The Republican journal., 1876-10-12
Jewels Of Thought and Devotion.


And some with thankful love are filled
If but one streak Of light
One ray of Gods good mercy gid
The darkness of their night
To be a mans own fool is bad cnough but
the vain man is eyerybody's. William Penn
Money and time are the heaviest burdens of
life, and the unhappic>t of all mortals are those
who have more of either than they know how
to use. johnson.
War and economy are things not easily rec
onciled and the attempt Of leaning toward par
smony in such state may be the worse econ
omy in the world Burke.
We call it our duty to leave to the world lis
gayety and its th0ughtlessnesS; but too often
we leave to it also its grace and genileuess and
courtesy and seli-controI. tIIetty Bowman.
Learn TO be pleased with everything; with
wealth, so far rs it makes us beneficial TO
others; for poverty. for not having much TO
care for. and with obscuritv, for not being en-
We'd. Plutarch.
The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffer-
ing trilles TO veX us. and in prudently cultivat-
ing our underground Of small pleasures. since
very few great ones, alas. are let on long
leases Sharp.
Every war involves a greater or less relapse
into barbarism War, indeed, in its details, is
the essence of inhumanty. 1t dehumanizes.
III may save Lnc state, Dul III destroys the clll-
zen. LBoove.
Were the superlutics of a nation valued and
made a perpetual tax on beneN olcnce there
would be more almshOuscs than poor. schools
than scholars, and enough TO spare for govern
ment besides. William Penn.
The little | have seen of the world teaches
me TO look upon the errors of others in sorrow.
not in anger. When | take up the history of
one heart that has snned and suffered, and re-
present to myself the struggle and temptation
it has passed through-the brief pulsatiors Of
joy, the feverish inquietude Of hope and fear
the pressure OF want, the Ieserion of friends
would tain leave the errng soul of my fellow
man with Him from whose hands it came.
tLongfellow.
A noblcman who died a few years since had
chest all locked up, but marked: ITO be re-
moved first i'll case OF fire. When be died. his
friends opened that chest, supposing, OF course,
that some valuabl lc document or deed OF prop
erty, rich jewelry, or costly plate would be
found in ii. But what did they find? They
found the toys Of his little child who had gone
before him. Richer to him were they than all
the worlds wealth, richer than his coronet;
brighter than all the jewels that sparkled on
his crest Not his Jewels, not his eq,lpage,
nothing glorious and great in this world; but
the dearest object TO him were the toys of his
little child.
| have no idea that he'll is popuous and
heaven scant i'll its inhabitants. No idea that
hell swarms and heaven is like Il city of empty
houses. While the Son of God is preparing
mansions" the Spirit of God is preparing
men and women to fill them. There is not Il
shadow of evidence in the Bible or IN the Ma
tnre of things, that Goa is to suffer a gigantic
defeat, and Satan to win a stupendous victory
III reference to our race. Such suggestion
strikes at the root of our faith in God. 1t
places The control and mastery of The universe
in the wrong hands. 1t accomplishes in the
ory what Satan strove in his rebellion to ac-
compllsh in fact-Wrench the scepter of domin-
ion from the hands of infinite benev olence and
place it in the hands of what would thus be
made infinite haste. Such theory of terminal
results touching the redemption of man runs
perilously near the dethronement of God as the
supreme power, and placing him, as contrasted
with Satan, in the minority both rs regards
numbers of adherents and the measure of in
nate capacity. [Rev. w. IL. II. Murray.
THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF TIE
Cross. The truth is, that there is no cross
to the soul that has gained seI-conquest. Life
Itself has no burdens; care falls from you, and
death becomes the gateway of matchIess lIte
What was the cross to the Son of man, whose
inward eyes could see into Paradise? What
was death to the saint and martyr who above
flame and the sacriticial pile could see angels
and hear them sing? Nay, nay That only is
cross which the spirit feels is grievous to be
borne, and which it is the intention of the di-
vine economy you shall vanquish in that very
feeling Go to your labor feeling it grievous
burden; see how it drags heavily upon you,
and weighs down your hands, and makes you
feel poweress. Go with the impulse of D-
vine love and a fervent desire to do good to
some fellow being, mother, sister, wife or
friend, and the labor is nothing, the toll be-
comes sweet, the hands strengthened and
the feet become light. All, the vanquishng Of
lilies burdens is the greatest cross after all.
Climb, if you would see the sun over the
eternal hills. Let The stones pierce your feet
if you would know what it is to have won the
victory of life. Do not push aside the thorns
if you want to know what it is to have van
pushed them. Mariners plow the seas phil
osophers probe the earth and dwell lifelong
over one secret that they may find out the mys-
terry thereof. Hairs turn gray, faces are wrin-
kled, forms become decrepit, over one truth
that the soul is in search of. Christ upon CAL
vary means the triumph of the soul over bru-
tai and selfish age; means the spirit conqnering
the flesh; means the triumph of God over the
ma chnations of life below. Mrs. Cora L. V.
Tappan.