The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-01-13
SUNDAY SELECTIONS.


One-half of mankind are not born with
saddles on their backs. TO be ridden by the
other half
In weighing the characters of men we
must penetrate the envelope of afectation
and assumption which many hsbitually
wear.
Some men mourn that they have made and
broken 80 many resolutions. 1t is sad that
you have broken them, but thank God that
you made them.
The first step to misery Is to nOurish in
ourselves an affection for evil things. and
the hight of misfortune is to be able to in
dulge such affections.
Be always frank and true. Spurn every
sort of affectation and disguise. Have the
courage TO confess your own ignorance and
awkwsrtiness. Contide your faults aud fol-
lies to but few.
Master COville, of Danbury, once received
prize Friday afternoon for composition on
reverence, and further distinguished HIM
self in the evening. on the occasion of his
pastors visit. by shutting the tail of the
dominie's coat in the parlor door and inn
polling him to leave it there by introducing
pin in his chair. The pastor returned home
with cloud on his brow and one of Coville's
executing hOrnpipe in the woodshed under
the auspices of his father.
Among the most noticeable local religious
features OF the day, says the New York
Evening Post, Is the marked success of the
popular Sunday evening services now hold
ing at Cooper Institute under the auspices OF
the City Mission. The Rev. S. II. Tying, Jr.,
is the officiating clergyman. He delivers an
extemporaneous prayer and breaches, the
congregation, led by few volunteers, sing
ing the hymns. These services are intended
for the people generally, and are entirely
unsectarian in their character. DIR. Tyng's
sermons are printed and distributed to the
large congregation, which every Sunday is
increasing in numbers.
The hight of good fortune is to find and
keep our true pOise and sphere; and humil
ity, which we take to be spontaneity, a fine
sense OF reality. good understanding and
honest deal with nature. seem to be the best
guide and guaranty to the end desired. For
il does not set itself down and does not set
itself mp, but stands plainly, like every high
and heroic trait, for what it is. n true love-
illness is not so much in thought as in the
absence of thought, and the better self wins
its finest victories in our moods of oblivion.
The man absorbed in his true task, intent
only on serving, be bondsman or a king
y
ner Ellis.
Men are so inclined to content themselves
with what is commonest the spirit and the
senses 50 easily grow dead to the impress
sions ofth beautiful and perfect, that every
one should study by all methods to nourish
in his mind the faculty of feeling these
things. For no man can bear to be entirely
deprived of feeling such enjoyments; it is
0nlv harQuaa they not nap1 N
what Is excellent, that the generality of peo-
pie take delight in silly and insipid things,
provided they be new. For this reason one
ought, every day, at least, to hear a little
song, read good poem, see fine picture,
and, IL II were possible, to speak few rea-
sonable words.-Goetbe.
When the devil finds US in the wilderness
and ngle-handed meets Va, the devil alone
and we alone, be ia not much of devil, he
Is not haid to put to rout. But the great
temptation of the devil is wnen he is backed
by interest or fashion, and meets us, not
alone, but In the crowd. There is small cause
TO fear the devil when we meet him alone,
but the devil well attended by respectable
gentlemen-that Is the devil who is ALARM
ing. The devil who lies In ambush under
the counter, who skulks behind a bale of cot
ton, or rings money in your ear, or rustles
gay garrnents-that is the dangerous devil.
and fortunate is he who sees him fall as
lightning from heavens. Nay, that is the
kind that goeth not forth but by manly
prayer and by manly work.-Theodore Par
ker.
BEAUTIFUL BEHAvIoR.-Tf there is any
thing in which the beauty and the wisdom
of knowing when to leave off is manifested,
It is in behavior, and how rare Is beautiful
behavior, greatly by reason of the want OF
due proportion in the characters and objects
of most persons, and from their want of some
perception of the whole of things! Let any
man run over in his mind the circle Of his
friends and acqusintances and of those he
has become acquainted with in history and
biography, and he will own how few are or
have been persons of beautiful behavior OF
real great ness of mind. Observe the calm.
ness Of great men, noting by the way that
real greatness belongs to no station and nc
set OF circumstances. This calmness is the
cause Of their beautiful behavior. Vanity
injustice. intemperance, are all smallnesse<
arising from a blindness to proportion in the
vain, the unjust, the incorporate. whereas
no one hing. unless it be the love Of God
has such a continuous hold on a great Wins
IS to seem all in all to it.-Arthur Helps.