Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-11-09
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A great fortune in the hands of q
fool is a great misfortune.
a man, like a watch, is to be val
ued for his goings.
a good wife and health are a
mans best wealth.
A wise mans thoughts walk with
in him, but FOOLS without.
A man has often more trouble to
digest meat than to get it.
A wise lawyer never goes to law
himself.
a smart reproof is better than a
smooth deceit.
A young twig is easier twisted
than an old tree.
Agreat mans foolish sayings pass
for wise ones.
An angry man has taken leave Of
his senses.
Asmall body may countain d great
soul.
A wilful man has need to be very
wise.
A wild colt may become a staid
and sober horse.
A good garden may have some
weeds.
Agood maxim is never out of sea-
son.
Neither the worth nor the efficacy
of the gospel is derived from man.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for
they shall see God.
Well may the Christian say, 90 By
the grace of God l am what am"
The echoes OF our lives are ever
coming back upon us.
The Lord taketh pleasure in them
that fear him.
The knowledge of our own mise
~, without the knowledge of Jesus
Christ, produces despair.
The lustre of the new dispensation
OF the grace of God is brighter than
the old.
Resist the devil-no matter in
what shape he comes-and he will
flee from you.
Cicero said: 81 am pleased in
nothing so much as in the remem
brance and conscience Of my duty"
The Psalmist says: "When the
LORD shall build Zion, He shall APP
pear in His glory"
The Lord will regard the PRAYER
OF OF the destitute, and not desDise
their supplications.
Bishop Hall said: 81 would rather
suffer thousand wrongs, than offer
one.
As arrows are in the hands of the
mighty man, so are children of the
youth.
Joshua, or God through him, conf
mands, Choose you this day whom
we will serve"
Job says: ''All the days of nv an
pointed time will / wait till nv
change comes.
Isaiah says: 90, Israel, return
unto the Lord thy God, for thou
hast fallen by thy iniquity."
Hosea says: "Trust We In the Lord
forever, for in the Lord jehovah is
everlasting strength"
If anything ought to be accounted
worthy of the most attentive consid-
Grafton, it is indeed the covenant OF
grace.
The most celebrated systems of
philosophers could not have benefit
ted the world like the religion of
Christ.
In Ephesians v. IL, we are com
manded to awake thou that sleeD-
est, and arise from the dead, and
Christ shall give thee light"
The behavior or practice of every
man who is vitality united to the
holy Jesus, is universally eonformed
TO the law as rule of duty.
a good conscience, in the language
OF st. Bernard, is here a perpetual
comfort, and will be hereafter an
eternal crown.
David, iii one of his lamentations
says: . My days are like a shadow
that declineth, and l am withered
like grrss."
the sweet singer of Israel savs
" Blessed are the people that know
the joyful sound. They shall wall
Q Lord, in the light of thy counte,
nance"
Great souls attract SORROWS. as
mountains do storms; but the tbun-
der-clouds break them, and thew
thus form a shelter for the plains
around.
The beams of the Sun of Rigbte-
BUSINESS passed through a thick and
gross atmosphere of ceremony. and
were obscured by clouds of incense
and pillars of smoke.
No bed so soft, no flowers so sweet
and delicious, as good conscience
IN which spring all that is delecta-
blc-all that may sustain and rccre-
ate our spirits.
Upon a good conscience Peter
slept SO soundly that the briphtness
IF an angel could not awake him. or
make him rise up without a blow
IN his side.
The gospel is an object OF impor-
ancc To mankind. Unto men Der-
shing in sin and misery, the grace
ii God, or the doctrine OF God our
savior, Is most interesting.
The perfume of a thousand roses
Don dies, but the pain caused nv
me of their tEOrns remains long al
er. 4 Saddened remembrance in
he midst of nIIrth, Is iketha thorn
,uougst roses.
To interest without cxcitinc-to
instruct without otleHding-to be
'hcertul yet graveyard humorous
without descending into buffoonrv
are the prime requisites of a pub
ic instructor.
Salvation to the sinner is the one
hing needful, and the grace of God
brings the report of 1T to their cars
displays the glory of it before their
yes, and sets the blessings of II
within the reach of their hands. and
must be to them unspeakablv and
interesting.
The God of the Christian is a God
Who makes the soul perceive that
lie is its only good ; that its only
est is in Him that it can have no
Oy but in His love; and at the same
line causes it TO abhor those obsta-
les which hinder and withhold 81
rom loving Him with all its
trength.
An unregenerate man is described
5 "a fallen spirit in a discarded
tate, having day of salvation. and
nat NEGLECTED" How natural -