The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-11-02
Jewels of Thought and Devotion.

Ills the part of a coward to brood
ger the past that is wther ed and dead;
W hat though the hearts are ashes and dust
What though the hearts music be fled?
Still shine the grand heavens oerhead
Whence the voice of an angel thrills clear on the
soul
"Gird about thee thine armor press onto the goal =!
The heart is Il crystal palace; once broken it
can never be mended.
Nlalignity generally drinks the greater part
Of lts own poison Seneca
Wisdom is the talent of buying vrtuous
pleasures at the cheapest rate. Fielding.
This Is the bitterest of ALTO wear the yoke
OF our own wrong doing. George Eliot.
As riches and favor forsake man. we find
him to be fool, but nobody could lind it out in
his prosperity. Bruyere.
Never was a sincere word utterly lost, never
magnanimity fell to the ground; there is some
heart always to greet and accept il uneXpect-
edy.
our Lord God doth like Il printer Who setteth
the letters backward; we see and feel we'll the
setting, but we shall read the print wonder in
the life to come. Martin Luther
An ounce of experience teaches Il man more
than pound of advice. While we theoretically
know that alnfe-bade is sharp we TOW with
II; but when by cutting our fingers the theory
becomes a fact of consciousness we Use it more
carefully.
Some faces speak not. They are books in
which not a line is written, save perhaps 4,
date. Others are great family Bibles with
both the Ola and New Testaments written in
them. Others are merely {" Mother Goose :,
melodies and nursery tales. ILongtellow.
All useless misery is certainly folly, and he
that feels evils before they come may be de-
>erYedy censured; yet surely, to dread the flu
ture is more reasonable than to lament the
past. The business of life is to go forward; he
who sees evil i'll prospect meets it in his way :;
but he who catches it by retrospection turns
back to md 1t. That which is feared may
sometimes be avoided, but that which is re-
GREETED to-day may be regretted again NOR
row.
We are told by those who know that there
are stars so far distant that it takes years for
their light to reach the earth; if they should
be suddenly eXtinguished, we should be una
ware OF the fact for as many years as might be
required for the last rays before the great de-
struction reachedus We might look up night
ly and see the same old radiance as though
nothing had happened. 1t is just so with great
and holy lives. Long after they have gone out
IN the darkness of death they continue to exert
an influence, and leave behind them a beauty
and power which makes it impossible to con-
ceiye of them as eXtinguished.
For one, we do not want shirt that WAS
made by Il widow for eight cents who has little
orphans to support. We have Ito objection to
saving forty cents on the purchase of a gar
ment, but do not want it ut the expense of Il
family of children going to bed supperless.
We have superstition that the good Father,
whose justice is fully equal to His love, might
make such shirts like the shirt of Nessus. fin
terror.
Let us be SO charitable and tender to our fell
low travellers, as they halt and wait on this
paltry planet to gather strength for the journey
through the universe, that, meeting them in the
unreasonable future, they may remember us
not by stored urn or eulOgistic epitaphs, but
by the genteness and sympathy and helpful
ness we have shown them when little, both in
time and action, counted much. Julius Henri
Brown.
There is an excellent cement which ought to
be used by every one. This cement is good for
family jars and social cuts. 1t heals wounds
and leaves no sears, mends life, binds enemies
together mends damaged regulations, and is
splendid for hurt feelings. This universal ce-
as you would solitary stack of wheat, suppos-
ing that there was not another grain of wheat
in the world.
To the Jew, the Gentle was an object of pity
and derision. The Greek SO regarded the bar
Darlan. In every age, among all people, the
caste spirit has been the one which has hinder
ed progress by promoting selfshness and un-
brotherly feelings between classes. Culture
and refinement cannot eradicate it. 1t is only
the precept laid down for all time, the two-fold
law. love to God and love to our fellOw-man.
that can Outroot it, To this source we must
look for deliverance from caste distinctions.
which are of the world worldly. Morning
Star.