ITEMS OF INTEREST

Lake County Press, Issue 2790, 19 June 1919, Page 7

ITEMS OF INTEREST

There is a great want in those Christians that have not suffered.— U'Cheyne. Few are qualified to shine in company ; but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.—Swift. Every wish Is like a prayer—with God. E. B. Browning. Blessings ar strewn like flowers in our pathway; it rests with us to gather them up carefully or pass them by. There is no solitude like that of the societv of unlike, unsympathising natures," kept together by external reasons.—W. H. Beecher. Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.—Schiller. If God is perfectly happy, He must be perfectly occupied: I see no difficulty, therefore, in believing in Special Providence, if one believes in an Infinite Mind. It is a great wisdom not to believe every thing "which thou hearest, nor immediately to relate again to others what thou hast heard or dost believe. —Thomas a Kempis. Men talk much of proof; but A is a cheap thing; vou can only prove hard, dead things, like mathematics. ine warm, live things can only have degrees of probability. \ little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep or taste not the Pierian soriiiff * There shallow draughts intoxicate the And "drinking largely sobers us again. —PopeWe cannot live on probabilities The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, 01 it is nothing.—James Anthony Fronde. Nothing can possibly fail, because the sole tin." end or object is redemption of man : and this attained ever and for ever, with no exception, in good and evil in each largest and each most trivial thing.—Jamea Hinton. I Those who are without God in the world have no adequate friend. The small amount of real friendship among men is well known. "They all forsook I him ind tied" is human nature's commentary on the most flaming protestations of fidelity.