Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-03-09

Put not your trust in princes, nor
in men of high or low degree.
Make not your sail too large for
your ship.
Men of wealth, men of talent;
what are you doing for God, IN
Gods world2
We mount to heaven mostly on
the ruins of our cherished schemes,
finding our failures were successes.
Repentance without amendment
is like continual pumping in ship
without stopping the leaks.
If man wants to know the
strength of evil, let him try to
abandon it.
1t is better for parents to instruct
their children and seek TO make
home happy, than it is 10 charm
strangers or amuse friends.
Prayer makes the Christian in a
sense omnipotent and omnipres-
ent. 1t prevails with him who Is
both.
The true Christian is encouraged
in his course by the assurance that
the more he really prays. the less he
will sin. ~
1t Is not until we have passed
through he furnace that we are
made to know how much dross was
in our composition.
Goeth says: am fully convinced
that the soul is indestructible, and
that its activity will continue
through eternity.
If our motive in all that we do
were only how to please our heaven
ly Father, not one labor of our hands
would be lost.
Love, IL you would be loved /;
serve, if you would be served; and
humble yourself, if you would be
exalted.
DIR. Mason asks: "How can men
expect to live with God in heaven,
if we love not to live with him on
earth?"
IL is of no advantage to have a
lively mind if we are not just. The
perfection of the pendulum is not to
go fast, but TO be regular.
Here then, is our standing I'm
Christ: Justified by faith, having
peace, enjoying access, rejoicing in
hope, and looking out for glory,
1t is vain to hope to please all a
like. Let q man stand with his face
in what direction he will, he must
necessarily turn his back on one
half of the world.
The Psalmist describes God as q
beings Gin whose presence there is
.Jullness Of Joy, and at whose right
hand there are pleasures .f0reeer-
more!
Great effort from great motives is
the best definition of happy
life. The easiest labor is a burden
to him who has no motives for per-
forming it.
Sidney Smith says; The only way
TO make the mass of mankind see
the beauty of justice, is by showing
them in plain terms the consequent
ces of injustice. 9t1 81 81.
Hedge says: Every process in ma
ture is the going forth of the Ever
lasting on his message OF love, any
event in our experience is message
OF love Iulnleu.
To be free from desire is money;
to be free from rage of perpetually
buying something new, is q certain
revenue; to be content with what
we possess constitutes the greatest
and most certain of riches.
Give boy address and accom-
plishments, and you give him the
mastery of palaces and fortunes
where he goes. He has not the
trouble of earning or owning them;
they solicit him TO enter and possess.
The death of the body loosens the
bars of the souls prison, and while
she body dies, the soul, which to
our sight, like the sun, seems to set
in night; but it has in reality, only
gone to difI'use its light elsewhere.
five stand in Christ, we are at
the other side OF death, for death
hath no more dominion over him,
and we are at the other side of iudg-
ment, for he himself is Judge.
Every thing that God wants from
us, and everything that we want
from God is in Christ. Having this
position, what manner of conversa-
ton should be ours in this world?
The avaricious man is like the bar
rem sandy ground of the desert,
which sucks in all the rain and dews
with greediness, but yields no fruit
full herbs or plants for the benefit OF
others.
Serve God; let him be the author
all thxv 81 al =.
endeavors to him who must either
wither or prosper them; please him
with PRAYER; lest, If he frown, he
confound all thy fortune and lahar.
like drops or rain upon the sandy
gro
The hour of enjoying the harmless
and reasonable pleasure of life, is
not only essential to a mans happi-
ness, but an indication of several
valuable qualities, both of the head
and the heart, which can hardly ex-
list without il. vr ~
Justice and generosity, rightly
blended, constitute dignified char
acter, but certainly, so far as a per-
son is more just than generous, or
more generous than just, that char
acter is defective.
Jean Paul says: We celebrate no.
bier obsequies to those we love by
drying the tears of others than by
shedding our own; and the fairies
funeral wreath we can hang on their
tomb, is not so fair as a fruit Offer
ing of good deeds.
Professor Agaassiz, when impor-
tuned by a shrewd agent, to enter
upon series of lectures, was told
as an inducement, that he would
make more money than by ten wears
of his work, replied, ''But l haven't
time TO make money" He was too
intent upon doing good.
Here is ''pearl" of purest water,
A christian statesman has recent
" said in a public address TO the
people of the Southern States
Faith in God and hope for man are
the only fundamental principles in
nv human creed. To worship God
and elevate man are the only funda-
mental obligations j admit. All
things else are simply means to &C
complish these glorious ends.
1TWhen strangers treat me with
want of respect" said apoor philos.
opher. 81 comfort myself with the
reelection that it is not myself that
he sights, but my old and shabby
hat aud cloak, which, to say the
truth. have no particular claim to
alteration. So, if my hat and CLOAK