The Republican journal., 1876-12-21
Jewels of Thought and Devotion.

There is a jewel which no Indian mine can buy,
No chemic art can counterfeit:
1t makes men rich in greatest poverty,
Makes water wine, turns wooden cups to gold
Seldom il comes, to few from Heaven sent
That much in little-a in nought-Content.
If YOU would keep your secret from an enc
my, tell if not to friend.
Can there be no sympathy without the CAB
bic of words: Charles Lamb.
Envy no one disparase no one, think your
self above no one. Hazitt.
The gem cannot be polished without friction,
nor man perfected without adversely.
''Think wrong and welcome said Lessng;
but Think and that maxim is the plain cor
ner-stone of greatness.
He shall be immortal who lveth till he be
stoned by one without fault Fuller.
Modest men conceal their Joys as well as their
sorrows, tor they consider the one as undesery-
ed rs the other. Jean Paul.
Uneasy and ambitious gentlity is always
spurious. The garment which one has long
worn, never sits uncomfortably.
BY cultvatinS the beautiful we scatter the
seeds OF heavenly flowers: by doing good we
foster those already belonging to humanity.
Never was a sincere word utterly lost, never
a magnanmity fell to the ground; there is
some heart always to greet and accept it uneX
pectedly.
A tart temper never melloWs with age, and
a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that
grows keener with constant use. Irving.
An inward sincerity will. of course influence
an outward department; but where the one is
wanting, there is great reason to suspect the
absence of the other. Sterne.
Condemn no man for not thinking as YOU
think. Let every one enjoy the full and free
liberty Of thinking for himself Abhor every
approach in any kind or degree, to the spirit of
persecution. II you cannot reason or persuade
man into the truth, never attempt to force
him into it. John Wesley.
DO not let us lie al all. DO not think of one
tIlSity as harmless ana another as unntended.
Cast them all aside; they may be light aud ac-
cdenta, but they are us ly SCOT from the smoke
of the pit, for all that; and it is better that
hearts should be swept clean Of them without
one care as to which is largest blackest.
RuSkin.
1t is reported Of Titus Nespasian that when
any one spoke Ill of him, he was wont to say
That he was above false reports; and if they
were true, he had more reason to be angry
with himself than the relator. And the good
Emperor TheodOslus commanded that no man
should lie punished that spake against him; for
what was spoken slightingly, said he, was to be
'-.dglct. at; what spitefully to be pardoned ;
what angrily, to be pited; and if truly, he
would thank him for it. o that there We're
not such spirit, wherein men, like tinder, are
ready TO take fire upon the least spark that
falls, to quarrel sometimes with the most not-
1ensive word that can be spoken; whereas, the
best way is to be silent, say nothing, and you
pay talking man to the purpose. Thus it was
that Hezekah would not answer Rabahakah,
nor our blessed Saviour his railing adversaries;
He revled not His revilers, He threatened not
His opposers.' Spencer.
A true Christian must live higher than the
average morality of the community in which he
dwells His york must be better than anybody
else's. His fidelity must be more eminent than
anybody else's His moral sense must be finer
and truer than other peoples. 1t is a shame to
the teaching of religion, or to the church, or to
both, when men outside of the church-ntides
and athiests-are more honorable, as sometimes
they are, than prOfessed Christians. | have
known the meanest men in town to be leading
members of the church; and l have known
men who did not believe in the Bible, and who
did not belong to any church, who were so
honorable that | would have taken their word
sooner than l would have taken another mans
bond. This Is an unnatural state of things
Which arises largely from churchism, or from
substitution of the institutions of the church
for the thing which should be produced by
these Instruments. A man who has religion is
whittier man inside and out, a ripper man inside
and out, sWeeter man inside and out, and a
more fragrant man inside and out, than man
who has not religion. lBeecher.