Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1903-02-19
Saint Harq 5 Beacon.
Thoughts For The Thoughtful.

Purity is the best patriotism.
The moral sense grows but by
exercise.
God takes his own part in each
thing he made.
Prudent, cautious, self-control is
VISIONS root.
Be sure that God ne'er dooms to
waste the strength he deigns i'm
part.
II success il rare and slow, every
body knows how qnick and easy
ruin is.
Selfishness is poverty; it is the
most utter restitution OF a human
being.
II a man 8 character is to be abus-
ed there's nobody like a relation to
do the business.
The affection between parents and
children, or between lovers and
friends IS deepened by demonstra-
ton.
Happiness is to the heart what
sunlight is to the body, and he who
shuts out either is an enemy 10 so
ciety. &
The pleasures Of dissipation are
like gaudy colors they attract for
a moment, but afterwards they OPP
press the senses.
Truth is with ourselves; it takes
norise fvoihoutward things, whate'er
you may believ5.
Though we travel the world over
TO find the beautiful, we must carry
il with US or we find it not.
A woman's happiest kingdom is
home, her highest honor the art of
ruling it, not as a queen, but wife
and mother.
o brother wearers Of motley! Are
there not moments when one grows
sick Of grinning and tumbling and
the jingling of bells?
From mere sense of consistency,
apersecntor is bound to show that the
fallen man is a william; otherwise he,
the prosecutor, is wretch himself.
All tastes gratified, all success
obtained, each step won by gratified
pride, every end attained, leaves in
certain natures q feeling of INSULT
cheney and disappointment.
The habit of blaming others when
things go wrong is an insidious and
dangerous one. Far more is it to
the purpose to inquire within wheth-
or the fault, or much of it may not
lie at home.
Beneficence should never be ex-
ercised at random, nor upon IRA
tional impulse, but should he the
outcome and expression of a dispo-
sition trained and nourished in the
atmosphere of human friendship.
People in Vanity Fair fasten on TO
rich folks quite naturally. Their
affections rush out to meet and vel
come them. Their kind sentiments
awaken spontaneously towards the
interesting possessors Of it.
No matter how obscure the posi-
tion in life of an individual, if he can
read, he may at will put himself in
TO the best society that the world
has ever seen. He thus elevates
his rank in the world and becomes
independent.
No one can ever nourish within
: himself generous spirit who refus-
es to perform the small offices of
generosity that lie continually in
his path. Nor cananyone persist in
fulfilling them without experiencing
gradual response in his own spirit
of goodwill and friendliness.
An imperative duty developing
upon employers is that they should
as far as possible know their weak
people, be in regular personal con
tact with them, aud do all they can
to ameliorate their les. That an
amount adequate to compensate for
work performed should be given as
wages, Is an elementary principle
of Justice.
OF all paths man could strike in
TO, says Carlyle, there is, at any
given moment, best path for every
man, thing which, here and now.
it were OF all things wisest for him
to do, which, could he but be led
or driven to do, he were then doing
like q man, as we praise it. His
success. in such case, were CON-
plete, his felicity a maximum. To
find this path and walk in it, is the
one thing needful for him.
There are two kinds of power in
the world, and much confusion often
ensues from the failure to discrimi-
rate between them. One is internal.
the other external; one is strength,
capacity, ability knowledge, eff.
cheney; the other is authority, su-
premacv, position, place, control