AT CHRYSTEMASSE TYDE.

"Two sorrie Thynges there be—
Ay, three;

A Neste from which ye Fledglings have been taken,
A Lambe forsaken,

A redde leaf from ye Wilde Rose rudely shaken.

"Of gladde Thynges there be more—
Ay, four;

A Larke above ye olde Neste blythely singing,
A Wilde Rose clinging

In safety to a Rock: a Shepherde bringing
A Lambe, found, in his armes, and Chrystemasse
Bells a-ringing."

I know there are voices I do not hear,

And colors I do not see;

I know that the world has numberless doors
Of which I have not the key.

-Minot J. Savage.

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
-Shakespeare.

What had the life of Jesus been to us, if we had only the records of his sermons, without the record of his going about doing good. -Bishop Simpson.

When I say that it was March, I need add nothing about the weather. -Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.

-Emerson.

"Medicine for the soul."

-Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes.

The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.

- Thoreau.

"He who is always inquiring what people will say, will never give them opportunity to say anything great about him."

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

-Blanco White.

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it. -Phillips Brooks.

Never does a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner of portraying another's.

-Richter.

The nimble lie

Is like the second-hand upon a clock;
We see it fly, while the hour-hand of truth
Seems to stand still; and yet it moves unseen,
And wins at last, for the clock will not strike
Till it has reached the goal.

-Longfellow.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of a man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. -Thoreau.

What we like determines what we are, and is the sign of what we are; and to teach taste is inevitably to form character.

-Ruskin.

A noble deed is a step toward God.

A small drop of ink,

Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
-Byron.

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.

-Marcus Aurelius.

-J. G. Holland.

Friends-those relations that one makes for one's -Deschamps.

self.

To have joy one must share it. born a twin.

Happiness was
-Byron.

And where we love is home,

Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. The chain may lengthen, but it never parts.

-Holmes.