Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-06-22
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Whatever we make an IDOL OF vii
be a cross TO us if we belong T.
Christ; a curse to US, il we do not
No sensible man can conceive sucl
thing as the total humiliation 0
any created thing.
Man is so constituted that wheI
fully developed he may know anC
do the will OF God.
We must not only "strike Will,
the iron is hot" but strike till it il
made hot.
All exertion is in itself, delight
ful, and active amusements seldom
tire us.
Fear cautiously avoids whatever
may offend; love yields prompt
and liberal service.
Fear regards God as a witness
and a judge; love cleaves TO him as Q
friend, nay, father
Men had rather hear Of Christ
cruciiied for them, than 10 be cruel
fed for Christ.
In regard to natural life, we live
in God; in regard to spiritual life
Christ lives in us.
Shall the sinner be proud that he
is going to hell? Shall the saint be
proud that he is saved from it2
Covctousness betrayed our Saw
Jour, envy accused him, and the
friendship of the world condemned
him.
You have Gods promise, and that
cannot fail. If you hunger and
thirst alter righteousness, you shaH
be filled.
Despair is a corruption of humil-
iatiOn, il is counterfeit of humili-
ty, sulleu pride, covert of har-
dened spirit.
An hypocrite is the picture of a
saint, but his paint shall be washed
of, and he shall appear in his own
cOlors.
We must not allow ourselves to
be discouraged by an apparent dis
proportion between the result of
single efforts and the magnitude of
the obstacles to be encountered.
The things of the world, the more
th0y are known, the less they are
admired; but the things of God, the
more they are known the more they
are admired.
God, who is absolute goodness,
cannot love any of his creatures, and
take pleasure in them, without be-
slowing upon them cOmmunica-
tion of his goodness and likeness.
God did not make a Gospel to
promise men life and happiness
hereafter without being regenerat-
cd, and being made partakers of his
holiness.
Fear God for his power, trust him
for his wisdom, love him for his
goodness, praise him for his great
ness, believe him for his faithful
ness, and adore him for his holiness.
The human mind is "a harp of a
thousand strings" and Watts ex-
pressed his wonder that it should
remain in tune so long" US three
score and ten years.
Education does not so much create
faculty as it trains and invigorates
it. 1t is to the mind what the grind
stone is to the axe, giving it sharp
ness-not necessarily adding quail
ty.
Those who have not energy TO
work must learn to be humble: and
should not vainly hope to unite the
Incompatible enjOyments of indo-
lenco and enterprise, of ambition
and self-indulgence.
It was a high speech of Seneca
(aftcr the manner of the Stoics)
that "the good things which belong
TO prosperity are to be wished; but
the good things belonging to adver-
sity are to be admired"
An Italian sonnet justly, as well
as elegantly, compares procrastina.
ton to the folly of traveller who
pursucs brook till il widens into
"A river and is lost in the sea.
The tolls as well as the risks of an
active lie are commonly overrated
so much may be done by the diIi.
gent use of ordinary opportunities.
but they must not always be waited
for.
The best way to prevent wauder-
ing in prayer, is not TO let our
minds wander too much at other
times; but to have God always in
our thoughts, " the whole course
of our lives.
Eminently blessed are they who
begin eGriy to seek and love their
God, trusting wholly in the right
eousness and mediation of their
Lord, Redcemer, Savior, and ever
lasting High Priest, Jesus Christ.
Christ came not into the world
merely to cast a mantle over us, and
hide all our filthy sores from Gods
eye, with his merits and
but he came especially TO
be a surgeon and physician of souls,
to free us from the filth and corrup-
ton of them; which is more griev-
Gus and burthensome, more noise |
some to true Christian, than the !
the guilt of sin itself.
There is a gloom in deep love, as |
in deep water; there is silence in |
it which suspcnds the foot, and the |
folded arms and detected head are |
the images it reflects. No voice |
shakes its surface; the muses. them |
selves approach il with tardv and |
, timid step, with n low aud tremu- !
Gus and melancholy song.-W. S. |
Landor.
No one need pride himself upon
genius, for it is the free gift of God:
lut of honest industry and true de-
gotion to his destiny any man NAV
we'll be proud; indeed this thorough
of purpose is itself the Iii
inc idea in its most common form.
md no really honest mind is with
,ut communion with God.-Fichte.
Beneath all pain inflicted by ma
ure, be not only serene but more;
ct it avail thee in prayer. Put up,
It the moment of greatest suffering,
prayer; prayer, not for thy own
scape, but for the acknowledgements
If some being dear TO thee, and the
sovereign Spirit viii accept thy ran
om.-Margaret Fuller.
Nothing good nor great is to be
btained without courage and in
.ustry; but courage and industry
must have sunk in despair. and the
World musr nave remained uuWar-
antcd and unimproved, if men had
icely compared the effect of 4 sim
lie stroke of the chisel with the nv
amid 10 be raised, or Of a siu@ie
of the spade with the
mountain "a be lcvelled
II that marvellous IuicrOcosm,
ian, with all the costly cargo of his
lculties and powers, were indeed a
ich argosy, fitted out and freighted {,
My for shipwreck and destruction.
rho; amongst us that tolerate tho