Gold Dust

There is uo time so miserable but a iuan may bo true. - Shakespeare. " To teach one who lias no curioslty to learn, is to sow a field without plowingit." We should do many more things if we believed less in iuipossibilities.- Malesherbes. Truth is bom with us; and we must do violence to nature to shake off our veracity. - St. Evremond. Sucb is the constitution of things that unwilliugness to goodness may ripen into eternal voluntary opposition to it.- Julius Mullor. Do you know that a wiae and good man does nothing for appearanee : but everything for the sake of having acted well ? - Epictetus. Chiidhood often holds a truth with its feeble fingers, which tbc grasp of manhood cannot retain, whieh is the pride of utmost age to recover. There are men who no more grasp the truth they seem to hold than a gparrow grasps the messages passing through the electric wire on which it perches. Nature says, love thy.self alone ; domestic education says, love your fainily ; the national, love your country ; but religión says, love all mankind without exception. He who clearly and distinctly understands himself and hisown affections, loves God, and tho more perfectly he understands him. No one can bate God. - Spinoza. Prayer is the concentrating of all the energies of body, mind, soul in one strungle for the Gospel's repcue. No man offers that earnest prayer, but ho finds Christ, and he finds him specdily. Dr. Payson, when interrupted by calis in busy moments, or when he would Dot have desired theni, found relief in the thought, which he often expressed, "The man who wants me, is the man I want." " How," saidone toSir Walter Raleigh, of whom it was saidhe "could toilterribly," " How do you accomplish so much, and in so short a time?" " When I have anythinL to do, I go and do it," was the reply. Is it any wonder that when we stagger at any promise of God through unbelief, we do not receive it ? Not that the faith merits the answer, or in any way earns it, or works it out ; but God has made believing a condition of receiving, and the Giver has a sovereign right to choose his own terms of gift. If it is dogmas and opinions that you have been studyinc, it is not religión that you know or that you scorn. Why not consider the religious life itself, - - those inspired moments of piety in which all other functions pause or cease, and the whole snnl is tnerired in direct communion with