Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-07-01
Thoughts For The Sabbath.


He that loves Christianity better
than truth will soon love his own sect
or party better than Christianity, and
will end by loving himself better than
all.-Coleridge.
The opportunity of making happy is
more scarce than we imagine the
punishment of missing it is, never to
meet with it again; and the use we
make of it leaves us an eternal senti
ment of satisfaction or repentance
RoussedU.
Discontents are sometimes the bet
ter part of our life. / know not well
which is the most useful; JOY | may
choose for pleasure, but adversitIes
are the best for profit; and sometimes
those do so far hel p me, as | should,
without them, want much of the JOY l
have. Felthan.
If we are faultless, we should not
be so much annoyed by the defects of
those with whom we associate. If we
were to acknowledge honestly that We
have not virtue enough to bear patient
ly with our neighbors' weaknesses, we
should show our own imperfection,
and thus alarm our vanity.-Fenelon.
Not alone to know but to act, &C
cording to thy knowledge is thy desti-
nation-proclaims the voice of my
inmost soul, not for indolent contem-
plation and study for thyself, rot foI
brooding over emotions of piety for
action was existence given thee; thy
actions, and thy actions alone, deter
mine thy worth. .-Fichte.
There is third silent party to al
our bargains. The nature and soal Of
things takes on itself the guaranty o1
the fulfllment of every contract, sc
that honest service cannot come te
loss. IF you serve an ungrateful mas
ter, serve him the more. Put God il
your debt. Every stroke shall be re-
paid. The longer the payment Ii
withholden, the better for you, fol
compound interest on compound inter
est is the rate of this exchequer.-
Emerson.
t The brave only know how to forgive
5 it is the most refined and genreous pltcf
of virtue human nature can arrive at
Cowards have done good and kind ac
tions-cowards have fought, nay ever
: sometimes conquered; but a coward
: never forgave. 1t is not in his nature
5 the power of dong it flows only from
I strength and greatness of soul, con.
D scious Of it's own force and security
and above the the little temptations Of
' resenting every fruitless attempt to in
terrupt its happiness.-Sterne.
The worship of ideal perfection
: homage of superior excellence-cause
ing men to look up to Heavenly stand
ards of rectitude, to bend their head
before the majesty OF eternal law, tt
: think humbly of themselves in presence
S of unattained and for the momen,
P unattainable goodness, to hold in view
the vision of moral grandeur 81
e bright that men have in all ages beer
e constrained to place it in the skies an(
: call it the glorious presence of God =
i this sentiment has been considered indis
: pensable to truly and genuinely homes
n and loving living. 1t is less indispen
$ sable than formerly, when the externa
J world is so imperious in it's claims, AM
the solicitations of the senses are in
s cessant, and the prizes that wealth ant
J.. fashion and place and opportunit.
II hold forth are SO dazzling and so nu
a merous? Rather, we should say, nov
n more than ever, is this tender, iowly
/ thoughtful and seeking spirit needed
to give tone and color and fragrance t.
e the dry and dusty duties of our days
), We can afford to forget that reverenc
n has been, in times past, the parent 0
e grotesque and malignant superstitions
$ and can afford to remember that to i
was due much of the ''most beautiful
n character of the past, so distrustful @
/ self, and so trustful of others, so ricl
e in self-denial and modesty, so simple
o so earnest and so devout, which ever
when, Ixion-like, it bestowed its affec
: tions on a cloud, made its very illusion
e the scource of some of the purest vir
a tues of our nature. 20. B. Froth
n iagham.
Strauss neglected in his work tn,
point that should have been most es
: sential-the origin Of Christianity, tn
a supreme and critical epoch in which
t the doctrine arose. Liberty and tn
n republic died in Rome The philoso
piers of Greece had been converted
with the Stoics, into practical moral
t lists. Jerusalem, which always en-
deavored to preserve its God apar
;, from the world, experienced the desire
$ of the Sadduces to give him in com
I munion to all nations and make hin
kown to all the world. The deserts
e were filed with saints, with asceticS
o and hermits, who clamorously demand
q ed the dew of Heaven for their desc
late. thirsting souls, In Egypt