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''A fisherman upturned a great haul of fish. He managed by a skillful handling of his net to retain all the large fish and draw them ashore, but he could not prevent the small fish from falling back through the meshes of the net into the sea.

"One Lord, one faith, one baptism. " Eph.

Said a lady: "This is an age of miracles; if I was as sick as I thought, what cured me? I live just as near God as any one can. I prayed him unceasingly to cure me, and I was not healed.

Wisest and sweetest of all Anderson's many wise and sweet stories, is the story of the Nightingale. She was brought to sing before the king.

All pleasures must be bought at the price of pain. The difference between false pleasure and true, is just this: for the true, the price is paid before you enjoy it; for the false after you enjoy it.

Over the door of a safe in a counting-room of one of our large manufacturing companies, is the motto, "Thou God seest me. " There is perhaps a fear of God in the mind of the book-keeper who is intrusted with the accounts of this corporation, that stimulates him to do his work honestly.

We are ready to meet the profound thinker on the statement, that all is mind; and if this is divine science, as will be proven, it will at length destroy all human error, whereas the conservative theory that there are two, even matter and spirit, and they unite on some basis, would forever keep truth and error at war, as it has done, without a victory on either side. — Science and Health.

Three or four citizens were having a confab at the door of the town hall, in regard to will power, and there was one of the group who dared go far enough to assert that a man of will power could draw a person to him from a distance of 100 feet. "Try it—try it!" exclaimed one whose faith was very slight.

There is immense wisdom in the old proverb, "He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty. " Hannah More said, "If I wished to punish an enemy I should make him hate somebody.

There is an eastern story of a Sultan who overslept himself, so as not to waken at the hour of prayer. So Satan came and waked him, and told him to get up and pray.