The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-05-25

Experience IS t0fen ngntea IN
the ashes of our delusions.
A friend is never known thorough
/ " until he is needed.
1t is better to suffer than to lose
the power of suffering.
Good company and good conver-
sation are the very sinews Of virtue.
While we continue to SOW the
wind we must expect to reap the
whirlwind
Faith which works by fear only
leads to q selfish, dishonest repent
aaee, if to any.
Murmur at nothing; if our Ills
are repairable, it is ungrsteful; if
remediless, it is vain.
He alone is an acute observer who
can observe minutely without be-
ing observed.
AS we look back over the closely
written pages Of the past what do
we see recorded there?
Loneliness needs not the foreign
aid of-ornament, but is, when una
dorned, adorned the most.
Nothing is more precious than
time, and those who misspena It are
the greatest of an prodigals.
Pleasure must FIRST have the war
rant that it is without sin; then the
measure that it is without excess.
A word Of kindness is seldom
spoken in vain. 1t is a seed which,
even when dropped by chance,
springs up a flower.
A loving heart and a pleasant
countenance are commodities which
man should never fail to take
home with him.
A man is foolish if he be enraged
at any i'll that he cannot remedy, or
ifhe endures one that he can cure.
Many are the Affections of the
righteous, but the Lord deliyereth
him of out of them all.-Ps. "a, 19.
In speaking of the eternal voy-
age, Rutherford says; at is good
to look to your compass, and all
you have need of, ere you take ship
ping; for no wind can blow you
back again.
Religion will always make the
bitter waters of Marah Wholesome
and palatable; but we must not
think it continually viii turn water
into wine because it once did.
Persons who are always cheerful
and good-humored are very useful
in the world; they maintain peace
and happiness and spread a thank
full temper amongst all who live
around them.
Many who would not for the
world utter falsehood are yet eter-
nally seheming to produce false i'm
pressions on the minds of others,
respecting facts, characters and
opinions.
Never do a good action from the
expectation of gratitude. If graft
tude follow, so much the better
you are so much into your pocket;
but gratitude or not, always do the
good action when the opportunity
presents itself
Flavel says: "Grace tried is bet
ter than grace and more than grace;
it is glory in It's infancy. Who
knows the truth of grace without a
trial? How soon would faith freeze
without a cross! Bear your cross,
therefore, with joy"
fl could as easily decline dis
ease as I could dislike, then I
should be immortal. 3ut away
with these thoughtsl The mark
must not choose what arrow shall
be shot against it. What God
sends I must receive.
/ awake in the morning and find
a snow mantle thrown over all the
dark and gloomy ways of the city.
It is like Gods care for his children,
covering their faults, but making
their virtues white and radiant in
the sunlight of his love.
False repentance has grief of
mind and humiliation only for great
and glaring ofenses, until it sup
poses pardon for those Obtained
True repentance is a combined war
against sin, a permanent inward
shame for its deflements, till death
sounds a retreat.
Solomon saith. @Nan goeth to his
long home" Short preparation
will not fit so long a journey. 0,
let me not put of to the last. to
have my. oil to buy when / am to
burn It! But let me 50 dispose of
myself that when am TO die may
have nothing to do but die!
1t is a singular but no less true
remark in a late work that Jeher-
son was born just eight years after