West-Jersey pioneer., 1878-03-07
RANDOM READINGS.

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ers; SO may you better bear your own small
troubles
You cannot be buried in obscurity;
you are exposed upon a grand theatre to
the view of the world. If your actions are
upright and benevolent, be assured they
will augment your power and happiness.
Children must have love inside the house,
and fresh air and good play and some good
companionshp outside-otherwise young
life runs the greatest danger in the world of
whitening or becoming stunted, or at best
prematurely growing old and turning in
ward on ITSELF
Begin the education of the heart, not
with the cultivation of noble propensities
but with the cutting away with those that
| are evil. When once the noxous are with
cred and rooted out, then the more noble
plants, strong in themselves, will shoot up
wards. The virtues, like the body, becomes
strong and healthy more by labor than nour-
ishment.
Liberality, courtesy, benevolence, unset
| fishness, under all circumstances, and to-
ward all men-these qualities are to the
world what the linchpin is to the rolling
chariot. And, when these qualities are
wanting, neither father nor mother will re-
| ceive honor and support from a son. And
because wise men foster these qualities,
therefore do they prosper and receive praise.
Fuller, in his description of a good wife,
says-"She commandeth her husband 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 come
ly than costly, and she makes plain cloth to
be velvet by her husband wearing it. In
her husbands sickness she feels more grief
than she shows.
1t is grateful moment, that of being
well nestled in bed, and feeling that you
shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to
come, not past; the limbs have just been
tired enough to render the remaining in one
posture delightful; the labor of the day is
done. A gentle failure of the perceptions
creeps over you; the spirit Of consciousness
disengages itself once more, and with slow
and hushing degrees, like mother detach-
ing her hand from that of sleeping child,
the mind seems to have balmy lid closing
over it. Like the eye, it is closed-the mys-
terious spirit has gone to take it's airy round
Neglect of small things is the rock OH
which the great majority of the human race
have split. Human life consists of success.
sion of small things, each of which is COM
paratively unimportant, and yet the happi-
ness and success of every man depend on
the manner III which these small events are
dealt with. Character is built up on little
things-little things we'll and honorably
transacted. The success of man in busi-
ness depends on his attention to little
things. The comfort of a household is the
result of small things well arranged and
duly provided for. Good government can
well regulated provisions for the doing of
little things.
Look on the bright side. 1t is the right
side. The times may be hard but it will
make them no easier to wear a gloomy and
sad countenance. 1t is the sunshine, and
not the cloud, that gives beauty to the
flower. There is always before and around
us that which should cheer and fill the
heart with warmth and gladness. The sky
is blue ten times where it is black once.
You have troubles it may be. So have
others. None are free from them-and
perhaps it is as we'll that none should be.
| They give sinew and tone to life-forttude
and courage to man. That would be dull
sea and the sailor would never acquire skill,
where there was nothing to disturb its sur
face. 1t is the duty of every one to extract
all the happiness and enjoyment he can
from within and without him; and above
all he should look on the brightside. What
though things do look little dark? The
lane will have a turning, and the night will
end in broad day. In the long run the
great balance rights itself. What appears
ill becomes well-that which appears wrong,
right.