The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-01-05
GOLDEN ! I,D WORDS. ;l.,.

BE silent when a fool talk.
The absent feel and fear every III
lie that is too proud to ask is to,
good TO receive. fas 77i1
lie cannot speak well that canDo
hold his tongue. issw R q
Keep your mouth shut and YOU
eyes open. ars.f,.l3 .,.-.'4
The world promises comforts, ans
pays SORROWS.
job exhOrts, "Stand still and con.
slider the wondrous works Of God.
/ Truth is as impossible to he soiled
by any outward touch as the sun.
beam. q F.s-r.1l ....l---- 2
"The Lord takcth pleasure in hi.
people; he viii beautify the meek
with salvation
The stream of life forks, and rcli.
gion is apt to run in one channel and
business in another. ~ "'tj .1ii
DO but half you can, and you viii
be surprised at the result of your dill.
ligence. ..e if4-F a, Ti,ts
Spare no pains, in beautifyine
your homes and improving the road.
that lead to them. 80 f.
Let every minister, while he
preaching, remember that God
makes one of his hearers. So
The human soul, like the water o.
the salt sea, becomes fresh and swcc;
in rising to the sky. i.- ss grfstcf
Payson says: ''Whcn we meet il,
heaven we shall see how little w,
know aboat it on earth" 81.
The poorest education that teach
cs sclf-controI is better than the best
that ncglectsi:. ...-.rr I'd
An unjust accusation is like y
barbcd arrow, which must be drawn
backward with horrible anguish, Oh
else will be your destruction.
1t is only by labor that thought
can be made healthy, and only by
thought that labor can be made
happy. .. ..,......
Kindness is the music of good will
TO men: and on this harp the small
est fingers may play heavens sweet
est tunes on earth.
n sad spirit is like rainy day ::
its Dists snl shadows darkcn the
brightest sky, and clothc the faircst
lc Idscapc in gloom. ..
Every act of sin is more injurious
to him who commits it than it can
possibly be TO any Oili er who suffers
by it; but it will return into the
con cicnce and perform a strange
work tncrc. ....-.
Nothing shows ono who his friends
are like prosperity and ripe fruit.
L had a good friend in the country,
whom almost never visited except
in cherry-time. by your fruits you
shall know them.
The last word is the most dan
gcrous of internal machines. Hus-
band and wife should no more strive
to get it than they would struggle to
get possession of a lighted bomb
shell. ......
II is evident that the most worthy
efforts often fail, while the worst
succeed. This fact alone ought to
show the folly of basing an estimate
of character on a. superficial reckon
ing of results.
No sincere desire of doing good
need make All enemy Of a single hu-
man being; that philanthropy has
seEs4y y q -iisw in itwiiich cannOt SYM
pathize with the oppressor equally
as with the oppressed.
Do not talk about yourself ryour
family. to the exclusion of other top
les. What if you are clever and
little more SO than other people, il
may nt be that other people will
think 80, whatever they ought to do.
The worthless aud offensive men,
bers of society, whose existence is
social pest, invariably think them
selves the most ill-used people alive,
and never get over their astonish-
ment at the ingratitllde and selfish
ness of their contemporaries.
A muddy stream, flowing into one
clear and sparkling, for a time runs
along by itself. A little further
down they unite and the whole is
impure. So youth, untouched by
sin, may for a time keep its purity in
foul company, but little later they
will mingle.
No IianS spirit is very much hurt
by doing his duty. O,the contrary.
one good action, one temptation re-
sisted and overcome, one sacrifice of
desire, of interest," purely for con-
science sake, will prove cordial for
weak and low spirits beyond what
either indulgence or diversion or
compsny can do for theta. &. ~
If man oy woman wishes to realize
the full power Of personal beauty, it
must be by oherishing noble hopes
and purposes; by having something
to do and something to live for,
which is worthy of humanity, and
which, by expanding the capacities
Of the soul, gives expansion and
symmetry TO the BODY which con-
tains i, iP11qs.. . 6'
"ihere is no greater mistake,"
says an eminent divine, s,than to SUM-
pose THAT Ghristians can impress the
world Ly agreeing with 1t. No, it is
not conformity that we want; il is
not being able to beat the world in
Its own way but it is to stand apart
from it and above il, and to pr oduce
the impression of holy and . xepar-
ate life; this only csssn g,ye Us a true
Christian roWer:%@
IN this world the man who, riding
over CORY fields, trsMpling on the
face Of the dead, moves on to VIC
tory, is welcomed by the multitude
with wild exclamations, and they
place upon his brow the laurels OF
triumph. But the man who, in the
quiet chambers of his sogl, witAout
clash of arms or smoke Of battle,
achieve Toe thorough conquest of
nimself on his brow, amid tho hal
feluiahs of heaven, God shall place a
a T9yal diadsm., .ni s1f,r
tese wakes men once a lifetime each:
They lift their heavy heads and look, -,.f
ana 10! what one sweet page can teach
They read with joy. then shut the book;
Ar tSme give thanks. and some blaspheme,
=, And most forget; but either way, >
That and the ehild's unheedes ..seam
Is all the light o, sii heir dSyl!' ~ 80 ~
'AH '-y lrsdiathe Hp".s..
4 man has not risen very high,
who expends his energy 2aly In
scorning and ccntpTps S.r the evil.
The or viii aoS grow very fat and
ssrong which spends its hours in the
pasture-feld horning and scral,ing
up the thistles, to the neglect Of FL
ing his stomach with the SweSt and