Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-04-20
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Ridicule is a better expedient

Ridicule is a better expedient
against love than sober advice.
None so high and glorious as
Christ, yet none so lowly.
Some are proud of what they are,
others of what they are not.
Pride is a sin that will rise out OF
the ashes of other sins.
Love the men of the world, but
not the things Of the world.
Take the candle of Gods word
and search the corners of your heart.
We speak to God in prayer; God
speaks to us in his word.
Too much thinking consumes the
spirits.
The blessing of God maketh rich,
and addeth no sorrow.
The more a man fears sin, the less
he will fear trouble.
As the first step heavenw ard is
humility, SO the first step hellward
is pride.
Pride counts the gospel foolish
mesa; but the gospel always shows
pride to be so.
the church cannot live without
faith, and faith cannot live without
promises.
Affections are not so much threat
ened as promised to the children of
God.
Train a child in the way he should
go; and when he is old he will not
depart from it.
Seneca says: A great, good, and
right mind is a kind of divinity
lodged in flesh.
If Christ humbled himself for our
nature, we should humble ourselves
to honor His name.
Nature made nothing in vain.
Wherever she has prepared a habi-
tation, she Immediately peoples it..
Affections are OF Gods sending,
but of sims deserving-sin is the
poison, affiiction is the physician.
Beecher says: God pardons like a
mother, who kisses the offences into
everlasting forgetfulness.
The word Of God must be nearer
to us than our friends, dearef TO us
than our liberty, aud pleasanter to
us than all earthly comforters.
Two things are to be trembled al
the presence of God which fills all
places, and the word of God which
reacheth TO all times.
Burns puts the duty of human
charity in its true light, thus:
Then gently scan your brother man,
More gently sister woman.
If we were as eloquent as angels
we should please some men, some
listening than by talking to them.
Gravity is described by a quaint
writer as ga mysterious carriage OF
tbs body to cover the defects of the
mind"
Blessed are they who do His com.
mandments, that they may have 3
q right to the tree of life, and enter
in through the gates into the city.
To be despised or blamed by an in.
competent judge may give Temporal
ry pain, bat ought not to make one
unhappy.
Neither all the devils in hell nor
all the temptations in the world can
hurt that man that keeps himself
humble and depending on Christ.
Youth will never live to age with.
out they keep themselves IN breath
with exercise, and in heart with
jOyfulness.
However many friends you have,
do not neglect yourself; though you
have a thousand, not one of them
will love you as you ought to love
yourself
He that would be devout, must
beware OF habit of wandering in
prayer; it is a crime that will grow
upon us, and deprive US of the hap.
piness we pray for.
Here is short sermon on human
charity, which sparkles, and will
sparkle in anybody's crown:
In men whom men condemn as III.
md as much OF goodness still;
In men whom men pronounce divine.
l md so much OF sin AID blot,
hesitate TO draw a line
OSeNSSh Inc Two, tchefS GOQ has not
All arguments against the word of
God are fallacies; all the conceits
against the word are decisions: an
derision against the word is follv
and all opposition against the word
is madness.
If this life is unhappy, it is a bur-
den difficult to bear; If it is in every
respect happy, it is dreadful TO be
deprived of it. So that in either
case we must exist in apprehension.
There is no fooling with lite when
it is once turned beyond forty. The
seeking of fortune then is but n des-
perate after game. 1t is a hundred
to one if a man fling two skies and
recover all.
A knave would rather ouarro,
with a brother knave than q fool
he would rather quarrel with boil
than an honest man. He can man
age fool; he can tempt knave
but an honest man is not to be brib-.
ed or bamboozIed.