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Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 52, 28 September 1878, Page 4

The triumphs of truth are the most glorious, oiiieily because they arc th. most bloudless of all victories, deriving thoir highest lustre from the number of the saved, uot of the slain.—Colton. The doctors tell me I am always walking on the vorge of the grave. I believe it; but .J am not affraid, for I know that I am las'ired for so much more than I am worth, th?t when I come to my inheritance up there it will bs quite a fortune. The law of habit is an eternal certainty. Isolated actions frequently repeated form habit; habit persisted in creates character. It is physiologically true that your brain is fornjed by your brain action; your muscles by your muscular action : and it isaatiortain •that your soul is formed by your soul action. It is easy finding reasons why other folk* should bo patient. To think kindly of each othor is good; butto act kindly toward one another is best of all. Lies unchascd, will die; fires unfauned will burn out; and quarrels neglected become as dull a* the crater of an extinct volcano. The world proposes rest by tho removal of burden. The Redeemer gives rest, by giving us the spirit and power to bear tho burden. Happiness is in (osto, nod not in thing*; and it is by having whaUwe love that wo are happy, not by having what others find agreeable. The binl of wisdom flies low, and seeks his food under hedges; the eagle himself m >uid bo starved if be always soared alnfl :itid against the sun. i'ritlo dries the tearsofangor and vexation ; humllil e those of griofT The one is indignant that »o should suffer; the other olaimi ub by Iho reminder that wo deserve nothing pi.ie. Tnth is as> impossible to be soiled l.y iv ouiwftrd touch a* the sunbeam j Then would uot bo so many open moul if there were not so many open card. ".