Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-23
SUNDAY REFLECTIONS.

beginning.
It takes time and patience and effort
almost unspeakable, to accomplish any
great work.
The Second Adventists have set the
4th day of next November as the date
for the end of the world.
When you receive favor you ought
never to forget it; when you do ono you
ought never to remember it.
Persons who care the least about pleas.
ing others will always complain the most
when others do not please them.
Nothing helps you 80 much to feel
content, as the taking OF what share may.
from the nature of things, be possible to
you.
The most influential man. in free
country, at least, is the man who has the
ability, as we'll as the courage, to speak
what he thinks when occasion may re.
quire it.
Whether religion be true or false, it
must necessarily be granted to be the
only wise principle and safe hypothesis
for man to live and die by.
There is nothing quite 80 atronR IN the
human heart a. the sense of shame. To
know that we are bad can be easily
borne, but to have Others know it is in.
tolerable.
To be happy, the passions must be
cheerful and gay, not gloomy and mel
ancholy. A propensity to hope and Joy
is real riches; one to fear and sorrew,
real poverty.
The fortunate man 10 he who, born
poor, or nobody, works gradually mp to
wealth and consideration, and having
got them, dies before he finds they were
not worth so much trouble.
Exclusively dwelling upon ourselves,
on our own virtues and faillDgs and ex.
perience, weakens our power Of sympa.
thy with others, while it increases our
acuteness of sensibility as regards self.
Who is there that has not suffered
Babes, new born. And who has not suf-
fered and sinned also? No one is entire
" human who has not; and it is dreary
and sinned also.
A bitter word may make wound that
will never heal. A kind word may win q
friend that will never turn. A caution
may save o soul; and yet silence is rome.
times more singing, and at other times
more soothing, than any word.
During the past year 1853 new Congre.
gational churches were formed, thirty
one of them in Dakota. This is more BY
ffty.three than were organized in 1882.
The number of ministers ordained or in.
stalled was 2l9. sgalnst III in 1882.
Nothing is easier than fault finding.
No talent, no self denial, no character is
required to setnp in the grumbling busi-
ness. But those who are moved by 9
genuine desire to do good have little
time for murmuring or complaint.
II there is any one thing more than
another, that brings to the human heart
an ecstatic state Of pure happiness, it is
the nameless inward joy that true
man or woman feels after the perferm.
ance OF an cot OF broad gusged charity.
A great man under the shadow of de-.
feat 10 taught how precious are the uses
of adversely; and "a an oak trees roots
are daily strengthened by its shadow, 60
all defeats in good cause are but rest.
ing places on the road to victory at last.
Ayoung bride who brings no fortune
into the home of poor man, and alas
not even health, must she not have mex.
haustible good nature, faith unlimited,
and unquenchable cheerfulnsss to secure
herself an immovable place in the house.
hold affectionsi
Be cheerful; do not brood over fond
hopes unreaiized until chain, link after
link. is fastened on each thought and
wound around the heart. Nature intend
ed you to be the fountain spring Of cheer
fulness and social life. and not the trsv.
cling monument of despair and melan.
choly.
There is nothing 80 exacting in its de-
mands nor 80 serious in its obligations
- perfect freedom. It has joy OF its
own, but not Of the giddy and careless
kind. There are continual choices to be
made, decisions to form, undertakings
to accept or refuse, actions to perforn or
leave undone, all fraugbt with conse.
quences more or less important and far
reaching. Wherever authority 10 absent,
responsibility is present. and in the same
proportion.
The present year is regarded a. the
centennial OF Methodism in this country,
although Methodist church was organ.
lied q early ~ 1865. The first general
conferences wAs held in Baltimore In 1884
in the month OF December. The growth |
Of the denomination 10 remarkable-fron
that small beginning to over 100000 ]