The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-12-06
FOOD FOR THOUGHT,

only present pleasure, but prop for
the future.
We all begin by being pedants, pc
dantry being peculiar attribute of the
young.-Helps.
The greatness of man not to be
fautless is, but TO be raised above the
faults which yet are his.
Gold is but poor legacy In COMPARE
sou with immortal thought. The one
is human, worthless; the other divine,
invaluable.
Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be
avoided, but they may be sweetened, If
not overcome, and our lives made happy
by philosophy.
Bismarck says that the Eastern cam
paign has turned out exactly as he
thought it would, but will some one say
how it has turned out?
An Atheist is but mad ridiculous
derider Of piety; but hypocrite makes
sober jest of God and religion; he
finds 1t easier to be upon his knees thap
to rise to a good action.
To form correct judgment concern
ing the tendency of any doctrine, we
should rather look at the fruit it bears
in the disciples than in the teacher.
For he only made it, they are made by
1t.
When Sir Walter Scott was urged not
to prop the fallen credit of one of his
acquaintances, he replied: "The man
was my friend when my friends were
few, and will be his now that his enc
mics are many"
We observe with confidence the truly
strong mind, view it as intellect or
morality, or under any other aspect, is
nowise the mind acquainted with its
strength; that here the sign of health
Is unconscious.
i look upon every man as suicide
from the moment he takes the dice box
desperately in hand, and all that fol-
lows in his fatal career from that time
is only sharpening the dagger before he
strikes it into his heart.
We adorn graves with flowers and
redolent plants, just emblems of the life
of man, which has been compared in
the Holy Scripture to those fading beau
ties whose roots, being buried in dis
honor, rise again in glory. -
The truly great consider first how
they are to gain the appreciation of
God, and secondly that of their own
consciences; having done this they
would then willingly concliate the
good opinion of their fellow-men.
will govern my life and thoughts as
if the whole world we've to see the one
and to read the other; for what does it
signify to make anything secret to my
neighbor when to God (who is the
Searcher of our hearts, all our privacies
are openf
A head equal to the greatest events,
and heart superior to the strongest
temptations, are qualities which may be
possessed so secretly that mans next
door neighbOr shall not discover them,
until some unforeseen occasion calls
them forth.
No man can be the friend of another
unless he loves that other better than
himself; and to be able to love another
better than yourself is so to empty your
self Of seltishness that you become bet
ter toward all the world and in all
other relationship.
Slippers woven of fine flexible threads
of glass have been produced at Vienna.
Lines of colored lights of different hues
traverse the body of the slipper; the
blending of these hues with the motion
of the foot produces magical effect
when seen by gaslight.
Frugality is good, if liberality be
joined with it. The first is leaving off
superfluous expenses; the last is be-
slowing them to the benefit of others
that need. The first without the last
begets covetOusness; the last without
the first begets prodigality - William
Penn.
He that knows how to pray, has the
secret of safety in prosperity, and of
support in trouble; the art of over
coming every enemy, and turning every
loss to a gain; the power of soothing
every care, of subduing every passion,
and of adding relish to every enjoy
ment.- VILLAIN jag.
Common sense is looked upon as a
vulgar quality, but nevertheless it is
the only talisman to conduct us properly
through the world. The man of refined
sense has been compared to one who
gold, when he may be every moment In
want of smaller change.
A sin of omission scarce seems to carry
with it, am afraid, with some of us,
any stain at all of crimson We need to
examine into this matter a little more
closely. We may find that there Is far
more character and posltiveness In what
we have supposed to be simply negative
in quality than we are in the habit of
admitting.
Calumny is monstrons vice; for,
where parties Indulge In it, there are
always two that are active engaged ins
doing wrong, and one who Is snbject to
injury. The calumniator infllcts wrong
by slandering the absent; he who gives
credit to the calumny before he has in
vestigated the truth is equally i'm
plicated. The person traduced is dou-
bly, injured-first, by him who propa-
gates, and second by him who credits
the calumny.
cam not my own master?" When
we hear these words coming from the
lips of young man, boastfully, just en- z
tering his majority, we cannot forbealA
recalling the reply of French prince
to a stranger whom he encountered la'a-
one of the rooms Of his palace. "Pray,
sir" said the prince, "to whom do you
belongW "To myself" grufily replied
the stranger. "Ah, my dear sir" was.
the retort, "what a pity 1t is that you.
have such bad masterl"
Disease itself is, of course -, ,o6
sense natural, as being the
tural causes; but If we assp
as the means of representinA
poise of all the mental ia
must be content TO call Ii.
supernatural, because the
instrument is lowered, an