The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-03-28
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

sign of weakness and malady.
A little boy went to his father crying
the other day, and told him that he
had kicked bee that had splinters In
Its tail.
What is the child to the motheri II
is soul which requires TO be formed.
Good teachers make good scholars, but
it Is only mothers that form men.
The test OF our love is obedience.
This is the touchstone; II swe cps away
a whole mass of natural feeling, and
shows what is gold and what is brass.
A great thought awakens in our mind
a whole world Of new perceptions, as a
sunbeam streaming into the darkness
shows a thousand atoms floating In Its
path.
Everybody Is willing to take up the
cross OIL high hill where all the peO-
pie see him; but crosses that nobody
sees him take he does not assume So
readily.
In everything that women write there
will be thousands of faults against
grammar; but also, to a certainty, al
ways a charm never to be found In the
letters of men.
Very few people 60 into an argument
in order TO discover the truth Of the
matter. They want to hold their own
and rout the enemy. Hence the general
loss of temper.
When we see the shameful fortunes
amasscd in all quarters of the globe are
we not impelled to exclaim that Judas
thirty pieces Of silver have fructihed
across the centuriesP
1t is a universal rule, which, as far
as | know, has no exception, that great
men always resemble their mothers,
who impress their mental and physical
mark upon their sons.
The Italians say that he who offends
never forgives. Tacitus gave the rea-
son for it. 1t is, he says, because the
causes of hatred are the more violent
the more unjust they are.
Vanity is so constantly solicitous of
self that, even where its own claims are
not interested, 1t indirectly seeks the
ailment which it loves by showing how
little is deserved by others.
Truth comes to US from the past as
gold is washed down the mountains of
Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious
particles, add intermixed with infinite
alloy, the debris of centuries.
1t is said that he or she who admits
the possession of secret has already
half revealed it. Certainly it is a great
deal gained towards the acquisition of a
treasure to know exactly where 1t Is.
Tasso, being urged to avenge himself
upon man who mad done him many
injuries said: II wish to take frcm
him neither his property, nor his life,
nor his honors, but only his ill-will to-
ward me-"
Spiritual hunger cannot be satisfied
by general resolution, stereOtyped
speeches and formal prayers; but only
by closer communion with Christ and
personal effort of one soul for the well
fare of another.
There is scarcely any one Of us, even
of those whose who are very sparing of
speech, who has not wasted at least one.
half of the words which he ever uttered
and every word has been mischievous
as well as wasteful.
Great and rare heart-offerings are
found almost exclusively among wo-
men; nearly all happiness and most
blessed moments Of love are of their
creating, and SO also In friendship, espe-
cially when 1t follows love.
As folly on the one side, though 1t
should enjoy all 1t can desire, would,
Notwithstanding, never be content; 80,
ho nkh h.A, xnri1
quiesces with the present, and Is never
dissatisfied with Its immediate condi-
ton.
My faith is, that there is greater
amount of revelation given to guide
each man by the principles laid down
in the Bible, by conscience, and by
Providence, than most men are aware
of. 1t is not the light which is defec-
tive, it is an eye to see 1t.
To be forgotten as soon as dead Is the
melancholy lot of man everywhere, but
it is only in the more populous places
of the world that this forgetfulness an.
ticipates the two fold oblivion of the
grave, and that men are considered dead
because they cease to be remembered.
Providence has so ordained 1t that
only two women have true interest In
the happiness ofa man-his own mother
and the mother Of his children. Be-
sides these two legitimate kinds of love,
there is nothing between the two crea-
lures except vain excitement, painful
and idle delusion.
A man who has duly considered the
condition of his being, will contentedly
yield to the course of things; he will
not pant for distinction where distinc-
tion would imply no merit; but though
on great occasions he may wish to be
greater than others, he will be satisfied
In common occurrences not to be less.
There Is too often q burden of care In
getting riches; a burden of anxiety in
Keeping them; a burden OF temptation
In using them; burden of guilt in
abusing them; burden Of sorrow In
losing them, and burden of account at
last to be given up for possessing and
either improving or mlsimproving
them.
Contempt naturally implies mans
esteeming himself greater than the
person whom he contemns. He, there
fore, that sights, that contemns an at
front, is properly superior to it; and he
conquers an injury who conquers his
resentment of 1t. Socrates, being
kicked by an ass, did not think It u re-
venge proper for Socrates to kick the
ass again.
Simple and unpretendlng ignorance
Ia always respectable, and sometimes
charming; but there Is little that more
deserves contempt than the pretence OF
ignorance to knowledge. The curse
and the peril of language In this day,
and particularly In this country, Is that
It Is at the mercy of men who, instead
of being content to use 1t well, accord
ing to their honest Ignorance, use 1t
III, according to their affected know
ledge: who, being Vulgar, would seem