The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-08-31
FRESH .EETE TEEGJGEETs.'
FROM RECENT D1SCOURsES BY REV. HEN
RY WARD BEECHER.


There are many men who try to per-
form the duties of life as children read
who are ill-taught at school, giving the
same accent TO every word. The virtues
Of cleanliness and punctualty are by them
made equal with tie virtues ofjustce and
truth and Ioye-and this is done by low
ering the higher virtues, rather than by
carrying up the little ones.
There are persons who are more anx-
ious as to whether they shall shave them
selves on Sunday than whether they shall
cut their neighbours Threats on Monday; ;
there are persons who are more anxious
about the polishing of their boots on the
Sabbath, than they are whether they shall
use them on Monday to put poor man
out of their stores.
To show forth the importance Of man,
Christ took little child, that spark of be-
ing that is yet to be, and said: 'Man is
Of so much importance that one had bet
ter have q miIlstone hung around his neck
and be cast into the sea, than to harm
one of these little Ones" God has set the
seal and the estimate upon the least and
the lowest, leaving US to sweep Up in our
imagination to the highest ranks and
states in life.
Those men who cut their lives in two,
and put their religious life here in the
church, and their secular life out there in
the world, viii find that they are very
much like any other man who attempts
to cut himself in two. They will find that
their life will all gush out. A man who
should set his legs to walk without any
head would do as well as man who tries
to separate his religious and his secular
life. | affirm that man is unit. We
can build a ship IN compartments SO that
if you stave one, the others shall not leak,
but you can't build man in that way.
You can't divide him up and put religion
into one part and business into another.
Ii you staye q man in one part you staye
him all through. There is, no Sunday
religion that will upheld the rasca!ity Of
Monday.
There IS not one man in thousand
who has anything illustuous happen to
him from birth to5death. Man is born
with cry and he dies with groan, and
his whole life sibrates between the two.
Life is made ~ of little things; but let us
always remember that these little things
here, planted in time, wave broad and
brauchy heads in eternity, and God says
10 US: 'Plant and cultivate them. You
now not what the plant will BE-" These
little things are the letters of life, from
which all philosophy and knowledge start,
and if you would spell and read Alright,
yon must be right in your letters.
What you get in church, on Sunday,is,
as it were, the wool; on the morrow you
arc TO spin the thread. 1t is not what
you do in church that makes Christian
of YOU. There is many sleeping man
who might dream of angels as Jacob did
and I suppose they do who sleep in
church-that won't make Christians Of
them; it is what they do, as Jacob did,
when they wake up, that is to decide it.
fla dog runs under q rose bush, it
emits its perfume none the less; and if a
chimney sweep goes to smell Of it, it will
not shrink up and say: Il am not going
to let you have any Of my perfumes; if
the hardest and coarsest and most cruel of
mankind come to it, the rose would give
the same odor; pluck it and carry it into
the bridal chamber, and still it is the same
lay it upon the funeral urn, and still it
gives forth the same perfume; leave 1t IN
the darkness Of room, and it will ill it
with sweetness; carry it forth into the
street, where it is covered by the dust
and beaten by the wind, while it lives it
will still be tho same, and its dying breath
will be to emit the same fragrance. So
should we carry our virtues Of love and
Justice and truth every where the same,
whoever we meet and wherever we GO
Burlington Free Press.
A. T. SrEwARr.-I was told a few
evenings since that A. L. Stewart, the
Merchant Prince Of New York, intends to
build large home for Widows and lndi-
gent Women, and endow it most literally
and that IL one million dollars are not