Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1893-06-20
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dim-sghted woman never helps her
looks by using powder.
No man is fit to lead who has not the
courage to stand alone.
We would all know Christ more IL we
had suffered more for him.
We cannot be right with God as long
as we are wrong with men.
The world looks at what a man doeA
but God looks at what he is
Keeping the pocketboox shut is one
way of closing up the heart.
The flax has to be broken before ita
real strength can he known.
People who worry forget that God
still has control of everything
There had to be a commandment be-
fore God could give a promise
1t is because we hate the grave that
we try to hide it with flowers.
No man is more to be pitied than the
one who is satisfied with himself
Tncharitable criticism is throwing
m ud at every thing we don't like.
Christ had more to say against hypoc-
risy than he had against stealing.
If the devil bad to travel without .
mask he would never be followed.
The preacher who is convicted by his
own sermon is preaching the gospel
The devil can sometimes frighten the
Lords sheep, but he can't hurt them.
The next best thing to owning some-
thing is to be willing to do without it.
No man fights a harder battle than
the one who is trying to overcome him
self
No man should try to teach others
what he does not know to be true him
self
Christ went to the cross as cheerfully
as he did to preach the sermon on the
mOInt.
= man who is not willing to live
without sin will always have to live
with it
Treasures above are treasures for
ever, but here they have value only for
an hour.
There is such thing as mist aking
our own wiifulness for religious earn
cstness.
The bad man digs pit for others,
and then shuts his eyes and falls into
it himself.
The DEVILS way of trying to whiten
his wan face is to try to blaclien every
body else
If you want your children to be good
it would be well to show them how to
begin with
The man who is able to say God is
my strength" never finds a load he
cannot lift.
1t is hard to have revival in a
church that will not pay its pastor all
it promised.
1t seldom happens that people have
much power in prayer who have no
family altar
You cannot always tell by the shape
and fit of a mans coat how much he Is
worth to God.
No man would be willing to have his
dearest friend know him as well as he
knows himself
All that has ever been written for in
fidelity had never yet made one dishon-
est man honest.
No man ought to profess the name of
deeds of Christ
Nothing is much harder to do than
to try TO be a Christian without letting
anybody know it.
About the only time some people
speak good of other people is after they
are dead and buried.
No man ought to forget that if he
sOws wild oats he will have to reap the
same kind of crop.
During the whole time Christ was on
earth only one person gave enough TO
attract his attention.
No man ought to forget that a good
many other people will set their
watches by his clock.
1t is said that a hornet can easily
make mile a minute up hill, if you
get him mad enough.
Endeavoring to be religious two
hours in the week is the FOOLS way of
trying to get to heaven.
One difference between wise man
and fool is that a fools mistakes
never teach him anything.
There may be pigs that never wal
lowed in the mire, but there has never
been one that didn't want to.
Many people will work like beavers
in the church where they can do it
where every body will see them.
1t may be that the rich man in tor
ment had great many nice things
said about him on his ombstone.
We never have a better chance to
show the quality of our religion than
when we get an enemy in our power.
The man who howls and growls every
time his wife wants a little money,
very often buries her in rosewood
casket.
The church member who lets some
body else do all his giving is selling his
birthright for a very small mess of
pottage.
No man can pray the Lords Prayer
with his heart without becoming more
in earnest for God than he was before
he did it.
There are men who will walk five
mites to lead meeting, who cannot be
ed to go across the str, 1T To watch
the sick.
v hen the preache" i;Ikes to
have revival it is aston. .shing how
many people can tell you just how it
ought to be run.
If no preaching were done outside of
the pulpit angels would almost stop
hoping that the world would ever be
brought to Christ
Just what a man means by paying
his preacher in dried apples instead of
money, is better understood in heaven
than it is on earth.
David counted on God to help him
kill the giant, but he used his own
in adopting the method no
the best.
"Reioice with them that do rejoice"
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