The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1871-09-28
GOOD THOUGHTS.

IF others neglect their duty to you, do
not you neglect your duty to God, your
self, nor to them.
Whatever is done by those around you.
be yourself fully determined to walk In
the most excellent way.
Satan's promises are like the meat that
fowlers set before birds, which is not
meant to feed them, but to take them.
Love is indefatigable; it never wearies.
Love is inexhaustible it blooms and
buds again, and the more 1t is dlfused
the more 1t abounds.
Experience teaches, it is true, but she
never teaches in time Each event brings
its lesson, and the lesson Is remembered;
but the same event never occurs again
| think it is the most beautiful and hui
name thing in the world SO to mlngle
gravity with pleasure, that the one may
not sink into melancholy nor the ether
rise up into wantonness.-l Pllny.
The influence cxerted by any theoreti
cal error is due, not to the fact that it is
error, but to the fact that it contains
some truth The truth which it has bor-
rowed gives to the error its power.
A holy life is made up of number Of
small things. Little words, not eloquent
speeches or sermons; little deeds, not
miracles, nor battles, nor onesgreat heroic
act or mi ghty martyTdom, make up the
true Christian life.
The best soil and that which insures
the most rapid growth is love. When
plety is rooted In love- its maturity is
assured, and its fruit is abundant. 1t
finds then, such soil as it requires, and
develops itself In strength, beauty and
glory.
A happy home is the one spot in all
this beautiful world where the most per-
feet rest is found and the most undivided
confidence given. Its joys are like flow
ers of Paradise, perpetual in their fra
GRANGE and n ost delicate in their beauty.
He who will pass to the promised land
must neither stand upon length of way
nor difficulty. Every way has its incon-
venience; tie nearest has more danger,
the farthest has more pain; either, or
both, must lie overcome if ever we will
enter the rest of God.
We are apt to mistake our vocation by
looking out Of the way for occasions to
exercise great and rare virtues, and by
stepping over the ordinary ones that lie
directly in the road before US. When
we read we fancy we could be martyrs !;
when we come to act we cannot bear a
provoking word-H More.
Take from Christianity all there is of
the future life. and it still stands far in
advance ofevery other heuefactor of man.
W hatever else they may or may not have
cone, the sayings Of Jesus have started
happiness than all other sayings from the
foundation Of the world.
A moral character is attached to au-
tumnal scenes. the leaves falling are like
our years, tie flowers fading like our
hours, the clouds fleeing like our illu-
sions, the light diminishing like our in
teliigence, the sun growing colder like
our affections, the river becoming frozen
like our lives, all bear secret revelations
as to our destinies.
Some chm ches are tuned very low in
the cord of sympathy. Churches are
sometimes nothing butzspirtual boarding
houses. were every boarder has his own
special errand, and the most to be done
l. to keep out of each others way. This
is all wrong. OF course one member of
a large chu.oh cannot know every other
member; and there is no objection to
individuality, but the social atmosphere
should be especially looked out for.
There are many persons in society who
have gone under the influence of secon-
dairy and lower feelings so long. that
there has kind of crust formed over
their real character, which hides it
There are people of all degrees and class
es of goodness aud badness, but nobody
is perfect. And among these there is a
a very large class whose outside is bad.
and whose inside is good Like chest
nuts, they are hard to deal with. but are
excellent when they are out Of the burr.
There is that in the Scriptures which
has grit to it. There is book which hes
gone through tempestuous ages, assailed,
huffeted, cast hither and thither, and yet
has retained the confidence of mankind.
becuse it has that in it which masters
sorrow, takes hold Of trouble, gives
strength where there is weakness, and
supplies an anchor tie those who are tenn
pest-tossed There is that in the Word
of God which supports the poor and the
ignorant. taking hold of the fundamental
wants of human nature with power
which no other literature and no other
power ever did.
Strength of character consists of two
things-power Of will and power Of self
restraint. 1t requires two things, there
fore, for its exlstence-s strong feelings
and strong command over them. Now,
1t is here we make great mistake: we
mistake strong feelings for strong charac.
ter. A man who bears all before him,
before whose frown domestics tremble,
and whose bursts of fury make the child
rem of the household quake, because he
has his will obeyed. and his own way in
all things, we call him strong man.
The truth is, thathe is the weak man 1T is
his passions that are strong; he that is
mastered by them is weak. You must
measure the strength of man by the
power of the feelings he subjects, not by
he power Of those which subdue him.
ana hence, c0mposure is very often the
highest result of strength. Did we never
see man receive a fragrant insult. and
only grow little pale and then reply
quietly That is man spiritually strong.
Or cid we never see man in anguish
stand as il carved out of solid rock, mas
terlng himself? Or one bearing a hope
less daily trial remain silent, and never
tell the world what cankered his home
peace? That is strength. He who, with
strong passions, remains chaste; he who.
key sensitive, with many powers of in
dignation in him. can e provoked and
and yet restrain himselfan forgive, these
are the strong and spiritual heroes
Rec. f. " Robertson.
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