Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-05-01
SUNDAY

SONIJA4 INFE
Life is a comedy to those who think,
a tragedy to those who feel.
A church should not grow strong for
its own sake, but for the world which
needs it.
Our evil genius, like the junior mem
Der of a deliberative body, always gives
its views first.
There are depths in. the hnman spirit
which are never fathomed except by the
trials.
Power, when employed to relieve the
oppressed and punish the oppressor, be-
comes a great blessing.
We are reader to pardon those who
laugh at gravity than thoss who do
not laugh at our jokes.
he who shows kindness towards AMI
mails will display the same characteris-
tics toward his fellow men.
God holds the person OF one talent
just as responsible for it's proper use as
lie does the man who has ten.
Ii God be our friend, who can be our
foe? And ii God be against us, who is
strong enough to be our helper?
OF governments that of the mob is
most sanguinary, that OF soldiers most
expensive and that of civilians the most
yexations.
The perfect lawgiver is a just temper
between the mere man of theory, who
can see nothing but general principles,
snd the msre man OF business, who can
see nothing but particular circumstances.
Those who quit their proper charac-
ter to assume what does not belong to
them are for the grester part ignorant of
both the character they leave and Of the
character they assume.
how happy it 10 to believe with a
stesdi,ist assurance that our petitions
are heard ever while we are making
them and how very delightful to meet
with a proof OF it in the actual granting
of them.
In heaven there will be no more tears.
1t is fearless because it ia sorrowless: it
is sorrowlass because it IS sinless 1t ia
sInless because it is the dwelling place
OF tho holy Lord God, and OF "the gpirits
of just men made perfect
Wear your learning like your watch, in
Q private pocket; and do not pull it ont
aud strike it. merely to show that you
have one. Ii you are asked what o'clock
IT is, tell it, but aonot proclaim il loudly
and unasked. like the watchman.
The real life of the heart is always
unfolding in silence, and men of large
natures carry in the centre OF their
hearts . secret garden or. a silent wilder.
ness. 1t there are no heart words for
fuli human feeling, how much less for
divinel
The experience gathered from books,
though often valuable, is but of the
nature of learning, whereas the expe-
fience gained from actual life is OF the
nature OF wisdom; and O small store of
the latter is worth vastly more than any
stock of the former.
Our best friend is in our Fathers
house on high. Our hearts and our
treasures are there. Why not .slook up
and lift our heads toward the land
where we shall .ssee the King in His
beauty and meet the dear ones who are
waiting our coming?
Were we content to do but one thing
thoroughly, and in the best manner, and
to let that one thing heiast that which
we can do best, we should attain to a
simplicity in our labor which would re-
ileve our tired nerves and replace the
laded look, that we so often carry with 4
serene and cheerful expression.
Truth will star ba unpalatabls to
those who are determined not to- raiin-
qnlsh error, but can never give offense
10 the honest and w~ell-meaning; for the
plain dealing rsmonstrances of a friend
dlifef as widely from the rancour of an
enemy, as the friendly probe of a physi-
cian from the dagger of an assassin.
IL should not seem SO very wonderful
2 taing that mon could attain to the
aoliity to say. :" am willing to de-
u seems t5 nae 8 much better, grander
and nobler thing to say. st am willing
and ready to live, right here, to-day, ia
my circumstances; ready to take up my
burden, to carry my load, to do nv
work. to visit Gods time.
Oh, how short IIfe-how bear death
seems to me! But this is not an nm
cheerful thought. The only gread dread
is the protraction Of life into imbecility
or tho visitation OF lingering pain, That
seems TO me the insurmountable ca3am.
!tty, though there is an ignorant affecta.
lion IN many people of undertaking
what they call bodily suffering.
Few people know how to look or how
TO listen. The eye and the ear need
training to distinguish what may be
seen and to appreciate what may be-
The attention needs to be
aroused and fixed, the power of c~oncen.
needs to be exercised. the Hap.
glng interest needs to be stimulated in
ofaer q q even tolerably correos i'm.
presslons should be made upoii the
lie vino has once stood beside chs grave
70 100 back upon the compauionshin
which has been forever closed, feeling
row lnpotsnt there are the wild love II
enc Keen sorrow to give one instant's
pleasure to the pulseless heart, or atone
in.the lowest measure to the departed
Tor Che Eour ofNunkiadness, viii
seareeiy Tor the future incur that de bt IA
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