The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-07

The food of Time is setting on,
We stand upon the brink. -SheEeg
Tomorrow thou wilt live, didst thou
say, Posthumous? Today is already too
late; he is the wise man who lived yester-
day.-Nartialis.
Every year carries away something be-
loved and precious. Each week locks the
gate OF its predecessor and keeps the key.
Thus it becomes q monument which the
old Sexton lime watches over.-R. 4. VIZ
mott.
What do you with your time? 1t caused
Danistian to be despised when it was re-
ported that he spent hours in catching
flies. 1t was told to the discredit OF Ar
taXerxes that he spent whole DAYS i'm max
ing handles for knives. What shall be
thought of us when We confess that we
have 10 time TO pray, but thai here is
time for trifios?-1. Rtchie.
The Egyptians were wont to draw time
with three heads: First, hat OF a greedy
wolf gaping for the past because it had
ravenoUslv devouTed the memory OF many
things which could not be recalled. The
second was a crowned lion, roaring for the
present. The third was a deccitiul dog
fawning for the future, of which it could
not be sure. 4. Brooks:
Time which strengthens friendship
9eakens love.-De La Bruyere.
Think not thy time short in the world,
since the word itself is not long. The
created world is but a parenthesis in
eternity.-Sir Thomas Broune.
Write it on Your heart that every day is
the best day in the wear No man has
learned everything rightly, until he knows
that every day is doomsday. -EmcrsoH.
Time mill lfuoD-ar a,~.r-4ItD~ 4.
terity it is q babbleT, and speaks even
when no question Is put.-Eurjpides.
The everyday cares and duties which
men call d~rudgery, arc the weights and
counterpoises OF the clock OF time, giving
its pendulum a true vibration and its
hands a true motion and when they cease
to hang upon the wheels the pendulum
no longer swings, the hands no longer
move, the clock stands still.-LOngfeiiow.
| see that time divided is never long,
and that regularity abridges all things
Nine. dc Stact.
Theodore S. Cuyler, in his interesting
and practical book of hints, Just publish
ed, and entitled, How TO be a Pastor"
urges pastors to remember that they will
sometimes have the opportunity to do
more execution in a single talk at the fire.
side than in an hundred ermons This
he illustrates be the following incident:
81 once spent an evening in the vain eu-
deavor TO bring a man To a decision for
Christ. Before | left he took me upstairs
into the nursery to show me some beau
tiful children in their cribs. / said to him
tenderly: Do you mean that these sweet
children shall never have any help from
4 fhafr fofhar 10 cot 70 haax-ap9 He -a-
deeply moved. and in q month became an
active member OF my church. For y
years that man has been glued TO me: in
tinitely better. he has steadily gloritied
his Savior" Certain it is that the gospel
of the tireside, house to house preaching,
Is the most effective OF all. Aud in such
a pulpit a very ordinary preacher, if he
has piety and God, can equal Chrysastom.
The Rambler, in our Wisconsin contem-
porary. the National Baptist, scores this neat
point: ''There is among us las it were,
in our midst, a long-felt want. What is
wanted Is a newspaper. But have we not
already newspapers? Yes, but this is a
newspaper of a peculiar type. What is
wanted is a religious newspaper that will
express ~everybody's views; that will con-
tain nothing from which any one will ever
dissent which will publish all the ser
mons desired by hearers or authors:
which will plead everybody's cause;
which will have all the articles printed in
italics Except such a. are printed in capt
tails which will publish every article
within two days after it Is received, and
which will put e~vcrybodv's article i'm the
first column on the first page, and will Oc-
cupy the rest OF the paper with directing
attention TO il. Now. when such u PAPER
as this is found, the Rambler does not
hesitate TO say that he will take one copy
at club rates for ten Years, payable at the
expiration OF the subscription, subject to
a renewal on the same terms, with a free
copy thrown in"
An esteemed exchange tells OF a girl
named J%uliette mot her of Verona) who
was making what her parents regarded as
remarkable progress at school. One day
her Uncle George said to her:
"Well, J%uliette, what study do you like
best?"
"Oh. history, Uncle George replied
she. Il am getting on splendidly in
that"
YES" interrupted the mother, "iust
ask her a question and see how much she
knows"
"Well," continued Uncle George, tell
me the story of Adam"
Juliette looked up in surprise. "Adam?"
said she, why, l haven't got as far as
that YETI
A week ago we gave some advice to the
rosebuds of marriage. Today in order TO
even things up, we append some a 2 bits
of the same commodity to bachelors.
When you are waiting on a girl, agree with
her father in politics and with her mother
in religion.
Ii you have a rival. keep one eye ON
him. If he is a widower, keep two eyes
on him.
Don't put too much confectionery in
your letters. If you do, you will have 1t
read TO you in after years, when your wife
has some special purpose in inficting
upon you the severest punishment known
to a married man.
In cold weather finish saying good night
in h house. Don't stretch it ali the
way 70 the front gate, and thus Law the
foundation for future asthma, bronchitis,
neuralgia and chronic catarrh. TO help