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become mor© and more like Jesus
Christ. Remembhr that he was
Nubility.
once a child; so that you need not
wait till you grow up before you
Imbedded deep in the gravel
can copy him.
Of a dark Brazilian mine,
You must be like Jesus before
Two precious diamonds of rarest worth
Awaited their time to shine.
you can act like Jesus. Even if
you coirAf do what Tro cTTcT witfibuF
And as one withofit tKe other
By a miner was borne away,
being like him, he would not be
It said, “ How I pity your.wretohedjate satisfied. God reads our thoughts,
Down here in disgrace to stay.
and he requires truth in the inward
“ You might as well be a pebble,
parts—that is, he will have us sin­
For your worth is nothing here ;
cere in all we say and do. The first
Oh, how you must envy my happier lot,
To go to a higher sphere 1”
——~ step toward the imitation of„Jesus
Christ, is to. ask God to give you a
I envy you not,” said the other,
new heart. A boy once made up
“ Be your station ever so high :
Not tchere, but what, we are is the law ; his mind that he would be gentle
And you are no more than I.
and loving and truthful and good
as
Jesus was. He tried hard for a
“ However our spheres may differ,
We are made of the self-same stuff;
little while, then he said: "Mother,
If you are a polished diamond, I
it’s no use my trying to be like
Am a diamond in the rough.
Jesus, because even when I do what
“ I may not attain the lustre
pleases him, 1 want to do something
That your different lot will give ;
else.” Only God himself can con­
But if with a true and noble end
quer that difficulty for you. He
In my humble sphere I live,—
will, if you ask him.
“Though you are found in a palace,
Imitating Jesus Christ, you will
And I in the gravelly earth.
find
work for every day in the
Yet the law that nature governs
Makes each of equal worth.”
year. You will have a great in^ny
——
Goinpan
Family Circle.
Imitation
write properly ; a great many sums
to work out before you are a good
arithmetician. You cannot trans­
late a page of " Cwsar ” without a
dictionary the first day you begin
to learn Latin. Surely a lifetime is
is not too long to spend in forming
yourselves after the pattern of Jesus
Christ. For we must be like him
at all times and in everything. It
is not enough to be gentle like
Jesus; you must be truthful as
well. We may be forgiving, but
we are not like him if we are not
also obedient.
How much you would do to
please father and mother, especially
when you feel how dearly they love
you. God calls you his children,
and he tells you you are " beloved ”
by him. One very strong reason
why you should be imitators of
God, is because he loves you aiid
you love him. Nay; you cannot
imitate him unless you love him,
for if he loves, and you copy him,
you must love too. Think each
day of this year, <c “ I am God’s child,
and I must be like my Heavenly
Father.” Then try to imitate him
more exactly day by day. Pray to
him to help you, and never forget
that he is very near you, and is
pleased wi|h your effort, however
imperfectly it may succeed.— Early
Days.
Children must imitate somebody
or something. You could not help
it if you would, and you would not
help it if you could. Babies learn
to talk by imitating the sounds
they hear and see made by people
about them. You begin to imitate
before you know what you are
doing, and you will go on imitating
as long as you live. I once knew a
little boy who had been brought up
with his grand-parents, and saw
very little of other children. It
was amusing to notice how old-
fashioned he was in all his ways.
He copied grandfather and grand­
mother without intending it.
But you have often set yourselves
to imitate some one on purpose.
The boy just comes to school sees a
bigger bey, who is at the top of his
class, wins many prizes, gains the
good-conduct medal, is a first-rate
ciicket and football player. He
thinks, “ I will be like that boy,”
and makes him his model. He
does not succeed at first, perhaps,
but he keeps on trying. He does
not become like the boy he-admires
all at once; it takes him months
and years.
A monk wrote a book teaching
people to live as Christians should.
He called it "The Imitation of
Christ.” Could he have found a
more suitable title ? I think not;
A life without Christis the life of
for every real Christian is trying to an orphan.— Lobstein.
Girls, Learn to Cook.
weather is going to be fine or not.
If it is going to storm, they spin a
Yes, yes, learn how to cook, girls,
short thread; if it will be clear,
and learn hew to cook well. What
they spin a tong one.”
right has a girl to marry and go
“ That’s funny.”
go into a house of her own unless
“ They are an odd family,” Aunt
she knows how to superintend every
'Nellie went on. I saw one on the
' wiri<Bw pane "'Hie other dAy.^ ^he
cannot properly superintend unless
carried a little gray silk bag about
she has some practical knowledge
with her wherever she ran. When
herself. It is sometimes asked,
it burst open, ever so many tiny
sneeringly, " What kind of a man
baby spiders tumbled out like birds
is he who would marry a cook ?”
from a nest, and ran along with her.
The fact is, that men do not think
„Perhaps you didn’t know that the
enough oT this; indeed, most men
spider can spin and sew too, she
marry without thinking whether
spins her web and she sews leaves
the woman of hi» choice is capable
together for her summer house.”
of cooking him a meal, and it is a
“ What a queer thing a spider
pity he is so short-sighted, as his
is,” said Carrie, beginning to forget
health, his cheerfulness, and, indeed, her dislike.
t 1
his success in life, depend in a Very
" Yes, and she has a queer bister
great degree on the kind of food he
in England, who makes a raft, and
eats; in fact, the whole household
Hoats on pools of water upon it in
is influenced by the diet. Feed
search of Hies for her dinner.”
them on fried cakes, fried meats, hot
“I should like to know what it’s
bread and other indigestible viands,
made of.”
day after day, and they will need
" She binds together a ball of
medicine to make them w’ell.
weeds with the thread she spins.”
Let all the girls have a share in
" I wish we could go to England. ’
5S
♦iré they ”"nr An(j t]ierfc
marry; let each superintend some
ily who lives udder water in a div­
department by turns. It need not
ing-bell, which she weaves herself.”
occupy half the time to see that the
“ How I should like to see her 1”
house has been properly swept,
' Maybe you would rather see
dusted, and put in order, to prepare
the one in the West Indies who
puddings and make dishes, that
digs a hole in the earth; She lines
many young ladies spend in reading
it with silk of her own making, and
novels which enervate both mind
fits a door to it, which opens and
and body and unfit them for every­
closes when the family go in and
day life. Women do not, as a gen­ out.”
eral rule, get pale faces doing house­
" Yes, yes,” said Carrie, " how de­
work. Their sedentary habits, in lightful I”
overheated rooms, combined with
" But you would be afraid of the
ill-chosen food, are to blame for bad
inmates ?”
health. Our mothers Used to pride
“ Perhaps not, now I know their
themselves on their house-keeping family affairs.”— Ou,r Littles Opes.
and fine needlework.
Let the
present generation add to its list of
• A Knowing Carp.
real accomplishments the art of
The wonderful instinct of animals
properly preparing food for the
has been proved by hundreds of an­
human body.— Sei.
ecdotes, so that when another true
story is added to the already long
Afraid of Spiders.
list we are scarcely suprised.
Carrie jumped from her seat be- Nevertheless, the following incident
cause a spider was spinning down which took place in Vienna, Aus­
before her from the ceiling. "They tria, is not without interest
are such hateful black things 1” she
A cook went down to the fish­
said.
market to make her purchases, and
" They are curious things,” said stepping on board ene of the boats
Aunt Nellie. " They have eight in the canal, she was at length suc­
fixed eves.”
cessful in coming to terms for an
“ Dear me ! And maybe she’s unusually fine carp.
looking at me with* all eight o£
Now, as is well known, the carp
them,” groaned Carrie.
is very fond of life, and will live out
" They are very fond of music.” of water for a long time, if only its
" I shall never dare to sing again, gills be kept moist: When, there­
for fear they’ll be spinning down to fore, the woman placed the fish on
listen.”
the top of her open market-basket,
They can tell you whether the the fisherman gave her a friendly
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