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
Open for thee, or both may come too late.

Herbert.

LIKE birds, whose beauties languish half con

cealed

Till mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes
Expanded, shine with azure green and gold,
How blessings brighten as they take their flight!

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
OOKS are the true teachers. They give to all
who faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual
presence of the greatest and best of our race.

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?

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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.

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VERY good picture is the best of sermons and
lectures. The sense informs the soul. Whatever

you have, have beauty.

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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,
What looks to thy dim eyes a stain,
In God's pure light may only be
A scar, brought from some well-won field,
Where thou wouldst only faint and yield.
Adelaide H. Procter.

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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.

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Rowland Hill.

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TRUE charity, a plant divinely nursed,

Fed by the love from which it rose at first,
Thrives against hope, and in the rudest scene,
Storms but enliven its unfading green;
Exuberant is the shadow it supplies,

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,
To break repose at dawn of day.

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.

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Beecher.

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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
By an access and fresh supply of new ones,
Is lost and soon forgotten; and like palaces,
For want of habitation and repair,
Dissolves to heaps of ruin.

Denham.

WHEREVER the tree of beneficence takes root

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