The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-02-12
CHOICE EXTRACTS.

Reputation is the shadow which
character casts.-J. L. Pickard.
"A man is born to expand every par
ticle of strength that God hath given
him, in doing the work he finds he is fit
for.-Christian at Work.
Eighty years hence it will matter
little whether we were a peasant OF
peer, but it will matter much whether
we did our duty as one or the othes. -
Stopford Brooke.
If you want to be miserable, th,ak
about yourself--about what you want,
what you like, what respect people
ought to pay you, and whit others think
about you.-C. Kingsley.
The world has few greater pleasures
than that which two friends enjoy in
tracing back, to some distant time, those
transactions and events through whph
they have passed together. Joi,h-
son.
"A life that is lived wholly for self
gets to be unlovely, and all its inner de-
formity is expressed in features tones,
words and behavior. A looking-glass
will inform such man of the workings
of his soul, as will also his voice, If his
ears do not deceive him.-United Pres
byterian.
Give me these links: First, sense
of need second, desire to get; third, be-
lief that God has in store; fourth, belief
that, though He withholds awhile, He
loves to be Asked and, fifth, belief that
asking will obtain. Give these links,
and the chain will reach from earth to
Heaven, bringing Heaven all down to
me: or bearing me up into Heaven
Guthrie.
The heart can become habitually
pure, and it can become gradually more
hard man can harden so, that he
might yield to evil acts to which he at
one time would have thought it impos-
sible for himself to be inclined. Our
natures can develop in two widely diver
gent acknowledgements or hell
ward, Godward or devilward.-Rev. +.
Hastings.
Christian character in this world Is
in the inchoate, and not the completed
and finished stage. There is much that
needs to be done, and not little that
needs to be undone, in order to make it
what 1t will be in Heaven. Discipline
and trial here, and perfection and glory
hereafter constitute the plan of provi-
dence in respect to character. Y. In
dependent.
| True reverence for God includes
both fear and lOve-fear, to keep Him in
our eye; love, to enthrone Him in the
heart; fear, to avoid what may offend
love, to yield prompt and willing SER
vice; fear, to regard God as witness
and judge; love, to cleave to Him as a
friend and father; fear, to render us
watchful and circumspect; love, to make
us active and resolute; love,:to keep feai
from being servile or distrustful; fear,
to keep love from being forward or Sc
cure; and both springing from one root,
living faith in the infinite and ever
living GOd.-Cope.
1t rests with every one whether or
not he shall be profited by Gods deal
ings with him. He who in his affection
of loss and pain and grief can see his
affection as Gods testing of him, has
already so far stood the test. With the
recognition of the test comes more or
less of power to stand up under it. But
forgetting God. seeing in affection only
afiiiCtion, the testing is but an insidious
temptation to which he has already. 50
far, yielded. Thus God gives us the op-
portunity of taking an active part in our
own proving. and in being blessed in
seeing where our divinest blessing lies.
S. 5. Times.