The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-12-14
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

| Nou pAfuOnS 1lke mOtnor, VINO
kisses the ofense Into everlasting for
gtveness.
Study books to know how things ought
10 be; study mon to know how things
are.
A man that keeps riches and enjoys
them not, Is like an ass that carries
gold and eats thistles.
1t is most mortifying reflection to
any man to consider what h Q has done
compared with what he might have
done.
There is nothing evil but what is
within US; the rest is either natural or
accidental.
However things may seem, no owl
thing succeeds, and no good thing is a
failure.
Ho who persecutes good cause
makes war agains himself and all man
kind,
The world wants to-day, moro than
anything else, courageous leaders who
know what to do and how to do it.
We sacrifice to dress till household
joys and comforts cease. Dress drains
our cellar dry, and keeps our larder
lean.
Whoever Is honest, generous, court
cous and candid, is Il gentleman, ,wheth-
or he be learned or unlearn ed, rich or
poor.
Those who have made mistakes and
suffered for them are the ones to help
others to show that any error can bs
atoned for.
The best way to silence a laxative
person Is never to interrupt him. Do
not snuff the candle and it will 90 out
of itself.
If cause bo good, the most violent
attacks of Its enemies will not iujure it
so much as an injudicious support of
It's friends.
Proud men never have friends;
neither in prosperity because they know
nobody, nor in advorsity because no.
body knows them. ',.s
If any man think IT. a small matter,
or OF moan concernment, to bride his
tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is
point to be silent. '."'
Glitter, tinsel and brilliant colorIng
may all be had without much expense;
but II we would have strength, firm
ness ana permanence, we must pay for
them.
Strike man, use him with violence,
and tho memory of that blow, be 1t in
act or word, will engender feelings of
hatred In him against you so long as
his life lasts.
AS the shadow in early morning Is
friendship with the wicked; 1t dwin-
dies, hour by hour. But friendship
with the good increases, like the even-
Ing shadows, Till the sun of life sets.
Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and
| leaves very dangerous impression.
1t swells mans Imagination, enter
, tains his vanity, land drives him to dot
Ing upon his own person.
1t Is a great and marvellous thing to
be Christian, and God lays more
stress on that than on the sacrament.
For the Christian Is not made for the
sake Of sacrament, but the sacrament
was Instituted tor the Christian.
If the show of anything be good for
anything, we are sure sincerity is
better; for why does any man dissem-
ble, or seem to be that which he is not,
but because he thinks 1t good to have
such quality as he pretends to2
Happiness is composed Of many small
Joys. Tramplo not under foot, then,
the little pleasures which are scattered
In the daily path, and which in.eager
search Of some great and exciting 10y,
we are apt to overlook.
No two minds are alike and the ono
which reveals with the strlctest truth
those Impressions which 1t receives
from tho worlds of heaven and earth,
must ever be considered rs tho most
original.
Nobody knows better than he who
has triod 1t, that from saying to doing
Is long stretch. If saying good things
instead OF doing them we're saving
grace, tho worst of us would easily get
10 heaven.
When we are young we waste great
deal OF time IN imagining what we
will do whom we gro w older, and when
we are old we waste IN equal amount
of time IN wondering why we waited
so long before we began to do any
thing.
1t is a great and glorious thing to be
a sell-made man, and partly because
In very many cases it takes vast re-
sponsibillty from the Lord. The chief
difficulty with such people, however.
Is that they arc very apt to Worshi
their makers.
Men are moro Intensely selfish than
women. There nre infinitely more In
stances Of devotion, and OF entire sur
render Of their own interests at the
shrine OF affection and duty, in the
annals of women than Of men.
Let ours be like the meeting Of two
planets, not hastehing to confOund
their jarring spheres, but drawn to-
gether by tho influence Of a subtle at
traction, soon to roll diverse in their
respective orbits from this their peril
geo or point Of nearest approach.
If you find yourself growing wise
above all your teachers, inclined to be-
como doglnatic, to criticlse your fellow
disciples and SGT yourself up as a stano-
ard for the whole church, you have no
little reason to fear that you are not
controlled by the Spirit of God.
Great thoughts belong only and truly
to HIM whose mind can hold them. No
matter who first puts thom In words;
If they come to a soul, and I'LL 1t, they
belong to 1T; whether they aoated Oh
the voice of others, or on the wings Of
silence and the night.
Were men taught to desplse the re-
ceiving Of obligations with the same