Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1895 — GRAINS OF GOLD. [ARTICLE]

GRAINS OF GOLD.

Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed. i In heaven’s arithmetic nothing counts but love. When you give others advice, take some of it yourself. The enemies we should most fear are within us, not without. Infidelity never wrote aline that was comforting on a deathbed. A baby sin has no more right to live than one that is old enough to vote. No money can buy so much as the dollar that has been honestly earned. No matter who has the floor, selfconceit will always find a way to speak. All truth is nonsense to the man who has let a lie make its home in his heart The devil is proud of a grumbler, no matter whether he belongs to church or not Do not lose faith in mankind. He who doubts everybody is himself to be doubted. We hate our own sins most when we see them walking around in the shoes of somebody else. Men are bound In the devil’s ropes because they " didn’t think it worth while to break his threads. Before you lose your soul In trying to gain wealth, ask the millionaire how much gold it takes to nmke one rich. Courage to meet duty is power to overcome difficulties; without this principle onr strength Is Indeed weakness. Listen not to a tale-bearer or jsanderer, for he tells thee nothing of good will; but as he discovered *it the secrets of others, so he will or UMan in turn.