Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1880-06-17
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

Nothing so adorns the face as cheer
fulness; when the heart is In flower,
its bloom and beauty pass to the fea-
lures.
He who boasts that his heart has re-
mained whole, confesses that he has
only prOsaie, out-Of-the-way-corner
heart. 1s4
To be unkind or rude to others and
yet expect to be treated by them with
I courtesy and affection, 10 absurd aud
selfish.
Look at the pages Of your own heart,
and you will see a dim reflection OF
what the recording angel has written
about you.
The more a mao knows about q sub
ject the greater will be his charity for,
and sympathy with views differing
| from his own.
The wise man Is happy when he gains
his own appreciation, and the fool when
he recommends himself to the applause
of those about him.
Truth and purity, like 30 many gems
In the life and example of the good
man, cannot but shame and condemn
error and vice in others.
Ii is easy enough TO make sacrifices
for those we love, but for our enemy We
have TO struggle and overcome self.
Such victory is noble.
Those who, without knowing US,
think or speak evil of us, do US no
harms It is not us they attack, but the
Phant Dm of their own Imagination.
Politeness may prevent the want of
wit and talents from being observed;
but wit and talent cannot prevent the
discovery Of the want of politeness.
A thoughtfulness for the comfort OF
those about us, pleasant smile, q kind
wOrd-these are the ingredients OF
which good manners are chiefly CON-
posed.
Anybody can soil the reputation OF
an Individual, however pure and chaste,
by uttering a suspicion that his ene-
mics will believe and his friends never
hear of.
LII you wish success in life make
perseverance, your bosom friend, ex-
perience your wise counsellor, caution
your elder brother, and hope your guar
dian genius.
Unseltish people are always polite
because good manners are only the abb
sence of selishness. They are the
doing unto others as we would wish 10
be done unto.
So much are we the slaves of the
world, that we sometimes hesitate to do
an action which is prompted by the
heart, fearful that 1t may be mistaken
by others for folly.
He that sympathises in all the hap
piness of others perhaps simself enjoys
the safest happiness, and he that la
warned by all the folly of others has
perhaps attained the s0undest wisdom.
There Is good advice enough extant
for the population of three worlds like
ours" said an old preacher; ''what we
need most is TO have this advice prac-
tically worked up into good examples"
Life has many Ills, bl the mind that
views every object in the most cheer
ing aspect and every doubtful dIspens-
alton as replete with latent good, bears
within itself powerful and perpetual
antidote.
Religion gives to virtue the sweetest
hopes, 10 uurepenting vice, juSC alarms,
TO true repentance, the most powerful
consultations, but she endeavors above
ness and pity tor men.
Contentment produces, in some meas
ure, all those effects which the alchem-
ist usually ascribes to what he calls the
philosophers stone, and il it does not
bring riches it does the same thing by
banishing the desire for them.
To ascertain the length of day and
night multiply the hour at which the
sun rises by Two; the result will be
the length of the night. Multiply the
hour at which the sun sets by two, and
tie result will be the length of the day.
Nothing Is easier to man of genius,
nothing I. more certain proof aud part
of 1t, than to compose what raises mems
wonder and admiration; nothing more
difficult than to show them distinctly
the simplest and most obvious truths.
Every man stamps his value on him
self. The price we challenge for our
selves Is given us. There does not live
on earth man, be his station what it
may, that says ''I despise myself"
Man is made little or great by his own
will.
The fountain Of content must spring
up in the mind, and he who has 30 lit
tie knowledge OF human nature as to
seek happiness by changing anything
but his disposition will waste his life
in fruitless efforts and multiply the
griefs which he proposes to remove.
People make a great mistake about
heaven. They think lt begins up yOnder,
but it really beglnsdOWn here. If you
are happy in the basement-story you
are fitted to enjoy the other stories.
But is you whine and moan here, heav-
en- itself cOnnos change your mood.
If we long to bring forth all the
fruit OF the Spirit, let us strike our
roots deep and wide In private prayer.
That faith and support, that strength
and grace which we seek Of God In Sc
cret, that they may be excused in the
hour of need, God will in that hour
give US before men.
A great supply indicates a great
charge. Oh that some would thinl: of
this A man has grown richer than he
used to be. Brother, with more barley
and straw you ought to keep more
dromedaries. | mean that God does
not send the corn for the mice to de-
stroy, but he means it to be eaten.
A woman may be handsome or re-
markablY attractive in various ways,
but If she Is not personally neat she
cannot hope to win admiration. Fine
clothes will not conceal the slattern.
A young woman with her hair always
in disorder and her clothes hanging
about her as If suspended from prop,