Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-02-03
GOLDEN EAVES.

VI let us say nothing at all.
The wide pasture is but separate spears
of grass the sheeted bloom of the prairies
but isolated flowers.
Use not needlessly, learned or hard
words. He that affects to be thought learn
ed, is likely to be accounted a fool.
An elevated purpose is a good and en-
nobling thing, but we cannot begin at the
top oft. We must work up to it by the Of
ten difficult path o fdaily duty.
In deciding questions of truth and duty.
remember the wrong side has a crafty and
powerful advocate in your own heart.
The sweat of ones brow is no longer 4
curse when one works for God: it proves
a tonic for the system, and is actually a bless
ing.
They who are the most weary of life,
and the most unwilling to die, are such as
have lived to no purpose-who have rather
breathed than lived.
Great souls attract sorrows as noun
tains do storms; but the thunder clouds
break upon them, and they thus form a shell
ter for the plains around.
A pions cottager residing in the midst
of a long and dreary heath was asked by 4
visitor, "Are you not sometimes afraid in
your lonley situation, especially in the
winter ~ He replied, 90 no, for faith
shuts the door at night, and mercy opens it
in the morning.
All our murmurings are so many arrows
\ shot gf God hin,cn1f anI +nox- LII -L.
upon our own hearts they reach not him,
but they will hit us they hurt not him but
they will wound us therefore it is better
to be mute than to murmur; it's dangerous
to provoke a consuming fire.
Look into the life and temper of Christ.
described and illustrated in the gospel, and
search whethe. you can find anything like
IL IN your own life. Have you anything Of
his humility, meekness and beneyolence to
men? Anything, Of his purity and wisdom.
his contempt Of the world, his patience. his
fortitude, his zeal?
"A soul cannot have q good look. nor
hear a good word from heaven butSatan m,r-
murs at it. lie mtrrnurs and mutters at
every act ofpitying grace, that God exercises
toward poor souls he ..mrrmurs at every sip.
ateyery drop, at every crumb Of mercy that
God bestoWs.
Like most carpets, everything has 4
right side and a wrong side. You can take
any JOY, and by turning it around find troub-
les on the other side; or you may take the
greatest trouble, and by turning it around
find joy on the other side. The gloomiest
mountain never casts a shadow on both
sides at once, nor does the greatest Of life's
ealamities.
= have been young, and now am old,
and bear my testimony that I have never
found thorough, pervading, enduring moral
itywith any but such as fear God-notin tic
modern sense, but in che old, childlike way
rejoicing in life--a hearty, Victorious cheerful
ness ofso distinguished q kind that no other
is to be compared with it.
Live for something! Yes, andfor some
thing worthy of life and its capabilities and
opportunities for noble deeds and achieve
ments. Every man and every woman has
his or her assignment in the duties and re-
sponsibilities of daily life. We are in the world
to make the world better to lift it up to
higher levels of enjoyment and progress.
to make its hearts and homes brighter and
happier by devoting to Our fellows our best
thoughts, activities, and influences. 1t is
the motto OF every true heart and the genius
of every noble life, that" no man liveth to
himseef"-lives chiefly for his w selfish
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