ade for me."

--_F. W. Farrar, D. D._

2106

A man's quarrel with the world, is only a quarrel with himself.

2107

All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass--Jesus Christ came
into this world to save sinners.

--_A. Alexander._

2108

The world does not seem to care for honorable lives as much as it does
for a good bank-account.

2109

He who would enjoy many friends, and live happy in the world, must often
be deaf, dumb, and blind, to its vices and follies.

2110

IMPORTANCE OF ATTENDING PUBLIC WORSHIP.

Said the Rev. W. J. Dawson: "I know in my own heart how soon the spirit
of devoutness fades when from any cause I am deprived of public worship
for any length of time. And when I see a youth to whom religious worship
has been the atmosphere of his childhood, gradually withdrawing himself
from the means of grace, I tremble for him, because I have seen what
that means. I can think of men whom I loved, and who now lead wretched
and degraded lives, and all their misery began when they forsook the
tabernacles of their God."

2111

A soft answer turneth away wrath.

--_Proverbs xv, 1v._

2112

Call not that man wretched, who, whatever ills he suffers, has a child
to love.

--_Southey._

2113

A good life keeps off wrinkles.

--_German._

2114

What is writ, is writ--
Would it were worthier.

2115

HANDWRITING--NATIONALITY OF.

It is a remarkable fact, that no man can ever get rid of the style of
handwriting peculiar to his country. If he be English, he always writes
in English style; if French, in French style; if German, Italian, or
Spanish, in the style peculiar to his nation. Professor B----
states:--"I am acquainted with a Frenchman, who has passed all his life
in England, who speaks English like one of our own countrymen, and
writes it with ten times the correctness of ninety-nine in a hundred of
us; but yet who cannot, for the life of him, imitate our mode of
writing. I knew a Scotch youth, who was educated entirely in France, and
resided eighteen years in that country, mixing exclusively with French
people, but who, although he had a French writing-master, and, perhaps,
never saw anything but French writing in his life, or rare