The Penn's Grove record., 1883-10-27
Food for Reflection.

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some seventh wave to toss him on dry
land will find that the seventh wave is
a long time a coming. You can com
nit no greater folly than to sit by the
roadside until some one comes along and
invites you to ride with him to wealth
or influence.-John d. Cough.
TRUE WISDOM. The condition to be
met in order to obtain wisdom is with
in the reach of all. 1t is only to so feel
our need of it that earnestly and sincere
ly we ask God for it, If it was to go to
college, some might despair. If it was
to read the bible in the original Ian
guages, it might take some many years
to obtain it. But it is only to ask it of
God. Then all may have it.
IDLE WoRDs.-In avoiding idle words
our Saviour does not mean that we
shallalways talk about religion, but that
our motive in all we say shall be to use
the wondrous faculty Of vocal expression
which He has given US for his glory.
he did not mean that we should be
gloomy, reserved, uncommunicative,
afraid to open our lips, lest we should
say something wrong, but that the in
tention of our lives should be by our
words to please him and advance his
kingdom.
The joys and sorrOws of this world
are $ % ~strikingly mingled Our mirth
and grief are brought so m%ournfully in
contact We laugh while others weep,
and others rejoice when we are sad
The light heart and the heavy walk side
by side and go about togetherl Beneath
the same roof are spread the wedding
feast and the funeral pail F! The bridal
song mingles with the burial hymnl One
goes to the marriage-bed another to the
grave; and all is mutable, uncertain and
transitory -LonqfeI}0p.
1t is not an extravagant anticipa-
| ton that Japan may become a Christian
nation in seventeen years. The Chris
| stan missionaries in japan are now
working with a strong hope that the
twentieth century will open upon that
island empire no longer a foreign mission
field, but predominantly christian, con
verted from the shadowy paganisms and
| vague PHILOSOPHERS which now retain
but a feeble hold upon the people, and
received into the brotherhood of chris
tendon. A japanese Constantine is not
far off.
"A mans transit from one life to the
| other, or from one world to the other,
is like "a journey from one place to an
| other, and he takes with him all things
| that he possesses in himself as a man !;
| so that it cannot be said that a man after
death, his death being only that of the
| terrestrial body, has lost anything that
! belonged to himself. He also carries
with him his natural memory i; for
| everything he ever heard, Jaw, read,
learned or thought from his earliest In
fancy to the last day of his life he still
retains. -SDedepbsTg.
-Hawthorne's weird fancy that our
secret weakness or sin should hang like
a black veil over u faces between
US and other men, is true in fact. Every
hidden propensity or vice, every noble
trait or feeling, leaves its mark on the
features, the expression, the eyes. Day
by day and hour by hour, line after line,
here a little and there a little, it is re-
| corded ON the face as on a tablet, and
| when we reach middle age, there is a
story of our lives plainly written so that
he who runs may read. 1t is not cos
metics, no rouge, nor depilatories,
girls, that will make our faces as you
grow older but the thoughts and words
and deeds that have given you the ugli-
ness of Hecate, or ''the lineaments of
gospel books"
MANY men are mere warehouses
full of merchandise-the heart, the
head, are stuffed with goods. There
are apartments in their souls which
were once tenanted by love and taste
and joy, and worship, but they are all
deserted now, and the room are filed
with earthly and material things.
High things to each mind are the
things above it. Let each put forth his
hand for those on his own level. 1t is
difficult to think of things as high in
the abstract. The dining-room table
is high to a black beetle, but a camel
eopard a easily look in at the first
floor windows.-Jeon Mgeloe.
1t is impossible for a man to be
careless in business affairs, or unmind-
full of his business obligations, without
being weak or rotten in his personal
character. Show me a man who never
pays his notes when they are due, and
who shuns the payment of his bills
when it is impossible, and 1 shall
see a man whose moral character
is, beyond all question, bad.-Dr. Hot
land. o
I'm the midst of hopes and cares OF
apprehensionsand of disquietude, regard
every day that dawns upon you as if it
was to be your last ; and superadded
hours, to the enjoyment of which you had
not looked toward, will prove an accept
able boon.
To die in order to avoid the pains
of poverty, love, or anything that is
d~isagreeable, is not the part of a brave
man, but of a coward for it is a
cowardice to shun the trials and crosses
of life, not undergoing death because