The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-08-03


say, THIS is the 1cOTSt.-jSidkCSpcdr
Never open the door to little vice,
least a great one should enter
To be angry is to avenge the faults
Of others upon themselves.
The best receipt for a clear complex
| ion-A clear conscience.
| II anybody maligns your character,
live so that nobody will believe the
slandeTeT.
God helps those who help them
selves.
| CheerfuIness is a Christian duty,
incumbent on all.
Look before you leap. Think br-
fore you act.
Mans inhumanity to man makes
| countless thousands mourn.
MOdesty seldom resides in breast
that is not enriched by noble virtues.
A hypocrite is one that neither is
| what he seems, nor seems what he is.
How canst thou bea judge of fanolh-
er's heart, that dost not know their
own.
| 1t IS in our minds and not in our sur
/ rOundings that we must find our hap
piness.
There is no genuine culture, no prop
er education, which does not include
religion.
The brightest stars are made to pass
over the darkest hour of darkest
gloom Of the night.
Without content, we shall find it al
most as difficult to please others as our
selves GTeCdlcr.
The universe, as it unfOlds itself tu a
Christian eye, presents 10 marks of IA
coarse and narrow design.
lie that studies books alone will
know how things ought to he; and ne
that studies men VIII know how
things are.
Most of the shadows that cross our
path through life are caused 10y stand
ing in our own light.
Priceless as the gift of utterancu
may be, the practiceo of silence in some
respects far eXcels it.
The history of the world tells us,
that immoral means will ever inter
cept good ends.-COlCridgc.
As riches and favors forsakc "a uIuu,
we discover him to be q fool, but no
body could find it out IL his prosperity.
La BI1ycre.
Mankind has been learning six
thousand years, and yet how few have
learned that their fellow men are a.
good as themselves.
Dare to change your mind, confa,s
your error, and alter your conduct,
when you are convinced you are
wrong.
If every man would reform himself
the worlds reformation would be com
pleted, and philosophers would be
needless.
The sum and substance Of the prcpH-
ration needed for coming eternity j.,
that you believe what the Bible tells
you, and do what the Bible bids you
Whatever you would not wish your
neighbOr to do TO you, do it not unto
him. This is the whole law the rest
is merely the exposition of il.
Living always in the world make.
one as unfit for living out of it, as al
ways living out of it does for living in
it.
When we look upon the trees fDr
their strength and grandeur, do not
despise the flowers because their frag-
rance is all they have TO give.
Sweet words fly like honey bees from
the flower lips of q lovely woman, pen
citrate the heart as with the shaft of
love, aud then fill the puncture with
honey.
"Don't shiver over last years
snow" a saying Of Arch BishOp Waite
ley's, is peculiarly applicable TO those
who make themselves miserable over
troubles that are past.
The poor man who envies not the
rich, who pities his companions in
poverty, and can spare something to
him who is still poorer, is, in the
realms of humanity, king of kings.
Shakespeare says "It is a good di-
vine that follows his own instructions,
can easier teach twenty men what
ere to be done, than to be one of
twenty To follow mine own teacher.
The sea is infinite. 1t beats and
will beat forever, the pulses of the sky.
God made the land and il was good;
he made the ocean and it was grand
God has not left himself without "A
witness in every human heart. Even
the protested Atheist, while pretend
ing to deny his existence, really fears
his power to punish.
Locke inculeates that "while there
is law in society which is the mea-
sure of virtue and vice, and in the
State measure of crime and innocence,
there is also a divine law which ex-
tends over all society and over all
States, and which is the only touch
stone of moral rectitude."
Seek not to please the world, bui
your own conscience. The man who
has telling within him that hc has.
done his duty upon all occasions, is
far better than he who hangs upon the
smiles of the great or the tickle faVors
of tie multitude.
John Wesley says If you cannot
raIiaUa ffn nnf rrriayro fI,o r,,,v.
them soft words if nothing else. Put
yourself in the place of every poor
man, and deal with him as you would
God should deal with you.
The light winged hours bear to our
hearts, day and night, the evidence
OF Gods love towards us; the scason5
with varying round repeat the hallOw-
ed ministrelsy through all the grand
sweep Of life.
All earth shows forth too nice and
delicate an adaptation, too beautiful a
continuation of cause and effect, to
admit even Of a thought that tho
Creator has failed in his highest cTea-
ton.
True, acceptable prayer brings I,csco
and rest 10 the soul brings lie
strength and joy to the spirit, Thi.
prayer IS the prayer of full faith and
trust. Christians, see too il that IL T..
yours.
Critics arc The seBtinels placed
about the grand army of letters 1iO
challenge all comcrs, but they often
IRE at random, or waste their char.c
in the air
Hours have wings, and lly up To
the Author of time, and carry news
OF our usage. All our prayers can
~ n 4. a.
turn or slacken his pace.