dispensed in society
and all the frowns at home.

939

He has no religion who has no humanity.

940

Our humanity were a poor thing, but for the Divinity that stirs within
us.

--_Bacon._

941

With the humble there is perpetual peace.

--_Shakespeare._

942

When you see an ear of corn holding itself very high (or a human head)
you may be sure there is nothing in it. The full ear is the lowliest;
the full head the most humble.

943

Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.

--_Chrysostom._

944

Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger.

--_Zimmerman._

945

They must hunger in frost who spring-time have lost.

--_German._

946

The full stomach cannot comprehend the hungry one.

947

Wait is a hard word to the hungry.

--_From the German._

948

HUSBAND--EXCELLENCIES OF A.

Faithful--as dog, the lonely shepherd's pride;
True--as the helm, the bark's protecting guide;
Firm--as the shaft that props the towering dome;
Sweet--as to shipwreck'd seaman land and home;
Lovely--as child, a parent's sole delight;
Radiant--as morn, that breaks a stormy night;
Grateful--as streams, that, in some deep recess,
With rills unhoped the panting traveler bless,
Is he that links with mine his chain of life,
Names himself lord, and deigns to call me wife.

--_Aeschylus._

949

Between husband and wife there should be no question as to material
interests. All things should be in common between them without any
distinction or means of distinguishing.

950

WHAT A SONG DID.

A Scottish youth learned, with a pious mother, to sing the old psalms
that were then as household words to them in the kirk (church) and by
the fireside. When he had grown up he wandered away from his native
country, was taken captive by the Turks, and made a slave in one of the
Barbary States. But he never forgot the songs of Zion, although he sang
them in a strange land and to heathen ears.

One night he was solacing himself in this manner when the attention of
some sailors on board of a British