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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 31, Issue 9220, 8 June 1900, Page 3

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Loye and Faith- " Love, like faith, is reasonable, yet it is not attained by a process of reasoning. Love is consistent with reason, but reason is not its basis. A mother's love for her child is reasonable, yet a mother does not wait to argue herself into a" conviction that it is right for her to love that child before she gives it her love. The highest human love is prompted by the truest instincts of the soul, arid not by the logic of the cold intellect. Love for God, like love for a human dear one, is prompted by the inner nature of man, and, while it ie most reasonable, it is not a result of reasoning.' God is love, and man formed in God's likeness is capable of loving.apart from the demands of logic."—" S. S. Times." Overwork and Worry. " Worry is killing: It is bad management that kills people. Nature will let no man overwork himself •, unless he plays her false, unless he takes stimulants at irregular times, smokes much, or takes opium. If he is regular, and obeys the law of health, and walks in the way of physiological righteousness, Nature will never allow him or any other person to work too hard. I have never yet seen a case of breaking down from overwork alone, but 1 admit that it is 1 /jecessary above all things to cultivate ' tranquility of mind."—" Methodist Times." - j Men and the Church. ] "It is very true that the calls upon, the time and interest and sympathy of I men in general are much more numerous and much louder than in former days, and that in the loss of energy consequent upon these demands churchgoing suffers very seriously. Moreover, men require more amusement than their fathers did, they read more papers, they belong to more clubs, they spend more time in sight-seeing. Social functions have, a larger share and place in their lives ; business, too, does seem to be a. very much more serious and complex thing than a generation or two ago, and there is danger that men will let go their hold on things that have the very highest claim upon them, upon all outward habits of religion, simply because the other interests of life have so loud a voice and are so obtrusive."—" The Churchman." ill Through Life's Journey. " Can any one say on any day that he hits done his whole duty, that he has done all that he ought to have doue, that Le has uttered no hasty word, entertained no wrong thought, or passed no Larsh judgment upon his fellow-man'? Alas, such is not the experience of many who yet confidently rest in the assurance tiiat they have long been God's chil•J.i'CTi, 'aw.! tb.at no one shall pluck them out Of His hand, nor 'suyarate them from the love of God, which is in Christ 3es\\s. Alas, 110 ; we must confess that we are unprolitable servants, that Ave are both ignorant, and sinful, needing daily and hourly cleausing in the blood shed upon Calvary, and we must continue to do this all through life's jouruey."—" Episcopal Recorder." Child Life. -• If the proper study of mankind is man, the chosen study of collegiate Alumnae is. child life. Professor Russell read a paper at Worcester, Mass., recently, stemming up the results of 30,000 scientific •_ observations, among which he quotes : —Experiments with hundreds of children show that they cannot lay their firms flat 011 a table and bang tlie table vwth their hands, using the wrist joint only. Children find the greatest difficulty in threading a.needle, even when the eye is so large that a grown person ; could almost pitch the thread through it The greatest difficulty in the training of children comes from the parents, who own so much stock in the child's future that they would not let him be himself. In this connection it is proper to tell of a deep saying also from this collection : " After every one dies who will bury the undertake" was the question put by a thoughtful Massachusetts child to its mother. Not being able to answer the question as simply as it was put, the mother wrote the question down. But it has been answered for her, " be ought to fall into the sea.' Cures for Monotony. If the many small complaints from ■rchich women generally suffer were analysed, perhaps monotony would be found to be the chief cause. The physical aud mental depression produced by the deadly sameness of the daily lives of many women is distinctly injurious to both health and nerves. A change of occupation, a new course of reading, a novel fad, or fresh interest is absolutely necessary to the well-being of the active and energetic woman. In the absence of any of these life becomes stagnant, her brain clouded, her movements listless, and nerves unsteady. To such of my readers as are thus affected I would recommend gardening as an ideal occupation or amusement. Never mind if you can spare but halt'-an-hour a day or if the tiny paich of ground is covered with weeds. Go at it heartily and you will find it astonishing how much interest you-will get; out of the work, to say nothing of the disappearance of sick headache and general ennui,, which, at least, 'is something gained.