Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1872-01-27
Orient Pearls at Random Strung.
Every light has its shadow.


Every light has its shadow.
Everything that makes up our |
captivity Christ has led captive.
Faith-undoubting Faiths I'M
clouded azure in lake of glass.
Honor the Lord with thy sub
stance, and verify thou shalt be fed.
Self-made men are very apt to
worship their maker.
Bear your misfortunes with forti-
tude.
Strongest minds are often those of
whom the world hears least.
There is no luck like pluck, and
fortune most favor those who are
most Indifferent to fortune.
Peace is love reposing; it is love
on the green pastures ; it is love be-
side the still waters.
knowledge, truth, love, beauty,
alone can give vitality to the me-
chanism Of existence.
Too many persons are far less
ashamed of having done wrong than
of being found out.
A lazy boy makes lazy man, just
as a crooked sapling makes crook
ed tree.
Nearly oil beginnings are difficult
and poor. At the opening of the
hunt the hound limps.
Sentiments OF friendship which
flow from the heart, cannot be froz-
en- by adversely.
Absence destroys small passions
aud increases great ones, as the wind
extinguishes tapers and kindles fires.
Eternity is a sea without bottom
or banks, for what line or plummet
can fathom its depths1
Heaven is described TO be "peace
without trouble ease without pain
glory without end"
The man who can be nothing but
serious, or nothing but merry, is but
half man.
Life alone can impart life; and
though we should burst, we can on
ly be valued as we make ourselves
valuable.
Love is that great calm which
comes over the conscience when it
sees the atonement sufficient and the
Savior willing.
Hurry and cunning are the two
apprentices of dispatch and skill !;
but neither of them ever learn their
masters trade.
Judge not according to outward
appearance. Often the best talent
is concealed in the most indifferent
dress:
1t is a fatal error, and one which
men are apt to commit, to suppose
that there is any other path Of safe
ty than that of duty.
The latter part of rich mans life
is taken up in cursing the follies,
prejudice and false impressions he
has contracted in the former.
Genius has an orbit Of its own if
it moved through the orbit of COM
mon-place lives, it would not be ge-
MUS, but commonplace.
God is not hard Master. He is a
Fnther-A tender, loving Father
easily pleased, IL he sees in us a de-
sire in all things to honor His name.
Eternity makes heaven to be heav-
en-. 1t is the. diamondsin the ring ;
for there the sunlight OF glory shall
rise on the soul, and never set.
The difference between the wick
ed and the Cody is described thus i:
"The wicked have a neVer-dying
worm, but the Cody nsver-fading
crown.
Eternity is circle that hath nei-
Their beginning nor end. 1t is the
highest link in the Saints happiness
"a lamp ever burning, never vast
ing.
Were there no glorious hopes of a
future beyond the grave, it would
be maddening thought that love
and death are as inseparable as sun
and shadow.
He that serves himself has a tyrant
for a master. Selfishness is imperi-
ously sxacting it gives no period
for rest, and no exertion gives salts
faction.
There are birds who only make a
noise at the approach of bad wealth
err; and there are persons who only
pour out q prayer when Gods chas-
tening hand is upon them.
Perfect love is described to be like
the soul which Christ has pacifed
spread out in serenity and simple
faith, and the. Lord God, merciful
and gracious, smiling over it.
II you know anything that viii
make q brothers heart glad, rur
quick and tell it; but il it ia some
thing that will cause sigh, bottle
il up.
Love is indefatigable; it never
wearies- Love is inexhaustable, il
blooms and buds again; and tn,
moro it is diffused, the more i
abounds.
Hope is the sweetest friend tina
ever kept distressed soul company
it beguiles the tediousness of til,
way-all the miseries of our pilgrim
age.
st. Augustine, being asked, "wha
is the first article in the Christian
religion 7" replied Humility
What the second 2" replied, I" Hu
mility." And what the third,
still replied, Humility"
Religion is the basis upon which
civil government rests-that from
which power derives its authority
law its efficacy, and both their sane
ton.
Marriage enlarges the scene @
happiness or misery; the marriag
of love is pleasant, the marriage O
interest is easy and a marrisg
where both meet is happy.
Truth gives a sense Of security t
the feeblest man, as lying does of in
ecurity to the strongest. The tru
man has but one answer to give /
interrogators, one story to tell them
nobody's face to fear.
% True piety," says a sensibl
writer, sis not a morose, but a cheer
full thing whilst it makes me JOY
full, it delivers me from frivolitY
yet II causes me to be pleasant an
glad. ga- o. -.
The power Of enjoying the harm
less and reasonable pleasures of lif
is not only essential to mans haI
piness, but an indication of sewers
valuable qualities both of the hea
and heart, which can hardly exit
without 1t.
Do you mean to live without tria
Then you would wish to die bJ
half man-at the very best, but ha
man. Without trial you cann<
guess at your own strength. Me
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