The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-06-21
GOLDEN WORDS.

Coed advice cannot be given too Of
ten.
Pleasure is precarious, but virtue is
| immortal.
The whole earth is the monument OF
| illustrious men.-PSriciCS.
A passionate man scourgeth himself
with his OVID scorpions.
Sin is your murderer; kill it, before
it kills you.
We should not retain the memory OF
faults We once have forgiven.
Men blush less for their crimes than
for their weaknesses and vanity
BrUyere.
Learning without Thought is labor
lost; thought without learning is per-
ilous- C0nf,,ci,Gs.
Love scldoms hauute the heart where learning lies
| And Venus sets ere Mercury ca; rist.-PDfIe.
The proof that we believe in the real
ity of religion is, that We walk in the
power of it.
Words are wise mems counters
they do not reckon by them; but they
are the money of foois.-ThOn1os
| HObJcs.
To all men is the day of death APP
pointed, and they cannot postpone OF
advance it one hour.
Sorrow comes soon enough with DIES.
pondency; it does man no good carry
around lightning-rod to attract trou-
BILE.
Wisdom and truth, the offspring OF
the sky, are immortal, but cunning and
deception, the meteors of the earth, af.
| ter glittering for moment, must
pass away.
| Religion will never exempt man
from treble, but it will make him happy
i'm trouble; for he knows, go how it
may with others, it is sure to be well
with him.
When the Christian is overtaken by
the storm of adversely, or has been de.
stroyed by friends, or is called to bury
a loved one, his heart is cheered and
conforted by the voice, at is l."
A firm trust i'm the assistance of AZ
mighty power naturally produces pa.
! thence, hope, cheerfulness, and all 9th
| er dispositions of mind which alleviate
these calamities We ourselves are not
| able to remove.
What blessed food for reflection, is
| the word of God Take passage OF
Scripture, and dwell upon it, interweav.
ing it with all the days duties. Reflect
upon it, and it ill be continually de-
| veloping i'm sweetness and power.
Prayer and reflection will make plain
what seemed obscure at first.
One pound of gold may be drawn
| into wire that would extend around
| the globe. So one good deei may be
| felt through all time, and cast its in
| fiuence into eternity. Though done in
the first flush of youth, it may gladden.
the last of long life; and form the
brightest and most glorious spot on
earth.
HAVE ONE OBJECT.-Go out in the
spring when the Suu is yet far distant,
and you can scarcely feel the influence
of its beams, scattered as they are over
the wide face of creation; but collect
those beams to focus, and they kindle
up flame i'm an instant. So the man
that squanders his talents and his
strength i'm many things will fail to
make an impression with either; but
let him draw them to a point, let him
strike at single object, and it will
WELD before him.
How often would we find trials
robbed of half their bitterness, if we
were to reflect that not always will sor-
row pierce, cares annoy; that our jour.
new through the world will, at best, be
a short one; that bright, happy home,
"prepared long ago" awaits us at its
close: a home where friends, gone be-
fore, will give us cordial welcome;
and where days of care and nights OF
WEAKNESS will be remembered no more
| forever.