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GRAINS.

he that may hinder mischief and
yet permits 1t is an accessory.
When mans temper gets the best
of him it reveals the worst of him.
Small faults are little thieves that
open the door for big ones to enter.
It is much better to seek to forget
ones misfortunes than TO speak often
Of them. g..
The assignment of false motives to
others is the most seductive sin of the
disputations. .... -.r
Only stray sunbeam. Yetit cheer
ed a wretched abode-gladdened q
stricken heart.
Prayer must be based upon promise,
but Gods promises are always broader
than our prayers. H..
Modesty is 10 merit what shades are
to figures in a picture, giving it
strength and beauty.
Do all that you can to stand, and
then fear lest you may fall, and by the
grace of God you are safe. -.
Only a word of encouragement, 8
single word. 1t gave q dropping spir-
it new life, and led to victory.
Cultivate cheerful frame of mind
and the mind will mold the face and
the tongue and voice into something
irresistible. ~
Our souls and bodies we resign; .r
With Joy we render Thee . r..
Our all no longer ours but Thine
To all eternity. -. Ill.,. =
Not the work of the hand. which
may be imperfect, but the purpose of
the heart Is recognized and accepted
by the loving God. sI
Religious life needs culture. Nour-
ish it by the study of the Bible, by
prayer. and by the faithful perform
ance of Christian duty.
ut is q good thing that the heart be
established with grace" land yet some
of us 90 on as if it were not good
thing even to hope for it to be so.-F-
r. Havergal. ... %...
What we want is the single eye that
we may see what our work is, the ha-
mility to accept it, however lowly, the
faith to do it for God, the perseverance
to 20 on till death.
What we are afraid to do before
men, we should be afraid to think be-
fore God. He is the best Christian,
not who talks most of God, but who
walks most with God. l"
In all times and in all places those
religi0nists who have believed 100
much have been more inclined to yjo-
lence and persecution than those who
have believed too little. ...
knowledge alone is not sufficient,
1t is indeed power, but If unsanctified,
power for evil. If undirected by vir-
tue, knowledge is but the servant Of
vice, and tends only to evil. ..-..
To work without praying is practi-
cal atheism; to pray withou tworking IL
idle presumption. To baptize all work
with prayer, and to follow all prayer
with work-that is an ideal life.
In the course of long life have
observed that when people are getting
religion they are full of self-abase-
ment, and are ever ready to condemn
themselves; but when they are losing
it, or have lost it, they are often full OF
self-confidence, and find their pleasure
in censuring and condemning other
persons.
Therefore, come what may, hold
fast to love. Though men should reno
your heart, let them not embitter or
harden it. We win by tenderness we
conquer by forgiveness. On, strive to
enter into something of that large, ce-
lestial charity which is meek, endur-
ing, unretaliating, and which even the
overbearing world can not Withstand
forever.
II ia wonderful how trouble and sor-
row, if accepted in the right spirit.
give vitality to our prayers. When
things are running smoothly and easi-
ly, we are often disposed to be listless
and perfunctory in our. petitions; but
when we are confronted with perpleX-
ing questions, or hard-pressed by temp
tation, or overborne by unexpected ca
amities, we cry to God from the bot
ON of our hearts.
One difference between child and
man is that man has to learn to be
exact, while child has to learn to be
inexact. The whole period between
infancy and age is mixed retrogres-
sion from natural eXactness and pro-
gression toword an artificial eXactness.
a child's first impulse is to spell pho
netically. In course of time his edu-
cation leads him to regard phonetic
spelling as ludicrous and absurd. In
middle life he is so hide-bound by the
conventional (English) photography,
that it is only with difficulty that he
can analyZe word ;into its phonetic
elements, which analysis he made
easily and naturally in childhood. !.
is so in the moral life. We start with
certain straigh!forwar'ine@s. which
the worlds attrition wears into log
sidedness. We have, indeed, to be dl-
rectly educated against the evils of an
indirect education. Being exact IS
one of the ways of being child-llke-
1t is worth while for the average adult
to long to be child again, thus far az
least.
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