Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-09-11
Our Free Lunch.

Our Free Lunch.
One may live as a conoueror or
king, or a magistrate, but he must die
a man. The bed of death brings
every human being to his pure ind,.
viduahty, to the intense contemplatio1
of that deepest and most solemn of all
relations, the relation between the crea
ture ard his Creator. Webster.
--Cheerfufness is an excellent wear
I ing quality 1t has been called the
bright weather of the heart. It gives
harmony to the soul, aud is perpetual
song without words. 1t is tanthhount
to repose. 1t enables nature to rteruit
its strength whereas worry and dis
content debilitates 1t, involving Con-
| slant wear and tear.
Avoid idleness, and fll up all The,
Spaces Of thy time with serene and
useful employment for lust easily
creeps in at those emptinesses where
the soul is unemployed, and the body
is at ease for no easy, healthful, idle
person was ever chaste if he could be
tempted but of all employment, bod
lily labor is the most useful. and of the
greatest benefit for driving sway the
devil. --Jeremy Taylor.
a. COLLEEN THoUGHT.-The man
who never failed is myth. Such q
one never lived and is never likely to:
All success IS series Of efforts; in
which, when closely viewed, are seed
more or less failures. The mountain
is apt to overshadow the hill, but the
hill is a reality nevertheless. If you
fail now and then, don't be discour-
aged. Bear in mind it's only the part
and experience of every successful man
and the most success men often have
the most failures.
Martin Luther gave some good ad-
vice to a preacher cf the gospel, which
is not altogether out of date ''Let all
thy sermons be Of the simplest. Look
not to the princes but to the simple,
unwise, rude and unleaIned people for
the prince is made of the same stuff.
If [, in my sermons, were to regard
Philip Melancthon and the other doc
tors | should do no good but l preaci.
in the simplest way to the unlearrted,
and that pleases all. I keep the He
brew and the Greek for the times when
we learned men are atone together.
Then we can talk such Grabbed stuff
they may we'll wonder at US in heavenJ."
The man who, after having cast
his care on Christ, goes to fretting and
worrying himself about anything or
anybody, is like one who having pur-
chased a through ticket from here to
anywhere, and receiving check for
his baggage, gets out Of the car at the
end of mile or two, and shonldering
his trunk, starts TO 60 the rest Of the
way alone Christ never rolls back
upon US burdens that we lay on him !;
we take them back ourselves: What
is religion worth that will stay with q
man in tire sunshine, but clear cut m
storm? The Christian has a right;
and it is his duty, to be free from all
care and anxiety. Let him lie on the.
promises and be at rest ooh but"
says the, worrying diciple, "the prom
ises are made to the righteous; and
am so full Of imperfections, l dare not
claim them. Well, brother, if you
wait for that righteousness which ia by
the law, yon'll never be able to rest on
the promises but if you trust in
Christ, that is counted to you for right
eousness; and your right to the COM
fort of the promises is as good as though
you were as holy as an angel. Christ's.
love sweeps away the unworthiness of
all who sincerely love Him. God has
undertaken for you; trust Him. though
ycu know rot where to get your next
supply Of bread d--BeecAcr.
During heavy storm off the cost
of Spain, dismantled merchant man
was observed dy a British frigate, drift
ing before the gale. Every eye and
glass were on her, and canvas shelter,
on a deck almost level with the, sea.
suggested the idea that there might be
life on board. With all his faults, no
man is more alive to humanity than
the rough and hardy mariner; and SO
the order instantFy y sounds to put the
ship about, and presently boat pulls
off with Instructions to bear down up
on the wreck. Away after that drift
ing hulk go these gallant men through
the swell Of & roaring sea they reach
it: they shout; and now a strange OBJ
iect rolls out of that canvas screen
against the lee shroud ola broken mast.
Hauled into boat, it proves to be the
trunk of a man, bent head and knees
together, so dried and shriveled as to
de hardly felt within the amble clothes.
and so light that mere boy lifted it
on board. It is laid upon the deck
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