I had as lief preach humanity to a battle of eagles, as to urge honesty and integrity upon those who have determined to be rich, and to gain it by gambling stakes, and madmen's ventures. - H. W. BEECHER. WORTH. In all our noble Anglo-Saxon language, there is scarcely a nobler word than worth; yet this term has now almost exclusively a pecuniary meaning. So that if you ask what a man is worth, nobody ever thinks of telling you what he is, but what he has. The answer will never refer to his merits, his virtues, but always to his possessions. He is worth so much money. - RICHARD FULLER. Dignity and rank and riches are all corruptible and worthless; but moral character has an immortality that no sword-point can destroy. ง. YOUTH. -JOHN CUMMING. The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable. - BRUYERE. Use thy youth so that thou mayest have comfort to remember it when it hath forsaken thee, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof. Use it as the spring-time which soon departeth, and wherein thou oughtest to plant and sow all provisions for a long and happy life. SIR WALTER RALEIGH. No boy is well prepared for rough climbing, unless he is well shod with Christian principles. Every stage of life has its own set of manners, that is suited to it, and best becomes it. Each is beautiful in its season; and you might as well quarrel with the child's rattle, and advance him directly to the boy's top and span-farthing, as expect from diffident youth the manly confidence of riper age. - BISHOP HURD. A youth thoughtless! when the career of all his days depends on the opportunity of a moment! A youth thoughtless! when all the happiness of his home forever depends on the chances or the passions of an hour! A youth thoughtless! when his every act is a foundation-stone of future conduct, and every imagination a fountain of life or death! Be thoughtless in any after years, rather than now — though indeed there is only one place where a man may be nobly thoughtless his death-bed. thinking should be ever left to be done there. -JOHN RUSKIN. No Oh thou corrupter of youth! I would not take thy death, for all the pleasures of thy guilty life, a thousand fold. Thou shalt draw near to the shadow of death. To the Christian these shades are the golden haze which heaven's light makes, when it meets the earth and mingles with its shadows. But to thee, these shall be shadows full of phantom-shapes. Images of terror in the Future shall dimly rise and beckon :- the ghastly deeds of the Past shall stretch out their skinny hands to push thee forward! Thou shalt not die unattended! Despair shall mock thee. Agony shall tender to thy parched lips her fiery cup. Remorse shall feel for thy heart and rend it open. Good men shall breathe freer at thy death, and utter thanksgiving when thou art gone. -H. W. BEECHER. When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over. GEORGE MACDONALD, Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe. -H. W. BEECHER. Z. ZEAL. It is only through a burning zeal for the salvation of the lost a zeal glowing in the heart, and flashing out in the look and action and utterance · - that the confidence of unbelief can be overcome, and the heedless travelers of the broad way won to the path of life and happiness. Love is the most potent logic; interest and sympathy are the most subduing eloquence. A zealous soul without meekness is like a ship in a storm, in danger of wrecks. A meek soul without zeal, is like a ship in a calm, that moves not so fast as it ought, -J. M. MASON. It is a coal from God's altar must kindle our fire; and with out fire, true fire, no acceptable sacrifice. -WILLIAM PENN. INDEX OF AUTHORS. [The figures refer to the pages. In many instances a parenthesis follows the name ADAMS, John, (Amer., 1735-1826). 50. ADAMS, Nehemiah, D. D., (Amer., 1806–). 75, 259, 268, 46c. ADAMS, Rev. Thomas, (Eng., 1701-1784). 167, 272, 582, 619. ADAMS, William, D. D., (Amer., 1707–1789). 4,91, 102, 163, 165 210, 219, 222, 224, 230, 342, 396, 398, 448, 589. ADDISON, Joseph, (Eng., 1672-1719). 209, 337, 377, 484. ADVANCE, The. 420. AGUILAR, Grace, (Eng., 1816-1847). 578. ALEXANDER, J. Addison, D. D., (Vir., 1809-1860). 472, 219. ALEXANDER, J. W., D. D., (Vir., 1804-1859). 30, 274, 611. ALFORD, Dean Henry, (Eng., 1810-1871). 280, 603 ALLEINE, Rev. Joseph, (Eng., 1633-1688). 86, 163, 283, 320, 327, 336, 436 ANTHONY, C. H., (N. Y., 1812-1872). 382. ANTHONY, St., (Egypt, 251-256). 541. ARNOLD, Dr. Thomas, (Eng., 1795-1842). 22, 133, 254, 364. |