Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1883-06-23


Life is our opportunity to evince our
htness for immortality.
TO be truly great is to be radically
dii1erent from what you are.
Charity makes the best of everything
and labOrs to make everything the best.
Charity is meek, will not be glorifed,
but giveth all the glory to God, who is
love.
Let your mental hand reach beyond
the mere fact if you would grasp all the
fact implies.
In the great worlds exposition of
brains, the space is not all taken up or
even applied for.
The omnivorous mosquito can fetch a
very jerky and impious prayer from the
lips of pious saint.
Charity bears with mistakes, pitieth
infirmity, strengthens the weak, forgiv-
eth sin and cleanseth iniquity.
A hobby does not advance the world
in wisdom any more than a man is
made handsome by being all mouth.
As the ideals of intellectual effort be-
come higher the sincere worker becomes
more thorough, serious and efficient.
That peculiar craftsmanship made up
of maneuver, tact, compromise and dodg-
ing has the elements!of first-class polit-
ical dude.
In this world common place persons
and silly things draw more than intel
lectual force, but the numbers drawn
lack quality.
Better be true in hell than false in
heaven, but such thing cannot be, for
the truest is the best, and the best will
survive as fittest, with an infinitude of
joy.
Parents cannot curse their home and
offspring more effectually than to teach
by precept or example, the baneful
vice of idleness, for where this fatal
night shade is fed upon all is death.
To look at the present congress, re-
membering Hamilton, Webster, Clay,
Sumner and Garfield, Is not favorable to
the theory of evolution unless evolution
has side shows of intellectual decline.
Hypocrisy deceiyes the hypOcrite with
the braZen falsity, that man can be sue
cessfully two persons, two Numerically
opposite characters at the same time, so
as to present such heinous fraud be-
fore the Almighty, in the way of chal-
lenge, for his protection and blessing.
Traditional dogmas contain some
fragments of truth and error mixed in
one consolidated compound, but truth
contains all that is pure, true and di-
vine, without any admiXture of error,
therefore, let our search be for truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth.
Life is charming scene, magic
picture, a royal banquet, a harmonious
festival, luminous circle, brilliant
diadem, where beauty, worth, sympathy,
tenderness, courage, charity, endurance
and legions of angels dwell, minister to,
and make perfect. those who are amiable
as child, Drawer than lion, and as
loving as Christ.
The air, the things we eat, the slum-
bers of rest, society in which we move,
the friends of our choice, the nectarean
joys of reason, the elysium bliss of home,
the earth on which we live with so many |
happy and varied employments, business
and pleasures, none of these can be APP
preciated or enjoyed by the lazy lOafer,
by the miserable sluggard.
There are men and women who 60 |
around with chip on the shoulder,
anxious for a quarrel. They will quarrel
over religion, politics or the weather,
over line fences, chickens or children,
over dresss, cats, dogs, or even such
small things as themselves. Anything
will answer for quarrel rather than
miss. Avoid such nuisances.
To disbelieve in the nobility of work,
and have faith in laziness is the most
hopeless and wretched atheism. God
exists to perform. The glory of His
mighty acts shineth from the beginning.
What He hath brought forth exists to
labor. Activity is written on wind and
water, upon the heavens and earth, upon
matter and spirit. Idleness is anomoly,
he irregular production of sinful man.