Good Thoughts.

Western Star, Issue 377, 4 September 1880, Page 1 (Supplement)

Good Thoughts.

r.lt is said of Baxter that " he walked on earth as a citizen of heaven." It. is a Chinese proverb that " one good word capwarm three winter months." ' insignificant as to be sure his example, can dp no hurt.— Clarendon. .' A.Christian can no more hide his character than the suii can hide its shining. 'Everything that truly and naturally belongs to a. human career has its sacred side. The sphere of Christian.duty is not there nor yorider; but here, just where you are. .' .' ".Aii honest calling is the Christian's throne. It is his providential opportunity to rule. ' Live 'On the mount if you can, but do not fret and murmur when you are passing through the valley.' ; .' . - Loyfe for (Sod is only a vaporous sentiment,, a' misty'emotion, unless it manifests itself in love for men. • j Unless We so live as to make this world a profitable part of' the next, it is not necesssary to live at.all.-i/. Joshua Jenkins. Look not at the darkness, but the lighL Enumerate, not your trials, but your blessings; Cultivate' cheerfulness, not despondency. Q-bd has so'arranged the chronometry of our Spirits 'that' there .shall be thousands of silent, moments'between the striking hours. .Yet if 'in'our weakness we ask for that which stems'to; tfs'necessary, and are urgent in pleading' <are not to think that we receive ## r ; answer J be"ca!use we do not. obtain the very: - he loves best isthat which is burhefli not'•in golden censer, to waste its per|fume on the air, but in the homes of need, to- ! cheer.sbttie'huihan weariness or comfort some thuman'SdrrO.w. - .• If 'we'afe willing to do what nobody else will do, t$ go where nobody else will go, to beir nobody else will bear, it is then we are arriving l at the point of self denial requiied in the Scriptures.