Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-11-27
I.oyE OF TRUTH.

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y, ,rue greatness and goodness. II may
cost A man dearly sometimes ; yet moth
ing, if he holds steadily to it rs a pos
session, will bring him so large and
noble a return. "Buy truth and sell it
not" To hate a lie and all willful de-
ception aud duplicity, at every cost, is
to buy the truth in this sense. 1t will
be said, that is a matter of course with
every honest a But is it so with all
who pass for men Of honor aud honestly
1t is not, perhaps, always right or proper
that our conduct should be marked with
that perfect transparency that should
make our purposes as Ineligible to
enemies as to friends. But that man
will never lose in the long run who
leans to the side of treating all men as
friends, and truthful until he finds some
reason to distrust them. He who lets
all his conduct be marked with sim
plicity, caudor and perfect sincerity,
who never deceives, never tells u lie,
and never implies one, nor acts decep-
lively, may subject himself thereby to
momentary Inconvenience, but will
soon find that degree Of weight attached
to his name aud his word that is worth
the cost a hundred times over. Some
men have a way of obtaining almost
everything they desire by a sort of
fnesse. Even where their ends are good,
and could be more easily brought about
by the simple force Of truth and direct
ness, there will yet be a duplicity and
complication about their means that de-
stroys confidence in their ultimate bear
ing and purpose, that defeats the whole,
or lowers reliance in their character.
Truth is the exorcist Of ambiguity and
doubt. There is positive truth to be
sought as we'll as falsehood to be
Stunned. To buy truth in this sense is
to have a real love and reverence for
facts or principles in all their eSactness.
To search out what is hidden, to decide
what is c]ontroverted and doubtful, to
know what before has been unknown,
is the work of the lives Of many, and
| noble work too. It will cost much labor
and thought where the superficial cover
their ignorance with ambiguous phrases
or idle words, yet this sort of love Of
truth is the basis of oil our progress in
science, and among the highest glories
of mans intellectual nature. A French
astronomer observed u slight variation
in the motions Of the planet Uranus, and
by long calculations he proved in his
study that there must be another planet,
and what its size must be, and what its
distance, and its motions, and its place,
and when the attention Of other astron-
omers was thus turned to the right, a
new world was found hundreds Of times
larger than our own.
Truth is also capable of becoming the
exorcist of error from the heart and life.
Many love truth sp%eculatively, and in
theory, but real truth is a thing capable
of being lived up to, and without this
every mans own life becomes q gigan-
tic falsehood. To buy the truth is to
act up to the light v~ouchsafed us, while
the many persist in acting upon old and
erroneous principles known to be false.
To conform the life to all known truth,
studiously, resolutely, and at any price,
is @ rare and costly virtue.
The love of truth in all Of these char
acteristics is a most precious excellence.
1t gives to those who possess it q noble
confidence and strength that none 9TH
ers possess. Those who love anything
else moro than they love truth walk in
constant doubt. They are always hunt
ing for arguments instead Of verities,
they may be confident and buster and
swagger, but they are never satisfied.
But he who supremacy loves truth feels
that he cannot seriously err on any
matter that it is really important for
him to be rightly assured of. Indeed,
the considerations and earnest pursuit
of truth will shed light on a thousand
practical difficulties, the way out of
which is not otherwise to be discovered.
The man who habitually makes truth
the guide of his life, becomes gifted
with a superior wisdom and an instinct
i've apprehension of his proper course.
A true instinct guides him right and
puts him on the road to great discoy-
cries, while the t%riler, temporizer,
doubtcr and ~cowardly man can see no
light and get no direction, but is left in
the hour of peril like Saul when he con-
suited the witch Of Endor, unanswered
by prophets, and a prey to the idlest
superstitions. I~dleness, prejudice and
cowardice are three great foes to the
truth-loving spirit. But on the other
hand a spirit of Independent inquiry and
of practical obedience to known duty
are the best Of guides, conducting men
safely through mysteries only thus to be
penetrated successfully.
THANKSGIVING.