Items of Interest.

Lake County Press, Issue 2350, 10 November 1910, Page 2

Items of Interest.

Religion consists, not in answering certain questions, but in making men of a certain quality.—Frederic Harrison.

Do the right, and vow ideal of it grows and perfects itself. Do the wrong, and your ideal of it breaks up and vanishes. —Martineau.

Happy are they who shall learn from thy example not to despair, that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere endeavours ever unassisted.: —Dr. Johnson.

When science from creation’s iacc Enchantment’s veil withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws!

One who never turned back, but marched breast forward; Never doubted clouds would break; Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph; Held wc fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake. _ —Browning.

A noble mind. - With this and pleasures under ban, True faith and holy trust in God, Thou art the peer of any man. I ook up, then, that thv little span Of life may be well trod. —Gallagher.

We have, no right to lake what \vc call moral risks. '1 he instant we admit “risk,” we must, if we arc honest, admit “injury.” Duty-doing is never a risk. Anything less than dutydoing' is not risk, but failure.

Of all the beings here below, man is the only being that prays. It is in nraver that he seeks, when all is failing him. support for his weakness, comfort in hfs afflictions, encouragement for his virtue.—M. Guizct.

Thc main thing which we ought to teach our youth is to sec something- - nil that the eyes which God as given ilk-iii arc capable of seeing. .1 he J„m of what we do teach them is to sav something. —Jo.hn Ruskin.

He is good that does good to •ihcrs. If he suffers for the good he docs, he is better still; and if be suffers from them to whom he did good, he is arrived to that eight of goodness that, nothing but an increase ~pf his suG firings ran add to it; if- it proves his death, his virtue is at_ its tt is heroism complete.—Ut-Brut ere.