Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-06-15
Choice Selections.

Kind words produce their own inn
age in mems souls, and a beautiful inn
age it is. They soothe and comfort the
nearer. ., ...s=s
What brevity characterizes Script
ure prayers! They are direct without
familiarity or cant. Many of them are
voiced in a single breath.-LeoOis o.
Thompson.
Christ taught men that humility
leads to glory, self-denial to success,
and that wings of love to God and man
raise the soul from sense and sin to the
beatifc vision of the Ineffable One
III. N. Scott. s;' II f.itjAgN a#
He is truly great, that is great in
charity. He is truly great, that is little
in himself, and that maketh no account
of any height of honor. And he is truly
learned, that doeth the will of God and
forsaketh his own will. = ThqanGs o.
Kempis.
How often in the course of life we
find ourselves in need of strong relig-
ious belief. Why this need if there be
nothing to fulfill it? Why should our
hopes be set toward great future if
there be no future worthy Of our high
est livingp4-iS.. H Gardner. 1857 s1
y Tile most perfect specimen of ath.
letic training ever produced, if bone and
flesh and sinew are his all, is but one
third a man and useless to society.
Send him to the schools and store his
mind full, he is but two-thirds a man,
and dangerous as well as useless. Put
Christ in his heart, to control and urge
his purpose, and You have an ideal man.
w D. Nicholas.
There is no true and constant gen.
tleness without humility; while we are
SO fond of ourselves, we are easily
offended with others. Let us be per-
suaded that nothing is due to us. and
then nothing will disturb us. Let us
often think of our own infirmities, and
we shall become indulgent towards
those of others: Let us apply to our
hearts these sublime and touching words
of the Son of God: "Learn of me, for
am meek and lowly in heart. ''-F'eaae-
lon.
The following sentence, uttered by
no theologian or preacher. but by one Of
the most eminent civilians aud orators
of our time, William M. Esarts, de-
serves to be honored with letters of
gold: "One might as well expect our
land to keep its climate, its fertility, it's
anu It's DcduCy, were Inc
globe loosened from the law which
tempered radiance of the sun, as to
count upon the preservation of the de-
lights and glories Of liberty for a peo-
pie cast loose from religion, whereby
man is bound in harmony with the
moral government of the world''-
Morning Star.
The world wants more sunshine in
its disposition, in its blu siness. in it's
charities and in its theology. For ten
thousand OF the aches and pains and ir-
ritat ons of men and women we recon-
mend sunshine. 1t stimulates better
than champagne. 1t is the best plaster
for wound. The good Samaritan
poured out into the fallen travellers
cash more of this than of oil. Florence
Nightingale used it on the Crimean
battIe-felds. Take it out into the
alleys, on board all the ships. by all the
sick-beds. Not phial full, not a cup
complaint, for neuralgia, for rheuma-
tism, for failing fortunes, for melan-
choly.-Faith and H'or,s.
Why should envy the great man
dwelling in his mansio<l yonderp He is
Gods child, so am |. He has the keep
ing Of the pictures and sculpture, I the
delight of admiring them. His estates
stretch away for miles, but they NAV
enrich me more than they do him.
hear song in his running streams he
never heard, and see a grace in his
woods he never saw. From the heights
above his home my thoughts take wing
to Heaven he never visited. Mn cali
Is,
skies of factory town and sends him
to palace among the hills it ia well
and may even be more enriched by ,
his estates than he is.-R. w. Dale.