The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-04-25
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

lifts its head proudly above its neigh
Dor plants, forgetting that it, too, like
them, has its roots in the dirt.
A more glorious victory cannot be
| gained over another man than this,
that when the injury begins on his
part, the kindness should begin on ours.
The strength of church is not its
confession, nor fame, nor reputed gifts.
nor any outward condition. The truly
good men in it give it power in a COM
munlty.
Happiness comes 10 us as sorrow
does, in unexpected ways, and in sud-
den surprises; and sometimes in such
disguise that we fail TO recognize IL
until it isgone.
Llberality, courtesy, benevolence,
unselfishness, under all circumstances
and toward all men, these qualities are
to the world what the linchpin is to the
rolling chariot.
A genuine observer, says Hawthorne,
is as rare as an original poet. To see
well the mind must be full of hooks on
which to hang the facts or feelings as
they are harvested.
Preserve your conscience always soft
and sensitive. If but one sin force itself
into that tender part of the soul and
dwell there, the road is paved for
thousand iniquities.
The greatest luxury of riches is that
they enable you to escape so much good
advice. The rich are always advising
the poor; but the poor seldom venture
| TO return the commitment
Every heavy burden of sorrow seems
like stone hung around our neck, yet
they are often like the stones used by
the pearl divers, which enables them
to reach the prize and to rise enriched.
Contentment abides with truth. And
you will generally suffer for wishing to
appear other than you are, whether it
| be richer or more learned. The mask
soon becomes an instrument of torture.
A heart-memory is better than mere
| head-memory. 1t is better to carry
away little of the life Of God in our
souls than to be able to repeat every
word of every sermon we have ever
! heard.
The great moments of life are but mo-
ments like the others. Your doom is
| spoken In a word or two. A single look
from the eyes, mere pressure of the
hand may decide it, or of the lips,
though they cannot speak.
If thou art rich, then show the great
ness of thy fortune, or what is better,
the greatness of thy soul, in the meek
ness of thy conversation; condescend to
men of low estate, support the distressed
and patronize the neglected.
Memory is the friend of wit, but the
treacherous ally of invention. There
are many books that owe their success
to two things-the good memory of
those who write them and the bad
memory of those who read them.
They who tread life's pathway ever
beaming on their faces an expression
of cAeerfulness are radiant ministers of
good to mankind. They scatter sun
shine on all they meet; depression and
gloom fade away in their presence.
The world is full of toll and trouble,
but you can dodge great deal of it, If
you only try. The difficulty with many
people is that they hold magnifying
glass over their griefs, and then pull
the curtain down when the sun tries to
come out.
1t is very great misfortune to have
a fretful disposition. 1t takes the fra
GRANGE out of ones life, and leaves only
the seeds, where cheerful disposition
ought to bloom. The habit of fretting
is one that grows rapidly unless 1t is
sternly repressed.
Honesty ia the truth of the heart, and
the truth of the lips; it is true heart
feeling, poured forth in true utterance,
whether of word or of deed. The life
of an honest man is harmonious. The
honest integral heart is strong and
sound rock, on which men may build
securely.
An instant decides the life of man and
his whole fate; for after heightened
thought the resolve is only the act of a
moment; it is the man of sense that
seizes on the right thing to be done; 1t
is ever dangerous to linger in your Sc
lection of this and that, and so by your
hesitation get confused.
There is department which suits the
figure and talents of each person. 1t is
always lost when we quit 1t to assume
that of another.
Rage is essentially vulgar, and never
more vulgar than when 1t proceeds
from mortified pride, disappointed am
btion or thwarted wilf6lness. A baf-
fed despot is the most vulgar Of dirty
wretches, no matter whether he be the
despot of a nation vindicating its
rights, or donkey sinking under its
load.
AS rivers are generally deeper in
winter, when there is more rain and
less evaporation than in summer, so
are our religious feelings wont to be
deepest in the wintry season of sorrow,
being then most fed with the showers
Of granted in answer to earnest prayer,
as also exempted from the exhaustive
influences of prosperity.
While we converse with what Is
above us, we do not grow old, but grow
young. Infancy, looking upward,
counts itself nothing, and abandons
itself TO the instruction flowing from all
sides. But the men and women Of
seventy assume to know all, they have
outlived their hope, they renounce as
pirations, accept the actual for the ne
cessary, and talk down to the young.
Character is always known. Thefts
never enrich; aims never impoverish;
murder will speak out of stone walls.
The least admlxture of a lie-for exam
pie. the smallest mixture of vanity, the
least attempt TO make good impression,
a favorable appearance-will instantly
vitate the effect; but speak the truth,
and all nature and all spirits will help
you with unexpected furtherance.
In the lives of the saddest Of us there
are bright days, when we feel as If we
could take the great world into our
arms. Then comes the gloomy days,