Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-04-13
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The counsel of the wicked is de-
eeit.
Adversely borrows its sharpest
sting from our Impotence.
There are calumnies az tinst which
even innocence loses courage.
Goodness is the greatest wisdom,
and impiety the greatest of follies.
lie who knows not his Maker can
not know himself.
He who has the least wisdom has
most vanity.
The best earthly acquisition Is a
true friend.
De sincere, though your sincerity
should cost you your life.
The spirit of God viii not dwell
i'll divided heart.
Quiet is the element of wisdom;
the calmest man is the wisest.
Let your hope enter within the
veil in the full and delightful antici-
patton of your speedy admission.
Manifest a respect, high, constant,
and universal, to the commandments
of God.
Affections are Gods most aflectu-
nj means to keep US from losing our
way to our heavenly rest.
Each man can judge of other men
only III the light and with the aid of
the data he carries in himself.
Victor Hugo says-Our acts make
or mar us; we are the children of
our own deeds.
There is a long and wearisome
step between admiration and imita-
ton.
Goeth says: Age makes us not
childish, as some say-it finds us still
true children.
Beecher says: 1t is the end of art
to inoculate men with love of ma
ture.
The rich ruleth over the poor, and
the borrower is a servant to the
lender.
Christ must needs have died how
else could sin be expiated, the law
satisfied, the devil conquered, and
man saved?
No man-says La Rochefoucauld
deserves to be praised for his
goodness, unless he has strength of
character to be wicked. 800
tits liability to error, and the ex-
perience of error, that furnish to hu-
man nature the topics of dicipline
and the means of growth.
1t is not disgraceful to any one
who is poor to confess his poverty /:
but the not exerting ones self to es-
cape poverty is disgraeeful.
The orphan is not the person who
has lost his father, but he who has
neither wisdom nor a good eduea-
ton.
Wisdom must be of very great adj
vantage TO its possessor seeing it
is of so great value as not to be pur-
chased by money.
Though the word and Spirit do the
main work, yet suffering so unbolts
the door of the heart, that the
world hath easier entrance.
Those who are of most precious ac-
count with God, and highly favored
by him; are usually exercised with
sharp Affections.
Never dare so where YOU have
reason to question whether God
will 90 with you; christian should
never willingly be where there is no
room for his Savior.
Do not 20 grumbling about the
demands of the law, since il for
bids nothing that will bless YOU,
and claims no act on your part that
can be an injury.
Burke says: Virtue will catch as
wells as vice, by contact; and the
public stock of honesty and manly
principle will daily accumulate
thereby.
Every requirement of God is j
golden chain of love let down from
Heaven to draw our souls from the
miasmas and fogs, the filth and mis-
cry of this lower world. to all thSi
is good and beautiful above.
Spurgeon says-When a thief can.
not break in at the door himself, he
finds a child, and puts him through
the little window, and then the great
door is speedily opened. Thus dc
little sins open the door for great
sins.
1t is essential to our growth as
individuals and as society, that we
should not have certainty thai
faith should be elective, and not thC
inevitable result of evidence acting
with mechanical compulsion on the
mind.
1t is impossible that severe pang:
Id not be involved when con.
nee sternly orders a sensitive
clinging soul to renounce prev,
creeds, to cast off current pre-.
ces and usages, to leave popular
IL, estranged, behind, and accept
ly revealed and prosecuted
h with austere duties.
is an affecting popularity OF
that he shrinks with strong an.
Ithy from the thought of DIVING
ne or among strangers. Man,
IN a few abnormal exceptions
yer wishes to die without some
near to count his signs, watch
ebbing moments, and mark hi:
t gasp.