Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-03-04
FOOD FOR THOUGHT

The perfectly contented man is also
perfectly useless.
Try to see yourself through the eye!
Of those around you.
The ideal saint OF the young moralist
Is cut from sappy timber.
True prosperity builds up the sou
rather than the pocket-book.
Faith that asks no questions kills the
soul and STILES the intellect.
The vigorous ideal keeps warn
though wrapped in few words.
Happy is the man who has neighbour
willing to forgive his mistakes.
Appear to be better than you are
and aim to be what you appear.
He who thinks poorly of himself
cannot win the respect Of his fellows
Unhappy is the man for whom hi:
own mother has not made all mothers
venerable.
There Is German proverb which says
that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are
brothers.
Men show their character in nothing
E1ore clearly than by what they think
laughable.
Rejoicing and congratulation should
not be at our birth, but at our death,
for the good we have done.
We have not far to go to find death;
but unless we are looking for him, We
shall not know when to find him,
The Lord can more easily have faith
In the religion that wears an old coat to
church, than the man in the coat can.
Bad custom, consolidated into habit.
Is such a tyrant that men sometimes
cling to vices, even while they curse
them.
1t is better to rise from your knees,
and shut your hens out Of your neigh
boris yard than to indulge In long pray
ers.
When men, women and opportunity
meet, the devil sits down, knowing
that The fre without will burn without
help from him.
Be careful not to let a note fall re.
necting on friends character. By
simply dropping letter, you know, q
friend is changed into hend.
Give bread to a stranger, In the
name OF the universal brotherhood
which binds all men together under
the Common Father of Nature.
The old ought to treat the young
with benevolence; and men should be
kind to children, remembering thai.
childhood is especially dear to God.
Applause waits on success. The
6ckle multitude, like the straw that
floats along the stream, glides With
the current still and follow fortune.
The path of duty IS near. yet men
seek 1t afar off. The way Is wide, 1t
is not hard to find. Go home and
seek it and you will not lack teachers.
Many wac expect to go to heaven,
will find L.lle comfort there unless
they are able TO get up lively trade in
harps, and gold and nickel plated
crowns.
No single moment In any life accu-
rately represents the motive and worth
Of that life; yet who that Judges others
taxes more than the act of moment to
Judge by?
Conscience IS the true vicar Of Christ
in the soul; a prophet in its informa-
tiOn; a monarch in It's peremptoriness;
priest in its blessings or anathemas,
according as we obey or disobey it.
The school Of the cross Is the school
Of light. 1t discovers the worlds vanI-
ty, and baseness. and wickedness, and
lets us see more Of Gods mind. Out
of dark afliictiOn comes spiritual light.
Buddhism is declining in Japan. In
q single district seventy-one temples
have been converted into dwelling
houses IN 1873. and during the last six
years over 60 temples have been so
used.
Faith builds In the dungeon and the
laZar-hoUse It's sublimest shrines; and
up through roofs and stone, and shut
out from the eye of heaven, ascends
the ladder where the angels glide to
and fro-prayer.
1t is well enough to hang up a chrome
with ''God Bless Our Home" on it, but
it will do no hahn to help on the mat
ter by little less fretting. A great
many people ask the Lord to do wha
they won't lift their finger to do them
selves.
Childlike obedience moves toward
every command Of God, as the needle
points where the loadstone draws.
God calls to duties that are crosses h
flesh and blood, il we are indeed hi
children we hear and obey our Father
voice,
What we seem to want is not polisl
or literature in sermons. but something
earnest, real end effectionate; some
thing to male the people hear as if som
truth of transcen1ent present interes
was set forth. Rhetorical effect is i'm
potent.
While it may be considered tha
many highly respectable and estimabl
persons dance, we have never known
young person to become fascinated wit
dancing, whose interest in religion di
not diminish just in proportion as tn
love for the dance increased.
A man OF genius never seeks az
plause, while the little minded, or thos
who have bat small portion Of inte
lect, try by their vanity and conceite
boastings, to build upon the mental +,
sources of others their own fame an
reputation. However, 1t Is for th
level-once they reach it, they pevs
rise.
Almost ar men are oyer-aD1iou
No sooner do they enter the worlt
than they lose that taste for natur;
and simple pleasures so remarkable
early life. Every hour do they as
themselves what progrss they hay
made IN the pursuit Of wealth or homo
and on they go as their fathers wei
before them; till, weary and sick
heart, they look back with sigh of r
gret to the golden times Of their chill
hood,
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