The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-08-13
SUBJECTS FOR THOUGHT.

SUBJECTS FOX THOUGHIs
There is nothing that so refines the face
and mind as the presence of good thoughts.
What I admire in Columbus, is not his
having discovered a world, but his having
gone to search for it on the faith of an opin-
ion.-Turgot.
The secret laws of human relations are
like those of chemistry, an instant of time is
enough for blending where the affinity is
true; an eternity is not enough if the affinity
does not exist. Sd. s7
Suffer this advice, friend: If you are lean
ing on anybody, stop it. Start yourself in
business, and don't wait to be started. Look
up job of work for yourself if you are out
of employment, and don't wait for friends
to find it for you.
No work, however mental, can make an
honest poor man lose his self-respect. Do
whatever you can get to do, and do it so we'll
that your employer will see that you are fit
for something better and the time is not far
off when you will begin to rise
Always say kind word if you can, if only
that it may come in, perhaps, with a singu-
lar opportuneness. entering some mournful
mans darkened room like beautiful fire fly
whose happy circumvolutions he can not but
watch, forgetting his many troubles.
Let every man do his best to discounten-
ance the abominable habit of swearing, and
shun it as ain accursed sin in every way
No respectable person will allow himself
to be guilty of it. Business men who make
habit of swearing viii find themselves
avoided by their best customers, for it is
known that some persons can suffer no men,
tai punishment equal to profane language.
Besides, every man known as a profane
swearer will not be credited by those whose
good opinion is worth having, even when he
may be telling the truth.
Your enemy is at your feet and it is in
your power to crush himl Don't do it,
Better is an ounce of forgiveness than
thousand tons of vengeanceI If hardness
and bitterness still linger in your heart-if
actual and deep wrongs have been inflicted
upon you-go and look at the nearest grave
you will not have to go far-and see what is
the end of your enemy and for you. Goand
think for a moment beside the nearest grave
stone how little worthy it is for an immortal
soul to be cherishing the passions of a wolf
or tiger, and then forgive your enemy as
you need to be forgiven.
There come times to us when we hardly
know which way to turn or in which direc-
ton to look for aid. No man or woman
lives to middle life without going through
some hard places. Bitter experiences come
to the heart. Dear ones are taken away.
Riches are dissipated. The trusted prove
unworthy of confidence, and the soul is like
a ship beaten off the wind and tossed. But
there is always one way to look Look upl
There, far above the black clouds, forever
shines the blue. There, somewhere out of
sight, but inexpressibly near to the frail one
who seeks His help, is the Friend who is
ever waiting to be gracious f4-
There is very touching little story told of
poor woman with two children, who has
not a bed for them to lie upon, and scarcely any
cover for them. In the depth of winter they
were nearly frozen, and the mother took the
door of cellar off the hinges and set it up
before the corner where they were crouched
down to sleep, that some of the draft and cold
might be kept from them. One of the chill
dren whispered to her, when she complained
of how badly off they were, ''Mother, what
do those dear children do who have no cellar
door to put in front of them?" Even there,
The little heart found cause for thankfulness.
We smile at the ignorance of the savage
who cuts down the tree in order to reach its
fruits; but the fact is that blunder of this
description is made by every person who is
over-eager and impatient in the pursuit of
pleasure. To such the present moment is
borrows, therefore, from the future at most
usurious and ruinous interest," and the con-
sequence is that he finds the tone of his feel
ings impaired, his self-respect diminished
his health of mind and body destroyed and
life reduced to its very dreg; at a time when
humanity speaking, the greatest portion of
its comforts should be still before him.
That boy was true philosopher, who, when
he lost his kite, thought he would cry about
it, but Immediately after concluded not to-,
and went home whistling. When asked if
he wasn't sorry to lose his treasure he replied:
AYes; but can't fool away much time in
being sorry; I'm just going to make another
one, and l guess a better one" A great
many full grown men haven't learned that
lesson yet. When they have split their milk
on the ground they sit down close to the wet
spot and dilute the lost tactical fluid with their,
briny tears. If, instead of this repining
they would only skurry around they would
soon find another and bigger cow to be
MIXED. Don't sulk, because it won't pay.