The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-09-09
Gems of dbouebt.

The life free from care, and from any
bufetings of fortune, is dead sea-
Seneca.
Faith makes the diseords Of the pres
ent the harmonies of the future. .-Robt.
Collyer.
The narrow way of Life is broad en-
ough for men vlo carefully, gently,
evenly, walk in Il.
''All enduring success. says Ruskin,
arises from faith in human nature or
belief in Immortality"
Prudent men lock up their motives;
letting famihars have key to their
hearts, as to their gardens.
Happiness is ball after which We
run whenevr it roofs !, and we push it
with our feet when it stops
We mount to heaven mostly on, The
ruins of our cherished scheme finding
Qua failurs were successes. cs.--Alcoa.
A pound Of energy with an ounce Of
talent, viii achieve greater results then
3 pound of talent with an ounce Of en-
ergy
Tsc7r alzv.gi1 1-a--s--.-s ~sa.-~s----a-i:-4 H..
IN our heerte when we are surprised ,a
find our prayorp AA4rra-,.s, Hor;,
Hare.
The furnace Of af1iction is often the
means which heaven uses to purify the
soul from the dross of pride and SEN
suahty.
IT is a Characteristic of all truly up
ward paths, that, as we rise, the little
hills grow less and the high hills higher.
HRS GAcrtos.
For each one of us no business can
be Of more pressing moment, or more
urgent Importance, than the discovery
of our besetting sin.
If martyrdom is now ON the decline,
it is not because martyrs are less zeal
Gus, but because martyr-mongers are
more wise-Colton.
Every people, every race every nat
ton, creates or accepts the religious
ideal most in harmony with its political
and social tendencies. Caste
lar.
l can say, by some little experience,
more now than before of Christ to you.
| am still upon this, that if you seek,
there is a hoard hidden treasur, and
a gold mine in Christ you never yet saw.
He who can look up to his God with
the most believing confidence, is sure to
look most gently on his fellow men;
while he who shudders to lift his eye to
heaven often casts the haughtiest CLAN
ces on the things of earth.
applied to God. As schools change,
theology must necessarily chenge.
Truth is everlasting, but our ideas Of
truth are not. Theology is but our
ideas of the truth classified akd arrang-
ed.-Beccher.
Above all, let RE min. my own per-
sonal work; to keep myself pure and
jealous and believing; laboring to do
Gods will, yet not anxious that it
should be done by me rather than by
others, if God disapproves of my doing
it.-Tohmas arnold.
There is no need for the Almighty
to bare His arm and hurl us into the
fire. He has only to leave us alone
with our SINS, to draw the curtain be-
tween US and the world, and our pun
ishment must come with unerring GER
tainty.-Frances Po,ger Cobbe.
Let your first action be the lifting
up of your mind to Almighty God by
hearty prayer; then give yourselfto to be
merry; for you degenerate from your
Father if you find not yourself most
able in wit and body to do do anything
when you be most merry.-,Sfr Heney
Sidney.
The law of Christ, the law of the
cross, the law of divine love that cacri-
fees sci to bear brothers burden
this is Christianity between man and
man,-the best pledge of Christianity
between man and God. Hereby we
know that we are Of the truth, and shall
assure our hearts before him.
We have social strengths. Our af-
fection towards others creates sort of
advantage or purchase which nothing
will supply. I can do that by another
which | cannot do alone. can say to
you what / cannot first say to myself.
Other men are lenses through which We
read our own minds Emerson.
Job had the right experience to suf-
fer and to die by: Il know that my
Redeemer liveth." For this knowledge,
dying prince would give an impire.
All other knowledge to him seems
WORTHLESS. How careful should we be
while engaged in the busy pursuits OF
life, that VIC lose not this heartfelt wit
ness of our personal interest in Christ,
this lively evidence of our adoption into