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Show !i SEKSE. Gond Etrivirg lirirgs thriving. Belter a dug who wnrl.s fj Than a lion hi thi:k'. Have the courage to speak to a friend in aseedyco.it even tKough you are in company with a rich one, and richly attired. It was Horace Smith who said "Your voiceless lips, O, fbwera, are living preachers; each cup a puipit aud each leaf a book." Great errors are often connected with elevated sentiments; but in order to understand this wo must ourselves pos-'sew greatness of sou1. There is an emanation from tho heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately immedi-ately felt, and puts tho stranger at once at his ease. When great men reflect how many years it will tako their Btatuc3 to bo unveiled, it is a wonder they do not make up their minds to die some years in advance. Generosity during life is a different thing from generosity in tho hour of death, One proceeds from genuine liberality aud benevolence, the other from pride or fear. Charity is never lost; it may meet with ingratitude, or be of no sorvice 'totboi'o on whom it was bestowed, yet it ever does a work of beauty and grace upon the heart of tho giver. The mistake we all make is in thinking to buy tho highest treasures of life at au easier rate than the lower ones in imagining that tho typified can be won with less travail than tho type. Many an ox may he worked hard in (he field, but after a time its owner may say, "let him ba turned into a rich pasture." There be lives without with-out molestation in luxury and ease; but it is preparatory to bis death. Sinuer, tako care of unaanctitied prosperity, pros-perity, iU end is death. 1 The spread of the English language is among the marvels of the present; other tongues stay in schools and sections, or grow in tho soil where they tjok root, dying out, as in America, Amer-ica, where they were transplanted, more than 100 years ago. But the English is tbo tongue that travels, discovers, lights, controverts and converts. con-verts. . |
