The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1873-12-11
Thoughts for Saturday Night.

you knew the hearts there.
Every man desires to live long but
no man would be old.
Philosophy is, to tell the truth, O
home-sickness, an effort to return home.
A man has generally the good or the
i'll qualities that he attributes to man.
kind.
The force of selfshness is as inevita-
BILE and as calculable as the force OF
gravitation.
If man cannot be Christian in the
place where he is, he cannot be q Chris.
tian anywhere.
Mohammed once said: "When O
man dies, men inquire what he has left
behind him angels inquire what he
has sent before him."
Influence good or bad, comes not
from the opinions man possesses, but
from the character he has formed, and
the life he leads.
A true man never frets about his
place in the world, but just slides into
it by the gravitation of his nature, and
swings there as easily as a star.
With many readers brilliancy of style
passes for affiuence of thought; they
mistake buttercups in the grass fol
immeasureable mines OF gold under.
ground.
Attraction acts on all and at all dis.
tances. To feel repulsion we must be
very near. 1t is petty and personal
feeling, or, at best, is the protest Of
natural afinities against unsought
proximity.
Has any one wronged you ? Be brave.
ly revenged; slight it, and the work is
begun forgive it, It's finished. He is
below himself who is not above an in.
jury.
Every thought and feeling is paint
ing stroke, in the darkness, of our like.
ness that is to be; and our whole life
is but a chamber, which we are fresco.
ing with colors that do not appear while
being laid on wet, but which will shine
forth afterwards, when finished and dry.
Working love is better than emotive
love. 1t is well to have both, but it is
not every one who has steam enough
to work the engine and blow the
whistle, too. There is q love that never
speaks /; 1t spends itself in work, like
sunlight sheddingits rays on the ground
and bringing up the beautiful flowers,
softly and quietly. The practical life ]
accept.
The great ocean is in q constant state
of evaporation. 1t gives back what il
receives, and sends up it's waters in
mists TO CATER into clouds and so there
is rain on the fields and storm on the
mountains, and greenness and beauty
everywhere. But there are many mer
who do not believe in evaporation
They get all they can and keep all they
get, and so are not fertilizers, but only
A Question.
In Scotch country parish 6
church officer filled that Office and
that of grave-digger for the long space
of fifty years. Suspicion had long beer
entertained that he was in the habit o.
helping himself out of the collection
plate whenever opportunity permitted
1t was difficult, of course, to prove this
At last, however, the sum of one pound
was abstracted from missionary boz
which stood in the vestry, and ever.
thing combined to point out this MAI
as the culprit The elders told the min
lister that something must really be done
The minister said, "Leave him to me
and I'll see what can be done" TIL
following Sabbath, after the forenoon
service, the minister was taking off hi
gown and bands, and, being alone i
the vestry with the suspected man, h
thought the opportunity was too goo
to be lost, so he said, "Andrew, hav
you heard of the money that is missin
from the box ?" "Oh, ay," said Andrew
81 was hearing something about it.
"Andrew," continued the other, yer
gravely, "the matter lies between yo
and me. We are the only two who hay
access to the box. Either you or l mus
be the thief" "Deed, Sir" reioine
the imperturbable Andrew, "it's jul
as you say we're the only twa that hf
had access to the box, and 1 think I'll
best way II be for you to pay the tt
half and I lay the tither, and say nf
mair about it."