The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-09-30
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

The violet grows low, and covers
Itself with Its own leaves, and yet OF
all flowers yields the most delicious
smell. Such Is humility.
We spend half. our lives in making
mistakes, and waste tho poor remain
DER In rejecting how easily we might
have avoided them.
1t is not the height to which men are
advanced that makes them giddy; it is
tne looking down with contempt upon
those below them.
A white garment appears worse " It'll
slight soiling than do colored garments
much soiled; so little fault in good
man attracts more attention than great
| offences in bad man.
| Let every youth set out with a flxeI
determination to engage In business for
| himself, and let him put his determine
alton INTO practice as early In life as
possible.
The truest help we can render to All
afflicted man is, not to take his burden
from him, but to call out his best
strength, that he may be able to bear
tho burden.
Life must be m assured by action, not
ny time; for man may die old at thir-
ty, and young at eighty; nay, the one
lives after death and the other perlshed
before he died.
L. is difficult, I own, to blend and
unite tranquility in accepting, and en-
| ergy In using, the facts OF life-but it
Is not impossible; ii 1t be, it is impos-
81 de to be happy.
When we speak Of obedience we
should always speak Of faith fret.
Faith Is the first and fundamental act
| OF obedience. Faith is the mainsprlng
| of obedience.
The worl: that is to tell in Heaven
must DO that which is done on purpose
for Heaven. The work that is done for
earth goes down with us to our graves.
Faith, like light, should ever be sim
pie and unbending; while love, like
warmth, should beam forth on every
side and bend to every necessity Of our
brethren.
Moody preached two hundred and
sevcnty-fve times in Baltimore and
Ihen gave 1t up. The Marylanders
thought themselves sufficiently recon-
structed already.
MIR. Spurgeon asserts that an old
minister once said to him: "When l
| see young man want to preach, l al
ways feel Il wish to take him by the
throat and try to choke him off,"
We are persuaded that all men want
tho best thing there Is tor them. Ii re-
llgion Is tho best thing, rs we believe it
Is, as soon as they can pe made to sec
and feel that fact they will live religi.
ously.
"what is eternity ?" was questions
once asked at the Deaf and Dumb Insti-
| tuition ut Paris, and this beautiful and
striking answer was given by one of
| the pupils "The lifetime of the Al
mighty" 8
The heart will commonly govern the
, head: and it Is certain thar any strong
passion, set the wrong way, will soon
infatuate even the wisest of men; there
fore. the first part Of wisdom is to watch
tho affections.
The greatcat mistake Moses ever )mr
mitted, In the opinion Of the Rooheste-
Democrat, was in not being present
when the light went out. A little fore
thought on his part In this respect
would haye saved thousands Of qnea-
tions.
It isa great and glorious thing to be a
self-made man, and partly because In
very many cases 1T takos a vast respon-
sibiiity from the Lord. Tho chief din.
! Guilty with such people, however, is
that they are very apt to worship their
lnakcrs. t
Men or women who turn to Christ
must bear In mind that they sre break
ing with their old master and enllsting
under new leader. Conversion Is
a revolutionary process.
The noblest spirits are those which
turn to heaven, not In tho hour Of sor-
row, but in that of JOY; like the lark,
they walt tor the clouds to disperse
that they may soar into their native
element.
Love may be likenol to tho sun un-
der whose influence one plant elabora-
tes nutriment for man, and another
poison; and which while 1t draws up
| pcstilence from the marsh and jungle,
and sets the simoDm in motion over the
desert, dlffuses light, life and happiness
over the healthy and cultivated rexions
Of the earth.
They who are wise unto salvation
know fcelingly when they have done
best that their best works are worth
nothing; but they who are conscious
that they have lived iioffensivcly may
have IN that consciousness reasonable
gronnd OF comfort.
You meet In rnls world with false
mlrth as often as with false gravity;
tho grinning hypocrlte is not Moye
uncommon character than tho g:Osn-
, Ing one. AS much light d!scoursa
comes from heavy heart rs from q
hollow one, and from a full mind "a
from an empty head. sa
The farmer likes field that istf1lled
with corn, not one that grows with re-
splendent poppies; he likes grass that
Is pure grass, tlt for the service of the
beast upon the hills, not that which is
mixed with butteroups. so whom We
60 TO the sanctuary it Is not flowers wo
want, to be a bouquet Of beauty, but
food to sustain our souls and strengthen
us Tor the tolls and trials Of the week. !.
The Sabbath was made for man. God
made 1t for mon In u certain spiritual
state, because they needed It. The
nced, therefore,, Is deeply hidden Id
human nature. He who can dispense
with 1t must be holy and spiritual inss
deed.3 And he who, still unhOly and
unspiritual, would yet dispense wlthfit,
is a man that would fain be wiser than
his Maker. Sd } s5 3s.S &