The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-06-18
NUGGETS OF GOLD.

Truth is the object of our under
standing, as good is Of the will
Dryden.
The realization of Gods presence is
the one sovereign remedy against temp
tation.-Fenelon.
The highest problem of any art is to
cause by appearance the illusion of a
higher reality Goethe.
Severity carried to the highest pitch
breaks the mind; and then in the place
of disorderly young fellow you have
a w-spirited, moped creature.-Locke.
No man can understand the mystery
OF the new birth until he himself is
born again. The only way of knowing
what the taste Of fruit is, is to taste it,.
|-Pentecost.
Modern herOism does not consist of
throwing away our lives on some fan
ciful field of honor, but in enduring
successfully the little trials and temp
tations of everyday life.-Religious
Herald.
Forget yourself. People cannot be-
happy who are constantly dwelling in
thought upon themselves, their own
projections, their own shortcomings,
what people think of them, and so on.
The heaviest burden of life is often
ourselves.-M. P. Wells.
The varied relationships in which
people meet in complex civilization
must give the characteristic of the
higher religious unity. The earlier
and cruder method was to unite by ex-
ternal pressure, crushing out individu-
ality. The higher union is the weav-
ing of many threads into a seamless
fabrics. NJ. Crothers.
Every man has his own vocation.
There is one direction in which all
space is open to him. lie has facuI--
ties silently inviting him thither to
endless exertion. He is like ship in
river; he runs against Instructions
on every side but one; on that side all
distractions are taken away, and he
sweeps serenely over a deepening chan
mel into an infinite sea.-Emerson.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing
anything beautiful. Beauty is Gods
handwriting-a wayside sacrament.
"0l0nno0 in
every fair sky, every fair flower,
and thank him for it who is the
fountain of loneliness, and drink it
in simply and earnestly with your
eyes; it is a charmed draught, cup of
blessing.-Ruskin.
If were to trust to my observation
and give verdict on it, l must depose
that, in my experience, l have found
that those who were most indulgent to
themselves were Gin the mass less kind
to others than those who have lived
life nearer to self denial. l go further,
In my experience l have observed that
a luxurious SOftnesS of manners har-
dens the heart, at least as much as an
over-done abstinence.-Burke
Immortality is nothing but the fact
translated of immutable morality. We
are so bound up with eternal ideas and
God that we have the fact of immor-
tally by moral impression. Feeding,
or preparing to feed on the eternal
and immutable, feeling it stir within
us evermore, we need not ask for it
or go after it to fetch it by wise argu
mentatiOns: we have it's certifying
touch already felt in our consciousness.
H. Bushnell.
There are proportion of young peo~
pie with their own way to make in
the world, who fix their choice upon
someone to whom to cOnfide their
hopes and wishes, and whom they de-
sire to have procure them the coveted
niche in which to work. They demand
larger opportunity. This is all very
we'll, but opportunity is really spir-
itual thing, on the immaterial side OF
life, and is developed like an image Oh
sensitized plate, rather than pro-
cured. TO do faithfully what is given
us today creates this larger opportu-
nifty for future day.-Lilian Whiting.
Telling what we have heard to an
others disadvantage is not so bad as
ctartinU Slandor without nrOVOca-
ton, but it is next to it. ISLANDERS do
more harm through being repeated by
those who just tell what they have
heard, than through being first told by
the one who invented them. If a SLAM
derer could find no one to pass along