Wise Thoughts

Only wfcat we have wrought into our cliarncter can wc take with ua to t!e other world.- W. Humboldt. AVhat a sublime doctrine it is that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered npm.- Ohanalng. There are glimpses of heaven granted to us by every act or thought or word wliifh ralees us above ourselves.- Dean Stanley. The unwise eomplaln ttoat the good suffer. Tliey are the only ones who can afford to suffer.- O. B. Frothlngham. The preaehers should bring religión down trom the clouds, where men don't live, to the earth, where they do. Out best monvents come to us when we are intensely contemplating the highest subjects.- Sir Joshua Reynolds. Observatilon is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.- George Meredith. John Haberton tells of a preacher who was visiting a sick man, whoee hou.se was filled with gasses írom a neglected drain. The man spoke of liis trust; in I'rovidence, when the preacher replied : "You don't need to use more faith but you do need to use sorae chloride of Urne in that drain if you want to get well." Palth and works must not be separated. WatchLag aad praylng are coupled togethcr in tlie word oi God, a-s Avell as in the revelatioms oí eommon sense. If the earth were covered with l'lower.s -i 11 the year round, the bees would get lazy. ♦ ♦