Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-03-02
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IN Trying 10 make others so.
Love is treasure and heritage,
only so far as we improve it.
There is no room in life for impa-
thence, for God is in it all.
Milton says: lie who would write
her bic poems, should make his
whole life an heroic poem.
Complaint is the largest tribute
heaven receives, and the sincerest
part of our devotion.
You add ten-fold to the weight of
your troubles by Impotence. "Be
still, and know that l am God"
He who has ceased to enjoy his
friends superiority, has ceased TO
love him.
Happiness is perfume which we
cannot shed over others without
spilling few drops on ourselves.
We may not be able to Iengthen
our life, but we may greatly widen,
strengthen and enlarge it.
Auerback says: Music washes
away from the soul the dust of every
day life.
The most miserable pettifogging
in the world is man in the court of
his own conscience.
The fear of Lord is the begin
ming of wisdoE- and the knowledge
Of the Holy is understanding.
Treasures of wickedness profit
nothing; but righteousness deliver
eth from death.
The blessing o. the Lord, it max
eth rich, and he addeth no sorrow
to it.
The soul that has received light
has an inherent right to impart that
light to others not so blest.
Real Joy is the enjoyment of per-
sonaI love to Christ; TO be able to
say, I" love thy name, thy will, thy
works"
Goethe, the great poet, says: L
will listen to any ones convictions,
but you may keep your doubts to
yourself. l have plenty of my own.
We go to the grave of a friend
saying ga man Is dead;" but the
angels throng about him saying ''a
man is born"
Beecher says: at is higher exhi-
bition of Christian manliness to be
able to bear trouble than to get rid
of it.
Old Sancho Pansa said: Blessed
be the man who first invented sleep"
IT'S natures calm and sweet restOr-
err of the body's exhausted powers.
Sturgeon says; have 40 faith in
that woman who talks of grace and
glory abroad, and uses no soap and
water at home.
Serve God, by doing common ac-
tions in a heavenly spirit, and then,
if your daily calling only leaves you
cracks and crevices of time, I'LL them
up with holy services.
Men often attempt, by the light of
reason, to discover the mysteries of
eternity. They might as well hold
up a candle to see the stars.
Only believe what God s3ys OF
faith, and you will own that faith is
the most patient, the most beauti-
full, the most desirable thing in the
whole round of human acquisitions.
Temperance and labor are the two
best physicians OF man; labor shar-
pens the appetite, and temperance
prevents him from INDUCING in ex-
cess.
The doctrine of Gods omniscience
is thus distinctly stated by one of
his apostles: Known unto God are
all his works from the foundation of
the world"
a free press is declared by one
who knew its power, to be "The
Fountain of knowledge, the EN-
blem of Liberty, and the Dread OF
Tyrants"-and so it is.
oh, how much have we to do, eve
ry one of us, before the years of our
earthly life, few or many, be finally
spent, and the thrones set for judg-
ment.
Martin Luther said that there
were three things on which he could
not bear to dwell without Christ
his sins, death, and the day of judg.
ment.
The true Christian has this re-
corded for his comfort and edifca-
tion: "He that keepeth thee will
not slumber. The Lord is thy keep.
err"
The talent of commencing Christ
to the thoughts and hearts of men
in the parlor and by the wayside
may be justly coveted and sought
by every Christian.
Beauty, like the Towering bloss-
oms, soon fades but the divine ex.
cellence OF the mind, like the medi.
cal virtues of the plant, remains in
it, when all those charms are with
cred.
Chastisementis not of heaven, be.
cause there is no sin there; not OF
hell, because these is no amendment
there; it is companion of those
that are in the way, and of them on.
ly. Divine love and Christening are
inseparable.
A genuine "pearl" is the follow,
ing:
The cup that entices, the pleasure that lures
Are bats by an evil hand thrown;
Indulgence your ruin forever insures;
You are safe Il you Get them alone.
Good words, like the golden ear.
rings of the Israelites, are valuable
in themselves; but if once erected
into a golden calf, to be worshiped
and relied upon, are dangerously
pernicious.
1t is very interesting and encour-
aging to see how frequently God
uses the present tense, especially in
his promises. 1t adds much to their
preciousness. It gives glory to the
Bible which it would not otherwise
possess. 1t makes them the prom
ises we need-promises to sustain,
encourage, comfort and bless.
If to do were as easy as to know
what were good to do, chapels had
been churches. and poor mems cot
tages princes palaces. 1t is a good
divine that follows his own instruc-
ton. l can teach easier twenty
what were good TO be done, than
be one of the twenty to follow mine
own teaching.
Silence is in truth the attribute OF
God, and those who seek him from
that side invariably learn that me-
diation is not the dream, but the re-
ality of life; not its illusion, but its
strength.
DIR. Sears, custodian of the Pea
body fund, has appropriated fifteen
hundred dollars to pay an agent to
travel over Tennessee and reuse our
people to a sense of the importance
Of free schools. Mr.. j. B. Killibrew
has been appointed agent for this
pourpose.