The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-12-21
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A4os SAfNoSS i~@At.~: ess't'b e~S~ :>>e o. ~~~
Whfohheol law didst first ordain. -
And d36t, eAftNE Careless Children NOPE,
Of. MOL -1e'Sf 'trahsient.. thonghts or
Forgetting each his orumbled hope :.
In brighter tints the morning wears
Forgetting" the Master. the Man OF
Cares.
The Master waiteth. Spring returns to
deck
The earth with ever-pleasing flowers;
And hope revives from winters wreck
And pleasure grows with length'ning
Oreatipn's marvel again renewed
Awakes inaman no nollark-sprung lays;
He sows With gsndging gratitude.
Yet Uohfn8 TIE, gain of harvest days.
Forgstting,the: Masters due of praise.
The daE;ssK MssEeK lGfltss.lh: Days and years
And aFnapgr1e 1bripgs'full returns;
Can trim the lamp that DINNER burns
One prayer my spirit breathes: Lett :
hence ititl Il
Ere age and peniry ingloom the way,
Come in, o lMastel! Blot my long
And show the path of perfect day
Thou art the path, Thou art the wayl
One Of the. I6harkas for which an ar,
tillery officer was recently cashiered, it
is stated. specified that on recent oo.
casion, he, entered store in Sitks,
Alaska, and seating himself on the floor
beside an indian sQuaw. .fook her pipe
and smoked it. Such conduct was con-
sidered s.unbecoming an officer and q
gentleman"
Hope writes the poetry of tho boy,
but memory thatof the man. Man looks
forward with smiles, but backward with
sighs. aqoh is, the wise providence of
God. sThe chbJok life is sweetest ut the
brirn. Jhe4 flavor is impaiIed5aSSwe drink
deeper, and the dregs ate made bitter
that We niay not struggle when it is
taken from our lips.
Trials are moral ballast, that often
prevent ,pGs capsizing. When we have
much to carry, heaven rarely fails to fit
the back to the burden; where We have
nothing to bear, We can seldom bear
ourselves. The burdened vessel may be
Glow in reaching tho distant port, but
the vessel without ballast Is in imminent
danger of not reaching it at all.
Kind words arc the bright flowers of
earth h'sS existence; they make very
paradise of the humblest homo the
world can show. Use them, and espe-
cially around the freside circle. They
are jewels beyond price, and make the
weighed down spirits moro glad than oil
other blessings the earth can give.
Since that young man in Missouri ac.
cidentally shot himself while on his way
to church, the other day, we have come
to the conclusion that that part of our
creed and confession OF faith which re-
quires us all to 60 to church with a
pocket full of pistols ought to be ubo-
lished.
a."Louis Irving, of st. Louis, blew his
brains ont. bacause certain young lady
would not marry him, and, after he was
laid away, his father eloped with the
same girl" The probability is that if
Louis brains had been worth blowing
out, he would have been happy with The
girl to-day.
DO not talk about yourself or your
family, to the exclusion Of other TOPICS.
what II yon are clever, and little more
so than other people. it may not be that
other folks will think so, whatever they
ought to do.
A German in Buffalo fell into vat of
beer, the other day, and was drowned.
He drank as hard ms he could to save
himself, and would have succeeded had
not floating cork chokcd him.
Diogoneze hunted in the day time
Tor an honest man, with lantern; if be
had lived in theze times, he would have
needed tho hedlight Of lokomotiff.
.This is the rock of ages" said The
father, rocking two hours, und the baby
atill awake.
They keep hacking away at the gam.
blers in New York. Many chips have
been secured.
The Comnercipi Advertiser thinks thai
the nineteenth wife must be- noo,
Ann-Ellza of Mormonism.
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