The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-15
GOLDEN WORDS.

Testamentary charities are no better
than dead sacrifces.-[Sherlock.
In character, in manner, in style, in
all things, the supreme excellence is
simplicity.
A cunning man overreaches no one
half SO much as himself.IH. w.
Beecher. s,i.ass et ~ -r,'l
To triumph over our passions is of
all conquests the most glorious. u
True vivacity is always charming,
because it is always sincere. or
God is often pleased to embitter a
life of sense, that he may endear the
life OF faith. Sis. III sg .rsa,- ~ .srsl
Repentance is present duty
When your life is once gone it viii be
in vain to think of repenting. rag
God asks no man whether he will
accept life. That is not the question.
You must take it. The only choice is
how. .,~.. 80 /
An industrious and yirtuous educa-
ton of children is a better inheritance
for them thNa great estate.
Goldsmith says: people seldom
improve when they have no other mod
ell but themselves to copy after"
A man of genius is inexhaustible
only in proportion as he is always
nourishing his genius. Both in mind
and body, where nourishment ceases
vitality fails Bulwer. ,r, a,is,i,.5 |
A man has no more right to, say an
uncivil thing than to act one; no more
right to say rude thing to another,
than to knock him wn.-[Johnson.
God writes for the few, lessons Of
beauty in the Clouds, but they are
translated for the masses by the rain.
drops into better understood lessons
of utility. ,,.7EasfH sssL
Morality without religion is only a
kind of dead-reckoning AN endeavor
to find our place on a cloudy sea by
measuring the distance we have run,
but without any observation of the
heavenly bodies.-[Longfellow. oiI5a
Faith never appears to be grace till
sin appears to be sin. The deeper our
sense of the evil of sin is, the deeper
our apprehension of the free grace OF
God in Christ will BEL Fiavel. ai (
AS snow is of itself cold, yet warns
and refreshes the earth, SO Affections,
though in themselves grievous, yet
keep the soul of the Christian warm,
and make it fruitful.
Let him who expects one class of So
ciety to prosper in the highest degree,
while the other is in distress, try
whether one side of his face can smile
while the other is pinched.
You have only one life on earth, and
oh, how short that may be! Waste
not an hour. Spend none of its mo-
ments in wantonness or in selishness,
but let the whole of your strength,
during the few years of your pilgrim
age, be given up to your Lord.
AS the sun ripens and sweetens
fruit by shining upon them, without
which they would be sour and I'M
savory; so it is the sunshine of Gods
love and favor that sweetens all
earthly blessings, without which they
would be but crosses and curses to
them that profess them. .-.tr.
1t is the slipperiness of our hearts
that causes SO many slips in our lives.
Conscience cannot be urged or awed
with forgotten truth; but keep it in
the heart and it will keep both heart
and life upright. 1.-THE law of his
God is in his heart; none of his
steps shall slide" Or. if they do, the
Word will recover the straying heart
again: "Peter remembered the word
of Jesus, and he went out and wept
bitterly" We never lose our hearts
till they have first lost the effica-
ciOus and powerful expressions of the
Word. r- at.9FF7 inzEf