MISCELLANEOUS. Highest aim and true endeavor, Loving God, all men forgiving, EMMA C. Dowd. "The universe is not quite perfect without my work well done." Young folks are sometimes very cunning in finding out contrivances to cheat themselves. SHERLOCK. "When you've nothing to say, say it." "Nothing not good is wanted." We can't talk unless we know what we ought to say, what we mean to say, what we do say, and to whom we say it. H. CLAY TRUMBULL. The world continues to exist only by the breath of the children of the schools. Conscience is the whisper of God. Talmud. J. R. MILLER. MISCELLANEOUS. At sermon and at prayers men may sleep and wander, but when one is asked a question he must disclose what he is. GEORGE HERBERT. Oh! be it mine with deed or song, To kindle some life to purpose strong; Do not consider that for your interest, which makes you break your word, or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light, or look the world in the face. ANTONINUS. Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou bind Arcturus and his sons? Bible. The rain has spoiled the farmer's day, Thereby are two days lost: I will attend my proper cares In rain, or sun, or frost. R. .W EMERSON. MISCELLANEOUS. Do what we can, summer will have its flies; if we walk in the woods, we must feel mosquitoes; if we go a-fishing, we must expect a wet coat. R. W. EMERSON. Evil swells the debt to pay, EDWIN ARNOLD. Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject, to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance. Therefore seize the moment of excited curiosity and look it up! WIRT. Cast all your cares on God: that anchor holds Is he not yonder in the uttermost Parts of the morning? if I flee to these Can I go from Him? and the sea is His, The sea is His: He made it. TENNYSON. Evil reports often originate by spontaneous combustion in the protoplasm of total depravity. HOMER B. SPRAGUE. MISCELLANEOUS. Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts: the sight of the deep blue sky and the clustering stars above, seem to impart a quiet to the mind. JONATHAN EDwards. Ah! let us hope that to our praise Good God not only reckons The moments when we tread his ways, That some slight good is also wrought When we are simply good in thought, J. R. LOWELL. We are all building a soul house for eternity; yet with what different architecture, and what various care. H. W. BEECHER. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. Bible. When we have practiced good actions awhile they become easy; and when they are easy, we begin to take pleasure in them; and when they please us, we do them frequently; and by frequency of acts, they grow into a habit. A poem, MISCELLANEOUS. magical words and thoughts, Like a flower of wondrous bloom, Its fancies, the color catching the light, Its deeper sense, the perfume. PALMER D. HATCH. A large part of my religion consists in trying all the while not to be as mean as I know how. PETROLEUM V. NASEBY. If we are left in the world another year, it is that we may do our share of the world's work. ROBT. MCKENZIE. ΙΟΙ |