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Show SUNDAY BEADING. APPEOrElATK HEADING MATTER FOE THE DAT OF REST. -Forc'tlm Ilia Thing ISalilnil Working or Ilia Siilrll-Th Futura Lira Ulnar Itama. Could we but dear all Nature's voles, Krom glow-worm up to tun, ''TwnuUi (petit witb una comnrdunt louud, 'Tiijr will, U God, be dune!" But, bark, a ladder, mightier prayer, From all men's liuaru that lire: "Tlijr will be done in eartli and bearen, A nd Tbou my tins forgive !"' Joun Sterling. THE RIGHT WILL RIGHT 1TSKLK. When overcome witb anxiout feur, And moved Willi puntion mroni;, Beoiuse the riKlit euim losing ground And everything goe wrong, How ol t duc lulnionitlon iv : I'll t trouble on the uliolf ; Tt nth will outlive the liar'n dav, And Uiglit will right Hielf 1" ily all the triumph! of the past, Ity all the victories won, Tim good Achieved, the progress made Kacili day, from un to aim ; In apite of ui tlul ways employed Ity pel tidy or pelf, Of one thing w can rent assured, The Klglit will right itself ! Unshaken in our faith and zeal, 'lis our to do and dure, To find the place we beet can till. And aerve our Makor there; For be is only brave who tliu l'uti trouble on Die ihelf. And tru4 in God, for by Ufa aid The Uight will right itelf. Joaepbine l'ollard, in New York Ledger. Forgetting the Things Itrlilnd. Thore is a grace in forgetting as well as In remembering; there 1b a . genius in knowing what to discard as woll as what to keep; and both these are the invariable possessions of a successful and efficient life. No man of conscience can forget his sins; no :. man of judgment can forget his mls- takes; but he does not carry them with him. What ho does carry is the experience ex-perience which has como to lain through them the strength, the wisdom, wis-dom, the grace of character, which have been devoloped by what they have brought or what they have takon away. A man's real life Is always before him; the past is only valuable for what he can learn from it. The days fade from all distant recolloction, because be-cause those artificial divisions of time are of no consequence except as char-actor char-actor has grown or degenerated in them. A man's greatest achievement, onee accomplished, begins immediately immediate-ly to recodo, and becomes less and less in his eyes. No really great man has ever ropoeed on any thing which ho has dono; there has always been ftao consciousness tbat he was greater than any expression he had glvon of . himself, and thjit tho veal satisfaction wnjj joy of nfo lay. "hot In tho work, but In the doing of it. One task succeeds another, one experience ex-perience follows another, in endless end-less succession; u man's work is never finally done, because his life is always expanding, and the time will never -come when this law of progression will ceaso to operate. There can be no hoaveu which is not a heaven of development. It Is a great waste of strength to make one's faults and blunders and sin impediments in the onward inarch. There is no virtue in continually bomoaning tho misdoings misdo-ings of the past. Heal repentance is not lamentation, but girding up the loins for the work of expiation. Let the dead old year bury its dead; leave behind the depressing memories of - failure and defeat, while yon carry their lessons In your heart. Your real life is not behind but before you; it is the new year, and not the old, which is your opportunity. Lyman Abbott. YV May It Vstd In Time. How often It is in the cause of God that someone wants to do some great thing which ho is not fitted to do and which the Lord does not want him to do. lie may see what needs to be . done and yet need not be tho one to - Jo it. Ho may have a gift of knowledge knowl-edge and discernment, but not the - wisdom to plan and execute. 1 le may . attempt In rashness to do tho work, make but a partial success, which is worse than failure, and, becoming -discouraged, say that he was nut properly prop-erly sustained and appreciated, and so fail himself. If his will had boon sub-nnitted sub-nnitted to God, he would have beon willing to have had (Jed work through whom ho would. Another feels tho burden of a work laid upon him, but he is not willing to prepare himself for the work, nor to take God's way nor time to dolt. It was even thus with Moses. God chose ihiin to doliver Israel, but not when Moses was in his prime at forty years of age, not when he had finished his education educa-tion as a great statesman and goneral, but after forty years of shepherd life -on the mountains and in the valleys of Midian. Then God could use him, and lie did It is not only important to know the work given us of God. but it Is important to know God's way and time fjr doing His work. Our -. strength, sometimes, is to sit still, to wait upon the Lord. The Future Ufa. I feel in myself the future life. I am like a forest which has been more than once out down. The new shoots are stronger and livelier than ever. I am rising, I know, toward the sky. The earth gives me a generous sup, but Heaven lights me with the reflection reflec-tion of unknown worlds. You say the soul is nothing but the resultant of bodily powers; why then is my soul the more luminous when my bodily powers begin to fail? Winter Win-ter is on my head and eternal spring is in my heart. Then I breathe, at this hour, the fragrance of the lilies, the violets and the roses as at twenty years. The nearer ( approach tho end the plainer I hear around me the immortal immor-tal symphonies of the worlds whlcb unite me. It is marvelous, yot simple. It is a fairy tale and It is a history. For hall a century I have been writing my thoughts in prose, verso, history, philosophy, drama, romance, tradition, tradi-tion, satire, ode, song I have tried all. But I feel that I have not said the thousandth part of what is in me. When I go down to the grave I can say like so many others, ! have finished fin-ished my day's work," but I cannot say, "I have finished my life." My day's work will begin again next morning. My tomb is not a blind alley, al-ley, it is a thoroughfare. It closes in the twilight to open with tho dawn. I improve every hour because I love this world as my fatherland. My work is hardly above a foundation. I would bo glad to see it mounting and mounting forever. Tho thirst for the infinite proves infinity. Victor Hugo. Til Spirit's Working. Tho divino Spirit is not confined In his operations to any particular line or method. "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, hut canst not tell whonce it cometh, and whither itgooth; so is every one that is born of the Spirit." Sometimes a spirit of criticism is awakened among Christian workers because another adopts methods and works plans different from his own. That is short-sighted and tends to grieve the Spirit, lie is infinite in His variations of working. "The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another tho word of knowl-ege knowl-ege by tho sumo Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by tho same Spirit; to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning dis-cerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to anothor tho interpretation in-terpretation of tongues; but all those workoth that one and the self-same Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will." KotUiun tend so much to stimulate thought and extend the scope of mental vision as the reception of the Holy Spirit. He helps our infirmities; he guides into all the truth; he empowers em-powers with might in the inner man, and through tho vision of the glory of the Lord he transforms the character by his divine indwelling. Buffalo Christian Advocate. (iralna or Truth. The truest joy wo have in life is in making others glad. He that lacks timo to mourn lacks time to mend. Sir H. Taylor. It is tho characteristic of folly to discern the faults of others, and to forget one's own. Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since fiction can only please by its resemblance to it. Shuftesbury. The best of us being unfit to die, what an inexpressible absurdity it is to put the worst of us to death Hawthorne. Haw-thorne. Some of our weaknesses are born in us; others are the result of education; it is a question (says Goethe) which of the two gives us tho most trouble. It is advisable that a man should know at least three things: First, where he is; second, where he is going; go-ing; third, what he had better do under un-der the circumstances. Raskin. Good men and women in all lands might well adopt this as their motto that "a judicious silence is always bettor than truth spoken without charity," In a sieve It is tho small dust that goes through; so trouble gets rid of emall-hoarted friends, thus saving a man much trouble in other ways. When Von Moltke was ninety years old some one asked him how old he would like to he. He replied "About eighty." He did not care to go all the way bncjc and repeat tho mistakes of his youth. How mankind defers from day to day the bet it can do, ond the mo3t beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!--Max Muller. Knowledge Varans Goodness, Knowledge of good and evil affords no assurance of a greater love of the one or of a greater hatred of the other than would exist in ignorance. Sound Keaonlng. "I am so sensitive; It hurts my 'leelings so much," mourns some poor fvul on hearing of some remark by a neighbor, or friend, not realizing that the cause of sensitiveness is selfishness or pride. Here is a good rule, which will ever prove a help to tho one who .is "talked against." If what Is said .is true, let him reform. Ho doubles ihis sin who sins under reproof. If it is nottruo, he should so livo that no one will believe it, at the same time pitying the person who did the wrong. Let such a one nlwuys remember that others can only injure our reputation; repu-tation; our personal sin alone can injure in-jure our character. Signs of the Zi'imes. Our first parents no doubt found the devil well enough informed. The archangel Michael and the arch-devil Lucifer may havo the same Intellectual Intel-lectual ability and tho same intol-1 lectual attainments, but the fidelity of the one and tho disobedience of the other make heaven and hell. Unless knowledge ripens into moral forco it becomes the tool of selfishness and sin. Rev. E. P. Marvin, in American Sentinel. Actlrliyi There is a perennial nobleness, and even Bacrcdness, in work. Thero is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works; in idleness alone thero Is perpetual despair. |