The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-03-18
VARIET Y.

PoIiteness is always the outward garment of good
will
Labors Of the body free US from pains of the mind
This is what Constitutes the happiness Of the poor.
Urbanity. when separated from religious charity.
IS rather the law Of than treaty of peace be
tween men
The Graces are represented as Of little stature in
order show that this virtue consists in little things
in gesture, a smile, or a respectful air.
Virtue does give talents. but it supplies their
place. Talents neither give virtue supply the
place Of it.
In this theatre Of mans life. God and the angels
only have a right to be spectators Contemplation
AMI action ought ever 70 be united.
Thought cften engeuders thought. Place one idea
paper, another will follow it. and still another
until you have written q page. You fathom
your mind. There's well Of thought there which
has no bottom. The you draw from it, the
clear and fruitful 1t will be.
LOVE TIE GRAND LEvEB-We are emphaticully
social beings, and true. heartfelt Christianity en-
braces a grand social scheme admirably adapted to
our natures and wants by him - who in all
points tempted are, yet without sim Love is
the incentive, the grand lever which moves and con-
trolls the social fabric less than the church of ;he
living God earth. And community devoid Of
this principle is he Stunned moral mmstrom
But desire speak particularly of the church
this time Who thar calls TO mind the church Of his
youth with its hallowed ass0ciatIons-the venerable
warm-henrred minister; that beloved father or de-
astc brother or affectiouate sister, who
their post-but feels the power Of social church
Who forget the kind attentions the cordial shake
Of the hand, the mild look, the encouraging word,
received in ar earlier period, when the church
relieiousy social ?-Pacifc Christian .fdrocate.
\ GEM FROM BISHOP HEBER-Shorly before the
departure Of the Iamented Heber from India. he
preached sermon which contained this beautiful l.
lnstTatiOn
Life bears Us on like the stream OF a mighty
river Our boat first glidcs down the
channel, through the playful murUuriugs Of the lit
te brook and the winding Of Its grassy borders The
shell their blossoms over young heads, the
flowers the brink seem 20 offer themselves to the
young hands are happy in hope, and grasp
eagerly nj the beauty around Us but the hur-
ries u on, and still! our hands empty. Our
course III youth and manhood = along a deeper and
wider flood, amid objects striking and ruagnih-
cent We are animated the moving pictures and
eujoymenrs and industry passing US; excited
at sOme short lived disappointment. The stream
bears and joy and Eriefs alike left be
hind We may be sripwrCcked, but cannot
be delayed; whether rough smooth, the river has
tens its home. till the OF the i in
ears, and the tossing cf the waves = beneath feet.
and the land lessons from cur eyes, and the floods
lifted up around rs, and we take our leave Of
earth and s Iuh btans, until Of our future voyage
there - witness save the Infinite and Eternal -
How TIFtITH BEGGHTsxs THINGS Gs-God has 50 knit
the body and mind tcEether, that they and
upon each other. Who has FELT that the state Of
his health gives ColoriuE TO everything that hap
pens 10 him. One whose health Is depressed.
sees his own fresiie. that used shine So cheer
fully. only covered with gloom and sadness. Another.
OF n brtHh and joyous mimi, IN the full vi-Or Of
health, will 60 forth, and the very desert that
mau'= EYES will blossom as the rose, and the sadde>t
strains IN nature will sound 20 him the most soul
inspiring \ sufferer goes out aud looks nature,
and roses all become tbornS. its myrles all
look like briars and Eden itself seems like desert
and the sweetest mnstresy Of the grove aud the for
sounds 70 him ike a Wild and wailIug minor
running through all the sounds OF nature
How To Grow BEAUTIFUL Persons may outgrow'
disease and become healthy by proper attention 10
the laws % their physical constitution by moderate
and daily exercise, men may become active and
strong 10 limb and muscle. But grow beautiful,
how Age dms the lusJTe Of the eye and pales the
roses beanty's cheek, while croHsfeet, aad fur
rows and wrinkles, and lost teeth and gray hairs
and bald head, and totterng limbs, and lmping.
most sadly the human form divine. But dim as
the eye H. pallId and sunken may be the face OF
beauty, aud frail aud feeble that strong erect
aud manly body, the immortal soul, Just eig ging It's
wings for its home in heaven, may look through
those faded windows beautiful the dew-drop Of a
summers morning. As melted the tear that glis-
tens IN affections eye-by growing kindly, 10y cult
waiting sympathy with all human kind, by cherish
ing toTbearauce towards the foles and fObles Of
race, AMI feeding, day by day, that love to God
and man which lifts from the brute and makes us
akin 70 angels.