ve forever never fears dying.--WILLIAM PENN.

We live in deeds, not years; in thought, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
--BAILEY.

This is the state of man; to-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms,
And bears his blushing honors thick upon him:
The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost;
And,--when he thinks, good easy man, full surely
His greatness is a ripening,--nips his root,
And then he falls.
--SHAKESPEARE.

The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God,
will be like unto Him; He being the beginning, middle, and end of all
things.--SOCRATES.

For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon
earth are a shadow.--JOB 8:9.

You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured
and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be
delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh,
sweet sensations for us.--JAMES A. GARFIELD.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.--DR. JOHNSON.

I slept and dreamed that life was beauty;
I woke and found that life was duty.
--ELLEN STURGIS HOOPER.

The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.--WILLIAM
PENN.

Let those who thoughtfully consider the brevity of life remember the
length of eternity.--BISHOP KEN.

LIGHT.--We should render thanks to God for having produced this
temporal light, which is the smile of heaven and joy of the world,
spreading it like a cloth of gold over the face of the air and earth,
and lighting it as a torch by which we might behold His works.--CAUSSIN.

Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven first-born.--MILTON.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that
are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light
of day.--JAMES A. GARFIELD.

I am the light of the world.--JOHN 9:5.

No wonder that light is so frequently used by the sacred oracles as
the symbol of our best blessings. Of the Gospel revelation one apostle
says, "The night is far spent, and the day is at hand." Another, under
the impression of the same auspicious event, thus applied the language
of ancient prophecy: "The people who sat in darkness hav