GEMS, POETIC SELECTIONS.-THE CHILDREN'S CORNER. Gems. In giving alms, let us rather look at the need of the poor than his claim to our charity. Those blessings which we are for ever expecting are the only ones which never deceive us. It is easier to do justice to those who are no longer alive than to those who are only absent. Those people whom we do know flatter our pride less than those whom we pretend to know. The envious man feels as if the praise which is granted to others was taken away from his own. To bring forward the bad actions of others to excuse our own, is like washing ourselves in mud. Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures. Poetic Selections. ONLY A WORD. A FRIVOLOUS word, a sharp retort, Where pilgrims tread, with weary feet, A frivolous word, a sharp retort, It has cut in twain the mystic tie A frivolous word, a sharp retort, Alas! for the loves and lives But live and die in secret pain. The petulant speech, the careless tongue, Have brought to the world more woe, SILENCE. IN silence mighty things are wrought; Soundless as chariots on the snow, The axle of the earth. The silent frost, with mighty hand, With universal chain: The Children's Corner. THE LAST QUESTION. A LITTLE Sabbath school boy, on his death-bed, was urging his drunken father to love the Saviour; and, fearing he had made no impression, said, "Father, I am going to heaven! What shall I tell Jesus is the reason why you don't love him ?" The father burst into tears; but before he could give the answer, his dear boy had fallen asleep in death. We hope the question sank deeply in his heart, causing him to renounce bad habits, and love the Saviour who died for all. 144 WINKS AND SON, PRINTERS, LEICESTER. |