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~ There 10 No Unbelisf.
There is no unbeiet!
Whoever plants seed beneath the sod
And waits to see it push away the clod.
Trusts he IN God.
There is, no unbelief! 8
Whoever says when clouds are In the sky:
"Be patient, heart, light breaketh by and
Trusts the Most High.
There is no unbeliefi
Whoever sees meath winters field OF snow Z
The silent harvest of the future grow,
Gods power must know.
There is no unbelief!
Whoever lies down on his couch to sleep,
Content t9 lock eash b, sense ems, a in slumber dep
There is no unbelief!
Whoever says Tomorrow, the un-
'The future" trusts that power alone u 3
He dares disown. (.
There IS no unbehet!
The heart that looks on when dear cye+
lids close
And dares to live when life has only woes.
f.. Gods comfort knows. (
There is no unbeief!
The heart lives by that faith the lips deny.
God knoweth why.
Lizzie York Case, in Detroit Free Press.
Be Calm.
Does fretting make us the least more
prudent? Does anxiety make US the least
more industrious? On the contrary, wrote Z
Charles Kingsley, know nothing which
cripples man more and hinders shis work
ing manfully than anxiety. Look at the
choly and fancies that all is going wrong
with him and that he must be ruined and
has o mind full of all sorts of dark and
hopeless fancies. Docs he work any the
more Or try to escape one of these dangers,
which he fancies. are hanging syer him? So
far from it, he gives himself up to them
without struggle; he sits moping, help
less and useless and says: There as no use Z
&C come" lie las lost It spirit Tor s work, and
lost the mind for work, too His mind ID
SO full of these dark fears that he cannot
turn it to laying any prudent plan to es-8
cape from the very thing he breads.
And 30, in less degree, with the people
who fret and are anxious. They may be
in great hustle, but they do not get their Z
work done. They run hther and thither,
trying this and that, but leaving every thing
half done to fly off to something elss or
ing and expecting and complaining which
might be spent proftably in working. And
they are always apt to lose their heads and
their tempers just when they need them
most; to do in their hurry the very last
thing which they ought to have done; to
try 60 many. roads that they choose. the 1
wrong road from mere confusion and run :
they have been afraid of falling into. As
we ;sometimes say, they win 90 all through
the wood to cut straightastick and bring
out q crooked one at last. Even in q mere
worldly way, the men whom I have seen.
succeed best in life have always been
cheerful and hopeful men, who went about
their business with q smile on their faces
and took the changes and chances of this
mortal life like men, facing rough and
truth of this old proverb, that good times
and bad times and all times pass over" :"
Nine-tenths of the mistakes we make IN
life come from forgetting the fear OF God
and the Law of God and saying not: II
will do wha, 8 right" "a will do what
win profit me; will do What ] like: IF
we would say to ourselves manhllly all our .
lives through, II will learn the VII of Co
and do it whatever it cost me- we should
was indeed a guide and a, comforter able
and willing to lead us into all truth which
was needful for us We should find N
Paul had spoken the truth when he saN
that goGiness has the promise of this lite,
as well as that which is to come. s