The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-05-09
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

look at the new moon out OF respect FOL
that "ancient institution" the old one
All sects are different because they
come from, men; morality is every
where the same, because IL comes from
God.
A short time before dying, Senator
Morton said This wife: "In all these
years OF sickness she has never failed
me once"
Everything may be mimicked by
hypocrisy but humility and love united
The more rare the more radiant when
they meet.
Men are made to be eternally shaken
about, but women are flowers that lose
their beautiful cOlors in the noise and
tumult of life.
He who tells lie is not sensible how
great task he undertakes; for he must
be forced to invent twenty more to
maintain one.
The scope of an intellect is not to be
measured with tape-string, or char
acter deciphered from the shape and
length of nose.
Happiness is in taste and not In
things; and it Is by having what we
love that we are happy, not by having
what others find agreeable.
The most painful part of our bodily
pain Is that which is bodiless or imma.
terial-namely our impatience, and the
delusion that it will last forever.
People are commonly so employed in
pointing out faults in those before them
as TO forget that some one behind them
may at the same time be descanting on
their own.
In the species with which we are
best acquainted-namely, our own-I
am far, says awriter, even as an OBJ
server of human life, from thinking
that youth is the happiest season, much
less the only happy one.
Christian faith is a grand cathedral
with divinely-pictured windows. Stand
ing without, you see 70 glory nor can
possibly Imagine any; standing within,
every ray of light reveals harmony of
unspeakable splendor.
Every human being influences his
companion for good or for evil. Not
the meanest creature on earth lives
without touching some one, and in that
touch influencing, moulding, shaping to
better ends or to worse.
If this life is unhappy it is burden
to us which is difficult TO bear; if it is
in every respect happy it is dreadful to
be deprived of it; so that in either case
the result is the same for we must exist
in anxiety and apprehension.
A smile costs the giver nothing, vet
1t Is beyond price to the erring and re-
penting, the sad and cheerless, the lost
and forsaken. 1t disarms malice, sub
dues temper, turns enmity to love, re-
venge to kindness, and paves the dark
est paths with gems of sunlight.
A man may talk virtuously, but If he
lives in secret an impure life his uncon-
scious influence for evil will destroy
the effect of his words. Character in.
fuences independently of his profess
sions, and this influence of character
is the heaviest weight in the scale of
life.
The greatest man is he who chooses
the right invincible resolution, who re-
slsts the sorest temptations from within
aud without, who bears the heaviest
burdens cheerfully, who is the calmest
In storms, whose reliance on truth, on
virtue, and on God, is the most unfal-
tering.
Ignorance and Indifference are boon
Anomalous as it NAV
seem, the man who knows but little Is
seldom anxious to add to his stock of
knowledge, while the individual who
really Is well-informed is never satisfied
except when adding to his store of in
1t is evident that If the moral or the
religious world is to be made better
than it is to-day, those who are to be-
come the men and women of to. morrow
must now be properly trained and
directed. There is no avoiding the
duty if truth and morality are to be ad-
vAnced, and good government secured.
Harmony in married state is the
very first thing to be aimed at. Moth
ing can preserve affection uninter-
rupted but firm resolution never to
differ in will, and the determination of
each to consider the love of the other of
more value than any other earthly OBJ
eGt whatever on which wish can be
fixed.
Many have yielded to go a mile with
Satan who never intended to 20 with
him twain; but, when once on the way
with him, have been inveiglcd further
and further, until they know not how
TO leave him. Thus he leads poor crea-
lures down into the depths of sin, by
stairs, so that they see not the
bottom and end of that to which they
are going.
A Christian should be on the watch
that, in his daily discourse of life and iu
his hours Of relax ltlon, all do not run to
waste and emptiness, but that there be
ever fixture of words wherewith one
may edify another, and of sound speech
that cannot be condemned. 1t is well
to go into society with recollected
vow, and mental prayer that God
would keep the door of our lips.
Eternity is a solemn word and
solemn world. The soul of man shrinEs
back with dismay and dread from enter
Ing that mysterious abode of spirits.
Aud yet all are on their way to eter-
nifty, and must soon enter 1t and enter
1t alone. But how little think the gay
md pleasure-loving, who tread so near
It's dark shores, how soon they must
launch away on that untried ocean.
Leigh Hunt says: "God made both
tears and laughter, and both for kind
for, as laughter enables mirth
and surprise to breathe freely, so tears
enable sorrow to vent itself patiently.
Tears hinder sorrow from becoming
despair and madness; and laughter Is
one Of the very privileges Of reason,
being confined to the human species"
The elevation of man is to be sought,
Or rather consists, first In force Of
thought exerted for the acquisition Of
truth. Thought Is the fundamental
distinction of mind. and the great work