The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-02-04
Pearin of Grrnt Prioe.

But TO get ready for heaven We must
attend FIRST TO earth.-Ames.
Search thine own heart. What paineth
thee
In others. I'm myself may be.
All dust is frail. all flesh Is weak.
he thou the true man thou dost seek.
j. G. Whittier.
And yet when strong brain is weighed
against a true heart, II seems TO me like
balancing a bubble against a wedge OF
pure gold.-O. w. Holmes.
Life is good when good uses is made
OF it"-Ernest Renan.
There are three things difficult to keep:
a secret. TO suffer an injury. 10 use leis-
ure. "-Noltairc.
"The age at which one shows everything
is generally the age when one has moth
ing. Octave Feuillet.
Hatred is a precious liquor. a poison
dearer than that of the Borgias because
IL IS made Of our blood. our health, our
sleep and two-thirds Of our ve."-Charles
Baudelaire.
Heaven in its entire aggregate is the
Lord because it is his divine proceed
ing, and, therefore, when he operates
through heaven he operates from him
self The divine operation flows
through the heavens, but still 1t does not
take anything from the selfhood Of any
Of the angels there. but from that which
I'm them belongs 10 itself. The appear
ance is similar TO that Of a man per-
forming an action In order TO produce the
action he moves innumerable motive
fbrcs scattered over his whole body, but
Of the action not a single fibre has any
knowledge-On the AthanaSian Greed.
- Il.
must be lived to be understood. All IS
riddle, and the key TO riddle is another
riddle. There are many pillows Of illu-
sion as flakes in n stOw-stOTm. We wake
from one dream into another dream.
The toys 10 be sure. are various, and
are graduated in refinement TO the quail
ity of the dupe The intellectual man re-
Quiros a fine bait; the sots are easily
amused. But every body is drugged with
his own frenzy, and the pageant marches
at all hours. with music and banner and
badge.-R. W. Emerson.
My conversation lies among my books.
but yet in the letters of a friend me-
thinks / have his company: and when 1
answer them ! do not only write, but
speak: and. in effect, a friend is an eye.
q heart, q tongue, hand, at all dis
tances. True friends are the whole world
10 tllt dHOlutIf anu nc Alltl IL q II ltHu
to himself is also a friend 20 mankind.
Even in my very studies the greatest
delight I take in what I learn Is the
teaching Of Il TO others, for there is no
relish, methinks, I'm the possessing OF
anything without q partner; nay, II wis
dom itself were offered me upon condi-
ton only of keeping it to myself I should
undoubtedly refuse it-Seneoa.
What will heaven be? What Will be
the substance on which they shall stand
who worship God and praise him in the
ages of eternity? l find manifold fitness
i'm the answer that tells us that 1t shall
be a "sea Of glass mingled with fire"
Heaven will not be pure stagnation,
not idleness not any mere luxurious
dreaming over the spiritual repose that
has been safely and forever won: but ac-
tive tireless earnest work; fresh live
enthusiasm for the high labOrs which
eternity will offer. These vivid inspra-
tons will play through our deep repose,
and make It more mighty In the service
OF God than any feverish and unsatisfed
toll Of earth has ever been. The sea
Of glass will be mingled with fire. Here,
too. we have the type and standard of
that heavenliness OF character which
ought be rlpening in ali OF us now, as
we are getting ready for that spiritual
life.-Bishop Brooks.
aturday-Passionl Oh. how bitter. how
maiign, how cruel it has beeni but there
never would have been patience In the
world II there were not passion. A man
that has no passion has no patience;
for patience Is passion tanned. The man
that has no temper is like an engine that
has no steam in It, Moses is said to
have been the meekest man in history
But he was not the meekest man when he
began his life. When he saw the Egyp-
tian strike an Israelite, he drew off and
struck one blow that felled the Egyp-
tian to the ground and slew him. that
was the blow Of an impetuous wrathful
angry man. And once again in his after
life the same passion famed out in him
But when forty years of exile in the will
derness and long experience in dealing
with a recreant tribe Of people had
brought him TO see that this passion or
his must be controlled, that If he wished
TO govern others. first Of all he must
govern himself. the passion itself became
power. So. through all the history
of the race, the great virtues and the
great vices have a common root. There
is something better 10 do than 10 get rid
OF acquisitiveness or appropriateness or
sclf-esteem; IL is to have them so trans
formed, so bring them into the larger
atmosphere. so fill them with the Divine
Spirit that they shall become a great
and potent influence i'm making the char
acter and the life divine.-Lyman Abbott.
When our Lord says: 81 am the life"
and when ST. Paul says: Christ also
is our life" something is meant by the
term life" which is higher than and
beyond mere existence. Our Lord does
not say: Because ! exist, we shall ex-
list also" but because / live, we shall
live also" This life means existence in
its highest and best aspects; the existence
OF a being who makes the most OF his
endowments who consciously directs
hem towards their true object and pur-
pose: in whom they are invgorated
raised TRANSPORTED by the presence Of