natural for them to
think this way, particularly when most of the old friends are dead; but
the fact is, that there are friends as true now as ever.

54

These are the effects of doting age,
Vain doubts, and idle cares, and over-caution.

--_Dryden._

55

Do you seek Alcides' equal? There is none but himself.

--_Seneca._

56

EVIDENTLY UNSATISFACTORY.

"When I look at my congregation," said a London preacher, "I say, 'Where
are the poor?' When I count the offertory in the vestry I say, 'Where
are the rich?'"

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ALMSGIVING.

At table, discussing with some friends the subject of raffles, Bishop
Wescott said that he objected to them as part of the gambling question,
and also on wider grounds. He objected to all the "side means" which
were sometimes combined with sales of work for "getting money out of
people." Such money, he thought, as distinct from that which is given,
was not wanted nor acceptable.

--_The Contemporary Review._

58

What stamps the wrinkles deepest on the brow,
It is to be alone, as I am now!

59

The following Hawaiian alphabet, consisting of twelve letters, was in
use, and had been for something like a hundred years, when the compiler
visited the Islands in 1886. It was given to the Hawaiians by the
missionaries, viz.:

a, e, i, o, u, h, k, l, m, n, p, w.

60

THE AMBITIOUS MAN.

A slave has but _one master_; the _ambitious man_ has as _many masters_
as there are persons whose aid may contribute to the advancement of his
_fortune_.

--_La Bruyere._

61

How easy it is to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success!

--_Madame Swetchine._

62

The sea of ambition is tempest--tost,
And your hopes may vanish like--foam.

63

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

64

_Amusements_--The mind ought sometimes to be amused, that it may the
better return to thought, and to itself.

--_Phaedrus._

65

Thy father's merit sets thee up to view,
And shows thee in the fairest point of light,
To make thy virtues, or thy faults conspicuous.

--_Addison._

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