Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1907-03-29
PEARLS FROM THE SHELLS.

II found an ugly oyster shell.
But with much pains pried
Hopen, and Joy to tell
found pearl inside.
II found an ugly human shell.
But with much pains I pried
ltopen. and joy to tell
founda pearl inside"
Men who loaf instead of labor should
read Longfellow's Village Blacksmith,
and should never cease to remember al
least these two lines:
something attempted, something done
Has earned a nights repose."
If men would lay aside their fear and
greed, andpractice the fine art of living
together in a cooperative, which is the
Christian, rather than in a competitive
way, which is the heathen, our lives
would be more abundant and more
peaceful.
81 wish l had your money!" fairly
well-of politician once said to the late
Cornelius Vanderbilt. 'sDon't bother SO
much about money!" was the reply.
"What have 1 in life that you lack?
You have clean linen, good food, a
home; that's all have. And you are
not compelled to fight like a tiger to
keep what you have. l am.''
Some folks say this is ga cold world. -
They got in wrong. If you jump into
the fire, it's a hot world. The world
is all right. If you are mean, every
one will be mean to you. If you are
sweet and kind, others will treat you
just the same. GAS you do unto others
they will do unto you," the world is
what you make it. ''The Kingdom OF
God is within you" "Smile and push;'
it works. Buster Brown.
l have one preacher that / love better
than any other on earth; it is my little
tame robin, which breaches to me daily
L put his crumbs upon the window-sill
especially at night. He hops into the
sill when he wants his supply, and takes
as much as he desires to supply his need.
From thence he always hops to a tree
close by, and lifts up his voice to Goo
and sings his carroll of praise and graft.
tude, tucks his little head under his wing,
and goes fast to sleep, and leaves to-
morrow to look after itself. He is the
best preacher that have on earth. =
Martin Luther.
Medical science has made some start.
ling admissions recently. Bad tempers,
unhealthy consciences, irritable natures,
and so on, are the germs from which
diseases spring. Cancers are often the
outgrowth of violent tempers. Suitable
diseases accompany laziness, conceit,
general Generalization, and all forms OF
sensualism. A man who has great
respect for his moral and physical wei
fare is usually healthy. A clean mind,
unstained by moral degradation, free
from all petty worries, can mean moth
ing less than the healthiest of bodies.
The practice of right living means the
abandonment of many overindulgent
pleasures. 1t means to quit worrying;
also, quit quarreling and lying. II
means to quit dissipating. In brief, il
means-quit SHINING. There is said to
be no real pleasure in sin. We pay
doubly for every error we make in right
living. Quit worrying, learn to con-
troll yourself, quit eating too much and
drinking too much. Live right if you
wish to share in the real pleasures of a
heaven on earth. Richmond Journal.
The unstable man is like plant with
out roots; like boat without anchor or
chain; like wave of the sea; like a
feather in whiriwind. The explana-
ton must be in the fact that they do
not grasp any truth. They may glimpse
it, but they do not grasp and hold it.
He who grips truth cannot be unstable.
If man be afflicted with instability,
let him find some great truth, root
and ground himself in it and stand
fast. But. not everyone who holds
on to something has convictions. 1t
may be stubbernness. Many a man is
stubborn and thinks it is conviction.
The difference between stubbornness
and conviction is the difference between
hugging ones self and hugging some
body else. Many hardheaded fellow
grasps himself or mere block of moth
ing and thinks he has something. There
are floating islands in the lakes about
here. They are composed of punches
of grass rooted only in themselves
These lunches cling to themselves very
tenaciously, but they are not good foi
anything. He who fastens himself to &
few spongy opinions and clings to then
to the death because they are his anc
not because they are right, is like these
islands. Many a man is thus fastened
to his hobby and his hobby is rotten
Such life generally grows into
monstrosity of conceit and idiocy.-