Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-03-16
Orient Pearls at Random StTHnr

Addison says that cheer fulness is
the best hymn to the Divinity.
The way to avoid great faults is
not to commit small ones.
Socrates said: 'He is most like the
gods who wants nothing"
Leave well enough alone, is a good
rule, but leave i'll alone is better.
The hardest thing in the world to
hold is an unruly tongue.
Where others see a sun the Chris
tian sees Deity.
The heavens declare the glory of
God, and the armament shoWeth
His handiwork.
1t is the slipperiness of our hearts
that causes so many slips in our
lives.
Peter remembered the word of
Jesus, and went out and wept bit
terly.
We never lose our hearts till they
have first lost the efficacious and
powerful expression of Gods Word.
A man shall not be established by
wickedness; but the root of the
righteous shall not be moved.
The light of the righteous reioic-
eth; but the lamp Of the wicked
Hope deferred maketh the heart
sick; but when the desire cometh it
is tree of life.
The hoary head is a crown of glo-
ry if it be found in the way of
righteousness.
He that is slow to anger is better
than the mighty; and he that ruleth
his spirit than he that taketh city.
Many man praises and censures
so family that he has no enemies but
his friends.
Some person describes a philan-
thropist as n man who loves all man
kind and neglects his own family.
Hasty and unkind words are the
cause of more than half the unhap-
piness of the world.
Success in life does not consist in
never making a blunder, but in new
er repeating the same blunder.
Every word of God is pure; He is
a shield to them that put their trust
in Him.
Breathing is essential to living,
and prayer, says Nevins, is the
Christians vital breath.
Can a man be said to walk with
God, who never converses with
Him?
Jay says: "a family without
prayer is like a house without a
roof.
Correct ideas of God and of our
selves, are the beginnings of all NOR
al improvement.
The duration we can calculate il
not eternity; the being we can grasp
cannot possibly be infinite.
Christians are sometimes called to
walk in darkness; but though they
may not see God in the way, they
viii surely find him in the end.
Jean Paul says: "Men are often
treated like barrels, the empty ones
are made to stand up while the full
ones are laid down.
Flattery, the current commodity
of this world, on which fashion
lives and thrives, is at most q lie il
its best clothes.
AS no roads are rougher thar
those just mended, so no sinners are
so intolerant as those that have just
turned saints
The sleep of the just is thus de.
scribed b a sacred poet:
ASLEEP in Jesusl blessed sleep,
From which none ever wake to weep"
When the righteous are in author.
ity the people rejoice; but when the
wicked beareth rule the people
mourn.
Open air and cold water are rec
commended by a celebrated physician
as the best cosmetics for the com
plexion.
Give your children a good educa
ton that their lives may be useful
teach them religion that their deaths
may be happy.
The man who cultivates the habit
ual impression of the Divine pres
ence, lives in an atmosphere pecu
liarly his own.
One of the best rules of converse
tion is never to say thing which
any of the company can reasonably
wish we had left unsaid.
"Man's extremity is Gods oppcr
,tunity,p is thus stated in a different
form-"Man begins with God wheI
he gets to the end of himself"
One of the most important anC
most sacred duties committed to hu
man hands, is the training of chill
dTen.
He whose wishes respecting tn,
possessions of this world are tn,
most reasonable and bounded, il
likely to lead the safest, and for tina
reason, the most desirable life.
Bulwer says: ''In science read by
preference the newest books; in lit
erature the oldest. The classic lit
erature is always modern. New
hooks revive and re-decorate ole
ideas; old books suggest and invigo
rate new ideas.
The blossom cannot tell what be
comes of its odor, and no man car
tell what becomes of his influenced
and example, that roll away from
him. and 60 beyond his ken en- thei
perilous mission. Only be sure tina
YOUR influence and example ar,
sanctified by prevailing prayer anC