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A Christian grieYes over sin, because

A Christian grleVes over SIN, because
it displeases God, dishonors the
Saviour and grieves the Holy Ghost,
AS if you cou'd kill time without in-
juring eternity.
The labor of the body frees us from
pains of the mind.
Great hearts alone understand how
much glory there is in being good.
Innocency towards God as well as
man, is impentrable armor.
There can be no Christianity where
there is no charity.
A sound discretion is not SO much
indicated by never making amlstake
as by never repeating it.
We are never so ridiculous for the
qualities we have, as for those we aHect
to have.
If we did some little act of kindness
every day, what a beautiful record our
years would present.
The great fault of penetration IS not
that of going to the end, but OF pass
ing it.
When any calamity has been suf,,
fered, the first thing to be remembered
is how much has been escaped.
One of the greatest causes of trouble
in this world is the habit people have
of talking faster than they think.
Electricity always seeks the best
conductor. God uses those who are
most in harmony with himself.
One may live conqueror, king, a
magistrate, but he must die a man.
John Wesley used to say: pass
smoothly over the perversness of those
you have to do with, and go forward. ."
Don't hunt happiness-do honest
work and happiness will hunt yon.
Pity sinners, and endeavor to re-
claim them, rather than aggrevate or
publish their crimes.
Never forget that the Lord Jesus
knows all you think of him, say ABOUT
him and do for him.
We never graduate in religion: be-
cause the nearer we are to God, the more
we see there is to be learned.
Few things are necessary to make a
wise man happy. Nothing contents
a fool, and this is why most men are
miserable.
Notwithstanding all the mercy with
the Lord, all the mercy that is offered
in the promise, the Lord never prom
ised asinner his mercy tomorrow.
If we would have God to hear what
we say to him by prayer, we must be
ready to say what he saith to us by his
word.
Oh that we could always think of
God as we do of friend, as of one who
unfeignedly loves us, even more than
we do ourselves.
All deception in the course of life is,
indeed, nothing else but lie reduced
to practice, and falsehood passing from
words to things.
The greatest evils in life have had
their rise from somewhat which was
thought Of too little Importance to be
attended to.
The nearer the soul is to God the less
it's perturbations as the point nearest
the centre of circle is subject to the
least motion.
He sUent about doing good: ::"-this is
the pattern for every Christian. He is a
counterfeit one, who dose not strive to
initiate it.
The legends tell
That He, the Meek One, bowed His
head to death,
Fen on an aspen cross. And from
that fearful hour
Aspens have quivered as with con-
scious dread
Of that foul crime which bowed the
meek Redeemer's head.
Nothing wins love like unseltish
thoughtfulness for others. He who
thinks nothing of himself in his in
tercourse with his fellows, is surest to
make his fellows think of him with
gratitude, when they are with him,
and when they are away from him.
There is no way of winning a place
in the hearts of all, like losing all
thought of ones self or of ones claim
on the love of any.