Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-10-21
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

n IeOpIe VINO cannot neart1lV love ant
hate will never command the first o
t know the clearing influence of tn,
latter.
i When a man dies, people inquir
what property he hiss left behind MIN
I Angels will ask what good deeds he ha
sent before him.
E Without belief In personal immOr.
! tality, religion surely Is like an arch
resting on one pillar, Ike a bridge
, ending in an abyss.
; He who would amass virtues, leaving
I out the guardian virtue humility, Is
like man who leaves precious dust
exposed to the wind
} Believe, and if thy faith be right
that insight which gradually trans
mutes faith into knowledge will be the
reward of thy belief.
Nothing does so fool a man as extreme
passion. This doth make them fools
which otherwise are rot, and show
them to be fools that are not.
Temporal Affections hide those eter-
nal blessings 10 which they lead, as
temporal eujoyments often cover those
eternal evils which they procure.
You meet IN this world with false
mirth az often as false gravity: the
grlnning hypocrite is not more un-
common character than the gtoaning
one.
If thou art vessel of gold and thy
brother one of wood be not high minded.
Ii is God that maketh thee to differ, and
the more bounty he shows the more
humility he requires.
The water falls on all creatures: on
herb, bush and tree; and each draws
up to It's own leaf and blossom accOr.
ding to its special need. So falls the
ralr - the law on the many-hearted
" rid.
Many prOffered succor from heaven
goes past us, because we are not stand.
| ing on our watch-tower to catch the
tar of indications of its approach. and
to fling open the gates Of our heart Tor
its entrance.
AS boys should be educated with
temperance, so the first greatest lesson
that should be taught them is frugality.
1t is by the exercise Of this virtue alone
that they can ever expect to be useful
members of society.
Life's lessons are cut and carved on
things inanimate-seeni in the leaf and
flower, painted on the landscape, chan
ted IN the murmuring brook, heard i'm
the VieWless wind, revealed in a passing
cloud or fitting shadow.
We are led to the belief of a future
state, not only by the weaknesses. by
the hopes and fears of human nature.
but by the noblest and best principles
whlch belong to it, by the love of VIr-
tue, and DV The ahhnT"~ "~--------A--.
Whether perfect happiness would be
procured by perfect goodness this world
will never afford an opportunity of
deciding. But this, at least, May be
maintained, that we do not always find
visible happiness in proportion to Wis
ible virtue.
Religion is the highest moral author
ity in human society. 1 see in religion
not the mystery of the incarnation, but
the mystery of social order. IC con-
meets with heaven an idea of equality
which prevents the massacre Of the
rich by the poor.
Every one is forward TO complain of
the prejudices that mislead other men
or part es, as il he were free and had
none of his own. What Is the cureI
No other than this, that every man
should let alone others pref eiudices and
examine his own.
There is In mans nature a secret in
clination and motion toward love of
others, which IL it be not spsnt upon
some one or few, doth naturally spread
itself toward many, and maketh men
become humane and charitable, as Is
seen sometimes in friars.
To hear complaints is wearisome
alike to the wretched and happy, for
who would cloud by adventItious grief
the short CLEANS of gayety which life
allows us? Or who that is struggling
under his own evils will add to them
the miseries of another?
Those who have already all that they
can el joy must enlarge their desires.
He that built for use, till use is supplied
must begin to build for vanity, and eX-
tend his plan to the utmost power OF
human performances, that he may not
soon be induced to form another wish.
The art of spreading rumors, may be
compared to the art OF pin-making.
There is usually some truth which l
Ill the wire; as this passes from hand
10 hans. one gives 1t polish. another
point, Others make and put on the
head, and at last the pin is completed.
Avarice Is a uniform and tractable
vice. Other intellectual distempers are
ifferent in different constitutions of
mind: that which sOOthes the pride OF
one will offend the pride of another;
but to the favor of the covetOus there
is ready way--bring money and
nothing is denied.
He that has much to do will do some
wrong, and of that wrong mnst suffer
the consequences and if it were pos
sible that he should always act rightly,
vet when such numbers are to judge of
mis- conduct, the bad will censure and
obstruct him by malevolence and the
good sometimes by mist tkes.
A star is beautiful: 1t affords pleas
ure, not from what it Is to do, or to
give, but simply by being what 1t is.
1t benefits the heavens; it has con-
gruity with the mighty space in which
it dwells. 1t has repOse; no force dis
turbs its eternal space. 1t has free
dom; no obstruction lies between 1t
and lntinlty.
A man may smoke, or d. ink, or take
snuff, till he is unable to pass away his
time without it, not TO mention how
our delight in any particular study,
art, or science, rises and improves in
proportion to the application which we
Destow upon it. Thus, what was at
first an exercise, becomes at length an
entertainment.