The Newtown bee., 1891-12-18

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g have very mistaken ideas with referenc
to what kind of conduct in life will mos
surely tend to promote peace and goo
l. will among men. Some good people VIII
e claim to be peacemakers never do any
l. thing which is really calculated to pre-
mote peace nor emphasize the true prin
ciples of peace. There can be no peac
S without purity. If we are not to resis
evil, we certainly are to overcome evi
with good. There is no peace to tn
+ wicked, nor peace with them who d.
l., wrong. There is conflict and there mus
= be victory before there can be peace. De
sertion of principles, neutrality and d.
l nothing tend only to stagnation, defea
f and death; but peace is the highest form
4 of activity, harmony and sweet accord
) TO forsake duty and compromise with
any known evil is to betray the cause OF
/ righteousness and peace. There is only
one course in life that tends to peace and
that is to be ever loyal to God and faith
: full to men, whether it may please ornOt
We must stand up for the right or, in eff
feet, we consent to the wrong.
The more successful the teacher is in
teaching, the less time and energy will
need to be spent in governing the school.
If the children are pre-occuped with
something that interests them, they will
not be so likely to brew mischief. Par
ents might take valuable hint on this
point for the management of the home
life. Skiliful management will have 1t
great deal of government. Take IL little
trouble at first to busy and instruct the
child and it will save great deal OF
trouble which is sure to come with the
want of anything to do. The children
who are not old enough to study must be
amused The wise teacher will have at
tractive books and object lessons with
which to shift the attention of the weary
and mischievous. If the school gets very
restless and noisy, better lay aside every
thing else for some general exercise.
Wheresoever the beverage is, there
will the thirsty be gathered together.
DR. Mazzotti tells of man who had II
peculiar disease, which he set about to
cure by drinking whskey. He got we'll
of his trouble, but became a hard drinker
and soon found himself the victim of
another disease called opisthoporia, which
consists in the inability to walk forward.
He could only go backward. In one
sense, this is the common experience of
whiskey drinkers in general. They can't
go ahead-they can only go backward.
DO you know of any families living in
lonely places, in the lots, or on the cross
roads, who seldom see any neighbors?
Do you know, or care, how they fare?
Don't forget to look them up at Christ
take some token with you that the spirit
of the season is alive in your heart.
1t sounds very strange to hear people
talk of being just rs good without any
religious teaching or influences of the
church as with them. just as we'll say
that one can have just as much education
without any books or schooling; Or just
as skillful mechanics without any shops
or trades or tools as with them. 1t is
very much like mans Boosting of his
sunlight, while he denies that there is any
sun.
The Farm journal Suggests that the
easiest way to move the farm nearer to
the city market or to get the city market
nearer to the farm is to make the road
between them as smooth, hard, level and
straight as possible. A perfect road is IA
wonderful shortener of distance.
Does it never occur to some of our
good people that it might really cost
them less per cent on their property,
each year,to keep the roads in good con-
ditiOn than to pay for the needless wear
and tear of their teams and loss of time
and strength which are due directly to
cheap, poor highways, to say nothing of
the comfort lost? "A penny wise and
pound foolish" way of doing things is
in no sense good economy.
Health is often a simple matter of
equilibrium or proper proportion and
balance of the great forces of the human
system. 1t is, in this sense, a certain har-
mony of the functions and faculties.
Each temperament, in general, gives IA
tendency to excess of its own kind. One
is naturally inclined to choose his occu-
patton in accord with his temperament.
The man of brain will thus be likely to
work his brain more and more, to the
neglect of his muscles and vital funct-
ions. The man of muscles will work his
muscles more and more to the neglect of
his brain and vital powers. And so of
the vital temperament. Some occupat-
ions tend to make one sided, extreme tenn
peraments. The divisions of labor are
often arbitrary and have no regard for
the laws of health. Special departments
of business are particularly destructive
of health and many kinds OF labor have
to be done under conditions not favor
able to long life and happiness. The sci
ence of right living consists in adjusting
ourselves as much as possible to the con-
ditions of life in which we find ourselves
and in modifying, so far as practicable,
the conditions themselves. We need to
ohsc1 Jul WIN Will us opposi1c III hiHu,
to avoid excess. He who sits much
ought to walk, or at least stand. Make
the heels balance the head. Let the man
of muscle learn TO offset the labor of
Drawn with the exercise of brain. Let
the indoors worker seek the open air as
much as possible. Let the man of pom
derous stomach think more and digest
less.