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A work sometimes lasts longer than
a marble slab.
The time to bury the hatchet is be-
fore blood is found upon it.
You can not be loving in manner
unless you are loving in spirit. &.
Not to enjoy life but to employ life
ought to be our aim and inspiration.
There is no vice which mankind car
ries to osuch wild extremes as that of
avarice.
In this world it is not what we axe
up, but what we give up, that makes us
rich. .
Stay till the lame messenger comes
if you would know the truth of the
things.
We enjoy ourselves only in our work,
and our best doing is our best enjoys
ment.
Frequent thoughts of death, judg-
ment and eternity are very profitable
and useful for many purposes.
Busy lives, like busy waters, are
generally pure. Stagnant lives, like
stagnant pools, breed corruption. 7
He that dies in his sins shall find hsi
sins ever living in himself. Blessed is
he whose sins die before his body.
There is nothing that so refines the
face and mind as the presence Of great
thoughts. =
People often fail in patience under
small trials, because they look only to
secondary motives for support.
The first degree of folly is to think
ones self wise the next, to tell others
so the third, to despise all counsel.
A man who keeps riches and enjoys
them not is like an ass that carries
gold and eats thistles.
Though aChristian's obedience can't
merit heaven, it is blessed token OF
his meetness for it.
He who does no good gets none.
He who cares not for others will soon
find that others will not care for him.
There is nothing will make you a
Christian indeed but taste of the
sweetness of Christ. "Come and see"
will speak best to your soul.
Certainty, not undue severity of
punishment, is the best preventive OF
crime. This is demonstrated every
time judge makes the test.
All improbable Encouragement, all
undue lamentations may be coll
sidered as the work of him who was o
liar from the beginning.
If we were asked what are the two
greatest human aids to pulpit power,
we should say, Self-possession and
Self-abandonment. -
DON'T be discouraged because you
are misunderstood as to your actions
and motives. It's apart OF the price
of living to be misjudged.
Many indeed think of being happy
with God in heaven !; but the being
happy in God on :earth never enters
into their thoughts.
God will mark not only how many
times you speak to his people in public,
but also how frequently you speak TO
him in secret.
The work which satisfies us least at
the time we do it often turns out to be
that which best, pleases our Lord.
Work on, and leave results to him.
Dote not too fondly on human con-
stancy. The best of friends may fail
YOU. Christ is The only sure support.
What is slothful sinner to thi nix of
himself, when he reads concerning
the holy Jesus, that "in the morning,
rising up great while before day, he
went out and departed into a solitary
place. and there prayed"
A grateful heart is always a happy
heart. The man who is most given to
praising God is the one who has the
fewest things to ask of God, and con-
|sequently is the man who is always
richest in contentment.
If tempted not to pray, pray the
more. If tempted to postpone prayer,
pray ut that very time; most probably
God has blessing for you; Satan sus-
poets He has, or lie would not he SO
anxious TO persuade YOU to put off