Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-05-24
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Hope is the pillar that holds up the
world.
Cheerfulness and festal spirit fills
the soul full of harmony and love.
A cheerful spirit is the best con-
voy for religion.
Never pick the lock where God
allows no key.
If thou art wise enough TO speak,
hold thy peace.
Watch over thy thoughts, alice
lions, words and actions.
Never insult misery, deride mfr
nifty, or despise deformity.
Let your pleasures be moderate.
seasonable, awful and becoming.
Honor thy father and mother with
reverence, obedience and gratitude.
A wounded conscience is able to
unparadise Paradise itself.
The African proverb hath it, that
at the bottom of patient hope, lies
heaven.
Strive to love and seek after that
which can never be sufficiently low
ed and sought.
Lord Greenville says no man was
ever so much deceived by another
as by himself.
1t is good in fever, and much bet
ter in anger, to have the tongue
kept clean and smooth
On Saturday night shut thy gates
against the world as Nehemiah did
those Of Jerusalem.
Be sheerfully serious, and seri-
ously cheerful. Let another's pas
sion be a lecture to thy reason.
Treachery is the most Hnpardona-
BILE of crimes; it saps the founda-
tions of society.
Sin is the hardest thing in nature
TO hide. God often detects il by
means we little dream OF; almost
anything but sin may be hid.
Gratitude does not depend on the
amount of mercies received, but on
the amount Of mercies known and
priced
The heart and root of sin is an in
pendent spirit. We erect the idol
self; and not wish others to wor-
ship, but worship il ourselves.
Take heaven and earth, and weigh
them; soul and body, and value
them; time and eternity, and COM
pare them.
In thy calling be diligent; the idle
person is the DEVILS hireling, whose
livery is rags; his diet, famine; his
wages, disgrace.
They are safest who are most in
their closets; who pray, not to be
seen Of men, but to DO heard of
God.
Do not dread possible worldly tri-
ais; perhaps they may never come,
and If they do, God viii strengthen
you.
A mind too active and vigorous
wears away the body, as the finest
jewels do soonest wear away their
settings.
Motives are better than actions
Men drift into crime. OF evil they
do more than they contemplate, and
of good they contemplate more than
they do.
Open the windows of your heart,
and let the sunshine Of cheerfulness
into the dark, unhealthy places you
have for years dampened with your
tears.
Our conversation ought to be
such that it may minister grace
that is, favor, completeness, cheer
fulness-and be acceptable and
pleasant to the hearer.
If thy prayers be not answered as
thou Wouldst have them, be thank
full that they are answered as thou
wouldst have them answered, in
the light Of eternity.
Death win open the eyes of the
soul, to see all things just as they
are in the sight of God, and Just as
they are described in his Word OF
ternal truth.
To grow rich, earn money fairly,
spend less than you earn, and hold
ON to the difference. The first takes
muscle, the second self-control, the
third brains.
We care not to be safe, but to be
secure; not to escape hell, but to
live pleasantly. We are not solicit
GUS of the event, but of the way
thither, and we are satisfied if we
think all is well.
When you cannot see how you
are to "get along" visit a few OF
your sick or poorer neighbors, and
then come back and try again. lift
does not seem to work we'll, repeat
the prescription, taking with you
some little delicacy or comfort.
Every mans absolute obligations
and duties increase in proportion
to his wisdom, power and wealth
ard all omissions in expressions OF
beneyolence are as criminal and in.
furious to tho world as fraud, theft,
or any other villiany.
Nature has her language, and she
is not unveracious; but we do not
know all the intricacies of her syn
tax just yet, and in hasty reading
we may happen to extract the very
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There is a sign of self-possessioI
which is just the sign that the last
hope has departed. Despair no
more leans on others than perfect
contentment, and in despair pride
ceases to be contracted by the sense
of dependence.
1t is a christian duty and priv.
lege to record our thoughts in affiic-
ton; to set up way marks; set up
our Bethels; erect our Ebenezers;
that we may recur to them in health
for then we are in other circumstan-
ces, and can never recover sick-bed
views.
Love thy neighbor for Gods sake,
and God for his own sake, who ere
ated all things for thy sake, and re.
deemed thee for his mercy's sake; il
thv love hath any other object, it is
false love; if thy object have any
other end, it is self love.
Moses rod was a serpent till he
took it by the tail, and then it be-
came what it was before; and if we
Law hold of things only by that end,
we should find many things that
seem terrible and noxious to be be-
nign and comforting.