Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-23

object is the promotion Of true civiliza-
ton, and the overthrow Of barbarism.
1t confers certain wholcsomeness up
On all the operations of the mind, Civ
ing Us nature untramelled, because
guided by reason unpcrverteJ. 10
realize its benefits we must be honest,
brave, and generous. Honest III tho
pursuit of truth, brave in submitting
to the oft-time painful excision of cur
bigotcry, error and prejudice and gen
erous, for this is the bloom Of all the
rest--W d. Hoard
-God's way is different from mans
way, but it is always best. Take, for
instance, the composition of the Bible,
we would have said, "Let one man
write it. If you have twenty or thirty
men to write poem, or make a statute,
or write history, or make an argu-
ment, there Will be flaws and contra
dlctions. But God says LET not
one man do it, but forty men shall do
it." And they did, differing enough
to show there had been no collusion
between them, but not contradicting
each other Oh any important point,
while they all wrote from their own
standpoint and temperament so that
the matter-of fact man has his Moses;
the romantic nature his Ezekiel; the
epigrammatic his Solomon: the war
rior his Joshua: the sailor his Jonah
the loving his John; the log;can his
Paul. Instead Of this Bible, which
now L can lift in my hand-instead of
the Bible that the child can carry to
school this afternoon---instcad of the
little Bible the sailor can put in his
pocket when he goes to sea--if it had
been left to men to write, it would have
been thousand volumes, Judging from
the amount of ecclesiastical controver-
sy which has arisen. Gods way is
different from mans, bat it is best, in
tinitely best t.--Dewit Tutmadge.
The following eloquent passage is
from one of the Rev. J l.. Dudley re-
Gently published sermon
When man is fearful he don't want
to hear noise. The hush is what he
waits for, the mute lip, the softest
tones. Those gentlest, tenderest things
are the mightiest always, the diyinest.
Men can be graded as to their quality
by their scale. Those who babble
most about religion are not the greatest
possessors Of it. Those who are loud
est and make the most noise in the
world, are usually the most empty.
Tenderest intercourse with God does
not start the babble OF tongues. 1t
stills the tongue, and there is a trans
figuring of the great life within, SO
deep and so potent, that the spell be-
comes stiffness raspeakable There
are some states OF consciousness too
BIG, too great and grand, to even at
tempt the clothing Of themselves in
the garments Of speech. The better
you are, the less you will boast of it
the nobler you are, the more the world
will find it out, not by what you say,
but BY what you are The soft voices
are the greatest voices always, the
mightiest ones. Grayitation sits in
silence the moderator Of the universe;
the voice Of the stars is the orchestral
answer to God, their maker, praisinc
Him.
We read Reynolds in the artgall-
cry ; we read Lon3fellow by the sea
we read X. Marvel under the trees ;
we read the weekly paper on Saturday
night. When the week is past, and
We gather at the evening stanI, with
She world pat of, and oar slippers on,
give us a good family paper. It is
the hardest thing IN the world to make.
Family newspapers few years ago
were dolorou5 things. The world has
learned that thing is not necessarily
good because it is dry. There is no
Religion in chips. We never could
see any sanctity in hushs. The don
key has no hilarity in his voice. and no
nonsense in the tvitclr of his ears.
He never has known to dance. vet he
never gets higher than his feed box,
while The robin ard the lark, from the
tip OF Dill to tip Of claw. all life and
Joy and mcrriment with their wings
brush the door-atch Of heaven. [
will Ike it more ii ne editor dips his
pen in the dew, to tell me Of the morn
inc, and in ro5eate to describe the sun.
set, and into purple yats to suggest
the vineyards and if then he fastens
his sheets together with q blue band,
torn from the forehead Of heaven.
Give rs more spice in oar family paper.
Let the sheet be fresh ani healthy, in
II a smell Of cellar and new-eut grass.
Let liz hear III the rytiIs, oe some Of
tho sentences thH moan Of an untrayei-
L wool, and the sweep Of the wing
of a partridge. On Saturday night.
as We open the ftmi!y paper. let us
oasoa the odor Of pine, and the glance
Of an autumnal leaf dropping like the
spark from a forge. Our week S work
done, notes paid, accounts squared,
the hurry over, AMI The Sabhaah near,
speak YOU cheerful word to the des-
pondins, ohiding word to the wander
ing, soothing word to the perplexed;
and help the ten thousand of the
weary and the foot-sore, bv the still
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