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IF others saw how good you are, asl

If others say how good you are, ask
yourself if it be true.
Prayer places us, with all our sur
roundings, in the light Of the eternal.
The happiness of love is in action
it's test is what one is willing to do for
others.
Cheerfulness is an excellent wearing
duality. 1t has been called the fair
weather of the heart. --
Human innocence is not to know
evil; Christian saintliness Is to know
evil and good, and prefer good.
The scriptures teach us the best way
of living, the noblest way Of suffering,
and the most comfortable way OF dy-.
ing.
The man who does generous act and
lets the world into the secret shows the
world peach after rubbing the bloom
from it.
Treat all men and women consider
ately and you will be surprised at the
dividends that will come to you daily
and yearly.
Kindness is the music of goodwill
to men, and on the harp the smallest
fingers may play Heavens sweetest
tunes on earth.
Cultivate cheerful frame of mind
and the mind will mold the face and
the tongue and the voice into some
thing irresistible.
Keep doing, always doing. Wishing,
dreaming, intending, mourning, talk.
ing, singing and pining are idle and
prOftless employments.
Good nature and good manners may
be classed under whatsoever things
are lovelyn in entire satisfaction-both
essential and ornamental.
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnest
ness not the definition of helpless
ness, but the feeling of it; not figures
of speech, but compunction of soul.
When you move toward God in your
desire, He moves toward you; touch
Him with faith, he touches you with
instant salvation. This is His gospel.
We need at the very outstart to get
the spirit of the gospel. Untold harm
has come from knowing only the letter.
and especially the letter in detached
places.
A true perception of the gospel is
the entire forgetfulness of self, utter
absence of any pretension, and the
complete and entire refusal to accept
the worlds praise of judgment.
When q man once gets in the habit
of measuring merit by martyrdoms ne
discriminates less closely, and the best
abused man, for whatever cause, seems
nearest to sainthood.
Enjoy the blessings of this day, if
God sends them, and the evils OF 1t
bear patiently and sweetly, for this day
only is ours; we are dead to yesterday,
and we are not yet born to tomorrow.
Temporary professors are like hedge
hogs which have two holes-one to the
north and another to the south. When
the south wind fans, then they open to
the north and when the north winds
chill them, they turn to the south.
There is many Christian who feels
his spirit revolving from them. Toget
up every morning with firm resolve
to find pleasure in their duties, and to-
do them well, and finish the work
which God has given us to do, that ID
to drink Christ's cup.
BE alone with God, that your soul
may be free to speak to him and to hear
him; but be alone in. your inmost
hearts, shutting out busy, anxious
thoughts, that they throng not in with
the prayers, and cloud not the sight
and thought of God. Practice in life
whatever thou prayest for, and God
Nill give it thee more abundanUy.
If trouble comes, be cool, and treat
it peacefully. II joy comes, treat It
without excitement. Il
we must lily from evil, let us do itcalm-
ly, without agitation, orwe may STUN
bic and fall in our hsste. Let us do
good deliberately, or our hurry will
lead us into endless faults. Even re-
pentauce is a work that should be car
ried on coolly and quietly.
Believers have their summer and
their winter seasons; and both are nec-
essary, and, though not equally pleas
ant, are perhaps equally profitable.
At one time they are taught what tte
Lord can do for them, in them, or by
them. At another, he is pleased to
withdraw in measure, and leave
them to themselves, that they may
learn how little they can do without
him.
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