The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-14
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

the most eagerly run after 1t are the
least favored.
There is no heart so utterly hardened
that 1t cannot be touched by womsn's
love and tenderness.
Most OF their faults women owe 10
us, whilst we are indebted TO them for
most Of our better qualities.
A man writing an anonymous letter
is like a puppy inside an enclosure.
barking at you with his nose under the
gate.
Opposition is what we want and must
have to be good for anything. Hardship
is the native soil Of independence and
self-reliance.
III man is not rising upward to be an
angel, depend upon 1t, he is sinking
downward TO be q devil. He cannot
stop at the beast. a2B
A lie is a hiltless sword, which is
sure to cut the hand of him who strikes
with IL. 1t Is better 10 find this out at
first than afterward.
The consecrated life is not life of
perpetual joy; IL is an humble, pure,
vehement life, all given up 10 the SER
vice of God and our brothers.
Reproof, especially as it relates to
children, administered in all gentleness,
will render the culprit not afraid but
ashamed to repeat the offehse.
Never was sincere word utterly
lost, never magnanimity fell to the
ground there is some heart always to
greet and accept 1t unexpectedlysA
Watch over yourself; be your own
accuser, then your judge; ask yourself
grace sometimes, and, If there is need,
impose upon yourself some pain.
Stories first heard at a mothers knee
are never wholly forgotten-a little
spring that never quite dries up In our
journey through scorchlng years.
AS frost to the bud and blight to the
blossom, even such is self-interest to
friendship; for confidence cannot
dwell where selishness Is porter at the
gate.
Oratory and poetry are of little value
unless they reach the highest perfeo-
ton; but history, in whatever way 1t
may be executed, is source Of plea
sure. g.
Too much Is said to children; too
much notice taken of them and their
affairs. In this way restlessness, fret
fulness and self-importance are pro-
NOTED.
l believe In building fine houses, so
that they are well proportioned; and In
beautiful furniture; and in beautiful
men and woman to use them. It's not
selfish.
Rhetoric In serious dlscourses Ia like
the flowers in corn, pleasing TO those
who come only for amusement; u
prejudicial to him wh0iwould real. at
from it. -
Time sheds softness on remote OBJ
Jects of events, as local distanC mparts
TO the landscape a smoothness and mel
lowness which disappear on nearer
approach.
There is one single fact, says Hannah
More, which one may oppose to all the
wit and argument of intidelity-that no
man ever repaated OF being a Christian
on his deathbed.
1t is a special trick of low cunning
to squeeze out knowledge from modest
man, who is eminent In any science,
and then to use it as legally acquired
and pass the source of science.
How vilely he has lost himself that
becomes slave to his servant and ex-
ats him to the dignity of his MakerI
Gold is the god, the wife, the friend,
OF the money-monger of the world.
10 love all mankind, from the great
est to the lowest, cheerful state of
being is required; but in order to see
into mankind, into life, and still more,
into ourselves, suffering is required.
We should never forget that home is
the residence not merely of the body,
but also Of the mind; aS Sshat the OBJ
jecT Of all ambition shWild be to be
happy at.home, and II render home
happy. -
The fireside is seminary OF infinite
importance because it is universal, and
because the education 1t bestows, being
woven In with the wool of childhood,
gives form and color to the whole tex
ture of life,
A man who can give up dreaming and
90 to his daily realities; who can
smother down his heart, it's love or woe,
and take to the work of his hand, and
defy fate, and, If he must die, dies fight.
ing to the last-that man is life's best
hero.
The recognition of virtue is not less
valuable from the lips of man who
hates IL, since truth forces him to ac-
knowledge it; and though he may be
unwilling to take 1t into his inmost
soul, he at last decks himself out In It's
trappings.
A man may be hereto In the truth;
and II he believes things only because
his pastor says 80, or the assembly &c
determines, without knowing other
reasons, though his belief be true, yet
the very truth he holds becomes his
heresy. There is not any burden that
some would gladlier pnt of to another,
than the charge and care Of their reli.
gion.
The only thing which gives value to
prayer is the inward conviction that we
are sitting or standing, walking or
lying down, surrounded by the presence
OF an infinite love and care. And this
feeling we may carry with US wherever
we go, into our work or play, our shop
and our parlor. Not much praying, but
great deal of prayer, is the highest
state of the soul.
The most agreeable Of all companions
is a simple, frank man, without any
high pretenslons to an oppressive great
ness one who loves life, and under
stand the use of it; obliglng alike at all
times, above all golden temper, and
steadfast as an anchor. For such one
we would gladly exchange the greatest
genius, the most brilliant wit, the pro-
foundest thinker.
Let US send light and JOY, If we can,
10 tho anda nf tho aarth THE charity