Items of Interest.

Lake County Press, Issue 2254, 7 January 1909, Page 2

Items of Interest.

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best; in matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.—Rev. Robert Hall. For modes of faith let graceless zealots His can't'be wrong whose life is in the right- n Pope. Our immortal lawgiver orders us to raise the burden from the weary beast. Should we have less compassion for a man, even if he were a pagan? You picture to yourself the beauty of braverv r.nd steadfastness. And some little, wretched, (disagreeable duty comes which is your martyrdom, the lamp for your oil; and if you do not do it your oil is spilled.—Phillips Brooks. Passion.—A one-sided. enthralled, and unharmonious condition, in which a man has sacrificed the moral totality of his being and is spell-bound under the despotic sway of a single interest which usurps the place of the whole. All passion is idolatrous.— Martensen. There is a world of comfort in the thought that all days are not .alike. If to-dav is a day of suffering amj. discouragement, or of defeat and huri#Hation, to-morrow, or the next cjay, or the next, is almost sure to suffer a skychange. The weather is bound to shift. It cannot rain always, any more than it can shine always. Think of that when vou are under any manner of cloud. " It is our forgetting it that makes these transitory clouds so much more saddening than they need to be.