Care.

I'm sure care's an enemy to life.

Cyrus, King of Persia-died B.C. 529-was wont to say that if men did but know the infinite cares he sustained under an Imperial crown he thought no man would so much as stoop to take it up.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Providence has given us hope and sleep as a compensation for the many cares of life.

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,

And where care lodges sleep will never lie.

It has long since been observed by Horace that no ship could leave care behind.

Distracting thoughts swarm in the heart like the flies of Egypt.

But human bodies are sic fools

For a' their colleges and schools,

That when nae real ills perplex them,

They make enow themselves to vex them.

Care is no cure but rather corrosive

For things that are not to be remedied.

Corroding care and thirst of more

Attends the still increasing store.

Seneca says: "Dreadful is that mind which is deeply concerned for the future."

Care when it once is entered in the breast

Will have the whole possession ere it rest.

Quick is the succession of human events; the cares of to-day are seldom the cares of to-morrow; and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles :

your worst, and we shall meet no more."

Incessant fears the anxious mind molest.
In care they live and must for many care;
And such the best and greatest ever are.

Ye have done

Watching for riches consumeth the flesh, and the care thereof driveth away sleep. Watching care will not let a man slumber.

Man is a child of sorrow, and this world,

In which we breathe, has cares enough to plague us;
And he who meditates on other's woe

Shall in that meditation lose his own.

Carefulness bringeth age before the time.

Why run to meet what you would most avoid?

If every man's internal care

Were written on his brow,
How many would our pity share

Who raise our envy now!
The fatal secret when revealed

Of every aching breast,

Would prove that, only while concealed,
Their lot appeared the best.

Do thy part with industry, and leave the event with God. I have seen matters fall out so unexpectedly that they have taught me in all affairs neither to despair nor to presume; not to despair, for God can help me, nor to presume, for God can cross me. I will therefore never despair, because God is able to supply all my need; I will never presume, because I am unworthy of the least of all His mercies.

It is our work to cast our care; it is God's work to take care. Let us not take His work out of His hands.

"Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee." This is the advice of David, God's chosen king of Israel. "Casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you." This is the counsel of St. Peter, one of Christ's Apostles, and both of them wrote as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

"Be careful (over-anxious) for nothing. I would have you without carefulness. God shall supply all your need," wrote St. Paul, Christ's chosen Apostle to the Gentiles.

I will then cast my care, my burden, upon God. Worlds are no load to Him.

God is Omniscient, and knows my needs; Omnipotent, and able to supply them; and He is faithful-He will fulfil His promises. He will not fail me, He will not forsake me.

King George III. said to Lord North as he lifted up the purse containing the great seal of England, and put it into his hands: 'Here, my Lord, take it; you will find it heavy." The King proved to be a prophet, for shortly before Lord North's death he declared that since he had the seal he had not enjoyed an easy or contented minute.

Character.

TALENTS are nurtured best in solitude,

But character on life's tempestuous sea.

Reputation is often got without merit and lost without deserving.

Christian character is not a sudden creation, but a development. It grows and bears fruit like a tree, and like a tree it requires patient care and unwearied cultivation.

Let it never be said of me:

"The greatest favours can neither soften nor win upon him, neither melt nor endear him, but leave him as hard and as rugged as ever."

There are many who find a pleasure in contradicting the common reports of fame, and spreading abroad the weaknesses of an exalted character.

Establish your character on the respect of the wise, not on the flattery of dependents.

Never allow small failings to dwell on your attention so much as to deface the whole of an amiable character.

The low race of men take a secret pleasure in finding an eminent character levelled to their condition by a report of its defects, and keep themselves in countenance, though they are excelled in a thousand virtues, if they believe that they have in common with a great person any one fault.

The ill-natured man gives utterance to reflections which a good-natured man stifles.

It is a common error, of which a wise man will beware, to measure the worth of our neighbours by his conduct towards ourselves. How many rich souls might we not rejoice in the knowledge of were it not for our pride!

He who when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done, is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.

Decision of character is one of the most important of human qualities, philosophically considered. Speculation, knowledge, is not the chief end of man; it is action. We may, by a fine education, learn to think most correctly and talk most beautifully; but when it comes to action, if we are weak and undecided, we are of all beings the most wretched. All mankind feel them

selves weak, beset with infirmities, and surrounded with dangers; the acutest minds are the most conscious of difficulties and dangers. They want, above all things, a leader with that boldness, decision, and energy which will fill them with shame they do not find in themselves. He then who would command among his fellows must excel them in energy of will than in power of intellect.

Character-the purchase of the lever of influence. No man's character can be eventually injured but by himself.

Let me have men about me that are fat,

Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o'nights;
Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look,

He thinks too much such men are dangerous.

The best rules to form a young man are-to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it. You may depend upon it that he is a good young man whose intimate friends are all good.

In war was never lion raged more fierce,

In peace was never gentle lamb more mild.

When upon a trial a man calls witnesses to his character, and those witnesses only say that they never heard and do not know anything ill of him, it intimates at best a neutral and insignificant character.

Actions, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell characters.

Get and preserve a good name, if it were but for the public service; for one of a deserved reputation hath oftentimes an opportunity to do that good which another cannot that wants it. And he may practise it with more security and success.

Character gives splendour to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and grey hairs.

"Out of the heart are the issues of life.'

Charity.

"HAVE fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins."-1 PET. iv. 8.

Those who love one another easily forgive each other's offences. If we truly loved others as we do ourselves, love would kill and cover their faults also, and render us less keen in noticing and animadverting on them, and more disposed to forbearance and long-suffering.

Good nature and good sense must ever join;

To err is human, to forgive divine.

The sweet charities of life, sympathy, affection, and benevolence, are the blessings blended with sorrow, sickness, and infirmity; and from the restraints of temper and mutual forbearance we practise to each other, arise the kindness and good-will which are the charms of social life.

Do not judge others, but let love rule all your thoughts, words, and actions.

He who is most charitable in his judgment is generally the least unjust.

I had rather see my own faults than other people's.

In other men we faults can spy,
And blame the mote that dims their

Each little speck and blemish find;
To our own stronger errors blind.

eye;

I must not be slow to cast the mantle of charity over the failings of my Christian brother.

Those persons we can say no good of, we had better say nothing of.

O ponder well! be not severe !

Goethe said: "It is only necessary to grow old to become more indulgent. I see no fault committed that I have not committed myself."

Then gently scan your brother man,

Still gentler sister woman.

This must be my rule:

Gently to hear, kindly to judge.

Lord Byron wrote: "I date my first impressions against religion, from having witnessed how little its votaries were actuated by true Christian charity."