IF you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams-the more they are condensed the deeper they burn. THE Southey. 'HE Christian must not only mind heaven but attend to his daily calling. Like the pilot, who, while his eye is fixed upon the star, keeps his hand upon the helm. T. Watson. ET thy alms go before, and keep heaven's gate Herbert. LIKE birds, whose beauties languish half con cealed Till mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes GOOD Young. OOD books are to the young mind what the warming sun and the refreshing rain of spring are to the seeds which have lain dormant in the frosts of winter. BOOKS Channing. TH 'HE footprint of the savage, traced in the sand, is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the Atheist who will not recognise God whose hand is impressed upon the entire universe. Hugh Miller. AVARICE in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end? 525252525252525252 Cicero. STUDY rather to fill your mind than your coffers ; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them. Seneca. 25252525252525252525252525252525252 EV VERY good picture is the best of sermons and you have, have beauty. 525252525 Sydney Smith. OR the structure that we raise, FOR Time is with materials filled. Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build. Longfellow. UDGE not the workings of his brain JUD And of his heart thou canst not see, I DO not want the walls of separation between different orders of Christians to be destroyed, but only lowered, that we may shake hands a little easier over them. 25252525 Rowland Hill. 15252525252777772523 1525252 252 TRUE charity, a plant divinely nursed, Fed by the love from which it rose at first, Its fruit on earth, its growth above the skies. THERE is nothing terrible in death, 'Tis but to cast our robes away, And sleep at night without a breath, Cowper. Montgomery. DIFFICULTIES strengthen the mind like labour does the body. Seneca. T is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandisement are baffled; for they are like a train going down an inclined plane, when putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track. 252525252527777725 Beecher. 252 BY-AND-BY leads to the road of never. THERE are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming crocus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of everyday life, and bloom only in the shade and solitude, and beneath the quiet stars. Tuckerman. CIRCUMSTANCES form the character, but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form. THE reputation W. S. Landor. Of virtuous actions passed, if not kept up Denham. WHEREVER the tree of beneficence takes root 25252 it sends forth branches towards heaven. 2525252525252525 |