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Show WISE WORDS. There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. Better be upright and want, than wicked and have superabundance. An ounce of conviction is worth a pound of caucus. -A.J. Gordon. Industry need not wish, and he who lives upon hope will die of fasting. Stay not till you are told of opportunities to do good - inquire after them. The condition of prosperity is generosity. They are blessed that bless others. Evil would not be half so dangerous if it did not often wear the semblance of virtue. God has not assigned us duties because he needed our work, but because we needed the working. Humility is the Christian's greatest honor; and the higher men climb the further they are from heaven. Augustine said, "Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this is to see what we believe." All men look to happiness in the future. To every eye heaven and earth seem to embrace in the distance. There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of everyday life, and bloom only in the shade and solitude and beneath the quiet stars. -H.T. Tuckerman. Human joys are rays of light which pierce the shadows of life, and illume youth between the tears of childhood and the bitter disenchantment of old age, and which become extinct upon a tomb soon covered by the cold mass of winter. You have noticed that all evening shadows point to the east where the dawn will appear. So every shadow made by the descending sun of earthly prosperity points with sure prophecy to the better hopes which are kindled by the glowing promises of God. |