Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1869-04-23
The Three Links.
WISDOM! GOODNESS |! POWER

WISDOM GOODNESS! POWER!
BY j. w. Dickinson, Principal of the Mass.
State Normal School.
The great work of life is to bring our Wills
into harmony with tho laws of nature God has
given US.
The accomplishment of this work implies
the acquisition of wisdom, goodness and pow
or.
Wo must have wisdom that We may know
what tho laws of our nature arc. We must
DO wise that we may know what to will.
We must have goodness that We may be in.
Olinod to will tho thoughts aud actions which
shall agreo with our nature, and lead it on to
the end for which it was created.
We must have a continued right use of the
will before we can be conscious of POSSESSING,
Tho powor by which wo control ourselves, in
opposition to all those disturbing influences
which affect US through the appetites aud tho
desires.
Wisdom must DO occasioned by tho teach
Tugs OF ono who is already wise.
Goodness 10 tho gift Of God, and il 4 pos.
sibls possession 70 those saly who have wis
dom.
Power is tho result Of action originated
and guided by wisdom, and stimulated by
goodness.
No man will have wisdom who has not
been taught. No one can be good who has
no wisdom. No one can have tho mower nco.
essary to self-contvol until no has acquired it
BY an activity springing from both wisdom
and goodness. Wisdom is sometimes called
tho principal thing, because it is the frat ao.
QUESTION tho mind makes in its progress to
powor, and because il implies a knowledge of
the means and ends of life. Goodness is GAIL.
cd the gift of God, because it is the result
and CAUSE of a wise exercise of power. If wo
act we'll We shall be made better by it if we
are good We shall act we'll. God has so con.
stituted us that goodness exists both as a cause
and q result.
PERFECT TRUsT.-Oh for the blessedncss
Of Chat man who has been enabled to realize
tho most entire conviction, and that not as q
theory, but as practical truth, that God doeth
all things we'll, and that his work is perfect.
The grinding and low cares of this lifo
have no place with him. He knows that all
his affairs are guided by Ono who cannot err,
that he is watched over for good by One who
is nevcr weary. Human friends may weary
OF him and shake him of, if he becomes
troublesome by his wants, but he heeds it lit.
tle-his God invites, %solicits, is gratified by
the entireness of his dependence and by the
full and undivided burden of his cares.
Strange it is that we are so slow TO claim
the rights thus given us, and which wo ought
to regard as ineatimable privileges. Yet how
TOW are known to any Of us, who do truly re.
alizo the many promises and gracious invita-.
tons to do that which can alone make this
life tolerable.-KiWo.
TIE RESULT OF AppLroAT1oN.-Seek to
acquire the powor of continuous application,
without which you cannot expect success
II you do this, you will be able to perceive
the distance which it creates between YOU and
those who have not such habits. You will
not count youself, nor will they count you, as
one of them. Thus you will find yourself
emerging into the higher regions of i~ntollec.
tual and earnest Nm who arc capable
Of making a plaoe for themselves, instead Of
standing idly gaping, desiring a plaoo with
out tho power to command it. Keep on striy-
ing to accomplish more and moro every day,
and thus enlarge constantly the range Of your
intellectual ability. If you learn to do as
much work in one day as you used to do in
two or three days, you are as good as two OF
three such men as you formerly were, boiled
down to one.-Dr. Wayland.
QuARRELrNo.-If anything in this world
makes a man feel badly, except pinohing hi.
fingers in the oraok Of a door, it uuquostion.
ably is a quarrel. No man ever fails to think
less Of himself than before. It degrades him
in the eyes Of others, and what is worse, blunt,
his sensibilities on one hand, aud increases
the power Of passionate irritabillty on tho 9th.
or. The truth is, the more peaeeably and
quiet NO get on tho better it is for our neigh.
bors. In nino cases out of ton, the bette,
course is, if a man cheats you, cease to deal
with him if he is abusive, quit his com.
pany; md if he lies about you, so conduct
yourself that nobody will believe him. No
| matter who In ia or hnu, ba r,;s,,,oa .. .A.