Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-10-30
RELIGIOUS MISCELLANY.

rance TO preserve nope.
Half the ills we hoard in our heart
are ills because we hoard them.
Where there is much pretension
much has been borrowed; nature neve
pretends.
Truth will be uppermost some time o.
other, like cork, though kept down il
water.
True popularity is no. that popularit,
which is followed after, but the popular
ity which follows after.
Bishop Saunderson says that study
without PRAYER il atheism, and prayer
without study presumption.
II is not henumber OF facts he knows
but how much OF fact he is himself
that proves the man.
Trust a man to be good and true, and
even il he is not, your trust will tend to
make him such.
You may shrink IRON the far reaching
solitudes OF your heart, but no other
foot than yours can tread them.
Evil ministers OF good things are as
torches-a light To others, a waste to
none but themselves only.
To rejoice in the happiness OF others
is 10 make it our own; to produce 1t Is TO
make il more than our own.
1t is with youth as with plants; from
the first fruits they bear We learn what
may be expected in the future.
The block OF granite, which was an
obstacle in the pathway OF the weak, be-
comes stepping stone in the pathway
Of the strong.
The story of human life, with its lights
and shadows, its strength and weakness,
will be an interesting story so long as
the human race shall endure.
In all good things give the eye and
he ear full scope. for they let into the
mind; restrain the tongue, for it is a
spender, few men have repented ST.
leuce.
Bear with Yourself, but do not flatter
Yourself. Work eilectually and steadily
AT the correction of your faults, yet
calmly and without the Impotence OF
self.lOve.
Nature neverindulgesi in ordinations
never says an. or alas! She Is plain
writer, uses few gestures, does not add
10 her verbs, uses lew adverbs, uses no
expletives.
Let II not be imagined that the life OF
a good Christian must necessarily be a
life of melancholy and glOomin,s -; Tor
he only resigns some pleasures TO ENJOY
others infinitely better.
n. 40 l..
Providence, that, for us, is the post o.
honor ant duty. God estimates us not
by the position We are in, but by The
way in which We I'LL it.
The Supreme Being seems to be dis
tant from those who have no wish to at
tain knowledge respecting HIM, and he
seems 20 be very near 10 those who ieel
4 wish to know him.
The sweetest wine, ii LETT exposed to
feed on its on sweetness, turns TO sour
est vinegar; so the best affections, il
turned back to prey upon themselves,
are changed to the bitterest hatred.
II will afford sweeter happiness in the
hour of death to have wiped away one
tear from one cheek OF sorrow than to
nave Ttlct dil fiilHA't, W nav NC"t"N'
ed millions or enslaved the world.
As the shadow in the 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.
Ii is periods Of persecution which NJ
ways produce the most tender and deli.
pie. An examination Ot our choicest
hymns will show this to the satisfaction
o! any.
We are never without q pilot. When
We know not how to steer, and dare not
hoist a sail, We can DRIFT. The current
knows the wav, though we 10 not. The
ship OF heaven guides itself, and VIII not
accept a wooden rudder.
The rosary and conjugation OF Chris
tan virtues begins with faith. and ends
with love, the one being the foundation
or root. the other the GROWING glory
and bright consummate flower OF Chris
tians.
Make your mind, your body, your all,
servants to your will. BE master In
whatever you undertake. 1t Is told OF
Hercules, god OF real force, that "wheth-
or he stood. or walked, or sat, or what
ever thing he did, he conquered.
Beware OF Judging character by single
deeds. and be even retieent IN Judging
il M all. Only perfect sympathy, Dy
which we can see things from another
standpoint, and fOgit Tor "a time our
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III Young men and women cominginto
the city would make themselves known
10 any one of the churches where they
would like TO worship. they would find
less cause of complaint OF the inditler-
ence of city society and churches.
The truth is, whether given excel
lence is A virtue or grace. depends al
together on it's relation To Jesus Christ
If prac,iccl wilhou. reference to HIM: II
il but a virtue; ii practicei with refer
ence TO him, it is 4 grace.
Three rules carefully kept will save
every Young msn and Young woman
from he danger they meet in the city.
Sslcc, none but good associates. At
tend recul .rlv some place OF religious
worship. Improve the splendid oppo,rr-
tunities which the city affords for self
improvement.
WY has God given us souls, anu ex.
pOsed us 10 sorrow, temptation ard
trial? Science here il dumb, but the
spirit of Christianity, which is Identical
with the proiounltst hrtaihings OF our
cpmmon human heart, replies, For DIS
cip!ine q, Il prcparaiinn; fHr the devel-
opmeat OF our individual personality.
As the li.ht which iiluminates our
atmosphere, ga gives brightness 10 our
du cIiiugs, and vision to every eye, Is
from the sun, and is dependent on rs
rjs, and motion every day, so we and
II, our mercies. and all our strength, fol
every dav and hour Of our lives come
from God, AMI are dependent on Him.
Dan and the Sugar.
When Dan was a small boy, just his
enough to run all about, he very soon
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