Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-09-11
SUNDAY REFLECTIONS.

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hard edges of existence.
Whatever else We neglect, let us keep
up the habit of communion with God.
Prayer is the key of the position.
Ii all would realize that cruelty is as
bitter to others as 1t is to themselves,
there would be less of it praoticed.
The true logic of living is to enjoy
life it yon get q chance, and If you do
not, not to hinder others who can.
The experiences of each year of our
lives ought to enable us to spend every
succeeding one better than the last.
The real wealth Of man is the number
OF things which he loves and blssses,
and by which he is loved and blessed.
What ~blockheads are those wise per-
sons who think it necessary that q child
should comprehend everything that it
reads.
1t is not creditable for a dog sven to
bite the hand that feeds it. How to
excuse man for the same thing is what
puzzles me just now.
Thought and sympathy are often more
valuable than anything money can pro-
cure. Both need continual circulation
to keep them wholesome and strong.
There are few things in life more in
tereBting than an unrestricted inter-
change os ideas with q oongonlsi spirit,
and there arc few things more rare.
Nothing tends to enlarge the mind 30
much as travelling, that 10, making a visit
to other towns. cities or countries beside
those in which we were born and edu-
Gated.
1t is no good reason for q mans relig-
ion that he was born and brought up In
it; for then o Turk would have as much
reason to be q Turk as q christian q
christian.
Sympathy produces harmony; it
smooths off the rough edges of conflict
ing characters; !. 5s;Hssss tic oheeTinoss
of the hopeful to chase away the fears of
the responding.
As fate is memorable and not to be
moved with tears or reproaches, an
excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse
laughter; while on the other hand, not
to mourn at all is insensibility.
The reading of romances will always
| be the esTos;:s amusement of women;
the old persue them to recall what they
have experienced; the young to antici-
pate what they wish to experience.
We ought always to make cnoice OF
persons of such worth and honor for our
friends that if they should cease to be
so they will not abuse our confidence,
nor give us Cause to fear them aa enc
mics.
Morbid contemplation and analysis of
self to the exclusion of active duty, and
the willful ignorance of self which care
lessly inhicts harm and misery upon
others, are both products of an ungener-
ons egetism.
~Infdelity is the joint offspring of an
irreligious temper and unholy specula.
tion. employed not in examining the
evidences of christianity, but in detect
ing the vices and Im~perfeotions of pro-
Tossing christians.
Ii is possible for o man who hath the
appearance of religion to be wicked
and a %hypocrite; but it is impossible for
o man who openly declares against re-
ligion to give any reasonable security
that he will not be false and cruel.
True beneyolence and true humanity
will take us out of ourselves to live for
higher and nobier things. and will easily
bring us back to consider ourselves when
that IS necessary to purify our influence
and to make 1t a blessing to the world.
Unto them that love him, God causes
all things to work for the best. So that
with Him, by the heavenly light of
steadfast faith, they see life sven in
death; with Him, v . in heayiness and
sorrow. they fail not OF joy and comfort;
with Him. wen in poverty, affliotion and
trouble, they neither perish nor are
forsaken.
IhaVe been more and more convinced,
the more 1 think of IL, that in general
pride is at the bottom of all great
mistakes. ALI the other passions do &C.
casional good; but whenever pride puts
in it's word, everything goes wrong; and
what it might really be desirable to do
quietly and innocently, it is morally
dangerous to do proudly.
If we are content to do or avoid GER
tain things merely because we are CON-
PEELED to do so; if we secretly wish that
the constraint were removed, 80 that we
could bound back into opposite courses;
II u hearts refuse their allegiance to
what our hands seem forced to do-then
we may be sure We are not preparing
for the law of liberty which awaits all
who are able to value it.
No one who has looked into life with
Il GObOpp VyCc ouh hnFo Au21O0 w uApC0f6I
that 1t derives untold values from the
love which welcomes its dawn, attends
it's growth, and advances step by step
and sooths and cheers Its old sge.
Human love is itself o pearl Of great
price. In q mother it is faith and hope
and patience and effort and victory. In
manhood and ~womaDhood il is the balm
OF care, q refuge in temptation, and a
source of serenity.
We must accept the fact that, as most
OF us are net noble enough OF spiritual
enough to bysathe forth q lave that is
eternal in itself, requiring no other
~sustenanoe than its own life affords, so
we must either nourish and cherish the
love we do feel or submit to see IL ssds
away. This allnsion is not to matrimo.
NAL affection in any exclusive sense.
That OF course demands even q more
vIgilant care than any other to strength
en- as life goes on. But it is desired
here to emphasize what is seldom insisted
on-viz the sacredness Of all love-that
OF parents and children. brothers and
sisters. friends and associates, as we'll as
that Of nearer and dearer ties.
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