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42. Honour is like the shadow, which as it flees from those that follow it, so it follows those that flee from it.-Matthew Henry.

43. Friendship in Adversity.-Love, while it remains essentially the same, appears tenfold more loving when its object has fallen from prosperity into adversity, as a lamp burning shines much more brightly in the darkness than in daylight.-Rev. W. Arnot.

44. The Law-convinces of Sin.-You see not the motes in the air, though numerous as the leaves of the forest, till the glowing ray reveals them to the eye. The river seems to flow stainless and clear till the wondrous microscope displays to the view a hundred loathsome reptiles enclosed in every drop that glitters beneath the sun.-A. L. O. E.

45. The Best Characters Imperfect.-Objects seen through the most perfectly transparent crystal do not appear as distinct as when viewed through a vacuum or the air. This well illustrates the imperfectness of the best of men. Divine grace does not choose to make them absolutely perfect in this world. Perhaps it is no more possible that a descendant of Adam should exhibit perfection than that a crystal formed out of mineral matter should transmit light without intercepting some of its rays.Hitchcock.

46. Future Punishment not revealed in Cruelty.-If, in the ocean of life, over which we are bound to eternity, there are rocks and shoals, it is no cruelty to chart them down; it is an eminent and prominent mercy.Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.

47. Life a Mirror.-As in the obscurest stream that calmly glides along the vale you can see reflected the glorious stars of night, so in the incidents of individual life you may see mirrored the principle of God's moral administration.-Dr. David Thomas,

48. The Heart in Childhood.-It is like that new kind of pavement which we see laid down sometimes; at first it is as soft as mud, and every little leaf at first makes an impression; but by and by it gets so hard that a whole troop of horseguards may gallop over it without leaving the slightest indentation.-Rev. James Bolton.

49. Christ a Willing Sacrifice.-Among the heathen it was considered an unlucky omen if the victim when offered for sacrifice struggled. If our Victim had but struggled we had been lost.-J. Harrington Evans. 50. Eternity.-Eternity is a depth

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Gems.

42. Honour is like the shadow, which as it flees from those that follow it, so it follows those that flee from it.-Matthew Henry.

43. Friendship in Adversity.-Love, while it remains essentially the same, appears tenfold more loving when its object has fallen from prosperity into adversity, as a lamp burning shines much more brightly in the darkness than in daylight.-Rev. W. Arnot.

44. The Law-convinces of Sin.-You see not the motes in the air, though numerous as the leaves of the forest, till the glowing ray reveals them to the eye. The river seems to flow stainless and clear till the wondrous microscope displays to the view a hundred loathsome reptiles enclosed in every drop that glitters beneath the sun.-A. L. O. E.

45. The Best Characters Imperfect.-Objects seen through the most perfectly transparent crystal do not appear as distinct as when viewed through a vacuum or the air. This well illustrates the imperfectness of the best of men. Divine grace does not choose to make them absolutely perfect in this world. Perhaps it is no more possible that a descendant of Adam should exhibit perfection than that a crystal formed out of mineral matter should transmit light without intercepting some of its rays.Hitchcock.

46. Future Punishment not revealed in Cruelty.-If, in the ocean of life, over which we are bound to eternity, there are rocks and shoals, it is no cruelty to chart them down; it is an eminent and prominent mercy.Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.

47. Life a Mirror.-As in the obscurest stream that calmly glides along the vale you can see reflected the glorious stars of night, so in the incidents of individual life you may see mirrored the principle of God's moral administration.-Dr. David Thomas.

48. The Heart in Childhood.—It is like that new kind of pavement which we see laid down sometimes; at first it is as soft as mud, and every little leaf at first makes an impression; but by and by it gets so hard that a whole troop of horseguards may gallop over it without leaving the slightest indentation.-Rev. James Bolton.

49. Christ a Willing Sacrifice.-Among the heathen it was considered an unlucky omen if the victim when offered for sacrifice struggled. If our Victim had but struggled we had been lost.-J. Harrington Evans.

50. Eternity.-Eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, and no rhetoric describe.— Tannah More.