The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-12-27
RELIC IOJS.

Fly hence, and carry with you all my dreams.
My hopes and fears;
Shall /, while sitting by lilies oZen streams,
Weep Idle tears:
Fly hence, swift wings have been glad with
In life'sSlad spring,
Heard summer songs, and thought their prom
Use true;
But now-take wing.
You are not dove>, that you should bring
back leaves
From whelming seas;
Fly far, swi I [ uants, from my silent caves
Leave me but peace.
Duties are ours, events are Gods Ce-
ell.
| have always observed this, Il at the
people OF this world never speak well oil it
at parting.- .Ms. Sarge.
Thanksgiving is good" said the vener-
able Philip Henry to his children; "but
Thanksgiving is better"
1t Is not until we have passed through
the furnace that We are made to know how
much dross was in our composition.
A law of morals that is deduced shrewdly
from passing events, may give a good deal
of successful guidance in daily life, but we
ttsiSS ~ aiStDNSi IL
OF eternity.-[ Prot. Bascom.
The character of a wise man consists in
three things: To do himself what he tells
Others so do, to act on no occasion contrary
to justice, and 10 bear with the weakness Of
those about him. Samuel Smiles
Said a landlord of public house, at the
verge of death, "If had my time to live
over again, would rather sweep crossings
or beg, or even starve to death, before ]
would again see the misery which and my
trade have produced"
Do not repine when you fear no pleasure
in the offices of religion. The change is in
you, not in God; and the fact that you are
sensible of it, and sorry for the change,
shows that it is caused by no cessation of
love to God, or of his grace to YOU, but by
physical weakness.-Charies Kinysleg.
There is an old Italian picture which
represents group of commonplace persons,
looking in each others commonplace faces,
and absorbed with the commonplace mat
tiers which surround them while over
their heads arches a sky, 50 clear, 80 deep,
so resplendent that it might tempt angels
out of heaven. But they see it not, and are
hardly conscious of its existence. Its thus
that the carnally minded fail to discover
spiritual and glorious realities.
The irreligious as well the religious will
vote to make Sunday day for relaxation
from toll. Whether a man favors going
a-tishing on that day, or going 10 church,
he does not favor going to the shop. Should
employers combine To insist that their hands
should work seven days in the week, inf
dels as well as Christians would protest.
Whatever may be said of an eight-hour law.
all will uphold a six day law, 1t is worth
while to note that the christian Sabbath
has the support of the irreligious portion of
as far as regards the principle.
8 In ii thou shalt do no work."-[ E1ominer
A weak faith finds it hard to grasp the
threatenings of the Bible, precisely as it
finds it hard to grasp the promises. 1t di-
gests and assimilates all truth but imper
fectly. 1t may hold creed, but it holds it
in a nerveless hand, that is at once uncon-
scious Of its weight, and unable to impart
it to those who have need. If We would be
moved by that which We believe, We must
make it the topic OF frequent meditation,
and must give ii that place in our thoughts
to which Its Importance entities it. A re
relaxed and fiabby faith, though accompa-
MED by no scepticism, cannot stir the heart: |
a simple and active faith cannot bu, pro-
iuce the most healthful feeling.-T Witch |
man.
A man, for example, makes ND his mind |
hat truth is divine, and that therefore il |
should be observed and he determines that |
ne will tell the truth. But l tell you. a
nan who should put a plank six inches |
vide across the top Of Trinity steeple to the |
op of Grace Church steeple, and undertake
o walk there, would have an easy task |
With the task of him who under
axes to walk on the truth right straight
through life, neither swerving to the right
,or to the left, with no evasions, with no
with truth in the inward
,arts, with truth in sincerity, with truth on
he lip, with plain negatives and afirma-
ives, with simple truth. If man is going
o tell the truth he must be sanity. To tell
he truth right through, in all the relations
nd exigencies Of human life, requires more
outrage, more fidelity to conviction and
more continuous strength of will than al
most any other thing. A man who can tell
he truth under all circumstances need ask
% laurels from the battlefield; Tor he is
raver than any soldier ever was.-Beeeher.
There is greater self-evident certainty
a moral axioms than in those of asthetics
r physics. And If . man is to be loyal to
xioms ira thinker is to require from him.
II consistency, We may demand that the
:isnti6c method rising from the physical
lsu9GA tbe asthetic into lie moral. hall