The national leader., 1889-02-02
FOOD FOR THOUGHT

ficult.
Improve your mind by thoughtful
reading, and push your stock by solid
feeding.
Temperance is the moderate use of
good things and total abstinence from
bad things.
Life is not victory. but battle. Every
battle declined. as well as every battle
drawn, is battle lost.
Recipe for keeping faith from degen.
Grating into hard bigotry-Link 1t al.
ways with a loving act.
Heaven leaves touch Of the angel
in all little children, TO reward those
about them for their inevitable cares.
What social economy combats like a
pest Is the pauperism of the able bodied
men who are maintained by blind char.
lty.
Argument will pull wise man down
to the level of fool, but it never
raises fool up to the plane of a wise
man.
The best application for the impro Ye-
ment of the countenance Is a mixture in
equal parts of serenity and cheerful
ness.
To give the equivalent of what we
receive, to receive equivalent of what
we give-such is the machinery of ex-
change.
Year after year men toll. and strug-
gle, and save, and lay up money, and
leave it; and when they have left it
how it f1iesl
To be free minded and cheerfully
disposed at hours of meal, sleep, and
exercise, is one of the best precepts OF
long lasting.
| No man, were he to unite the
strength of Hercules to the genius of
Newton. can either create or annihi-'
late grain of matter.
Curiosity may lead one away from
his duty; but no man IS likely to do his
Whole duty, or to know 1t, If he lacks
a full measure of curiosity.
Just exactly in proportion that a man
undertakes to make a reputation by his
personal appearance, just In that pro-
portion he is dead beat.
When one is tempted to write clev-
er but harsh thing, though it may be
difficult to restrain it, it is always bet
ter to leave 1t IN the lnkstand.
Christian charity is a calm, wise
thing. 1t will sometimes appear to the
superficial observer very hard thing
for, 1t has the courage TO refuse.
Employment, which Galen calls ina
ture's physician" is so essential to
human happiness that Incidence Is just
ly considered the mother Of misery.
When a man steals silver dollar
from you, there isn't enc bit of conso-
| lation in recalling the Iact that 1t is
really worth only about eighty cents.
One Of the best sights upon which
human eyes can rest is an old man full
to the brim OF sweetness and hope-a
regular optimist in every thing that
concerns grace and glory.
Moderate work, alternating with
moderate rest, gives a brain which,
taking the whole life through, will ac-
complish the most and the best work Of
which human being is capable. The
brains are to be improved and devel-
oped by reasonable exercise and reason
able rest. The one is as essential as
the other.
True felicity does not consist in pos
sessing the fran favors OF fortune, but
in knowledge and practice of wisdom.
| The cultivation of various manners IS
necessarily attended with pleasure as
well as profit, the honest man alone Is
happy, aud 1t Is very absurd to sepa-
rate things which are in their nature 80
closely united as virtue and interest.
| Bowing, ceremonious compliments,
stiff civilities, will never be politeness;
that must be natural, unstudled, manly.
noble. And what what will give this,
but mind benevolent, and perpetually
attentive to exert that amiaDle dlspOsl-
| tlon in trlfes towards all you converse
and live withp Benevoence in greater
matters takes higher name, and Is the
queen of virtues.
A love OF good may be cultivated TO
almost any extent where the original
foundation of an unsel6sh nature ex-
| lists. A passionate ideal OF excellence
can 80 fill the mind that no pleasure Is
felt in anything but in strong persistent
efforts to realize it.
You will find that the mere resolve
not to be useless, and the honest desire
to help other people, will, in the quick
est and most delicate ways, improve
yourself.
A man of faith has basis OF cour-
age, and 80 of herOism. that no man
who lacks faith can be possessed Oh.
Physical courage is necessarily hmlteo
by ones personal limitations. sell
reliance cannot extend beyond the
bounds of self. But he who has lalCh
in Him who is omnipotent, ana rear
ICES that he stands for him, has no hm,I
that omnipotence has not. lie Is Sulli-
cient unto all things.
Much is said about the grace Oh CIV
ing, not so much is said ABOUT tho
grace of receiving. And yet IL Is olten
easier to give graciousy than 10 leeei.o
gracefully. II 1t Is a child's duCy W
offer to his mother anything which no
is using, there is just as great an oul.-
gation-or even greater-upon tho
mothers part to make adequate Gnu
graceful acknowledgment TO the cnliu.
1t is not merely a question OF inferior
and superior, but of giving anu leceis-
ing; and the obligation OF Ine oho III
wolves the obligation OF the other.
1t Is true that, the more man gives
| the more he has: but it Is not true tnat,