The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1884-04-09

There is nothing so gtrsng or safe
IN an emergency Of life as the SIM
pie truth.-DickeRS. e2 NE
/ find the doing of the viii of Ged
leaves mo no time for disputinR
about His plans George MacDOR-
aid.
The most happy man is he whS
knows hsw to bring into relation
the end and the beginning of his
life.-Goethe.
A man who puts aside his religion
because he is going into society 10
like one taking off his shees because
he is about to walk upon thorns.-
Cecil.
Perhaps your Master knows what
a capital plowman you are; and He
never means to let you become Q
reaper because you do the blowing
SO well.-SpurgeOn. .s.
Satan selects bis disciples whoa
they are idle, but Christ cheese his
while they were busy at work,
either mending their RGts or casting
them into the sea.-FdrreadOn.
The Lords Prayer 10 not, a.
some fancy, the easiest, the most
natural of all deveut utterances. It
may be committed to memory quick
ly, but it is slowly learned by heart.
Maurice.
There is but one thing you haYe
to fear on earth or in HeaVan-bs-
ing untrue to yourself, and there
fsre untrue to God. If you will net
de the thing you know to be right,
and say the thing ysu know 10 be
true, then, indeed, you are weak.
Ysu desert God, and therefore can
not expect Him to stand by you
Kingsley.
1t is stated Of Secretary Fslger
that he has habit of attending per-
sonally to numerous duties that al
NEST any other maa would leave to
his subordinates. A visitor Mt the
Treasury Department the other day,
noticing this, said: Well, Mr.. Sec.
retary, / see you do everything that
is dene here, with one exception"
And what is that3" Yeu dent
run the elevator, believe" "NO;
but the man who docs is getting
well, / don't know but what / uiH
have to take hold Of it'll"
The habitual conviction of the
presence of God is the sovereign
remedy in temptations; it supports,
it consoles, it calms US. We must
not be surprised that we are tempt
ed. We are placed here to be prev
ed by temptations. Everything il
temptation to US. Crosses irritsts
our pride, and prosperity 6atters it
our life is continual warfare, but
Jesus CRrist combats with M. We
must let temptations, like tempest,
beat upon our heads, and still move
on; like traveller surprised on the
way by q storm, who wraps his
cloak about him, and goes on his
journey in spite Of the opposing ele-
ments.-Fenel0n.
Let not the blessings we receive
daily from God make us not value
or not praise Him because they bs
common. Ihave been teld that, if
q man that was born blind could
obtain his sight for only one heur
during his whole life, and should, at
the first opening of his eyes, hx bis
sight upon the sun &heh it was in
full glory, either at the rising or
the setting Of it, he wsuld be 90
transported and amazed, that he
weuld not willingly turn his eyes to
behold all the ether various beau
ties this world could present to him.
And this and many other blessings
we enjoy daily. And, for most Of
them, NEST men forget to pay their
praise but let not us.-LzGak Wal
ton.
The British troops on the Egyp-
tian shore of the Red Sea are be.
gining to suceumb to the efforts Of
the terrible climats. The march Of
General Graham's men toward the
walls Of Tamanieb must have been
q pitiful sight. Hundreds fell from
the ranks prostrated by the bad
water and the intense heat, and ST.
though they grew better toward
night, still General graham feels sb-
liged to give up the proposed cav
airy expedition to Berber. incidents
Of this kind show the Disadvantages
under which the British are carry
ing On this lamentable campaign
The Arabs may not be fatal; but the
climate il.