MEMORY GEMS.

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1ike blossoms, they fall, we think we have
lost them, although the seed or shadow is
left;but they are not gone because they
have passed through a particular period of
their development.

Bee is not yesterday; we ourselves

change. How can our works and
thoughts, if they are always to be the
fittest, continue always the same? Change,
indeed, is painful, yet ever needful, and if
memory have its force and worth, so, also,

has hope.

E crave good gifts—wealth, per-
But do

Responsi-

haps, or fame, or love.
we think what they mean?
bility; and responsibility means work and
self-denial. Happiness is the unknown
quantity which iscontinually working itself

out hy holding to these. If we would

THINGS WORTH

CHEERFULNESS AN
TO CHARACTER.

ULTIVATE Cheerfulness, if only for
You will do and
bear évery duty and burden better by be-

INDEX

personal profit.
ing cheerful. It will be your consoler
in solitude, your passport and recommen-
dation in society. You will be more sought
after, more trusted and esteemed for your

steady cheerfulness. The bad and vicious

have wealth, fame or love, we must expect

to work.

HE culture of a man is more seen in

the nature of his heart than anywhere
else. The heart is cultivated, not when
our affections are allowed to evaporate in
dumb show, but when our emotions are
transmitted into life. Here is the great
difference between sentimentalism and

genuine Christian feeling.

EOPLE who live at a distance are
naturally less faulty than those
immediately under our own eyes; and it
seems superfluous, when we consider the
remote geographical position of the Ethio-
pians, and how very little the Greeks had
to do with them, to inquire further why

Homer calls them “blameless.”

REMEMBERING.

may be boisterously gay and vulgarly
humorous, but seldom or never truly
cheerful. Genuine cheerfulness is an al-
most certain index of a happy mind and a

pure heart.

TRIFLES.

apse massive gates of circumstance
Are turned upon the smallest hinge,

_And thus some seeming pettiest chance

Oft gives our life its after-tinge.