The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-08-01
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

The more women look In their mir
rors, the less they look to their houses.
Never scolI at religion, it is not only
proof of wicked heart, but of low
breeding.
Will listen 10 any ones convictions,
but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
| have plenty of my own.
1t is not difficult to do good, for the
means are constantly clustering about
every mans lips and hands.
If you would rise in the world, you
must not stop to kick at every cur who
Darks at you as you 90 along.
The true end of freedom is TO deyclop
manhood and wOmanhood, not to make
authors, mechanics or statesmen.
Innocence is flower which withers
when touched, and blooms not again,
though it be watered with tears.
The lessons of disappointment, hu.
initiation and blunder, impress one more
than those of thousand masters.
If God ever failed one who trusted
in him, you might doubt; but he never
has, therefore you should be confident.
1t is good rule never to forget the
kindly deeds which others do TO YOU,
and never to remember those you dc
for them.
The extreme pleasure we take in talk
ing of ourselves, should make us fear
that we give very little to those who
listen to us.
We should often have reason to be
ashamed of our most brilliant actions if
the world could see the motives from
which they spring,
A friendship that makes the least
noise is very often the most useful; for
which reason | should prefer prudent
friend TO Jealous one.
Charity toward the weakness of
human nature is virtue which we de-
mand in others, but which we find very
hard to practice ourselves.
Happiness, in this world, when it
comes, comes incidentally. Make it the
object of pursuit, and it leads us wild.
goose chase, and is never attained.
Alas if the principles are not within
us, the height of station and worldly
grandeur Will as soon add cubit to
mans stature as to his happiness.
Brevity is the soul and body of wit
1t is wit itself, for it alone isolates suf.
hciently for contrasts; because redun-
dance or profusion produces no distinct
ness.j
Though the word and the spirit do
the main work, yet suffering so unbolts
the door OF the heart, that both the
word and the Spirit have easier en-
trance.
Christ says, "If we love me keep my
commandments. 1t would be well for
us to pay more attention to our conduct
and prove the depth of our feelings by
our obedience.
Faces are as legible as books, only
with these circumstances to recommend
them TO our perusal, that they are read
In much less time and are much less
likely to deceive us.
If man becomes your friend all at
once, not for any good reason, but ap-
parently from caprice, the chances are
that when his present mood is over he
will at once leave you.
Faith builds in the dungeon and the
lazar-house its sublimest shrines; and
up through roofs of stone, that shut out
the heaven, ascends the ladder where
the angels glide to and from prayer.
True worth Is inevitably discovered
Dy It's facial expression, as its opposite
Us sure TO be clearly represented there.
The human face Is natures tablet, and
the truth is certainly written thereon.
What pity all our consciences are
not as tender as that of the youthful
culprit who was overtaken by hail
storm, and who hurried home in terror
and told his mother that God was awful
angry and had been Growing stones at
him."
Politeness Is the spontaneous move
ment of good heart and an observing
mind. BenevolenCe will teach us tenn
perence toward the feelings of others,
and habits of observation will enable us
to judge promptly and easily what those
feelings are.
In taking the veil In Italy nun casts
behind her bouquet of flowers she has
borne upon her bosom. Thus the be-
lever in devoting himself to Christ,
casts behind him worldly pleasures;
tnough beautiful as flowers, as evanes-
ceh' aS Ihey'
Every one who renudiatoa bonost
debts TO churches vhidb ba is ohIn to
nav does inst so rnuch harm, 70 tho ," oo,O "
mHnitv at large to Sow % notEing Of NJ 'po of S hio
own personal loss of character and re.
putation. The spiritual results of such
conduct need no comment.
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