erdant
spot on the surface of the globe.

Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is
the beating of a loving heart.--BEECHER.

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and
repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.--WILLIS.

AFFLICTION.--God sometimes washes the eyes of his children with tears
in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments.
--T.L. CUYLER.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his
burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able
to bear the burden.--PHILLIPS BROOKS.

Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which
are the hardest of all for him to bear; but they are so, because they
are the very ones he needs.--RICHTER.

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.--GEORGE MACDONALD.

Aromatic plants bestow
No spicy fragrance where they grow;
But crushed and trodden to the ground,
Diffuse their balmy sweets around.
--GOLDSMITH.

Affliction appears to be the guide to reflection; the teacher of
humility; the parent of repentance; the nurse of faith; the
strengthener of patience, and the promoter of charity.

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of
extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary
graces.--MATTHEW HENRY.

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to
what it teaches.--BURGH.

Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.--JOB 5:7.

Affliction is the wholesome soul of virtue;
Where patience, honor, sweet humanity,
Calm fortitude, take root, and strongly flourish.
--MALLET AND THOMSON.

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress;
A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
--BURNS.

With the wind of tribulation God separates in the floor of the soul,
the chaff from the corn.--MOLINOS.

No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous:
nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of
righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.--HEBREWS 12:11.

AGE.--No wise man ever wished to be younger.--SWIFT.

I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without
emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to
gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader
and deeper upon the under