"Aid Yourself, and God Will Aid You."
" Aid yourself, and God will aid you,"
Is a saying that I hold
f Should be written not in letters
Wrought of silver or of gold,
but upon our hearts be graven,
A command from God in Heaven.
'Tis the law of him who made you—
Aid yourself, and God will aid you.
Aid yourself—who will not labor
All his wants in life to gain,
Hut relies upon his neighbor,
Finds that he relies in vain.
Till you've done your utmost, never
Ask a helping hand, nor ever
Let the toilful man upbraid you—
Aid yourself, and God will aid you.
Aid yourself—you know the fable
Of the wheel sunk in the road;
How the carter was not able
Bv his prayers to move the load
Till, urged by some more wise beholder,
He moved the wheel with lusty shoulder.
Do your own work —your Maker bade you
Aid yourself, and God will aid you.
It is well to help a brother
Or a sister when in need.
Hut believe me. there's another
Not-to-be-forgotten creed.
Better lore did never science
Teach to man than self-reliance.
Tis the law of Him who made you—
Aid yourself, and God will aid you.
Aid yourself—be not like ivy
Clinging still to wall or tree,
That can only rise by striving
For support unceasingly.
Rather be the oak, maintaining,
Heart and branches self-sustaining;
For this "the Great Task-Master" made
you—
Aid yourself, and God will aid you.
J. F. Waller, in Cassell's Magazine.
God may cast down, but He will never
cast off true believers.
The tree of the cross being cast into
the waters of affliction, has rendered
them wholesome and medicinal.
There is a hell, believe ft, so that you
may avoid it. There is a heaven, believe
it, so that you may obtain it.
Make the best use of what you have,
aid they you may look to the Lord with
confidence for more.
In the path of duty, God promises his
special protection; he will keep us safe
and bless tis.
If the disposition is good, the acts will
be so too, though one may not be abje to
do all desired.
Sin is a tyrant, and its servants are
slaves. There is 110 escape from the do
minion of sin but the participation in the
grace of the gospel.
A man cannot be a prosperous Christian
without settled seasons of prayer. Op
portunity to pray will lie found when the
heart is Intent on the exercise.
This wish falls often warm upon my
heart —that I may learn nothing here that
1 cannot continue in the other world; that
I may do nothing here but deeds that
will bear fruits in heaven.
When we speak of disobedience we
should always speak of faith first. Faith
is the first and fundamental act of obedi
ence. Faith is the mainspring of obedi
ence.
What wretched things are wealth and
pomp, state and power, which will not
permit brothers to dwell together in love,
as they ought, and as, but for one or the
other of these disturbers of human
quiet, they would.
Many a Christian trusts Christ to carry
him through the valley of the sliaddow of
death, who does not rely upon Him to
take him through the dread to-morrow.
If you are Christ's yon have 110 right to
worry. He is a safe pilot. You can trust
Him in the shallow, quiet river, as well as
in the sea beyond.
Afflictions are sent to stir up prayer.
If they have that effect, and we pray more
and pray better than before, we may hope
that God will hear our prayers and give
ear to our cry; for the prayer which by
his providence he gives occasion for, and
which by His Spirit of grace He indicates,
shall not return void, through Christ's
satisfaction for sin.
E. ROSENFIELD'S
IS HEAD-QUARTERS FOR
CHE A P
WINTER
CLOTHING
HATS, CAPS,
NECKWEAR, GLOVES, HOSIERY,
and a lull line of
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS,
which art* offered
EXCEEDINGLY LOW.
Call and nee nio, examine goods, learn prices, &c
M. E. ROSENFIELD.
1831. TIIE CULTIVATOR 1880.
AND
Country (xentlema.
The Best of the
AGRICULTUUAL WEEKLI Rv>.
It is UNSURPASSED, if not UNEQUALED, for lie
Amount and Variety of the PRACTICAL INFORMA
TION it contains, and for the Ability and Extent of
its CORRESPONDENCE —in the Three Chief Directions
of
Farm Crops and Processes,
Horticulture and Fruit-Frovving,
Live Stock and Dairying—
while it also includes all minor depatments of rural
interest, such as the Poultry Yard, Entomology,
Bee-Keepjng, Greenhouse and Grapery, Veterinary
Replies, Farm Questions and Answers, Fireside
Reading, Domestic Economy, and a summary of
the News of the Week. Its MARKET REPORTS are
unusually complete, and more information can be
gathered from its columns than from any other
source with regard to the Prospects of the Crops, as
throwing light upon one of the most important of all
questions— When to Buy and When to Sell. It is
liberally illustrated, and constitutes to a greater
degree than any of its contemporaries A LIVE
AGRICULTURAL NEWBP APEK
Of never-failing interest both to Producers and Con
sumers of every class.
The COUNTRY GENTLEMAN is published Weekly
on the following terms, when paid strictly in ad
vance: One Cepy, one year, $2.50; Four Copies,
$lO, and an additional copy for the year free to
the sender of the Club' Ten Copies, S2O, and an
additional copy for t/> year free to the sender of,
the Club.
For the year 1880, these prices include a copy of
the ANNUAI- REGISTER OF RURAL AFFAIRS, to each
übscriber—a book of 144 pages and about 120 ne
gravings—a gift by the Publishers.
All NEW Subecribere for 1880, paying in ad
vance now, will receive the paper WEEKLY, from
receipt of remittance to January let, 1880, with
out charge.
fl®-rtpecimon copies of the paper free. Adddress,
LUTHKR TUCKER & SON, Publishers,
Albany, N Y.
NATHAN TIUD,
DKALF.K IN
i PITTSTON, WILKES -BARRE, AND
LOYAL SOCK COAL.
j
t Invites the patronage of his old friends and the pub
lie generally. 1 shall keep a full assortment
of all sizes,
ANI) HIIAI.L SELL AT
LOWEST PRICKS FOR CASH.
Yard and office, foot of Dine street, just south of
i Court House.
i Aug. 30 N. TIDD.
V ertical
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Feed.
•Vsusual, the Vertical Feed
i
Sewing Machine took First Pre
mium, at the late county Fair.
j J FIGHT MIT SIGEL
and all
HONORABLY DISCHARGED SOLDIERS
*
will consult their own interests oy calling at
JACOBS'
long established and well known
ONE PRICE
CLOTHING
HOUSE,
PATTON'S BLOCK,
and buy their coats, pants, vests, overcoats, shirts,
overalls, Gloves, Hose, Hats and Caps, and every
thing in the line of fine and stylish
GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS.
Don't be deceived by persons falsely representing
themselves to be JACOBS, but come directly to my
store in Patton Block, Main street, near Bridge stf
aug2C H. JACOBS.
Text Book Uniformity.
RESULT WHERE BOOKS HAVE TO
STAND ON THEIR OWN MERIT.
At a Convention of School Directors, of
Centre County, held a Bellefonte, Decem
ber 2(5, 1878, pursuant to the call of 11.
Meyer, Esq., Couuty Superintendent, for
the purpose of considering the propriety
of taking measures to secure a uniformity
of the text-books used in tlie schools of
said county, the tollowing action was , .
taken, over fifty directors being present
and nearly all the district in the county
being represented:
COPY OF MINUTES.
Upon motion of £. I*. Stonerod, of Snow
Shoe township, the following preamble and
resolutions were adopted:
WIIKRKAS : Great expense and waste are
frequently incurred by the present and con
nstatly changing variety of text-books used in
the common schools of Centre county, there
fore, be it
Resolved , By the representative directors
here in session, that a system of text-books,
suitable, complete and uniform, be adopted in
accordance with the laws of the State,
throughout the bounty.
Upon motion of J. 'C. P. Jones, the follow
ing plan was adopted with but one dissenting
vote, to carry into effect the following pre
amble and resolutions:
First. The various publishing houses to
send samples of their books to each schol
board in tne county lor examination and to
submit therewith the lowest exchange, intr' -
ductorv and wholesale prices, and the length
of time they will guarantee to furnish them
at said price.
Second. No agent of any publtshing house
to be permitted to do any work in the county,
to be either general or local agent, beyond
sending his books and terms as above stated.
Any house or agent violating this under
standing, their books to be counted ou of the
contest.
Third. The several school boards of the
county, after examination of the various
books which may have been submitted, to
hold a meeting at which each director shall
make out a list of the books which he prefers
to huve adopted in the county, and send it to
Henry Meyer, Esq., County* Superindent, at
Rebersburg, Pa., prior to the first day of
June, 1879, who shall ma rc _ . e
several statements so sent, and the books up
on the various branches having the ighest
number of votes or preference shall be the
series recommended for eountv uniformity.
The County Superintendent, afier having
made the above eanvaos as above, to send the
result of the same to each of the papers in the
county for publication.
W. C. HEINLE, Chairman.
J. C. P. JONES, Secretary.
The following is the result of the votes
of the Directors of Centre county, Pa., on
the uniformity of Text-books in said
county, with the number of votes cast fro
each book, under the foregoing plan and
resolutions:
READERS. No. vote.
for eacsh
New Graded 74
Independent 20
Appleton's 17
New American 12
SPELLERS.
Swinton's 83
New American 6
Independent.. 23
Appleton's 1
Patterson's
Sander's Union
Raub's..- l
GEOGRAPHIES.
Swinton's 100
Colton's 14
Mitchell's 10
Independent 1
Monteith's 5
HISTORIES.
Swinton's 68
Redpath's 5
Barnes' Brief 7
Butler's
Ouackenbos' 1
Watson's 6
V RITTEN ARITHMETIC.
Robinson's Shorter Course 57
Green leaf's IA
Brook's
Gilne's 22
Boff's 12
N rook's Union 8
Mew American 4
MENTAL ARITHMETIC.
Milne's 7
Greenleaf's 4
ALGEBRA.
Robinson's 5g
GreenleaPs 1
COPY BOOKS.
Spencerian 68
Appleton's 30
Ellsworth's 10
GRAMMARS.
Kerl's 72
Swinton's 17
Clark's Brief . 15
Bullion's ]
Harvey's 20
Ouackenbos'. w 3
lewsmith's 1
LANGUAGE LESSONS.
Kerl's 5
Clark's 1
Harvey's...., 5
Morton's 5
BOOK-KEEPING.
Bryant & Stratum's 44
Folsom's... 6
Smith's
CIVIL GOVERNMENT.
Townsend's..* ••