Life in This World. We are part and parcel of all that has been, of all that IS, of all that shall be. The past has served us; the present serves us; and the future is for us also. The Eternal is ours. Life in This World. E live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breath; In feelings, not in figures on a dial: We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best. FESTUS. I COUNT this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God, Lifting the soul from the common sod To a purer air and a broader view. HOLLAND. ET me but think I am helping to make this world more habitable for future generations, and the thought will inspire me in life and sustain my spirit when my last hour draws near. F I promote human welfare in this life as far as IFF I have the opportunity or discernment of it, I shall deserve another life, if there is one and shall have fitted myself for it in the best way, and the only way open to me. GEORGE JACOB HOLYOKE. T is not the goal but the course which makes us JEAN PAUL RICHTER. happy. HAT help in a comrade's bugle blast When the peril of Alpine heights is past? What need the spurring pæan roll When the runner is safe beyond the goal? What worth is eulogy's blandest breath When whispered in ears that are hushed in death? Nay! nay! if thou hast but a word of cheer Speak it while I am alive to hear! MARGARET J. PRESTON. N the darkest hour through which a human soul IN can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain: if there be no God and no future state, yet even then it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward. F. W. ROBERTSON. LEAD, kindly Light; amid the encircling gloom Lead thou me on. The night is dark, and I am far from home; Lead thou me on; Keep thou my feet. I do not ask to see J. H. NEWMAN. อ NE can despair of immortality and not despair of life and its sufficient consolations. The trust in immortality does not appear to me the deepest, the most religious trust. The deepest, the most religious trust is that we shall be immortal if it is best for us to be. I have a friend who says, "I cannot trust in God, unless I can be sure of immortality." I have another friend who says, "I do not want it if He does not think it would be good for me." Which is the more religious? J. W. CHADWICK. ORRECT information respecting the kind of body we are to have in another life, even if we could get it, would have but small influence in determining what we shall do with the body we have in this. PRE-E RE-EXISTENCE and post-existence are beyond our ken; let us make the most of exist ence. F. E. ABBOT. W ATCHFULNESS is the path of immortality; slothfulness the way of death; the slothful are as if already dead. WILL not take a heaven haunted by shrieks Of far-off misery. |