Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-11-27
SUNDAY REFLECTIONS.

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one most resembling God.
Speaking without thinking is like
shooting without taking aim.
Holiness is not the way to Christ bu,
Christ IS the wag to holiness.
The cody never outlive their useful
ness, therefore let the aged take heart.
Life is q quarry, out of which we art
to mold and chisel and complete q
character.
The hand OF diligence deseateth want,
prosperity and success are the industri-
GUS mans attendants.
A mans superiority should seldom be
remembered by himself, and should
never be forgotten by others.
Neglect no opportunity of doing good,
nor check the desire of doing il BY a
vain fear OF what may happen.
Without q humble imitation of the d.
vine Author OF our blessed religion. we
can never hope to be q happy nation.
The history of persecution IS a history
OF endeayors to cheat nature, to make
! water up hill, to twist q rope on
sand.
a prolonged flow Of happy feeIinos
does more to brace up the system for
work Shan any other influence operating
Tor a similar length of tiae."
The Sabbath is the great home-day,-
Q season OF Joy, a feast of love. a time
sacred to the family. 1t is such a part
OF a LIE set aside for the cultivation
OF domestic happiness.
A mans best helpa himself, his
heart, his resolute pGrpose-it cannot
be done by proxy. A mNn's mind NAV
be aroused by another, but lie must
mould his WI character.
Scorn to depress thy competitor by
dishonest or unworthy methods; strive
to raise thyself above him only by ex-
ceiling him; s shall thy contest Sfor
superiority be crowned with honor. Il
not With SUCCESS.
Aspirituai sacrifice 10 bridIing the
tongue, keeping chasts the eye and car
the zill.ns;nes of tie feet 10 tread the
paths OF trIbuiaticn of the Lord; this is
the laying on of hands on the slck that
they may recover.
Doing any one thing well-even set.
ting stitches and plating frilIs-puts a
key into ones hand to the opening of
some other quite different secret; and
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out OF the meanest drudgery.
Divine p%royidences are dark, but the
divine promises are light. And the
very pillows that swell and foam and
surge around you shall but uplift and
cast your soul more entirely upon the
Rock that is higher than you.
Spiritual sacrifice includes more thar
merely attending the crurch services,
1t is to be ready with the knife OF
Abraham to STAY our will in obedience
to the divine will, and, with Paul, to be
able to say. without e~xaggeration, 81 die
daIly!"
Since the days that are past are gone
for ever, and those that are to come may
not come to thee, 1t behooveth thee, o
man, to employ the. present time with
out regretting the loss of that which is
past, or too much depending on that
which is TO come.
In reverence is the chief joy and pow
er OF lite. Reverence, for what is pure
and bright in your own youth. for what
10 true and tried In the age of others; for
all that is gracious among the living,
great among the dead, and marvellous
IN the Powers that canno die.
He who, at the end of his course on
earth, can look back over a life 10
which thought and love and duty,
Justice, kindliness, and help, apprecia-
tion OF beauty and good, have been
supreme,-snch a man can but know
that his lifs has been a success.
Avoid envy, ANXIOUS fears, fretring in
wafdly, subtle and knotty inquisitions,
Joys in excess, sadness not communicate
sd. Entertain hopes. variety of delights
rather than %snrfeit, wonder and admira-
ton. and therefore novelties, studies
that iii the mind with splendid objects,
as histories and contemplations of
nature.
Yon will not be sorry for hearing be-
fore Judging; for thinking before speak
ing for holding an angry tongue; for
stopping the ears to q tale bearer: for
dlsbeiieylng most of the evil reports;
for being kind to the distressed; for be-
lng patient towards every body; for do
ing good to all men; for asking pardon
Tor all wrongs; for speaking evil of no
one; for being courteous TO all.
Life is filled with trouble. and we
must shoulder our share with the hest
grace we can. We may orly seek to
make it as light as we osn, siuce to
avoid it is impossible. There is one
sovereign panacea for this. 1t is
work. Brooding over trouble is like
surrounding oneself with a fog lit
magnifes all objects seen through it.
Occupation of the mind prevents this;
hard work-manusl work even--gives
the mind other matters of concern, and
tires the body &C that sleep will come.
hfHEsI
I reverence the individual who un-
derstsnds distinctly what he wishes;
who unwearledly advances, who knows
the means conducive TO his object, and
can sleZe and use them. How far bia OBJ
lect may be great or little, may merit
praise or ceDsnre, is a secondary eonsid-
GRAFTON with MT. A great part of all the
misery and mischief that we find In the
world arises from the TACT that men are
too remiss to get q proper knowledge OF
their object in life. aud, when they do
know it, to work intensely in attaining
it.
Self knowledge has its value and
its dangers. When cultivated
disproportionately, it often ~degenerstes
into q morbid habit OF introspection
that make a sad countenance and a
heavy heart. but2ean give no inspiration
TO q whnleanmA aatiuitn q cheerful
performance of duty. II is far better to
live a sim ole, unconscious, straightfor-
ward life III dnty. love. mud h%elofn,ness
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