The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-04-30
NUGGETS OF GOLD.

There is no substitute for thorough
going, ardent and sincere earnest
Dickens.
Sorrow is only one of the lower notes
in the oratorio of our blessedness.-
A. J. Gordon.
Active natures are rarely melan-
choly-activity and sadness are incom-
patible.
| People seldom improve when thew
have no model but themselves to COPY
jafter.-Goldsmith
He who holds the secret of the wheel
may make the rivers do what work he
would.-George Eliot.
lie, indeed, is a wise man who meas
ures his Affections with the yardstick
of his blessings.-Anon.
The weakest living creature, by con-
centratlng his powers on a single OBJ
Ject, can accomplish something; the
strongest, by dispensing his powers
over many, may fail to accomplish any,
thing.-Carlyle.
The hope of the country, after all. is
IN Its young men. The heritage is in
your hands. The nation has been in
trusted to your keeping. If you fail in
your duty, all will be lost. If you sue.
coed, the honor of the nation will be
maintained and the problem of self
government will be solved-Mayor
Pingree.
prayer is the door forever open be-
tween earth and heaven. Sooner than
sound can reach a human ear through
this lower atmosphere the longing de-
sire OF the spirit rises to the heart of
the eternal Friend. Whether we be-
lleve it or not, we are living in an in
visible world where our wishes are
before our words are
Larcom.
Seek your life's nourishment in YOUR
LIES work. DO not think that, after
you have bought or sold, or studied or
taught, you will go into your closet
and open your Bible, and repair the
damage of the loss when your daily
life has left you. Do those things, GER
.ainly, but also insist that your buying
Dr. selling, or studying or teaching,
shall itself make you brave patient,
pure and holy. Do not let your occu-
patton pass you by, and only leave you
he basest and poorest of it's benefits
he money with which it fills your
purse. This is the life that, indeed,
catches the quality Of the life of God"
md still it is life possible to every
me of us.-Phillips Brooks.
NO boy, no girl, can ever come to be
Utterly bad who remembers only love
nd tenderness and unselfshness and
WeetneSs as associated with father
nd mother in the old-time home. Give
hem manly and womanly example,
i've them training, give them the in
piration of devoted lives, give them
hese higher, deeper things. Do not
are so much as to whether you are
formulating money, so that you can
ave them fortune. l really believe
hat the chances are against that being
blessing for boy. But leave them
n accumulated fortune of memories
nd inspirations and examples and
opes, so that they are rich in brain
nd heart and soul and service. Then,
you happen to leave them the for
Inc besides, if they have all these, the
'rtune will be shorn of its possibili-
es of evil, and will become an instru-
ent of higher and nobler good
[inot j. Savage.
No life in our present condition is
fact anything better than time of
'eparatiOn for a true life to come.
his is, it might almost be said, truth
natural religion. Certainly it is a
nth most readily apprehended, and
lat falls back for it's strength upon
e natural and instructive feelings;
I'd there is little doubt that in every
'e, and even among people who had
} written revelation, there has been
is same habit of looking forward,
I'd living in the future, which we our
Ives are conscious of, and which
metimes we see perverted from it's
ne nature into an aimless, dreamy
pectatiOn without reason, whose
ly practical result is to make the
eSent life unreal and ineffective.
1t with the assurance of immortal
and ahnun all with thu ,aorcn1aal