Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-09-13
Oriental Pearls.

MUMMY bOHo DSAOAO w.
Begin with modesty, if you would
end with honor.
Water is natures tonic, and nee
essary for good health.
Never do evil that good may come
of 1T.
Ridicule is q better expedient g.
gainst love than sober advice.
Pride is a sin that will rice out
of the ashes of other sins.
Too much thinking consumes the
spirits.
The blessing of God maketh rich,
and addeth no sorrow.
The more a man fears sin, the
less will he fear trouble.
Friendship is love without its
flowers or veil.
Pythagoras says: No man is free
who cannot command himself.
He that lives alone, lives in dan
ger; society avoids many dangers.
Rochefoucauld says: The virtues
are lost in selfinterest, as the riv-
ers in the sea.
The more man denies HIMSELF
for God, the more he shall obtain
from Him.
The Duke of Wellington said:-
Educate men without religion, and
you but make them clever devils.
Some persons are proud of what
they are, others of what they are
not.
Christians are permitted to love
the men of the world, but not the
things of the world.
We speak 10 God in prayer; God
speaks to US in his word and by his
Providence.
Pride counts the gospel foolish
ness; but the gospel always shows
pride to be so.
One of the lessons woman most
rarely learns is never to talk to an
angry or drunken man.
The only effectual knowledge of
God is the private experience OF
the individual soul.
The truth seeking spirit, and the
spirit of faith, instead of being OPP
posed, are in the deepest harmony.
Faith is false to itself when it
breads truth; and the desire for
truth is prompted by an inner voice
of faith.
Friendship closes its eyes rather
than see the moon eclipsed, while
malice denies that it was ever at
its full.
The man whose faith is most pro-
found is willing to have it's asser-
tions tested by the severest scru-
tiny.
Take the candle of Gods word
and search the corner of your heart,
and see if there are any evil ways
in you.
Frankness speaks OF the present
as if they were absent, and kind
ness of the absent as if they were
present.
Thought means life, since those
who do not think, do not live in any
high sense. Thinking makes the
man or woman.
Be willing to want what God is
not willing to give. Contentment
without the world is better than the
world without contentment.
No doctrine is good for anything
that. does not leave behind it an
ethereal furrow, ready fer the plan
ting of seed which shall bear abun.
dant harvest.
The passion for truth has under
lying it q profound conviction that
what is real Is best; that when we
get to the heart of things we shall
find there what we most need.
One of the saddest thoughts that
come to US in life is the thought
that in this bright, beautiful, Joy
Gus world of ours, there are so
many Swallowed lives.
Learning, like money, may be of
SO base coin as to be utterly void
of use; or, if sterling, may require
good management to make 1T serve
the purposes of sense or happiness.
Unhappy marriage Is the quint-
essence of human bondage. 1t
wounds daily our fondest and sweet
est impulses; it trihes with and bu.
ries our hottest and dearest affec-
tions, and writes over the tomb
thereof-"No hope"
Great and awful judgments were
inflicted at the opening of the Cos
pei, on Annannias and Sapphire,
Elymas, &c, with a view no doubt,
to give the impression that the
Gospel was not intended as truce
10 sin.
What is time? "a fragment of
eternity cut off at both ends" To
us it has been reckoned as years,
but soon it will be by months, then
by weeks, then by days, hours and
minutes, and finally by seconds, and
then shall come the closing scenes,
and time shall be no more to us for.
ever.
1t is a very serious thing to die,
but is a much more serious thing to
live. Death is but a single event,
life is q series of events. Death can
make no change in our character;
life makes or unmakes us forever.
Beath is only serious because it is
follewed by eternity; life is serious
because it decides whether our eter-
nifty shall be ono of happiness or
wee.