The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-11-22
Jewels of Thought and Devotion.

~ 'iSiiu' almighty pllc,
Earth generations pass
And while the years an endless hest
come pressing swiftly on.
Inc brightest names that earth can boast
Just glISten and are gone
ct doth the Star of Bethlehem shed
uStre pure and sweet:
And still it leads. as once it led
To the Messiah's feet
Oh Father! may that holy star
HfoW every year more bright
And send its glorious beams atar
10 NIL the world with light
bryant.
The heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
Is always first to be touched by the thorns. Moore
High honor is not only gotten and born by pain
ana danger, but must be nursed by the like else
II VanlShes as soon as it appears to the world [Sir
T. Sidney
We are taught to clothe our minds as we do our
bodies after the fashion in vogue and it is ac-
counted fantaStlcal or something worse not to do
50. Locke.
Professor Huxley describes Positivism as a
nan breed between science and theology, en-
lowed, like most half breeds with the fauts of
both parents and the virtues of neither"
Fashion, being the art OF those who must Dur
chase notice at some cheaper rate than that of be-
ing beautiful, loves to do rash and extrayagant
things. She must be forever new or she becomes
lnslpid. Lowell.
All, if the Improbable servant WAS east into
outer darkness because he merely buried his tai
ent what favor can they expect who have received
many talents and have employed them all against
the nlver Alassillon.
word or a look which at one time would make
no impression, at another time wounds the heart
ana, hke a shaft flying wit he wind pierces
Ifh with
scarce have reached the object aimed at. ISterne
Perfect friendship puts Us under the necessity
Oh pelhS Vlftuous. AS it can only be preserved
among estlmable persons it forces us to resemble.
them. We find i'll friendship the surest of GOOD
counsel, the emulation Of good example sympathy
III our gnetS, succor in our distress IMme de
Lambert
BE careful to make friendship the child and not
the rather OF virtue; for many strongly knit minds
are rather good friends than good men: so. as
though they no not like the evil their friend does,
yet they like him who does the evil and though
no GounSeors of otlense. they yet protect the Of
fender. Sir p. Sidney.
Virtue without the graces is like a rich diamond
lnpolished-t looks hardly better than a common
pebble: but when the hand of the master rubs off
ihc roughness and forms the sides into a Thousand
hFHllant surfaces, it is then that we acknowledge
It's worth. admire its beauty, and long to wear if
on our boSolns Lame Porter.
When death strikes down the innocent and
Young, Tor every fragile form from which he sets
Inc painting spirit free hundred virtues rise in
shapes OF mercy. charity and love to walk the
world and bless it, Of every tear that sorrowin,
hortas Shed on such green graves some good is
porn some geItler nature comes. Dickens
Arelgious mani mean not a mere TECHNICAL,
religious man. but one who lives as Milton ex-
presses 1t, ever IN the great Task masters eve
cannot be a drudge. Conscience and faith Joined
III all action, the grand idea OF duty giving If A
nobleneSS large the universe and the sweet
sense OF trust III an infinite friendship putting
new life INTO the soul-these make a paradise Of
delight ont of the commonest life Flames Free
man Clarke.
tod Is not Jealous Of our affections on earth or
III heaven; like a second or third in the music Of
the choir Wonder, angels would add their note to
inc Judges welcome Of "Wel done. good and
faithful servant 1t is customary to say of thc
deceased that all is finished with them and they
nave come To their end. No: they have barely
begun. We have all OF u. Just got in Our friend
Is but passing through the porch into larger life
oar funerals are too gloomy with the closed blinds
ana the curtains down. Let the sun into tha
chamber of death. The child is born in pain to
Itself and to her who puts it forth into the world
Vet we do not taSten the shutters of our DWELLING
but rejoice with Jubilee Shall we have less glad
ness Which, with some pain, also, to him that goes
rs 10 those who stay. soul is born into the shin
!nE mansions to tread their floors and move on
l"feeer9 TO put what is left where the grass
crows green again, heavens sign on earth of that
resurrection