The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1871-06-08
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The church-yard, says Baxter, Is
the market place where the things
of this world are duly rated.
God will give US nothing for our
sakes, but he will deny as nothing
for Christ's sake.
The gate which leads to life is q
strait gate, therefore We should
fear; it is an open gate, therefore
we should hope.
Wilt thou clothe and pamper thy
body, and yet take no care of thy
soul? This is as if a man should
feed his dog and starve his child.
There are few difficulties that
hold out against real attacks; they
fly like the visible horizon before
those who advance.
A passionate desire and an un-
wearied will can perform impossi-
bilities, or what seems to be such,
to the cold and feeble.
He that cannot forgive others
breaks the bridge over which he
must pass himself; for every man
has need to be forgiven.
To bless God for mercies is the
way to increase them; to bless Him
for miseries is the way to remove
them.
It is a pity that those should ever
be weary under the want of earthly
good things who may be sure they
shall inherit all things at length.
The lazy, the dissipated and the
fearful who patiently see the active
and the bold pass them in their
course, must bring down their pre-
tensions to the level Of their level.
He never was so good as he
should be, that doth not strive to be
better than he is; he never will be
better than he is, that doth not bear
to be worse than he was.
Hall says: I have ever found that
to strive with my superior is furi-
Gus; with my equal doubtful; with
my inferior sordid and base; with
any full of nnquietness.
The casting down of our spirits
in true humility is but like throw
ing a ball on the ground which
makes it rebound the higher to
heaven.
We must not allow ourselves to
be discouraged by the apparent dis
proportion between the result of
single efforts and the magnitude of
the obstacles to be encountered.
The tolls, as well as risks, of an
active life are commonly overrated,
so much may be done by the dill
gent use of ordinary opportunities
but they must not always be waited
for.
Children are monuments Of God S
goodness to man; they are pledges
of everlasting love; they are dew
drops in the morning of life; the
pearls in the sunshine, and rainbow
tints amid its cares and sorrows.
Those who have not the energy to
work must learn to be humble, and
should not vainly hope to unite the
incompatible enjoyments Of indo-
lence and enterprise, Of ambition
and sef-indulgence.
It often happens that they are
the best people whose characters
have been most injured by SANDER,
as we often find that to be the sweet
est fruit which birds have been
picking at.
A Boston paper expresses the de-
liberate CONVICTION that "a man EhO
will not do anything himself nor lei
any one else do anything by way OF
public improvement ought to keep
tavern after everybody else is dead
If, in the pursuit of a good object,
which seems difficult or impossible
Of attainment, we do but 60 for
ward with unfaltering faith, some
unseen path will open among the
hills of difficulty, and we will &C
through unscathed.
Men could not think so lightly
and contemptuously of Christ, SC
unworthily and falsely of a holy
life, 50 delightfully."- of sin, so care
lessly of duty, so fearlessly of hell
SO senselessly and atheisticaliy o.
God, and so disgracefully of heav
en-, as they now do, if they did but
thoroughly know themselves.
It may be justly said that the
I pride that apes humility is the mos
Objectionable, as, in addition to the
bad qualities inherent in a false, un
founded estimate of self, it super
adds that Of hypocrisy-and NJ
combination can be more odiou
than that Of hypocrisy with pride
Emerson says beautifully: If tn,
stars should appear only one nigh
in s thousand years, how woulC
men believe and adore and preserv
for many generations the reInem
brance of the city of God, whicl
had been shown? But every nigh
come out these preachers Of beauty