Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1893 — Tendencies and Effects. [ARTICLE]

Tendencies and Effects.

Each phase of -a. man’s mind and life, says L. G. \Vunder in Leisure Hours, is fraught with pleasure or paln.and worthy of praise.or blame, according to the motives or principle by which he is actuated and guided, for its result, and “the thread of our life is of a mingled yarn.” Sir Walter Scott writes, “There’s aye gude and ill i’ the chief. ” |lf a man fallows the bent of his inclinations, he must keep his passions and desires under the control of reason, or he may do many things amiss which will cause him regret. Peace chooses for her home the breast in ; which she finds harmony. To every earnest heart, life will seem richer and brighter in companionship with toil, disappointment and reverses, if- fortified with strength, resolution and endurance, than when passed away in elegant ease and the pride of profusion. Men who would take the world by storm rather than silently, work; ,fpr their own welfare and tbh public goody mera who will allow the efforts of tljfejr souls to be wasted in useless pursuit alter chimerical objects, without <A fixed purpose to gain what is best and most reliable, will never attain any beneficial results for themselvfc oi others. Beneath the mantle of vcntionalism the human heart is st'filC seen throbbing, filled with hope and' desire for improvement, though self! iShness, prejudice and vanity may have dominated our lives and caused our own actions to degenerate. The man who wanders from right and duty U sure to go adrift and be at ths 1 mercy of contending elements. Honor and Integrity are thereby mu* safeguards of home.