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adventurous progeny. It went about in the voyager's chest, the talisman of his ancestral faith, the keepsake `of home affection. It went to Jamestown, and it went to Plymouth Rock. It was read by the camp fire of Smith, and in the log-hut of the New England fathers." Rev. A. C. Coxe.

CHRISTIAN JOY.

"You destroy the divine image in your soul, by sadness. God is joy. All Nature rejoices in its Creator. Would you remain in a sorrowful silence? It is Christian joy that makes the heart fear God." - Lombez.

"THE history of the Saxon princes is but the scuffling of kites and crows." David Hume.

FORCE OF EXAMPLE.

"DURING the minority of reason, imitation is the regent of the soul; and always they who are least swayed by argument, are most governed by imitation."

HUMILITY AND ASPIRATION.

"IT is a good thing to believe, it is a good thing to admire. By continually looking up, our minds will themselves grow upward; and as a man by indulging in the habit of scorn and contempt for others, is sure to descend to the level of what he despises, so the opposite habits of admiration and enthusiastic reverence for ex

cellence, impart to ourselves, a portion of the qualities we admire. Here, as in everything else, humility is the surest path to exaltation." — Dr. Arnold.

GOOD HUMOR.

"Good humor is the clear sky of the soul, in which every star of talent will shine more clearly, and the sun of genius encounter no vapors in his passage. It is the most exquisite beauty of a fine face, the redeeming grace of a homely one. It is like the green in a landscape, harmonizing every color, mellowing the light, and softening the shadow."

VALUE OF BIOGRAPHY.

"WOULD that in the German language there were more biographical works, adapted to illustrate and promote a truly elevated, practical christianity, by laying open the sanctuary of the inner life. English literature is exceeding rich in such biographies, and the religious life of England, owes not a little of its activity to this circumstance. Though we Germans are comparatively poor in the materials of such reading, yet it may be said that even among us, more awakenings have proceeded from the written lives of those eminent for piety, than from printed sermons, and books of devotion. In the circle of our own knowledge, are a great number of Christians, and among them names of the first rank in the religious world, who are essentially indebted to works of biography, for the conformation and stability of their spiritual life." - Professor Tholuck.

THOUGHTS FROM MRS. BROWNING.

THE layers of birthdays on a woman's head
Are apt to fossilize her girlish mirth.”

"THE poets get directlier to the soul,

Than your economists."

"FREE men, freely work :

Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease."

"ALL Society,

Howe'er unequal, monstrous, crazed, or cursed,
Is but the expression of mens' single lives,

The loud sum of the units."

"THIS imminent loss,

The perfect presence of a gracious friend."

“HER broad, wild, woodland eyes shot out a light,
Her smile was wonderful."

"EYES that have wept much, see clearly."

"I HAVE not long stood on the strand of life,
And these salt waters have had hardly time,
To creep so high up as to wet my feet,

I cannot judge such tides.”

From "Aurora Leigh."

CENTRAL AMERICA.

"WILL Central America be annexed to this Republic? Without a doubt. The insatiable instinct of the race, or races from whence we come, is to grab everything within its reach, and go in search of what lies beyond it. The Central Americans must, therefore, be exterminated, or we shall surely absorb' them.”

GOD'S PRAISE.

"EVENTS, as they pass away, proclaim their original. Listen reverently and you will hear the receding centuries as they pass into the dim distance of departed time, perpetually chanting "Te deum laudamus." — Bancroft.

EDUCATION.

“THE end of education, is to repair the ruin of our first parents, by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love Him, to imitate Him, to grow like Him." - Milton.

NO COMPLAINING.

“Don't run about, telling that you have been unfortunate. People do not like unfortunate ones for their acquaintances. Poverty is like a panther; look it steadfastly in the eyes, and it turns away."

IMPROVEMENT IN AGE.

"PLINY saith that the crocodile continues to grow till her last day; and that the almond tree blossoms in January. So, should the aged Christian grow and blos

"JULIANUS said, that when he had one foot in the grave, he would have the other in the school. Such honor is it to be an old disciple.'".

"WHEN thou feelest a disposition to sin, seek for a place where God cannot see thee."

Lokman.

COLUMBUS.

"His person, had an air of grandeur. His hair, from many hardships, had long been grey. In him you saw a man of unconquerable courage, high-thoughted, patient of wrong, calm in adversity, ever trusting in God. Had he lived in ancient times, statues and temples would have been erected to him, without number, and his name placed among the stars; though by the Genoese and Spaniards, he was regarded as resolved on a wild dedication of himself, to untracked waters, and undreamed of shores.". - Hevrara.

SUFFRAGE OF BYRON.

"INDISPUTABLY, the firm believers in the Gospel, have a great advantage over all others, for this simple reason, that if true, they will have their reward hereafter: and if not true, they have had the assistance of an exalted hope through life.

"The thorns which I have reaped, are from the tree

I planted: they have torn me, and I bleed,

I might have known what fruit must spring from such a seed."

"IT is not by regretting what is irreparable, that any true work is to be accomplished: but by making the best of what remains, and of what we are. Forget mistakes or rather organize victory out of mistakes."

TRUE VIEW OF LIFE.

"DEATH did not first strike Adam, the first sinning man; nor Cain the first hypocrite; but Abel, the first