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The Sadness of Living.—Hartley Col eridge, the son of the great Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and inheriting from his great father the moral blight of a weakened and vicious will, and giving himself over into the grip of the de stroying appetite for opium—Hartley Coleridge wrote in his later years these sad and pathetic lines on the fly leaf of his Bible:— “When I received this volume small, My years were barely seventeen, When it was hoped I should be all Which once, alas!, I might have been. Now my years are thirty-five And eyery mother hopes her lamb, And every child alive, May never be what now I am,” The Motives and Purposes of a Great Life.— Morning— I—To lift up the heart in thankful ness to God for renewing my life. II—To renew my covenant with God in Christ. 1—By renewed acts of faith, re III— Adoration and prayer. IV— Setting a watch over my own in firmities and passions; over the snares laid in our way. V—Day employment-—There must be two kinds. 1— Our ordinary calling, to serve God in it. It is a service to Christ, though never so mean. Col. 3—Here faithfulness, ' diligence, cheerfulness. Not to overlay myself with more business than I can bear. 2— Our spiritual employments. - Mingle sftmewhat of God’s immediate service in this day. VI—Refreshments—meat and drink— moderation, seasoned with some what of God. ceiving Christ, and rejoicing in the height of th a t relation.
1— Not our business. 2— Suitable—no games given to covetousness or passion. 3— -If alone beware of wander- -
ing, vain, lustful thoughts, fly from thyself rather than entertain these. Let thy soli tary thoughts be profitable. VIII—Company—Do good to them. Use God’s name reverently. Be ware of leaving an ill impres sion or ill example. Receive good from company. Evening—Cast up the accounts of the day. If aught amiss, beg pardon. Gather resolution of more vigilance. If well, bless the mercy and grace of God th a t hath supported thee. Golden Text Illustration. — Pastor Jacobs, of Cambridgeport, could, when necessary, administer repToof very forcibly but gently. As he entered the room where some young ladies were discussing one of their female friends he heard the epithets “odd” and "sing ular” applied. He asked and was told the name of the young lady in question. Then, very gravely he said, “Yes, she is an odd young lady. She is very odd. I consider her extremely singu lar.” He then added very impressively, “She was never heard to speak ill of an absent friend.” Do unto others as you would wish them to do unto you. Making Others Happy. Acts 9:36-42. Memory' Verse.—“Trust in the Lord, and do good.” Psalm 37:3. Approach.—Ju st a short time ago I was in a home where there were a mo ther and two little children, a boy of five and a little girl not quite four years old. This home was BEGINNERS only two s m a l l AND PRIMARY rooms, and not any Mabel L. Merrill more furniture than they had to have, a bed, a table, some chairs and a stove,
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