Year: 1872

selections


A man is known TO his dog by the


smell, TO his tailor by the coat, to his
friend by the smile; each of these know
him but how little or how much depends


on the dignity of the intelligence. That


which is truly and indeed Characteristic


OF the man is known only to God


[Ruskin.


Never lose an opportunity of seeing


anything beautiful Beauty is Gods
Handwriting wayside esacrament-wel-
come it in every fair face, every fair


sky, every fair flower, and thank Him
| for it, the fountain of loyeliness and


drink it in. simply and earnestly, with
your eyes; it is a charmed draught. &


cup of blessing.


1t Is great mistake TO suppose that.


a woman with no heart viii be an easy
creditor in the exchange of affection
/ There is not on earth more merciless


eXacter of love from Others than thor
oughly selfish woman; and the more un-


lovely she grows the more jealousy and
scrupulously she exacts love to the ut
termost farthing II Mrs. Stowe.


in Sophocles, Jocastes prays to the
hNNtdD AlOffD- cdlH lIdi tut Edtut
to this temple because il was the near
Jest. This was but sorry compliment
to his godship. 1t is the same, however.
that people generally pay to religion
who abide by the dictates and faith
they have been brought up in, merely to
save themselves the trouble of seeking
further.-ES ESterne.


-Mazzini leaves behind him this fine
code of morals seek not to isolate YOUR
selves; imprison not your soul in sterile
contemplation, in solitary prayer, in
pretending to a grace which no faith not
realized in works can enable you TO de-
serve You can only save yourself by
saving others. God asks not-What
have you done for your souls but.


What have you donesffor the brother
souls / gave you? Think of these.
Leave your own to God and His law
Labor unweariedly for others good.


Such is the holiest prayer.


The man who has begun 10 live and


work by artificial stimulant, never knows
where he stands, and can never count
upon himself with any certainty. He
gets into his castle a servant who be-
comes a most tyrannical of masters. He
may resolve to drive him out, but win
find himself reduced to the condition in
which he can neither do with or without
him. The use OF stimulant to the
brain power brings ON disease, in whose
paroxysms a man is no more his own
master than in the rawlings of a fever,
disease that few have the knowledge to
understand, and for whose manifesto
tions the world has no pity Mrs
Stowe.


1t is with men as with trees if
you lep off their finest branches. into
which they were pouring their young
lifes blood. the wounds will be healed
over with some rough boss, some odd ex.
ecresence, and what might fhaye been a
grand tree, expanding into liberal shade,
is but q whimsical, misshapen trunk
Many an irritating fault, many an un-
lovely odity, has come of hard sorrow
which has crushed and manned the ma
ture just when it was expanding into
plenteous beauty, and the trivial, erring
life which we visit with our harsh
blame, may be but as the unsteady mo-
ton of a man whose best limb is with
ered.-r George Elliot.


1t is calumny to say that men are
nerved to heroic action by ease, hope of
lJGLSt--SuZdi iJluuic III
any kind-in this world or the next In
the meanest mortal there is something
nobler The poor swearing soldier,
hired to be shot, has his honor of SOL
dier different from the drill regulations
and the shilling day. 1t is not to taste
sweet things. but to do noble and true
things, and vindicate himself under
Gods heaven as God-made man, that
the poorest son of Adam dimly longs.
Show him the way of doing that, and
the dullest drudge kindles into hero
ICarlyle.


The great labor of life, that which
tends to exhaust men than anything else,
is deciding. There are are people who
will suffer any other pain readily, but
shrink from the pain Of coming TO de-
cision. Now this is supposed to be Who'll
ly an evil and disadvantageous thing
for the world but, like other tenden-
eies of the human mind, it is a very be-
nificent arrangement. There would be
no stability in the world if the making
of decisions were not a very difficult
thing. What was decided yesterday
would be upset to-day, and there would
be no long and fair experience of any
thing. Whereas, in the present state of
human affairs, even if great evil ex-
lists, and many people have recognized
the evil, it requires an immense amount
of decision and decisiveness before the
evil can be uprooted. This brings into
play many high qualities of human ma
ture, such as long suffering, patience
with opponents, and the exhaustion of
powers brought to bear upon
the evil which is sought TO be destroyed.
II Arthur Helps.