r than a tear.

1889

Do not make woman weep, for God counts her tears.

--_From The Talmud._

1890

He has strangled
His language in his tears.

--_Shakespeare._

1891

There are few things more beautiful than tears, whether they are shed
for ourselves or others; they are the meek and silent effusions of
sincere feeling.

1892

Tears sometimes have the weight of words.

--_Ovid._

1893

Tears are the diamonds of the eye.

1894

TEARS--SILENCE OF

See the tide working upward to his eye,
And stealing from him in large silent drops,
Without his leave.

--_Young._

1895

Control your temper, for if it does not obey you, it will govern you.

--_Horace._

1896

Good temper is like a sunny day.

--_French._

1897

If you have a good temper, keep it; if you have a bad one, don't lose
it.

1898

When you're in the right you can afford to keep your temper, and when
you're in the wrong you can't afford to lose it.

1899

Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the
idle.

--_Spurgeon._

1900

Toil is a foil against temptation.

1901

ONE VIEW OF THEATRES.

The chief reason why no Christian should attend the theatre is the
character of a large majority of plays put on the stage.

Listen to what the play-writers and actors themselves say:

M. Dumas, a French writer of plays, wrote: "Never take your daughter to
the theatre; it is not merely the work that is immoral, it is the
place."

W. C. Macready, the great actor, said: "None of my children shall ever,
with my consent, enter a theatre, or have any visiting connection with
actors or actresses."

Edwin Booth, the great tragedian, wrote: "My knowledge of the modern
theatre is so very meagre that I never permit my wife or daughter to
witness a play without previously ascertaining its character. The
theatre is permitted to be a mere shop for gain, open to every huckster
of immoral adventures,--jimcracks."

Fanny Kemble, the actress, confessed that life on the stage was
unhealthy to morals, and said: "I never presented