The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-02-05
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
A great head has great cares.
Foroetfulncss IA no ano1ooy

Love Is the crowning grace Of the
} Christian life. -
The doctrine of the Atonement is full
of the love OF God. n..! 49,.
Peoples intentions can only be deci-
ded from their conduct,
tie keeps his road we'll enough who
gets rid OF bad company.
TO openly offend virtue Is to clandes-
timely defcnd immortality.
BY looking Into physical causes our
minds are opened and enlarged.
Happiness and unhappness arc quail
itlcs OF mind, not of place or position.
NOW abideth faith, hope, love, these
three, but tho greatest Of these is love
You should consider your adversity
aB absent when your senses are ucDar-
ted.
Those gifts arc ever the most accep-
tablowhich the giver has lnado precious.
There would not be so many open
mouths If there were not so MANY open
oars.
Give, if thou canst, an aims; If not
afford, instead OF that Il sweet and ycn-
tie word. =,
The mind hath reason to remcm-
Der that passions ought to be her vassuls
nor her masters.
All virtue lios In power of dcuyiny
our own desires whom reason does not
authorize them.
a emperor in his night cap will not
meot with halt the respect OF an en-
pcror with crown.
Expression is Of more consequences
IMAM shape-lt will light up features
otherwise heavy.
Eapcroliz,,;o,. ,,<l -o..
ccit are always preparing the most la
mcntablc mishups.
People d0 not reflect that they nav
soon die. II they did their quarreis
would quickly terminate.
uumor, warm and all-embraciny as
tho sunshine, bathcs its objects in
genial and. abiding light.
AT present let us remove what is bad:
which must always be done before good
of any kind can spring up.
| Ordinary apprehension, or a correct
Wow OF huinah affairs, Is the general
heirloom Of common sense.
Never neglect TO pcrluIm the COM
mlssion which the friend entrusted 10
you. You must not forget.
Men are often moro guilty OF treach-
cry IRON weakness Of character than
from any settled design 10 bctray,
Tho universe is but ono grcan city.
full Of beloved ones, divine and human
by nature enueareu TO each other.
Perseyerlng mediocrity Is much more
respectable, and OF unSpuukably moro
use than talented inconstancy,
There are many manifestations Of
Gods love In nature and providence,
but the greatest Of all Is in Christ his
Son. ..... ....f
Coveous mon need money least, yot
they most affect 1t; but prodigals, who
need IL most, have tho least regard for
it. .@'@f
Let every man sweep theisnow from
before his own door and not busy
himself about the frost on his neigh
boris tiles, -
TO DO vain Of what you have learned
fs the Same as to plume yourself on
piece Of gsme yoa have received from
hunter. r..... ,h,..ty
There can be no surer way to success
than by disclaiming all confidence in
ourselves, and referring tho events of
things to God with an implicit CONT
dence. ...s;"
SUMe persons are chrOnically sour;
you feal every time you meet them as
if you'd been eating lemons without
sugar; they stamp scoWl on you In
side and out.
While 1t is impossible, even after
conversion, to live without SHINING,
yet provision Is made for the forgive-
ness OF our daily sins, and the washing
of tho stains.
Character alone Is immortal. Not
what we hayo, but what we are, Is en-
during.
Ira1
those that, for the most part, mon rea-
son Of within themselves, and always
those which they commune about with
others.
We can enjoy fellowship with God
only by walking where he dwells. II
We would have the companonship OF
pure friends, we must GO in tho same
society in which they novo.
When we are out Of sympathy with
the yoSng, then we think our work in
this world Is over. That Is a sign that
tho heart has begun to Wither--and
that is q dreadful Kind Of old age.
Ho who spends his younger days in
dissipation Ia mortgaging himself to
disease and poverty, TWO, inex0rable
creditors, who are certain to foreclose
at las3 and take possession of the pre-
mises. go
| 1t is easy in tho worlds opinion; 1t
is easy in solitude to live, after your
own; but the great man'is he, who in
the midst OF tho crowd, keeps with per-
feet sweetness the independence Of SOL
itude. '"'i4'
W.len you doubt between words use
the plaincst, the commcnest, tho most
wonld rouge; 1--we simple ones as you,
xvoi,l1 natl vs roaes Cn vni,r ,haak II s