The Republican journal., 1876-06-29


Thomas Hood.
Affections are blessings to Us. when we can
bless God for Affections.
A single grateful thought towards heaven is
the most perfect prayer. Lessng
Morning by morning take two breakfasts, one
for the soul and one for the body, and YOU will
be fitted for duty.
BE what you are. Ape no greatness. BE
content to pass for what you are worth. A
good nickel is better than a counterfeit dollar
We feel oppressed when kindness after kind
ness Is poured upon us by man, and no oppor-
tun1tN presents Itself of rendering any return.
Would that we were equally moved by receiv-
ING benefits from God, and yielding him no to-
ken vi thanks. Maria Hare.
Frederick William Robertson's posthumous
volume contains this passage: lin he darkest
hour through which Il human soul can pass,
whatever else is doubtful this is at least GER
tain. If there be no God and no future state,
vet, even then, ii j. better to be generous than
selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, bet
Ter to be true than false, better TO be brave than
to be Il COW ard"
KNOW WHEN VOC ARE WELL OFF. You
are wei! OFT when you are in healthy neigh
borhood, with enough to eat and drink a COM
Portable, well-ventlated apartment to sleep in,
and you are paying all your expenses and lay
my up NplIcllllno-tNcH SloWlN-IUI /. RAINY
day, and, in addition TO all this, acquiring
knowledge and Strengthening your character.
Dung men whose situation combines all the
preceding advantages should be very cautious
about exchanging such certainty, unless it be
Tor another certainty. Happiness does not de-
pend upon great wealth so much as it does
upon Independence and intellectual and moral
culture.
II will not need, when the mind is prepared
for study, to search for objects. The inyariable
mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the
common. What is day? What is Il year?
What j. summer: What is woman? What is
a child: What is sleep: To our blindness,
these things seem unatccting. We make IA
bles TO hide the badness Of the fact and con-
form it, as we say, to the higher law of the
mind. But when the fact is seen under the
light Of an idea, the gaudy fable fades and
shrlyels. We behold the real higher law. 70
the wise, therefore, fact is true poetry, and
the most beautiful Of fables. These wonders
are brought to our own door. You also are IA
man. Man and woman, and their social life,
poverty, labor, sleep, fear, fortune, are known
to you. Learn that none Of these things is SUI
perfcial. but that each phenomenon haa its roots
m the faculties and affections of the mind.
Whilst the abstract question occupies your III
tellect, nature brings ii in the concrete to be
solved by your hands. 1t Were wise inquiry
Tor the closet, to compare, point by point, cs-
pecially at remarkable crises in life, our daily
history, with the rise and progress of ideas in
the mind.
SO shall we come to look at the world with
new eyes. 1t shall answer the endless inquiry
Of the intellect,-What is truth: and of the af-
fectlons,-W hat is good: by yielding itself pas
slyc to the educated VIII. Then shall come to
pass what my poet said; Mature is not fixed
but fluid. Spirit alters, mouIds, makes it. The
lmmobtlty or bfuteneSS Of nature, is the abb
scnce of spirit TO pure spirit, it is fluid, it is
Volatile ii is obedent. Every spirit builds it.
self q Ionsp. and hn,OpI r.
and beyond Its world, Il heaven. Know then,
that the world exists for you. For you is the
phenomenon perfect. What we are. that only
can We see. All that Adam had, all that Caesar
could, you have and can do. Adam called his
house, heaven and earth; Caesar called his
house, Rome; you perhaps call yours, cob
her's trade; hundred acres of ploughed
land; or scholars garnet. Yet line for line
ana point for point, your dominion is as great
as theirs, though without fine names. Build,
therefore, your own world. AS fast as YOU
conform your life to the pure idea in your
mnd, that VIII unfold its great proportions.
A correspondent revolution in things will at
tend the influx of the spirit. SO fast will dsa-
greeable appearances, swine, spiders, snakes,
pests, Warehouses;, prisons, enemies, vanish;
they are temporary and shall be no more seen.
The sordor and filths of nature, the sun shall
dry up, aud the wind eXhale. As when the
summer comes from the south; the snow
banks melt, and the face of the earth becomes
green before it, SO shall the advancing spirit
create its ornaments along its path, and carry
with it the beauty ii visits, and the song which
enchants it; it shall draw beautiful faces
warm heart, wise discourse, and heroic acts,
around its way, until evil is no more seer
The kingdom of man over nature, which COM
eth not with Observatlon,-a dominion such as
now is beyond his dream of God,-he shall en-
ter without more wonder than the blind man
teelswho is gradually restored to perfect sight
Emerson