The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-02-03
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

~~O'~~ N~AA~N PsAesba6o w q GO1hUpVOA6s
Whilst you look too much on others
gardens, you will neglect your own.
Faith steps into our aid whom our
boasted reason aud knowledge fall.
There is no such thing as being proud
before man, and humble before God.
Genius ut first is little more than q
great capacity for receiving discipline.
The most Important part of any bust
ness is to know what ought to be done.
He who lives to ben.;1tt 'G.,:.aIf con.
| ters Oh the world benefit when he
dies.
Tho sweetest thing on earth fs little
child when it has learned to know and
love.
He that would have the perfection of
of it. VAN '''
Plunge boldly into tile thick of lifo
and seize it when you will, it is inter
esting.
Men show their character in NOTHING
more clearly than by what they think
laughable. '>
There are more fools than sagcs; and
among the saRes there is more follv
than wisdom.
he who reigns within himself, and
rules passions, desires and fears, is
more than king.
The very nature of love is to find its
JOY IN serving others, not for ones own
benefit but for theirs.
ldleness is the dead sea which swal-
.o"s up all virtues, and is the self-made
sepulchre of living man.
Ilty Is sworn servant unto loyo. and
this be sure. wherever it begins to make
the way, 1t lots the master in.
II you lot trouble rest ur on your soul
IKE hen upon hor nest, you may ex-
poot the h"tching Of large brood,
How many waste their MORNINGS in
anticipating their afternoons, and their
AFTERNOONS i'll regretting their morningsl
When We record our angry feeIinys
let 1t be on the snow, that tho first beam
OF sunshine may oblitorate them for.
over.
The object of all ambition should bo
10 pe happy at home. If we are not
where. ''
A promise should be givou with cau-
t!oH and Kept with care. It should be
maze oy the heart ana remem bered
| wit the hend
The impressions of religion are 40
natural to mankind, that most man ara
necessltated, first or last, to entertain
serious thoughts about it,
A good wife Is like the jvv wh,cb
benutifies tho building to wIich Il
clpgs, twining it's tendrills more lovina'
~ AZ time converts the ancient ediiice
into ruin.
Conscience and coyetousneas ara
never TO be reconciled. Like fire and
water they always destroy each other.
either.
how difficult you will find it to con-
vince mlserly heart that anything IL
good which is not profitable, or a hber-
tine one that anything is bad which il
pleasant.
lime is short, your obligations inf
Mic. are your houses regulated, your
chlldren instructed, the afflicted re-
heved, the, poor visited, tho work of
plety accomplished.
That age Of the church which wos
most fertile in nice questions, was most
barren i'll religion, for 1t makes ueople
thlhk Sellglon TO DO only mattor of
wit III tying and untying knots.
Socially, we may all easily be divided
into two GLASSES in this world, at least
III the civilized part OF it. il VIC ara
not the people whom other folks talk
ABOUT then We are sure to be the people
who talk about othcrs.
Education is companion which M
misfortune can depress, no crime dc.
SIroy' 10 enemy aleniate, no despotism
ehslaye. AT homo u friend, abroad nh
introduction, in solitude solnrr m 80
society al ornament.
! Surely, surely, the only trp, know.
| ledge OF our fellowman is that wh;cb
enables us to feel with h,m--whioh
gives III fine ear for the heartpuIses
that are beating under tho mere clothes
OF circumstance and opinion.
Tho Christian should be careful how
he nllngles with the world. or bis
Christian profession, like q sword ex-
| posed to moisture, ii il does not loso ita
edgo it will certainly lose It's polish.
Religion Is necessary and indis-
pensable element in any human charne.
ter. There Ii no living without it. IL
Is tho tic that connects man to his
Creator, and holds him to His throne,
| IImldlty creates towards ana never
wins success. 1t is strong and abid-
ing faith in ones own ability to per-
form, that ovorcomes difficulties that
] others thought could not be surmount.
/ ed.
Man with all his boosted strength of
| mind, needs womanly love and sympa.
thy. 1t il not rs q worker at ali thai
| bo wants wife. If this is all he needs.
hired help can do it cheaper than a
| wife.
Money has closer relation to morals
than is generally admitted. In all his
tory, whether OF communities or indi-
viduaIs. we find that laxity in money
mattters is followed by looseness in
morals. s,a
Carlyle says that one cannot move n
step without meeting duty, and that
the fact Of mutual helplessness is proved
by the very fact OF ones existence. No
man liveth to himself, and no man dieth
to himself. ,ly1#,@
A man who passes through hfe with
out marrying is like q fair mansion left
by the builder unfinished, The half
that is completed runs to decay by me-
glect or becomes at best but q sorry