Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-02-03


The grand essentials to happiness
are something to do, something TO
love, and something to hope for.
To every praying man Jesus says,
according TO your faith be it unto
you"
No man in the possession of his
mental faculties, is too small, too
feeble or too poor to be of service to
his fellow-man, if he has the will.
1t is a notifying reflection for
any man to consider what he has
done, compared to what he might
have done.
Truth is immortal; the sword
cannot pierce it, fire cannot consume
il, prisons cannot incarcerate it,
famine cannot starve it.
lie that is taught to live on little
owes more to his fathers wisdom
than he that has \ great deal left
does to his fathers care.
Birth into this life was the death
of the embryo life that proceeded,
and the death of this will be birth
into some new mode of being.
The best humor is that which con-
tains the most humanity; that which
is favored throughout with tender
ness and kindness.
In youth, yea, in manhood, we
should cultivate mind and character
to the utmost, for VIC know not for
what end God may have destined US.
Men often attempt, by the light of
reason, to discover the mysteries of
eternity. They might as we'll hold
up a candle to see the stars.
In vain we drudge, in vain we fondly roam,
For true contsnt is only found at home;
In our own breasts the happy goddess lies,
And freely grants her favors TO the wise.
The universality of death is thus
poetized: There is no flock, however
watched and tended, but one dead
lamb is there.
Courage, when genuine, is never
cruel. 1t Is not fierce. II foresees
evil. Its trepidations come either
before or after danger.
Emerson says: Life is hardly re-
spectacle if it has no generous task;
no duties or affections that consti-
tute a necessity of existing. Every
mans task is his life preserver."
Genius in man to-day is individu-
alism of character and effort, the
power one here and there is seen to
have to light his own fire and drive
his own engine.
Only believe what God says of
faith, and you will own that faith is
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the most desirable thing in the
whole round of human acquisition.
To live in this high noon of the
nineteenth century is no trifle.
Every human being has mission to
fulfil, and ought to feel the necessity
for action.
The greatest of all injustice is
that which goes under the name of
law; and of all sorts of tyranny, the
forcing the letter of the law against
the equity, is the most insupporta-
BILE.
In the scriptures we arc told that
faith has subdued Kingdoms, remov-
ed mountains, wrought righteous
ness, obtained promises and posses
sion ofail things.
Refined homes are the end OF civ
ilization. The work of all races for
thousands of years is presented by
the difference between a wigwAm
and 4 lady's parlor. 1t has no bet
ter result to show.
The fact that the word worth,
when applied to character, means
moral worth, shows that though
men may be dazzled by intellectual
brilliancy, their real aspect cannot
be won without virtue.
We need to face the fact that
mans life consistent not in the abun-
dance of the things which he pos
sesscth, but in the ability to make
the best use of all things and this
ability faith supplies.
Edwards says: 'Most controver-
sizes would soon be ended if those
engaged in them would first accu-
rately define their terms, and then
rigIdly adhere to their definitions.
Ii is quite fashionable to drop now
and then little lump of piety into
personal conduct, but there is little
care To ''work il in" A life prop
erly seasoned with grace has uni
form flavor.
On earth we have nothing to do
with success or with results, but
only with being true and sincere; for
IL is sincerity and not success which
is the sweet SAVIOR before God.
revere a man who is great In af-
Fiction. Heaven seems TO havee- S
lectcd him, like second growth tim
Der, for g me important work. 1t is
not every one that can be trusted to
suffer greatly.
Reader, did you ever think of the
ten commandments as ten promises?
The grace to perform is implied. So
with the requirement Thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all thy
hesrt"-the ability to do it is pledg-
ed in the very demad.
Robt. Collier, who was for many
years "a preacher, but has been what
the world calls free thinker" for
~uJae time past, saws Of the Bible /:
This truth comes to my own soul
"a no other word ever does. The
life aud light of it seizes and holds
me as | am not held by any other
written word"
A man who had been a careful
reader of the Bible forty years, saws
To-day | feel the force of the Bible
truth rs / never did before. 1t is
perfectly ineXhaustable, full of fresh
surprises, and leads me captive with
far more wonderful master-hood
than il ever did"
A dying Christian being asked
what "persuasion" he was of. re-
piied: Il am persuaded that neither
. death, nor life, nor angels, nor prin-
cipaliiies nor power, nor things
present, nor things 10 conc, nor
height. nor depth, nor any other
creature, shall be able to separate
me from the love of God, which is
in Christ Jesus.