The Resurrection.
[ \ seed found in the hand of an Egyptian
iiiiiiiimy two thousand years old. when plant
ed bloomed into a beautiful flower.]
I wo thousand years ago, a flower
bloomed brightly in a far-off land;
Two thousand years ago, its seed
W as placed within a dead man's hand.
Itefore the Saviour came to earth,
That man had lived and loved and died,
And even in that far-off time,
The flower had spread its perfume wide.
Suns rose and set—years eame and went.
The dead hand kept its treasure well;
Nations were born and turned to dust,
While life was hidden in that shell.
The shirveled hand is robbed at last.
The seed is buried In the earth;
W hen lo! the life long hidden there
Into a glorious flower burst forth.
Just such a plant as that which grew
From such a seed when buried low;
Just such a flower in Egypt bloomed
And died two thousand years ago.
And will not He who watched the seed
And kept the life within the shell,
W hen those He loves are laid to rest.
Watch o'er their dust as well?
Just such a face as greets you now.
Just such a form as here we wear.
Only more glorious far, will rise
To meet the Saviour in the air.
Then I will lay me down in peace.
When called to leave this vale of tears.
For "in my flesh shall I see God,"
E'en though I sleep two thousand years.
Light burdens long borne grow heavy.
Open your purse and mouth cautiously.
Where the will is ready the feet are
light.
Agreeable counsels are rarely useful
counsels.
Talking comes by nature: silence by
understanding.
The greatest scholars are not the wisest
men.
No man ever yet looked on the dark
side of life without finding it.
It is only for innocence that solitude !
can have any charms.
Manner is one of the greatest engines !
of influence ever given to man.
Justice is like a glass, which cannot be
bent, but is easily broken.
It is more profitable to look up our de- ;
lects than to boast of our attainments.
How few faults are there seen by us
which we have not ourselves committed.
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Know well your incomings, and your !
outgoings may be better regulated.
Hope softens sorrow, brightens plain
surroundings, and eases a hard lot.
I'assions are, perhaps, the stings with
out which, it is said no honey is made.
All men look to happiness in the future.
To every eye heaven and earth seem to
embrace in the distance.
No man is rich whose expenditures ex
ceed his means; and no otis is poor whose
incomings exceed his outgoings.
It is a fact worth remembering that it
does not take half as long lo make a
wound as to heal one.
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Men seldom improve when they have
no other models than themselves to copy
after.
Vou can not dream yourself into a char- 1
acter; you must hammer and forge your
self one.
Modesty is to worth what shadows are
in a painting; she gives it strength and re
lief.
The New Haven I{cyister, (Dem.,) i
speaks of the steal in as "poetic
justice."
1 here arc many men whose tongues
might govern multitudes if they could
govern their tongues.
No man ever lived who had only one
fault. A single fault has both sexes in
itself, and is sure to beget a large family.
When you are down-hearted and the i
world looks black to you, you ought to be I
hospitable enough to entertain a hope of
better days.
CIIUISTMAS, 1879.
NEW YEARS, 1880.
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