The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-02-14
FOOD FOR THOUGHT,

neither hot nor timid.
With love, the heart becomes fair
and fertile garden, glowing with sun
shine and warm hues, aud exhaling
! sweet odOrs.
we have seen prudent and indus
trious wife retrieve the fortunes of
family when her husband pulled at the
, other end Of the rope.
We all dread a bodily paralysis and
would make use of every contrivance ~
avoid IL, but none of us are troubled
about paralysis of the soul.
High honor is not only gotten and
born by pain and danger, but must be
nursed by the like, else it vanishes as
soon AS it appears to the world.
An hour in our life will surely come
when we shall be enabled to say that
we have not had one trial too much,
not one that could have been spared.
Religious principles inculcated I'm a
child's heart are like golden nails which
time draws in faster, and no philoso-
phlcal claw can completely draw out.
Honor and justice, reason and equity
go great way in procuring prosperity
to those who use them; and in case OF
failure, they secure the best retreat and
most honorable consolation.
Dean Swift said that the reason
university was a learned place was that
most persons took some learning there,
aud but few brought any away with
them, and so 1t accumulated.
FarjeOn says: "There are no more
| Hpma 10 Y,an,,lo -, ~.
Jews. They enjoy their families, and
never come home drunk. A jew may
drink but he never gets drunk"
That which is past is gone and ire
VocaDle; wise men have enough to do
| with things present and to come.
therefore they do but tr:he with them
selves that labor in past matters.
There are few men who, were they
certain of death on their SEVENTEEN
birthday, would think of preparation.
Tomorrow may be the gate of an eter-
NIFTY, and they go on in their folly.
A law of morals that is deduced
shrewdly from passing events, may give
a good deal Of successful guidance in
daily life, but we cease TO discover it in
the tar-reaching light of eternity.
Some people dread change because
they cannot understand growth. Were
they trusted with the destinies of
grub, 1t would remain grub forever,
undisturbed by any shooting wing
pains.
When learned man, intoxicated
with his reading, takes his first step in
the world, it is very often false step.
If he takes counsel only of his books,
ne runs the risk of never succeeding in
his projects.
A theology at war with the laws of
physical nature would be battle of no
doubtful issue. The laws of our spirit
ual nature give still less chance of sue.
cess to the system which would thwart
or stay them.
we are so presumptuous that we wish
TO be known to all the world, even to
those who come after us; and we are
80 vain that the esteem of five or six
persons Immediately around us is
enough to satisfy us.
1t is said that at three years old we
love our mothers; at SIX our fathers; at
ten our holidays; at sixteen dress at
twenty our sweethearts; at twenty-five
our wives; at forty our children, and
at sixty ourselves.
True charity is not the charity of
giving aims, of clothing the naked and
leedlng the hungry; but the greater,
the more difficult, and more elevated
chSrity of judging favorably the i'm
puted or proved errors of others-a
charity so seldom practiced.
If a man will only start with a fixed
and honorable purpose in life, and per-
slstently attempt to carry it out to the
best OF his ability, undismayed by fail
ure or delay, the tune may be long In
but it will come, when that
purpose will be achieved.
Let him who gropes painfully In
darkness or uncertain light, and prays
vehemently that the dawn may rlpen
into day, lay this precept well to heart:
'Do the duty which lies nearest to
,hee," which thou knowest to be Il
luty thy second duty will have already
become clearer.
A thinking man Is the worst enemy
he prince Of darkness can have--every
line such one announces himself,
loubt not there runsa shndder through
he neither empire, and new emissaries
ire trained to new tactics, to entrap
lin If possible, and hoodwlnk and
him.
Such are the vicissitudes of the world,
through all its parts, that day and night
abor and rest, hurry and retirement,
ndear each other. Such are the
hanges that keep the mind in action;
We desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are
we desire something else and
'egin new pursuit.
Truth is always consistent with itself
nd needs nothing to help IL out. 1t Is
lways near at hand, and sits upon our
ips and is ready to drop out before you
re aware; whereas q lie is troublesome,
nd sets u mans invention upon the
ack, and one trick needs great many
lore to make 1t good.
We all have to so through great
cal In our lifetime. if we would do any
ood or be In any way worthy. In this
s in many other things, fear of encoun
,ring Is the surest way of meeting;
nd those who are bravest In bearing
re for the most part the least trouble
, the end by the bother of minor
lings.
Let us bury the dead things of life
eep on good honest soil, plant flowers
n them, so that the place where they
Q shall not be barren nor distigured;
Iake of each mistake, each sad expert
nee, a means for future good and
nth and beauty; and 10 on--always
n-till we come TO the end, when we
lrseves shall be among the dead aud
uried, some Of us remaining as beal-
ful remembrances, ever enshrined In
onor aud delight; If some Of us stand
tin the backward vista, AS but sor-
fwflil mistakes, like blind creatures