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Jesus, let my soul abide
Zen then within Thy bleeding side!
One hour of eternity one moment wit
the Lord, will make us utterly forget life
times desolation. Bonor.
The wolf changes its hair every year bu
remains a vol. Russian Proverb
Let's not croGk fer croakin2 is alread!
hindering halt we attempt. ID. W. Alex
ander
Every person has two educations-
which he receives from others, and one
more important which he gives himself
[Gibbon.
1t is not the fact that a man has richie
which keeps him from the kingdom o
heaven, but the fact that riches have him. -
(Dr. Card
Stories first heard at u mothers knee are
never wholly iorgotten-a little spring tina,
never quite dries up in our journey through
scorching years Ruskin.
Men talk too much about the world. Each
one Of us here, let the world go as it will, and
be victorious or not victorious, mas he not a
life of his own to lead One life a little
CLEAN of time between two eternities no
second chance to MS ioreyermore.- Car
lyle.
Though the word and the sprit do the
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of the heart, that both the word and the
spirit have easier entrance. - Baxter.
The Bible lies at the very foundation OF
the nineteenth century and if you take the
Sermon on the Mount, and what the Sermon
on the Mount represents, out of the commu-
nifty YOU will clutch at the heart of the
American people and stop its pulsations. .-
IHepworth.
Christian faith is grand cathedral, with
divinely pictured windows. Standing with
out, you see no glory nor can you possibly
imagine any standing within. every ray of
light reveals a harmony OF unspeakable
splendors.- Hawthorne.
Never trust this heart Of thine that it will
be ordered, and kept in good frame, if thou
carry not always strong hand and narrow
eye over it. II once thou let go the bride
| of watchfulness, it will run ont so far that it
will be hard to bring it back again.-[Dy
know not any pleasure of sense more
| exquisite than draught of cool, clear water
when you are thirsty but few things are
more insipid ttan water when there is no
thirst. 1t is thus that Christ and His saliva
| ton ore very sweet to one. and very tasteless
to another William Arnot
A great many people wonder why 1t WAS
that Christ did not come at once to Martha
| huu hhrg, Nlolil he loNtt, Wien lie ntATu ol
| their afhiction. 1t was TO try them. and it is
the same with his dealings toward us. If he
seems not to come to us in our afiic.ion, it
| is only to test us Moody.
Never vet did there exist full faith in the
Divine Word, which did not expand the in-
tellect, while it purified the heart which did
not multiply the aims and objects of the un-
| derstanding, while it fixed and simplifed
| those OF the desires and feelings.-[S. T.
| Colerdge.
Heaven must begin in our own hearts or
it will be no heaven for US. Until man al
lows the spirit of truth and love to enter his
own soul and make an inward heaven, no
outward heaven can do him any good.
flames Freeman Clarke
If you have built castles in the air your
work need not be lost that is where they
should be. Now put foundations under
them.-[ rhoreau.
Nothing is easier to men of genius moth
ing more certainly a proof and part of it.
than to compose what raises mems wonder
and admiration nothing more difficult than
to show them distinctly the simplest and
most obvious truth Landor.
God is never 50 far on
As even to be near;
lie is within cur spiritis
The home lie HOLDS most dear.
To think Of Him as by our side
Is almost as untrue
AS to remove his throne beyond
ftose skies Of starry blue
So even when thought myself
Homeless .orlOrn and weary,
Missing my 10y, walked the Garth,
Myse.f 6Cd's sanctuary.
Ii man empties Lis purse INTO his head,
no one can tske it fro:a him ri Benjamin
Franklin.
Remember you are at the door Of eternity
and have other work to do than to triie away
precious time as our life Is passage to
eternity, SO it ought to be q meditation of
eternity, and Il preparation for eternity. We
are now sowing for eternity and ''whatso-
ever man soweth, that shall 10 also reap
I Dr. II. Bonar.
Oh, let Thy sacred will
AL Thy de sht iulnll
Let me not think action mine own way,
But as Thy love shall sway,
Resigning up tho rudder to Thy kill.
-Herberf
The word of God moves along like pass
ing shower wherever it comes it must be |
received at once, or it will be gone. How !
soon a mans mot now becomes IL never |
-[Luther.
1t is not darkness the Christian goes to at |
death for God is light. 1t i'd not loneliness,
for Christ is with him. 1t is not an unknown
country, for Jesus is there and there the |
vast company of the Just made perfect, who |
shall be one with Him in the fellowship and |
blessedness of heaven forever Charles |
Kingsley.
heart, be brave!
Else in thickest Of the nght.
at times, thou may est fail and shrink
Eemember thou art in Gods sight,
And care not wnat-f thou art iyht
The world may think
Bright vctory's banner yet shall Ger three wave.
BE brave, my heart, be brave
What q lovely bridge between old age and |
childhood is religion how intuitively the
child begins with prayer and worship on ell
tering life and how lntuitively on quitting
life the old man turns back TO prayer and
worship putting himself side by side with
the infant. If there were no efficacy in pray
er-if prayer were as mere an Illusion of su-
perstitious phantasy AS aught against which
your reason now struggles, do you think
that nature herself would have made 1t
amongst the most common and f,clle Of all
her dictates p Bulwer.
II is an old saying that 1t Is common mis-
take for men who aim at perfection to pay
more attention to their daily falls and short
comings than TO the further pursuit of viz
tue and to positive progress III spirituality |
and the divine life For though it is a part |
of virtue to avoid vice. and to know IT, that |
we may avoid it, yet to he always contem- |
plating and deploring our sins keeps the soul |
down from higher and better things, and re- I
tards that holy earnestness whereby 1t at |
tempts great things and rapidly climbs those |
heights Of virtue which are of themselves |
fatal to the very vices We less wisely try to |
diminish by tins perpetual inspection and |
review OF self +. W. Faber.
There is test-point about you somewhere. |
Perhaps it is pride you cannot bear an |
atfr ypu will nOt confess "a f,ult Per |
haps it is personal vanity. ready to sanction
everything to display. Perhaps 1t is n sharp |
tongue. Perhaps 1t Is some sensual appe- |
tite, bent on it's unelean qualification Then |
you are to gather up your moral DTces Just |
here, and. till that darling sin is brought un-
der the practical law Of Christ, you are shut |
out from Christ's kingdom. Bishop Hunt |
ington.
heart, be true
True 70 thyself and to thy God,
Though all around thy path may change
Though oft the road that thou hast trod.
To those that hear no guiding word
Seems hard and strange.
whatever else the whole wide world may do,
Be true, my heart be true
Warm your body by healthful exercise, not |
v covering over stove Warm your spir |
it by performing independently noble deeds.
not by ignobly seeking the sympathy fyour
fellows who are no better than yourself
Thoreau.
PRICE.
For the joy set before thee-
The cross
For the gain that comes after
The loss.
For the morning that smsth-
The night
For the pease Of the victor
The fight.
for the white OF goodness
The thorn.
For the spirits deep wisdom
Mems scOrn.
For tho sunshine Of gladness
The rain.
For the fruit Of Gods pruning
The pain.
For the clear bells Of triumph
knell.
FOR the sweet kiss OF meeting
Farewell.
For the hei I Of he