Year: 1875




shed over human sorrow or sin.--Lute
Taylor. a.


There is scarce any thoughtful man
or woman, | suppose, 5ut looks back
upon his course of past life, aud re-
members some point, triaing as it may
have seemed at the time Of occurrence,
which has nevertheless turned and al
tered his whole career.--Thackeray. 5


A soul occupied with great ideas
bost performs small dnties; the divin-
est views of life penetrate most cleaily
into the meanest emergencies, and so
far from petty principles being best
preporticned to petty trials. a heavenly
spirit taking up its abode with Us can
alone sustain well the daily tolls, and
tranqnilly pass the humiliations of our
condition; and, to keep the housesos
the soul in otdor and pure, a God must
come down and dwell within, as SER
want of all its work. -Martiaeau.


All life is eternal life; there is no oth-
er--4lcott.


Violent reservations or affected blund-
ers look not more suspicious than strain
ed sanctity or over-ohended modesty.-
Zimmerman. .


Love you none? Then you are lost
to love. Love is the key to felicity; nor
is there heaven to any who loves
4lcott.


There are strange footsteps that draw
near each of our dwellings; but some
of us, when we hear them, go and shut
the door.


| love the world the more because
know it is Gods world, even as a dry
leaf, given by lover, is dearer than
all pearls from whose loves us not





Theodore Parker.


We thank Thee for those newly
born into this world, bringing the frag-
rance of Heaven In the infant s'breath;
and if we dare not thank Thee when
our dear ones are born out Of this world
and are clothed with Immortality, yet
we thank Thee that the eye of our faith
can follow them still to that land were
all tears are wiped from every eye and
the only change is from glory to glory,
Theodore Parker.


The secret Of firing is to say every
thing that can be said on the subject
Foltaire. ..-.,..-... .....-...-...-


People seldom improve when they
have no other model but themselves to
copy ter.-GoJdsmith.


The intrusion of an outward necessi-
ty into the labor and Imagination and
intellect is, to me, very painful
Hd1ch orne s-iFzs'


Conceit is TO nature what pain is to
beauty: it is not only needless but i'm
pairs what it would improve.-Pope.


1T may be stated, as a general rule
that persons whose acquaintance it is
most difficslty to make are best worth
knowing. " .r aE..- a-.


The perfection of conversation is not
to play regular sonata, but like the
oolian harp, to wait the inspiration of
the passing breeze.-Barke.


There is no word or action but may
be taken with two hands; either with
the right hand of charitble construction,
or the sinister Interpretation of malice
and suspicion. Bishop Hall.


eve never detect how much our So
cial demeanor is made of artificial airs
until we see. a person who is at once
beautiful and simple. Without the
beauty we are apt to call the simplicity
awkwardness.


The ruin and wreck of all things COM
es not from God, but from man. So in
our spiritual God is always more and
into our hearts and more of his grace.
If we do not bar and hinder his opera
tions in US, he will accomplish his own
work. It is we alone who hinder it.
1t is VIC alone who can wreck it. God
never forsakes those whom he has once
called. BE may at last judically reject
hem, but only after long patience, an
ample trial, judicial process, and an
inevitable judgment Cardinal Mon
ming. a-


What is called conversation is only an
hour in man S life,, and it is only one
of the objective points IN the life Of the
church and in the effort Of the pulpit.
It is the event Of a day or an horr.
But the building up of character is the
long and glorious work of the whole
life, the life Of the individual and Of
the church. This work the soul, the
pulpit, the whole church organism
must do. not IN the tumult of day
or Of winter, but in the calmness, and
dignity, and solemnity of a long life,
full of Christ's boldness, and purity,
and freedom, and never changing earn
estness.-Collyes. .a


This for yonng man, 80 placed that
for him to allow himself some some
indulgence lawful to him might be to
tempt some companion to an indulgence
to him unlawful and dangerous, to give