Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-04-13
GOLDEN SH EAVES.

anu every winter change to spring,
SO runs my dream but what am I?
An infant crying in the night
An infant crying for thelight-
And with no language but . cry.
-[AJled 7ennysom.
L OFT repentance till tomorrow, and
you nave a day more to repent of, and a day
less to repent in.
10 restore Il common-place tr,1th, to its
Hrst lustre, you need only trans
late it into action.
-ldleness is the bane of body and mind:
the nurse of naughtiness the step-mother
OF deception; one of the seven deadly sins:
the cushion upon which the devil chiefly re-
poses.
We can never thrive except we seek
God in secret, and if we begin in our clos
ct, we shall not end there, we shall also
seek and find him in the assemblies Of the
saints.
If we belong to Christ. we shall confess
Christ. we are ashamed of Him, He will
be ashamed of us. We must show our
colors. God always looks like gold. But
the strongest professions win do us no good.
unless they are backed up by a life CORES
ponding.
The harp holds in its wire the posi-
bilities ofnoblest chords; yet, ifthey be not
struck, they must hang dull. and useless.
So the mind is vested with "a hundred
powers, that must be- smitten by a heavy
hand to prove themselves the offspring of
Divinity.
If men butKnew tbemselves-knew the
worth oftime, the value of opportunities'to
get good, and to do good, which God and
the gospel and the age in which we live have
put under our hands, we should thank Hea-
ven for life, and go to work earnestly to make
the most Of it. Men would ask. What shall
we do for Christ? for men ? and to inherit
eternal lite?
We are taught, both by religion and
that law of civilization which we call hu-
mainly, to feel for the sorrows and distresses
OF our %neighbors. Without the sentiment
Of pity, society would be little better
than a menagerie Of wild beasts, wherein
each fought for has own hand and no one
gave q thought to the sufferings or the
rights Of Others ;rbut pity makes these wild
animals into men, substitutes for the
selishness of the individualism the COM
munity of race and the duty of mutual
help.
-Ifmy zeal is from God, twill be through
out its course zeal for God. Man may
take no note Of it; and none the worse for
me that | so escapefthe temptation to vain
glory, or, it may be, the exposure to ridi-
Guile or persecution. Man may never know
what / may be helped and allowed to do for
God and my fellow men, but Jesus told tile
Asiatic church, II know thy works., Man
has a short memory for favors done him,
whether by God or his brother, s'but.God is
not unrighteous to forget your works of
faith and labors of loye,'' whether they
shine, like his own sunshine, on the good or
on the unthankful.e~
Gold isa costly, snowy metal; but we
could get along without gold much better
than we could without IRON. The one is a
necessity, the other a convenience. There
are many gifts and graces Of the spirit that
attract more attention, and~secare more adj
miration, than Patience; but none is more
necessary-none comes into use more FREE
qlently in our everyday lite. 1t is like the
water we drink t~asteless and odorless, and
yet Indispensable to sustain our very exist
ence. 1t is the pocket in which we carry
our gold. : If there9is a leak in it, the gold
is lost. Tt is the %fining-pot in which the
UOld is tried /. if IL lbraaks the tUOIl is scat