Year: 1872

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Through Christ come to us all the
blessings for the present, ali hopes
for future life.


Goethe says: The first and last
thing which is required of genius is
the love of Truth.


The daily battle of Christian prin-
ciple is with that artrul, subtitle,
greedy sinner, self.


When i'll news comes too late to
be serviceable to your neighbor
keep it to yourself.


The poor are to be ministered un-
to, the wicked reclaimed, and the
sorrowirg comforted.


He that is choice Of his time will
also be choice of his company, and
choice of his actions.


Oh! who can tell, who can con
ceive, what it is to see God face to
face-tO be like him?


The highest victory Of our reli-
gion is to follow Jesus over the rug
ged path Of self-denial.


He who does his best, however
little, is always distinguishable from
him who does nothing.


Falsehood is often rocked by truth
but she soon outgrows her cradle
and diScards her nurse.


To a being so nobly endowed as
man, God himself can give nothing
better than opportunity.


The truly grateful heart may not
be able to tell its gratitude, but it
can feel and love ana act.


Praise in common people is gen
orally false, and rather follows vain
people than virtuous ones.


Everything connected with the
cross of Christ opposes the reign
ing evil of our fallen hearts.


Friendship is the medicine for all
misfortunes; but ingratitude dries
up the fountain of goodness.


OF all earthly music, that which
reaches the farthest into heaven is
the beating of a loving heart.


Always be at leisure to do good;
never make business an excuse to
decline the offices of humanity.


No sensible man can by any pos
sibility conceive Of the total ami
hilation Of a single atom Of the uni
verse.


The minister who divides his dis
course into too many heads, will
find it difficult to find ears for all Of
them.


The true character of God can
not be properly known without
pleasure Of a refined and exquisite
kind.


When once infdelity can persua le
men that they shall die like beasts,
they soon will be brought to live
like beasts also.


Most arts require long study and
but the most useful Of
all arts-that OF pleasing-requires
only the desire.


Genius has an orbit Of its own; if
it moved through the orbit of com
lives it would not be ge-
MUS, but commonplace.





A celebrated clergyman recently
said that he had found more good
in bad people, and more bad in good
people than he ever expected.


It is with the finest character IS it
is with the finest woods and marbles,
the polishing hand is still needed to
bring out the veins Of beauty and
grace.


The most popular doctrine 90
preach in these times, and the hard
est one to practice, is the old fash
ioned Apostolic doctrine OF self
denial


The burden Of the Gospel IS
love; but it is a love which speaks
the commands Of God with author
ity, and insists upon the obedience
10 Him as the only way Of safety
and life.


Sin-says South-is but n bitter
sweet at best; and the fine colors Of
the serpent do by no means make
amends for the smart and poison Of
The sting.


A celebrated writer says that III
7ne could read 10 every human be
ing carries his life IN his face, and is
good looking or the reverse, as that
life is good or evil.


The man who can vary his pur-
suits, and has time for every thing
for himself. for his wife, for his chill
lren, for his fricnds-alonc uudsr
stands what Il IS 10 live.