The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-11-07
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

IL requires great deal Of badness
and a great deal Of caution to make
great fortune, and when you have got
II IL requires ten times as much Wit 10
keep it.
In most quarrels there Is fault on botlI
sides. Botn 1iInt and steel are necessary
TO the production OF spark. Either OF
them may hammer on wood forever,
aud no lire Will follow.
Look not mOurnfully into the past; il
cOnes not back again. Wisely improve
the pIesent-lt Is thine. Go lUrtu 10
meet the shalOWy future without lear,
and with manly heart.
Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the
head OF the man, but tails like dew on
the head of the woman, aud brings forth
,ems Oi sOiengIh OF which she herself
mad no conscious possession.
This body In which we are now sit.
ting or standing Is not substance
winch shall abide, but It is shadow
when shall dissolve, mUulderlng into
dust and exhaling into water.
No matter how pious men are, the
moment they place policy before priu-
ciple they become incapable of dUiug
right, aud are transformed into the
most odious tools OF despotism.
If two men are united, the wants of
neither are amy greater, IN sOule Ie-
spects, than they would be were they
aiOht, and their strength Is superior 10
Tie strength oi two Separate men.
Every other sin halh some pleasure
NJ al tn 4 4 I....
cuse; envy wants both; we should slrive
against 1t, Tor IL induigeu la II VIII be
" US lOretaste OI hell upon eartH.
Good words do more than hard
Speeches; AS the suubedns without any
NOISE VIII make the traveller cast On his
CLOAK, which all the clustering winds
could not do, but only make hIm blmd
II closer 10 hlm.
Some eyes threaten with loaded and
leveIled pistol, AID others are AS insult
lhg as Missing or klchIng; some have no
more expression than blueberries,
whlle Others are AS deep AS well which
you eau fall into.
Fashion IS u tyrant from which moth
lng trees US. We must suit ourselves
10 It's fantastic tastes. But being cOm-
p-lled 10 i've under its foolish laws, the
wise man 10 never The first TO follow,
nor The last " keep IL.
All men need something to poetze
anu lueallze their lie little, something
which Ihey value Tor nUIe IMAM IT, use,
aud wnIch ls symUOl of their emauci-
patton IRON the mere materIalism aud
uIudgery of daily lie.
Tears ami sorrows and losses are q
part vi what must be experienced IN
thls present state ot lite; suIue tor our
manifest good, and All, therefore, IL is
trusted, iVr our good cOucealed-lOr our
hnal aud greatest good.
We who give tile first shock to State
are naturally tie first " he eoyerwhelmeI
IN It's rum. Inc fruits vi puUlIc coLnuIu-
tion are seldom enjoy Ell by the uIan
VINO was the INST to seL IL agOlug; he
only troubles the water for anoUner's
net.
The condition and characteristic of a
vulgar person are that he never looks
Tor either help or harm from himself,
but oniy from eXternals. The cOndI-
LlOn and characteristic of a philosopher
are that he looks to himself Ior all help
or harm.
If we are faultless we should not be
so much annoyed by the deieCls OF those
with whom we associate. Ii we were
TO acknowledge honestly that we have
not virtue enough to bear patiently
with our neighbours weakne, ,ses, we
should show our own imperiection, and
this alarms our vanity.
Every failure is step to success;
every detection of what ls false directs
us towards what is true; every trial ex-
hausts some tempting form of error.
Not only 50, but scarcely any attempt
is entirely failure; scarcely any the
OTy, the result of steady thought, is
altogether false; no tempting form OF
error is without some latent charm de-
rived from truth.
Intelligence is an effect, as we'll as a
cause; and one potent cause of it in the
moral sphere, is obedience to the moral
law. ut is good WILL" says Emerson,
"that makes inlellgence;" and again
he says, iii mans eye is on the i err
nal, his Intellect will grow" Aud
Jesus Christ has saiG, "if any man will
do his will, he shall know Of the doc
trine." AS the moral vision is blurred
by every evil action, so it is purified
aud strengthe ned by every righteous
deed.
The man who has given himself to
his country loves it better; the man
who has fought fOl his friend honOrs
HIM more; the man who has labOred for
his community values more highly the
interests he has sought to conserve; the
man who has wrought and planned and
endured for the accomplishment of
God's plan in the world sees the great
ness OF it, the divinity and glory of it,
aud is himself more perfectly assimi-
lated to 1t.
Culture if consistently and thorough.
ly carried out, must lead Oh TO leliglon,
that Is, to the cultivation OF the spiritual
and heavenward capacities of our aa-
ture. And religion, if truthful aud
wise, must expand into culture, must
urge en- who are under its power to
make the most of all their capacities;
not only for the worth of those capaci
ties In themselves, but because they are
gifts of God, and given for this purpo,e,
that we may carefully cultivate them.
Faith, hope, charity, by which the
gospel designates the triple manifesto
tion Of the spiritual life, are new names
for new thi g.; for it is needless to say
that in classical Greek the words have
nothing Ike their gospel Specification.
1t would be difficult, we believe, to find
in any Greek or Roman wri er an ex-
preston OF hope Tor the future OF hu-
manity. The nearest approach to such
n sentiment, perhaps, is in the political
Utopianism OF Plato. The social ideal
placed IN a Golden Age has irretrieva-
bly, passed away. Virgi's Fourth
Eclogue, even II 1t were more serious
production than IL is, seems TO refer TO
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