Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-05-02

I "i 'hO Boou loh tai III luo
world, aud make as little noise about
IL us possible.
Christian picty anniblates the
egotism OF the heart worldly polite
ness wells aud suppresses it.
Still seems it strange that thou
sbouIdst live forever? lslt less strange
that thou shouldst live at ALP
The most ridiculous of all animals
is proud priest he can not use his
tools without cutting bis fingers.
Naturally means either want Of
conviction, or want Of courage 10 act
according TO conviction, and neither
case can be defended.
Those who openly confess the
truth and cbeeriully suffer for it, must
have u believing spirit and firm hold
upon invisible realities.
Without n belief in personal i'm.
mortality, religion surely is like an
arch resting on one pIllar-llkc a
bridge ending in an abyss.
The angels are beautiful, because
they are good, aud there is no true,
enduring beauty that is not goodness
shining through the face and form.
Bald. headed men are so numerous
in Chicago that an audience in that
city is SAID to look, when viewed from
above, like cobblestone pavement.
Ignorance is the mother of fear, as
well as admiration. A man Intimately
acquainted with the nature OF things
has seldom occasion 10 be astonished
=" Women" said the contempla-
tive man, "are as deep as the blue wa.
ters OF yon bay" "Ayc, sir rejoiued
the disappointed man, "and as full OF
craft.
When flowers are full of heaven
descended dews they always hang
their heads; bnt men hold theirs higher
the more they receive, getting proud
as they get full.
The man who returned from the
Centennial Exhibition without medal
is confident that he could have taken
one if they had not been so carefully
guarded by policemen.
--lIl-humor is nothing more than an
inward feeling Of our own want OF
merit, "A dissatisfaction with ourselves
which is always united with an envy
that foolish vanity excites
-"Six feet in his boots - said Mrs.
Partington; "W hat will the imper.
ance OF this world come TO, wonder
Why, they might as well tell me that
the man had SIX heads in his hat.
TO put up with the world is better
than to control it. This is the very
acme of virtue. Religion leads us to It
in a day philosophy only conducts to
it by a lcngthened life, misery, Or death.
AS in the body, so in the soul
they are off more desperately sick who
are least sensible OF their disease
whereas, he that fears each light wound
for mortal seeks timely cure, and is
healed.
Hope is the last thing that dies in
man, and though il be exceedingly de-
ceitful, yet it is of this good use to us,
that while we are travelling through
life il conducts us in an easier and
more pleasant way TO our journeys
end.
For general Improvement, a man
should read whatever his immediate
inclination prompts him 10 though, to
be sure, If man has u science to learn,
he must regularly and resoluteIy ad.
vance. What we read with inclination
makes a stronger impression. If we
read without inclination, half the mind
is employed in fixing the attention, so
there is but half to be employed on
what We read.
1t is blessed thing for any man
to share what he may have with Others
who stand upon lower social and
financial plane than be does. But ii is
still more blessed Tor him TO 90 to work
TO earn money, expressly that he may
havei thus to share with others. This
is intensiiying his beucvolence, and
digniiying il from what might have
been mere incident of good nature,
into principle and passion CONTROL.
ing the lfe which it makes lovely and
llustnous.
Goethe said that the thought of
endless lie was sometimes oppressive
to lin, because there must be period
when further progress was impossible.
But he was reassuied on this point
when he looked up to the stars. The
poet felt that in revealing such depths
OF space to him they limited at intel
lectual distances which no soul can out
travel. In the same spirit Kant said
Two things fill me with perpetual
awe-the moral law and the starry
heavens"
Is not Gods chastiscment Of his
children often spoken of in the Bible
as one of the marks of their sonship ?
Does this thought make us quiet under
afilction, and help us to bear trouble
with hamblc and submissive faith e?
Does IL not sweetcn the bitterness OF
trial TO know that whom the Lord
lovcth he chasteneth, and scourgeth
every son whom he receiveth2 Iflfe
were unclouded, and Gods Christening
hand were never felt, might we not
with reason doubt whether we were
indeed his children
-lfthe most virtuous are those who
pretend to have been strongly cnticcd
by their vices before submitting, we
could better say that the soldiers who
suffered all the agony of terror and
finally fed before the enemy, is more
worthy Of esteem than the soldier who,
without fear and without resistance,
remained firm ut his post. The bravest
IL he who does not hesitate to do what
is right How, then, in any other cir
cumstanec, tho most virtuous would
bc he who has struggled before sue.
cumbing, and not he who remained
pure
If one note in the organ be out OF
key or harsh Of tone, II mars tho whole
tune. All the other rocds may be In
harmony but the one detective reed
destroys the sweetness Of all tho rest.
In every tune this reed makes discord
somewhere. Its noise jars out into
every other note And 30 on sin dc.
stroys the harmony Of u whole life. A
boy or girl may be obedient, filial, in
dustrious, and honest but ill-tempcr