The national leader., 1889-04-27
FOOD FCi THOUGHT.
God sendeth ana giveth both mouth
and meat.

AULaCk Is the r0aCClOp. n6V6r CnlnK
I have hit hard unl+ss it rebounds.
The man without honor will swear
by it just "a quickly as anybody else.
Immoiest words admit of no defense
for want of decency IS want af sense.
1t Is one thing to take the chances,
and quite another thing to find them.
Whimpering growing and complain
ing are only meaner ways of swearing.
One is never more on trial than In
the moment of excessive good fortune.
a daughter Is a little white lamb in
the household to teach men to be gen.
tlemen.
Let US consider the reason of the
case. For nothing IS law that is not
reason.
To be prepared for war Is one of the
most effectual means of preserving
peace.
Virtue is home quality; manners
is the coat 1t wears when 1t goes
abroad.
Let death do what 1t will, there is
just one thing it can not destroy, and
that Is life.
A woman is not to be counted your
own until you have her inside we'd
ding ring.
He draweth out the thread of his
verbosity finer than the staple of his
argument.
A man may transgress as truly by
holding his tongue as by speaking un-
advlsedly with his lips.
One test of books worth is-Does
it enlarge your horizon, and make you
wish to read other and greater books?
There is music In the beauty and the
silent note which Cupid strikes far
sweeter than the sound of an instru-
ment.
What is the good of youth and
strength if it is not to uphold those
who have had more than their share Of
life's burdens.
When bad men combine, the good
must associate, else they will fall, one
by one. an unpitled sacrifice in con-
temptible struggle.
A purely selfish sorrow is as much a
self indulgence as purely selfish joy,
and has as little dignity, 1t dwarfs,
enervates and demoralizes the soul.
Our human life is valley, the gloom
of whose depths would be too terrible
to endure did we not believe that its
limits on either side bordered on the
sky.
Many of our ills come from sheer
heedlesSnesS. We do not take time to
reflect, but act upon impulse and first
suggestions. Mistakes are. therefore,
inevitable.
Sunday is the core of our civilizations,
dedicated to thought and reverence. 1t
invites to the noblest solitude, the best
society, the loftiest knowledge Of truth
and duty.
Moral courage will always rank high
or than physical. The one is daily
necessity, while the other may be re-
Quired only in emergencies.
No man has right to do a WORK
that is unworthy Of him. 1t degrades
himself and robs society. Every man
is bound to do his best work, and ac-
complish his highest influence.
The greatest good that comes to man
from wOman's society is that he has to
think of somebody besides himself,
somebody to whom he is bound to be
constantly attentive and respectful.
No more fatal error can be cherished
than that any character can be COM
plete without the religious element.
The essential factors IN character
building are religion, morality and
knowledge.
Moderate work, alternating with
moderate rest, gives 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 developed
by reasonable exercise and reasonable
rest. The one Is as essential as the
other.
Not what the world says we may do,
but what we know we ought to do, is
the standard of duty for US in our daily
conduct. Yet the conflict Of conflicts
in our mind is just at this point. The
world says that we may do great
many things that we know we ought
not to do. 1t Is easier to follow the
worlds counsel than to adhere to our
own convictions of right. But if we
do right we shall never have cause to
regret it; whereas, if we fail to do
right, we shall never be without cause
Of regret for our failure. And God will
approve our right doing, even though
all the world should deem US foolish or
over particular.
If man is quick tempered, if he give
way to anger quickly and unrighteous.
ly, leaving out Of the question entirely
that righteous wrath which rises for
good reason only, and is quite differ
ent matter from temper, he is not
generous, for he shows no regard for
the comfort of those around him; he is
not forgiving, because, though he may
recover quickly from his ALTERATION.