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| By two wings man is lifted up from
things earthly. namely, by simplicity and
| purity. Simplicity ought TO be In our IN
| tention purity in our affections. Simpll-
city doth tend towards God purity doth ap-
prehend and test him. -tThomas hempis.
Jesus is the purest among the mighty, the
mightiest among the pure, who. with his
pierced hands, has raised empires from their
foundations, turned the stream of history
from its old channel. and still continues to
rule and guide the ages.-[ Richter.
The clouds, which rise with thunder, slake
our thirsty souls with rain;
The blow most dreaded falls to break
From Of our limbs a chain;
And wrongs Of man TO man but make
The love of God more plain,
As through the shadOwy lens of even
The eye looks iarthest into heaven
ON CLEANS Of star and depths of blue
The glaring sunshine never knew
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the di-
rection of your life nothing is great or de-
sirable if it is of and away from that = En-
erson.
The worst slander often has in 1t some
truth, from which we may learn lesson that
may make us wiser, and if We Will, better,
when the first smart of it is over.-[F. W.
Robertson.
1t is most important lesson, and too little
thought Of that we learn how to enjoy ordi-
nary life, and to be able to relish our being,
without the transport of some passion, or
the qualification of some appetite Steele.
The best books for Us are not always those
which the wise recommend, but often those
which meet our peculiar wants, and the
natural thirst of our minds, and which there
fore awaken interest ana rivet thought
[Channing.
Every man takes care that his neighbor
shall not cheat him. But day comes when
he begins to care that he do not cheat his
neighbor or himself Then all goes well.
He has changed his market-cart into char
lot of the sum Emerson.
Beats there n heart within that breast Of thine'
Then compass reverently its sacred shrine;
For the true spiritual Caaba Is the heart.
And no proud pile of perishable art.
When God ordained the pilgrim rite, that sign
Was meant to lead thy thought to things divine.
thousand times hs treads that round in vain
Who cen one human heart would IDLY pain.
Leave wealth behind; bring God thy heart-best
light
To guide thy wavering steps through lite's dark
night.
God spurns the riches Of a thousand cotiers.
And tays, my chosen is he his heart who offers.
Nor gold, nor silver seek j, but above
All gifts the heart, and buy itwith my love
Yea, one sad, cont-ite heart, which men despise
More than my throne and fixed decree | prize.
Then think not lowly of thy heart. though lOwly,
For holy is II, and there d~els the holy.
God's presence chamber is the human breast;
All happy he whose heart holds such guest.
Oriental Posfry.
To pray with all your heart and strength,
with the reason and the will, to believe viv-
idly that God will listen TO your voice through
Christ, and verify do the thing that pleases
Him as best, this is the last, the greatest
achievement of the Christians warfare on
earth [Coleridge
All that goes to constitute a gentleman
the carriage, gait, address, voice the ease,
the self-possession, the courtesy, the success
in not offending, the lofty principle the de-
hcacy of thought, the taste and propriety,
the generosity and forbearance, the candor
and consideration-thes qualities some of
them come by nature, some OF them may be
found in any rank, some of them are di-
rect precept of Christianity John Henry
Newman.
sit true, Christ In heaven,
That the wsest suffer most
That the strongest wander iarthest,
And most hopelessly sre llsti
That the mark Of rank in nature
Is scapacity for pain,
And the anguish OF the singer,
Makes the sweetness Of the strain
Nothing is beneath You if it is in the di-
rection OF your life nothing is great or de-
sirable if it is off and away from that En-
erson.
God made the soul to correspond with
truth. Truth is its own evidence, as the
lightning flash is, as the blessed sunshine is.
IF. W. Robertson.
Tho Providence which watches over the
affairs of men works out of their mistakes.
at times. a healthier issue than could have
been accomplished by their wisest fore
thought. Froude.
As soon as salvation was taken out of the
hands OF God it fell into the hands of the
priests The latter set themselves in the
place Of the Lord, and souls athirst for par
don might no longer look toward heaven hut
the Church. rch.-[D'Aubigne.
The turning point in every man 5 religious
experience is, not when he says Il be-
lieve, but when he says: Il will" A man
is not Christian in proportion to the amount
of truth he puts into his creed but in pro-
portion to the amount of truth he puts into
his hfe.--[Dr. j. Walker.
We smile at the ignorance of the savage
who cuts down the tree in order to reach its
fruits but the fact is that blunder of this
description is made by every person who is
oyer-eager and impatient in the pursuit of
pleasure, IChanning.
II the skies were buer,
And fogs were fewer,
And fewer the storms on land and sea-
Were sh ny summers
Perpetual cOmers-
What an Utopia this would lie
II Life we're longer.
And Faith were stronger,
II Pleasure would hide II Care would dse.
II each were brother
To all the other,
What an Arcadia this would te
W.,o 0,a.d ah,li.hed
And Gain demolished,
We're slsysry chained, and Freedom free
II all earth troubles
Collapsed like bubbles
What an Ely sum this would he
Duty is power which rises with us in the
morning, and goes TO rest with US at night
1t il co-eYtensive with the action of our III
telligence 1t is the shadow which leaves
| to us, 60 where We will and which only
leaves us whom We leave the light OF life
| [Gladstone.
Conscience is your magnetic needle Rea-
son il your chart. But | would rather have
a crew willing to follow the indications of
the needle, and giving themselves no great
trouble as to the chart, than crew that had
ever so good a chart aud no needle at ALL
[Joseph Cook.
CAsIsoI rRUsTl
cannot SEQ with my small human sight,
Why God sheuld lead this way or that Tor ne
only know he saith. 'Cnild, follow me-
But can trust.
know not why my path should be at tines
So straightly and so strangely barred before.
only know God could keep wide the door,
But can trust.
cannot know why suddenly the storm
Should rage so hercely round me In its wrath
But this know God watches all my path
And can trust
l may not draw side the mystic veil
That hides The unknown future from my sight
Nor know If for me waits the dark or light;
But can trust.
have no power to look across the tide,
| 10 know, while here. the land beyond the river,
| But this know, | shall be Gods forever
So can trust. -Seiect,d
The wealth of man il the number OF
things which he loves and Jlesses, which he
| is loved and blessed by.-[Carlyle.
Give a man such heart as the son OF God
| describes in the beatitudes, and a whole uni
verse of sorrow cannot rob him OF his bless
edness. -[Spurgeon.
Sustain and comfort yourself IN the Lord
and be strong in his power If you are nndel
the Lords crosses, for you are IN the beatef
and common way to heaven l-lRuthefiord.
Think not that pleasure which God hatf
threatened, nor that blessing which Heav
en- hath cursed. True spiritual JOY and
pleasure come only by following that which
| is pood -TDuarles