The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-05-02
FOOD FOR THOUGHT,


a strong won't.
1t is an uncontrolled truth that no
man never made an i'll figure who un.
derstood his own talents, nor good one
who mistook them.
Trust him little who smilingly praises
all alike; him less who sneeringly CEN
sures all alike; him least who is coldly
Indifferent TO all alike.
The world is all title page; there Is
no contents; the world is all face; the
man who shows his heart is hooted for
his nudity, and scorned.
Safety comes of too frequent repeti-
tion, and he who will never give him
self leisure to be thirsty can never find
the true pleasure of drinking.
We are taught to clothe our minds,
as we do our bodies, after the fashion IN
vogue, and 1t is accounted fantastical,
or something worse, not to do so.
The rude man is contented If he sees
but something going on; the man of
more refinement must be made to feel;
the man entirely refined desires to re-
| fleet.
Let us carefully observe those good
qualities wherein our enemies excel us,
and endeavor to excel them by avoiding
what is faulty, and initiating what Is
excellent in them.
They who have never known pros
perity can hardly be said to be un-
happy; it is from the remembrance of
joys we have lost that the arrows of
atfliction are pointed.
The purposes, objects and resolutions
of life are the perfectly formed links,
and the fulfilling of these aspirations is
the linking of them together, which
forms the useful chain.
To know one person who is positively
to be trusted will do more for mans
moral nature--ves, for his spiritual ma
ture-than all the sermons he has ever
heard or ever can hear.
Plenty and indigence depend upon
the opinion every one has of them; and
riches, no more than glory or health,
have no more beauty nor pleasure than
their possessor is pleased to lend them.
Honors soften fatigue. IL is easy
riding in gilded AID embossed saddle.
Atlas, while he sustains the world
upon his Shoulders, is himself sustained
by the admiration which his feat ex-
cites.
A man walks three miles in an hour;
a horse trots seven; steamboats, run
eighteen; sailing vessels make ten slow
rivers flow four, rapid ones, seven;
moderate wind blows seven, and storms
thirty-six; hurricanes eighty.
An individual may stand high in the
estimation of the community in which
he lives-he may even sway the destl-
nies of an empire; yet this does not of
itself entitle him to the appellation of
great. He only is truly great who is
truly good.
A wife's love is the golden chain
which unites her to her husband. 1t
has thousand delicate links, forged by
sympathy, self-respect and mutual con-
tidence; sever but one of them and the
chain is as completely broken as though
hundred were destroyed.
When we hear people ready to speak
of the faults of others, or to censure
them as holding scandalous errors, or
to lessen the wisdom and piety of those
about them, that themselves may seem
the wiser and better, this is a sign that
they have vain religion.
In sketch of the life and character
of the late President Lincoln, the fol-
lowingis given as short sermon which
he was in the habit of preaching to his
children: "Don't drink; don't smoke;
don't chew; don'tswear; don't gamble;
don't lie; don't cheat. Love your fell
low man; love truth; love virtue and
be happy"
The grave burles every error, covers
every defect, extinguishes every resent.
ment. From its peaceful bosom spring
none but fond regrets and tender recol-
lections. Who can look down upon the
grave of an enemy and not feel COM
punctuous throb that he should have
warred with the poor handful of dust
that lies mouldering before himl
Any person gifted with ordinary com
mon sense can perceive that life Is
short, that time flies, that we ought to
make good use of the present; but 1t
needs the union of much experience
with the most consummate wisdom to
know exactly what ought to be done
and what ought to be left undone, the
latter being frequently by far the more
important of the two.
Fuller, in his description of a good
wife, says: "She commandeth her hus.
band in equal matters by constantly
obeying him, She never crosseth her
husband in the springtide Of his anger,
but stays till it be ebbing water. Her
clothes are rather comely than costly,
and she makes plain cloth to be velvet
by her husband wearing 1t. In her hus-
bands sickness she feels more grief than
she knows.
Coffee.carts are now becoming fea-
lures in some of the English cities. At
York some friends of temperance lately
subscribed two hundred dollars, bought
a cart, handed 1t over toan active, sober
man, and he is now selling sixty thou
sand gallons year at a halfpenny a
cup, and is making good profit out of
it. A similar cart is to be established at
Oxford, out of funds furnished by
banking house. 'S-
There is an excellent cement which
ought to be used freely by every one.
This cement Is good for family jars and
social cuts. It heals wounds and leaves
no scars; mends life; binds enemies to
gether; mends damaged regulations,
and is splendid for hurt feelings. This
universal cement is love. Loue Is a
thing to be cultivated as you would cul
tivate a solitary stock of wheat, sup
posing that there was not another grain
of wheat In the world.
The only real and truly Christian pu-
rity, is TO live In the world as not Of
it, and to keep the soul unspotted from
It. There are no fires tnat will melt out
our drossy and corrupt particles like
Gods refining fires Of duty and trial,
living as He sends us to live, In the
open field of the worlds sins and sor-
rows. its plausibllties and lies, It's per-