Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1875-12-23

good word or do a good deed.
We hear the rain fail, but not the snow.
Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
The mere man of pleasure is an unsatis-
fed being, and miserable in his heart.
Mankind like and respect men Of decis-
MONEY is the bottomless sea, in which
honor, conscience and truth are often
drowned.
LEISURE for men of business, and BUSH
ness for men of leisure, would cure many
complaints.
Temptation rarely comes in working
hours. 1t is in their leisure time that men
are made or married.
Lost, yesterday, between sunrise and
sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty
diamond minutes. No reward is offered, as
they are gone forever.
Christ, when he blesses, blesses not in
word only, but III deed. The lips of truth
cannot promise more than the hands of love
will surely give.
The height of earthly promotion and
glory lifts us no whit nearer heaven. 1T is
easier to step there from the iowley vale Of
humiliation and sorrow.
Speaking truth is like writing fair, and
comes only by practice it is less a matter
of will than Of habit and | doubt if any
occasion can be trivial which permits the
practice and formation of such a habit
Ruskua.
The ways of the world are strange and
devious. Yet there is great good lin it, for
"a touch of misfortune maketh all mankind
kim" Many . man deeply engrossed in
business, hurrying along the pathway of life,
then aside for retrospections and kindly acts.
And these are the flowers he strews along
the pathway of his earthly existence.
Come quietly away with me, and we
will walk up and down the narrow path by
the sweetbrier hedge; and, as We listen to
the low song of the b~lackbird, the fresh air
will cool or aching brows, and we shall
find comfort. In these things, fresh air and
the birds song, and the fragrance of the
lovely flowers, God has given q blessing;
like sleep. they are His medieines-. balm
of sweet minds" We will walk to and fro
under the shade Of those elms, and we will
be calm bitter recollections shall be made
sweet by the thought of His mercies and,
in the midst of the sorrows we have in our
hearts. His comforts shall refresh our souls,
and orr minds shall be stored with many
thoughts, sweet like the perfume OF tho
flowers.
II recommend 10 sour, ascetic life. / be-
lieve not only in the thorns on the ~rosebush,
but in the rose which the thorns defend.
Aseeticism is the child of sensuality and SUI
perstition. She is the secret mothero Of many
a secret sin. God, when he made mans
body, did not give us a fiber too much nor a
passion too many. | would steal no violet
from the young malden's bosom; rather
would | fill her arms with more fragrant
roses. But a life merely of pleasure, or
chiefly of pleasure, is always a poor and
worthless life, not worth the living; always
unsatisfactory in its course, always miserar.
BILE in its end. Read the literature Of such
men, from Anacreon of old to Anacreon
Moore Of yur times, and it is the most unsat-
isfactory literature in the world. There is
the banquet, and the wine circles and flow
ers are gay but behind all these is the em-
blematic coffin, ana the skeleton stands there
to scare the man from his roses and cups.
No lamentations If Jeremiah are to- me go
sad as the literature of pleasure. It is well