Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1879-06-27
Selefted Miseellaup.
The Winter of the Heart.

Let it never come upon you. Live so
that good angels may protect you from
this terrible evil-the winter of the heart
Let no chilling influence freeze up the
foundations of sympathy and happiness
from its depths; no cold burden settle
over the withered hopes, like snow on
the fading flowers; no rude blasts of
discomfort moan and shrek through its
desolate chambers.
Your life-path may lead you among
thorns, which for time seem utterly to
to impede your progress, and shut out
the very light Of Haven from gaze.
Perjury may take the place of ease
and plenty, your Injuries home may be
changed for single lowly room-the
soft couch for the straw pallet, the luxu-
rious fare for the coarse food of the poor !;
your friends may forsake you, and the
IMPLYING world pass you with scarcely
word of compassion.
You may be forced to toll YEARLY and
sadly on to obtain livelihood you may
encounter fraud and base avarice which
would extort the last farthing till you
well-nigh turn in disgust from your fell
low beings.
Death may sever the dearest ties that
bind you to the earth, and leave you in
fearful darkness. The noble, manly boy,
the sole hope of your declining years,
may be taken from you while your spirit
clings to him, with that wild tenacity,
which even the shadows of the tomb can
not wholly subdue.
But amid all these sorrows, do not
come to the conclusion that nobody was
ever so deeply afflicted as you are, and
abandon every sweet anticipation of
"better days. in the unknown future.
DO not lose your faith in human excel
lence because your confdeco has been
betrayed, nor believe that friendship is
only dclusion, and love bright phan-
tom which glides away from your grasp
Do not think you are fated TO be miscra-
bic because you are disappointed in your
expectations, and baflled in your pursuits
DO not declare that God has forsaken
you, when your way is hedged with
thorns. or repine sinfully when He calls
your dear ones to the land beyond the
grave.
Keep holy trust in Heaven through
every trial bear adversely with fortitudc,
and look upward in hours of temptation
and suffering. When your locks are
white, your eyes dim, and your limbs
weary when your steps falter on the
verge of deaths gloomy vale, still retain
the freshness and buoyancy Of spirit,
which would shield you from the winter
Of the heart.
How Fan THE EAGLE SCREAMS. -
Few people are aware that the proud
boast Of Englishmen that the sun never
sets on the British Empire is equally APP
plicable TO the United States. Instead
Of being the western limit Of tho Union,
San Francisco is only about midway
between the furtherest Aleutian Isle, ac-
quired by our purchase Of Alaska, and
PASSPORT, Nc. Our territory extends
through 1877 degrees Of longitude, or II
degrees more than half way around Tho
globe. "Thc Rocky Mountain Presbyte-
rain" in commenting on this fact, says
"Wbcn the sun is giving its goodnight
kiss 10 our western most isle, on the
confines of Behring's sea, it is already
flooding the fields and forests Of Maine
with its morning light. and in the
eastern part Of that State is more
than an hour high. At the very mo-
ment when the Aleutian fisherman,
warned by the approaching shades Of
night, is pulling bis canoe toward the
shore, tho wood-chopper Of Maine is
beginning 10 make the forest echo with
the stirring music Of his axe"