Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-03-29
SUNDAY REFLECTIONS.

SUNDAY REFLECTIONS.
It is more honorable to acknowledge
our faults than to boast of our merits.
Act we'll at the moment, and you have
performed good action to all eternity.
A country always produces some great
men as long as 1t preserves the worship
of those whom it has lost.
"Half our days we pass in the shadow
of the earth and the brother OF death
extracteth . third part of our lives"
It is estimated that during the
present century 10000, 600 bibles have
been printed, in 226 different languages.
There are more than eighty chimes in
London, striking the half and quarter
hours and making Sunday day Of mel
ody.
To build up that strength Of mind
which spprehends and clines to great
universal truths is the highest intel
lectual culture.
There are some persons whose friend.
chip Is encumbering and clnmsy to q
point that makes Us wish they would
cease to love US.
We are linked both to the past and the
future, and our duty to the former, we'll
fulfilled, will best fit us to discharge our
duty to the latter.
A man takes COZ tradiction and advice
much more easily than people think
only he will not bear it when violently
given, even though it be we'll founded.
A grateful beast will stand upon record
against those that, in their prosperity
forget their friends that to their loss and
hazard stood by and succored them II
their adversely.
Consult your friend on all things
especially on those which respect your
self. His counsels may then be useful
where your own self.love might impair
your judgment.
The best dowry to advance the mar.
risge of young lady is, when she has
speech wisdom, in her behavior modesty
and her in life virtues.
A woman who seeks success suffers
less in not being remarked than in seeing
herself indiferently appreciated; and al
those who aim at q success of self.lov.
are women on this point.
Not to know what has been transacted
in former times is to continue always 6
child. If no use is made of the labore
of past ages. the world must Away re.
main in the infancy of knowledge.
The clergymen of Indianapolis have
resolved that funerals should be private
that there should be no public Inhibition
of deceased people, and that ministers
should not be required to attend at the
grave.
The first Jewish settlers in New York
came in 1864, and for ITO years there wat
but one synagogue in the city: Now
there are thirty-cne synagogues in the
city, and an estimated Jewish population
of $4,000.
The ministers of Cincinnati, members
of the Evangelical Alliance, have re
solved to invite Dwight L. Moody tc
come to Cincinnati next winter and hold
q three months series of meetings at
Music hall.
Sympathy, without active energy, may
degenerate into weak sentimentaIism
without intelligence, 1t may produce
much evil; without sense of RESPONSE
bility and duty, it may be mere self.
indulgent impulse.
| The new Baptist church at Salt Lake
has been completed, and Baptist gen.
tleman has become responsible for the
support of Rev. II. G. Dewitt, d. d., the
we'll known evangelist, to labor there fol
an indefinite period.
Excessive violence of hate is not Q
cause of lnferiority, but q sign of it. Be
tween two individuals or two races who
are antagonistic to each other the most
implacnble hate is always on the side
where there ia least value.
~Dare to be ignorant of many things
is wise counsel aud justly expressed
for it requires much courage to forsake
popular paths of knowledge merely upon
conviction that they are not favorable
to the ultimate ends OF knowledge.
There is said to be considerable die.
satisfaction in many church choirs in New
York City because of the attempts to
cut down the salaries of the singers.
Many OF the best soloists have given no.
tice of their intention to leave. They
will not sing so 10.
There ls nothing in the world really
beneficial that does not lie within the
reach of an informed understanding and
well.directed pursuit. There is nothing
that God has judged good for us that he
has not given ue the means to accom-
plish. both In the natural and moral
world.
We are often selfish in our love, desir.
ing more to be loved in return than to
benefit the object of our affections. We
are sometimes 80 tender of our relations
as to sacrifice truth or justice for fear of
disturbing them-more careful of our
friends feelings than OF his character,
and Of his continued regard for ourselves
than of his best welfare.
How my throat hurts! Then why don't
you use HaIe's Honey Of Aoreheund and
Tar?
Pixies Toothache Drops cure in one
minute.
colden's Liquid Beef Tonic will cure in.
digestion. and perpetuate bodily vigor;
no other. Of druggists.
BuckIen's Arnica Salve.