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w uO llSeS liOul piaJCA oS''SA 'Ais'ii,
his prayer is answered.
Thinking is the least exerted privi-
lege of cultivated humanity.
Who hath a greater combat than he
that laboreth to overcome himself?
To persevere in ones duty and be 81
lent, is the best answer to calumny.
Faith in tomorrow, instead of
Christ, is Satan's nurse for mans per-
ditioH.
The happiness of love is in action
it's test is what one is willing to do for
others.
Nothing is so indicative of deepest
culture as tender consideration of the
ignorant.
Perhaps the secret regrets of life are
the weightiest, and chiefly on this &C.
count-that they are incommunicable.
When once infidelity can persuade
men that they shall die like beasts,
they will soon be brought to tSve like
beasts also.
When we are filled with heavenly
love, and only then, are we best fitted
above it and forget its burden.
When you have learned to submit,
to do faithfully, patiently, duty that is
most distasteful to you, God may per-
NIT you to do the work you like.
There is vast difference between a
dead conscience and q cleansed one.
One is quiet because it is dead, the
other is quiet because it is purged
Oh. lead me, Lord, that I may lead
The wandering and the wayerlng feet!
Oh, feed me, Lord, that may feed
Thy hungering ones with mama sweet!
Oh. strengthen me. that while I stand
Firm on the Rock, and strong In Thee,
I may stretch out a loving hand
To wrestle with a troubled sea!
Seek the chamber of sickness, the
abodes of want; then seek your closet
to commune with God. Do not believe
you are ready to pray until you are
willing to work.
The surest way to produce moral
blindness is to neglect moral convic-
ton. One who pursues this course
will soon admire his own errors, credit
his own lies, and take pleasure in his
own wickedness.
There is burden of care in getting
in keeping them tempta-
ton in using them; guilt in abusing
them sorrow in losing them; and a
burden of account at last to be given
up concerning them.
Until he has had some deep sorrows
man will not find the divine want of
prayer. For this reason so many fall
from God who have attained to Him
that they cling to Him with their
weakness, not with their strength.
We may learn much by watching
the stream of q human life; but we
ought to remember that beyond our
lies more than is known
and we ought to forbear from judging
as we know all, where we know only
in part.
SYDNEY N. s. w., July 6.-Ad-
vices have been received here from
Apia, saying that treaty of peace has
been concluded between Mataafa and
Tamasese. Lieutenant Thurston has
concluded his inquiry into the charges
made by Germany that assistance had
been given Mataafa by the British
Consul at Apia. The investigation
resulted in the exoneration of the Con-
sui from all charges.
If you would not De foiled by temp
tation, do not enter into a dispute with
Satan. When Eve began to argue the
case with the serpent, the serpent was
too hard for her the devil, by his log
ic, disputed her out of Paradise. Satan
can mince sin, make it small, and var
nish it over, and make it look like vir-
tue. Satan is too subtle a sophister to
hold an argument with him. Dispute
not, but fight. If you enter into a
parley with Satan, you give him half
the victory.
The oldest minister now in active
service is Rev. William Stoddard, Of
the parish of Moderty, in Scotland.
The babtismal register shows that he
was baptized on the 29th of March,
1887, and is now in his one hundred
and third year. He walks about a
mile to his preaching service every
with buoyant step, and
breaches sermon of about an hours
length, discharges, unaided, all his
pastoral duties, and is a most efficient
chairman of the county school board.