The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-10-04
Jewels of Thought and Devotion.

A few more MONS Twill all be told our story
So sweet, so brief. Why war with changeless fate
Why cry for love Why spend our strength for
Why pray to God with PRAYER importunate!
HIS centuries go; still must come and pass
hut aS tile shadows on the summer grass.
\ few more morns! Again, again the beauty
he earth Will wear the spendor of her springs,
y hile we within the universe Of spirits
VIII wander somewhere among Vlewless things.
Where er it be, in all the heaven of air,
e stlll must our human home is fair
ondrouS must be rods gift to compensate
For all We miss within our human fate
The only real bitter tear raI, those shed III soil
tude.
tioodmanners are part of good morals Whate
ly.
OF all work that produces results nine tenths
must be drudsery.
Who purposelv cheats his friend would cheat
his God ILayater
Dishonesty is forsaking permanent for temporary
advantages. I'oves
To speak harshly to a person of seusibilitv is
like striking harpschord with your fists
Occasions of adversely do not make a man frail.
but they show what he is Thomas a kenpis,
Devote each day to the object then in time and
N'A-
BE noble minded Our own heart and not
other mems opinions of us forms our true honor
tSchiller
Fools line the hedges which bound the road of
life. hat can the wise man do but smile as he
passes along il
\ head properly constituted can accommodate
Itself to whatever pillows the YcisSitudas Of for
tune may place under it.
BE not a coward who leaves the near duty that
Is as cruel to grasp nette and flies to gather
the lar off duty that will Haunt i'll mems eyes like
Il suntlowrr
What pity flowers can utter no sound, A sing
ing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honey
suckl''-oh what Il rare and exquisite miracle
would those be- IBeccher-
The most extrayagant luxury in the world is
that mean economizng which seeks to get the best
class Of work done by the best workers without
paying crit ['oden Rule
Heaven will be a world of peace and rest-fpr
Tho weary and heavy laden will be there He
S'reth His beloved sleep" They shall rest at last
IN the beautiful and tranquil world they thrsed
for SO long. where the spirit shall be ever willing
ana the flesh never weak ltreg
There j, nothing which adds so much to the
beauty and power of IA man as IA good moral char
actcr 1t is his weath-his ntuence-his life
1t dgnies him III every station. exalts him in
every condition, and gloritics him at every period
OF life Such character is more to be desired
than everything else earth. 1t makes man
tfec and independent. No Servile tool-croakinp
sYcophant no trcacherous honor seeker ever bore
such character. The pure Joys of truth and
righteousness never spring Ill such person If
Young men but knew how much IA good character
would dignity and cXalt them, how glorious it
would make their prospects, even i'll this life:
never should we find them yielding to the grovel-
hing and base born purposes of human nature.
is there a moral or scientific probability that
tod ever produces results by natural laws in this
world, which otherwise would not have been pro
duccd IT we drive natural laws, cannot God do
II hold, because the Bible teaches it. and now
! hold it more because nature and science teach
1t, that there are millions OF results that never
would have fallen out in the course Of nature that
are now continually happening on account Of Gods
special mercy. The doctrine of special provi-
dence is this. God administers natural ltws-of
the mind, the body, and the outward world--so as
10 produce effects which they never would have
done of themselves. Man can do this and why
not God BY wise use of natural laws man can
make the difference between comfort and discom-
fort. He can till the farm, and make the seasons
serve HIM. He can take natural laws, and grid
himself about with them. SO that they shall make
him rich and wise, and strong. Men can do it for
themselveS-why cannot God do it for them
Men can do it for their children-for their neigh
bors children-tor scores and hundreds Of persons
\ farmer that administers his estate wisely will
have enough, not only for himself, but for others
His children will be fed, the neghborhood sup
Piled and the veins OF commerce swollen by the
"verplus OF his sagacity a man can say to the
light, to the water to the seasons a will BY Won
make a special providence tor this whole town,
and he can do ii for if he falls back there will
not be abundance, but if he goes forward there
VIII be. That is not all. man may be put at a
point where's Napoleon was Wellington in
Span, or Sir John Moore in the north of Portugal
OF Give IN lndia-he can make special prov