The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-06-03
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By HENRY BLOVNT.

Duty well done is a victory Won.
Fine bains are sometimes h.a !,
Door vessels.
The milk Of human kindness ne~ee
Flowers are the precious footprints
OF the angels.
Honesty is the most beautiful eadss
a gentleman can wear.
The closer We walk with God tas
nearer we get to Heaven.
The very richest blessing are fire.
Quently born from the womb OF black.
est bereavement.
True pelitness is the delicious per
fume of culture and refinement, ard
8 good kind heart.
Many a homely bud holds a heavea.
ly blossom, whose petals will breatho
the fragrance of blissful Immortality.
Self denial is the highest and most
exalted virtue. and when we resist aa
evil we earn out noblest, most brilliant
triumph.
o brilliant must heaven be whea
the dazzling c~orruscations Of noontids
are but the dim shadows Of its edul-
gent splendoFs.
The path Of religious duty leads t.
the temple Of peace and JOY n hap
piness on earth, and to the estate
raptures Of blissful Immortality II
Heaven.
A blush on a maiden's cheek is ths
ruby signal her own innate and Heav-
en-born refinement makes when tbs
least infringement has been mad up
OF her GOd-given realm OF mOdesty.
for modesty is wOman's robe Of virtue.
Rob her of that and she stands naked
in the deformity of her c~Oarseness.
and the flowers OF her purity and
sweetness whose tintings of loveliness
and fragrance Of charms make her SO
beautiful and so sweet and SO en-
chanting, a<e deprived of their beauty
Of purity, and doors of chasteness and
their once exquisitely perfumed petals
are widowed and Soiled and ruined
| with the foul breath of vice, and bears
forever the repulSive stain of shame
and pollution and degeneration.
And now, right here, as a graphic
and most eloquent antithesis to ths
above, we are reminded of the mag
nificent and most beautiful tribute the
gifted Josephus Daniels paid to his
good n pure and most excellent
mother. No nobler, more uplifting.
more purifying sentiments ever came
from a human heart and never were
heart beats couched in finer. omre or
nate, more polished, more beautiful
l 1 q one On W. WV
lenly freighted with the rarest argo-
sis OF noblest sentiments that seemed
aslow with the sparks of divinity, and
worthy the aspirations of the angels
IN their highest and purest longings.
implied along in as rythmick and mel
unsteady as those strains Of melody
tnat How SO ~entrancingly from that
grand and Sublimely toned harp OF
music in Heaven when its God-strung
cnords are swept by angelic fingers
And that pure, noble woman is worthy
OF the magnificent tribute SO graceful
~ PAID to her resplendant virtues. Wa
nave known her for over thirty years.
lana we believe that in her beautifully
co~nsecrated life the flowers Of genu-
me Christianity have ain heir
most fuxuriant blossom and their most
exquisite tintingS Of beauty. and tho
rlcnest and sweetest and most deli
clous fragrance, and given to her pres
ence n her ministry a blessing and
a oenedlctlon as pure ara as holy IA
maj winch follows prayer. And her
presence, SO uplifting and SO whole
some nd so purifying and soc heerine
ana SO comforting is like a refreshing
oasls IN a dry and n-parched desert.
; OF IKE a flower breathed ana bird
neiooied island at sleep in sweetes,
peace amid the rush and roar Of the
stormlest pillows. for under the sooth-
, ing influence Of his Christ-like deeds
! VI rove and charity and sympathy the
!. StoTfnlest passons of human nature are
: nuiiou INTO sweetest eSpOse. and in
2 her balm of solace we foroet he Gins
? Of life's care woes.