The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-07
BITS OF WISDOM.
From Bethesda, - by Barbara Elbon.
mo happiness is so necessary as nobility.

From Bethesda, by Barbara Elbon.
No happiness is so necessary as nobility
Love and immortality are twin thoughts of
life.
1t is better to lose all than to fail in striving.
With the strong desire to do right comes the
strength to act
Love comes to us rather for what we should be
than what we are.
Only through battle can come that victory
which is clothed in white raiment
Let the light of reason shine through your
souls windows, but keep warm by the fire of
affection.
When men do not know God they do not COM
prehend the significance of marriage.
Superficial treatment cures disease; it but
forces it inward to work destruction on the vital
organs.
The fault from which we consider others most
exempt is probably the one they have fought the
hardest
Generosity may be weak mercy also: clear
sighted justice should be the foundation of all
actions
FIVE msdiriect our energies the world misses
NJ,
find it out for ourselves.
Periods of happiness are, they say, blank
pages in history. Who, indeed, can describe the
processes of growth-the blossoming Of plant
the details of IA sunrisel
1t is not by any means an infallible rule to do
as one would be done by. Some natures are di
ametrically opposed What is kind to one is
cruel to the other.
Each soul is the possible pivot on which the
world may turn, and youth feels this with an in
tenSity which makes promises seem deeds. and
tendencies, fulfllment
A noble nature is essentially hero-worshp-
er: and if it has not real. and eternal and
absolute hero to worship, it viii find great
temptation to throw itself at the feet of this or
that idol as the better IL not the best
rs there any art which expresses religion so
well as music! The craving, the aspiration, the
harmony, the unsubstantiality which comes so
near being pure spirituality-what is more like
relgionl
Only the oblivion of ourselves in higher life
than our own makes MS strong and serene; only
advancing over the bridge which leads from
passion to rcnUneiation will take rs from the
malarIous districts of individual life TO tine in
MIGRATING regions of universally
The world is like great century plant; it
grows slowly from joint TO joint and then holds
up glorious flower to the admiration of man
kind. Presently that flower withers, but the
century plant progresses, and its second blossom
is higher than the first
Only in obedience to law is true freedom
Within certain limits we are free: overstep those
limits and we are inexorably bound on every
side If choose what is right and good we
have all truth to expand in
Garments arc as necessary to the soul as to
the body in civilized society. We can not 90
around telling our inmost thoughts or holding
up our hands, that each person may read our
fortunes in our palms Let us drape ourselves
as gracefully as may be, and then we win respect
ourselves and one another vastly more.
The qnivering needle Of compass is not more
unsteady in comparison to the polar star than
conscience in comparison to principle Even
the best sailors obliged to make allowances
for the nails in their own ships as well as
thousand larger things, before they can rely
upon their compasses; and the bias of ones own
nature, beside the many influences of hereJlity
and education, makes ones conscience a very
fallible guide.
1t is q womans place to be law-giver in
family relations as it is a mans place in politics
and science. 1t is womaIl's place to lead in
spiritual things in fine perceptions of truth, in
the chiseling of life, as it is mans to lead in
hewing out the strong blocks of institutions
when build up the Worfd. omen must be IN
many instances conservativeand discriminating
where mln can be ardaeious and RADICAL but it
is only all these feminine and masculine quail
tiles modify one ono ther by inter adoption that
the perfect human being ensues
monk, good but narrow minded man. tried
to convince every Of his particular
creed, and failing, damned them eternally. One
day he fell asleep, and IN a dream he saw
himself walking by stream Of pure water.
Presently beautiful youth appeared,
and set many differently vessels the
bank, no two alike. hut all transparent, and then
he filed each one with water from the streanl
The good man perplexed when the youth
looked at him to see if lie understood, and desired
him to explain: so the angel said ''rhe water
takes the form of the vessel which contains it,
but 1T is always the same in itself Remember
this" The old monk awoke, and did remember
it, and it changed him from dogmatfe sectarian
to the widest minded man of his time.
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