Eeligion does not enjoin a total contempt of all the pleasures and amusements of human society. It checks indeed that spirit of dissipation which is too prevalent. It not only prohibits pleasures which are unlawful, but likewise that unlawful degree of attachment to pleasures, in themselves innocent, which withdraws the attention of man from what is serious and important. But it brings amusement under limitation, without extirpating it. It forbids it as a business, butrtermiis it as the relaxation, of life. '■***>■ v
One of the lessons which young people have to learn by experience is the power, as well as the enduring quality, of deedg and words, and that they cannot talk idly as the wind whistles, or do carelessly as the reeds float, with no effect produced and no impress made.
A life of constant toil merely for subsistence is very hard and sad. No heart can bear it. The strain will break the courage and sour the temper of anybody. There must be before the worker some better reward than the supply of his mere physical wants, or be will become a discontented being, and hence a source of annoyance to himself and to others. Ho must work for love more than money, or he will be miserable.
Hollowat's Pilib.—Pure Blood.—As this, vital fluid, when in a healthy state, sustains and renovates every part of the living system, so, when it becomes, impoverished and impure it exerts a precisely contrary effeot. It is abundantly manifest that any medicine which does not reach the circulation can never exterminate the disease; but any preparation capable of exercising a sanitary influence oTer the blood, must with it be carried to every living fibre of the frame. '1 he ludb», heart liver, kidneys, and skin, all receive benefits' from this most wholesome condition. Holloway s purifying Pillsoperate directly, powerfully and beneficially, upon the whole mass of blood, wbother venous or artifical. They strengthen the stomach, excite the Jiver and kidney*, expel disease, and prolong existence,
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3158, 2 April 1879, Page 2
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