Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-10-23
SUNDAY REFLECTIONS.

IL lS tu6 up-btT6tcQeQ nanQ tQ3G me6Cb
the down-stretehed hand. Q
Walk as il you were conscious that
your body has a soul IN it.
There is nothing so strong or safe IN
any emergency of life as the simple truth
Tt nix of heaven with hearty purpose
and preemptory designs to get thither.
The bess portion of a good mans life
are his little nameless unrembered acts
OF kindness and of love.
Every man, however humble his status
or feeble his powers, exercises some
Influence on those who are about him,
for good or evil.
SIZE was a religion in herself, warm,
simple, true, with q substance that
could walk on earth, and a spirit that
was capable Of heaven.
Look at your mercies with both eyes,
at your troubles with only one; study
contentment; keep at some useful work;
let your hearts window be always opea
toward heaven.
The sick in mind, and perhaps in body
are rendered more darkly and hopeless.
ly so, by the manifold reflection of their
disease mirrored in the department Oh
those about them,
Our admiration of a famous man
lessons on our nearer acquaintance with
him; and we seldom hear of celebrated
persons without a catalogue of scne
notorious weaknesses and in6rmities.
To lips unsanctitied by the divine
grace of self remuneration there are few
cups more bitter than that of neglect.
Ii bites into even the serene heart of
wisdom to see gllttering and tinkling
folly crowned in her place.
Anything that Is apt to disturb the
world and to ALLEVIATE the affections OF
men from one another, such as CROSS and
distasteful humors, ID either expressly,
or by clear consequence and deduction,
forbidden in the new testament.
1t is possible for q man who hath the
appearance of religion to be wicked and
q hypocrite; but it is impossible for q
man who openly declares against
religion to give any reasonable security
that he will not be false and cruel.
Tt was one of the loveliest customs o,
the ancients to bury the young at the
morning twilight; for as they strove to
give the softest Interpretation to death,
60 they imagined that Aurora, who
loved the young, had stolen them to her
embrace.
/ feel convinced that every nan has
given him of God much more then he
has any idea of. What we want Is the
single eye, that we may see what our
work is, the humanity to accept it, how
ever lowly the faith to do 1t for God,
the perseverance to go on till death.
There ia no sadder sight than a family
of growing boJs and girls, or grown-up
young men and women, accepting coolly
and carelessly every form of sacrifice
and favor from loving. anxious parents,
who are wearing out their lives in their
service and reaping only ingratitude
and Indifference in return.
No frivolous or Predetermined woman
can do Justice to the many small duties
to nome life, for she will either neglect
them all in self. indulgence or will give
to some an undue prominence and leave
Others uncared for, thus sacrificing the
harmony and proportion essential to the
comfort and happiness OF every we'll.
ordered household.
It is a singular fact that n~otwlthstand.
ing the vast amount of loose belief or
free thinking in the country, most
people prefer to risk life, property,
reputation and the future of their chill
dren in communities where the gospel
light shines resplend,ntly before sacred
affairs. A land without churches would
soon become a land without schools.
Temptation is a fearful word. 1t indi.
Gates the beginning of a possible series
of infinite evils. 1t is the ringing of an
alarm bell, whose melancholy sounds
may reveberate through eternity. Like
the sudden, sharp cry of 'Firel" under
our windowa by night, it should rouse
US to instantaneous action, and brace
every muscle to its highest tension.
All persons, even those in good health
and of sound mind, are subject at times
to illusions. The brain is a very deli
cately adjusted organ, is easily disturbed
in it's action by strong emotions, by
furious passions, by Indulgence in day
dreaming, or any subject which too ex-
cluslvely absorbs the attention. But,
by keeping the head cool, and by avoid
ing unhealthy degrees of mental
excitenent, aud devoting u time
largely 20 practical subjects, and
keeping Che co~mpanioaship OF healthy.
weiii-poised persons, and correcting u
illuaions nv nur~ indpme6l we NAV over.