like its pleasures. Those who enjoy them with moderation and contentment, when the whisk of death approaches, not having their hearts filled with the love of them, can with ease escape its snare; while all who, like the foolish flies, have given themselves wholly to their sweetness will meet with destruction."-From the Hindustani. 6159. WORLD, not complete. It has been claimed by some that they could have made a better universe. An audacious critic has asserted that he could have done this very thing, made a better world, as La Place said he could have constructed a better planetary system. When asked how he would alter the present order he replied, "I should make health catching instead of disease -a very bright answer, but its wit is not so great as its apparent wisdom.-Theodore T. Munger. 6160. WORLD, not to be unnoticed by man. An artificer takes it ill if, when he hath finished some curious piece of work and set it forth to be seen, as Apelles was wont to do, men slight it and take no notice of his handiwork. And is there not a woe to such stupid persons as "regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of His hands?" "Asino quispiam narrabat fabulam, at ille movebat aures " is a proverb among the Greeks. Christ was by at the creation, and rejoiced; angels also were at the doing of a great deal, and were rapt with admiration. Shall they shout for joy and we be silent?-Trapp. 6161. WORLD, Opinions of, how obtained. Billy Bray, the Cornish preacher, was once amongst a number of people who were saying hard things about the world, and they appealed to him for his testimony. Billy did not care to answer, and quietly said, "I doon't noo much aboot it, friends." This was not considered satisfactory, and they pressed the quaint and joyous man of God for further words. Praise the Lord," said Billy; "it's true I doon't noo much aboot it. I ain't a-ben a-down there this twelve years." The old man lived in the presence of the King. 6162. WORLD, Pleasures of, short-lived. The Persians, when they obtained a victory, selected the noblest slave and made him king for three days; clothed him with royal robes and ministered to him all the pleasures he could choose; but at the end of all he was to die as a sacrifice to mirth and folly. So the peasures of the world are short-lived.Buck. many gentlemen, and were confounded among the crowd of courtiers.-I. D'Israeli. 6165. WORLD, Rule of. The noble authoress of the "New and Heavenly Horizons" tells us, in one of her later books, how that one day she found a lamb lying in bleating helplessness by the dusty roadside, while the shepherd and the other sheep were already some distance in advance. She had compassion on the poor animal, and carried it with her until she overtook the flock. The mother ewe had all along been answering the bleatings of her offspring, and now turned eagerly to receive it; but the shepherd rudely drove her back. "It can't keep up," he said, "and must be left behind." Such is the world's hard rule. 6166. WORLD, to be conquered. Crates threw his gold into the sea, saying, "I will destroy thee, lest thou destroy me !" If men do not put the love of the world to death, the love of the world will put them to death.- Venning. 6167. WORLD, Upward progress in. The work of redemption may, I repeat, be the work of God's Sabbath-day. What I ask, viewed as a whole, is the prominent characteristic of geologic history, or of that corresponding history of creation which forms the grandly fashioned vestibule of the sacred volume? Of both alike the leading characteristic is progress. In both alike do we find an upward progress from dead matter to the humbler forms of vitality, and from thence to the higher. . . . The creative fiat went forth, and dead matter came into existence. The creative fiat went forth, and plants, with the lower animal forms, came into existence. The creative fiat went forth, and the mammiferous animals-cattle and beasts of the earth-came into existence. And finally, last in the series, the creative fiat went forth, and responsible, immortal man came into existence. The long-ascending line from dead matter to man has been a progress Godwards, not an asymptotical progress, but destined from the beginning to furnish a point of union;-and occupying that point as true God and true man, Creator and created, we recognise the adorable Monarch of all the Future -Hugh Miller. 6168. WORLD, Vastness of. A student of Erfurt, desiring to see Nuremberg, departed with a friend on a journey thither. Before they had walked half a mile he asked his companion whether they should soon get to Nuremberg, and was answered, ""Tis scarce likely, since we have only just left Erfurt." Having repeated the question 6163. WORLD, Providential government of another half mile farther on, and getting the same I happened to remark to a stranger who was sit-answer, he said, "Let's give up the journey, and ting next me at a table d'hôte at Rudolstadt, in Thuringia, that I feared the rains must have been go back, since the world is so vast!"-Luther's doing a great deal of mischief. He turned out to be a scientific man from Berlin, and replied, "I should think they were much needed to replenish the springs, after three years of drought." I immediately felt that I had made an idle and thoughtless speech.-Sir Charles Lyell (to Kingsley). 6164 WORLD, Regard of. Francis the First was accustomed to say, that when the nobles of his kingdom came to court they were received by the world as so many little kings; that the day after they were only beheld as so many princes; but on the third day they were merely considered as so Table Talk. 6169. WORLD, wide enough for all. A drummer who formed one of Whitefield's open-air congregation determined to drown the preacher's voice by beating his drum violently. Whitefield attempted to hold his own, and raised his voice to a very high pitch; but all to no purpose. He then addressed the drummer personally in a happy speech. "Friend," he said, "you and I serve the two greatest masters existing, but in different callings you beat up volunteers for King George, and I for the Lord Jesus. Let us not interrupt each other. The world is wide enough for both, and we may get recruits in abundance."-Gledstone's Life of Whitefield. 6170. WORLD, without Christians. An infidel young lawyer, going to the West to settle for life, made it his boast that he "would locate in some place where there were no churches, Sunday-schools, or Bibles." He found a place which substantially met his conditions. But before the year was out he wrote to a former classmate, a young minister, begging him to come out and bring plenty of Bibles, and begin preaching, and start a Sunday-school, for, he said, he had "become convinced that a place without Christians, and Sabbaths, and churches, and Bibles was too much like hell for any living man to stay in." at a distance until it has passed the openings; & so the result is the same as if it were a dead all round. Behold the circle of human life! ft. earth, earthy it is, almost throughout its w circumference. A dead wall, very near and ve thick, obstructs the view. Here and there, m Sabbath or other season of seriousness, a slit is open in its side. Heaven might be seen thr these; but, alas! the eye which is habitually for the earthly cannot, during such momena glimpses, adjust itself to higher things. [1you pause and look steadfastly, you will see n clouds nor sunshine through these openings, distant sky. So long has the soul looked up world, and so firmly is the world's picture f in its eye, that when it is turned for a moed heavenward it feels only a quiver of inartienis light, and retains no distinct impression of v things that are unseen and eternal.—W. Arnt 6174. WORLDLINESS, Motto of Alur came to Anchiala, built by Sardanapalus Hister was still to be seen in that city, with this inser tion :-" Sardanapalus built Anchiala and Tax in one day: Go, passenger, eat and drink and ry for the rest is nothing."-Little's Historical Light 6175. WORLDLINESS, Reward of. It is wr the Duke d'Alva starved his prisoners after be ba given them quarter, saying, "Though I prom your lives, I promised not to find you meat." Tha in the same manner doth the world deceive a votaries in the end.-Buck. 6171. WORLDLINESS, Attractions of. Nearly all can recall that favourite fiction of their childhood, the voyage of Sindbad the sailor into the Indian Sea. They will remember that magnetic rock that rose from the surface of the placid waters. Silently Sindbad's vessel was attracted towards it; silently the bolts were drawn out of the ship's side, one by one, through the subtle attraction of that magnetic rock. And when the fated vessel drew so near that every bolt and clamp was unloosed, the whole structure of bulwark, mast, and spars tumbled into ruin on the sea, and the sleeping sailors awoke to their drowning agonies. So stands the magnetic rock of worldliness athwart the Christian's path. Its attraction is subtle, silent, slow, but fearfully powerful on every soul that floats within its range. Under its enchanting spell bolt after bolt of good resolution, clamp after clamp of Christian obligation, are 6176. WORLDLING, State of. A Chinese vË stealthily drawn out. What matters it how long or was one day seen by a missionary to enter a temp how fair has been the man's profession of religion, In her hands were some humble offerings, such a or how flauntingly the flag of his orthodoxy floats a twig, or rice, for propitiating the poor blind des from the masthead? Let sudden temptation smite There he stood, some forty feet high, blackened an the unbolted professor, and in an hour he is a wreck. begrimed with the smoke of incense, for hundra He cannot hold together in a tempest of trial, he of years. She presented her petition; she ca cannot go out on any cruise of Christian service, upon the idol to protect and return in safety br because he is no longer held together by a divine husband, then on the sea in a storm. A few wee principle within. It has been drawn out of him after the missionary was there, and saw the s by that mighty loadstone of attraction, a sinful, female enter the temple in a rage. She stood b godless, self-pampering, Christ-rejecting world.fore the grim idol and cursed it for being so blat Cuyler. so deaf, so helpless as to let her husband peris Yes, the wailing widow of heathen life only echo the sad complaints of millions in Christian landa They found their hopes and build their plans on just such baseless, blind, deaf gods as this humbe dweller in darkness. The worldling ever prays a god that is deaf and blind!-Van Doren. 6172. WORLDLINESS, Danger of, illustrated. I once saw a picture of an artist sitting on a rock in the ocean, which had been left bare by the retreating tide. There he sat, sketching on his canvas the beautiful scenery around him, sky and wave and sea, all unconscious that the tide had turned, had cut him off from the shore, and was rapidly covering the rock on which he sat. tempest, the waves, the rising sea were forgotten, so absorbed was he in his picture; nor did he hear his friends calling to him from the shore. The 6177. WORLDLING, when satisfied. "When I was a lad," says one, an old gentleman took some trouble to teach me some little knowledge of the world. With this view, I remember, he once asked me when a man was rich enough. I replied, 'When he has a thousand pounds.' He said, 'No.' 'T thousand?' 'No.' Ten thousand ?' 'No.' 6173. WORLDLINESS, its blinding influence. Suppose I were shut up within a round-tower, Twenty thousand?' 'No.' 'A hundred thou whose massive wall had in some time of trouble sand?' which I thought would settle the business; been pierced here and there for musketry; suppose, but he still continuing to say, 'No.' I gave it up further, that by choice or necessity I am whirled and confessed I could not tell, but begged he would rapidly and incessantly round its inner circum-inform me. He gravely said, 'When he has a little ference, will I appreciate the beauties of the surrounding landscape or recognise the features of the men who labour in the field below? I will not ! Why? Are there not openings in the wall which I pass at every circuit? Yes; but the eye, set for objects near, has not time to adjust itself to objects more than he has, and that is never!'" 6178. WORLDLINGS, Not at home with. When Isocrates, dining with the King of Cyprus, was asked why he did not mix in the discourse of the company, he replied, "What is seasonable I do not know, and what I know is not seasonable."-Horace their punishment-ay, but it is their refuge!Smith. Lamartine. 6179. WORLDLINGS, Treasures of. There is a fable of a covetous man who chanced to find his way one moonlight night into a fairy's palace. There he saw bars, apparently of solid gold, strewed on every side; and he was permitted to take away as many as he could carry. In the morning, when the sun rose on his imaginary treasure, borne home with so much toil, behold! there was only a bundle of sticks, and invisible beings filled the air around him with scornful laughter. 6180. WORLDLY honours, Right estimate of. When he (Cato) was asked one day why no statues had been erected to him, when Rome was crowded with so many others, "I had much rather," said he, “people should inquire why I have none than why I have any."-Rollin. 6181. WORLDLY honours, True estimate of. One day, when I saw the King (Henry VIII.) walking with him for an hour, holding his arm about his neck, I rejoiced, and said to Sir Thomas More, how happy he was whom the King so familiarly entertained, as I had never seen any one before, except Cardinal Wolsey. "I thank our Lord, son," said he, "I find His Grace my very good lord indeed, and I believe he doth as singularly favour me as any other subject within this realm; how beit, son Roper, I may tell thee I have no cause to be proud thereof; for I know that if my head would win him a castle in France, it should not fail to go."—Roper. 6182. WORLDLY pursuits, unsatisfying. The children of the Samians insulted Homer, because, said they, Homer obstructed the highways of the islands by singing poetry before the houses. I am not Homer; but my critics are more severe than the Samians. Upon these pages where they reproach me for heaping piles of vanity it is not ink you read; no, believe me it is not; but the sweat of my brow. It is not my name I seek to magnify, but the pledge of those who have no estate and no existence save that name. My name !-ah! I know as well as you do what that name is worth, and what will be its fate. I would, with all my heart (God is my witness), that name had never been uttered. I would give all that may yet remain to me of life if it were entirely buried, with him who bears it, in the silence of the tomb-noiselessly borne to the graveyard there, forgotten here. Life to me now is as nothing worth. What have I now, I pray, to regret in life? Have I not seen all my thoughts perish before me? Do I design again to sing in life, with an extinguished voice, strophes which would end in sobs? Have I taste for returning into those political struggles which, were they even opened again, would no longer recognise my posthuHave I any firm hope in those forms of government which the people abandon with as much fickleness as they adopted them? Am I so insane as to believe that I shall cast, or that I shall sculpture-I alone-in bronze or marble, a colossal statue of the human race, when God has given, wherewith to do so, but sand and clay to the greatest of sculptors? Of what use is life when one can contemplate nothing but the ruins of those things which are recorded in his mind? Happy the men who die at their work, struck down by the revolutions in which they were engaged. Death is mous accents? 6183. WORLDLY success, Uncertainty in. Some years ago a man wrote:-"I called on a friend, a great antiquary, a gentleman always referred to in all matters relating to the city of Boston, and he told me that in the year 1800 he took a memorandum of every person on Long Wharf; and that in 1840, which is as long as a merchant continues in business, only five in one hundred remained. They had all in that time failed, or died destitute of property.-Talmage. 6184. WORLDS, more than one inhabited. The Creator of the solar system, launched into an orbit of immeasurable circuit, and wheeling through ether with the velocity of nearly five miles in a second (but without inhabitants other than those on the earth), may have some resemblance to a mighty autocrat, who should establish a railway round the coasts of Europe and Asia, and place upon it an enormous train of first-class carriages, impelled year after year by tremendous steam-power, while there was but a philosopher and a culprit in an humble van, attended by hundreds of unoccupied carriages and empty trucks!-Sir David Brewster. 6185. WORSHIP, Attendance at. Mr. Joel Barlow, of Hartford, in New England (author of the "Advice to Privileged Orders"), meeting the Rev. Mr. Strong, of the same place, one day, asked him why he did not publish the set of sermons he had so long promised the world. "There is one subject," replied Mr. Strong, "I cannot get master of." "What is that?" said Mr. Barlow. "To reconcile the profession of the Christian religion with non. attendance on public worship." 6186. WORSHIP, Carelessness about. Campbell is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years, but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat. This shows that he has good principles.Dr. Johnson. mittee of a church called upon a wealthy member 6187. WORSHIP, Claims of. The building comof the congregation, soliciting a subscription toward a new house of worship. The sum he subscribed disappointed them, and they told him so, at the same time intimating that Mr. Jinks had given double the amount. "So he should," said the wily gentleman; "he goes to church twice as much as I do." 6188. WORSHIP, Disturbers of. An American divine, being annoyed by some irreligious youths in the time of service in church, made a pause, and then, addressing himself to the congregation generally, said, "Some years ago I learnt a very salutary lesson. A young man in my congregation misbehaved so seriously that I stopped in the midst of my sermon and sharply rebuked him. When I went into the vestry afterwards my deacons told me I had made a sad mistake, for the young man I had been reproving was an idiot. Ever since then," continued the preacher, "I have been very cautious in rebuking the disturbers of religious worship, lest I should commit the same mistake." The effect was decisive.-W. Antliff, D.D. 6189. WORSHIP, Drowsiness in. When we are drowsy in the worship of God we should pray as a good Christian once did, "The Lord deliver me from this sleepy devil!"-Matthew Henry. head in. Yet, although poor and outwardly wretcha. she was a child of God, one of the jewels which sought for, we should sometimes find in dust-beas With a bashfulness not unnatural, she had shri from exposing her poverty to the stare of wellcongregations, resorting on Sabbath-days to well-appropriate place-where a pious man vi wont to preach to ragged outcasts, crying in 6190. WORSHIP, God and man in. A Greek author tells us there was an ancient temple, at the entrance of which there was a mirror of such a nature that when the worshipper entered it cast on him the likeness of the god he worshipped.-name of Jesus, “If any man thirst, let him ou R. Smith. 6191. WORSHIP, Ideas of. The DowagerDuchess of Richmond went one Sunday with her daughter to the Chapel-Royal at St. James's, but being late, they could find no places. After looking about some time, and seeing the case was hopeless, she said to her daughter, "Come away, Louisa; at any rate, we have done the civil thing."-Raikes" Diary. unto me and drink." In ignorance of this, a 6192. WORSHIP, Incongruities in. When I was a young friar at Erfurt, and had to go out into 6196. WORSHIP, not to be enforced. The the villages for puddings and cheeses, I once came magistrates (among the New England Puritan: to a little town where I held Mass. Now, when insisted on the presence of every man at pat I had put on my vestments and trimmings and worship. Roger Williams reprobated the law; t approached the altar, the clerk or sexton of the worst statute in the English code was that whe church began merrily to strike upon the lute the did but enforce attendance upon the parish churt Kyri eleison; whereat I, who scarcely could forbear "An unbelieving soul is dead in sin;" such was b laughing, was constrained to direct and tune my argument; and to force the indifferent from se Gloria in excelsis, according to his Kyri eleison.-worship to another "was like shifting a dead ma into several changes of apparel.”—Little's Historica Lights. Luther. 6193. WORSHIP, in heathen lands. The Sabbath here (Sandwich Islands) is a most interesting day to the Christian and missionary. The number of decently dressed heathens who flock to the humble temple of the only true God; the attention and seriousness with which many of them listen to the words of eternal life, proclaimed in their own language by the ambassadors of Jesus Christ; the praises of Jehovah chanted in this untutored tongue necessarily produce a lively and joyful impression on the pious mind. Of this I saw a pleasing instance only two Sabbaths since. An officer from one of the ships in port-a serious young man-spent the interval between the English and native services with me at the Mission-House. As the congregation began to assemble he accompanied me to the door of the chapel, intending to take leave when the exercises should begin, as he was unacquainted with the language, and had been already longer from his ship than he designed; but after standing a few minutes, and seeing hundreds of natives assembling quietly and seriously from various directions, he suddenly exclaimed, while tears glistened "No I-this is too much; I cannot go till I worship with these heathen!"—Stewart. in his eye, When t 6197. WORSHIP, Preparing for. Orientals go to their sacred festivals they alway on their best jewels. Not to appear before the g in such a way they consider would be disgraceful themselves and displeasing to the deities. A persa whose clothes or jewels are indifferent will bo of his richer neighbours; and nothing is mor common than to see poor people standing bei the temples or engaged in sacred ceremonies vei adorned with jewels. The almost pauper bride ar bridegroom at a marriage may often be seen decke with gems of the most costly kind, which have bea borrowed for the occasion. It fully accords, there fore, with the idea of what is due at a sacred ar social feast to be thus adorned in their best attire. 6198. WORSHIP, Scoffing at. When Peden ww a prisoner in the Bass, one Sabbath morning, being engaged in the public worship of God, a youn: woman came to the chamber-door "mocking with loud laughter." He said, "Poor thing! thou mockes and laughest at the worship of God; but ere long God will work such a sudden surprising judgment on thee that shall stay thy laughing, and thou shalt|| not escape it." Very shortly thereafter, as she w walking upon the rock, there came a blast of wind that swept her into the sea, and she was lost.Martyrs of the Bass Rock. 6194. WORSHIP, Necessity of. When Felix, the youthful martyr of Abitina, having confessed himself a Christian, was asked whether he had attended meetings, he replied, with an explosion of scorn, "As if a Christian could live without the Lord's ordi-known that down to the time of the French Revoln nance."-Rendall. 6195. WORSHIP, not forgotten. Dr. Guthrie tells of a poor woman who dwelt in one of the darkest and most wretched quarters of Edinburgh. Away from her native hoine, and without one earthly friend, she had floated there, a stranger in a strange land, to sink into the most abject poverty; her condition but one degree better than our Saviour's -in common with the fox, she had a hole to lay her 6199. WORSHIP, under difficulties. It is well tion the Protestants were not tolerated in France. An account of them in that country, from the year 1681 to the present time, is a desideratum in the history of the Church of Christ. This gives additional value to the following anecdote :-A French officer, who was a member of the Reformed Church, and who is still living (in 1784), was some years ago in quarters at a town in the south of France. He lodged in the house of two aged, peaceable persons = of the Catholic religion. At night, when all the family were at rest, the officer strewed the way, leading from the house-door up two pairs of stairs, to his own room, and the room itself, thick with sand. About midnight the communicants assembled. They came in one by one, all without shoes, preserving the utmost silence, while they manifested the most fervid devotion. The room and the table were made ready for the sacred transaction; and the room was soon filled with this pious people, among whom were many persons of rank and affluence. With their heads bowed, and the most affecting humility and fervency, they entered on the instituted service, and not even the softest word was spoken. The pious soldier says it was to him as if he was already come into the society of the blessed in heaven. Methodist Magazine, 1812. 6200. WORSHIPPERS, Finding. Some years ago, relates a Christian writer, an excellent Princess in Russia met with Mrs. and after conversing with her a short time the Princess said, "Are you not an Englishwoman?" She answered, "Yes.' "Do you ever go to chapel?" "No." "Then come along with me," said the Princess; "step into my carriage. I am going, and I will take you thither." 6201. WORTH in the man, not in titles. The British Government gave orders that Napoleon on his way to St. Helena should be addressed and recognised as general, not as emperor. When informed of this he simply remarked, "They cannot prevent me from being myself." 6202. WORTH, Modesty of. It is a well-known fact that cups fashioned of massive silver have not the same glittering appearance as plated goods. Even vessels of solid gold frequently pale in lustre when put side by side with those which are but thinly coated with the precious metal. All gold does not glitter, and "all is not gold which glitters." -Spurgeon. 6203. WORTH, Modesty of. A row of richly gilded pipes, stately and massive, reaching to the ceiling, stares majestically down upon us as we gather in our place of worship. They seem to say, "All the melody and music of the instrument is gathered within us, and we are the musical genii of the place;" and when the keys are swept by a skilled artist how rich and grand are the tones evolved! They seem to be fairly alive, and our souls are stirred to the depths by the harmony. Desiring to know their relations to the hidden modest reeds, that we could faintly discern in the darkened chamber behind, we asked our organist what relation did they bear to their unseen companions, and what was their relative power compared with the small pipes. His reply was, "All front pipes speak with force and power, but they would be utterly valueless, so far as music was concerned, unless backed up and supported by the delicate reeds that are hidden within." 6204. WORTH, not to be judged by appearances. Wellington said of the young coxcombs of the Life Guards, delicately brought up, "But the puppies fight well;" and Nelson said of his sailors, "They really mind shot no more than peas."—Emerson. 6205. WORTH, only known of in one direction. It is reported that when Antigonus was asked whether he thought Python or Cæphisias the best musician, "Polysperchon, "said he," is the general;" intimating that this was the only point which it became a king to inquire into or know.Plutarch. 6206. WORTH, to be respected everywhere. One day Jackson, the actor, waited upon Hay Drummond, Archbishop of York, to ask a favour, the prelate having known his father. To a question concerning his occupation the visitor falteringly replied that he was a player. "I respect worth wherever it is found," rejoined the Archbishop. "I see no reason why I should disregard you more for being on the stage than for being in the pulpit, provided you have kept your character. Make my compliments to Mr. Garrick, and tell him I expect he will use you well. I do not go to the theatre myself, but let me know when your night comes, and I will send my family."-Clerical Anecdotes. "and 6207. WORTH, unappreciated. The death of the noted French chemist, M. Dumas, has brought forward an incident of his life in which the public have an interest. Nearly fifty years ago the wife of one of his friends, a poor painter by profession, came in great distress to M. Dumas to tell him that her husband's mind was affected. "He has given up painting portraits," sobbed the poor woman, is trying to catch the shadows of his sitters on copper plates. Stop him, M. Dumas, or he will ruin us all and become entirely mad!" "Send him to me," said the chemist. He listened to the artist's explanation, and said, "You are, I believe, on the eve of a great discovery. Use my purse as if it were your own until you succeed." The painter's name was Daguerre, and his discovery lies at the base of all photography.-Christian Chronicle. ton once closed a technical and animated discussion 6208. WORTH, where it lies. Secretary Stanon the respective merits of muzzle and breechloading rifles by the remark, "Gentleinen, it's the man behind the gun makes all the difference worth talking about."-C. H. Benjamin's Recollections of Secrelary Stanton. 6209. WRECK, A moral. Did you ever look upon that wild sea-piece of Stanfield's which he has called "The Abandoned?" The sky is dark and lowering, with a forked flash of lightning shooting athwart it; the ocean is angry, and all over it lies a dreary loneliness that makes the spectator almost shudder. The one solitary thing in sight is a huge hull, without mast or man on board, lying The men who helpless in the trough of the sea. stood by her as long as it was safe have been picked up by some friendly vessel now entirely unseen, and there that battered, broken thing floats on at That is sad the mercy of the winds and waves. enough; but what is it after all in comparison with the condition of an abandoned man, abandoned by friends, abandoned by himself, abandoned, it may be even, like Saul, by God, and drifting on the ocean of life all dismantled and rudderless, tossed hither and thither by every wind of appetite or impulse, and soon to disappear beneath the waters! Taylor. 6210. WRESTLING prayer, Power of. "There's nae good dune, John, till ye get to the close grups." So said "Jeems, the doorkeeper" of Broughton |