The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1876-07-27
Jewels OF Thought and Devotion.

The tongues of dying men
Enforce attention like deep harmony;
Where words scarce, they are seldom spent in
vain,
For they breathe truth that breathe their words in
pain.
Vanity is as i'll at ease under indifference
as tenderness is under :. love which it cannot
return.
Mark Twain SAYS at is a blessed thing TO
live in a land of plenty, if you have plenty of
land"
fountain. lie wthers our gourds, that he him
self may be our shade. LNrChhyne.
Men of genius are often dull in society; as
the blazing meteor when it descends to earth
is only stone" ILongtellow.
The most powerful Of AL beauty il that
which reveals itself after sympathy, and not
before it. George Elliot
Often the grand meanings of faces, as well As
written words, may lie chiefly in the impress
sions of those who look on them
Don't parade your SORROWS before the world,
but bury them, rs the dogs do their old bones,
and srowl if anybody offers to dig them up.
There is u great deal of love in this world
which the objects on whom it is wasted would
be better without-ove that is so Kind as to be
cruel.
The minister who refrains from admonishng
rich parishoner, because he is rich, may pos
sibly point Others to Heaven, but will lind it
difficult to get there himself.
There is no reason why the brown hand of
labor should not hold Tennyson rs well rs The
sickle. Ornamental reading shelters and even
strengthens the growth oil what is merely use
full. A c0rntield never returns a poorer crop
because Il few wild flowers bloom in the hedge.
The refinement of the poor is the triumph Of
Christian civilization.
The Office of religion is not to drive us back
upon ourselves in any ous selt-criticisms, but
to take Us out of ourselves and unite us to the
whole in loving sei-abandonment. \ man
must take himself for bette" or olse and for
get himself if possible; SO shall he soonest ar
rive at the beatiiic vision.
SILENT INFLUENCE. We are touching our
telloW-bengs on all sides They are affected
for good or evil by what we are. by what we
say or 90, even by what we think and feel.
May-tlowers in the parlor breathe their frag-
rance through the atmosphere. We are each Of
us silently saturatin@ the atmosphere about US
with the subtle aroma of our character. In
the family circle, besides and beyond all the
teaching, the daily life of each parent and child
mysteriously modlIits the life of every person
OF the household The same process, on Il wider
scale, is going on through the community No
man liVcth to himself. Others are built lp and
strengthened by our unGOSciOuS deeds; ana
others may be wrenched out Of the places and
thrown down by our unconscious influence.
Some people depend for salvation on faith
and others feel secure in works. The two,
however, always 90 together and cannot be
separated. Unless you have both, YOU had
better not boast of having either. \ man the
other day on being asked if he had met the
Siamese Twins, answered that he was well
acquainted with one of them. but that he had
not seen the other. Faith and works are unit
ed by igament which cannot be severed. and
he who knows the one is sure to make the ac-
IualntaEce Of the other.