Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-27
RELIGIOUS READING.
Old men are the majesty Of q people.
Morality must have a sky as q picture

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| the multitude can understand and adopt.
It is better to make ones self accept
able than to make ones self important.
Few men are worthy to be heads OF
q family, and few families are capable
of having a head.
We would choose for q wife only the
woman We should choose for q friend
were she q man.
We mcclure minds by their stature
il would be better to estimate them oy
their beauty.
Heaven rarely grants to the same man
the gift of thinking we'll, of speaking
we'll, and Of acting we'll, in all things.
There are heads that have no windows,
and that daylight cannot strike from
above. Nothing comes into them from
heaven.
There are souls transparent and pure,
whose life are like q sunbeam that sports
in a drop of dew.
Order is the coordination of means to
| the end, of parts to the whole, of work
to tho model, Of reward to merit.
The triumph of women is not to wear
| out and conquer their prosecutors, but
to soften them and make Thorn lay dow
their arms.
How many people make themselves
abstract to appear profound. The great
est part Of abstract terms are shadows
that hide . vacuum.
In the spirit Of the Christian there is
. perpetual spring tide, and in the win
try valleys he hears the ripple of over
flowing streams.
Instead Of complaining that the rose
has thorns, l congratulate myself that
the thorn is surmounted by roses, and
that the bush bears flowers.
The god Of metaphysics is but an idea;
| but the God Of religion, the Creator OF
heaven and earth, the Sovereign Judge
of actions and thoughts, is a power.
Let US be men with men, and always
children before God for in his eyes we
are but children. Old age itself, in
presence Of eternity, is but the first mo-
ment of a morning.
We comprehend the earth only when
We have known heaven. Without the
spiritual world the material world is a
disheartening enigma.
Nature has made two kinds of excel
lent minds; the one to produce benuti-
| full actions and beautiful thoughts, the
other to admire them.
This life is but the cradle Of the other.
What avail then sickness, time, old age,
death-diferent degrees OF n metamor-
phosis which, doubtless, has here be-
low only its beginning?
Vice and ignorance are the necessary
companions Of each other; and we can
no more reverse it than we Il reverse
the stars in their course.
Everything is very spiritual, and
wherein the soul has truly a part, re-
calls US to God, to piety. The soul
cannot move, wake, open its eyes, with
out seeing God. We feel God with the
soul, as We feel the air with the body.
Falseness of mind comes from false
ness Of heart; it proceeds from ones
having secretly for aim ones own opin-
ion, and not the true opinion. The
false mind is false in everything, rs a
squirting eye always looks obliquely
We should speak to men Of destruc-
ton only to make them think Of dura-
ton, and of death only to make them
think Of life; for death runs into life,
and destruction precipitates itself into
duration.
Happy arc they who have a Tyre in
the heart, and in the mind a music
which their actions execute! Their
whole life will have been a harmony in
unison with the eternal home.
FAlrH.-A negro in Pennsylvania
lately gave his idea Of faith in Gods
promises in the following words: "Dar
is a brick wall, and do Lord he stand
dar and say to me, Now l want you to
20 troo dat I amt agoing to say,
Lord, I can't got muffin to do about
it. All I have to do is to butt against
it, and its dc Lords business to put me
troo."
The MAINsPRIyo. Here is n of
Spurgeon's best sayings, illustrating the
fact that there may be morality without
religion, but cannot be a religion with
out morality:
"Teaching mon morals is as though
had q clock that would not 60, and |
turned round one of the cog wheels ;
but faith takes the key and winds up
the handspring, and the whole thing
runs readily
: Beware of q delusion in the matter Of
your salvation. Woe, woe forevermore,
to them that lose that prize. For what
is behind when the soul is once lost, but
that sinners warm their bits Of clay
houses at a FIRE of their own kindling,
for a day or two, which doth rather suf-
focate with it's smoke than warm them
and at length it doth lie down in sor-
row, and are clothed in everlasting
shame.
The tendency towards good, the quick
ness to grasp it, and the constancy in
wishing it; the intensity, suppleness,
and tenacity Of tho springs which this
tendency puts into play the liveliness,
force, and precision of the efforts to-
wards the end aimed at-are the cle-
ments which, like SO many letters, form
by their combination the intrinsic guage
Of the man and determine his value.
It 10 with our thoughts as with our
lowers-those that are simple in express
sion carry their seed with them those
that are double through rich and pomp
charm the mind but produce nothing.
Few minds are spacious; few even
have q vacant place in them. Almost
all have capacities that are narrow and
occupied by some knowledge which
stops them up. To enjoy itself, and let
others enjoy it, a mind should ever keep
itself larger than its own thoughts.
Present to an ordinary mar the a
i'm, "Love your enemies; )" you may
hear him sigh as he answers that the
saying is divine and he fears that he
will never practice it. The reason is
that he has an enemy and fully under
stands what It is to- love him, and also
what It is to hate him.-Eeec Homo.
The man who holds and expends money
is merely the clerk of the man who en-
joys and profits by what money buys.
Money, at most, Is merely the material
from which happiness, honor, useful
ness, character, may be built. To have
the material without shaping it to the