, 1872-12-29
SELECTIONS.

All death is q life begun
Count it an ASSURANCE OF more vital goo
when God denies you.
in wordy combat between social equals
the best-dresEed maa has one point in his favor.
1t needs danger to bring man wholly into
life, just IS pain does a woman.
You cannot disorder anything; what seems
like disorder is transition.
God permits many things temporarily for
mans education that are but the marring Of his
universal plan, which is justified by the conse-
quenceB OF the temporary wrong.
Deepest streans make least murmur, whether
they are those that course among the hills OF
flow from human hearts.
None Of the faculties OF the soul have ever
been defined, because their essence is infinite.
One trembles for the republic when he looks
at its girls.
that which comes out of q basket rather than out
of mouth.
The lark, when at sunrise she rises sing
ing above our sight, shows that it WAS not from
lack Of power to climb that she made the hum
bic choice to build her nest in the grass.
If you could endow the smallest insect with
the sense of the beautiful and the infinite, it
would see God, and this vision would render it
immortal.
In all the ills Of infancy, Nature calls more
for our patience than for Our remedies.
The whole body is tho tongue Of q man, and it
is all the time unconociously talking OF what q
man is.
Eloquence is truth looking up to Heaven.
No day is we'll spent unleas it leaves the
spender in the best possible state for tie follow
Eternity is IN ever present Now.
We know there is no losB-no death,-only
tranaition to fuller life.
There are some faces that seem as if they hsd
never seen light.
The ahadowy future, with its gloomy phau-
toms, never comes
Power to get freedom becomes the measure
Of the power to use it.
Tho arms We sharpen for conflict to-day
may bo used, perhaps a century hence, in con-
test8 We hare not as yet anticipated.
When God breaks our idols to pieces, it is
not for us to put the broken blts together
again.
Teach your frail girl that, though she may find
pleasure in the gallant support OF q brothers.
arm, his care should in no way cripple her en-
ergies, or rob her Of her birthright, noble
womanhood.
Indigestion is charged By God With enforcing
morality on the stomach.
The God way Of judging, by which one takes
another's case and judges it from that othor'a
| OWN standpoint is seldom practised.
| Commonly the greater part Of life is spent in
loading up,-burying the soul under q great
| froightage,- getting knowledge, We call it.
| Code tine, impalpable air, spread around the
gent gases for our hourly breath, than life tseu
| is thinned and toned that VIC may receive aul
| bear it.
In the awful mystery Of human life, it is q
| consolation sometimes to believe that our mis-
| fortunes, perhaps even our sins, are permitted
| to be instruments Of our education for Immor
| taAty.
Love. II nothing else, inclines the soul to fee
| it's helplossnesa and ba prayerful,-to place it,
| treasures in Fathers hand.
4 womans heart has it's strength in love, and
| when love is taken away, alas for her who is de
deprived OF it All that life, at it's worst, cal
do, may be borne with it; without it-groa
| God! what deserts filed With horrors stretch
around, ,-endless everywhere, but in that dis
tant, narrow point, where the gateway Of tn
future life opens.