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GRAINS.

Wasted politeness is a good and
cheap mistake.
There are four kinds: unbelievers,
make-believers, half-believers, full be-
levers.
You cannot repent too soon, because
you DO not know how soon it may be
too late.
If you cannot get what you want,
about the only way to be happy is to
quit wanting it.
Men who cover themselves with glo-
sometimes find that they are, after
!; very thinly clad.
Those are the best Christians who
are more careful to reform themselves
than to censure others.
God is never dependent on even the
st: ongest man but the strongest man
is ,.lways dependent on God.
4 beautiful woman pleases the eye
a good woman pleases the heart the
frs: is jewel, the second treasure.
A clean heart will choose clean com.
pany and clean ways, and delight in
clc n subjects and clean employments.
Let us begin by admiring what God
shows up and we shall have no time
left to hunt for what He hides from
us.
Good nature, like a bee, collects hon
ey from every herb. Ill-nature, like q
spider, sucks poison from the sweetest
flower.
Occasions that do most for men of
ability are occasions of special need, or
of special trial, or of special bewilder-
ment and perplexity.
Let the preacher never forget that
he who has power with God also has
power with men. That is, successful
preaching is measured by power with
God.
"Never bear more than one kind OF
trouble ut a time. Some people bear
three kinds-all they have had, all
they have now, and all they ever en-
pect to have"
If you wish TO know whether you
are a Christian, inquire of yourself
whether you seek to make happy those
about you by smiles aud pleasant say
ings. Are you pleasant to have about
Lord, fo- the evil thought
Not into evil wrought;
Lord, for the wick ed Will
Betrayed and baffled still;
! For the heart from Itself kept
Our Thanksgiving accept.
Virtue will surely be rewarded, but
one who seeks virtue for the sake OF
reward can never find it, because the
end ut which he aims is not virtue but
the reward. He makes virtue Sec
ondary consideration, and no one can
obtain it who does not make it first.
What comfort there is in the thought
that, although God could not depend
on us, we can always depend on him,
and that, although he could always
get on without us, he is willing to
make use of US when we are ready to
stand in his strength, and that he does
not despair of us even when we de-
spair Of him !
1.-THE world has comparatively little
use for exceptionally brilliant men ;
but there is plenty cf room at the top,
and all the way down, for men oi
sound cOmm0n.sense. Many q
bright mans blunders dim the radi-
ance of his good things. No, the
world is not hankering for more brill
liant men; but it is greatly in need ev-
erywhere of level-headed men who
make few mistakes"
A Christian is not his own, but
Christ's. A Christian ought, there
fore not to regard himself as an exam
pie so much as he ought to regard him
self as the exemplifier Of Christ. So
plainly ought he to evidence the
Christ-life that persons will think less
of saying, "That is Mr.. AS way,'
than of simply pointing to Mr.. A and
saying, "That is Christ's way" He
is The best exemplar who best exem-
plities him whom he has taken as his
own example.