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You cannot injure an enemy by hat
ing him.
We cannot control the evil tongues
of Others, but good life enables us to.
despise them.
Wickedness may prosper for while,
but, in the long run, he who sets
knaves to work will pay them.
When q man ceases to see and feel
things as a boy sees and feels them he
is no longer able to help the boy. Is
It is easy to deceive ourselves with;
out perceiving it as it's difficult to per-
ceive others without being perceived.
When once infidelity can persuade
men that they will die like beasts,
they will soon be brought to Hve like
beasts also.
The only doctrinal truth which Solo.
mon insisted on when he took the
whole world for his barren text was
that "all is vanity" -;
Talk about coneeft as-msh as you
like, it is to human characor what
salt is to the ocean; it keeps it sweet,
and renders it endurable.
Keep doing, always doing. With.
ing, dreaming, intending, mourninS,.
talking, sighing, and pining, are idle,
and profitless employments.
He who holds q precious truth COM
cerning eternal things and fails to feel
it to be like bread at sacrament" to
be passed on to those beside him, loses
his right to it and much Of his profit
in it.
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, ana take pleasure In his
own wickedness.
The brother who surrendered pleas
ure for duty found the duty delight
before he had gotten half through with
it.. The Christianity that makes eter-
nal blessedness sure also makes present
blessedness reality.
Good companionship is an important
element in our happiness. Who has
better company than the man who
walks with God? He can never be
lonely; he will always have a sympa-
thizing friend and present helper.
God regards a saint in rags more
than sinner in robes. The whole OF
the orumbling tabernacles now occu.
pied by His people will soon be leveled
with the dust but it matters not,
since "He hath prepared for them q
CITY,"
I cannot relish a happiness in which
no one partakes but myself. The most
pleasant reflection Of my old age is,
the remembrance of the friendly Of
fees have done to others. To see
them easy and happy by my means
makes me truly 80.
Be not Unstable in thy resolutions,
nor various in thy actions, nor incon-
stant in thy affections; 80 deliberate,
that thou mayst resolve; 80 resolve,
that thou mayst perform so perform,
that thou mayest persevere; mutabili.
ty is the badge of in6rmity.
Tt is sometime said of man that
"he knows no fear" Such q man, II
there is any such, Is himself to be fear
ed. He Is an approach to insensibility,
like cast-iron or stone. He knows
nothing of religious trust, for "the
man who has never feared has never
trusted"
Faith is sometimes spoken Of as the
gift of God, because resulting from the
influence Of the Holy Spirit. It is,
however, not the less an exercise Of the
human mind. God never does the act
of believing for the sinner. This is
his act, whatever be the influence that
leads him to it.
In this cruel fire Of sorrow
Cast thy heart. Nor faint, nor wall;
Let thy hard be firm and steady,
Do not let thy spirit quail.
Wait thou till the trial passes,
Take thou then my heart again,
For as gold Is tried by fire,
| So heart Is tried by pain.