Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1910 — SUNDAY MUSINGS [ARTICLE]

SUNDAY MUSINGS

Trials weaken only those who flee from them. ■ v Hoping for the best from a man helps him toward it. Love lays down Its own life; zeal quenches that of others. It is better to seem green than to have got beyond growing. The easiest way to lose your soul is to “sit and sing” It away. It never brings heaven nearer to stand on your neighbor’s corns. Some men would disown their faith rather than send It out to work. Some people think that heaven’s Judgments never go beyond the cravat. It takes more religion to make an honest merchant than a holy monk. It takes more than Imported eloquence to give ‘the heavenly message. Some men are sure they have new hearts because they have lost their heads. Many preachers think they have a burning message because It has a bitter taste: