Literary.
most, beautiful is intertwined with dif­
ficulty.
Take time. It is no use to fume and
fret, or do as the angry housekeeper who
Poing bis duty is the delight of a good has gut hold of the wrong key and
pushes, shakes and rattles it about in
m*n.
¡because only, not the death, makes die lock until both are broken and the
door is still unlocked. The chief secret
the martyr.
of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to
How much better is it to weep at joy
vex us and in cultivating our under­
than to joy at weeping.
growth of small pleasures. Try to re­
There is nothing so strong or safe in
gard present vexations as you will re­
a emergency of life as the simple tru th .
gard them a month hence. Since we
P is excellent to have a giant’s
cannot get what we like, let ua like
I jWngth; but it is tyrannous to use it
what we can get. It is not riches, it is
I |ite a g ia n t -
not poverty, it is human nature that is
We are all liable to fall, yet you should the trouble. The world is like a look­
lie convinced that there is no one more ing-glass. Laugh and it laughs back;
liable to do so than yourself.
frown and it frowns back.
Angry
Pod mingles the bitter with the sweet thoughts canker the mind and dispose it
in this life, to set us seeking another life to the worst temper in the world—that
of fixed malice and revenge. It is while
,here there shall be sweet alone.
There are two kinds of pity ; one is a in this temper that most men become
balm the other a poison. The first is criminals.
(O RIG IN A L A N D S E L E C T E D .)
realized by our friends, the last by our
enemies.
To dread no eye and suspect no tongue
¡¡the great prerogative of innocence—
an exemption granted only to invariable
virtue.
A true faith can no more be separated
from good works than the light of a
i candle can from its beat, or the heat
from the light.
All the g o o d of civilization for the e n ­
nobling of humanity, has derived its
powthand development from tlie qual-
itiesof th e mind called feelings.
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George Macdonald makes a very true
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This we have all experienced more or
less, but we have not learned from our
experience. We are often as much
daunted now as ever we were, when we
meet with trials which are really no
greater than those through which we
have gone already. IIow many things
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Time is painted with a lock before
mJ bald behind, signifying thereby
that we must take time by the forelock, did. Tiie fact is imagination conjures
for, when it is once passed, there is no up a multitude of terrors of its own;
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recalling it.
we die, as it is said, “a thousand deaths
Itfre q u e n tly needs but a charitable in fearing one.” Anticipation is often
lord to convert a most obdurate heart; worse than reality. As no man knows
in like manner a hursh word is capable what he can do until he tries, so no man
MANAGERS.
of desolating a soul and penetrating it knows what he can bear until he is tried.
with a bitter sorrow which may be very Until the time of actual trial conies, we
GEO. T . HALL.
C . E. S M IT H .
injurious.
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do not experience the grace which be­
It was wise advice of Sidney Smith, longs to it; if we felt the grace, we should
when he said that those who desire to go face the trial. “ le a n never cross that
iopefully and cheerfully through their boiling river,” says the traveler when he
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If we have lost our own chief good, made by the great stepping stones which
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tfbappy, I seemed to see th a t more the traveler, as be sees it looking almost
than ever when I was wretched. perpendicular at a distance; but when
"4n hardly think how I could have lie comes close to it, be finds that there
the trouble if th at feeling had not is a stone and here a little hole, which
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J!ll«toineto make strength.—George
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^ ose who have enough individuality
’’'think for themselves earnestly and
^pl.v find in that very exercise a hap-
that is all their own. They may
'*"e it with others, and it may be
‘“ tened by sympathy, but it cannot
away. It opens a refuge from
®i' troubles and helps one to bear
burdens.
1,e tiniest daisy th at smiles so sweet-
11 °ur feet owes its existence to the
nt pushing upward of the small
‘n "gainst all the obstacles of soil and
b and were it conscious, it might
* ’ale of daily difficulty and danger
give him a foothold.
ON THE EXPRESSION OF DOUBT.
A man’s convictions are bis own, and
he lias a right to give of them to others.
They are of his possessions, which lie is
to hold in trust for wise and loving use,
and which be is to share as a matter of
course with the friends of bis heart.
But a man’s fears and doubts are not his
own. He does not possess them, and he
does not want to be possessed by them.
He is to struggle against them, and be is
not to give them new power by giving
them larger prominence in his inter
others. For bis inends
course with
sake, as well as bis own, he
ne is
* not to
share them with the one deareet to I
indeed he can no longer battle
Diet and bravely overcome. So
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