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Conceit is the most incurable disease

Conceit is the most incurable disease
that is known to the human soul.
Men are never so likely to settle
question rightly as when they discuss 1t
freely. r
For every humble heart that willeth
to be scholar, God himself willeth to
be the teacher.
That which is of God, gathers to
God, and that which is of the world, is
owned by the world.
Clothes and manners do not make
the man; but when he is made, they
greatly improve his appearance.
Misrepresentation is one of the poi
srned arrows which error always shoots
at the devoted advocates of truth.
The harder our work more we need
solitude and prayer. without Whlch
work becomes mechanical and lnsln-
cere.
The reason we have so few trium-
phant deaths is because we have so few
triumphant lives. The religion that
does not triumph in life will rarely do
so in death.
Love is never at it's best while it goes
out to everybody alike. However
widely it extends, it must be intenser
and more vivid in its inner circle than
in its farther sweep. =.
Enjoy the blessings of this day, If
God sends them, and the evils of it
bear patiently, and sweetly, for this
day only is ours; we are dead to yester-
day, and we are not yet born to to-mor-
row. r
None of US "by taking thought, can
add one cubit unto his stature" But
how many, by taking in God'sthoughts,
feeding on them, and inwardly digest
ing them, have added vastly to their
spiritual stature nt
The love of Christ is like the blue
sky, into which you may see clearly
but the real vastness Of which you can
not measure. 1t is like the sea, into
whose bosom you can look a little way,
but it's depths are unfathomable.
1.-The manifestation OF the spirit IS
given to every man to profit withaP'-
provided he has common sense to make
proper Use Of the "maEilestation"-
otherwise in the hands of uncommon
sense his service will be a loss rather
than a gain.
Plain; straightforward morality and
everyday righteousness are better than
all emotion and dogmalism and all
churchism, says the world, and Christi-
anitv saws much the same; but plain,
straightforward righteousness and ey-
ery-day morality come most surely
when a man is keeping close to Christ.
Let US serve God in the suns hine
while He makes the sunshine. We
shall then serve Him all the better III
the dark when He sends the darkness.
The darkness is sure TO come. Only
let our light be Gods light, and our
darkness Gods darkness. and we shall
be safe at home when the great night
fall comes.
God has lent us the earth for our
life it is great entail. 1t belongs as
much to them who are to come after us,
and whose names are alreGdy written IN
the book of creation, as to us; and we
have no right by anything that we door
neglect to involve them in unnecessary
penalties, or deprive them of dement's
which il was in our power to Dequeath ;
Prince Krapotlin, the socialist, says:
",io man cali be happy who lives with
out an object. CT whose object is some
worn-ous relic from former age which
can never be revivitied." Most true
and no man can be happy whose Object
centers in self. The purpose OF useful
ness as the dominant principle of llteN
will make any human being happy.
Nothing else will. 1t is the spirit OF
religion, the soul of philanthropy, and
the body of morals.