Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-10-09
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
Love, faith, patlence-the three essen
tials to "a happy life.

to BE- the mortgage OF all who need.
Every child walks into existence
through the golden gate of love.
People must discuss something is
the great preventive of insanity.
When ones heart Ia full, one Is not
apt to drop a plummet line into 1t.
Great souls hold firmly TO heaven and
let the earth roll ON beneath them.
Low as the grave is, only faith can
climb high enough TO see beyond lr.
It Is not life to live for ones self
alone. Let US help one anooher.
Let your word be your bond. Good
credit is fortune TO begin with.
Peace Is such precious jewel. that
! would give anything for iC but truth.
| Act well at the moment, and you have
performed good deed 10 all eternity.
Death is the funeral of all sorrows
and evils, and the resurrection OF all
joys.
Where one is tagged, hungry, and
depressed, the worst seems most prOba-
BILE.
If you have good health you have
nine-tenLhs of all the Lord ever gives
to any man.
He who has created us with thirst
after knowledge will certainly satisfy
that thirst.
Certain sermons are more calculated
TO weaken faith than TO render men be-
iievers.
Men show their character I'm nothing
more clearly than by what they think
laughable.
The grandest OF heroic deeds are those
which are performed within four walls
and In domestic privacy.
He that does base thing I'm zeal for
his friend, burns the golden thread that
ties their hearts together.
They who respect themselves will be
honored; but they who do not care for
character will be despised.
BE alweys on your guard against the
DEVICES OF wicked men, when you hap
pen to come In contact with them.
Some people have softenink of the
brain, but the world suffers more from
those who have hardening of the heart.
How great ones virtues best appears
by occasions of adversity for occasions
do not maze man fraIl, but show what
he is.
Rowland Hill said, when he once saw
boy on a rocking horse, 'fLlke some
Christians; motion enough, but no pro-
gress.
Hard words are like hailstones I'M
summer, beating down and destroying
what, IL melted into drops, they wonld
nourish.
Those who disbelieye in virtue be-
cause man has never been found per-
tect, might as reasonably deny the sun,
because 1t as not always noon.
1t is not until the flower has fallen of
that the fruit begins to ripen. So i'm
life it is when the romance is mast thar
the practical useful begins.
The business of lie is to 90 forward.
be VINO seeks evil in prospect meets lie
on the way; but he who catches it by
retrospectlon, turns back To find it,
God demands an account of the past.
and that we must render hereafter: He
demands all improvement of the pre-
sent, and this we must attend TO now.
The ordinary employment of artifice
1s,the mark of petty mind; and it' al
ways happens that he who uses it to
cover himself in one place uncoyers
himself i'm another.
so far is IL from being true that men
are naturally equal, that no two Deople
can be half an hour together but one
shall acquire an evident superiority
over the other.
Time goes at its own gait, and YOU
cannot hasten it by using the 'sspur OF
the moment" You may ask your
friend TO stop minute" but neither
you nor he has the power t0 do it.
Speak we'll of the absent whenever
you have suitable opportunity. Never
speak ill of them or OF anybody. unless
you are sure they deserve it, and unless
il is necessary for their amendment. or
for the safety and benefit Of others.
He VINO climbs above the cares of the
world and turns his face to his God has
found the funny side of life. The
worlds side of the hill is chill and
freezing TO spiritual mind. but the
Lords presence gives warmth OF joy
which turns winter into summer.
To live with our enemies as IL thew
might one day be our friends. 70 be
with our friends as ii they might be-
come our enemies, is neither according
TO the nature of hatred, nor in accor-
dance with The rules of friendship. lie
is not a moral, but really q political
maxim.
The man who has an empty cup NAV
pray, anu should pray that it may be
filled; but he who has full cup ought
to pray that he may hold it firmly. It
needs prayer in prosperity that we may
have grace TO use it, as truly as it needs
prayer in poverty that we may have
grace to bear it.
Don't live in hope with your arms
folded. Fortune smiles on those whc
roll up their sleeves and put their
shoulder to the wheel that propels them
on to wealth and happiness. Cut this
out and carry it about with you in your
vest pocket, ye who idle i'm bar-rOoms
or at the corner of the streets.
A man of genius has always some
particular reason for adventuring upon
certain work; he does not take sub
jecC by haphazard, but is moved to It
generall- by circumstances over which
he has no control, invariably by circum-
stances which require to be made known
to the reader before nc can thoroughly
comprehend and enjoy thework in ques-
ton.
Character alone is immortal. Not
what we have, but what we are, is en-
during. Not that work in which we
engage outside of us, but that which
we carry on within us, is everlasting.
AS we pass from earth we shall leave
behind our property, our relationships,
our positions, our regulations, and we