Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-04-26
DEPARTURES.


As flowers never put on their best clothes
for Sunday, but wear their spotless raiment
and exhae their odor every day, so let your
life, free from stain, ever give forth the fra
GRANGE of the love of God.
The foundation of domestic happiness is
faith in the integrity of man. The founda-
ton of all happiness, temporal and eternal, is
faith in the goodness, the righteousness, the
mercy, and the love of God.
Every one doth not live like Christian
that looks like Christian. 1t is sad to see
that some Christians tongues should be larger
than their hands; that they should carry
lantern before others, and yet tread In the
makes good profession, should be sure al
ways to make his profession good.
There are misenes which wiring the very
heart Some want even food; they dread the
winter. Others eat forced fruits; artificial
heats change the seasons to please their palates.
1 have known citizens, because grown rich, so
execrably dainty as to swallow at morsel the
nourishment OF hundred families. Great
are they who can behave well in these ex-
tremites. Let me be nor happy nor unhappy
that is, neither rich nor poor | take sane
tuary in an honest NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
COPS CARE-"I once called" says Mr.
Jay, to attend the dying bed of young
female. In answer to my inquiries, she re-
Piled, Il have little to relate as TO my expe-
rience. have been much tempted; but this
Is my sheet anchor. He hath said, Him that
cometh unto me | will in no wise cast out.
l know l come to Him, and / expect He will
be as good as his word Poor and unworthy
as am, He will not trihe with me nor deceive
me. 1t would be beneath His greatness as
well as goodness.
Make home beautiful Add to it some
comfort, convenience and beauty each season.
Make those who share il with you love it.
attractive one. No other spot on earth is
more worthy of improvement, and none other
will so richly repay display of good taste
and Eberality, as the spot we call home
BE HArrY AS You ARE.-Wife and
mother, are you tired, and out of patience
with your husbands and your dhildrcn's de-
mands upon your time and attention? Are
You tempted to speak out angry feelings to
that faithful but perhaps sometime needless or
exacting husband of yours, or to scold and
fret to those beautiful ones? Do YOU groan
and say, "what fool was to leave my father,
where l lived In ease and In quet?' Are
You, by reason of the care and weariness of
body of which wifehood and motherhood must
bring, forgetful and ungrateful for their COM
forts and their JOYS? Oh, wife and mother,
what if stroke should smite your husband
and lay him low-what if your children should
be snatched from your arms and your bosom
what If there were no true, strong hearts
for you to lean upon-what if there were no
soft little innocents to nestle in your arms.
and to love you or to receive your love? How
would IL be with you then? BE patient and
kind, dear wife. BE unwearying. and long
suffering, dear mother, for YOU know not how
long YOU may tarry with them. Let there be
nothing for YOU 10 remember, which will wiring
your heart with remorse If they leave YOU
alone. Let there be nothing for them but
sweetness and love unutterable, If YOU are
called To leave them by the way Be patient,
be pitiful. be tender of them all; for Death
will step. sooner or later, between them and
you. And oh! what would you do if YOU
should b. doomed 10 sit solitary and forsaken
through years and years? Be happy as YOU
are, even with all your trials: for, believe me,
thou wife of loving and pure husband. there
no lot IN HE as thine own.-Rahray Re
publican
"WHAr WAS, AND WHAT AM."-Dea-
Redder:-I once resided with Tim. III. 4.
and walked in Eph ii. ,, and my continual
conversation at that time is still recorded in
Eph. ii. 3.
| heard one day that an inheritance had
been purchased for me, and description of
il reached me; YOU will find it a, Peter j. 4.
One who resides in Heb iv. IA, had pur-
chased 1t, and paid an Extraordinary price for
it; but TO say the truth, did not believe this
report, as | was entirely unacquainted with
the MAN, and long experience had convinced
me that strangers never gave favors through
love alone, and friends seldom gave any favors
that cost much.
However, called at Tim. III. Is, as my
own prospects at Eph. ii. l2, were as bad as
they could b.