The national leader., 1889-04-06
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

peculiar disadvantages.
A simple light answers as well for a
hundred men as for one.
Intelligent rascals and tyrants are
the most dangerous of all.
There is no such quality as luck, OK.
cept it be in very unknown quantity.
Thy friend has a friend, and thy
friends friend has a friend; be discreet.
Beware of the man who is always
ready to swap old friends for new ones.
Rumor is spark at first, then fire,
then confagrstion, and then ashes.
Enough is as good as feast, whether
the diet be for the body or for the soul.
To be content with what we possess
constitutes the greatest and most GER
tain of riches.
Talk is cheap. The man who talks
too much gets 80 liberal that he gives
himself away.
No traveller e'er reached that blest
abode, who found not thOrns and briars
on the road.
One of the greatest blessings you can
enjoy Is tender, honest and enlight-
ened conscience.
Property is not an absolute posses
sion, to be used or abused at will, but
a responsible trust.
No consciousness Of rectitude will
entirely take away the sting of being
cruelty misjudged.
Learn to think and act for yourself.
Be vigilant. Keep ahead of rather
than behind the time.
Short rents make long friends; and
it holds equally good with your land
lord and your clothes.
If you want to be well informed take
a paper; even paper Of pins will give
you some good points.
What makes wishing and hoping for
better times? We make these times
better if we bestir ourselves.
To Wlves:-Man is very much like
an egg; keep him In hot water and he
is bound to become hardened.
A book is often wiser than the man
who wrote it, for 1t contains the results
of his thought and also of his study.
People who are extravagant on them.
selves are often wonderfully ingenious
in devislng plans of economy for others.
In moments OF decision there is dan
ger of mistaking the exhaustion of long
spiritual struggle for resignation to
fate.
Bad habits and warts grow, we
scarcely know how. But can, how
ever, be t.rned out by little resolu-
tion.
The an who huns softly to himself
while he Is at work may show that he
has a cheerful disposition, but he is not
comfort to his neighbOrs.
The indolent are not wholly indolent.
Though the body may shirk labor. the
brain Is not idle. If it does not grow
corn it will grow thistles.
Reflection is a flower of the mind,
giving out wholesome fragrance; but
revery is the same flower, when rank
and running to seed.
Never open your purse for charity If
you cannot open your heart too.
Rather give no dole than give it with a
grudge. The Lord loveth cheerful
giver.
A great humbling is great blessing
to the soul. Sometimes 1t comes direct
from God, but oftener through man as
his instrument. In this case how hard
it is to bearl
One of the most unhappy men in the
world is he who, instead of measuring
1is strength against his work, is always
measuring it against the strength of
other men.
Let us make q note of this, as point
IF spiritual interest, never to restrain
an impulse to pray. Who can tell with
what treasure He Is laden when the
Holy Spirit in this way knocks at cur
leart's door?
The rays of the sun may be so con-
cenirated by an ice.lenS as TO kindle a
fire without melting the lens, so God
sometimes uses men to klpdle he
hearts of their fellows, while their own
remain cold as marble!
All education begins in work. What
we think, what we know, or what we
believe Is, in the end, of little conse-
quence. The only thing of consequence
is what we do-and for man, woman or
child the first point of education is TO
make them do their best.
We have duties so positive to our
neighbor that if we give more Of our
time and of our attention to ourselves
and our own matters than is our Just
due, we are taking what is not ours,
and are guilty OF fraud.
If we were to make our own choice
at this moment. whether we should
live or die, be sick or well, have power
ty or abundance, be in public favor or
in general dlsrepute. we might choose
that which would be the worst thing
for us. although it seemed the thing
most to be desired. But if God were
to choose for us, he would make no
mistake Which, then, is better-to
choose for ourselves, or to ask God to
choose for usp
To be true teacher, one must know
his subject and know his pupil. To