The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1878-06-06
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

never grow accustoned-the ravages
| of time and the iujustice of our fellow
men.
1t is heaven upon earth TO have a
mans mind move in charity, rest I'm
Providence and turn upon the poles of
truth.
There is no more implacable enemy
than he who feels he has wrOnged you,
aud no more unhappy man than such
an enemy.
An abundance of peace shall be multi
piled unto him who is in his secret heart
steadfastly resolved not to suffer from
imaginary Ills.
An act by which we make one friend
and one enemy Is a losing game, be
cause revenge is a much stronger pas
sion than gratitude.
Every angry man thinks he Is right,
and nine out of ten can see that they
were wrong when anger cools. Tue
enth man is fool.
The real wants of nature are the mea-
sure of emplOynents, as the foot is the
measure of the shoe. We can call only
the want of what is really necessary,
poverty.
The best application for the improve
ment of the cOuntcnance is a mixture
In equal parts of serenity and cheerful
ness. AnOint the face morning, noon
and night.
Whenever you commend add your
reasons for doing so; it is this which
distinguishes the appreciation Of a man
of sense from the flIttery of sycophants
and admiration OF fools.
The constituents of the human body,
taking elements the names of whicl
will be familiar to the general reader,
are sixteen in number, seven of them
being metals and nine non-metallic.
Beauty is admired, talent adored but
virtue is woman's crown. With it,
the poor are rich; without it, the rich
are poor. 1t walks through life upright,
and never hides its head for high or
low.
The two ingredients of a seidlitz
powder produce tremendous efferves-
cence, but it soon cools down, and
nothing is left but nauseous insipidity.
Some peoples religion is of the same
sort.
Self-interest, appetite and folly, have
put forth many talsehOods about the
uses and virtues of strong drink, which
should be publicly refuted aud exposed
to show up its deceitfulness to the un-
wary.
No man is defeated without some re-
sentiment, which will be continued with
obstinacy while he believes himself in
the right, and asserted with bitterness
even to his conscience If he is detected
in the wrong.
AS long as the waters of persecution
are upon the earth, so long we dwell in
the ark; but where the land is dry the
dove itself will be tempted to a wander
ing course of life, and never return to
the house of her safety.
Christian charity demands abstinence
from that, the use of which would in
jure brother. Gall things are lawful
for me, but all things are not expe.
dlent," says the great Theologian, Logi-
clan and Apostle.
A young man ought to cross his own
rules, to awaken his vigor and to keep
it from growing faint and rusty; and
there is no course of life so weak and
scottish as that which is carried on by
rule and discipline.
One great and kindly thought from a
retired and obscure man may live when
thrones are fallen and the memory of
those who filled them Oblterated, and,
like an undying fire, may illuminate
and quicken all future generations.
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The only perfect friendship subsists
among those who resemble each other
! in virtue, because those who love their
| friends for their virtue, love them for
what is not q temporary appendage,
but permanent essential in their char
acter.
When Holofernes wished to reduce
the city of Bethulie, lie cut off the aque-
duct and spring whence the water was
brought to the city; In like manner does
the devil he turns aside the current of
prayer, and soon the soul is but bar
rem field.
The most important lesson OF life Is
to know how to be happy within our
selves, when home Is our comfort, and
all in 1t, even to the dog and cat, share
our affection. Do not refine away hap
piness by thinking that which is good
may be better. .
Manners are the shadows of virtues;
the momentary display of those quail
ties which our fellow-creatures love a. d
respect. If we strive to become, then,
what we strive TO appear, manners NAV
often be rendered useful guides to the
performance of our duties.
A room without pictures Is like
room without windows. Pictures are
loop-holes Of escape to the soul, leading
to other scenes and other spheres. Pic.
lures are CONSIDERS OF loneliness; they
are books, they are histories and Sc
mons, which we can read without the
trouble Of turning over the leaves.
! Music and flowers are evangels of
purity and faith, redolent of God, If we
| but unlock our hearts 10 their ministry;
and the man or woman who Is imper-
vious to their subtle, spirltuallzlng in
! fluences may feel assured that there is
something essentially wrong IN his or
her organization or habits of life.
In walking along street In an Eng
! lish town, two workingmen were Just
in front Of me, talking in free tone.
They came opposite public house, and
one of them said; "COme In and let's
have drink" "No, don't drink"
"Why, when l've had glass or two
feel strong enough to knock house
down." "ln consequence Of not drink
ing. I've been able to knock two houses
up" the other replied.
Flowers are not tri1ers, as we might
know from the care God has taken OF
them everywhere. Not one unfinished,
not one bearing the marks Of brush or
pencil. Fringing the eternal borders
Of mountain ranges, gracing the pulse
less beat Of the gray old granite, every