The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-07-22
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

some men have talent for the Ordi-
nary which makes them extraordinary.
10 tell falseho0d is like the out OF a
sabre; for though the wound may heal.
the scar of 1t will remain.
He who has no opinion of his own,
put depends upon the opinions and
tastes OF others, is a slave.
Difficulties, by braclng tho mind to
overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as
exercise assists digestion.
Truth Is the most powerful thing IN
the world, since fiction can only please
US by Its resemblance to it.
Every man throws on to his sur
roundings the sunshine or the shadow
that exists in his own soul.
we mount to heaven mostly on the
ruins OF our cherished schemes, finding
our failures were successes.
Hope Is like the wing of an angel,
soaring up to heaven and bearing our
prayers to the throne of God.
The first ingredient in conservation
Is truth, the next good sense, the third
good humor, and the fourth wit.
Fifty years ago Stephenson ran his
hrst engine over iron rails in Eng
land. There are now one hundred a nd
fifty thousand miles Of iron rails In the
world. - Wv
No flower can bloom in Paradise that
Is not transplanted from Gethsemane:
no one can taste of the fruit of the tree
OF life that has not tasted of the tree Of
Calvary.
If we are over caught in shower Of
prosperity, remember we can find shell
ter with somo neighbor, on whom we
might allow some Of the superfuoue
drops to fall.
Let 1t be our business less to fight
or even to expose error, or TO criticise
fault, than to disclose and manifest
verify and right. and to be the evolu-
ton we preach.
Enjoy the blessing Of this day, If God
sends them; and the evils bear paCient-
~. For this day only is ours; we are
dead to yesterday, and we are not born
to tomorrow.
Lille is divided into three terms, that
which is, which was, which will be.
Let us learn from the past to profit by
the present, and from tho present to
live tor the future.
Shakespeare makes Cassius say s.,The
clock has stricken threO," forgetful of
the fact that clocks were not Invented
for more than eight hundred years
after Cassius was dead.
The great secret Of avoiding disap-
pOinJment, Is not to expect too much.
Despair follows immoderate hope, as
things fall hardest to the ground that
have been nearest to the sky.
The selfish mans heart like mans
colin, Is just his own measure-long
enough and broad enough to hold him
self, with room for no one else.
AS they who, for every slight sick
ness, take physio to repair their health.
do rather impair 1t, so they who tor
every trifie are eager to vindicate their
character, do rather weaken 1t.
1t is not the strange sights that we
shall See in heaven that will 80 much
delight us; not the glitter and the
glory; not the diamonds and topaz:
no, 1t is God: He Is all and in all.
The peculiar odors of plants depend
on various volatile matters, which are
often so subtle as to be incapable of de-
lection by ordinary chemical means.
We can easily manage If we will only
take each day the burden appointed for
1t. But tho load will be too heavy for
us II we add to its weight the burden
of tomorrow before we are called to
bear it.
Philip Brooks says to ministers:
s'Never allow yourself to complain that
your congregation neglects you with
out first asking yourself whether you
nave given them any reason why they
should attend to YOU"
Mistakes are made even by the best
OF mon. An English clergyman of the
last century In an eloquent sermon ex-
tola the goodness Of the Creator in al
ways making the largest rivers flow
close by the most populous towns.
They who are fallen lowest remem-
Der the heights Of virtue, honor, and
peace, whose shining they once be-
hold, and whose pinnacle they once
almost touched. And are we not all In
some Ssnse and some degree fallen.
Perhaps we cannot practice better
discipline than by bridling or gaining
control over our tongues. II any one has
a doubt as to the Importance of this
let him read what st. James
says about 1t in the third chapter Of his
Epistle.
The poor illiterate fellow could hard
ly have made better combination of
blunders than when he said, meaning
that he had Polyglot Bible with the
Apocrypha in it, that he had s'just
bougat a Pollywog Bible with n.y.
pocrysy in it,"
No righteous man would, in his right
mind, be willing to make an exchange
of his smartest Affections for wicked
mans prosperity, with all the circum-
stances attending. It cannot, there
fore, be bad with the righteous in the
worst condition.
We cannot remove social evils nor
relieve great social wants by the very
methods that have brought these upon
us. Communities, like individuals,
must obey the laws which God has
written In our nature. Society mus
care first and last for 1t own mora
condition.
Happiness is like mama. It fs to be
gathered in the grains, and enjoyed
every day; It will not keep; 1t cannot
be accumulated; nor need we 90 out of
ourselves, nor into remote places TO
gather 1t, sincait has rained down from
heaven, at our very doors, or rather
within them.
Persons who are constantly saying
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