Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-08-26
am very truly yours,
HENRY WARD BEECHER,
Son Of Lyman Beechcr.
Selections

10 the man of brains, men are no
mystery.
If few didn't live in the woods, the
many wouldn't live out of them.
DO your best Others may reach a
better result, but relatively they accom-
plish no more.
1t is a greater virtue Just now TO feed
the hungry than 70 clothe the naked.
Nakednc,s is comfort; hunger is not.
In youth we hope; in middle age,
believe; in old age, doubt. Life is ro-
nance, reality skepticism.
Exercise is good thing, but the
brain needs it quite as much as the body.
Some people never seem TO think of the
former-nor with it.
1t is foolish idea that consumers are
a benefit to society; it il the producers
who are the benefactors.
1t Is not polite to fret and scold at
the petty annoyances Of life.
Never wait for thing to turn up.
Go and turn 1t up yourself. 1t takes less
time, and is sure to be- done.
He that is truly polite knows how to
contradict with respect, and TO please
without adulation, and is equally re;nov-
ed from insipid complaisance and low
familiarity.
There is a meanness which has never
been sufficiently reprobated; it is the
meaneness Of indulging second hand de-
famatory opinions of other people.
Another meanness about which not
u L. 1. a
mands for gratitude on the part Of those
who believe they have been Of service to
others.
1t is Il comfort and blessing to some
folks to have others do wrong, ms it gives
opportunity to them to vent their virtuous
indignation and to magnify their own
self-complaisant goodness.
The splendid faculties Of a country,
the rare endowment-, instead of render
ing themselves ignoble by the mere rak-
ing together of money and for that pur-
pose viewing the masses as game, should,
with lofticr purpose, act the part Of
fathers, looking upon the masses as chill
dren.
God renders earth desolate TO induce
you to seek better country. He strikes
away every human prop, and puts failure
and vexation into every worldly scheme,
that you may turn from your idols unto
Him.
Let every man be free TO act from his
own conscience; but let him remember
that other people have consciences too !;
and let not his liberty be 80 expansive
that in its indulgence it jars and crashes
against the liberty Of others.
-" Greatness consists in admirable
qualities. The great VARIETY Of men in
the world have each their own notion Of
what il admirable. To DO admirable to
one sort Of men by no means implies that
one must be admirable TO another sort !;
therefore, he who would be possessed of
greatness must match himself With every
variety of men, and excel every kind in
its own notion of wit and wisdom.
PEABODY ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AT
SALEM-The Museum of the Peabody
Academy Of Science was formally opened
on Wednesday last, and dedicated TO the
advancement Of knowledge and scientific
cultivation in Essex county. The society
has now been in existence about two years,
and is practically coordination Of SOW
eral scientific and other societies Of the
city, and the Museum is combination Of
their several collections. It's establish
ment on it's present liberal foundation is
one Of the splendid results Of the unpre-
cedentedly generous and wise dispense
ton of gigantic fortune, which has
made the name Of George Peabody 81
household word in nearly all countries.
The gift Of one hundred and forty thou
sand dollars with which Mr.. Peabody en-
dowed this institution was one Of the hrst
of that golden shower which b has Of
lste besn dispensing % muniAosatly upon
bis native land Very appropriately the