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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


has permitted parasol large enough
to keep the sun otf.
II is estimated that 100000 copies of
the revised version of the New Tesla
ment have been sold in Philadelphia
Men are guided less by conscience
than bv glory and vet the shortest
way to glory is to be guided by con-
science.
Samuel Smiles: Hope is like the
sun, which. as we journey towards II,
casts the shadow of our burden be-
hind us.
The prejudices of men and their
failure 10 understand each other, are
the principal causes of their bitterness
and i'll temper.
-Four hundred and thirty Presbyte-
rian ministers in Ireland have signed
a petition to Parliament in favor Oh
the land bill.
''Better be alone than in bad COM
panv." True; but, unfortunately,
many persons are never in so bad COM
as when alone.
Many of our cares are but morbid
way of looking at our privileges. We
let our blessings get moldv, and then
call them curses.
Sensibilitv would be a good FORTRESS
/ if she had but one hand. With her
right she opens the door to pleasure,
but with her left to pain.
Charnock: He that hath tasted the
bitterness of sin. will fear to commit
it; and he that hath felt the sweetness
of mercy will fear to offend it.
Conquer thyseif. Till thou hast
done that thou art a slave; for it is
almost as well to be in subsection to
another's appetite as thy own.
Wealth in this world is just so much
baggage to be taken care of, but a
cultivated brain is easy to carry, and
is never-failing source of profit and
pleasure.
Consolation indiscreetly pressed
upon us when we are sufficiently I'M
Ter afilictiOn, always serves to increase
our pain and to render our grief more
poignant.
Sound dealing is the honor of mans
nature, and a mixture of falsehOOd is
like alloy in gold and silver, which
may make the metal work the better,
but it embaseth it.
Four Presbyterian Churches in this
country the past year raised SI2I,5l1
for foreign missions, and three raised
S5l0,703 for home missions, making
total of 81 ,23S,2l4
Whoever looks for friend without
imperfections will never find what he
seeks. We love ourselves with all our
faults, and we ought to love our
friends in like manner.
A schooImaster thus describes a
money-lender: "IIe serves you in the
present tense, he lends in the condi-
tiOnal mood, keeps you in the subjec-
tive, and ruins you in the future"
The essence of all fine breeding is
in the gift of Cancellation. A man
who possesses every other title to our
respect except that of courtesy is in
danger of forfeiting them all. A rude
manner renders its owner liable to af-
front. He is never without dignity
who avoids wOunding the dignity OF
others.
Bishop Scott, senior Bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal Church is now
seventy-nine years of age. He has
been in the episcopal Office twenty
nine years Bishop Paine, senior
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, is eighty years old,
and has been in the episcopal office
thuty-fve years.
Talent is power; tact is skill. Tai
ent is weight tact is momentum. Tai
ent knows what to do; tact knows
how to do it. Talent makes a man
respectable; tact will make him re-
spected. TALENT is wealth; tact is
ready money. For all the practical
| purposes of life tact carries il against
talent in the proportion Of ten to one
The following Bishops of the war;
Gus Methodist branches will 90 to the
Ecumenical Methodist Conference i'll
London: Bishops Simpson, Warren,
Peck, McTyeIre, Bowman, Payne,
Brown, Shorter, DickersOn, Hood,
Jones, Hillery, Thompson and HOlsey.
OF these all but the first six are col
ored. In all lS9 delegates have been
appointed thus far, representing six
teen Churches.
Work on the excavation of a cellar
/ for the now Methodist Church at
| Florence, n. j., received a pleasant
start at the hands of the ladies.
Twenty-Five of the youngest and best
looking, attired i'll graceful and ap-
propriate costume, dug out the first
/ cart load of earth. The occasion was
one of great interest, a large crowd
being present and applauding the
helpful ladies.
AdrOcdte Of MiSSiOns: The mis-
sionary operations of the Church are
conducted at less expense than any
other business enterprise involving
| the same labor, and covering so wide
surface and so many cOmplicat-
| ed interests. In the Methodist Epis-
cOpal Church, South, the premiums
Oh our drafts have more than covered
/ the entire expense of administration.
1t is but miserly ignorance that re-
peats now the old SANDER that il costs
one dollar 10 send another to the mis-
\ sion fields.
The venerable and eloquent LOvick
/ Pierce, of the Methodist Church,
South, preaching on Christian Pro-
gress at a Camp Meeting. made one
of his characteristic cliInaxes- BROTH
en-" said he;" you must grow or die.
Progress you must make. If you can
fly, fly d; if you can't fly, run: if you
can't run, walk if you can't walk,
crawl" and then, voice rising to
trumpet tones and right hand raised
to heaven, ne wound up with an ex-
plosion like thunder: 'If you can
crawl, worm it alUngw
DR.. E. p. Goodwin thinks it a
serious evil that so few children are 10
/ be seen in Protestant Churches. lie
says: with the exception of the
MOravians, the Lutherans, and the
Episcopalians, Protestant OrganiZa-
tons are lamentably deficient in deal
ing with the children. 1t is the ex-
ception when they are seen at Church.
OF S,021 people recently counted of a
CoEboU, cchool il the Protestant