Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-07


fer for the sake of the truth.
The Congregationalia explains
what it means by "hghtning-bug piety, !"
Bright while it lasts, but cold, and
soon out.
The Christian who puts off relig-
ion because he is in worldly company
is like man that pulls off his shoes
because he is among thorns.
Men have failed in all ages and
under all religions, and continue to fail.
Every man is an Adam over again !;
not because Adam was his master, but
because he is a man.
The number of church edifces in
this country in 1879 was 63,0S3,
against 3S,061 in 1850, which is an in
crease of about IS per cent, in twenty
years.
Henry Ward Beecher, it is said,
merely thinks over his sermons before
going upon the platform. Sometimes
he speaks entirely extemporaueously,
and those unprecedented efforts are
sometimes thought his best.
Whenever, 0 soul, you sit in dis
aster--sit in tears; whenever you feel
broken with the weight of things, un-
derstand you are sitting at the feet of
wisdom. Failures are teachers; and
by the light of their wisdom you re-il-
lumine your torch.
The majority of people who come
to church want simple, direct, Gospel
preaching. This is true of men of
high or low estate. They want what
comes home to their business and bo-
SONS, what addresses their hearts rath-
er than their heads. They are heart
hungry for Gods pure Word.
What a spur to effort is the con-
fiding love of true-hearted woman
That last fond look Of hers, hopeful,
and encouraging, has more power with
in it to nerve your soul to high deeds,
than all the admonitions of all your
tutors. Your heart, beating with
large hope, quickens the flow upon the
brain and you make wild rows to win
greatness. But alas, this is a great
world--very full, and very rough.
The great man is he who hath
nothing to fear and nothing to hope
from another. 1t is he who, while he
demonstrates the iniquity of the laws,
and is able to correct them, obeys them
peaceably. 1t is he who looks on the
ambitious both as weak and fraudulent
1t is he who hath no disposition or oc-
casion for any kind of deceit, no rea-
son for being or for appearing different
from what he is. 1t is he who can call
together the most select company when
it pleases him.
In the worlds affairs there is no
design so great or good but it will take
twenty wise men to help it forward a
few inches, and single fool can stop
it there is no evil SO great or so ter
rible but that, after a multitude OF
counsellors have taken means to avert
it, single fool will bring it down.
Pestilence, famine, and the sword, are
given into the hand of the giant and
if he were fairly set forth in the right
motley, the web of it should be sack
cloth and sable; the bells on his cap,
passing bells; his badge, bear robbed
of her whelps, and his bauble, a
sexton's spade.
The damps of autumn sink into
the leaves and prepare them for the
necessity of their fall: and thus, in
seusibly are we, as years close round us,
detached from our tenacity of life by
gentle pressure of recorded sorrows.
When the graceful dance and its ami
mating music are over, and the clap
ping of hands Csc lately linked) hath
ceased: when youth, comeliness, and
pleasantly are departed,
Who would desire to spend the following day
Among the extinguished lamp, the fadeI
wreaths.
The dust and desolation left behind?
But whether we desire it or not, we
must submit. He who hath appointed
our days, hath placed their contents
within them, and our efforts can nelth-
er cast them out nor change their quail
ity.
We regard the woman's temper
ance movement as the most signal
event of the age, next after the great
uprising against American slavery.
And it seeks the overthrow OF vastly
greater evil than did the latter. The
bondment of the South might be the
Lords free-men, but the rum power