Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-03-18
CHOICE SELECTIONS.

Most of our misfortunes are more
supportable than the comments of our
friends upon them Cotton.
Can you find law of God which il
in itself, and on all sides of it, dark
and repulsive thing? Can you find one
which is not, in fact, prescription
commanding us to be happy and show
ing us the way?-Enoch Mellor, d. d..
Nothing but failure can come or
ever has come of the attempt to fathom
the depths of God with the finger of
mantle attempts to fly up into the
secrets of the Deity on the waxen wings
of the understanding.-Ar archbishop
Farrdr.
Whatever is right to do should be
done with our best care, strength and
faithfulness of purpose. We have no
scales by which we can weigh our du-
ties or determine their relative import
ancc in Gods eyes. That which seems
a tritle to us may be the secret spring
death.-Occident.
While disbelief in the eyes of man
is sore calamity. this kind of disbelief
which renOunces and repudiates with
more than satisfaction what is bright
est an" best in the inheritance of man
is astounding. and might be deemed
incredible. Nay, some one will say,
rather than accept the tlimSy and hol-
low consultations which it makes bold
to offer. might we not 90 back to solar
alteration, or, with Goethe, to the hol-
lows of Olympus?-W +. Gladstone.
How often in the chequered expe-
rienceS of life does there come to the
disciplined soul the need of patience.
''Ye have need of patience is another
inspired teaching, ''need of patience
that after We have done the will of God,
We may inherit the promises. To
Christian completeness or perfection"
there must be added this as an essen
tial prerequisite. No character is, or
can be, perfect without this adjoining.
The beautiful sisterhood of the graces
is married wherever divine patience is
wanting .-Watchnan.
BE not ambitious to do the highest
work, and the grandest work, but the
work God gives you to do. Be it the
meanest service, be it what some call
drudgery, you may make it beautiful
by the spirit in which you perform it.
Strive not after the ''many things"
but after the one thing needful; and
remember every part assigned you by
God is a good part-be it the servants
or the masters, the teachers or the
scholars, the tradesman's or the stu
dents. the part of action or suffering.
of trial or tears. of speech or silence
From a Lecture by DR.. Stoughton.
A good lady employed a deacon of
one of the Baptist churches to do some
work. which amounted to quite large
sum of money: and she said, when
speaking of the job: Il would just as
soon hear Deacon - pray now as
would before he did that piece of
work for me" That's it! We want
deacons and all other members of our
churches to do in business relations just
that which is right. We believe in ).
practical religion. Sturgeon asked a
young girl who served as domestic in
one of his families. when she presented
herself for membership in his church.
what evidence she could give of having
become Christian, and she meekly
Il now sweep under
mats" And the renowned preacher
said i. was good evidence, and We
agree with him. Real religion leads |
one to do thorough work.--Gaxttsf
Heeuy.