Else noxious oceans, rivers, lakes, and streams-
All feel the refreshing impulse and are cleansed
By restless undulation.

Cowper.

Adversity.

HALF the ills we hoard in our hearts are ills because we hoard them. Barry Cornwall.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

Horace.

Our dependence on God ought to be so entire and absolute that we should never think it necessary, in any kind of distress, to have recourse to human consolations. Thomas à Kempis.

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart to discover its real worth.

H. De Balzac.

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. C. C. Colton.

Quarrel not rashly with adversities not yet understood, and overlook not the mercies often bound up in them; for we consider not sufficiently the good of evils, nor fairly compute the mercies of Providence in things afflictive at first hand.

Sir Thomas Browne.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

H. Fielding.

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.

Prosperity is a great teacher; Possession pampers the mind; strengthens it.

Sir Philip Sidney.

adversity is a greater. privation trains and W. Hazlitt.

The rose which in the sun's bright rays
Might soon have drooped and perished,
With grateful scent the shower repays
By which its life is cherished;
And thus have e'en the young in years
Found flowers within that flourish
And yield a fragrance fed by tears,
That sunshine could not nourish.

Bernard Barton.

Adversity's cold frost will soon be o'er:
It heralds brighter days; the joyous Spring
Is cradled on the Winter's icy breast,
And yet comes flushed in beauty.

Mrs. Hemans.

He who hath never warred with misery,
Nor ever tugged with fortune and distress,
Hath had no occasion, nor no field to try
The strength and forces of his worthiness.

S. Daniel

For ever from the hand that takes
One blessing from us, others fall;
And, soon or late, our Father makes
His perfect recompense to all.

Whittier.

.. God hath created nights

As well as days to deck the varied globe;
Grace comes as oft clad in the dusky robe
Of desolation, as in white attire.

John Beaumont.

For God has marked each sorrowing day,
And numbered every secret tear,
And heaven's long years of bliss shall pay
For all his children suffer here.

W. C. Bryant.

Advice.

HE that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with the other; but he that gives good admonition and bad example builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. W. T. Bacon.

Let no man presume to give advice to others that has not first given good counsel to himself. Seneca.

They that will not be counseled can not be helped. If you do not hear Reason, she will rap your knuckles.

Franklin.

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Helvetius.

Every man, however wise, requires the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

Plautus.

No man is so foolish but he may give another good counsel sometimes, and no man so wise but he may easily err, if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that was taught only by himself had a fool for a

master.

Ben Jonson.

They gave me advice and counsel in store,
Praised me and honored me more and more;
Said that I should only "wait a while,"
Offered their patronage, too, with a smile.

But with all their honor and approbation,
I should long ago have died of starvation,
Had there not come an excellent man,
Who bravely to help me along began.

Good fellow! he got me the food I ate,
His kindness and care I shall never forget;

Yet I can not embrace him-though other folks can—
For I myself am this excellent man.

Harper's Magazine.

Affliction.

THE very afflictions of our earthly pilgrimage are presages of our future glory, as shadows indicate the

sun.

J. P. F. Richter.

It is a great thing when our Gethsemane hours come, when the cup of bitterness is pressed to our lips, and when we pray that it may pass away, to feel that it is not fate, that it is not necessity, but divine love for good ends working upon us. E. H. Chapin.

As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

R. Burton.

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches. James Burgh.

The cloud which appeared to the prophet Ezekiel carried with it winds and storms, but it was environed with a golden circle to teach us that the storms of affliction which happen to God's children are encompassed with brightness and smiling felicity.

N. Caussin.

Tears, and sorrows, and losses are a part of what must be experienced in this present state of life; some for our manifest good, and all, therefore, it is trusted, for our good concealed-for our final and greatest good.

Leigh Hunt.