RELIGIOUS TRUTHS.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 97, 16 December 1904, Page 9

RELIGIOUS TRUTHS.

They are dearer to God that seek something from Him than they that seek to bring something to Him. — John Evangelist Gossner. / What the worldi really needs is men who have news from the land of the ideal, wbo have God's life within them, j wbo open afresh the springs of living i water that quench the thirst of the . soul. — J. Brierley. | \ Aim at perfection in every thing, though in most things it is unattaln- j able; however, they who aim at it and persevera will come much nearer to , it than those whose laziness and de- , < spondency make them give it up as ; unattainable. — Chesterfield. j True success does not mean sim- j ply having one's own way. There is i\ way which seemeth right unto a man, but tbe end thereof are the ways ci ; death. True success in this case would , mean failure, so far as our plans and pv.rposea are concerned.— United Presbyterian. ■* • ■ ; There is i fullness of the Spirit in Christ; and it is not like the fullness j of a vessel, .which only retains wha j i* poured into if; biit/it is the full- , - nes»s of a fountain, for diffusion and j communication; which is always' send- j ing forth its water and yet is always full.— Thomas Boston* -J— «■—*••-- - j I