Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-04-03
Sunday Thoughts.

How thankful we have been some
times that God has caused the day
and night to followeach other SO close
ly. Suppose that with the same ten
deney left to form strong habits, that
the length of the day had been treb
led, how much we should lose by it !;
three times as long for the excitement
of business the passion of avarice. the
corroding of care, therinfuence of the
worldly spirit to mould Us. ere the
quiet of the night came with its re-
view ofthe day, its better thoughts
and good resolutions, three times as
long for US to cherish anger and bitter
feelings and unholy desires. ere the
setting of the sun should bring to US
calmer, kindlier, purer thoughts.
New we have a small portion Of time
shut in, as it were, from all that is
past, and all that is to come, glorious
ly ushered in by evidences Of our
Heavenly Fathers power and love,
closing in darkness and quiet and
everything in nature which is fitted to
make the soul thoughtful and earnest.
Oh blessed night in which the anxious
brow is cleared and the busy hand
may rest, and the distracted mind can
collect its thoughts and choose the OBJ
ject upon which they shall! dwell.
And if the night is blessed in the
economy of God, how much more the
Sabbath A whole day made for us,
consecrated to God in which our souls
can seek their highest good.
FOR THE CHILDREN.
Most of you who read this know
what it means to have a strong will.
You say perhaps it is to be determin-
ed to do what you want to do. or re-
solve to finish what you have begun to
do. IF boy had commenced to learn
to milk and found it hard work, found
that it made his fingers lame, and so
gave up, he would not show a strong
will in that case. If girl should
commence to make patch work for a
quilt, and after she had sewed a great
number of pieces Of different colors tc-
gether. should say ':oh dear I can't
ever get enough" and so stop, she
would not show strong will. But if
a boy should commence to milk, and
persevcre until1he brought in the pail
almost as full as when his big brother
brought it in he would show that he
had some will power, or if girl
should begin in the early winter to
make quilt, and gather up patiently
pieces of different colored cloth, and
say 81 a am going to finish this quilt
if it takes a yeac, that would show
that she had strong will.
!. Now here is true story about a
very little girl, not much over five
years old. This girl lived for while
with her mother and brother in a large
house where there we're many people
and some of these people were ill-bred,
and used low, slang language. Little
got in the way of repeating
what she heard others say /; this made
her mother feel very bad. she felt she
must break her of this habit Now
this little girl had strong will, and
though she loved her mother very
much, when told to stop saying such
words, she did not, and she would
even look right into her mothers eyes
and say the same words. So one day
her mother took a towel and wet it
and put good deal of soap on it, and
though she struggled, and it was very
hard for her mother to do it. she held
her fast, and washed ont her mouth
with the soap suds. After that once
when she was playing on the floor she
said some of the words over to her.
self, not thinking that her mother
heard her. Now a number Of years
have passed and you could not got
this same girl [if you should try very
hard to say such words. She will
never say them again, for her will is
strong, and now every year / think she
is growing more and more determined
to do and say only what is pure and
right and good.
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