The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1886-12-03
Words for the Thoughtful.


Never expose your disappointments to
the world.
Truth, like the sunbeam, cannot be
soiled by an outward touch.
1t is the struggle and not the attain
ment that measures character
Imitation and sham in any character
are but synonyms for weakness.
Good will, like a good name, is gained
by many actions and lost by one.
Depend upon it, he is a good man
hose intimate friends are all good.
Adhere so firmly to the truth that
your yea shall be yea and your nay shall
be nay.
Great good often remains unaccom-
plished merely because if was not at
tempted.
Greed is meant to influence conduct.
Character is the aim and the test of
doctrine.
Individuality is to be everywhere
spared and respected as the root of every
thing good.
Happiness can be built on virtue alone,
and must of necessity have truth for its
foundation.
He who has good health AMI true
friend, may laugh adversely to scorn and
defy the world,
The voice of parents is the voice of
| gods. for to their children they are
heavens lieutenants.
One active tongue can keep two ears
| full all the time and feel that 1t is only
taking healthy exercise.
Opinions alter, manners change,
creeds rise and fall, but the moral law
is written on tablets of eternity.
Believe, and if thy faith is right, that
insight which gradually transmutes
faith into knowledge will be the reward
of thy belief.
There are three lights. First, the
sun; second, the moon, and, the third,
ourselves and the greatest of these. in
our Judgment, is ourselves.
One half of tie misery of human life
comes from the imagination, and half
of the other half may be overcome by a
strong will, and the whole of it by
faith.
Beautiful souls are often put Into
plain bodies. but they cannot be hidden,
and have power all their own, the
greater for the Inconsistencies or hu-
mility which gives iG grace.
The best recipe for going through
life in an exquisite way with beautiful
manners, is to feel that everybody no
matter how rich or how poor, need all
the kindness they can get from the
world.
The real difference between men is
energy. A strong will, settled purpose
and invincible determination can accom-
plish almost anything and in this lies
the distinction between great men and
little men.
The Father is ready to accept us the
Son to intercede for us; the Spirit to
sanctify us; the promises are ready as
wells of water for supply. With all this
preparation made for us, shall we be
unthankful.
1t is a very consoling fact that if some
people were to seriously set about the
work of collecting their thoughts, they
would have merely nominal task. 1t
would not besnecessary to search either
long or far.
y man must have either great men or
great objects before him, otherwise his
powers degenerate, as the magnets do
when it has lain a long time without
being turned toward the right corners
of the world.
The weak man is he who forms many
purposes and drops one after another in
the face of difficulties. The strong man
is he who forms few purposes, but IN
in the face of all opposition, carries each
| one through to a successful issue.
Every permanent ,ei mind is to a
large extent the effect of habit. Just as
we can perform an action so continually
| that it comes to be habitual, so we can
encourage conditions of mind until they
come to be habits of thinking and even
of feeling.
Every event in life has meaning to
those who, in the simple trust of child
like faith, give themselves up to the
leadings aud guidings of Gods provi.
dence. No wind can blow wrong; no
event can be mistimed no result be
| disastrous. If in all things God is car
ing for our inward and eternal life,
nothing can occur which is not for our
! good.
We too often speak of the ravages of
intemperance as confined to the ignorant
and degraded classes. But it's havoc is
just as frightful among the rich and the
cultured. A gentleman who left one of
our iGebriate asylums lately, says he met
there as fellow patients, twelve lawyers,
/ fifteen physicians and five ministers of
/ the Gospel,