Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-02-09
SUNDAY REFLECTIONS.


SUNDAY REFLECTIONS.
Praise increases our value; flattery
diminishes it.
Irony is the bravery of the feeble and
the baseness of the strong.
A couple that attracts attention can
be only charming or ridiculous.
We pass often from love to ambition,
but we seldom return from ambition to
love.
The virtue OF prosperity is temper.
ahce; the virtue Of adversely is forti-
tude.
As daylight can be seem through very
small holes, so little things will illustrate
PERSONS character.
You may gain knowledge by reading,
but you must separate the wheat from
the chaff by thinking.
A mans virtue should he measured,
not by his occasional exertions, but by
the doiDgs of his ordinary life.
The qualification which wealth can be-
stow is not in mere possession. nor in
lavishing it with prodigality, but in the
wise application Of it.
The praise of riva! is rarely sincere;
a spontaneous movement of anger or of
jealousy is surer appreciation, and con-
sequently more fatter,ng.
No aan, for any considerable period.
can wear one face to himself and another
to the multitude without finally getting
bewiIdered as to which may be the
truer.
The First Baptist church. of Chicago,
reports total membership of $50 Dur.
ing the past year lao members were re-
ceived by letter and tifty-one Oh confes.
sion OF faith.
II man has not found his home in
God, his manners, his forms of speech,
tho turn OF his sentences. the build (shall
I say p of all his opinions will involun.
tarily confess it, let him brave it out how
he will.
What you attempt to do. do with all
your strength. Determination is omnip-
otent. If tue prospect be somewhat
darkened. put the fire of resolution to
your soul, and kindle fame that moth
ing but death can extinguish.
The Reformed German church has in
creased during the post ten years from
four synods to seven; from thirty y-five
classes to tifty.one; rom~lO9,5u7 com.
municant members to l69 $50, while the
organized churches number ], AGO.
Just as particular soil wants some
one element to fertilize it, just as the
body in some conditions has kind oi
famine for some special food, SO the mind
has Its wants, which do not always call
for what is best, but which know them.
selves and are as peremptory as the salt
sick sailors call for lemon or raw
potato.
The Presbyterian Ministerial associa.
tion Of Philadelphia, has opened wal
on Moody and Sankey's hymn books
One minister declared that most of the
hymns we're miserably written, and that
he did not believe in teaching children
fifth rate poetry, and another though:
Moody and Sankey hymns were enough
to turn the stomach of spiritual mau
This world is not made for tomb, but
garden. You are to be seed, not q
death. Plant youreelf, and you will
sprout; bury yourself aud you can only
decay. For dead opportunity, there If
no resurrection. The only enjoyment
the only nse to be attained ic this world
must be attained on the wing. Each day
brings its own benefit; but it has none
to spare. What escapes to. day is escaped
forever. To morrow has no overflow to
atone for the lost yesterdays.
A sense of ones own deficiencies is q
salntary thing. or the reverse, according
to the use that is made of it. If it epurf
to more Jealous effort. if it makes us
resolute in our purpose of living 6
wOrthier life than we have hitherto spent
its benefit is great; but If it arouses nc
more healthful frame of mind than 6
feeling OF regret that We have accom-
plished 80 little. and an indolent anG
despairing conclusion that there ia moi
much use in trying to do anything more
then it Is merely an additional hindranc.
to life already marred by failure.
Serious differences have arisen amone
the Jews Of this country in regard t.
their ancient faith, which seems in dan
ger OF being superseded by modern no
tions This state Of things is attributed
largely to Rev. DR.. Wise, of Cincinnati
who is one of the oldest and most widel,
known rabbis Of the country. He hold
that christians may bs received mt,
Judaism by simple acknowledgement
Of the binding character of the ten com
mandments; that there is no biblical pro
hibitlon against Jews intermarryinp
with christians. or with Mahometans to-
that matter; that the rules attending the
preparation of animal food for Jews cur
be abandoned at pleasure. and that a.
God has not created any unclcan animal,
Jews may eat anything they please
These expressions have given rise to q
heated controversy in Hebrew circles.
No single individual can ever rise so
high in the scale OF intelligence or d
morals. when those around him are not
also rising, as he can when they are. He
can accomplish much for himself by
energy, culture, and will, but not ali.
So closely is he related to his family, his
friends, his city his nation, that ali the
suferings they endure, all the sins they
commit, and all the ignorance under
which they labor, mnst in greater or LEES
degree, react as drag upon his progress
and . barrier upon his happiness. In
this light there ls no policy 70 poor as
selishness. It destroys its own ends by
following them solely. He vho saaE.