The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-10-24
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

A good man will be doing good
wheresoever he is. His trade is a COM
pound of charity and justice.
Sorrow comes soon enough without
dependency; IL does man no good 10
carry around lightning-rod TO attract
trouble.
Hate Is an active, envy passive dis
pleasure; 1t need not surprise us,
therefore, to see how quickly envy be-
comes hate.
Love cannot fully admit the feeling
that the beloved object may die e; all pas
siOns feel their object to be as eternal
as themselves.
If you ask an obstinate man to incline
his ears TO reason, he is very likely to
incline them backwards. like a horse
bent on mischief.
Nothing does so fool man as extreme
passion. This doth make them fools,
which otherwise are not, aud show them
to be fools which are SO.
The essence of true nobility Is neglect
of self. Let thought OF sell pass In, and
the beauty of a great action is gone, like
the bloom of sOiled flower.
He is the eloquent man who can treat
subjects of an humble nature with deli
cacy, lofty things impressively and
moderate things temperately.
No man ever stated his griefs as
lightly as he might. For il is only the
finite that has wrought and suffered;
the iIfinite lies stretched in silent re-
pose.
Garments that have one rent in them
are subject TO be torn on every nail and
glasses that are once cracked are soon
broken; such is a mans good name
once tainted with reproach.
The desire of being in the fsshion
does not always arise from the mere
monkey instinct of imitation, but otter
from desire that there may be no in
ference as TO our pecuniary inability TO
do so.
True honor results from the secret
satisfaction of our own minds, and is
decreed us both by religion and the suf-
frages of wise men-it is the shadow of
wisdom ard virtue, and is inseparable
from them.
A country girl on being asked If she
knew what fashionable reception was,
replied: cit is gathering of the sexes
where women gossip with women on
the latest fashions, and with men on the
latest scandal"
There is no cOntending against neces-
sity, and we should be very tender how
we censuTe those that submit TO il. 1t
Is one thing TO be at liberty to do what
we will, and another thing to be tied
up to do what we must.
bear my witness that confidence in
man is utter folly, aud brings sorrow to
the soul; but am more than ever GER
tain that confidence in God is always
wise, never leads TO ppeintment,
and never causes regret.
The love Of glory, the fear of shame,
the design of making fortune, the de-
sire OF rendering life easy and agreeable
and the humor of pulling down other
people, are often the cause of that valor
SO celebrated among men.
Ii we mix with the world for the
pleasure it affords, we shall be likely TO
be the first to be recOnCiled to the free
dom and laXity it tallOws. The world Is
not brought up to us, but we sink down
to the world; the drop. becomes of the
cOnsistence and color of the ocean into
which it falls.
Lite has such hard conditions to us
sinners that every dear and precious
gift, every rare virtue, every pleasant
faculty, every genial endowment, love,
hope, joy, wit, sprightliness, benevo-
lence, must sometimes be put into the
crucible to distil the one elixir pa
tlence and submission.
Every body seems nowadays to have
taken to theorising. The old, tried and
proved doctrines of our fathers must
hide their heads before the dreams OF
their degenerate sons. We are not of
that mind, but see the thrOng reelIng
around the staple pillar of truth and
tremble for them.
Love, it has been said, descends more
than it ascends. The love
of parents for children has always
been far more powerful than that of
chi ldren for their parents; and who
among the sons of men ever loved God
with a thousandth part OF the love which
God has manifested to usp
Fiction may be more instructive than
real history; but the vast run of rO-
and novels, as they are, do in
cqlculable mischief. | wish we could
co lect them all together, and make one
vast fire Of them. | should eXult to see
the smoke OF them ascend, like that of
SOdOm and GOmorrah; the judgment
would be as just.
This world is dream within dream;
and as we grow older, each step Is All
awakening. The youth awakes, as he
thinks, from childhood; the full grown
man desplses the pursuits of youth as
visionary; and the old man looks on
manhood as feverish dream. Death
the last sleepP mol 1t is the last and
final awakening!
Let me be thankful for the pleasing
hope, that though God loves my child
too we'll to permit It to return to me,
He will ere long bring me to IL; and
then that affection which would have
been cord to tie me to earth and would
have added new songs 10 my removal
from IL, will be as golden chain to
draw me upwards and add one further
charm to Paradise Itself.
Make your lives great by building on
the sure foundation, and, following the
perfect plan of the perfect Master
Builder, "See that thou make all things
according to the pattern showed to thee
I'm the mount" Enthrone truth, en-
throne duty, enthrone God in sovereign
over your entire being and
life, and you shall thereby be enthroned
on earth's highest seat of power, and
heavens highest throne of dominion,
Build on the false, the universe cannot
save you; build on the true, the uni
verse canuo. harm you.
A strong mind always hopes, because
IL knows the mutability OF human at
fairs, and how slight circumstance
may change the whole course of events.
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