y serve
to bring the power and goodness of God strikingly to mind.--SLADE.

God is the light which, never seen itself, makes all things visible,
and clothes itself in colors. Thine eye feels not its ray, but thine
heart feels its warmth.--RICHTER.

A secret sense of God's goodness is by no means enough. Men should
make solemn and outward expressions of it, when they receive His
creatures for their support; a service and homage not only due to Him,
but profitable to themselves.--DEAN STANHOPE.

All is of God. If He but wave His hand,
The mists collect, the rains fall thick and loud;
Till, with a smile of light on sea and land,
Lo! He looks back from the departing cloud.

Angels of life and death alike are His;
Without His leave they pass no threshold o'er;
Who, then, would wish or dare, believing this,
Against His messengers to shut the door?
--LONGFELLOW.

"God saw everything that he had made, and behold it was very good."
* * * Wheresoever I turn my eyes, behold the memorials of His greatness!
of His goodness! * * * What the world contains of good is from His
free and unrequited mercy: what it presents of real evil arises from
ourselves.--BISHOP BLOMFIELD.

GOLD.--Gold, like the sun, which melts wax and hardens clay, expands
great souls and contracts bad hearts.--RIVAROL.

There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and
the other in the camp,--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them
both may indeed attain the highest station.--COLTON.

Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image,
and thou hast God's; give, therefore, those things unto Caesar which
are Caesar's, and unto God which are God's.--QUARLES.

Foul-cankering rust the hidden treasure frets;
But gold, that's put to use, more gold begets.
--SHAKESPEARE.

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the
world.--FELTHAM.

O cursed lust of gold! when for thy sake
The fool throws up his interest in both worlds.
--BLAIR.

How few, like Daniel, have God and gold together!--GEORGE VILLIERS.

Gold adulterates one thing only,--the human heart.--MARGUERITE DE
VALOIS.

GOODNESS.--A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps
friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.--BASIL.

It is only great souls that know how much glory there