1910
If You Follow the Following Suggestions
You'll never be sorry—
For living a straight life.
For doing your level best.
For being kind to the poor.
For looking before leaping.
For hearing before judging.
For thinking before speaking.
For harboring clean thoughts.
For standing by your principles.
For stopping your ears to gossip.
For being as courteous as a duke.
For asking pardon when in error.
For bridling a garrulous tongue.
For being square in business dealings.
For giving an unfortunate fellow a lift.
For promptness in keeping your promises.
For putting the best construction on the acts of others.
You will never never be sorry, for giving light to the blind, knowledge to the ignorant, strength to the weak help to the struggling and a Savior to the heathen. — New Orleans Times Democrat.
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
A Plea for Hopefulness
1910
Pessimism is a Sin, the Pessimist a Man to Avoid
Hopefulness is a true sign of greatness. It means a conviction that we are greater than our troubles, greater than the world itself, greater than death, and can hold our own whenever it comes, in the universe anywhere and through all eternity.
Such conviction makes a man a god. It is better than riches or high position. It makes a poor man a king. A person who constantly fears or worries is practically an atheist. He has no faith in himself or any other being, He does not usually live long. Worry kills more than whisky; it really hardens the arteries.
No man has a right to kill his friends by a sad, morose countenance. A long face is a mark of religion. It is out of date just now and forever. Sour-looking people should be shut up in jail; they are dangerous. It is a good thing to throw back your shoulders, walk erect, and believe that you own the whole city. You do as really as anyone else, and you feel better for the belief.
Most of our troubles are fear for the future, only "bogies" which disappear when you walk up to them. There is a good time coming. It is here already, if we only knew it.
"To doubt would be disloyalty,
To falter would be sin."
Recipe for a Long Life
He who would live long, healthfully and happily in the land should avoid all anger, hatred, jealousy, revenge, fear, anxiety and worry. He should earnestly cultivate those two great virtues, calmness and kindliness. For calmness and kindliness are not only moral virtues, but are the most valuable of all hygienic influences.
Pessimism is a Sin, the Pessimist a Man to Avoid
Hopefulness is a true sign of greatness. It means a conviction that we are greater than our troubles, greater than the world itself, greater than death, and can hold our own whenever it comes, in the universe anywhere and through all eternity.
Such conviction makes a man a god. It is better than riches or high position. It makes a poor man a king. A person who constantly fears or worries is practically an atheist. He has no faith in himself or any other being, He does not usually live long. Worry kills more than whisky; it really hardens the arteries.
No man has a right to kill his friends by a sad, morose countenance. A long face is a mark of religion. It is out of date just now and forever. Sour-looking people should be shut up in jail; they are dangerous. It is a good thing to throw back your shoulders, walk erect, and believe that you own the whole city. You do as really as anyone else, and you feel better for the belief.
Most of our troubles are fear for the future, only "bogies" which disappear when you walk up to them. There is a good time coming. It is here already, if we only knew it.
"To doubt would be disloyalty,
To falter would be sin."
Recipe for a Long Life
He who would live long, healthfully and happily in the land should avoid all anger, hatred, jealousy, revenge, fear, anxiety and worry. He should earnestly cultivate those two great virtues, calmness and kindliness. For calmness and kindliness are not only moral virtues, but are the most valuable of all hygienic influences.
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Wise Words — "The Wise Man Can Learn"
1896
A little religion is hard to keep.
When love works, it always does its best.
Sin always feels the safest in the dark.
Humility dies the moment it looks in the glass.
The man who hates light, will run from a shadow.
A city's righteous men are a better safeguard than its police.
Don't be a saint in church and a heathen on the street car.
The wise man can learn something from the mistakes of a fool.
In nine cases out of ten the man who has riches paid too much for them.
Give a lie one day the start, and truth will have to chase it around the world.
If there is any dog in a man, it is sure to growl when his food is not to his taste.
Many a man whose prayers are too long, sells goods by a measure that is too short.
If the sun never went down, there are some crimes that would not be committed.
Many a man will fight for his creed, who never has a word of encouragement for his wife. — Ram's Horn.
A little religion is hard to keep.
When love works, it always does its best.
Sin always feels the safest in the dark.
Humility dies the moment it looks in the glass.
The man who hates light, will run from a shadow.
A city's righteous men are a better safeguard than its police.
Don't be a saint in church and a heathen on the street car.
The wise man can learn something from the mistakes of a fool.
In nine cases out of ten the man who has riches paid too much for them.
Give a lie one day the start, and truth will have to chase it around the world.
If there is any dog in a man, it is sure to growl when his food is not to his taste.
Many a man whose prayers are too long, sells goods by a measure that is too short.
If the sun never went down, there are some crimes that would not be committed.
Many a man will fight for his creed, who never has a word of encouragement for his wife. — Ram's Horn.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Sermons the Preacher's Deepest Thoughts
1902
"Almost no preacher to-day dwells exclusively upon sin, salvation and the relation of Christ to the sinner," says the Congregationalist, of Boston and Chicago.
"Important as these themes are, other aspects of the mission of Christ in the world and of the purpose of Christianity are being brought to the front. We regard this as extremely desirable. Preaching is something more than the reiteration of traditional truths in conventional ecclesiastical language. A sermon is the embodiment of a man's deepest and most real thought, phrased in words which everybody can understand and addressed to the real needs of real people.
"Jesus Christ was a popular preacher. He employed parables and talked about the lilies and the clouds, the barrel of meal and the play of little children, and weighed carefully all His words with a view to making the truth which filled and flooded His own soul plain, winsome and powerful in the eyes of others."
"Almost no preacher to-day dwells exclusively upon sin, salvation and the relation of Christ to the sinner," says the Congregationalist, of Boston and Chicago.
"Important as these themes are, other aspects of the mission of Christ in the world and of the purpose of Christianity are being brought to the front. We regard this as extremely desirable. Preaching is something more than the reiteration of traditional truths in conventional ecclesiastical language. A sermon is the embodiment of a man's deepest and most real thought, phrased in words which everybody can understand and addressed to the real needs of real people.
"Jesus Christ was a popular preacher. He employed parables and talked about the lilies and the clouds, the barrel of meal and the play of little children, and weighed carefully all His words with a view to making the truth which filled and flooded His own soul plain, winsome and powerful in the eyes of others."
Monday, May 28, 2007
Words of Wisdom — "A Beggar at God's Door"
1906
Art thou a beggar at God's door, be sure thou gettest a great bowl, for as thy bowl is so will be thy mess. According to thy faith, saith He, be it unto thee. — John Bunyan.
Kind looks, kind words, kind acts and warm handshakes — these are secondary means of grace when men are in trouble and are fighting their unseen battles. — John Hall.
I have looked up every Scripture where anything like meditation is mentioned, and I find that we are never once told to meditate upon sin. — W. H. Griffith Thomas.
Who is meant by our neighbors we cannot doubt; it is every one with whom we are thrown into contact, he or she, whosoever it be, whom we have the means of helping. — Dean Stanley.
You can help your fellow men; you must help them, but the only way you can help them is by being the noblest and the best man that it is possible for you to be. — Phillips Brooks.
Who could believe that from that unpromising bulb would spring the gorgeous flower enveloped in its sheltering leaves? Yet such shall be our body then compared with our body now. — E. H. Bickersteth.
The cure for heartache is to be found in occupations which take us away from our petty self regardings or self pityings, our morbid broodings, and which connect our life with other lives and with other affairs; or merge our individual interest in the larger whole. — Charles G. Ames.
If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress. If there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of evil — Lacon.
By giving to the repetition of an act of duty a fixed regularity, I can multiply my moral power in that direction as much as a man multiplies his material power when he gets hold of a lever. By faithful habit I can make that which was at first laborious come to be after a while less difficult, then easy, and perhaps at last spontaneous and delightful. — G. S. Merriam.
Art thou a beggar at God's door, be sure thou gettest a great bowl, for as thy bowl is so will be thy mess. According to thy faith, saith He, be it unto thee. — John Bunyan.
Kind looks, kind words, kind acts and warm handshakes — these are secondary means of grace when men are in trouble and are fighting their unseen battles. — John Hall.
I have looked up every Scripture where anything like meditation is mentioned, and I find that we are never once told to meditate upon sin. — W. H. Griffith Thomas.
Who is meant by our neighbors we cannot doubt; it is every one with whom we are thrown into contact, he or she, whosoever it be, whom we have the means of helping. — Dean Stanley.
You can help your fellow men; you must help them, but the only way you can help them is by being the noblest and the best man that it is possible for you to be. — Phillips Brooks.
Who could believe that from that unpromising bulb would spring the gorgeous flower enveloped in its sheltering leaves? Yet such shall be our body then compared with our body now. — E. H. Bickersteth.
The cure for heartache is to be found in occupations which take us away from our petty self regardings or self pityings, our morbid broodings, and which connect our life with other lives and with other affairs; or merge our individual interest in the larger whole. — Charles G. Ames.
If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress. If there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of evil — Lacon.
By giving to the repetition of an act of duty a fixed regularity, I can multiply my moral power in that direction as much as a man multiplies his material power when he gets hold of a lever. By faithful habit I can make that which was at first laborious come to be after a while less difficult, then easy, and perhaps at last spontaneous and delightful. — G. S. Merriam.
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Wise Words — Souls Occupied with Great Ideas
1896
Instead of praying for effects, let us pray that we may be enabled to fulfill causes! — Professor Drummond.
Only he who puts on the garment of humility finds how worthily it clothes his life. — Phillips Brooks.
The best cure for sorrow is to sympathize with another in his sorrow. The cure for despondency is to lift the burden from some other heart. — Anon.
A soul occupied with great ideas best performs small duties; the divinest views of life penetrate most clearly into the meanest emergencies. — James Martineau.
There is no action of man in this life which is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as that no human providence is high enough to give us a prospect to the end. — Thomas of Malmesbury.
We are never without help. We have no right to say of any good work, it is too hard for me to do; or of any sorrow, it is too hard for me to bear; or of any sinful habit, it is too hard for me to overcome. — Elizabeth Charles.
There is no such thing as patriotic art and patriotic science. Both art and science belong, like all things great and good, to the whole world, and can be furthered only by a free and general interchanges ideas among contemporaries, with continual reference to the heritage of the past as it is known to us. — Goethe.
Exert your talents and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing while he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. — Dr. Johnson.
Instead of praying for effects, let us pray that we may be enabled to fulfill causes! — Professor Drummond.
Only he who puts on the garment of humility finds how worthily it clothes his life. — Phillips Brooks.
The best cure for sorrow is to sympathize with another in his sorrow. The cure for despondency is to lift the burden from some other heart. — Anon.
A soul occupied with great ideas best performs small duties; the divinest views of life penetrate most clearly into the meanest emergencies. — James Martineau.
There is no action of man in this life which is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as that no human providence is high enough to give us a prospect to the end. — Thomas of Malmesbury.
We are never without help. We have no right to say of any good work, it is too hard for me to do; or of any sorrow, it is too hard for me to bear; or of any sinful habit, it is too hard for me to overcome. — Elizabeth Charles.
There is no such thing as patriotic art and patriotic science. Both art and science belong, like all things great and good, to the whole world, and can be furthered only by a free and general interchanges ideas among contemporaries, with continual reference to the heritage of the past as it is known to us. — Goethe.
Exert your talents and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing while he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. — Dr. Johnson.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Children Seen in New Light with Coming of Christ
1908
Jesus the Light of Childhood. He, the only begotten Son of his Father, who had been in heaven since before the world was made; he who had shared in the making of this world, for we are told that "without him was not anything made," even he left his high estate, and so humbled himself that he came down to earth to live among men, being born of a woman.
Mary was that mother mild
And Jesus Christ that little child.
The Divine became a child, that a child might become almost divine. His birth in Bethlehem wrought a great change in the estimate of the child. Hitherto the elder or the Pharisee had been the ideal, but Jesus set a child in the midst, saying, "Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." And from that hour the whole fabric of childhood was changed.
Roman parents, perhaps the most cultured parents in the world, were guilty of the grossest cruelty to their new-born children, even abandoning them by carrying them to the Velabrum, a district in Rome, near Mount Aventine, where they were left to die or to be gathered up by ill-disposed people, who maimed them by curving their backs or shortening their limbs, in order to use them as beggars. "That workshop of human misfortunes, those shambles of infants," that was what the Velabrum was.
When the influence of Christ was felt, and Christianity began to hold sway, this crime against innocents was abated. Constantine, the first Christian emperor, put forth a proclamation to turn parents from using a murderous hand on their new-born children, and to dispose their hearts to the best sentiments. And the "abandoned" children were gathered from the Velabrum to be brought up honestly; foundling hospitals were established later, houses of mercy for children were founded by Justinian, and gradually all sorts of charities for the welfare of children have been developed, such as aid societies, creches, kindergartens, hospitals for children, schools for defective children, reformatory institutions, etc. It is the far-reaching influence of the fact that Christ was born in Bethlehem. — Christian Herald.
Jesus the Light of Childhood. He, the only begotten Son of his Father, who had been in heaven since before the world was made; he who had shared in the making of this world, for we are told that "without him was not anything made," even he left his high estate, and so humbled himself that he came down to earth to live among men, being born of a woman.
Mary was that mother mild
And Jesus Christ that little child.
The Divine became a child, that a child might become almost divine. His birth in Bethlehem wrought a great change in the estimate of the child. Hitherto the elder or the Pharisee had been the ideal, but Jesus set a child in the midst, saying, "Except ye be converted and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven." And from that hour the whole fabric of childhood was changed.
Roman parents, perhaps the most cultured parents in the world, were guilty of the grossest cruelty to their new-born children, even abandoning them by carrying them to the Velabrum, a district in Rome, near Mount Aventine, where they were left to die or to be gathered up by ill-disposed people, who maimed them by curving their backs or shortening their limbs, in order to use them as beggars. "That workshop of human misfortunes, those shambles of infants," that was what the Velabrum was.
When the influence of Christ was felt, and Christianity began to hold sway, this crime against innocents was abated. Constantine, the first Christian emperor, put forth a proclamation to turn parents from using a murderous hand on their new-born children, and to dispose their hearts to the best sentiments. And the "abandoned" children were gathered from the Velabrum to be brought up honestly; foundling hospitals were established later, houses of mercy for children were founded by Justinian, and gradually all sorts of charities for the welfare of children have been developed, such as aid societies, creches, kindergartens, hospitals for children, schools for defective children, reformatory institutions, etc. It is the far-reaching influence of the fact that Christ was born in Bethlehem. — Christian Herald.
Sunday, April 22, 2007
The Epitaph on One Busy Pastor's Tombstone
1915
Pastor's Busy Life
The epitaph on the tombstone of the late Dr. Rees Bronant, in Cardiganshire, sets out the following facts in Welsh: He christened 1,496 children, he buried 1,792 persons, he preached 8,000 sermons, he spoke 271 times on total abstinence, he paid hundreds of pounds of chapel debts by lectures.
Power of Ideal
No one can cherish an ideal, and devote himself to its realization from year to year, and strive and struggle and make sacrifices for its attainment, without undergoing a certain gracious transformation, of which the highest powers must be aware and men can hardly miss. — John White Chadwick.
The Fiery Cross
The fiery cross was an ancient summons to arms used in the Scottish Highlands, and was sent by swift messengers from place to place. It was a small cross of light wood, the extremities of which were set on fire, and then dipped in the blood of a goat. This custom is said to have also been in use among the Goths.
Daily Thought
Every man stamps his value on himself; the price we challenge for ourselves is given us. — Schiller.
Pastor's Busy Life
The epitaph on the tombstone of the late Dr. Rees Bronant, in Cardiganshire, sets out the following facts in Welsh: He christened 1,496 children, he buried 1,792 persons, he preached 8,000 sermons, he spoke 271 times on total abstinence, he paid hundreds of pounds of chapel debts by lectures.
Power of Ideal
No one can cherish an ideal, and devote himself to its realization from year to year, and strive and struggle and make sacrifices for its attainment, without undergoing a certain gracious transformation, of which the highest powers must be aware and men can hardly miss. — John White Chadwick.
The Fiery Cross
The fiery cross was an ancient summons to arms used in the Scottish Highlands, and was sent by swift messengers from place to place. It was a small cross of light wood, the extremities of which were set on fire, and then dipped in the blood of a goat. This custom is said to have also been in use among the Goths.
Daily Thought
Every man stamps his value on himself; the price we challenge for ourselves is given us. — Schiller.
The Prophesied Completeness
1915
We rejoice in life because it seems to be carrying us somewhere; because its darkness seems to be rolling on toward light, and even its pain to be moving onward to a hidden joy. We bear with incompleteness because of the completion which is prophesied and hoped for. — Phillips Brooks.
Merit In Overcoming Obstacles
To seek to do only the easy things of life a foolish and suicidal choice, for anybody, even a nonentity, can do these things. Let us care, rather, to do things, the overcoming of which will bring to us moral strength, a tested fortitude, and a wider experience of the deeper meanings of human life. — Christian Register.
Daily Thoughts
People who are nobly happy constitute the power, the beauty and the foundation of the state. — Jean Finot.
To travel hopefully is a better than to arrive. — Robert Louis Stevenson.
The one enemy we have in this universe is stupidity, darkness of mind, of which darkness there are many sources, every sin a source and probably self-conceit the chief source. — Carlyle.
Our Faults
Our worst fault, says a great writer, is not seeing that we have any. There can be no repentance over wrongs and ill condition when we are sure that the blame rests entirely with some one else, and the spirit that is satisfied with its own goodness and attainments ceases to grow. The struggle to overcome faults and weaknesses is hard, but to feel no need for such struggle is death.
Giant Mummy In Japan
One of the most interesting exhibits at the aisho exposition held at Tokyo was a giant mummy enclosed in a large, square coffin. The figure measured about eight feet in height. This relic was obtained by a Japanese explorer at a Buddhist temple in the province of Kiangsi. Experts support the claim that the mummy is that of a famous monk who lived at the beginning of the Christian era.
We rejoice in life because it seems to be carrying us somewhere; because its darkness seems to be rolling on toward light, and even its pain to be moving onward to a hidden joy. We bear with incompleteness because of the completion which is prophesied and hoped for. — Phillips Brooks.
Merit In Overcoming Obstacles
To seek to do only the easy things of life a foolish and suicidal choice, for anybody, even a nonentity, can do these things. Let us care, rather, to do things, the overcoming of which will bring to us moral strength, a tested fortitude, and a wider experience of the deeper meanings of human life. — Christian Register.
Daily Thoughts
People who are nobly happy constitute the power, the beauty and the foundation of the state. — Jean Finot.
To travel hopefully is a better than to arrive. — Robert Louis Stevenson.
The one enemy we have in this universe is stupidity, darkness of mind, of which darkness there are many sources, every sin a source and probably self-conceit the chief source. — Carlyle.
Our Faults
Our worst fault, says a great writer, is not seeing that we have any. There can be no repentance over wrongs and ill condition when we are sure that the blame rests entirely with some one else, and the spirit that is satisfied with its own goodness and attainments ceases to grow. The struggle to overcome faults and weaknesses is hard, but to feel no need for such struggle is death.
Giant Mummy In Japan
One of the most interesting exhibits at the aisho exposition held at Tokyo was a giant mummy enclosed in a large, square coffin. The figure measured about eight feet in height. This relic was obtained by a Japanese explorer at a Buddhist temple in the province of Kiangsi. Experts support the claim that the mummy is that of a famous monk who lived at the beginning of the Christian era.
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