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If knowledge is power, patience is

If knowledge is power, patience is :
POWERFUL.
Better be small and shine, than be
great and cast shadow.
The feeling of distrust Is always the
last which great mind acquires.
! Small faults are little thieves that
open the door for big ones to enter.
When q mans temper gets the best.
Of him it reveals the worst Of him.
The bread of life is love; the salt Of
life is work the water of life is faith.
Girls we love for what they are,
young men for what they promise to
be.
The higher life begins for us when
we renounce our own will to bow be-
fore divine law.
The innocence which knows no risk
and is taught no caution, is more vul-
nerable than guilt, and oftener assail-
ed.
He who bears failure with patience is
as much Of philosopher as he who
succeeds; for to put mp with the worid
needs as much wisdom as to control It,
Reason and experience both forbid !
US to suppose that personal morality
can be maintained without religion, or
national morality to the exclusion of
the religious principle.
From the nature Of things,1 am
morally certain that a mind free from
passion and prejudice is more fit to pass
a true Judgment than one BIASED by
affection and Interests.
If YOU have talent for either the use
full or beautiful, use 1t with judgment,
not to the neglect of any regular duty,
but as an absorbent to keep you from
drifting into vice and md extrsatv1iaagah aagahce:~.
The best remedy for our discomfort,
is to count up our mercies. BY the
time we have reckoned up O part OF
these, we shall he on our knees prais-
ing the Lord for his mercy and love.
1t is almost impossible to stop an
evil course when once it is under way:
We should, therefore be exceedingly
careful to watch the trend of every
habit to which we commit ourselves.
He who is unfiinchingly true TO
truth and principle need not be sur
prised if he is accused of being stub
born, willful and even tyrannical when
he knows he is but affectionately faith
full.
Look for good in every life instead
of evil, and you will be surprised to
light on mnch of it where least ex-
pected. An expression of happiness
over the discovery will leap to its cul-
tivation.
Every one must have felt that
cheerful friend is like O sunny. DAY,
which sheds it's brightness on all
around; and most of us can, as We,
choose. make this world either pail
ace or prison.
A religion that never suffices to gov
ern man will never suffice to save
him that which does not sufficiently
distinguish him from wicked world
will never distinguish him from per-
ishing world.
The surest way to produce moral
blindness is to neglect moral convic.a
ton. One who pursues this course
will soon admire his own errors, credit
his own lies. and take pleasure in his
own wickedness.
We must be in our own inner, secret
lives what we want our permanent in
fluence to be. This we can become oy
seeking more and more the permeation
of our whole being by the loving in-s
dwelling Spirit of Christ.
The man who has learned how to
nut himself to work and keep at has
reached q condition of mastery that
promises him success in almost any
situation. He has then q possession
infinitely better than the gift OF geni-
GUS ~
By desiring what is perfectly good
even when we do not know what it IL,
and cannot do what we would we are
part of the divine power against evil,
widening the skirts of light and max
ing the struggle with darkness narrow
| er.
Sow though the rocl; repel thee.
| In its cold and sterile pride.
Some cleft there may be riven.
| Where the little seed may hide.
Fear not for some will flourish,
And though the tares abound,
Like The willows by the waters
Will the scattered seed be found.
Work while the daylight lasteth,
Ere the shades OF night come on,
Ere the Lord Of the vineyard cometh:
And the laborers work Is done;
Watch not the clouds above thee,
Let the wild winds round thee sweep;
God may the seed-time give thee,
But another hand may reap.