The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1866-11-24
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Then constant faith and holy hope shall die.
Oue. lost in certainty. and one III JOY
Whilst thou. more happy power. fair Charity.
Triumphant sister. greatest OF the three
Thy Office and thy nature still the same
Lasting thy lamp and unconsumed thy hame,
Shalt still survive
Shalt stand before the host Of heaven confessed,
Forever blessing, and forever blessed
-.NittteJo Prior.
know it to be my duty. but
Human reason is not God, as some pretend
There is no Justice in sin, and no sin in justice
The less man makes of himself, the more OF a
nan he Is.
Care for what YOU say, or what you say will
make you care
The only proper thing to do with the devil, is
. Better be fool for doing right than be fool
b doing wrong.
\ He who Is at war with his neighbor, cannot be
at peace with himself
Better be honorable and be despised, than to
be despicable and be hOnored.
The man who trumpets his own fame, VIII
soon have no fame To trumpet
The religion that is always searching for g a
hope" Is a hopeless religion
A lie may respect all things, but there Is no
such thing u small lie.
To be thought perfectly happy, pride often
makes itself perfectly miserabla-
Conversion without conviction IS no better
than conviction without conversion
Manners nav exist without morals, but morals
should never be without manners
Principle that cannot bear the heaviest pressure
Of temptation is rotten at the heart
Every step toward heaven is struggle with
and victory over self, the world and hell
As thrashing separates corn from the chaf, 50
does affection purify virtue
Good works are essential To true religion not
a. meritorious hut as evidence of the reality and
glory of such religion
Be always at leisure to do good action : never
make business an excuse for avoiding Offices OF
humanity.
Nothing can occur beyond the strength of
faith 10 sustain or transcending tine resourees OF
| religion to relieve.
Now, Christ has instructed many by the way,
| and been ready to- enter into their hearts and
dwellings but for want OF an invitation To tarry
| he has gone by.
There will be no Christian but what will have
| q Gethsemane, but every praying Christian Will
End that there is no Gethsemane without an
| angel.
Before an affection is digested n consolation
ever comes too soon and after it is digested. 1t
e0mes too late. But there IL a mark between
these two as fine almost hair, Tor comforter
/ TO take aim at.
n S1 torch. no apparcling. no glory of art, ever
s h-1 mad. the house beaujeUus, or so made the
household happy. a. the simple presence. morn
ing and evening" Of the blessed King of Glory
Now, a. n teacher, Christ comes to men,
/ whether they will or not. As one having autho-
4 rity ne presses himself uuOn them, to warn and
1 exhOrt theIn But as a personal friend he presses
himself upon no one. His personal love and the
manifestation of that love, are never Intruded
upon any one.
il R- 60 -. Of 1I instructed
that il is not extravagant TO say that every
i thought that tends to struggle away from the
bondage ct the flesh. every heart-hunger, rs a
witness that the world does not feed TO satlsiac-
ton. that il does not nourish the soul lt needs
| the bread which comes from the hand of God to
do that. Every single yearning of the heart IS IN
l answer to some silent influence of God
CLERICAL W.T. Philanthropy" says Rev
4 Sydney Smith, :. is universal sentiment OF the
human heart trhenerer sees b IH trouble, ne
4 o,rays 1cants c TO reiiece HIM"
i A CURIOUS ILLrsTRATIoS.-.'M My friends" +" said
| Returned missionary at n late anniversary meet
ing 80 let avoid sectarian bitterness The in
i habitants of HindOstan, where have been labor
4 ing for many years, have proverb that though
yOR hathe dogs tail ID oil and bind IL IN splInts,
you cannot get the crook out OF 1t Now. a
II mans sectlrian bias il simply the crook IN the
| Digs tail. which cannot be srldicated /; and
4 hold that every one should be allowed to wag his
own popularity in peace :"
)! a Coon CHARACTER.-A good character Is to
4 the young man what firm foundation is 10 the
1 artist who proposes to erect building on 1t; he
can we'll build with safety, and all who behold II
will have confidence in its solidity-a helping
hand will never be wanted but let Il single part
OF this be defective, and you go on hazard
amidst doubling and distrust. and ten to one IT
viii tumble down last, and mingle all that was
& QUILT on it in ruin. Without good character
poverty l. curse; with it, scarcely an evil
happiness cannot exist where good character Is
not All that is bright in the hope OF youth
and that is calm and blissful in the sober scenes
oi life. all that is soothing in the vale ot years
Centres IN and is derived from a good character
~ ssreoEe acquire this the first and most Yalu
ryxble good