The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-10-17


Heaven bless us all How much we don't
know!
Libertyis name for what no one possesses.
Josh Billings.
How immense appear to us the sins that
we have not commitIed.-Mm. Necker.
Thought is the property of him who can
entertain it, and OF him who can adequately
place it.
The mania for pet dogs has broken out
again among ladies, and is worse than il has
ever been before.
What have years to bring
But larger floods OF love and light,
And sweeter songs 10 sing!i HOLMES.
What is defeat? Nothing but education;
nothing but the first step OF something betS
ter.-Wendell Phillips.
If you hit the mark, you must aim little
above it; every arrow that flies feels the
attraction OF the earth, -Longfellow.
The Dowager Countess de Bironne once
said: al do not like illusions. They are
the anonymous letters OF conversation"
You may be wise enough to be able to say
your prayers backward, but if your life IS
not correct you know what you are, and so
do other people.
There is no short cut to excellence In
every department of human achievement
superiority is based upon soil, and success is
reached only by effort
Because we see fault in friend DO not
root him out and say, oil have none OF
him" and thereby lose the real good CONS
panionship might bring.
Spurgeon says that man who is in the
habit of practising every day on cornet
may be Christian, but 10 is out Of the ques-
ton for bis neighbors to be.
The wheat that blooms will ripen too,
For so OF old il used 10 do;
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GERMAN.
We wear our teeth out in the hard drudg-
cry OF the outset and at length when We do
get bread to eat we complain that the crust
is hard. so that in neither case are we salts
fied.-Scott.
If Satan should attend the services at some
of our fashionable Churches he would SIM
| ply say This is all right, and jus. as
would have it." Then so off on more press
ing business.
popular religion is simply a religion
| which allows man to do just as he pieases
| in this world and then gives him "a second
| probation after death" to fix things all right
| and get him ready for heaven.
1t is not we'll to process too much. for I'M
| less you are as good on Monday as you seem
to be on Sunday you are simply gathering
| rods for YOUR own breeches. That is what
Hesiod said in Greek long time ago.
A correspondent of one of the medical jour
! nails says that the application OF strong So
/ luton of chronic acid three or four times
day by means of a cancels hair pencil is the
| best and easiest method of removing warts.
We scatter seed with careless hand,
| And dream we ne er shall see them more,
But for thousand years
Their fruit appears
| In weeds that mar the land,
Orhealthful store. Anon.
Chaucer, who died in the year 400, seems
! to have found poverty as inconvenient as
| most of us of later age. In his address TO
| His empty Purse he anticipated the sorrows
from which many of his successors have suf-
/ fered:
| To you my purse, and TO none other weight
| Complain j. for you be my lady dear.
| am sorry now that you be light,
! For certes you now make me heavy cheer.
| Me were as hefe land upon bier,
| For which unto your mercy thus cry
| Be heavy again or else must die
Good words from the pulpit: THE worship
of wealth spoils the home life. begets loss
of public spirit; it sets up false standard of
success and worth; it hopeiessly corrupts
commercial honesty; it leads to dstrust of
human virtue; it leads men to live beyond
their means Just rs surely rs we continue
TO rear our vast civilization upon q basis Of