Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-04-21
SATURDAY MIGHT REFLECTIONS.

BY the Applstons, entitled Literature in
Letters" edited with much taste by.Dr.
James P. Holcome, of New York. there is
a. very suggestive letter published from
Rev. F. W. Robertson, Of Brighton in
which he makes this remark: "a little
plan I have found very serviceable in past
years is to put down every night the en-
gagements and duties of the next day.
The advantages of this are several. You
get more done-a healthful feeling per-
vades the whole of life. There is q feeling
of finding at the end of the day that gen.
orally the greater part Of what is planned
has been accomplished. This is the secret
Of giving dignity to tribes As units they
are insignificant; they rise in importance
when they become parts Of q PLAN 10
know how to occupy the units OF timc
successfully and wisely is the great matter.
As necessary parts to the success OF q
whole, points Of detail may be made to
assume such importance that they shall be
sure Of being well done and crowned with
success. One of the greatest dangers and
difficulties with exalted natures is, that
the love Of the noblest and most intense
studies and duties leads them to find no
interest in commonplace duties and every
day affairs. Even Howard, the philan-
thropist, who visited all the prisons in
Europe, and performed the most immortal
works for humanity, has been accused OF
grossly neglecting the education and
proper treatment Of his own son. Alas,
poor youth! had he only been q prisoner
and his father not known him, he might
have been relieved. We heard of q cler-
| gyman's wife lamenting that she were not
q simple member of the congregation, for
then her husband would find leisure
sometimes to give her spiritual advice.
Tho more men are used to work on a
large scale, the more prone are they to
neglect the triAing duties on which the
happiness and usefulness of life to so great
q degree depend. Nearly all literary men
are prone increasingly to neglect the
bodily health, so far as exercise and
recreation are concerned. In turn the
usefulness Of almost every man of peculiar
| power loses moro or less of its natural
strength by neglecting some every day
duties Of his sphere. Even the most pro-
found mathematicians are found to be 80
much less reliable in working out the
easier and common processes and rules,
that Say mentions in his Political Econo-
my that it was found best to let humber
arithmeticians work out the details from
formulas prepared by the profounder men.
The fact is, that commonplace calcula-
tons do not entice the mind to care and
the putting forth Of it's strength.
It is q plan which associates the COM
mon-place duties Of life with those more
profound that alone can make q man truly
great to the full extent Of his power /; and
this habit Of making q plan on paper for
each days campaign, so that no duty shall
be neglected, but all attended to in the
right time and n carefully, and not
allowed to occupy too much or too little,
is Of the utmost value. How many a
General has lost q battle by neglecting
some little routine work Of watchfulness
and inspection, while his plans were most
able and wise. At the battle of Inker-
mann the want Of a little more care in
smoothing off the escarpment Of the En-
glish earthworks gave the Russians a foot
hold Of attack that nearly proved fatal to
the whole army. In private life how
many q close student has lost his best
friend by neglecting q. call or two at the
right time, or lost a fortune by neglecting
opportunities passed over for the time, to
be taken up again at some future time that
never came!
A time for everything, and everything
in its proper time, is what every man,
sooner Of later, finds most necessary to his
success; and q plan gives dignity to
trifes as a part Of a great system, every
portion Of which is most valuable. Per-
haps it may be added, that this is one way
in which religion becomes so essential to
the success Of the greatest and wisest men.
1t gives q plan aud purpose to every part
Of life-a plan that co~mprehends all the
details. The daily prayers Of a good man
lead him to think Of the danger he is in Of
emitting some duties because they are so
insignificant, and others because they are
so annoying and i%nterrupting to what
seems to be the best and noblest efforts.
They make him strive to be faithful even
in that which is least, by regarding every
detail as the appointment Of infinite wis.,
dom and Of o Heavenly Father. Certain
it is that he who rises early in the morn.
ing and lays out q distinct plan for each
day will be surprised at the success It will
give him-the hours it will rave him from
waste and triaing, and the rapid improve
ment, especially in the economical use Of
time, il will secure him.
A DIOCESE OF ANcIBNTs.-In the year
1893, in the diocese Of Aggerhus, in Nor
way, among other singularities, were
reckoned one hundred and fifty married
couples who had lived together upward Of
eighty years, the greater number, If not
eli, being upward of one hundred years
of age seventy other married couples