Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-07-01
GOLDEN WORDE.

llthc way TO heaven is narrow it is
rot long.
Who can tell the good or bad effects
,f n single word?
He alone is n free man whom the
truth makes free.
Impatience dries tlye blood sooner
than age of sorrow.
An image of gold is sure of wOr-
shippers if it be only a golden calf.
Punctuallity is christian duty. 1t
means doing things at tho 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
puriies the heart and over-cOmes the
world.
Nothing is more contrary to the
spirit of charity than rash and hasty
censureS.
The two Testamcnts are two lips by
which God hath spoken to us.-WOU-
us Watson.
When we meet in Heaven we shall
see how little we knew about it on
earth--Rtyson.
Moderation is the silken string rum
ming through the pearl-chains OF all
ues,-FulCr.
If the Partisan women are not al
lowed to vote ii surely is not because
they cannot fight.
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 rccks 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.
A guilty conscience is like whirl-
pool, drawing in all for itself which
would otherwise pass by.
II misfortune comes into your house,
be patient and smile pleasantly, and
1t will stalk outagain, for it can't beal
cheerful company.
A child of God should be n Uisd6lt
BcamitudG, for joy and happiness, anG
a living Doxology, for gratitude and
adoration.-SpWgeoR.
Noah's dove made use of her wing
to fly, but trusted to the ark for safe
ty, Let duties have your diligence
but not your contidence,-Thoma
Watson.
Our lusts are cords. Fiely trials arr
sent to burn and consume them
Who fears the flame which will bring
him liberty from bonds intolerable?- ?
SgWgeOn.
DR.. MCClinton says 1t is a grea
guilt ON any man to allow any menta
faculties he may possess to become
rusty from dlsuse or to submit impli
ity to another.
think ii the most beautiful and hu
man thing in the world so to mingl
gravity, with the pleasure that the on
may not sink into melancholy, no
the other rise up to wantDess.
The spirit Of itself is termed spirit
aud in connection with the body, it j
called soul. The human soul, Decaus
II can exist both in the body and oil
ofit,is called in the ecclesiastical office
soul and spirit.-AgcS Of Fhith.
Andrew Fuller says: see there
no sure way to have large harvest bu
TO have a large heart. The free Civ
ing of the branches of our present es
tate to God is the readiest means t
have the roots increased for the future
As spokes of a carriage wheel ap
proach each other; so also, when me-
are brought to Jesus Christ, the Cen
tire Of life and hope, are drawn toward
each other in brotherly Relationship
ana stand side by side journeying t
their heavenly home.
Good, kind true, holy words, droE
peu III conversation, may be littl
thought of, but they are all like seed
OF flowers or fruitful trees, falling b
ihe wayside, borne by some bird afa
happily thereafter to fringe with beat
" some barren mountain side, or [
make glad some lonely wilderness.
The Bible is the light of my undel
standing, the joy of my heart, the fu
ness Of my hope, the clarifier Of m
affections, the mirror of my thought
The consoler of my sorrows, the guid
Of my soul Though this gloomy IabN
Tlnth of time, the telescope sent frol
Heaven to reveal to the eye of ma
the amazing glories Of that far distar
World.-Dtoight,.
A man cannot hear new truth, ~
latlng to his souls health and peaC
Convincingly uttered-or fell a NOV,
ment of Gods Spirit within his owl
ahd continue, In his Judges sight, Il
same man he was before. 1t Is anotl
" talent for which God will recko
win him,-a new light upon the sou
u another shade upon that wifi
darkness which is the dread sin again
'ue Holy GhOst-J III Thorn.