Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-09
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turn, Is to blind yourself to the realities
OF the present, and fits YOU for pothiriG
but helpless wanderer in the future.
Look ahead IF you have seen trou-
bic, turn your back upon it. and press
forward, determined to deserve success.
Some people never recover from mis-
fortune Once down, they remain
down forever. They make no effort to
get up. They prefer to keep down,
and appear to enjoy secret satisfaction
In telling others what they have been.
and what they might have been had
good fortune continued to smile upon
| them. Others shake off trouble as
duck would the water 1t makes no
other impression upon them than to
make them trifle wiser. You can't
keep them down Knock them off
their feet, and they are up in twinkle,
and 90 ahead as bravelv Is if nothnr
had stopped them All they ask is
health and strength. Their courage is
equal to every emergency. Like the
blooded racer, though distanced at the
start, they never give up the race unit
the home stand is reached In a word,
they do their best under all circum-
stances, and in doing this, generally do
we'll enough. 1t is bad enough for an
old man, who has put forth his strength
and failed, to become discouraged, and
drift into the rushing current of fate
with 10 effort to stem 1t, but for
young man, or one in his prime, who
has brain and muscle in perfect order,
to give up, and drift with tide that
he could easily overcome is without
the shadow Of an excuse. What if
you have lost money or failed in bu.si-
ness? Can these trifing troubles ex-
cuse ldleness when extra exertion is
required Yesterday has fed from
your reach: to-day is yours to-mor-
row may be full Of sunshine to your
darkened hopes. Let the past 90;
rear tombstone over it if you please,
but cease to dwell over its grave. The
world is before you; ripened fields
await your labor; you may retrieve all,
and win even more than you had. The
little veXations of life are but the axe.
strokes that chip and deface the young
oak, but fail to retard its growth. Ma
ture heals the wound, and the young
tree grows to its full proportion SO
the vital element of mans life. if hope
remains uncrushed, will heal the wounds
Of the past, and out of the failure of
yesterday weave the glorious triumph
OF to-day or tomorrow.
Sorrow is reigning on the throne
Of the universe, and the crown of all
crowns has been one Of thorns.
We sympathize with n4en, not ac-
cording to their suffering, but accord
ing to the measure of their danger,
Man blinded by his passions, treads
upon the borders of an abvss, but he
would not lead his child there.
"A little temptation may endanger
only little deceit, but what will be
done when there is a great temptation.
Man reverences less than woman,
therefore degenerates when she does
not influence his thoughts and emotions.
The bread of life is love; the salt
Of life is work; the sweetness of life IS
poetry; the water Of life is faith
Hrs. jameson
tod will not let any apparent evi,
come into your lives from which we
cannot wiring SOME good to ourselves or
to others.
There is no sin that we can be
tempted to commit. but we shall find a
greater satisfaction in resisting than in
committing.
file sun is not more obviously the
source of light than the Bible is the
source of divine knoledge.-Hodge.
-1ISU iiCIl ) Ou odCliHtC
desire to duty if they will. You have
time and eternity to rejoice in.-Theo-
dore ParEer.
Purity should be felt to be as nee
essary to the mind as health to the
body, and its absence alike the inevita-
bic source of pain.
Time past and present. The pres
ent is chained to the past, as the living
once were to the dead, put it will one
day be set free.
We know not how many humble
souls are born into purer life by the
keener consuming repentance Whlch
follows their transgresolons.
Some men mourn that TREY have
broken 50 many resolutions. 1t is sad
that YOU have broken them, but thank
God you made them.
God made man to GO by motives,
and he will not 90 without them any