The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1885-07-23
TRUE WORDS.

TRUE WORDS.
It is much easier to find a score
Of men wise enough to discover
the truth than to find one intrepid
enough, in the face Of opposition,
to stand up for it.
Heaven he their resource who
have no other but the charity OF
the world, the stock of which, l
fear, is no way sufficient for the
many great claims which are hour.
" made upon it.-SrERKE.
He that gives good advice builds
with one hand; he that gives good
counsel and example builds with
both; but he that gives good ad.
monition and bad example builds
with one hand and pulls down with
the other.
One had better sail boldly in al.
most any direction than drift with.
ont any direction at all. One had
better sail in the maddcst storm
that ever troubled the sea Of life
than lie on the sea and drift with
any chance wind that blows.
We can never have much con-
tidence in the uprightness Of others
until we have discovered some dc.
gree of uprightness in ourselves
We are apt to suspect everybody
If We ourselves ought to bc suspect
ed, and just rs apt to trust others
only when We ourselves can lie
trusted.
The duty Of being cheerful is
one which is at all times binding
upon us. We have no right to be
morose ur sullen, or accnstom our.
selves to look upon the dark side
Of things. No sense of the solem-
nifty and importance OF life can
excuse us for giving way to q sour
and unhappy temper.
Happiness Is the result OF har'
mony between our wants rs Great
urcs and tho world without; peace
is the harmony between us as
spiritual beings aud tho Father OF
our spirits, The one Is as change
able as the objects or circumstances
on which it for the moment relies;
the other is as Interchangeable a.
the God OH whom it etcrnally
rests.
In all relations Of life, we find
that the person who Is most hum
lle and unobtrusive, Is exerting tlle
best and widest influence. He
moulds tho hearts and forms the
characters Of scores about hun, who
are not aware of the fact
His thoughts and words, his con
duct and al his acts, are like the
sweet dews Of heaven. which none
sec and feel As they descend, bu'
the effects Of which are visible te
every eye. How important tina
all should be humble!-that thu
heart should be cultivated and i'm
proved, and not the shell which con
t;lns it:
Little hy little must we receive
the truth. The moral progress o
mankind and the advancement o
each individual depend on this
No ideal Of perfection springs N
ready formed in any mind, bu
glimpses Of better life come to u
all, There are times whom eacl
one secs how he may purify hi
own heart and elevate his owl
character, how hc may further til
cause Of Justice and help his fellow
men. It is for him to discer
these riffs in the clouds, let not on
pass away until he has made it hi
own, not in thought only, bnt ais
lin life. Thus alone will his col
ceptions of moral goodness expan
and his character improve.
There is one way Of attainin
what we may term, if not utter, .
,lcast moral happiness, it Is this
sincere and nnrelenting ac.ivit
for the happiness Of others.
that one maxim is concentrate
whatever is noble in morality, su
lime in religion, or unanswerab
in truth. In that pursuit We lla'
all scope for whatever is excclle
in our hcatrs, and none for Il
petty passion which our Z
lure is heir to. Thus engage
whatever De our errors, there "
: be nobility, not weakness, in 9
n remorse; whatever our failur
| virtue, not seltislMess, in our
gets; and in success vanity its
will become holy, and trigln
I It,ernal.-<l.okp AsVTok,
rSShNS IN uISrnRy