Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-03-20

and guplng nlggard.
Character is proof against the scof-
tings of ridicule. and the consciousness
of doing right takes the sting out of the
most envenomed jest.
The adyersaries of good cause are
like men who strike at the GOALS of q
large fire; they scatter the Goals and
thus propagate the fire.
Contemplate thy powers; contemplate
thy wants and thy connexions; SO shalt
thou discover the duties of life, and be
directed in all thy ways
The golden moments in the stream of
LIE rush past us, aud we see nothing but
sand; the angels come to visit us, and
we only know them when they are gone.
Every man that has been long dead
hath due proportion of praise aliot-
ed him, OF which while he lived, his
friends were too profuse, and his
enemies too sparing.
Unhsppiness is the call of God. We
can only become holy through adversity
1t was the exaggeration of the truth
which led the old saints to intlict
tortures on themselves.
People have custom of excusing the
enormltles of their conduct by talking
OF their passions, as if they were under
control of blind necessity, and sinned
because they could not help it.
1t is cowardice to wish to get rid OF
everything whl,h we do not like. Sick
ness and sorrow only exist to further
mans education IN this world. They
will not be needed in the future.
Tho
ligion for the wretched. 1t descends to
the very lowest, and makes whole the
sick ones of earth. The light shines the
clearest where the darkness is most
dense.
Gods pest gifts are the commonest-
the air, the light, the beatty of the
world, the blue heavens, the winds and
stare, and sunsets, the infants smile, the
mothers tendernsss, the sweet affection
ofsister and child and wife.
What an enigma is mani What
strange, chaotic, aud contradictory
belngl Judge of ell things, feeble
earth-worn. depository of the truth,
mass OF uncertainty, glory and butt of
the universe, lncomprehensible monster.
When we ere in the company of sensi-
BILE men we ought to bedoubly cautious
OF talking too much, lest we lose two
good things, their good opinion and our
own improvement, for what we have to
say We know, but what they have to say
we know not.
Martyrs are spiritual heroes. Every
man has some hours OF martyrdom in
his existence. The Saviour OF all was
the great martyr of the hnman family
and through such prototype all
martyrdom has become unspeakably
blessed and sacred.
An employment, the satisfactory pur-
suit of which requires of man that he
shall be endowed with retentive men,
ory, quick at learning, lofty-minded
and graceful, the friend and brother OF
truth, justice, fortitude, and temperance
must be ennobling.
"Treat your wife always with respect;
1t will procure respect Tor you, not only
from her, but from all that observe it,
Never use sighting expression to her,
not even in Jest, it may end in angry
earnest. Be studious in your profession
and you will be rich. Be induetrious
and frugal. and you Will be healthy"
My young friend, you see the broad
y
manly words. Only don't lose hold of
that belief in the old faith, which is
more precious to my reason, as well as
to my moral sense, the older grow, and
have to do with SORROWS aud difficulties
which you, in youth and vigor do not
know yet.
The heart is tie key of this world, and
of life. We often live helpless amidst
the most dreary circumstances in this
world, that we may love others and
minister 10 their happiness. through
our very imperfections we are often
more capable of influencing others, and
this strange influence expounds the
riddle of our existence.
To talk about falIings or appetites, to
parade indulgences or self fdenials, is to
give them degree of consequence
which ID not their due. The regulation
of these things is duty devolvIng upon
each one for himself; but 1t can be best
performed and honored, not By making
it a theme for familiar ioquacity, but by
committing it to the privacy of secret
thoughts, resolutions and aims.
1t is sad weakness in us, safter all
that the thought of o mans death hal.
lows him anew to us; as if life were no,
sacred too-aa if it were comparatively 6
| light thing to fail in love and reverence
TO the brother who has to climb tbs
whole toilsome steep with as, and all oul
tears and tenderness wero due to the
one who is spared that hard journey.
The lukewarm and those who do moi
work sincerely and humbiy will be re
| jected OF God. desire that all my
| brethren should labor at useful occupa
tions, that we may be less burden to
| the people, also that we may be- less sub
iect to meladies of the heart and tongue
and may not be tempted to evil thoughts
or evil speaking Those who canno
| work, let them learn to work.
To those who have opportunities 0
| culture placed within their reach, theE,
are the instruments OF the divine dis
cipline. 1t is part of that discipline tt
| put large opportunities in mems hands
and leave it to themselves, whether the,
will use or neglect them There shel
be no coercion to make US turn them {,
account. Occasions OF learning and self
Improvement come, stay with Us for
while and then pass. And the wheels 0
time shall not be reversed to bring then