The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-05-03
THREE SIEVES.

Divine their lot"
THREE SIEvES.
Before we allow ourselves TO find
fault with any person behind his back,
we should ask ourselves.-1. Is il true?
2. Is it kind ? 3. Is it necessary;
DEATH IS LIFE.
l go to life and not TO death;
From darkness to life's native SKY {;
| GO from sickness and from pain.
To health aid Immortality.
Let our farewell, then, be fearless.
Since / bid farewell to tears;
Write this day of my departure
Festive in your coming years.
go from poverty to wealth,
From rags TO raimeEt angel fair,
From the pale leanness of this flesh
To beauty such as saints shall wear.
go from chains to liberty;
These letters will be broken soon;
Forth over Eden's fragrant fields
walk beneath Il glorious noon.
For toll there comes the crowned rest A.;
Instead of burdens, eagles wings
And /, even /, this life long thirst
Shall quench at everlasting springs.
God lives, Who says that l must die?
cannot, while Jehovah liveth!
Christ lives | cannot die, but live;
He life TO me forever giveth.
-HOrdtiUs BOnur.
UNCONSCIOUS INFLUENCE.
1t is not they alone who are trying
purposely TO convert or corrupt others,
who exert an influence. Toe doors
of your soul are open on others, and
heirs on you. You inhabit house
that is we'll nigh transparent, and
what you are within you are always
showing yourself to he without, by
signs that have no ambiguous expires
sion. If you had the seeds of pes;i-
lence in your body, you you'd not have
more active contagion than you have
in your tempers, tastes and principles.
Simply TO be in this world, whatever
you are, is to exert an infiuence,-an
influence compared to which mere
language and persuasion are feeble. Is
your example harmless? Is it ever on
the side of God and duty? You can
not doubt that others are continually
receiving impressions from your char
acter. AS little can you doubt that you
must answer for these impressions. If
the influence you exert is unconsciously
exerted, then il is only the most sim
cere, the truest expression of yOnr
character. Do not deceive yourself in
the thought that you are, at least,
doing no injury, and are therefore liv-
ing without responsibility. BY mere
look or glance, not unlikely, you are
conveying the influence that shall turn
the scale of some ones immortality.
Dismiss, therefore, the thought that you
are living without responsibility that
is impossible. The true philosophy of
doing good is, first of all and princi-
pally to be goOd-to have a character
that will of itself communicate good.
There must and will be active effort
where there is goodness of principle
but the latter we must hold To be the
principal thing, the root and life of ali.
Horace Bushnell.
TIE HIDDEN LIFE.
Lie has two ways of working-the
hidden and the revealed, the outer aud
the inner, the phenomenal and the es-
sential. Ii is not the least of its mys-
teries that, however far back we trace
its steps, there is still law within a
law, life within a life, which we can
not find, but which is the source of all
that We can find. 1t is always the
hidden which gives tone, and force,
and reality to the outer life. 1t is the
things not seen which establish or
bring TO naught the things that are.
The planet and the pebble rest with
equal ease in the just balance of hidden
force which, if shaken a little from
their subtle poise, would shatter the
universe. Each age values itself 10y
its outward life of thought, and deed.
and discipline. But history soon for
gets all that, and values the age for
the hidden life that was in it, of which
the age had not dreamed, except
through the prophets whom it stoned.
No age seems romantic to itself. 1t is
only in the after.time that men find