e use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions;
for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end.--TILLOTSON.

RESIGNATION.--Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow.
--PROFESSOR VINET.

If God send thee a cross, take it up willingly and follow him. Use it
wisely, lest it be unprofitable. Bear it patiently, lest it be
intolerable. If it be light, slight it not. If it be heavy, murmur
not. After the cross is the crown.--QUARLES.

"My will, not thine, be done," turned Paradise into a desert. "Thy
will, not mine, be done," turned the desert into a paradise, and made
Gethsemane the gate of heaven.--PRESSENSE.

With a sigh for what we have not, we must be thankful for what we
have, and leave to One wiser than ourselves the deeper problems of the
human soul and of its discipline.--GLADSTONE.

The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of
the Lord.--JOB 1:21.

Dare to look up to God and say: "Deal with me in the future as thou
wilt. I am of the same mind as thou art; I am thine. I refuse nothing
that pleases Thee. Lead me where Thou wilt; cloth me in any dress Thou
choosest."--EPICTETUS.

No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a
rainbow in it.--BISHOP HORNE.

Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever it
be, it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of it.--MOUNTFORD.

Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which
is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have
his own when he calls for it?--WILLIAM PENN.

RESOLUTION.--He only is a well-made man who has a good termination.
--EMERSON.

Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose
That you resolved to effect.
--SHAKESPEARE.

REST.--Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics;
let your brain rest, you wearied and worried men of business; let your
limbs rest, ye children of toil!--CARLYLE.

Absence of occupation is not rest.
A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.
--COWPER.

God giveth quietness at last.--WHITTIER.

Of all our loving Father's gifts
I often wonder which is best,
And cry: Dear God, the one that lifts
Our soul from weariness to rest,
The rest of silence--that is best.
--MARY CLEMMER.

The word "rest" is not in my vocabulary.--HORACE GREELEY.

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