The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-07-24
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

Be rigid to yourself and gentle to
others.
10 know how to wait Is the great Sc
cret Of success.
Life and death, prosperity and ruin,
hang upon little things.
When reason Is against man, man
will be 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 Is 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 or
life, increases our desire of living.
We cannot have tertilszlng showers
Oh the earth without u clouded heaven
above. 1t 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 be applied to everything III
iife--love, fame, matrimony, and all
kllluS OF money. ... ....' .". r.f
A year OF pleasure passes like fleet
Ing breeze, but moment Of sorrow
seems an age of pain.
Great souls are always Loyalty submits
Give to what Is over them; only mean
souls are otherwise.
Courage, the commonest Of the yir-
tues, obtains moro applause than dis
cretiOn, the rarest Of them.
Love can excuse anything except
meanness; but meanness kills love and
cripplcs 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 tho memory Of the absent, and
they will avail to keep tho heart from
sutfocation.
If the loved ones could come back to
earth only long enough to be forgiven,
1t would relieve many remorseless
heart. ....
The man who violently hates or ar.
IDENTIFY loves cannot help being In some
degree or sense slave to the person
he detests or ad ores.
Never retire at night without being
wiser than when you rose in the morn
ing, by having learned something use
ful during the day. .....
The more honesty a man has, the less
no affects the airs of'a saint; the affec-
tation OF sanctity Is Il blot on the face
Of piety. ..t
When man pulls out his sixpence
and gives that when he is laying by
thousands Of pounds, can only con-
slider that he forms u pretty accurate
measurement of the value OF his rell-
giOn.
Wllmot, the lnfldel, when dying, laid
his trembling. emaclated hands upon
the Sacred Volume, and exclaimed,
solemnly and with unwOnted energy:
"The only objection against this book
is a bad lifei"
A dear old friend of mine used to say,
with the truest Christian charity when
he heard any one being loudly con-
demned for some fault: "a! we'll, yes,
it 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 unworthi-
ness, the greater his grace in saving
you.
1t were desolate thing, indeed, to
forbid the love of Earth, II there were
nothing to fill the vacant space In tho
heart. But 1t Is just for this purpose,
that sublimer affection may find room
that tho lower ia to be expelled.
Peter McKenzle's advice is good:
eff you have greedy disposition, and
the devil comes to you when you are in
the act Of giving, and tolls you, you
OF nrI r 3oox tr
keep quiet l'll double it, and he'll
soon give it 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
adversaries is to prevent this. Every
day which we are preserved from 60
Ing back they sustain defeat.
The smallest motion is of Importance
In nature. The whole substance of the
sea moves when we throw In pebble.
So In the life of grace, the most trifling
action has bearing in it's consequences
upon the Whole, Everything then Is
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 child H.
ling a shell with the water, and pour
Ing it into hollow in the sand. He
suld: "What are you doing, my boy,
with that water P'' 70 which the child
replied: II am going to pnt all the sea
into this hole" When a voice seemed
to say to MIN: "And thou, too, art do
ing the like in thinking to comprehend
tho depthe Of God In the narrow limits
Of thy finite mind" gta
The excessive pressing Of religious
men into public notice, which cbarac-
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-
cd to regard theif own modicum Of tall
ents and endowments AZ an evidence of
divine vocation to great, and exalted
things. Happy would 1t be for Zion
were that vain activity, which Ia not
Of God but Of the world, confined to the
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