The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1871-06-23
GOLDEN WORDS.

1.-THE way TO heaven is narrow ii j,
not long.
Who can tell the good or bad effect,
# a single word2
Ee alone is a free man whom the
truth makes free.
Ilnpatience dries the blood sooner
than age of sorrow.
An image Of gold is sure Of wor.
shippers if it be only golden calf
Punctuallity is a christian duty. II
means doing things at the right time,
Do good and throw il into the sea
if the fishes do not know it, God will.
Faith which sweetly works by love
purifies the heart and Over-comes the
world.
Nothing is more contrary to the
spirit of charity than rash and hasty
censures.
The two Testaments are two lips 10y
which God hath spoken to us.-IhOn'-
as Watson.
When we meet in Heaven we shall
see how little we knew about 1t OH
earth-PysOR.
Moderation is the silken string run
ming through the pearl-chains OF all
virtues.-FHlcr.
There is no luck like pluck, and for
tune most fayors those who are most
indifferent to fortune.
Scandal, like the Nile, is fed 10y ma
nv streams, but is extremely difficult
TO trace it 10 its source.
Thos who have escaped the rocks Of
gross sins, have yet been cast away
upon the golden sands.
Let friendship creep gently TO a
height IF it rush to it, it may soon
run itself out of breath.
\ guilty conscience is like a whirl-
pool, drawing in all for itself which
would otherwise pass by.
If misfortune comes into your house,
be patient and smile pleasantly, and
il will stalk out again, for it can't bear
cheerful company.
A child of God should he a Uisd6lc
EeautituCtc, for joy and happiness, and
a living DoXolOgy, for gratitude and
adoratiOn.-Spurgcon.
Noah's dove made use of her wings
to fly, but trusted to the ark for safe
ty. Let duties have your diligence
but not your confidence.-WtOHGs
Watson.
Our Iusts are cords. FieIy trials are
sent t. burn and consume them.
Who fears the flame which will bring
him liberty from bonds intolerable?-
SgWgc0zl.
DR.. McClinton says: 1t Is a great
guilt on any man to allow any mental
faculties he may possess to become
rusty from disuse or to submit impli-
ity to another.
| think it the most beautiful and hu
man thing in the world so TO mingle
gravity, with the pleasure that the one
may not sink into melancholy, nor
the other rise up to wantness.
The spirit of itself is termed spirit
and in connection with the body, it Is
called soul. The human soul, because
t can exist both in the body and out
IF it, is called in the ecclesiastical offices
soul and spirit.-Agcs Of Faith.
Andrew Fuller says: l see there is
10 sure way to have large harvest but
o have a large heart. The free Civ
ne Of the branches Of our present es-
ate to God is the readiest means TO
nave the roots increased for the future.
As spokes of a carriage wheel APP
roach each other so also, when men
ire brought to Jesus Christ, the Cen
re Of life and hope, are drawn towards
,ach other in brotherly relationship,
md stand side by side journeying to
heir heavenly home.
Good, kind true, holy words, drop
,ed i'm conversation, may be little
hought of, but they are all like seeds
If flowers or fruitful trees, falling by
he wayside, borne by some bird afar
happily thereafter to fringe with beau
Y some barren mountain side, or to
make glad some lonely wilderness.
The Bible is the light of my under
the joy Of my heart, the fui-
less of my hope, the clarifier of my
the mirror Of my thoughts,
he CONSIDER Of my sorrows, the guide
If my soul Though this gloomy Iaby-
.inth Of time, the telescope sent from
Heaven to reveal to the eye of man
he amazing glories of that far distant
D,Oight..
A man cannot hear new truth, re-
atipg to his souls health and peace
uttered-Or fell move
ment Of Gods Spirit within his own,
md continue, in his Judges sight, the
anne man he was before. II is anoth-
or talent for which God will reckon
with him. new light upon the soul,
Or another shade upon that wilful
which is the dread sin against
the Holy Ghost H. IhO7.
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