Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-08-31
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Give work rather than aims to
the poor. The former drives out
Incidence, the later industry.
Those who fly from trouble to the
bottle are like the man who jumed
into the river to escape the ditch.
The natural world can give Joy.
1t is folly to underestimate its capa-
bilities in this direction.
The great defect of that Joy which
is not Gin the Lord" is that iG is so
transitory.
A man may be so engrossed by
the natural world as to live as if
there were no spiritual world.
Within is the fountain of good,
and it will ever bubble up if thou
wilt ever dig.
Pride and vanity are the puryev-
ors of trouble and danger; proud
persons are neither safe nor happy.
1t is easier to set man against all
the world than to make him fight
with himself.
A good man shall have what he
needs, not always what he thinks
he needs.
If you are doing all you possibly
can for Christ, endeayor to do vet
more. The effort will do you good.
One of the proverbs of Solomon
says: "The King by Judgment es-
tablisheth the land; but he that re-
ceiveth gifts overthroweth 1t.
Hope without patience would be
life kindling into over intensity,
and burning itself out in fiuitiess
longings.
If any christian duty comes hard,
pray earnestly over it, Just as you
would use measures for the recove-
ry of an only child.
1t is great mistake, says an emf
nent writer, to set up our own stan
dard of right and wrong, and Judge
people accordingly.
The life of a Christian is an habit
ual course of calling upon God
TO live without prayer is the surest
mark of Christless soul.
When a thing is not needful, a
man cannot properly be said to
want it; when it is needful, a good
man shall not be without it.
What is not bestowed upon us.
may not be so beautiful at that time
wherein we desire il, for eyerv-
thing is beautiful in its season.
Patience without hope would be
the decay of life's flame for want of
nourishment-till it would sink in
to the quietude of death.
You need not tell all the truth.
unless to those who have a right to
know it all. But let all you tell be
the truth.
Submission, courage, exertion,
when practical; these seem to be the
weapons with which wemust fight
hfo's long battle.
One of the saddest thing in human
life is, that a minister NAV guide
others to heaven, and himself be a
cast away.
The choice given to every man
born into this world is simplv
whether he will be a laborer or an
assassin; and whosoever has not his
hand on the silt ofthe pillow, has it
on the hilt of the dagger.
Matthew Henry, who was eminent
for his meek and Christian spirit
underinjuries, had favorite saying:
"How pleasant it iSVtoN have the
bird in the bosom singing sweetly."
Life is evermore a'great solemni-
ty, linked as it is to God and to eter-
nifty. Take care that thou so regard
it, and never trifle with it as
though it were a Vanity Fair.
We are now in this world. our
business is with this world. We
have functions and duties here. All
true religion must help ms to dis
charge these. Whatever does not,
is worthless.
Much ofour life is frittered away
with carking cares and anxieties.
They come from too close a look at
things which are temporal.
Many look at their sins, instead of
their Savior; or at their sins as lying
between them and their Savior: and
are so discouraged by false fear,
from coming to him.
There arc some great troubles
which only time can heal, some, per-
haps which never can be healed at
all; but all can be helped by the
great panacea, work.
The art of saying appropriate
words in kindly way is one that
never goes out of fashion, never cea-
SEES to please, and is within the reach
of the humblest.
The teacher who would be sue
cessful must cultivate the art of say
ing appropriate words in a kindly
way. 1t is one of his greatest means
of doing good.
When patient Wanting, becomes
or torpid, it is the will
of God that hope should come and
wake it up, as the cry did the SUM
boring virgins. ''Behold the bride
groom cometh, go We out TO meet
him.
Bishop Beveridge says: We live
In an age when elementary truths
of the Christian religion are I'M
known to us, who call ourselves
He that did not want Gods kind
ness to renew him shall never want
Gods kindness to supply him; his
hand shall not be wanting to give
where his heart has been so large in
working.
II you feel that you are proud.
selfish-that the world is a strong
enemy, and you have to put on the !
whole armor of God; that the claim |
Is made on you every day; that as
fast as you meet a duty you must /
10 it; as fast as you meet a tempta- |
ton you must put IT down, whether |
you have joy or hope or not, YOU
are learner in the school of Christ. |
The good qualities of that pecu-
lar American institution-the re-
IigiOus newspaper-ist thus sketched |
Dy an American who had been long
abroad, where there are no religious
"To do Justice to the
ruth. to the church, and TO the
.eader, and to the world, in such a
ight that Gods hand shall be seen
n it daily, is one~of the Hottest
functions man can perform. His
is no vulgar trade triumph;
{ is the enlightenment of multi
udes, the strengthening of the
interests in the world, the
deviation of an entire community. !