Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1879-11-20
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

! livery child walks into existence
through the golden gate Of love.
: A hopeless person 10 one who deserts
himself.
Ignorance has ne light; error follows
false one.
A fine coat may cover fool, but
never conceals one.
There is no grieflIks the grief whiOh
does not speak.
He who blackenS others does not
whiten himself.
Genius Is sometimes arrogant; know.
ledge is always diffident.
We are never SO proud snd so hum
BILE as when we are praised.
He only enjoys his passion who can
make no use OF his reason.
The pleasure of doing good Is the on
ly pleasure that never wears ont.
Surely half the world must be blind;
they can see nothing unless 1t gliiterS.
Ii Ounce is short OF some faults, he
only did not know how TO acquire
them.
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the
sandal tree perfumes the axe that
strikes it,
To be in love is nothing else but TO
love more what we loved before we
were in love.
Heavens gates are wide enough to
admit every sinner in the universe who
is penitent.
Calumny and detraction are but
sparks, which, If you do not blow them,
will 60 out of themselves.
The wealthy mIeer lives as IA poor
man here; but he must give account
as rich man In the day OF judgment.
How contagious is the laugh OF some
people, how jarring that OF others, like
playing on worn out plane.
What is styled timidity is probably
nothing but the fear of showing too
little merit.
A good constitution Is like a money
box-its full value Is never known till
il Is broken.
Good taste is the modesty of the mind
that is why it cannot be either initiated
or acquired.
In general, there Is 40 one with whom
life drags SO odisagreeably as with hlm
who tries TO make it shorter.
You cannot dream yourself into =
character; you must hammer and
forge yourself one,
The heart that Is soonest awake TO
the flowers is always the first to be
touched by the thorns.
The miles to Heaven are few and
short and the glorious end will come
soon.
LII the shoe of monarch could do as
much as the monarch himself, the court
would be divided between his majesty
anu his shoe.
Without a belief In personal immor-
tality religion surely ia like an arch
resting on one pillar, like bridge end
ing in an abyss.
The sweat of ones brow is no longer
curse when one works for God; liz
proves tonic for the system and Ia
actually blessing.
Charity toward the weaknesses OF
human nature is virtue which we de-
mand in others. but which we find very
hard to practice ourselves.
Memory and hope are set like stars
above the sOul-the one shining dimly
through the twilight of the past, the
other lighting the archway Of the fW-
ture.
We can easily manage IL we will only
take, each day, the burden appointed
for it. But the load win be TOO heavy
for as II We add to its weight the bur-
den of tomorrow before we are called
TO bear it.
He that will put time and eternity
before him, and who will dare to look
steadfastly on both of them, will find
that the more often he cOntemplates
them the former will grow greater and
the latter less.
A young officer thought to puzzle am
older one by asking HIM when two
men of equal age and rank met, which
should be the first to bow. The elder
calmly replied, 1.-The more polite Of
the two." -
Want of goods Is easily repaired; po-
verify of soul Is irreparable. Socrates.
seeing great quantity of riches, jewels
and furniture Of great value carried In
pomp through The city: ''How many
things" said he, "do not desire?"
Men may as well expect to grow
stronger by always sitting. as wiser by
always reading. Too much overchar-
ges nature, and turns more into disease
than nourishment. 1t is thought
which Is mental digestion, which makes
books serviceable, and gives health ana
vigOr to the mind.
God led the Israelites to and fro, for
ward and backward, as in a maze or
labyrinth; and yet they were all the
while under the direction of the pillar
OF cloud. He led them about, and vet
he led them by right way. His way
III brilging his people home is always
the best, though it may not be the near
est.
Thou hast double nature. Choose
between the worse and the better that
is within thee. Thou hast ir In thy
power to become the slave Of passion,
the slave of luxury, the slave of sem
sual pleasure, the slave OF corruption,
Thou hast IL In thy power to become
the free master Of tllyself, to become
the everlasting beIefactor of thy coun-
try, and the nnfailing champion Of thy
God.
Habits the deepest law OF our nature.
1t is our greatest strength and our
greatest weakness. 1t can seize all pre-
sent advantages and blessings; appro-
pirate every particle of spiritual mama
that comes from heaven, causing the
soul to grow in grace and In cOmmun-
ion and in the knowledge Of the Lord;
or 1t can put them away into the fu.
ture, and let the soul get on as 1t may
in its low and starved condition.
AS the snow gathers together, 80 our
habits are foImed; no single fake that