, 1888-02-04
SUBJECTS FOR U

The right of private judgment is alb.
solute in every American citizen.
To him nothing is possible who is
always dreaming OF his past possibili-
ties.
There are no greater prudes than
those women who have some secret to
hide. L
God has placed the genius OF women
in their hearts; because the works of
this genius are always works Of love.
I'm the great majority OF things, habit
is n greater plague than ever afflicted
Egypt in religious character it is q grand
felicity.
Happiness is a blessing often missed
by those who run after pleasure, and
generally found by those who suffer
pleasure to run after them.
Every event that a man would mas
ter must be mounted on the run, and no
man ever caught the reins OF a thought
except as it galloped by him.
Love is not altogether a delirium, vet
it has many points in common Herewith.
| call it rather n discerning of the in
finite in the finite, Of the idea made
real.
Truth is the object OF our under
standing, as good is of our will and the
understanding can no more be delighted
with n lie than the will can chose an APP
parent evil.
True love is eternal, infinite, and nj
ways like itself it is equal and pure.
without violent demonstrations; it il
seen with white hairs, and is always
young in the heart.
If we were all less disposed to criti-
CHE and more ready to take on trust, we
should get on a vast deal better than we
do now to allow for differences would
be the best way to come into harmony
of line.
Christians arr. like the several flowers
in the garden, that have each of them
the dew OF heaven, which being shaken
with the wind, they let fall at each others
roots, whereby they are jointly nour-
ished, and become nourishers OF each
other.
There are souls in the world which
have the gift OF finding joy everywhere,
and OF leaving it behind them where
they go. Joy gushes from under their
fingers like jets of light. Their influence
is an inevitable ~gladdening of the heart;
it seems as if n shadow OF Gods W gift
had passed upon them. They give light
without meaning to shine.
Manners are of more importance
than laws. Upon them, in n great meas
ure, the laws depend. The law touches
us but here and there, now and then.
Manners are what vex and soothe, cor
rupt or purify, cxalt or debase, barbarize
or refine us, by a constant, steady uni
form, insensible operation, like that of
the air we breathe in. They give their
whole form and color to our lives. Ac-
cording to theirquality, they aid morals
hey destroy them.
As the pleasure the ear finds in
rhyme is said to arise from its recurrence
at measured periods from the grAtifcd
expectation that at certain intervals GER
tain effects will be repeated, so it is in
life; the recurrence of the things that
are the same or similar, the content in
the iullilncnt OF expectations so familiar
and SO gentle that we are scarcely con-
scious that they were formed, have a
harmony and Il charm, and often make
the only difference between LIES poetry
and its prose.
"A mar may be well grounded in the
laws OF health, yet, without exercise,
have a feblc body; he may be crowded
with knowledge, yet, without mental ac-
tivtiy, have II feeble mind and likewise
he may be well YcrSed in theories of
right doing, yet without the habit OF
praCtiCing them, he may have n feeble
moral character that has no power TO re-
sist temptation and no courage to do his
duty. Teaching and training must 20
hand in hand right feeling and right
doing must keep pace with right knowing
il we are to hall Il dutiful child, an up
right man, or Il righteous Nation.
The thought of the supernatural
abides with man, do what he will. 1t
visits the most callous it interests the
most sceptIcal. For a time even for a
long time-it may lie asleep in the
breast, either amidst the sorIid despair
OF the proud, rich, and young cnjoyments
OF life but it wakes up in curious in
quiry or dreadful anxiety. In any case,
it is a thought, OF which no man can be
reasonably independent. In so far as
he retains his reasonable being and pre-
serves the consciousness of moral suscep-
tiDilities and relations, in so far will his
thought OF 4 higher world - OF a lie en-
closing and influencing his present life
be n powerful and practical thought
with him.