The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1871-06-30
GOLDEN WORDS.

IL the way to heaven is narrow it is
not long.
Who can tell the good or bad effects
IF single word?
He alone is a free man whom the
truth makes free.
Impatience 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 Il christian duty. 1t
means doing things at the right time.
Do good and throw it 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 by
which God hath spoken to us.-ItOnl-
as Watson.
When we meet in Heaven we shall
see how little we knew about it on
earth-P1ysoH.
Moderation is the silken string run
ming through the pearl-chains OF all
virtues.-FuIICr.
If the Partisan women are not al
lowed to vote it surely is not because
they cannot fgilt.
There is no luck like pluck, and for
tune most favors those who are most
Indifferent to fortune.
Scandal, like the Nile, is fed by ma
ny streams, but is extremely difficult
to trace it to its source.
Thos who have escaped the rocks of
gross sins, have yet been cast awaV
upon the golden sands.
Let friendship creep gently to a
height IF it rush to it, it may soon
run itself out of breath.
A guilty conscience is like a whirI-
pool, drawing in all for itself which
would otherwise pass by.
If misfortune comes into your house,
be patient and smile pleasantly, and
it will stalk out again, for it can't bear
cheerful company.
A child of God should be a disable
BeGutitasde, for joy and happiness, and
a living DOXOlogy, for gratitude and
adoratiOn.-Sp1TgeOn.
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.-IhOD1dS
Watson.
Our lusts are cords. Fiery trials are
sent to burn and consume them.
Who fears the flame which will bring
him liberty from bonds intolerable p
Sgurgeon.
DIR. 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 hui
man thing in the world so to mingle
gravity, with the pleasure that the one
may not sink into melancholy, nOI
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
it can exist both in the body and out
of il, is called in the ecclesiastical offices
soul and spirit.-AgcS Of Faith.
Andrew Fuller says: / see there is
no sure way to have large harvest but
to have a large heart. The free Civ.
ing of the branches of our present es.
tate to God is the readiest means to
have the roots increased for the future
As spOkes of carriage wheel ap.
proach each other; so also, when men
are brought to Jesus Christ, the Cen,
tire of life and hope, are drawn towards
each other in brotherly relationship
and stand side by side journeying tC
their heavenly home.
Good, kind true, holy words, drop
ped in conversation, may be little
thought of, but they are all like seeds
of flowers or fruitful trees, falling 10y
the wayside, borne by some bird afal
happily thereafter to fringe with beau
ty some barren mountain side, or Il
make glad some lonely wilderness.
The Bible is the light of my under
standing, the joy of my heart, the full
ness of my hope, the clarifier of my
affections, the mirror of my thoughts
the consOler of my sorrows, the guide
of my soul Though this gloomy laby
rinth of time, the telescope sent from
Heaven to reveal to the eye of mar
the amazing glories Of hat far distan
D1Cight..
a man cannot hear a new truth, re
lating to his souls health and peao
coRvincingly uttered-or fell a move
ment of Gods Spirit within his OWL
and continue, in his Judges sight, TIA
same man he was before. IT Is anotE
er talent for which God will recko
with him,-a new light upon the sou
or another shade upon that wifi
darkness Which is the dread sin agains
the Holy Ghost-J II, Thorn.
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