The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-07-19
Jewels of Thought and Devotion

One waits and watches all bis days away
For what may never comr So looks alone
Some man upon a desert island thrown
For sails that pass not till, too faint to pray,
ile folds his hands and waits the eventtul day
When death uninterrupted claims his OWL
Bids hope lie down by fear, stills the long moan
And bids the weary feet no more to stray
None know Of the sad life and death till, 10
Men yoyagng from affair." by fierce winds driven.
Cast anchor on that isle where, tempest riven.
They see a tree built house, by which they know
That one haslved and died there, hopedand striyen
They shed their unayang tears and go.
iilarPers.
II have seen manners, says Emerson, that
makes a similar impression with personal beauty.
Expense of time is the most costly of all cxpen
As a moth gnaws a garment, doth envy
sumo a man
70 some purpose is that man wise who is wise
at another mans expense.
The hen of our neighbor appears to Us goose
says the Oriental proverb.
People seldom improve when they have no other
model than themselves to copy after
The man who can be nothing but serious moth
Ing but merry is but half man.
The woman who is resolved to be respected can
make herself to be even amidst an army Of sol
diers LCervanes-
When the stiflened body goes down to the tomb
sad. silent and remorseless feel there is no death
for the man, That cod which yondcr dust shall
cover is not my brother The dust goes to its
place, man to his own 1t is then feel my i'm
mortality. look through the grave into Heaven
ask no miracle, no proof no reasoning for me.
ask no risen dust to teach me immortality. | am
conscious of eternal life. THEODORE Parker.
Insist on yourself, never initiate Your own
gift You can present every moment with the cumu
latlve gift force Of whole lites cultivation; but
OF the adopted talent of another you have only an
eXtemporaneous half possession. That which each
can do best none but his maker teach him. No
man yet knows, nor can. till that person has eXhib
tied it. Where is the master who could have
taught Shakespeare Where is the master who
could have instructed Franklin, or Washington.
or Bacon Newton! Every great man is Il
unique Emerson.
Being Christian is not being tautless il is
not beng III state OF which you will not stumble
nor fall 1t is being i'll that state III which YOU re
cogniZc the hatetuness of sin and seek to over
come it, Taking the soil, uncutivated as it is
and putting i'll the right kind of seed and giving it
the right tllage, and then waiting patiently for
the harvest-that is what makes you one T Christ's
husbandmen
In the exhaustless catalogue of heavens mer
ces to mankind the power have of finding
some germs of comfort in the hardest trials must
ever occupy the foremost place; not only because
it supports and upholds us when we most require
To be sustained but because i'll this source of con
ISOLATION there is something, we have reason to be
IleVe, OF the Divine Spirit; something which even
In our fallen nature possess in common with
the angels; which had its being in the old time
when they trod the earth, and hunger on it vet in
pity. Dickens.