Year: 1875




both sides. A quarrel may be compared
to a spark, which cannot be produced
without flint as we'll as steel; either
of them may hammer on wood for ever,
no fire will follow South.


The sure foundations of the State are
lain in knowledge, not in ignorance; and
every sneer at education, at culture, at
book learning, which is the recorded
wisdom of the experience of mankind,
is the demagogues's sneer at intelligent
liberty, inviting national degeneracy
and ruin-Geo W. Curtis.


Some person reported to the amiable
poet Tasso that malicious enemy spoke
i'll of him to all the world. 'sLet him
persevere, )" said Tasso, ''his rancour
gives me no pain. How much better is
it that he should speak i'll of me to all
the world, than that all the world should
speak i'll Of me to him.


The Adige at Verona appears 10 be d
river quite broad and deep enough for
navigation, but its current is so rapid as
to make it quite unserviceabfe. Many
men are so rash, and impetuous, and at
the same time so suddenly angry and ex-
cited, that their otherwise most valuable
abilities are rendered useless for any
good purpose.


''Neyer forget the three Whats. First,
What from? Secondly, What by?
And, thirdly, What to? What from?
Believers are redeemed from hell and
destruction What by2 BY the preci-
Gus blood of Christ What to? To an
inheritance incorruptible, undefled, and
that fadeth not away"


In Nebuchadnezzar's image, the lower
the members, the coarser the metal: the
farther off the time, the more unfit.
To-day is the golden opportunity, to-
morrow will be the silver season, next
day but the brazen one, and so on, till
at last | shall come to the toes of clay,
and be turned to dust.-Thomas
Fuller.





A christian lives in two worlds at one
and the same time-the world of flesh
and the world of spirit. 1t is possible
to do both There are certain danger
Gus gases, which from their weight fall
to the lower part of the place where they
are, making it destructive for dog to
enter, but safe for a man who holds his
head erect. A Christian, as living in
the world of flesh, is constantly passing
through these. Let him keep his head
erect in the spiritual world, and he is
safe. He does this so long as the Son
of God is the fountain whence he draws
his inspiration, his motives, encourage
ment, and strength,-George Philip:


Standing near the remarkable spring
at Ewell, in Surrey, and watching the
uprising of the waters, one sees at the
bottom of the pool innumerable circles
with smaller circles within them, from
which extremely fine sand is continually
being upheaved by the force of therising
water. Tiny geysers upheaye their little
founts, and from a myriad openings bub-
BILE up with the clear crystal. The per-
petual motion of the water, and the
leaping of the sand are most interesting.
1t is not like the spring head in the field,
where the cooling liquid pours forth per-
petually from spout, all unseen, till it
plungcs into its channel; nor like the
river-head where the stream weeps from
a mound of messy rock; but here are the
fountains of earth's hidden deeps all un-
yelled and laid bare, the very veins of
nature opened to the public gaze. How
would it amaze us if we could in this
fashion peer into the springs of human
character and see whence words and
actions flow. What man would wish to
have his designs and aims exposed to
every onlooker? But why this aversion
to being known and read of all men!
The Christians motives and springs of
action should be SO honest and pure that
he might safely defy inspection. He
who has nothing to be ashamed of has
to conceal. Sincerity can afford,
like our first parents in Paradise, to be
naked and not ashamed.


If other men cannot read our motives
we ought at least to examine them care
fully for ourselves. Day by day with
extreme rigour must we search into our
hearts. Motive is vital to the goodness
of an action. He who should give his
body 10 be burnt might yet lose bis soul
if his ruling passion were obstinacy, and
not desire for Gods glory. Selfmay be
sought under many disguises, and the
man may be utterly unaware that thus
he is losing all acceptance with God.
Wemust not impute i'll motives to others,
but we must be equally clear of another
more fascinating habit, namely, that of
imputing good motives to ourselves:
Severity in estimating cur own personal
character very seldom becomes excessive;
our partiality is usually more or less
to our judgment. We will not