Good Words.

Clutha Leader, Volume XX, Issue 1026, 23 March 1894, Page 7

Good Words.

Charity is never lost. It may be of no service to those it is bestowed on, yet it does a work of beauty and grace upon the heart of the giver.

Fdlse friendship, says Robert Burton, is like the ivy — decays and ruins the wall it embraces ; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

There is nothing in which a young ,business-man should take more pride than in the reputation that whatever he pledges himself to do will within all human probability be faithfully per-

formed

Friendship consists properly in mutual offices and a generous strife in alternate act of kindness. But he who does a kindness to an ungrateful person sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand. • Upon the former he makes no impression, and from the latter he finds no production.

Having a purpose in life is essential to right living. If a man does not know what he is living for, he may well be in doubt whether life, is worth living. Unless a man is living to a purpose he has either not yet begun to live or has got through living, and in either case he is out of place in the world.

Self-culture alone, though apparently non-productive, never ends with self. To undervalue it or to be tempted to give it up on this ground would be a great' mistake. Beyond- the personal gain to such a one there is a gain to jthose around him, even though he make no direct effort at all. Every one who raises his own mind to a higher level by that very act raises the community of which he is a part.

Life is a continous warfare, a struggle with natural forces constantly tending to dissolution, and every passing year leaves it with diminished power to resist unceasing assaults, until death terminates the contest. ,-Noris recuperation from injury resulting from the conflict less -weakened by the progress of age. Diseases of manhood come and go with little apprehension of danger or death, while the same seldom fail to prostrate ah aged man and imperil his life. Hence the danger of any kind of self-indulgenpe or exposure when .the signs of age are upon us. - .'-■'•' >; ''. ' ''•' .