Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-11-27
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

Great souls hold firmly TO heaven and
let the earth roll on beneath them.
Peace is such precious jewel, that
1 would give anything for 1t but truth.
Act well at the moment, and you have
performed a good deed to all eternity.
Where one is tagged, hungry, and de-
pressed, the worst seems most probable.
Death is the funeral of all sorrows
and evils, and the resurrection of all
| joys.
Nothing is further from the earth
than heaven; nothing is nearer than
heaven TO earth.
The great problem Of life is for each
man to do his share Of the worlds
work and keep well.
He who has created us with a thirst
after the knowledge OF Him will GER
tainly satisfy that thirst.
Never promise anything unless you
are quite sure you can give what you
say.
Certain sermons are more calculated
TO weaken faith than TO render men be-
levers.
Only what we have wrought into
our characters during life can we take
away with us.
There Is no right faith in believing
what Is true unless we believe 1t because
It is true.
Venture not to the utmost bounds Of
even lawful pleasures; the limits tf
good and evil join.
If you wish 10 have a good house 10
live III when you are old, you must lay
brick every day.
No one can over-estimate his own
weakness, or the dangers TO which he
is continually exposed.
Evil, is like rolling-stone upon a
mountain top. A child may first inn
pel-a giant cannot stop.
What other ddngeon is so dark an
| ones heart? What other TAILOR so inS
exorable as ones self.
Every good and holy desire, though
| 1t may lack the form, hath, In itself. the
substance and force OF a prayer.
We do nor believe immortality be-
cause we have proved it, but we forever
try to prove it because we believe it.
If man has transgressed one law,
and speaks lies, and SCOTS at another
world, there is no evil he will not do.
The direct and proper act of faith is
oA pCA pCLus1A use anu IlCCCSSIIHs UDGn
most when there is least of assurance.
To do for man what he can do tor
himself were not wise-not good for
mans growth either in knowledge or
virtue.
Keep the head cool by temperance in
| all things, and the feet warm by actual
exercise In the discharge of important
duties-deeds of kindness.
A philosopher never deems any man
beneath his notice, for there is no mind
that cannot furnish some scraps OF in
tellectual entertainment.
Gentleness which belongs to virtue
is TO be carefully distinguished from
the mean spirits of towards and the
fawniDg assent Of sycOrhants.
The angel who ministers to q dying
beggar may hold himself as highly
hOnored as he who keeps the gate Of
heaven.
Internal conflicts are the heritage of
superiority. 1t is so easy for small
headed stupidity to take no thought for
for the morrow.
A man whe has a fixed purpose to
which he devotes his powers, Is invuI-
nerable. Like the rock in the sea it
splits the troubles of life, and they
eddy round him in idle foam.
There is much greatness of mind in
the owning of q good turn ast in the do
ing of it; and we must no more force
a requital out of season, than be want
ing In it.
Pride is seldom delicate it will please
itself with very mean advantages; and
envy feels not its own happiness, but
when it may be compared with the
misery of others.
The liberty of using harmless
pleasures will be disputed but it is
still to be examined what pleasures are
harmless. The evil of any pleasure is
not in the act itself, but In its conse-
quences.
The beginning of hardship is like the
first taste of bitter food; it seems for
moment unbearable, yet if there is
nothing else TO satisfy our hunger we
take another bite and find it possible TO
go on.
Whatever comes out of despair can
not bear the title of valor, which should
be lifted up to such height that, hold
ing all things under itself, it shou Ill be
able to maintain its greatness even in
the midst of miseries.
There is no despair so absolute as
IHdG WHICH, COu&S III GIlC uTSG moments
of our first great tsorrow-when we have
not yet known what 1t is to have suffer-
ed and be healed, to have despaired and
have recovered hope.
A religious life is not a thing that
spends itself like bright bubble on the
rivers surface. 1t is rather like the
river itself, which widens continually,
and is never so broad or deep as where
it rolls into the ocean of eternity.
The smallest motion is OF Importance
in nature. The whole substance of
the sea moves when we throw in peb-
BILE. So In the life of grace, the most
tritling action has bearing in its con-
sequence upon the whole. Everything
then is important.
The truth is precious as Ii is divine.
The truth is precious, because nothing
else is SO near mans present and future
welfare. There is not a sin, crime or
bad thing in the world, but, sweep
away the dust of the earth around it, il
stands upon lie, and falsehOod is the
foundation of all evil.
The more quiet and peaceably we get
on, the better-the better for ourselves,
the better for our neighbors. In nine
cases out of ten, the wisest course Is
if a man cheats you, to cease dealing
with him; if he is abusive, quit his
comOanV. if he SlandarS won taka cara