THOUGHTS FOR THE THOUGHTFUL. A SWEET SPIRIT. THERE is a sweet spirit, not to be found every hour in the day, nor, indeed, every day of the year, but it is sometimes to be met with,-a spirit of forbearance, kindness, and charity, that delights to speak well of the absent, and to represent favourably what to others may appear doubtful. "She has a high way with her," said an Irish maiden, when speaking of her absent mistress, who was considered proud: "people do not understand her. She has a high way with her; but she is like the lilies, that are so gentle and mild when you come to know them." B 2 A SWEET SPIRIT. Oh that we all had more of the spirit of this female! that all our seeming highmindedness and pride could be explained in as satisfactory a manner, and that we were enabled to say of ourselves with perfect sincerity and truth, whatever may be our outward bearing, "Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me," Psalm cxxxi. 1. |