Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1879 — GEMS OF THOUGHT. [ARTICLE]

GEMS OF THOUGHT.

Do not squander time, for time is the stuff iife is made of. H. Every man who has decision of character will have enemies. If pride leads the van, poverty brings up the rear. v 6 Te be dumb for the remainder of life is better than to speak falsely. In the great world there is a plaee for every one, and we should be found in ours. There is but one place of rest for. the* human mind, and that is on the Rock, Christ. ' ’ Think less of the vipers that may attack you, and more of the duty that lies before.

Those days are lost in which we do no good; those worse than lost In which we do evil. If our religion is not true, we are P°und to change it: if it is true, we are bound to propagate i£ * Help somebody worse off than vourself, and you will find that you are the better off than you fended. v | Who is powerful? He who can contrqj his passions. Who is rich? He who is contented with what he has. There is no advantage to be gained in murmuring or complaining at our lot iu life and grieving at our hard experience. No matter how purely and grandly we live to-day, there is no denying that we may live more purely, more grandly, to-morrow. Every man is born for heaven, and he is received in heaven who receives heaven in himself while in the world and he is excluded who does not. -' No man has come to true greatness who has not felt in some degree that' belongs to his race, and what God gives him He gives him for man-