The Republican journal., 1877-11-15
Jewels of Thought and Devotion.

We long for tenderness like that which hung
About us, lying on mothers breast;
\ SelfieSs feeling that no pen nor tongue
Tan praise Alright, since silence signs it best
y love, as far removed from passions heat
rs from the chlucss of its diving fire:
\ love to lean on when the failing feet
Begin to totter. and the eyes te tire
In youths brief heydav hottest love we seek
The reddeSt rose we grasp-bnt when it dies
God grant that later blossoms, violets meek
May spring for us beneath litcs Autumn skies
tod grant some loving one be near to bless
Our weary way with simple tenderness
BE a philosopher; but amid all Your philosophy
be still man. Hume.
QuaTes would never last long if the wrong was
all on one side. [Rochetoucauld
Vices that are familiar we pardon and only new
mes reprehend- [Publius syrus
Ladies of fashion starve their happiness to feed
their vanity, and their love to feed their pride
lColton.
The pungency OF pleasure is as transient as the
foam that nantes round its trimming cup
Henry Giles.
Speaking much IS sign of vanity for he that
Is lavish III words is niggard indeed fSir W al
ter Raleigh
rs land is improved by sowing it with various
seeds so is the mind by exercising it with differ
ent studies [Pliny.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wis
dom, but with it genius has NJ. ven IA nodding
acquaintance. [Coton.
Sacrifice, says De Maistre being the essential
basis OF virtue, the most meritorious virtues are
those which are acquired with the greatest effort
Nature, which has given us one organ for speak
ing, has given us two for hearing that we NAV
learn that 1t Is better to hear than to speak Nab
Etendi.
Disorder in a drawing room is vulgar; in an an
tquarys study, not. The black battle stain on a
soldiers face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of
housemaid is [Ruskin.
God has given TO occupation the mission of the
north VIE |, that of purifying the miasma of the
heart us the wind puries the miasma of the at
mosphere IGolden Sands.
Philosophy is to poetry what old age is to youth.
ana tAe stern truths OF philosophy fatal to
the hctlons of the one as the chilling testimonies
OF experience are to the hopes of the other fool
ton.
ne minister should preach if he felt that al
though the congregation the church and have
bought the pews. they have not bought him His
soul Is worth no more than any other mans but
t Is all he has and he cannot be expected TO sell
IL Tor salary. The terms are by no means equal
II PansMoner does not like the preaching he can
- elsewhere and get anotherpew but the preach
ef cannot get another soul. IChapin.
| call the Book of job apart from all theories
about IT. one OF the grandest things ever written
with a pen. one feels, indeed, as if it were not
HebreW-such noble universality different from
noble PATRIOTISM or SectarianSm. reiguS in it. A
noble book. All mems book 1t is our first old
est statement of the never ending problem mans
destiny and Gods ways with him here on earth
And all in such free flowing outlines: grand in its
simplicity ana ITS epic melody, and repCse Of rec
hnr tho
understanding heart SO true every way; true
eEesght and vision for all things material things
no less than spiritual: the horse = hast thou
clothed hls neck with thunder . he laughs at
me shaking OF the spear Such living likenesses
were never since drawn. Sublime sorrow sublime
reconciliation; oldest choral melody as of the
heart ct mankind: soft and great; as the sum
Nor night, us the world with It's seas and stars
Ihere is nothing written, think in the Bible or
ont OF IT. OF equal literary merit Thomas CARLYLE
II | were III danger of becoming sceptjcal be-
iIeye tha1 a fresh and vivid appreciation of the sci
eAtlnc revelations concerning our globe would ap
pal me into faith TO think of this ball whirIin.r
and spinning about the sun, and to be an atheist !
Its covering less in comparative thickness than A
peach SKIN, and It's pulp Seething fire, and to feel
that we are at the mercy of the forces that lash it
IKE top around the eclptic and of the raving
flames that heaye and beat for vent not more
IMAM all eight OF Its surface inhabiable by man ;
seas roaring around him tropic heats smiling his
BRAIN polar frosts threatening his blood, inland
airs laden with fever, sea winds charged with con
sumption hurricanes lowering in the SKY. earth
4uakcS Slumbcrins under our feet; the conditions
OF life dependent on the most delicate oscillations
OF savage powers over which the wisest man is as
PoWerless as IA Worln-to think Of these and not to
have any confidence or belief in power superior
to these pitiess forces not to have an inspiring
lalth mat the land was made for human hahita-
tons and experience and is sheltered by cease
less love from the hunger Of the elements. Why
! could as easily conceive Of person making his
home unconcerned in an uneaged menagerie as of
man at rest IN nature, seeing what it is and not
feeling that 1t is embosomed in God Go to ma
turc, my brother; 90 to the unrooted universe
90 to the awful pages of science not to Learn your
religion but to learn your need of ito learn that
you are houseless without the sense of God as
oYerarcmng you by his power pledging his care
TO You, twisting the furious forces of immensely
INTO protecting tent for your spirits home. RI
Starr King.