The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1883-10-27
Food for Reflection.

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a long time 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 infuence.-John b. Cough.
TRUE WIsDoM.-The condition to be
met in order to obtain wisdom is with
in the reach of all. 1t is only to 30 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
shall always 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 so strikingly mingled Our mirth
and grief are brought so mournfully 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 ! 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. y.-Lonqfello,o.
1t is not an extravagant anticipa-
tion that Japan may become a Christian
nation in seventeen years. The Chris
stian missionaries in Japan are now
working with strong hope that the
twentieth century will open upon that
island empire no longer foreign mission
fitl Id, but predOminantly christian, con-
verted from the shadowy paganisms and
vague philosophers which now retain
but feeble hold upon the people, and
received into the brotherhood of chris
tendon. A Japanese Constantine is not
far off.
"A man IS tra1lsss.ssSS-.. nv w 'iio
other, or from one world to the other..
is like journey from one place to an
other, and he takes with him all things
that he possesses in himself as a man ;
80 that it cannot be said that 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 for
! everything he ever heard, saw, read,
learned or thought from his earliest in
fancy to the last day of his life he still
Misunderstanding.
-Hawthorne's weird fancy that our
secret weakness or sin should hang like
black veil over our 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 little and there little, it is re-
corded on the face as on 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 rooms 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 camel
eopard can easily look in at the first
floor windows.-Jean IngelotO.
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 shall
see a man whose moral character
is, beyond all question, bad.--Dr. Hol-
land.
In the midst of hopes and cares of
and 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
disagreeable, is not the part of brave
man, but of coward for it is a
cowardice to shun the trials and crosses