Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-01-06
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words make the home cheerful.

Have a bosom friend-one whose heart
is full of tender sy~mpathy-and when mis-
fortune comes, you will have a Door Of
comfort.
Guard well your thoughts and actions,
that your walk in life may be one which you
will not regret.
Consider three things and you will not
transgiess-an eye sees you, an ear hears.
you, and all acts are recorded.
As a needle in the compass trembles tillit
settles in the north point, so the heart of
sinner can have no rest but in Christ.
Happiness consists in a virtuous and hon-
est life, in being content with a competency
of outward things, and in using them tenn
perately.
Neither the roar of a factory nor the dis
traction of business are SO incompatible with
prayer as, in nine cases out OF ten, you will
find the sick or dying bed to be.
Try how the life. of a good mar suits thee,
the life Of him who is satisfied with his
portion out ofthe whole, and satisfied with
his own justacts and benevolent disposition.
Work is the only universal currency
which heaven accepts. A nations welfare
will depend on its ability to master the
world that, on power of work that, ON its
power Of thought.
Just as a mother grieves over her
child's weakness and faultiness, but still
loves him most tenderly, SO God will cherish
his own Notwithstanding all our frailty.
That we may not complain of the pres
ent, let us view Gods hand in all events !;
and that we may not be afraid Of the future,
let us view all events in Gods hands.
-Goldsmiths make exquisite forms from
precious material; they fashion the bracelet
and the ring from gold. God maketh lis
precious things out of base material and
from the black pebbles of the defiling brooks
he hath taken up stones, which he hath set
in the golden ring Of his immutable love, to
make them gems to sparkle on his finger
forever.
-"After all my readings said Selden,
"nothing now remains to comfort me, at the
close Of life, bat this: Christ Jesus came
into the world to save Sinners 10 this /
cleaye, and herein | rest"
DO not be over anxious about riches.
Get as much Of true wisdom and goodness
as you can, but be satisfied with a very mod
crate portion of this worlds goods. Riches
1 may prove a curse, as well as a blessing.
The desire of power in excess. caused
!, angels to fall the desire of knowledge in
excess caused man to fall but in charity,
- ~
! there is no excess, neither can man nor am
: gels come into danger by it.
/ The good make a better bargain, and the,
bad a worse, than is usually supposed, for
the rewards of the one and the punishments
? of the other not u~nfrequently begin Oh this
, side of the grave for vice has more mar
| tyrs than virtue, and it often happens that
men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.
With God as our God we are safe and
happy everywhere. A gentleman crossing
a dreary moor came upon a cottage, and
/, entered into conversation with its inmate,
who was standing at his garden gate. When
about to leave, he said: Are you not afraid
, to live in this lonely place." sob, no."
!. said he, "for Faith closes the door every
night, and Mercy opens it in the morning"
j, To be bodily tranquil, to speak little and
digest without effort, are absolutely neces-
sary to grandeur Of the mind or Of presence,
or to proper Development of genius.
: -Thoushtfulness for others, generosity,
modesty and self-respect are the qualities
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