UNKIND WORDS.

"HARD words are like hailstones in summer, beating down and destroying what, if melted into drops, they would nourish."

ENERGY FROM HARDSHIP.

"A CERTAIN amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind. Even a head wind is better than none. No man ever worked his passage anywhere, in a calm. Let no man wax pale, therefore, because of opposition. It is what he wants and must have, to be good for anything. Hardship is the native soil of energy and self-reliance." John Neal.

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APPLAUSE.

"IF thou hopest to please all, thy hopes are vain. If thou fearest to displease some, thy fears are idle. If thou wouldst please thyself, displease not the best. If thou wouldst fashion thyself to please all, thou shalt displease Him who is All in All." - Quarles.

"THE imprudent should never come into company with the malicious. - Robert Hall.

SLEEP.

"IT is a delicious moment certainly, that of being well settled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have been just tired enough to render the remain

ing in one posture delightful; the labor of the day is gone. A gentle failure of the perceptions creeps over you, the spirit of consciousness disengages itself with slow and hushing degrees, like a mother detaching her hand from that of her sleeping child. The mind seems to have a balmy lid closing over it, like the eye. 'Tis closed. The mysterious spirit has gone on its airy rounds." - Leigh Hunt.

CHARITY.

"PROPORTION thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God proportion thine estate to the weakness. of thy charity. Let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking applause thou lose thy reward. It is pleasing to God that thou carry an open hand and a close mouth."

ROSE AMONG THE HIMALAYAS.

"THE Alpine Rose, at nearly ten thousand feet height upon the mountains, is remarkably fine, its stem measuring eight or twelve inches in diameter, and reaching a height of fifty feet, while its full, beautiful, dark red flower, is about the size of one of our largest dahlias." Journal of a Moravian Missionary.

"In the first sanctity of a mighty sorrow, so frail and complicated is the construction of our hearts, that like to some rare and costly, because wonderfully minute musical instrument, they must, ere their impaired harmonies can be restored, return to their Maker." — Lady Bulwer.

"Tis impious in a good man, to be sad." - Young.

A RICH MAN, ABOUT RICHES.

MR. MCDOUGAL, who died worth more than a million. thus writes in his will:

"Let the poorer classes of the world be consoled, assured the labor-loving, frugal, industrious, and virtuous among them, possess joys in this life, which the rich know not and cannot appreciate. So well convinced am I, after a long life, and intercourse with my fellowmen of all classes, of the truth, that the happiness of this life is altogether on the side of the virtuous and industrious poor, that had I children, I would bequeath, after a virtuous education for which nothing should be spared-only a very small amount to each, merely sufficient to excite them to habits of industry and frugality, and no more.”

Miscall not Heaven's discipline, which is oft the soul's salvation. It is the sea, where we "toil in rowing," amid the night-watches. Had it not been troubled, we should not have seen Jesus walking upon it, nor felt the strong grasp of his hand, at our cry "Lord, save us."

THE STRAWBERRY.

"WITHOUT doubt, God could have made a better berry than the strawberry; but without doubt, He never did." - Rev. Sidney Smith.

WEALTH.

"WEALTH is not gold alone, but liberty and leisure." Leigh Hunt.

"NAPOLEON III., the present Emperor of France, that immovable man whose face is like a mash of bronze, was evidently affected at the kindness of his recent reception in England, where he had been once a special constable."

"RICHARD CROMWELL, who so soon fell into utter forgetfulness by the nation, had a chest full of addresses from loyal corporations, duly sealed, and subscribed."

THE MAY FLOWER.

"HAIL to thee, poor little May Flower of Delfthaven, poor, common-looking ship, hired by common charterparty for a few coined dollars, caulked with mere oakum and tar, provisioned with vulgarest bacon and biscuit, yet what ship Argo, or miraculous epic ship, was other than a foolish humbug in comparison. Thou hadst in thee a veritable Promethean power, the life-spark of the largest nation on our earth, for so we may name the Transatlantic Saxon people. They went, seeking leave

to hear a sermon in their own method, those May-Flower Puritans; but like, the son of Kish, in pursuit of his father's asses, while seeking a small thing, they found this great, unexpected thing. Let all men honor puritanism, since God has thus honored it."- Carlyle.

TRUE WEALTH.

"A MAN does not become rich, by laying up abundance; but by laying out abundance: that is, laying it out for God." Chrysostom.

THE LOWLY HEART.

THE dews and rich showers of God's grace, glide over the mountains of pride, and settle on the lowly Ivallies of the humble in heart."

Archbishop Leighton.

"OH Christ! that it were possible

For one short hour to see

The souls we loved, that they might tell
What- and where they be."

Tennyson.

"Be patient: your wrongs are your strength.”

Gen. Pomeroy to the men of Kansas.

"A THING of beauty, is a joy forever." Keats.