The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-09-16
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
A slothful man is a beggar's brotl

There are no fragments so precious
as those Of time, and none are so heed
lessly lost by people who cannot make
moment, and yet can waste years.
Mortality is an event by which a
wise man can never be surprised; we
know that death is always near, and 1t
should, therefore, always be expected.
Events arc only the shells Of ideas /;
ana often 1t is thfluent thoug the Ofages
that Is crystallzed in a moment by the
stroke of pen or the point Of bayo-
net.
Only they who carry sincerity to the
highest point, in whom there remains
not single hairs breadth OF hypocri-
sy, can see the hidden springs of
things.
Good pictures are great teachers. A
fine work Of art hangingin one's house
speaks to him constantly in language
of tender beauty that wins It's way to
the heart.
How many useful hints are obtained
by chance, and how often the mi,:d,
hurried by her own ardor, to distant
views, ncglects the truths that lie open
| before her.
What we must do is to make the act
uai possibilities Of our life our ideal.
the Godlike, but to recognize it, and
thus gam it.
There are errors which no wise men
Will treat with rudeness while there
is probability that they may be the
retraction OF some great truth below
tho horizon.
The worst SANDER often has in It
some truth from which we may learn
lesson that may make lls wiser, and,
IT wo Will, better, when the first smart
Of IL Is over.
Joy Is prize unb0ught, and Is frecst,
purest In Its how, when 1t comes un-
sought. 1t Is no use to search for 1t as
for material good. You must carry it
with you, else 1t is not there.
Tho great blessings Of mankind are
within US, and within our reach, but
shut our eyes, and, like the people In
the dark, we fall foul upon the very
thing we reach for without finding 1t.
heart-memory Is better than a
mere head-memory. Better to carry
away little of the life Of God In orr
souls, than if we were able to repeat
overy word Of every sermon we ever
heard.
Sleep Ia the repose ofall things sleep,
the gentlest Of the deities, the peace Of
the mind from which care flies; which
soOthes the hearts Of men " carried with
the tolls OF the day and refits them for
labor.
Are you stepping upon the thresh-
old of life? Secure for yourself a good
moral character. Without virtue you
cannot be respected; without intregity
you can never rise to distinction and
honor.
1t was Of course Boston girl who
declared that under no circumstances
could she be induced to marry a man
whose views on the theosophic doctrine
OF cosmogony were In the slightest de-
gree loose.
1t IS lucky that some men are poor,
for riches would only help them to dis
play their weakness and folly. MANY
ones insigniticance Is his safety.
Give him prominence, and everybody
would see what a fool he is.
Truly has 1t been said. emphatically,
In these days ought 1t to be repeated:
A loving heart Is the beginning of all
knowledge. This 1t Is that opens the
whole mind, quickens every faculty Of
the intellect to do Its fit work.
A cheerful wife makes happy home
because the motion ID contagious; al
most tunconsciously the houshold is hap.
py In response, because every mem >er
Of the family Is cheerful by the genial
influence Of tho wife and mother.
Life constitutes the church, but not
the doctrine, except so far as it be OF
the life. Hence 1t is evident that the
Lords church Is not here or there, but
that 1t Is everywhere, where the life Is
formed according to the precepts OF
charity.
| know knothlng which life has to
Offer 80 satisfy ing as the profound
good understanding which can subsist,
after much exchange of good offices,
between two virtuous mon, each Of
whom Is sure Of himself and sure of
his friend.
What difference have we often seen
beLWixt our affltctOns at our first meet
ing with and at our parting from them!
Wo have entertained them with stghs
and tears, but parted from them with
JOY as the happy instruments Of our
own good.
Flatterers are the worst kind Of trail
tors, for they will strengthen your I'M
perfcctions, encourage you In all evils,
correct you in nothing, but so shadow
and pant your folltea and vices rs you
shall never by their will, discover good
from evil, or vice from virtue.
81 have no time to devote to my chill.
dren," says the business man, with q
sigh; for he really feels the prlvation
OF their society koenly. But the excuse
is al insufficient one; he should mako
time-let other things 60; for no duty
ls moro important than that he owes
his offspring.
An eccentric minister, stepping one
day into the shop of one Of his parish
toner's, aaked abruptly, without even
waiting for salntatlon, "Did yon ex-
peot me?' "No!' was the reply.
"What II had been death ?" he asked,
and stepping out, was gone as suddenly
as he came in.
The earnest men are so few In the
world that their very earnestness be-
comes at once the badge of their no.
bility and as men in a crowd instinc-
lively make room for one who seems
eager to force his way through it, SO
mankind everywhere open their ranks
to one who rushes zealously toward
some object lying beyond them.