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r i v.- : -.- SI The We LiM MieEOMo ":!: t ; i ' J ' - " " I ' '' " - - 'Our Aim will be, the People? Right Maintain Unawed by Power, and Unhrihed by Gain." WILSON NORTH CAROLINA. ! WEDNESDAY. APRIL 13 -1892. VOL. NO i r . I . -r 11. ; MERRY MORSELS. AND RADIANT REFL, ECTIONS . J. BY HENRY BLOUNT. II-' Punctuated with Pungdnt Points and Spiced with Sweetest .Sentiment An oyster does not look aus tere. Wounded vanitv is very hard to dress. A pun is a pungent ripple tion. . . r.- : j P,; n conversa- Eddie says that green is no the color of other folk's lawns. . ; Don't scald your tongue in broth. I f Setting up drinks results drinkers. . . Man proposes, huthe is accepted.; J tin upsetting not always1 A woman's character is like a postage stamp. One blot and it is ruined. Loss of sleep makes a niar look worn because it takes the nap out ol him. Some men are so packing in hospitalitj that thev will not even entertain an idea. The weather can scarcely bp called "set tled" while heaw,"dews" are! seen every 1 morning. Solitude is one of the' pathways of God to the soul ; contact with and is another. I ' oil for man 1 " If you want friends, meri L ihem, and they will come to you I as surely as the stars come to the night.' Sympathy is that rorifluent flood which baptises the night of disappo; intment with the soothing spray of its refreshing water. i I' I When Eddie saw a sitting hen come off her nest yesterday -he said i: was about time for little chicks to be shedding their .ova-coats. '. ' j 1 If a burnt child dreads the fire, wh v does a .person, who has been signed' by Cupid's torch so often, have a lingerir g regard for the old flame? ; j ; Eddie said to-day that the color of a a bucket shop was a little pail,' whereupon George Stallings remarked t lat it was a color that wooden ware well; I . ; I' The difference between h ippiness and wisdom is, that the man who thinks him self most happv is so, while he who be- ueves himself most wise is generally the reverse. - Lhe obtrusive,' noisy powi brs in nature are not the most efficient The silent dews and gentle rains and qiiiet snnbeams our earth rear the mighty forests and in verdue. f robe . There is this difference between those two temporal blessings, healt x and money -r-money is the most envied, enjoyed ; health is the most the least envied. put the least enjsyed, but Poison was poured Into the ear of Ham let's father, and he died. Viils of speech . full of poison thought are every day poured , into, the ears of the -young-, and moral : death creeps over them. Christian charity teaches i s to imprint even upon the wrinkled brow of crime the sVveetest kiss of human svmr athy, and to . soften with the velvet j toucb j of commis eration the descending blow of condemna tion. " , Love, without fond caresses and honied endearments, Is like an orchard when robbed of its luscious and delicious fruit, or like a rose bush when wintijy frosts have destroyed the exquisite timings and en : chanting perfume of its bright and bloom ing flowers : ' I ! f ! i ' A writer asks; Will the coming young vman use both arms?" j That depends. Be fore the fire in the parlor, w th only one chair tenable, one and Is sufficient. But the farewell act demands bot i, or he will leave a mad damsel, with a psor opinion of the man who uses jnly one i rm. ' They that believe, have C irist in their hearts, heaven in their eyes, md the world under their feet., God's vord is their teacher ; His spirit their guide; His. fear their guard; His providence their inheri ancej Ilis people their 'friends; His prom i- . their cordials; holiness their wav; and . eaven their home. 1 True Christianity. non Liddon savs that "true Christiani ty is easilv discernabie in that spirit of gentleness with which we render honor to all people." And we say that the sweet est and noblest and most angel like virtue of Christianity is the "spirit of charity, that indulgent and tolerant feeling which shows respect and regard for the opinions and the feelings of others, and which recog nizes the glory light of religion wherever its flames tire burning." And in addition to this exalted attitude, which reaches un to Heaven itself and catches its glory, true chiisfianity shows itself in tnat Christ like charity which relieves pover ty, not as conferring a favor, butas satisfy ing what is, in some sense, a right the right of humanity to live and to ask, in God's name, at the hands of property, lhe means of livelihood. ! Christian charity refuses to acquiesce in the inhuman dog ma that men or races are incurably bad or degraded ; he treats the . lower as still bearing, within, the stamp of the Divine Likeness; as still capable, through super natural grace, of the ; highest elevation, she bt-nds respectfully to tend the foulest wound; She kneels upon the pavement side by side with ,JLhe eternal Christ, that she may wash the ffeet: which have been soiled in traversing the waters of time; she bows herself to the ve"ry earth that she may 'take the sinner out of the dust and lift the beggar fro.n the dunghill," and then "st him with the princes, even with the princes of the people." of -Christ. But .whether she instructs the young, or feeds the hungry, or clothes the naked, or pro vides labor for the unemployed, or offers shelter to the homeless, or an asylum to the deranged, or a refuge where the fallen may find aids- to rise, or a bed where the sick may die in peace, tended by the hand of love everywhere she stands before hu manity, not as a patroness, but as a loving and faithful servant,' who is too loyal, too enamored of her Master's name and birth-' right, to be other than affectionate and re spectful in the hour of llis poverty and His shame. Associate yourselves then with this sublime charity of the church. Endeav or to give a practical turn to the honor which you owe to all men. Honor, in deed those for whom you can do nothing in the way of outwatd service; honor your betters in church and State, your superi ors in acquirement or in station, but honor also the poor, the fallen, the . sick, the ignorant, the depressed, and the forsaken. Let them see the glory light of your Chris tianity in the . effulgent gleamings , of its comforting tires. And let all who profess to be christians show their Christianity in Christ like deeds. Let them throw wide open the doors of the heart, and allow the warm sunshine of an unstinted liberality to warm with the glow of comfort those who are now standing cold and shivering in Poverty's iciest winter, and receiving in their unprotected faces the pitiless peltings of its coldest and hardest sleet of want and deprivation Let them cheer and comfort them with some liberal donations and make them feel indeed that there are In deed some, noble hearts, whose grandly istrung strings of generosity respond in sweetest vibration to every touch of human want and distress. Yes, let us make them feel the blessed kinship of humanity. Let us make them feel that there are times when they are recognized as love-knit fel low pilgrims, wending their way together to the same sweet home of peace and rest, and that there are moments, even in sordid life, when selfish greed hath lost its lust, and when heart-beats can respond to heart beats, and have all senses charmed with the rapture of its music. And let us re member that we will never become bank rupt and impoverished by giving, for 4God loveth a cheerful giver" and will Hlm&elf renumerate. The Bible proclaims it, and nature proves it. The flowers give out their perfume to every sighing zephyr, and God still fills their bosoms with purest, sweetest odors. ; The birds tend forth their caroltngs as freely as the breezes, and God still fills their throat with the ripplings of sweet song waves. The streams -pour forth their crystal tides in endless wavelets to the sea, and God still fills their gushing fountains with bright and sparkling waters. The star-beams fall like silver; 6trands' to thread the gloom of darkness, and yet, a million years of night could not exhaust this endless skein of light, 'And so, it will be with our gifts, for when we give to the poor we lendeth to the Lord, and he will a million times repay, not onlv here, but in that, realm, of Endless Day. Tenderly True. The versatile editor of the Durham Globe dips his pen in the' quivering ink drops of trembling pathos, and says most beautifully and tenderly: A girl young and maybe comely or marbe handsome educated in a manner, and yet no matter about that she, was a human being, she was the idol of a lover -t-er heart had gone out to a man: gone out to him with its ten derness and its hope; gone out to him with as much force and as much honesty , and perhaps more than if she had been promi nent and a figure In society. Another woman, a long tongued gossip one of the busy bodies who had a. tongue hung on a pi vet, and loose at both ends, created stories and lied and slandered the girl, and the girl, in her simplicity and in the humilia tion which followed the wild reports, drowned herself. And ; yet the old hag, who lied about her, will go free because she cannot be prosecuted. But it was mur der none the less it was a malicious and wilful muider the work . of an assassin the deed of a wretch who should' not be allowed toIive. And herein society is wrong, wrong in a hundred ways, of course but in this particular is it more cruelly wrong than in any other. The man who slanders his neighbor is a coward; he has murder in Ms heart. rHe would wreck the life of a neighbor if he dared. His viciousness is held in restraint only by his moral cowardice. He would sneak upon you in the dark, had he the assurance that he could waylay you. He would apply the twrch to your home were he not afraid of detection, and he would lie ...... . , about you, your sister or your mother and then lie out of 'it again. Theie should be societies formed for the protection of character. The law says that if I slander you, you may recover. That is j-ou" may bring an action and recover damages. But suppose I say something about yxmr sister? Something untrue, something which will cause her misery f and humiliation. Do you suppose a man Is going to drag an in nocent girl through the "courts to establish what all people know who are acquainted with her? , Not any, ray friend. The sneak who slanders with his poisoned tongue, should be rendered speechless by having his tongue torn out by the roots. The girls at Memphis, who reduced her self to. a damp, cold body was of course foolish, but at the same time she was per haps so incensed, so shocked and so deep ly humiliated that she could not resist the temptation to do what she did. Yet no matter. She was a poor girl a girl who worked for a living and : who. believed in her lover and who was pure and kind and affectionate. Throw a few clods on the coffin; drive on the procession and let it all be forgotten. She was of no conse quence, anyway. -She had no monev She had friends but they were among those who worked for what they get drive on the hearse and give the wicked tattlers a chance to blight some other life. Ingratitude. Oh, let us not be guilty of ingratitude. Let us ever, remember however sad our lot it might be worse, and that it is surely appointed by One who sees the end from the beginning, and who will not allow us to suffer one pain, or. endure one trial, more than is necessary to promote our best and highest good; who. Is watching over us, and caring for us In the most ten der, loving manner, and causing all things to work together for good to them that love Him. Listen to this and take in its full meaning: "He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give." So Wrong. It is so wrong to write in hovels that the sea ran mountains high, because in fact, the sea runs very little more than twenty feet high. The german is right, and it is equally wrong to speak of a gor geous sunset, for the sun does not set; or the moonlight sleeping on a bank, for moonlight never sleeps; or Father Rhine, for the Rhine is a river,and nobody's father at all. In point of fact it is wrong to use words at any time, for words al ways mean something else. The correct thing la - to open your' mouth only when ou are hungry, and hold your .tongue under all circumstances. i Sacred Sonjrs- We are assured by Scripture that music is one of the ineffable joys of Heaven that its atmosphere . pulsates with praise Numbers, in the hour of departure, have caught the music of ."harpers harping with their harps," and with their stiffening tongues have essayed to join in the trium phant songs. Said Edmund Auger, Do you see that blessed assembly who await my arrival $ Do you hear that sweet mu sic with which holy men invite me, that I may henceforth be a partaker of their happiness? How delightful it is to be in the society of blessed spirits! Let us go I We must go! Let me go!" One well authenticated instance, at least is' known, where celestial music above a deathbed was heard by several persons as well as the dying man. But the songs the songs of the redeemed! Oh, may we bear in them some humble part! We read of the new Song, and of the Song of Mose6, and the Lamb, the modulations of which trans cended mortal conception. But are there not a few of our familiar church tunes w hich seem worthy, in, their enchanting cadences, of immortal voices? There are- "Christmas," and princely "St. Michael's,' two of Handel's lofty bursts of harmony, simple in the sublime simplicity of perfect art ; "Truro," with its uprising swell that lifts the soul on its numbers ; "Coronation,,' that rushes on with Its burden Of "Crown Him" till in imagination we almost see the .kingly diadem on the Head once crowned with thorns. Who that knows them but hopes it possible that these tunes are sometimes chanted or remembered joyfully by members of the blessed choirs who sang them on earth? At the institution of the Holy Commu nion our Lord Himself joined in a hymn with His disciples. It was one of the Jewish chants appointed for the season. and. is it not piobable that its consecrated numbers sometimes ring through the vaults of Heaven! Ah bid air oftimes causes a resurrection of precious memories, of loves, pleasures,' sanctified trials and the torms that, we, weeping abundantly," consigned to the grave, come forth draped in light and crpwned with the bays of im mortality. Ruling Tlie Tongue. Do not talk too much. Lrarn how to be silent. There Is nothing like the man or woman that can keep the mouth shut. Not that people should always keep the tongue still; it Is made for use; but there are times when silence is the best' and most effective reply. When a boor speaks roughly or uncivilly to you, when you are asked an Impertinent question, when a sneer is conveved under cover of an in quiry of information , or when, having ap pealed to you on a question of taste, your opinion is met with ridicule, the best an swer in these or like exigencies is master ful 6llence, bespeaking reserve power, con scious strength, dignity, , self-command: and nothing at times is so effective as the silence which springs from contempt. He, who can endure reproach silently, and can keep silent under trying circunstances, Is a man of ho common character. He who is Irritated, and who loses control of tongue and temper, is at the mercy ' of his oppo nent. He who can keep calm and cool can mould men as he will, The cold ham mer bends the hot iron. "If any man of fend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body." Note This. Husbands and wives should preserve sac redly the privacies of their own house,their married state, and their hearts. T-et no third person come In between you. With God's help build your own quiet world, not allowing your dearest earthly friend to be the confidant of aught that concerns your domestic peace. Let moments of alinena tlon. if they occur, be healed at once ; never speak of It outside, but to each other con fess, and all will come out right. Never let the morrow's sun find you at variance. Review and rene your vows; it will do you good, and thereby your souls will grow together, and you will become , truly one. and life will be full of sunshine, and sweet with the fragrance of conjugal felld- Holy Week. This is Holy Week, because of the tad and hallowed events which precceded the crucifixion of our blessed Saviour ar.d which have made it as sweet and as .dear and as tender and as touching to the Christian's heart as the hallowed trinkets that love used to wear. Sunday was Palm Sunday, for on that day our precious Saviour made his triumphant entrance in to Jerusalem, and the people scattered palm branches before Him, crying; "Hosanna, blessed Is the King of Israel that cometh In the name of the' Lord." Monday is solemnized by his re-entrance Into Jerusalem where He ejected the money changers from the Temple. On Tuesday he delivered some wise and ever to be remembered parables, and foretold the destruction of the Temple and Jeruta lem. On Wednesday He foretold His be trayal. On Thursday night he instituted the Lord's Supper which has been such a strengh and such a comfort and such a solace through all the centuries that haye flown down the hoary channel of frosted Time. On the same night he was arrested, bound in chains and carried a captive to the High Priest. What a picture! He who could drown the shame and corrup tion and the iniquities of sin In the crim son current of his own precious life tide, and make own lives whiter than snow yea this man was a bound prisoner, wait ing for the morrow's sun to be crucified for the ledemption of the world. The day at last dawned, and with the cross upon His wearied shoulders ne ascended the steeps of Calvary, and there amid the jeers and the jibes of the mocking multitude, amid cruelest scenes of bitterest trial and severest torture, "He bowed His head and gave up the Ghost." It was finished. What was finished? . God's plan of Salva vatlon. Best Tilings. The best law is the golden rule ; the best philosophy, a contented mind; the best statesmanship, self-government; the best theology, a pure life; the best war, that against one's own weakness; the best medicine, cheerfulness, temperance In all things; the best music, the laughter of an innocent soul; the best science, the extract ing of sunshine from gloom; the best art, painting a smile upon the brow - of child hood; the best biography, the life which writes charity in the largest letters; the best telegraphing, flashing a ray of light into a gloomy heart; the best engineering, building a bridge of faith over the river of death: the best diplomacy, effecting a treaty of peace with one's own conscience ; the best journalism , printing only the good and the true; the best navigation, steering clear of the rocks of personal contention ; the best mathematics, that which doubles the most joys, substracts the most sorrows, divides the gulf of misery, adds to the sum of human pleasure and cancels all selfishness. Culture. Culture, If consistently and thoroughly carried out, must lead on to religion; that Is to cultivation of the spiritual and heaven ward capacities of our nature. And re ligion, if truthiul and wise, must expand Into culture, must urge men who are un der its power to make the most of all their capacities; not only for the worth of those capacities in themselves, but beccuse they are the gifts of God. Learn To Be Brief- Lone visits, lone stories and long exhor tations seldom profit those who have to do with them. Life is short. Time is shoit. Moments are precious. Learn to con dense, abridge, ani intensify. We can endure many an ache and ill if It is soon over: while even pleasures grow Insipid and intolerable If they are protracted be yond the limits of reason nd convenience. The Bight Way. Prooortion thy charity to the strength of thy estate, lest God proportion thy estate to the weakness of thy charity. Let the Hps of the poor be the trumpet ox tny. gut list. In seeking applause, thou lose thy re- waid. Nothing U more pleasing to God than an open hand and a close mout. (L C 1 ,
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