Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-06-14
SUNDAY REFLECTIONS.

whenever you DOUBT whether n0 IN
tended action be good or bad, abstain
from it.
People addicted to secrecy are so with.
out knowing why; they are so not for
cause, but for secrecy's sake.
The first ingredient in conversation is
truth, the next good sense, the third
good humor, and the fourth wit.
We do not want precepts so much as
patterns; an example is the softest and
least invidious way Of commanding.
1t is not till we have passed through
the furnace that We are made to know
how much iross is in our composition.
1t ia one of the most promising traits
of human nature that heroic unselfish.
ness always enkindles the enthusiasm of
mankind
These are good rules: Do not all that
Ibeneve not dfl shat st hthf; tefii uSasS u|taSsi Ssai
that you know.
There is no policy like politeness: and
good manner is the best thing in the
world, either to get a good name, or
supply the want of it.
Religion can be no more learned out
of books than seamanship, or soldier
ship, or engineering. or painting, or any
practical trade whatsoever.
In all the superior people have met,
notice directness, truth spoken more
freely, as if everything of obstruction, OF
malformation, had been trained away.
We should manage our fortune as we
do our health-enjoy it when good, be
patient when it is bad, and never apply
| violent remedies except in an extreme
| necessity.
The man who avenges every wrong
that is done him has no time for any.
thing else. IT you make your life sue
cess you can afford to let the dogs bark
as you pass by.
Learning, it is said, may be an instru.
ment of fraud; SO may bread, if dis.
charged from the mouth of cannon, be
an instrument of death. Each may be
equally effective for evil.
The divine rest comes only after we
have labored and been heavy laden.
The life currents run heavenward when
our strongest and divine attractions are
all taken awey from the earth.
'Tis the property of all true knowl.
egde, especially spiritual, to enlarge the
soul by filling it, to enlarge it without
swelling it, to make it more capable and
more earnest to know, the more it knows.
It is the way of attaining to heaven
that makes profane scorners so willingly
let 70 the expectation Of it. 1t is not
the articles of the creed, but the duty to
God and their neighbor, that is such an
inconsistent, incredible legend.
True repentance consists in the heart
being broken for sin and broken from
sin. Some often repent, yet never re-.
form; they resemble man travelling in
dangerous path, who frequently starts
and stops, but never turns aside.
The failings of good men are com.
monty more published in the world than
their good deeds; and one fault of we'll.
deserving man shall meet with more re.
proaches than all his virtues praise, such
is the force of ill-will and ill-nature.
What is called ill.nature and want oi
generosity, is very often nothing more
than quick eye for the injustice and
unreasonableness of others, and de.
termination not to crafty it; not the de.
sire to save ones money or trouble.
The noble passion, true love, contains
all the elements of self-sacrifice. Love
| tuhG WuAuCes duu plucoS duu outlohS uuO
feels spiteful at every attention moi
lavished on itself and its own gratiica
ton, is not love at all, although it goel
80 often by the name and is mistaken fo
it.
Every human soul has germ of some
flowers within, and they would open il
they could only find sunshine and fret
air to expand in. Not having enough o.
sunshine is what ails the world. Max.
people happy. and there will not be hal
the quarrelling or a tenth part of th'
wickedness there Is.
True greatness shows itself in ignoring
or quickly forgetting personal injuries
when meaner natures would be kept ir
unrest by them. The less of man one
is, the more he makes of an injury or ar
insult. The more of man he is. the les
he is disturbed by what others say or d.
against him without cause.
The best mind is that which is origina
and perceptive. It welcomes knowledg
from every source, both from its own oh
servatien' and thought and from those G
others. Its aim ia to discover truth, an,
to that end it uses every material withi
its reach, dispensing With none. l