoo iuagies, and
return to America to replace them, JUS
as madam sends for china tea-cup tc
replacd the one broken by careless SER
want. Men aud women (sronaen partic-
ularlyl combine with Nature to abhor a
vacuum, and the missionary loss is ofIen
far more easily made up than madam
the hou<ekeeper's. Mysterious wheels,
wires. and pulleys, are set IN motion by
clique Of moihers in Israel behind the
scenes. the result of which is, that some
unoffending, benevolent, and practical
Miss Brown, 6uds herself suddenly pre-
cipitated, nolens volens. generally 10
lens, into the arms of the good mission
ary-he congratulaiing himself on the
success of his business transaction she
csnsoling herself that she has gained an
excellent husband, and done God service,
thereby killing two birds with one stone
and the mothers aforesaid rejoicing in
their skiilful matrimonial diplomacy.