SIN SONS. I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin between myself and God. GEORGE ELIOT. Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the further on we go, the more we have to come back. BARON. He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves over it, may be a saint; that boasteth of it is a devil. Man-like it is to fall in sin, FULLER. Fiend-like it is to dwell therein, God-like it is all sin to leave. LONGFELLOW. SONS. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. A wise son heareth his father's instructions. Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. Bible. SONS STRENGTH. If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a woman made out of a man is his meanest. STRENGTH. H. W. BEECHER. As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist. R. W. Emerson. What is strength, without a double share By weakest subtleties; not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command. MILTON. Strength for to-day is all that we need, As there never will be a to-morrow, For to-morrow will prove but another to-day With its measure of joy and of sorrow. BUCKHAM. TIME. Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold; Or Troy once held in peace and pride of sway, HOMER. "Time is the present hour, the past has fled; Live! live to-day! to-morrow never yet On any human being rose or set." Dost thou love life? Then waste not time, for time is the stuff that life is made of. FRANKLIN. Time is painted with a lock before and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock, for when it is once passed, there is no recalling it. DEAN SWIFT. Time is the only gift in which God has stinted us, for He never intrusts us with a second moment until He has taken away the first, and never leaves us certain of the third. RUTHERFORD. Time is the warp of life, said he. Oh tell The young, the fair, the gay, to weave it well. MARSDEN. Hours are golden links, God's token A. A. PROCTER. No man can be provident of his time that is not provident in the choice of his company. DR. JOHNSON. Time can be utilized best by those who are well, and every girl should mean to be well, cheery, and strong if she can. To this end she should neglect nothing which God puts within her reach for the preservation of health, animation and vigor. We have each the same number of hours in every day, and the queen in her palace has just as many as, and no more than, the little maiden who carries her father's dinner to the mill. In this one particular God has treated us all precisely alike. Time is ours, not to be wasted, not to be spent in luxurious ease, and not to be lost in idle fretting. It is ours to be improved. MARGARET E. SANGSTER. TRUST TRUTH. "How gentle God's commands! Come cast your burden on the Lord As thy days, so shall thy strength be. Bible. All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. TRUTH. R. W. EMERSON. I would have a woman as true as Death. At the first real lie which works from the heart outward, she should be tenderly chloroformed into a better world, where she can have an angel for a governess, and feed on strange fruits which will make her over again, even to her bones and marrow. Leave what you've done for what you have to do, Don't be consistent, but be simply true. O. W. HOLMES. "It is in the determination to obey the truth, and to follow wherever she may lead, that the genuine love of truth consists." |