The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1878-07-04

THE ! lie should not be classad among
the living; they are sort Of dead men
not tit TO tc buried
ONEact Of bent II ,ence, one act Of real
usefulness, il worth all the gb tract SEN
timeut in the world.
LADIES are like violets; the more
p,oGest and retiring they appear, the
more you love them,
II is the work OF a philosopher to be
every day subduiug his passions and
laying aside his rejudices
Mr. EDISON, the inventor OF the phon.
,graph, parts MA hair at the top of his
collar, and combs il straight up in the
air. When lie walks out he hangs his
| hat upon il,
Wlr loses its respect with the good
when seen in company with malice and
to snilaat the jest wCich plants thorn
! in the breast OF another ia to become
principal in the mischief.
Be not diverted from your study by
any idle reflections the silly world may
make on you, for their cenSures are not
in your power and consequently should
bc no part OF your concern.
A WESTERN editor throws up the
sponge, with the remark that "it doesn't
pay to run a paper in town where huai-
ness men read a m macs and pick thtir
teeth with the tail OF a herring"
WHEs disguised in liquor the Russians
are never quarreIsomf. they 60 through
an afectionate phase, during which they
want to hug their neighbors. This is
followed by stolid, apathelic idiocy.
HAVE courage enough to review your
own conduct; t) condemn it where you
| detect faults to ameud it to the best OF
| your ability; TO make good resolves for
your future guidance, and to keep them
In vain do they prate of happiness who
never subiued an impulse in obedience
10 principle. He who never sacrificed
a present 10 future good, or personal
to general one, can speak OF happiness
only as the blind do Ot cOlors,
4 MUDDY stream, flowing into one
clear and sparkling, for time runs along
by itstli. A little further down, they
unite and the whole is impure. ~ youth,
uutouched by sin, may tor Il tine keep
its purity in 'oul company, but they
finally unite.
some people scam to be taught Others
are ashamed OF it, az they would be OF
going to school when they are old; but
il j. never too late to learn what it is
always Necessary to know and 1t is no
shame to learn rs long as you are
ignorant that is to cay, SO long az we
live.
No Perfection --Naaman was a
mighty man, but he WAS leper. Every
man has some but or other in his char
acter- something that blemi.hes and
diminishes him-some alloy IN hi' grams
deur--'ome damp to his joy. He may
be very happy very good yet, in
something or other, not 20 good AZ he
should be, nor so happy as he should be-
Naaman was as great rs the world could
make him; and yet, as Bishop Hall
remarks, the ba.est slave in Syria would
not have changed skins with him.
EpuCATIoN.- Accustom child as
soon rs it can speak, to narrate his little
experiences, his chapter " accidents his
griefs, his fears, his hopes; ID communi'
cate what he has noticed in the world
within. Anxious to have some thing to
narraIe he will be induced to give at
tention tO objects around him, and what
Is passing ia the sphere of his instruction.
and to observe and note events will be
come one o his first pleasures; aud this
is the groundwork ofa thoughtful charsc'
ter.
IT is good for man to be checked,
crossed, disappointed, made to feel his
own ignorance, weakness, folly; made to
feel his need o. God to feel that, in
spite OF all his cunning and sel:-conti
dence, he is no better off in this word
than lost child in dark forest, unless
: he has A Father in heaven who loves
him with an eternal love; and Holy
Spirit in heaven who will give him 4
; right Judgment in all thing and a
Savior in heaven who can be touched
with the feeling of his infrmities.--
Charles Kingsley.
| WHEN man goes tn an evening party
I aud another man SITS down on his plug
5 hat, aud sits there till the hat re'embles
q an attenuated pancake, and when a
/, mutual iri nd takes that hat and jams
= it into shape aud brushes it the wrong
3 way with his elbow, aud hands it TO the
: party OF the fl rst part, and when the
= party Of the irst part places it upon his
! bead and goes home without knowing
that anything has happened, the indlca.
tions are that beer Wa, one . the prin-
cipal features of the entertainments
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! He ,hit deDi to give aims for far Of
being poor, tr 20 entt rtsi1 disciple fr
!, fear of being 50 )ected Cf the party, or
q to own duty for far If being put 10
, venture irstrowD; he that takts par
If the intempt rIncs, because he dar :
not oisplease the company, or in auy
|, sense fer, the fears of the wCr.d, and
: M. the fear of God, tt Is man cuttIs
n into lis porli N { tear bstimt>, bus IL
. will not be fibished to eternal ages. To
v far the Gel sures Cf men, when Gs d l.
I your Judge to f:sr th, ir evil, wher God
!. il your def nee ; TO fer dcath. when he
:, is the entrance to life and f. 'i,y, is un.
i. re, s,nable ard pernici,us; but II you
wi Iurn yorr ps'si)u into duty, anu
Joy, and securi y, ar to offend G'd 70
a enter voluntarily into temptation; fsr
,r tina sllu,ing flee f lust. and the smoo'h
ia entertainments Of finiemPerance lear bs
i, snosr Of God, when you have deserved
;, IL and. when you have isoovered from
IN, snare. then infinitely fear To return
. ;n,,, that condition, in which, whosoevrr
I'LL, Il the heir Of far and eternal
.u.row.--[ Jeremy Tsy'or.