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Show WISE WORDS. <br><br> ----Whoever conquers indolence can conquer most things. No wise man ever wished to be younger. [Jonathan Swift. <br><br> ---- When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary. [Napoleon. <br><br> ---- Life is not the chief good; but of all earthly ills the chief is guilt. [Schiller. <br><br> ---- I fear God, and next to God, I chiefly fear him who fears Him not. [Saadt. <br><br> ---- Foster the beautiful, and every hour then callest new flowers to birth. [Schiller. <br><br> ---- Socrates, being asked the way to honest fame, said, "Study to be what you wish to seem." <br><br> ---- It is heaven itself that points out an hereafter, and intimates eternity to man.[Addison. <br><br> ----To Adam, paradise was home. To the good among his descendants, home is paradise.[Hare. <br><br> ---- Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. [Richter. <br><br> ---- He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it. [Charron. <br><br> ---- Bad manners are a species of bad morals. A conscientious man will not grossly offend in that way. [Bovee. <br><br> ---- BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S RELIGION. I am now in my eighty-fifth year, and very infirm. Here is my creed: I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That he governs by His providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we can render Him is by doing good to His other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion. [From his letter to Whitefield. <br><br> ---- A MISSIONARY SAWING WOOD. At the town farm in Hartford, Conn. [Connecticut], a returned missionary is sawing wood at fifty cents a day, his object being thus to restore his health. Overwork has affected his mind, and he hopes to regain his former health by systematic physical labor. When dinner was offered him at the town house he declined it on the ground that in his case a fish diet was needed. He has arranged at a restaurant for two meals of fish a day, and is said to be very much pleased with his success and prospects. Efforts have been made to place him in better circumstances, but he prefers to remain where he is. |