Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-09
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Woman can do great deal for
each other If they would only stop
fearing what other people will think"
and take hearty interest in what ever
is going to fit their sisters and them
selves TO deserve TO enjoy the rights
God has given them,-J. L. AEioH
Sorrows may come upon us, friends
may torsake Us, and the world present
not one cheering ray yet viii our moth
er cling to us with love so abid-
ing that her loving words and cheering
tone loving words make US fofges the
worlds rude and bitter jests Never.
on this earth can we find a friend so
steadfast, or one in whom we can re-
pose such perfect confidence as cur
mother. How holy is mothers love!
Let the winds and the waves Of
adversity blow and dash around YOU, if
they will; but keep on the path of
rectltude, and you will be as firm as a
rock Plant yourself upon priacipie.
and bid defiance to misfortune. If
gossip, with her poisoned tongue, med
dies with your good name, heed her
fnot. Carry yourself erect let your
course be straightforward, and, by the
serenity of your countenance and the
purity of your life, give the lie to all
who would underrate and belittle YOU.
Work is of a religious nature /;
work is of brave nature, which it is
the aim of all religion to be- f'Alr
work ofmsn is as the swimmers" A
waste ocean threatens to devour him,
If he front it not bravely, it will keep
its word. BY ineessant, wise defiance
of it, lusty rebuke and buffet of it, be-
hold how it Loyalty supports him
bears him as its conqueror along ut
is so" says Goeth, with all things
that man undertakes in this world, ~
Carlyle.
In the Pyramids of Egypt some of
the stones were thirty feet long, and
weighed about ninety tons. And these
stone swere brought down the Nile dis
tance of five hundred miles, and then
placed in their present position, one
hundred feet above the level of the
ground. With regard to their finish,
these Syenite stones are the very hard
est known, and yet they are so e1quis-
itely polished and built in to (to form
| casing for the Kings chamber) with
such superior skill that the finest sheet
of tissue payer could not be inserted
between two of the stones and this af-,
ter lapse of many hundred years.
TO economic as much as possible
all the forces which make for improve
ment of mankind is one of the main
conditions upon which anything like
progress depends. 1t is melancholy,
as rule, in reading the life Of any
great man, to reflect how much more
might have been made. of him by judi
cious management. If he has been ed
ucated from the beginning in the
knowledge which is most needed if
he had found out his true vocation at
an earlier period; if he had not been
forced to throw away time and talent
on merely temporary aims, his success
might have been doubly or trebly re-
markable. 1t is only by the rarest
good fortune that the best material are
turned to the best possible account
and as rule, it seems that the greatest
statesman or the ablest writers have
left but fragments Of work to indicate
what they might have done under hap
pier conditions. --Saturdoy Review.
Some men toll and groan to be
orthodox-to have every point Of their
creed, and Of the creed of everybody
else, exactly sound and square. But
one single effort to get the truth is bet
ter than years Of such painful ortho-
doxy. One hearty, earnest, genuine
longing for light, and the struggle tow
ard it, one conscientious putting aside
of prejudice, party feeling, and pri-
vate interest, III order to correct our
possible errors, is valued DO doubt.
far more by God than by d Lazy assent
to a whole hushei Of propositions, be-
they ever so soaDd and true. Yes,
there is more faith in honest doubt
than ever 50 mUch eowardly and indo.-
lent aoqaiesence and In the day of
judgment, / ain sure there viii be many
a man who passed for az infdel here,
and was lashed by all tho orthodox
pnlpits, rastrams. and newspapers fos
bis heresies, who vii! shine forth in
Kingdom of the. Father F; for his soul
is white and uasgoted from the world
--Ctark.
R&AENs h.NR RELIGION -The New
York Independent has been examining
she brains of the country to. see what
sort of religion they have in them. It
finds the greatpreponderanoe thought
10 favor the Uniterian and Congregsr.
tional persuasians. Among the UB-.
itarian Hterati are classed Bryant, Geo.
William Cuts, DR.. Homes. Francis.
Parkman, Sumner. Motley. Bancroft.
Whipple, Howell. Mrs, Hunt, Mrs.
Spafford, Bret Harte, j. J Trowbridge
James Freeman Clarke, Edward f.,
Hale. Longfeilow. Lowell. Rayard
Taylor. The Congregatioaalists are,
DR., Holland, Lucy Larcom, Elizabeth
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