God often encourages the weak in faith by giving speedy answer to prayer, but the strong in faith are often tested by his delays. You may recover much that is lost but never a lost opportunity. It is easy to tell one lie but hard to tell just one.' When progress ceases backsliding be gins. Give your tongue more rest than your eyes and ears. Inspiration in private devotion can never be replaced by perspiration in pub lic service. The great danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it but that our aim is too low and we reach it. We can only know God’s estimate of sin by the sacrifice which He provided to atone for it. Man is the only animal God has made to look up. The best way to ¿rove your religion is not to argue about its facts but to produce its proper results. It sometimes takes more courage to face ridicule than to. face a cannon. Great souls prove their greatness by making opportunities where others make only complaint. Be the first to praise and the first to deserve praise. Fear not the threats of the great but rather the tears of the poor. A man may be almost saved yet en tirely lost. I 11'.....ijipM:............................................. . | EXTREMES i O AID the Scientist to the Proto- g 1 ^ plasm:, [ I “ ’Twixt you and me is a mighty [ g chasm, = I We represent extremes, my friend__ I i You the beginning, I the end. | The Protoplasm made reply 1 | As he winked his embryoniceye: 1 1 “Well, when I look at you, old man, 1 | I’m rather sorry I began!” —New York Post. §
If you would succeed, work your' ton gue little, your hands much and your brain most. The greatest.thing that any of us can do is to live not “for Christ” hut to live Christ. The religion of some people consists principally of praying that the Lord will provide. Giving advice to the poor is about as near charity as some people ever get. Tact is merely the art of saying noth ing when there is nothing to say. It is impossible to take your pleasure here in this world and after that to reign with Christ. The lazier a man is the more he in tends to do tomorrow. Rank, wealth, capacity, talents, all things, are given to us that we may use them to the last particle for the glory of God. Service and power are measured by God’s working through man, not by man’s working for God. A man’s religion never accumulates by laying it away in cold storage. If you cast away one cross, without doubt you will find another and that perhaps more heavy. None are so blind as those who see our faults. No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself. Do not mourn too much over past failures. What bird ever went back ward in its flight to recover the feather that had dropped from its wing? The best way to get from a lower position to a higher is to be conspicuous ly efficient in the lower. Keep a record of all the kindnesses you receive and you will find it helpful reading on a day of discouragement. It is tragically possible to have a saved soul and a lost life. One bad example spoils a good many precepts. Few stockings need darning at the knees. You cannot always tell. Some men who are always active don’t know whether they are coming or going.
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