Year: 1871

way to rise.


They that deserve nothing should
be content with anything.


Bless God for what you have,
and trust God for what you may
want.


Get Wisdom; and with all thy
getting, get understanding.


Commit no secret to a frieSd
which, ifreported, will bring you in
to infamy.


The light Of friendship is like the
light Of phosphorus-seen best when
all around is dark,


Let not your zeal outTpn your
charity. The former is but human,
the latter divine.


Despise nothing because it seems
weak. Flies and locusts have done
more harm than even hears and
lions.


Destitute of moral elevation, and
intellectual culture, man is but lit.
tie superior to the brute creation.


jeremiah says: Walk ye in the
way that I have commanded you,
that it may be well with you.


You cannot repent too soon.-
There is no day like to-day. Yester.
day is gone, tomorrow Gods, not
your own.


Cody sorrow is the sorrow of
love, the melting of the heart; love
is the pain and pleasure of a mourn
ing heart.


The wQrldling, like the hinder
wheels of a carriage, is ever follow
ing after the front wheel of happi-
ness but never overtaking it.


In business affairs, it is the man
ner in which eyep small matters arc
transacted that often decides men
for or against You.


The invitation Of the Gospel is
free. Let him that is athirst come,
And whosoever will, let him take OF
the water oflife freely.


The Psalmist in his extremity
prayed: Give Us help from trouble,
for vain is tho help of men.


Those are '5he best Christians who
are most childlike in their distrust
of themselv es, and in their reliances
upon their Savior.


If you re poor, be willing to ai,-
pear SO. Those whose friendship
is worth. possessing win never
Judge of your merits by the weight
of your purse.


IF you fall into misfortune olsen
gage yourself as well as you can :
creep through the bushes that have
the fe Ksst briars.


Sen % shines with double lustre
when it is set in humility. An able
and yet humble man, is jewel
wortf a kingdom.


The essence of all religion ard
all e'5hics may be summed up in the
shor t sentence, Deal justly, loEe
mer ~ and walk humbly.


What is done in busines ought
to &c done well, for it is better to ac-
CO.. nplish perfectly a small amount
Of 1ork, than to half do ten times
rs much.


Lord Bacon says truly that
ChTist's declaration concerning the
ki pgdom of heayen is applicable to
all truth. We can receive it only
as we have the spirit of little chill
dren.


The diversity Of condition in tho
human race and the various rela-
tions in social life may be attlibu-
ted to a divine purpose for q spe-
cial end.


Many a true heart that would
have come back, like the dove to
the ark, after its first transgression,
has been frightened beyond recall
by the savage charity of an unfoy-
giving spirit.


The suferings ofthe just and The
triunphs Of the wicked in this life
are a sure proof that there will be
a future judgement in which the
wicked shall be punished and tho
righteous rewarded.


Remember now thy creator in the
days Of thy youth, while the evil
days come not, nor the years draw
nigh, when thou shall say have no
pleasure in them.


Prayer doth not consist Of gifted
and a yolubility OF
speech; but in the brokenness of
heart.


What we term the course Of ma
ture is the incessant administration
of Providence.


Be entirely free; let no man bind
.hee, and benot bound by the cords
IF sin.


Some hearts, like primroses, open
most beautifully in the shadows Of
ife.


The devoted love of q mother to
wayward child is the fines and no.
,lest in the world.


It is very dangerous for any man
o find any spot that is sweeter to
lin than his own home.


Meekness is a virture by which a