Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1880 — Words of Wisdom. [ARTICLE]

Words of Wisdom.

It i. right to be’contented with what *• with wfata WW ar*. ( . than the tXtetf which we do not pluck is the only oo* whlcbwww* loros ite beauty or ite fragrance. H* who will not wen to a bigot; he who cannot to a fool; and ho who dan* not to* stere. Troth to ooliprod often, and ft rot* for a night, but never toft turned aalde from ite eternal path. Troth will never die; the stare will Kw dim, the sun will pale hie glory; troth will ever be young. Age is not all decay; it to the ripen ing, the swelling of the fresh life within, that withers ana burste the husk. We learn to elimb by keeping our eyes not on the hills behind us, but on the mountains that rise before us. The beginning of faith is action, and be only believes who struggles; not he who merely thinks a question over. Every heart has ite secret sorrow which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold when ho to only sad. We are all more or less echoes, and we repeat, in spite of our lives, the virtues, the faults, the movements, and the characters of those who are always with us. “There are people who live behind the hill," to an old German proverb, which means that there are other folks in the world besides yourself although you may noLse* them." Anxiety to the poison of life; the parent of many sins, and of more miseries. Why, then, allow it, when we know that all the fixture to guided by » Father’s hand ?