Gems
Be still, O heart ! Thy King will send thee The clouds of sunsliine as is best ; His own right hand shall e'er delend thee ; Then trust his love, and know his rest. -Joan H. Watson. '■Man is ncrt only to be a spirit, but he is one." - Carlyle. Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of lile. - George Meredl Ui. "Trying to get too much out of an ineome is disastrous to character."- Lucy Sinith. A man's opinions are usually of much more value than his argumenta. -0. W. Ho linies. Society is built upon trust, and trust upon coni'idenoe in one another's integrity.- Southy. A big salary for the preacher often means a small Bible for his ohurch. - Ram's Horn. The secret of success in lile is for a man to be ready for hts opportunity when It comes. - Disraeli. The preachers shouM brhig religión down from the clouds, where men don't lire, to the earth, where they do. Our best moments come to us wien we are intensely conteinplating the highest subjects.-Sir Joshua ïïeynolds. The unwtee complain that the good suffer. They are the only ones that can afford to suffer O. B. Frothingham. Good marmers are a part of good moráis, and it is as mách your duty as your interest to practice both. - Hvmter. ' "There is nothing Like a good fit of obstinacy in the morning tu give an ímpetus to tïic day.''- Mary Catharine Lee. It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. Tlie greatest and subliiinest power is oíten simple patience.- H. Bushnell. Wlien a man is golng down, don't increase bis trouble ; when everybody is bia.ming hini, do nol swell the chorus of censure. - Sprugeon. Answer all wto slamler yoii, and you will have a vosation for iife. Prosecute every slanderer, and you will need a eourt" to yourself.- Spurgeon. "No man can, for any considerable period, wear one face to himself and anoiher to the mnllitude, without beconiing bewildered as to whleh may be the true one." - Hawthorne. Who has a greater combat than lie that laboreth to overeóme himself ? This ought to be our endeavor, to conquer ourselves and to make a further growth in holmess. - Thomas a' Kempis. As dark misery settles down on us, and O'ur refuges of lies fall to pieces one after one, the hearts of men, now at last serious, will turn to refuges of truth. Tlie eternal stars shine out again as soon as it is dark enough.- Carlyle. As the flower is gnawed by frost, so every human heart is gnawed by faitlilessness. And as surely, as irrevocably, as the fruit-bud falls before the east wind, so faite the power of the kindest human heart iL you meet it with poison.- Ruskin. Thou art not the more holy for being praised, nor the more worthless for being dispraised. What thou art that thou art, neither by words canst tbou be made greater than what
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