The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1888-04-07
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

A passionate woman's love is always
oyershdaowed by her fear.
People are never so fortunate. or SO
unfortunate, as they suppose themselves
to be.
While man was innocent he was like
ly ignorant Of nothing that imported
him to know.
You may take the greatest trouble,
and by turning 1t around find joys ON
the other side.
Blame is safer than praise. In gen.
eral, every evil to which we do not sue
cumD is benefactor.
Affection blinds the judgn.onI, and
we cannot expect an equitable award
where the Judge is made party.
!, Want OF prudence is too frequently
the want OF virtue; nor is there on earth
more powerful advocate for vice than
poverty.
In all negotiations Of difficulty, a man
may not look to SOW and reap at once,
but must prepare business, and so ripen
1T by degrees.
God himself does not speak prose,
but communicates with us by hints,
omens, inference and dark resemblances
in objects lying all around us.
No moral teaching, be it ever 80
sound. no precepts, be they ever
so wise, will avail to counteract
the powerful influence that emanates
unconsciously from character and ex-
ample.
1t was the policy Of the good old gen-
tleman to make his children feel that
home was the happiest place in the
world; and value this delicious home
feeling as one Of the choicest gifts
parent can bestow.
Nature grveo ru vvv,y uime and
season some beauties OF its own,
and from morning to night, as
from the cradle to the grave, is but a
succession OF changes, so gentle and
easy that we can scarcely mark their
progress.
Hospitality, as virtue. has always
been both preached and practiced. as
an art, it has been and Is neglected.
Men. and women are only begin
ming to lind out that in the wise
| exercise of hospitality lie some Of the
pleasantest possibilities Of human exls-
| tenGc.
Ste Keeps the heart always at full
p efgsssAys y. SIT gives rise to oppression o;
the brain and senses. 1t cOnfuses
the whole man. 1t robs the, stomach
| OF nervous power, and, digestion
! gins at once. Those therefore who
are born with this passion should give
it up.
Every man desires success, and the
! strength Of his desire Is shown in the
| nQrnnofnnuu n hto ofpncfo.
lies in the objects In which he desires to
succeed. Earnestness Is good, success
IS good; what we have to watch is that
we are earnest In q worthy cause; then
our success will be justly u matter of
rejoicing. r
)a There is no event In life which does
not carry its own lesson; and that lesson
| ought to be recognized by us as the
best that we can learn at that particu-
lar moment; Failure In any enterprise
is just as much fact as success In that
same enterprise would have been.s But
1t rests with each person to make every
fact in his experience factor in his
progress. |fb
It IS when we have been unmistak-
ably wronged that we have an oppor-
tunity to show q Christian spirit. SO
long as others treat us with fairness.
with kindess, and with courtesy. It is
not easy for us to chow spirit Of for
bearance, Of charity, or Of commend
able gentleness. Even q goddess hea.
then would not be likely to resent an
affrOnt which he had not received. A
Christians best opportunity OF showing
that he Is a Christian Is when he Is un-
der some gross prOvOcation to bear
himself In an un-C Christian manner.
No one can ever be harmed SO griey-
Ously by wrong doing, as the wrong
doer himself is thereby wronged. If
we only could see the harm which has
come, by his wrong doing, to him who
has wronged US most grievously, we
should so be moved with pity toward
him that ou; Cry in his behalf would
be, ''Father, forgive him, as freely as
I do" 1t is only our blindness to the
Injury which results to him who Injuries
another, that can make us unforglving
toward such a one in the light Of God Is
truth concerning the consequences OF
evil to the evil.doer.
Doing right for the sake Of being
happy, Is quite a different thing from
being happy because OF doing right.
And yet how many there are whose
highest aim 10 to be happy, or tt
make others happy, instead OF doinp
right and helping others to do right.
my husband will agree to that, be.
cause he will do anything to make me
happy" said a trustful but unthInkina
wife; as though that fact was realiy
to her husbands g credit. Right is never
wrong motive. Seeking happiness
may, at any time, be . questionable mo-
tive.
II we never had q tyinge or, bodily
pain, we should be unable to sympa
thize with those who ale in pain, II
we never knew sorrow In our own ex.
perience, we could not enter under.
standingly into tho feelings OF those
who are in sorrow. Let us, therefore