Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1901 — WISE WORDS [ARTICLE]

WISE WORDS

You can never teach a toad to trot. Every man has his own message. Giving love by the way is the way to getting love. The gilt on the ginger-bread does the hungry little good. Only he can secure success who is willing to face failure. He who takes all he can often gets more than he can take. There is much difference between being washed white and being whitewashed. The preacher’s oratory in the sanctuary .must fail unless prayer has its oratory in his soul. There Is a tremendous chasm between the poetry we applaud and the prose we apply.—Ram’s Horn.