The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-10-06
NO. 12.
GOLDEN WORDS.


a true religious instinct ncye
/ deprived a man of one single joy.
He that loses his conscience ma
nothing left that is worth keeping.
We are never like angels till oul
passions die.
The generous heart scorns tht
| pleasure that gives others pain.
The poorest education that teaches
self. control, is better than the best
| that neglects it.
1t is very dangerous for any man
to find any spot that is sWeeter to
him than his home
! When I devoted to God my ease,
my time, my life, did I except my
reputation Fl Wesley.
Be not sorry that men do not know
you, but be sorry that you are ignor-
ant Of men, -[Confucius.
All things whatsoever We would
that men should do unto you, do ye
even so to them.
| Milton says: Truth IS as impos-
sible to be soiled by any outward
| touch as the sunbeam
The forest in its beauty lies over
the meadow, like down newly sha-
ken from winters young wing.
Pride is increased by ignorance
/ those who assume the most are usu-
ally those who know the least.
Difference is the most delicate, the
| most indirect, and the most elegant
of all OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
We often omit the good we might
| do in consequence of thinking about
that which it is Oat Of our power to
do.
Think and say all you can of the
good qualities of others forget, and
keep silent concerning their bad quail
tiles.
Posthumous charities are the very
essence ofselfishness, when bequeath-
ed by those who, when alive, would
part with nothing.-[COlton.
The besetting evil of our age is the
temptation to squander and dilute
thought on a thousand different lines
of inquiry.-[John Herschel.
Laws and institutions are con-
etantly tending to gravitate. Like
clocks, they must be occasionally
oleansed and wound up. and set to
true time.
When you see e man with a good
deal of religion displayed in his shop
window, you may depend upon it
he Keeps a very small stock of it
within.
The poverty OF the poor man is the
least part Of his misery. In all the
storms OF fortune, it is the first one
that must stand the shock of extrem-
ity.
ne should all have our flowers of
time, bright spots in our life OF to-
day, and If possible, brighter mo-
ments in expectation for the NOR
row.
More men grow old from having
nothing 10 do, than from OverWork.
The running machine will keep
bright for years-the idle machine
will soon rust out.
Bo faithful. Learn that all your
work is done for God. Slight moth
ing. Have the same evidence ofyoUr
salvation that the little servant girl
had, who, when asked how she knew
she was converted, said, because |
sweep under the mat"
The nobIest thing on esrth is the
man who rises TO the dignity of self
mastery. The man who can refuse
indulgence to a clamOring desire !;
can hold the craving appetite un-
gratifed, and can say to the rising
passion: "Peace, be STILL" is n hero
above Alexander or Hercules.
There is an ugly kind of forgive
ness i'll this world-a kind of hedge
hog forgiveness, shot out like quills.
Men take one who has offended, and
set him down before the bIow-pipe
of their indignation, and scOrCh him,
and burn his fault into him; and
when they have kneaded him sufFi-
ciently with their fiery fists, then
| they forgive him.-Beechcr.
When we sec "a professor go home
from his front seat In the church, and
begin TO sCold his children, and cast
sour chances at his wife, we think
these words may possibly be too SD
ly true-that "a religion which never
sufTices to govern a man will never
suffice to save him that which does
not distinguish him from a wicked
will never distinguish him from a
perishing world. - Herald of Cos
pei Liberty.
Longer and more numerous than
were the roads out ofimperial Rome,
are the lines whereof cultivated
Christian ia the center,-lines that
connect him with his neighbors and
those mentally akin, md then, run
ming TO all corners of tho civilized
world, lose themselves inS the infinite
and eternal. lie is a fixed center with
out definite circumfrence, but with
radii innumerable, that are the chords
whereon play the magnetic currents
of life and according to the mes
sag'A which they carry or bring are
4 mans gains or losses, joys or sor-
( rOus, improvement or declensiOD, ex-
aitaliOD or humiliation.