The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1873-04-25

: and reviling everything that He ha
created. Were you to tell poet tina
his poems are detestible. would h,
thank you for the compliment Th,
evil on which it behooves us to fix oul
eyes is that within ourselves, OF oul
own begetting the good, without
u G. Hare.
The mother of Lord Brougham was
most excellent and thrifty housewife
At one period she was much troubled
with a servant addicted to dish-break.
ing. who used to allege in extenuatior
of her fault, it was crackit afore. One
morning little. Harry tumbled down
stairs, when the fond mother, running
after him, exclaimed, Oh boy, have you
broke your head? No, ma, returned
young Brougham, springing to his feet,
it was crackit before.
NO mans spirit is hurt by doing
his duty. On the contrary, one good
action, one temptation, resisted and
overcome, one sacrifice of desire, of in
terest, purely for conscience sake, will
prove a cordial for weak and low spir-
its beyond what either indulgence or
diversion or company can do for them.
"A dissolute young French nobleman,
intent on insulting Dumas, said to
him : Your father was a mulatto, /
believe ?" Eyes sir" "And his moth
er was a black woman, was she not?"
" 1t is said so." "And her father was
an ape, as have heard ?" It is true,
sir my genealo2y begins where yours
ends
The longer I live the more certain
[ am that the great difference between
men, the great and insignificant, is en-
ergy, invincible determination, an hon
est purpose once fixed, and then victo-
ry. That quality will do anything that
can be done in the world, and no cir
Cumstances, no opportunity, will make
two legged creature man without it.
Kingsley says If you wish to be
miserable. you must think about your
self about what you want, what you
like, what respect people ought to pay
you, what people think of you; and
then to you nothing will be pure. You
will spoil everything you touch; you
will make sin and misery for yourself
out of everything God sends you; you
will be as wretched as you choose.
Devotion to the outward kills the
WulCn 10 R0u1uS,
as much as the unseen things which be-
long to the Christian life. 1t is as
deadly to imagination as it is to spirit
uality. It is as dest, lctive of the true
interests of humanit rs it was in old
time of the life OF Christ.-S. Il.
Brooke.
The contaminating effects of deeds
often lies less in the commission than
in the consequent adjustment of our de-
sires-the enlistment of our self-inter-
est on the side of falsity; as, on the
other hand, the purifying influence of
public confession springs from the fact
that by it the hope in lies is forever
swept away, and the soul RECEIVERS the
noble attitude of simplicity.-ROn1OtG.
There is nothing so true, 50 sim
cere, so downright and fortnight as
genius 1t is always truer than the
man himself is, greater than he. If
the man had been as mar
velous creature as the man that wrote
the plays, that genious SO comprehen-
sive in its intelligence, SO wise even in
it's play, that its clowns are moralists
and philosophers, SO penetrative that
single one of its phrases reveals to us
the secret of our own character, would
his contemporaries have left us SO
without record of him as they
have done, distinguishing him in no
wise from his fellow-players Flames
Russell LO1CeH. -- 2 -z~ O.. III.