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Manners are the shadows Of virtues.


Manners are the shadows of virtues
Where men o: Judgment creep, and feel thei
The positive pronounce without dismay.
1t is wonderful what strength an
boldness of purpose and energy of vii
comes from the feeling that we are in
the path of duty.
Cultivate a cheerful frame of MIND
and the mind will mold the face and
the tongue and the voice into some
thing irresistible.
Kind words d. not cost much. They
never blister the tongue or lips. And
we have never heard of any mental
trouble arising from their use.
Charge not thyself with the weight of a year
Child of the Master, faithful and dear
Choose not the cross for the coming week;
For that is more Than He bids thee seek.
Bend not thine arms for to-morrow's load;
Thou may'st leave that to thy gracious God.
Daily, only, Y saith 10 thee,
"rake up thy cross and follow Me- ~
1t is not the SMALLEST - trv +,
make people go9gEInIess You try at the
sumo ,;e tlnls,snd s,snd they feel that you are
tlylllt 70 make them happy. Ant
you rarely can make another happ!
unless you are happy yourself.
An accurate remembrance of names
and faces has been called gift o
princes; another gift, showing the no
bility of both heart and breeding, is
that Of punctilous courtesy toward
the humble as we'll as toward the
great.
Somebody has said: "Hidden sin
has a chance to become firmly rooted
before we attempt seriously to deaI
with it," Is it not often rooted before
we are aware of it? Hence the impor'
tance of daily examination and pray
ing. "CIeanse thou me from secret
faults" "If | regard iniquity in my
heart, the Lord will not hear me-"
The best way to keep evil feelings
out of the heart is to cherish and cult
vate good affections. What the apos.
tie calls "the lust of the flesh" will be
very sure to disappear if we crowd il
out by walking ''in the Spirit" The
graces of the Spirit and the lusts of the
flesh are mutually repellant, and never
simultaneously rule in the same heart.
There is a great mistake in supposine
that giving is concerned only with ma.
terial benefits. These form indeed but
y small part Of its mission. Whatever
creates happiness, whether by 4 kind
ly greeting, or tender sympathy, or in
spring presence, or stimulating
thoughts, is as true giver rs he who
empties his purse to feed the hungry.
Are our consciences against us? Let
us fly from those things of which our
consciences are afraid to the mercy OF
God. Is the past against us? Let US
fly from it now to the yet innocent
present which he still allows us; to the
happy and holy future which he may
yet enable us to attain; to the glorious
eternity whereof the golden gates are
as yet unbarred, and are flung as wide
ly open to the penitents as to the
saints.
When all earthly potter hath formed
vessel for Use, he carefully sctteth it
aside, until it be prepared to bear Il fur
ther operation, to harden and glaze it,
for the use for which it was made.
Let not such, therefore, who have
known the Heavenly hand so to pre-
pare them that they are willing to be
whatsoever the Lord would make OF
them, marvel if the Lord should he
pleased TO set them by awhile, for the
trial of their faith.
There are great lives that fashion
themselves in prayer. Their commun'
ion with God gives them somewhat OF
dignity Of their associations. All the
belittling things of life are obScured
and hidden under the august concep.
tions that engross the mind when it is
holding fellowship with God. Out
wardIy, such life is filled with the
peace and warmth of the Gospel, and
it is fruitful in spiritual results that
shall be counted among the treasures
of heaven.
Sympathy with others is not learned
without personal suffering. The pow
er 10 comfort grows out Of our own at
tlictionI. Depend upon it, those use
full workers whom you S, much envy
have their private griefs which minis
ter to their usefulness. or keep then
under their success. Those whom the
Lord honors in public he chastens in
private. These sicknesses and SORROWS
of ours have fertiliZing effect or al
least they ought to have. Every cold
wind as well as every sunbeam helps
to put oil into the olives and grace int
believers.
The medicinal virtues of the apple
are being sounded on all sides in Eu
rope. 1t is said to neutraliZe the evil
effects of eating too much meat, and
the German chemists state that it is
richer than any other fruit or vegeta.
BILE in phosphorus, an element that il
useful in renewing the essential ner
vous matter of the brain and spinal
cord.
A small lot of woodland will furnish
all the fue! for family by simply iu.
diciously cutting out such timber as
will never be any better, but slowly
die and 60 to decay.
Cover the kitchen table with piece
of zinc, it saves great deal of time
and labor in securing.
Do you ever think, when you ar,
wasting your money, that unless you
reform, the men you hate the worst
may some day be called upon to hell
bury you?
SWEET SAUCE.-One tablespoonful
of butter, two of sugar, two of flour
season with nutmeg; mix well and
pour over it boiling water until thick
rs gravy.
Mr. Stanley, in letter to Mr.. Bruce
written on October 18th, 1889, bears
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