Oregon Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1870-1872, 1872-08-03
sunday Reading.

A year of pleasure passes like a
floating breeze moment of misfor>
tune seems an age of pain.
Lit not foot until you have pre-
viously ascertained the nature of the
groupd upon which you are to tread.
Much adversely is requisite to make
MS hate life beckon from prosperity
will recall the hatred instantly.
When two opposite.extremes are pre-
sented to you, it is generally safe, as
well as honorable, to play che part of q
go-between.
Slander is more accumulative than a
SNOWFALL. 1t is like salad, which
every one sweetens to his own taste. or
to the taste Of those to whom he offers
il.
He who freeley praises what he
means to purchase, and he who emu
merates the faults Of what he means to
sell, may set up partnership with
honesty.
Title and ancestry render good man
more illpstrlous. but an i'll one more
contemplate. Vice is infamous, though
in a prince, and virtue honorable,
though in o peasant.
/ have always preferred cheerfulness
70 mirth. The latter | consider as an
art, the former as habit of the miud
Mirth is short and transient cheer
fulness is fixed and permanent.
Gods word is like Gods world-va-
ried, very rich, very beautiful. You
meyer really know when you have ex-
hausted all its secrets. The Bible,
like nature, has something for every
class of mind. Look at the Bible in a
new light, and straightway you see
some new charm.
There is hardly a man in the world
yho docs not feel his pulse beat quick
or, when, even after short absence,
he finds himself nearing home. A
common place, this, bnt there are
common Ilaces, delicious, ever fresh
truths, which seem like dalses on the
yorld's highway, it is hard not to stop
and gather them sometimes.
Without doubt" said wise Arab,
rall men are equal as the fingers of
the hand. Look at these fiugers the
origin is common; they cannot be
parted without grave words but one
Of them is long. the otLer shorter. II
all were alike could neither touch nor
strike alike, nor grasp BE sure it is
with men as with the fingers Of the
hand"
4 disposition to lay the blame for
opr neglect of duty, our short
upon others, is sure sign that we have
inwardly baek-sliden from God. The
first transgressor endeayored, in this
way, to palliate his ottense his ex-
ample has been faithfully foll,wed ever
SINCE. God can make us right,
whether any one else is right or not.
Whoever may falter, he can enable us
to do our duty. When we fail, we
should blame ourselves, and no one
else. 10 this way only can we hope to
obtain forgiveness for the past, or make
improvements in the future
Our religious 10 not to be divorced
from onractuallife. Some men run q
separating wall between their religion
and daily lite. But this is spurious-it
cannot abide the test The religion of
Christ purifes the life. II makes US
more honest, truthful and Just: it pays
debts it makes us more industrious
and frugal, kind hearted and benevo
lent bridfeth the tongue thinketh
no evil brings sunshine into the home
circle, the store and the shop. The
time OF this revival is yet 70 come.
When the result of theological 1iscus-
sion shall be gathered up, no fact, we
venture to say, will be more conspicu-
ous, than that the little band of ad-
.Eapced thinkers, as they call them
selves, who kept out on the froptiers Of
speculation, laboripg to survey the In
finite, and map out bis boundaries by
logical diagrams and charts, were the
most dimnutive of all religious think
ers. For they refused the larger in
sight and broader vision of faith, aud
Instead of looking out upon thc>ocean
of dicty, to be expanded and enlarged
aud enlightened by it, they spent their
time, as an early Christian fat1icr cx-
pressed it, in trying to dip up tie
ocean IN pint cng Of human reason.