The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-09-18
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Essays Written in the Intervals
of Business.
BFNEyOLENCE.

business. beginning with our home duties,
and extending itself to the utmost verge
Of humanity. A ragts feeling qf Kindness
toirarIs oar fcliois creatures Is 40 stqte Of
mind to rest IN. 1t is not enough for us
to be able to say that nothing of human
interest is alien to us, and that we give
our acquiescencc, or indeed our transient
assistance, to any scheme of bencvolcncc
that may come in our way. No. in pro-
moting the welfare of othars we must
toll; we must devote to it earnest
thought, constant care, and Jealous en-
deavor. What is more, we must do all
this with patience and be ready, in the
same cause, to make an habitual sacrifice
of our own tastes and wishes Nothing
short of this is the visiting the sick, feed
ing the hungry, and clothing the naked,
which our creed requires of us.
CHARITY.
Few people have Imagination enough
to enter into the decisions of others, or
indeed to look at the actions of any other
person with any prejudices but their own.
Perhaps, however, it would be nearer the
truth to say that few people are in the
habit of employing their imagination in
the service of charity. Most persons re-
quirc its magic aid to gild their castles in
the air: to conduct them along those fan
ciful triunlphal processionsin in which them
selves play so conspicuous apart: to con-
ouer enemies for them without battles
and make them virtuous without effort
This is what they want their imagination
for: they can not spare it for any little
errand of charity. And sometimes when
men do think charitably, they arc afraid
to speak out, for fear Of being considered
stupid, OF credulous.
PRACTICAL WISDOM.
Practical wisdom acts in the mind, as
gravitation does in the material world
combining, keeping things in their places
and maintaining mutual dependenc:
amongst the various parts Of our system
neutrality-suspicious. ..o-,,-n nrn
and what we can do not in fancy, but i'll
real life. 1t does not permit us to wait
for dainty duties, pleasant to the imagi
nation; but insists upon our doing those
which are before us. 1t is always incli-
ned to make much Of what it possesses
and is not given to ponder over those
schemes which might have been carried
on. if what is irrcvocable had been Other
than it is. 1t does not suffer us to waste
our energies in regret. In journcyine
with it we 90 towards the sun, and the
shadow of our burden falls behind u.s.
HIGH RESOLVES
they fancy that high moral resolves
and great principles arc not for daily use
an.! t!lat ti,cro is no room for them in Tx
affairs ol uiis LIE. This is an extrem'
dciuSion. For how is the world eve
mace better: Not by mean little schemc
which some mcn iondly call practical, no
Ivy setting one evil thing to countcrac
another, but by the Introduction Of thos
principles Of action which are IS frs
ivvs,v,s 4ao.a ~. theories. but which ere Il
last acknowledged and aetod upon Il
common truths. The men who first in
tro;lucc these principles are practica
mon, though the practices which 'ucI
principles create may not come into be
ING in the lifetime Of their founders.
JUDGMENT OF AIFN.
in forming these lightly, we WONG
ourselves, and those whom we judge. Il
scattering such things abroad, we endov
our unjust thoughts with life which w
cannot take away, and become false wit
ncsses to pervert the world in general
Who does not feel that to describe witt
fidelity the least portion of the entangle'
nature that is within him would be nj
easy matter? And yet the same MAJ
who feels this, and who, perhaps' Woui'
be ashamed of talking at hazard abou
the properties Of flower, of weed, o
some figure in geometry, will put fortl
his guesses about the character OF nj
brother man, as if he had the fullest au
thority for all that he was saying.
| E1,JD NATITRED
We should never in any way consen
to the ill-trcatment of animals, becaus
the fear of ridicule, or some other fear
prevents our interfering. AS to there be
ing anything really trifing in any act o
humanity, however slight, it is mora
blindness to suppose SO. The few mo
msnts in tho oourse of each day which