Ir a man's mind be thoroughly alive, he cannot be content with good health, good revenue and good dwelling. There are heart-achings and out-goings which waste the life, which cannot be soothed or appeased by bread alone. On the one hand you will find sad hearts surrounded by the highest personal and social advantages, and on the other you will find hearts glad with unspeakable joy in spite of circumstances the most untoward and harrassing. It is, therefore, in the opinion of Christian thinkers, a superficial and mocking theory of human happiness which concerns itself mainly with circumstances. What is wanted is a principle which will put all accidental conditions in their right place, and persistently remind man that "the life is more than bread," and that apparent failure may be real success. Joseph Parker.

THERE are necessities in our hearts which nothing human can supply; passions which nothing human can either satisfy or control; powers which nothing human can either adequately excite or occupy; and oh, there are sorrows, deep sorrows, which will not be assuaged; wounds which, if the balm that is in Gilead cannot heal, must fester forevermore; sins, far beyond the reach of all skill but that of the Great Physician of souls.

Robert J. Breckinridge, D.D.

COMMUNISM possesses a language which every people can understand. Its elements are hunger, envy and death. Heinrich Heine.

IF

If you divorce capital and labor, capital is hoarded and labor starves.

Daniel Webster.

WHAT is a communist? One who has yearnings
for equal division of unequal earnings.

Elliott.

EVERY day that I live I become less and less desirous of great wealth: but every day makes me more sensible of the importance of a competence. Without a competence it is not easy for a public man to be honest: it is almost impossible for him to be thought so.

Macaulay.

PROPERTY is the product of labor. It must be hewed out of the forest, plowed out of the field, blasted out of the mine, pounded out of the anvil, wrought out in the factory and furnace. Labor is at the bottom of it all; and the nation in which labor is the best cherished and cared for, must be the richest and most prosperous. Capital and labor are mutual allies.

WHEN vanished is this vapor we call life,

And all the storms that vex us disappear-
Sorrow's sharp thorn, the weary wheel of strife,
And all the miseries we feel or fear-

When of the "day far spent" a night is born,
Before there dawns a day that knows no night,
Shall we who see the glory of such a morn—

Shall we recall, upon that dazzling height,
One touch of this wild warfare of the earth?

The wounds that scarred us, or the tears we wept,
The sin that so beset us from our birth,

The woes, the wrongs, the cares that never slept?
Or will there be a gap betwixt that time
And this eternity that numbs the sense,
As after sudden ceasing of some chime

A lengthened pause makes rest the more intense?
Forbear to question, O mine idle thought!

Where were our faith, if all were come to sight! "Avoid vain babblings "-thus much we are taught. "Twere vain to breathe them, yet I long for light.

A. T. L.

On the whole, there are much sadder ages than the early ones; not sadder in a noble and deep way, but in a dim, wearied way-the way of ennui, and jaded intellect, and uncomfortableness of soul and body. Not that we are without festivity, but festivity more or less forced, mistaken, embittered, incomplete, not of the heart; and the profoundest reason of this darkness of heart is, I believe, our want of faith.

Ruskin.

LET me not die before I've done for Thee
Some earthly work, whatever it may be;
Call me not hence with mission unfulfilled,
Let me not leave my space of ground untilled;
Impress this truth upon me, that not one
Can do my portion that I leave undone,
For each one in Thy vineyard hath a spot
To labor in for life, and weary not.
Then give me strength all faithfully to toil,
Converting barren earth to fruitful soil.
I long to be an instrument of Thine,
To gather worshipers unto Thy shrine;
To be the means one human soul to save
From the dark terrors of a hopeless grave.
Yet most I want a spirit of content,
To work where'er Thou'lt wish my labor spent,
Whether at home or in a stranger clime,
In days of joy, or sorrow's sterner time.
I want a spirit passive, to lie still,

And by Thy power to do Thy holy will.

And when the prayer unto my lips doth rise,
Before a new home doth my soul surprise,
"Let me accomplish some great work for Thee,"
Subdue it, Lord; let my petition be,
"Oh! make me useful in this world of Thine,
In ways according to Thy will, not mine.

Let me not leave my space of ground untilled,
Call me not hence with mission unfulfilled.
Let me not die before I've done for Thee
My earthly work, whatever that may be."

CHURCH of the living God! in vain thy foes
Make thee, in impious mirth, their laughing stock,
Contemn thy strength, thy radiant beauty mock;
In vain their threats and impotent their blows-
Satan's assault-Hell's agonizing throes!

For thou art built upon th' Eternal Rock,

Nor fear'st the thunder storm, the earthquake shock, And nothing shall disturb thy calm repose. All human combinations change and die, What'er their origin, form, design; But firmer than the pillars of the sky, Thou standest ever by a power Divine;

Thou art endowed with immortality,

And can'st not perish-God's own life is thine!

As there can be no jealousy without regard, so envy cannot exist in perfection without a secret esteem of the person envied.

BASE envy withers at another's joy,

And hates the excellence it cannot reach.

SLANDER is the solace of malignity.

Thompson.

Joubert.

We cannot control the evil tongues of others, but a good life enables us to despise them.

Cato.

NICE distinctions are troublesome. It is so much easier to say that a thing is black, than to discriminate the particular shade of brown, blue, or green, to which it really belongs. It is so much easier to make up your mind that your neighbor is good for nothing, than to enter into all the circumstances that would oblige you to modify that opinion. George Eliot.

To apply to others in charity the knowledge one has used against oneself in judgment—this is the hard thing. W. H. Mallock.

THERE are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

Napoleon.

To persevere in one's duty and to be silent, is the first answer to calumny.

Washington.

THERE is nobody so weak of invention that cannot make some little stories to vilify his enemy.

Addison.

WHEN one has learned to seek the honor that cometh from God only, he will take the withholding of the honor that comes from man very quietly indeed.

George McDonald.