West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1879-07-05
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.


Life and death, prosperity and ruin,
hang upon little things.
When reason is against a man, a man
VIII De against reason.
The higher up the mountain you climb
the higher you can see.
We are as liable To be corrupted by
books as by companions.
The greatest misfortune OF all Ia not
To be able To bear misfortune.
One cannot bear to pay for an article
he used to get for nothing.
Age that lessons the enjoyment OF
life, Increases our desire of living.
We cannot have tertilizlng showers
on the earth without n clouded heaven
above, IL Is thus with our trials.
Every man who has risen to great
ness has done SO by attention to small
things.
They maze up our lives. The self
experience of every man will prove this
To him.
This may bc applied to everything IN
iite,-loyo, fame, matrimony, and all
kinds of money.
year OF pleasure passes like "A feet
ing breeze, but moment of sorrow
seems an age of pain.
Great souls are always loyalty submis-
sive To what is over them; only mean
souls arc otherwise.
Courage, the commonest of the vir-
tues, obtains more applause than DIS
cretiOn, the rarest of them.
Love can excuse anything except
meanness; but meanness kills love and
cripples natural affection.
You remember Benjamin Franklin's
maxim, Take care of the cents, and
the dollars will take care of themselves.
Tears are the gift which love bestows
upon the memory of the absent, and
they VIII avail to keep the heart from
suilocation.
IL the loved ones could come back To
earth only long enough to be forgiven,
IL would relieve many n remorseless
heart.
The man who violently hates or ar
dently loves cannot help being In some
degree or sense n slave to the person
he detests or ad ores.
Never retire at night without being
wiser than when you rose i'm the morn
ing, by having learned something use
ful during the day.
me more honesty man has, the less
no affects the airs of saint; the affec-
tation OF sanctity is blot on the face
of piety.
When man pulls out his sIxpencs
and gives that when he In LAYING by
thousands of pounds, can only CON
slider that he forms pretty accurate
measurement of the value OF his reli-
gion.
Wllmot, the lnfdel, when dying, laid
MS trembling, emaciated hands upon
the Sacred Volume, and exclaimed,
solemnly and with unwonted energy :
Ihe only objection against this book
II bad lifei"
a dear old friend of mine used to say,
with the truest Christian charity when
he heard any Cne being loudly con
demncd for some fault: "A well, yes,
1t seems very bad to me, because that's
not my way of SHINING"
The greater your wants. the greater
GODS goodness IN supplying them the
greater your enemies, the greater the
display of Gods power In subduing
them and the greater your unworthl-
ness, the greater his grace In saving
you. h4T
IL were a desOlate thing, indeed, to
forbid the love of Earth, II there were
nothing to fill the vacant space In the
heart. But IL Is just for tins purpose,
that sublimer affection may find room
that the lower is to be expelled.
Peter McKenzIe's advice is good
eff you have "a greedy disposition, and
the devil comes TO you when you are in
the act Of giving, and tells you, you
can't affordit,' , say to him, III you don't
keep quiet I'll double it. and he'll
soon give 1t up"
In the Christian warfare to maintain
the conflict Is TO gain the victory. The
promise is made To him that endures to
the end. The object of our spiritual
adyersaries Is 70 prevent this. Every
day which we are preserved from go
ing back they sustain defeat.
The smallest motion Is Of importance
in nature. The whole substance of the
sea moves when we throw in a pebble.
SO In the life of grace, the most trifllng
action has bearing in it's consequences
upon the Whole. Everything then IL
important
We are told Of st. Augustine, that,
on one occasion, when contemplating
the doctrine Of the Trinity, he was
walking by the sea and saw a child i'll
ling she'll with the water, and pour
ing IL Into hollow In the sand. He
said "What are you doing, my boy,
with that water?" To which the child
into this hole" When voice seemed
20 say TO MIN "And thou, too, art do
ing the like In thinking to comprehend
the depthe of God In the narrow limits
Of thy finite mind"
The excessive pressing Of religious
men into public notice, which charac-
terizes the present day, is only another
sign Of the spiritual poverty Of the
times. No eagle piniOns at present soar
In our armament, hence the smaller
birds, the minds Of inferior cast, hay-
ing no living standard by which TO dis
Germ their own littleness, are embolden-
ed 10 regard their own mOdicum of tai.
ents and endOwments as an evidence Of
a divine vocation TO great aud exalted
things. Happy would II be for Zion
were that vain activity, which Is not
Of God but Of the world, confined 10 the
world Itself, and not Obtruded within
her sacred Enclosures"
Nothing really succeeds which is not
based upon reality; sham, in large
sense, Is never successful; in the life
Of the individual, as In the mOre com
prehensive life Of the State, pretentiOn
Is nothing, and power Is everything
Nothing is more certain than that