Nebraska advertiser., 1880-12-09
GEMS OF THOUGHT.

Be graceful il you can, but IL you
can't be graceful, be true.
Life is not so short but that there is
always time for courtesy.
Frowns blight young children as
frosty nights blight young plants.
Grief ennobles. He who has not suf-
fered can never have thought or felt.
He that does good for goods sake
seeks neither praise nor reward, though
sure of both at last.
Whatever may be the customs and
laws Of country, women always give
the tone to morals.
He that lets the sun 90 dowL upon
his wrath, and goes angry to bed, is
likely to have the devil for his bed-fel-
low.
1t is not necessary to threaten bad
man. for his own misdeeds threaten
him with a worse punishment than you
can infiict.
He is a wise man that can avoid an
evil; he is patient man that can en-
dure it; but he is a valiant man that
can conquer it.
A young girl generally loses her
freshness by mingling with fashionable
society, as a bright stream does by
mingling with the sea.
One of the most marked character
istics of fashionable decentralization is
reckless neglect of principle, and rig
id adherence to their semblance.
Conscience is a sleeping giant; we
NAV hull him into longer or a shorter
slumber; but his starts are frightful,
and terrible is the hour when he awakes.
Training the hands and eye to work
well leads individuals to form correct
habits in other respects; and good
workman is in most cases a good cit
izen.
A good conscience is the best looking
glass of heaven; in which the soul may
see Gods thoughts and purposes con-
corning it, reflected as so many shining
stars.
No man, for any considerable period,
can wear one face to himself and
another to the multitude, without final
ly getting bewildered as to which may
be the trIIer.
Gratitude was fancifully said to be
the memory of the heart; but, alas for
Door human nature! hearts are more
than suspected to have wOndrOus short
memories.
Tell-tales are contemplate beings.
To retail in one house what is seen or
spoken of in another is a treason
against society, which cannot be too
thoroughly despised.
As the belief in God is the foundation
of religion, there csn be no religion
without faith, but as true religion in
cludes virtue, religion cannot be perfect
without works.
Though sinking in decrepit age, he
prematurely fails whose memories re-
cord no benefit conferred on man by
him. They only have lived long who
have lived virtuO'ISiy.
Fear G,l for lis power-trust Him
for His v;-dom lev. Him for His good
ness-y~..ise I'm Tor His greatness
believe Him f , His faithfulness-an
adore Il "A TO" HI holiness.
The common riad may maintain its
place uEdrr common circumstances; the
truly great alrN'' overcome ITid!S OI
prosper or advers..J Showinga hum
BILE thanhfulness in one, 4 generous
sympathy, not hardened by its own
suffering, in the other; nor priding
themselves on the first, nor enyying in
the last.
Some men who know that they are
great are so very naughty withal and
insufferable that their acquaintance
discover their greatness only by the tax
of humility which they are obliged to
pay as the price of their friendship.
Such characters are as tiresome and
disgusting in the journey of life as
rugged roldS are to the weary traveller,
which he discovers to be turnpikes only
by the toll.
Let us serve God in the sunshine,
while He makes the sun shine. Weshall
then serve Him all the better in the
dark, when He sends the darkness. 1t
is sure to come. Only let our light be
Gods light, and our darkness Gods
darkness, and we shall be safe at home
when the great nightfall comes.-F. W.
Fdber.