Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1872-03-16
Sunday ReadIn g.

The body of a sensualist is the coffin
of dead soul.
TO speak to the purpose, one must
speak with a purpose.
Dishonesty is the forsaking of perma,
nent for temporary advantages.
Worship your heroes from afar; con
tact withers them.
Zene asked the oracle how he should
live, and was told to inquire of the
dead
The more a man denies himself the
more he shall obtain from GCd.
A woman who has never been pretty,
has never been young.
No sword is too short for braye man.
lie has only to advance to make it broa-
enough.
He who would write heroic poems
should make his whole life an hero.c
poem.
will listen to any ones convictions,
but pray keep your donbts to yourself.
/ have plenty Of my own Goethe
Unmarried men and women may be
divided into two great classes-the suf-
feripg million, and uncomfortable ten.
False friends arc like our shadows,
keeping close to US while we walk in the
sunshine, but leaving Us the instant We
cross into the shade.
1t is because we are dissatisfied with
al
have others think well of US, and were
we conscious of meritiDg their good, we
would care less for their i'll opinions.
The highest excellence is seldom at
tanned In more than Que vocation. The
roads leading to distinction in separate
pursuits diverge, and the nearer we app
proach the one, the farther we recede
from the other.
The teacher who does nothing but
teach is not fit to teach. The preacher
who does nothing but preach is not fit
to preach. The man who does any one
thing and nothing else is not fit to do
that one thing.
Worship God in the beauty of ho-
liness," and let thy soul delight itself in
Jesus. Drink long aud deep frop, the
Fountain of Love and satisfy the thirst
of thy soul Feed richly on the heaven
ly mama, till thou hunger no more. let
thy joy be full, for so is the will Of thy
Master.
Much praying is not asking. For ex-
ample, there il PRAYING without asking
when the mouth speaks, but not the
mind when words flow and wishes do
not follow when sentences glide forth.
but no soul gushes. How much Of
such praying by the idolators of the dis
tant East, who employ, as missionaries
tell, machines driven by hand, water or
wind, TO grind out continually petitions.
NJ. Lamennias is reported to have ut
tered the following weighty words just
before his death. There is nothing
fruitful but sacrifice. Some will say
this is hard saying; who can hear it ?
Yet the fact remains that for eighteen
hundred years during which the Chris
tians have professed to believe in the
cross, nothing really elevated, beautiful
or good, has been done upon the earth
except at the cost of suffering and self
abnegation:"
Rejoice in God. Dry up those tears
cast away that downcast look. Child
of the dust, you are an heir Of glory
There is acrown oil FURNISHED for you
there is eternal glory for you; angels
are to be your servants and you are to
reign with the King of Kings forever
But while you wait on earth to be wit
nesses for God, attest the glory of your
Master, rise IN the greatness of his
strength, bind sin captive to your char
lot wheels; go onward to your heavenly
career.
We love trees most in all their pomp
and plentitude. Not for their names
and affinities not for their secret phys.
iology and as material for science not
for any reason that we can give, except
that when We are with them we are hap
py. The eye is full, the ear is full, the
whole sense and al the tastes solaced ;
and our whole nature rejoices with that
various and full happiness which one
has when the soul is suspended in the
midst of Beethoven's symphonies, and
is lifted hither and thither, ss if blown
by sweet sounds through the airy pas
sages Of full heavenly dream.-Beech-
eH.