Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-03-13

--DeatN VIII certainly come some
time. and it is better 80 be prepared to
die than to be young again.
-''Purity should be felt to be as
necessary to the mind as health to the
body, and its absence like the ineviasa-
bic source of pain.
People talk very loudly about the
waste Of lives in war; won
der to how many peopls it has occur
red what is waste Of Lves IN peace.
! doubt if the most sangaiaasy battle
that was ever fought in ancient or mol
erh history has carried off nearly as ma
ny human beings as die in England in
every ono year from purely rreventible
causes. Now, that is the state Of
things around US Of course We CAM
not change it in day, but we can mod
ify it.--Earl Of Derby,
We may rest perfectly sure, what
ever the progress of science, that there
is not anything that is in heaven above
or that is in the earth beneath, or ths.
is In the water under the earth which
can contradict the evidence that there
is something higher than the frms-
ment, and more stable than the solid
continents, and deeper than the un-
sounded depths of the ocean, the Law
above all laws, which shows our reason
what we ought to bc, and commands
our viii in the authoritative accents of
duty.-Dr Holmes Letter at the Tyn-
dali Banquet.
Go to church where YOU have the
best spiritual COIN panion hip GO where
you will be most pofted above all.
90 where you most desire to go; and
wherever you 90, stay. Some people
are like snails theT carry their spirit
usl home around with them on their
backs. You never see them twice in
the same church. They are religious
yagabonds, forever Oh the move and
without any fixed abode Nothing
short Of death in tn, family gives
them a pastoral connection. 1t is as
tonishing how many morihund parish
toner's the pastor Of city church can
haye.-Wuray.
-Elihu Burritt, in talking to son,s
persons. said: Boys, you have heard
of biacks,niths who became mayors and
magistrates Of towns, and of influence
What was the secret Of their success?
Whv, they picked up pins ana nails in
the street and carried them home IN
the pockets of their waistcoats Now,
you must pick up thoughts in the same
way, and Gil your mind with them
and they will grow into other thoughts,
almost while you are asleep The
world is full Of thoughts, and YOU will
find them strewed everywhere in your
path.
Oar training in the youth here is
only preparation for that conflict which
is to teach US the value Of suffering and
disappointment to lift the mine above
the concerns Of earth, to form the char
acter to make the man. It was never
designed that heaven should be filled
with babes. 1t is grande1 and nobler
sight to see the hero Of many wcll-con-
tested engagements stand conqueror at
the gate, with battered helm, and din
ted shield, ana well-hackeI swcrd, and
honorable scars, and to hear him say:
II have fought the good fight | have
finished my course have kept the
faith p " Robertson.
--"In lovcl;ness Of form Or of moral
character, or Of the lraserIal creation,
it is that which is most velcl which is
most beautiful. The mysteries Of the
hears anl of nature are the delight of
the intellect. the soll and the eyes.
1t seems as if the Creator htd drawn 1
shadow over whatever he has made
most delicate and most divine, to, by
its secrecy, heighten our aspirations af-
ter it, and to soften its luster from our
gaze, IN the same manner as he has
placed lids over our eyes to temper the
light when its impression is to great up
on them. Valleys are the mysteries cf
landscapes; the more We long to penc-
trate them the more thsy try to wind
and bury and hide themselves. Mist
is to mountains what illusion is to love
it elevates them. Mystery hovers
over everything here below and solemui-
zes all things to the eyes and to the
heart"
1t conduces much to our content
if We pass by those things which hap
pen to our trouble, and consider what
is pleasing and prosperous, that by the
representation Of the better the worse
may be blottei out. If [ be over
thrown in my sniJ at Law, yet nv
nouse is left ne still, ana my Land, or
I have virtuous wife, or hopeful
Children, Or kind frienls, or GOOD
hopes. If have lost one chill it may
be have two or three still left ne. En-
Joy the present, whatsoever it may be,
anl be not soiicitoas far the future
for if you take your foot from the pres
ent standing, AMI thrust it forward to-
wards tomorrow S event, you are in
restless condi ion; i. is ike refusing
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