Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-01-20
GOLDEM EAvES.

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He that aims at a star is likely to shoot
hlgher than he that aims only ut turf. Thus
though it were impossible to keep clean con-
sciences void of offanse both toward God
andtoward men - according to the exactness
OF Gods command, yet he that is careful to-
avold all poliutions, both of flesh and spirit.
shall certainly have amuch clearer conscience
by far than he that wallows in those sins.
In Il foul way it is perhaps impossible to keep
ourselves from being bespattered with dirt;
yet he that walks warily and carefully comes
cleaner home than he that tumbles and rolls
himselfin it.
Reader, be not like the foolish drunkard
who, staggering home one night, saw his
candle litfor him. sTwo candles - said he.
tor his drunkenness made him see double.
I Will blow out one" and as he blew it out.
IL a moment he was in the dark. Many q
man sees double through the drunkenness
OF sin he has one life to SOW his wild oats in.
anu then he half expects another in which
to turn to God; so, like q fool, he blows out
the only candle he has, and in the dark he
will have to lie down forever. Haste thee.
traveller, thou hast but one sun, and after
that sets thou wilt never reach home. God
help thee to make haste now!
There is q great want about christians who
have not suffered. Some flowers must be
broken or bruised before they emit any fra
GRANGE. All the wounds of Christ sent out
sweetness, all the sorrows of christians do the
same.
There is one place where change cannot
put its finger there is one name on which
mutability can never be written ;. there is
one heart which can never alter. The place
is the Most Holy, that heart is Gods, that
name is Love.
. Secret sins are anchors which, us long as
they continue, fasten the soul to the earth.
1t may swing to and fro with religious emo>
tons as a balloon whose cords are uncut
may wave to and fro in the air, but it can
never ascend to heaven,
Mercy is like the rainbow which God set
in the heavens as a remembrance to man.
we must notlook for it after night; it shines
not III the other world. IL we refuse mercy
here. we must havejustic in eternity.
What a wonderful power has the true wife
over home and husband No man ever
prospered in the world without the eo-ope-
ration OF his wife. IT she unites in mutul
endeavors, Or rewards his labors with an en-.
dea1ing smile, with what confidence will he
resort to his occupation, meet difficulty and
encounter danger, if he kloWs that he is not
spending his strength in vain, but that his
lahors will be rewarded by the sweets OF
home! Solicitude and disappointment enter
the history of every mans's life, and he is but
half provided for his voyage who finds but
an associate for happy hours, while for his
months OF darkness and distress no sympao
thizing partner is prepared.
There is a dew in one flower and not in an
other, because one opens its cup and takes it.
while the other closes itself and the drop runs
of. SO Heaven rains goodness and mercy as
wide as the dew. anuif we lack them, it's be
cause we will not open our hearts to receive
them.
They that deny a God destroy mans no.
bility. for certainly man Is kin to the beast
by his body, and if he is not kin to God by
his spirit, he is 4 base and ignoble creature.
Surrounded by Deity, imbued and pene.
frated by Him, we are yet approaching
while we enjoy Him, but shall never reach
Iiim-an endless progression of pleasure.
Girls, in treating dissipated young men an
their equals, DO a wrong they can hardly