The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1877-12-13
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

not.
Meanin' goes but little way = most
things, for you may mean TO stick
things together and your glue may be
bad, and then where are your
The prejudices OF ignorance are more
easily removed than the p~rejudices of
Interest; the first are all blindly
adopted; the second wilfully pre-
ferred.
The passing years drink a portion Of
the light from our eyes, and leave their
traces on our cheeks, as birds that drink
at lakes leave their footprints at the
margin.
All the good things of this world are
no further good TO us than they are of
use; and whatever we may heap up TO
others, we enjoy only as much as we
can use, and no more.
Learn In childhood, II you can, that
happiness is not outside, but inside. A
good heart and a clear conscience bring
happiness, which no riches and no cir
~cumstances alone ever do.
We ought never to believe evil Of any
n until we are certain of IL. We ought
not to say anything that is rude and
displeasing, even In joke and we ought
never to carry a joke too far.
An elevated purpose is a good, emo
bling thing, but WI cannot begin at the
top of it. We must work up to it by the
often difficult path of daily duty-Of
daily duty always carefully performed.
Always take a receipt hen you pay
out money. Though honest and fair
dealing may be intended, a mistake may
occur, or through forgetfulness the pro
per credit may not be given, and thus.a
dispute or quarrel may ensue.
Genuine neighborly love knows no
distinction of persons. 1t is like the sun,
which does not ask upon what it shall
shine, or what it shall warm; utshines
and warns by the very laws of its own
being. So there is nothing hidden from
light and heat.
Comparatively few are destroyed by
outrageous and flaming vices, such as
blasphemy, theft, drunkenness, or un-
cleanness; but crowds are perishing by
that deadly smoke of Indifference which
casts the shifting clouds of carelessness
arOur d them.
There is many a soul trudging along
life's pathway with weary, uncertain
steps, sad and d~ownhearted, who would
If there was a kind hand reached out. to
help them, walk erect and every step
lightly, and even sing while passing
over the rough places.
How often do we contradict the right
rules of reason In the whole course of
our lives! Reason itself is true and
just but the reason of every particular
mar is weak and wavering, pe%rpetually
swaying and turning with his interests,
his passions, and his vices.
A single sno11kake-who cares for IL?
But a whole day Of snowfiakes, oblitera-
ting the landmarks, drifting over the
doors, gathering on the mountains TO
crash in a~valanches who does not care
for thatY Private opinion is weak, but
public opinion is almost omnipotentp
We are what we are; we cannot be
truly other than ourselves. We reach
perfection not by copying, much less by
aiming at originality, but by consist
emily and steadily working out the life
which is common to all, according to
the character which Heaven has given
us.
Sin is a basilisk, whose eyes are full
of venom. If the eye of thy soul see
her first it reflects her own poison and
Ellis her; if she see thy soul, unseen, or
seen too late, with her poison she kills
thee. Since, therefore, thou canst not
escape thy sin, let not thy sin escape
thy observation.
A lovers hope resembles the bean in
the nursery tale; let 1t once take root,
and in the course Of a few hours, the
giant Imagination builds a castle on the
top, and bye-and-bye comes Disap-
pointment with a curtal axe, I'D hews
down both the plant and the superstruc-
ture.- Walter Scott.
Those who have become addicted to
evil habits must conquer them as they
can-and they must be conquered, or
they will conquer us, and destroy our
peace and happiness. And those who
have not yielded to bad habits, must
be on their guard lest they be unex-
pectedly assaulted and subdued.
Allow no man to be so free with you
as to praise you to your face. Your
vanity by this means will want its food.
At the same time your passion for es-
teen will be more fully gratiied; men
will praise you in their actions. Where
you now receive one compliment you
will then receive twenty civlllties.-
Steele.
/ Upon a moderate calculation | think
| have heard, In my time, 1920 SER
mons, and l do not recollecttha nat In any
one of them | ever heard the slightest
allusion made to the conduct of man
towards animals. / think that 1t would
not have been a wasteful expenditure
Of exhortation II in two per cent. of
these sermons the humane treatment of
animals had been the main subject of
the discourse.-Helps.
THERE'S no soil for the roots of a true
man which is better than the soil which
trouble makes-when 1t is trouble; for
that which other folks think to be trou-
bic is not necessary trouble to you; and
that which TO you is trouble may not
necessarily be trouble to other people.
Each man, In his own nature and cir
cumstances, finds what trouble is to
him and 1t Is the thing which you
cannot bear that you must bear to make
yourself a man.
There is implanted by nature In the
heart of man, a noble and excellent af-
fectlon OF mercy, extending even to the
brute animals, which, by the divine
appointment are subjected to. his do
minion. This moreover, we may be
assured of, that the more noble the
mind the more enlarged is this affec-
H.. No,rou, and d~aUnnarata miu1g
think that such things do not pertain
to them, but the nobler part OF mankind
is affected by sympathy LORD Bdcoans
The quantity Of beer produced
England annually Is prodiglGHl
1872 nearly sixty million bushtN
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