The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1875-04-22
Golden Thoughts.

The thought of eternity consoles for
the shortness of flife-Malesherbes
Let me dream that love follows us to
the shore unknown.-Ms Hen,dns.
Pleasure is certainly made of fsomething
finite and something infinite meeting
together VN t' f''"
To be happy is the chiefest prize, to be
glorious the next lot; if man have
lighted on both and taken them to be
his, he hath attained unto the supreme
.crown.-Pinddr. ~ CO.. I-i'. -
The Spaniards have saying, Where
evil is, good is; and sickness is an occa-
sion to demonstrate its truth. Its
sweetness and consolation surpass all the
exhilaration, and joy of the most vigorous
health as much, says st. Augustine, as
The wisdom of Job in sickness exceeded
that of Adam in the strength and fresh
ness of youth wandering in the groves
Ages of Faith.
He that loses his 10 conscience has
nothing left. that is 1. worth keeping.
Therefore, be sure you look to that
And in the next place look to your
health; and, il. you have it,, praise God,
and value it next to good conscience;
for health is the second blessing that We
mortals are capable of, a blessing that
money cannot buy; therefore value 1t
and be thankful for it.-Isdak Walton.
9 How frequently is the honesty and in
tegrity of man disposed of at smile
or a shrug! How many good and
generous actions lave been sunk into
oblivion bya distrustful look, or stamped
with the imputation Ofproceeding from
bad motives, by mysterious and season.
able whisper !-Ste,ne. -.
When we look for the highest benefits
ofconversation, the Spartan rule of one
to one is usually enforced. Discourse,
when it rises highest and searches
deepest. when it lifts us into, that mood
out of which thoughts come that remain
as stars in our armament. is between
two. Nothing seems so cheap as the
benefit of conversation nothing is more
rare.-Emerson. az To- .ae0y .f,s
Do we, mad as we all are after riches,
hear often enough from the pulpit the
spirit of those words in which Dean
Swift, in his epitaph on the affluent and
profgate Colonel Chartre, announces the
small esteem of wealth in the eyes of
God, from the fact If his thus lavishing
III upon Gne InedIeSO anu iOWcoI VI uls
creatures p |Vhippte. s.r E..al afs
The real skeptics of the world are not
the men of new ideas, but the men who
are afraid of the new ideas, and retreat
into the old Enclosures when the voice of
Truth is calling them forth and the
majestic form of Duty beckons them
onward. What five have no geography
of the land of promise? Shall we shut
ourselves into the wilderness and nurse
our discontents? The divinest thing in
to-day is the Tomorrow she holds in her
womb.-Golien Age. .a.-.r
Christ dwindles into insignificance by
the side of spiritualist wonder-workers.
Jesus never rang bells or tipped tables
He never towsled" Nicodemus's hair
in the dark. He could not show material.
lied women and Indians to the Sanhe.
drim. He was never able to have
bells rung and fiddles played in the aiI
without apparent visible agency
He only wrought wonders to relieve dis.
tress as acts of overhowing beneficence
and he did manage to do good to some
people. Christian Union.