The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-02-17
MISCELLANEOUS.

Be noble and the nobleness that lies
in other men, sleeping, but never dead,
will arise in majesty to meet thine OWL
| Truth is an immortal hower-a thing
that has nothing to fear from circum-
stances-a post where danger has no
power.
think we cannot too strongly attack
superstition, which is the disturber of
society, nor too highly respect genuine
religion, which is the support of it.
To be amended by little cross, afraid
of little sin, and affected by little
mercy, is good evidence of grace in the
soul
Scoff not at the natural defects of any
which are not in their power to amend.
Oh tbs cruelty to beat cripple with
his own clutches.
I think the first virtue is to restrain
the tongue he approaches nearest to
the gods who, knows how to be silent
even though he is in the right.
| An old farmer said of his clergyman,
whose sermons lacked point, "Ah, yes,
he's a good man, but he will rake with
the teeth upward
Life is short day but it is a work
ingday. Activity may lead to evil but
inactivity cannot be led to good.
The wicked are not always SO happy,
nor the good SO unhappy, as is imagin-
ed and vice is, nine times out of ten it's
own punishment.
He that does good to another man,
does also good to himself not only in
the consequences but in the very act of
doing it /; for the consciousness of we'll
doing is an ample reward.
Public opinion is the worlds law, but
the church's idol. It is that line on the
moral thermon eter above which the
Christian should never sink.
Honest and courageous people have
very little to say either about courage or
honesty. The sun has no need to boast
of his brightness, nor the moon of her
effulgence.
She had other sorrows besides her own
to comfort, and such work does a body
more good than foods of regretful tesrs.
or hours of lamentation
Our principles are the springs of our
actions; our actions the springs of our
happiness or misery. Too much care,
therefore, cannot be taken in forming
our principles.
In their intercourse with the world,
people should not take words as SO much
genuine coin or standard metal, but
merely as counters that people play with.
No Christening for the present seemeth
to be joyous, but grievous nevertheless
afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit
of Righteousness unto them which are
exercised thereby.
Work is the only universal currency
which God accepts A nations welfare
will depend on it's ability to master the
world that on power of work that on
its power Of thought.
protest against the unfair distribu-
ton of the worlds work, which can only
be done when every man and woman is
fitted TO work, left free to choose the
field iii which to work, and condemned
by public opinion ii they refuse to work.
After these two noble fruits of friend
ship, peace in the affections, and sup
port of the Judgment, followeth the fruit.
which IS, like the pomegranate full of
kernels. L mean aid and bearing part
in all actions and occasions.
Surely happiness is reflective, like the
light OF heaven and every countenance
bright with smiles, and glowing with in
nocent enjoyment, is mirror transmit
ting to others the rays of supreme and
ever shining beneyolence.
Divine wisdom, intending to detain us
some time on earth, has done well to
cover with veil the prospect of the life
to come for If our sight could clearly
distinguish the opposite bank, who would
remain on this tempestuous coast
These poor, restless hearts, how they
need keeping! Our desires and loves
and hates, how they RIM us wild at timesl
How these hearts swell almost to the
bursting The peace of God shall keep
them Shall keep them steady and true,
when temptations and troubles and be-
reavments seem bearing them away from
God.
In all Buddhist temples is a tall and
broad-leafed lily, which stands directly
on the front of the alter. Its idea is as
lis workmanship it represents that i15st