It is hard to believe long together that anything is worth while unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another soul. — George Eliot.

The world's memory is equally bad for failure or success; if it will not keep your triumphs in mind as you think it ought, neither will it dwell long upon your defeats. William Dean Howells.

But

I pray you, O excellent wife, do not cumber yourself and me to get a rich dinner for this man or this woman who has alighted at our gate, nor a bed-chamber made ready at too great a cost. These things, if they are curious in, they can get for a dollar at any village. let this visitor, if he will, in our accent and our behavior read our hearts and earnestness, our thoughts and will, which he cannot buy at any price in any village or city, and which he may well travel fifty miles and dine sparely and sleep hard in order to behold. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

It is true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer most ; That the strongest wander farthest, and most hopelessly are lost; That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain,

And the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain.

The world's most royal heritage is his who most enjoys, most loves, and most forgives.- Bulwer.

There are few prophets in the world- few heroes. I cannot afford to give all my love and reverence to such

rarities. I want a great deal of these feelings for my every-day fellow men, especially for the few in the foreground of the great multitude, whose faces I know, whose hands I touch. It is more needful that my heart should swell with loving admiration at some trait of gentle goodness in the faulty people who sit at the same hearth with me, than at deeds of heroes whom I shall never know except by hearsay.— George Eliot.

By earnest endeavor strive to gladden the human circle in which you live to open your heart to the gospel of life and nature, seizing each moment and the good which it brings, be it friendly glance, spring breeze, or flower, extracting from every moment a drop of the honey of eternal life.— James Russell Lowell.

They that stand high have many blasts to shake them,
And, if they fall, shall dash themselves to pieces.
- William Shakespeare.

Wolsey.- Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear
In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me
Out of thy honest truth to play the woman.
Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell;
And when I am forgotten, as I shall be ;
And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention
Of me more must be heard of say, I taught thee,
Say, Wolsey - that once trod the ways of glory,
And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor —
Found thee a way, out of his wreck, to rise in ;
A sure and safe one, though thy master missed it.
Mark but my fall, and that that ruined me.
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition;
By that sin fell the angels; how can man then,

The image of his Maker, hope to win by it?

Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee;
Corruption wins not more than honesty.

Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace,

To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not ;

Let all the ends thou aimest at be thy country's,

Thy God's, and truth's; then, if thou fallest, O Cromwell,

Thou fallest a blessed martyr. Serve the king,

And, prithee lead me in :

There take an inventory of all I have,

To the last penny: 't is the king's my robe,
And my integrity to heaven, is all

I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, Cromwell,
Had I but served my God with half the zeal

I served my king, He would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies.

-Shakespeare.

QUESTIONS AND REQUIREMENTS.

PART SECOND.

SELECTIONS.

CHAPTER ONE.

In Honor of the Creator.

IMMENSITY OF GOD'S WORKS.

JOSEPH ADDISON.

1. Describe the sunset walk and the author's enjoyment of it. 2. As the rich colors faded from the sky, what other beauties took their place ?

3. How was the grandeur and loveliness of the scene completed?

4.

What thought arose in the author's mind as he was surveying the moon?

5. How does the psalmist David express this reflection? Psalm

139.

6. Give Addison's conception of the immensity of the universe. 7. What thought did this view awaken in him?

8. Why is it that our planetary system would scarcely be missed if it were extinguished?

9. How is this thought illustrated ? — By a grain of sand on the seashore.

10. How are men continually discovering heavenly bodies that were before unknown?

11. Why is it difficult for our imagination to set any bounds to the infinity of God's created works?

ANALYSIS. I. Description of heavenly scenery at night. 2. Apparent insignificance of man when compared with the infinity of God's works. 3. Comparative insignificance of our planetary system.

ODE.

JOSEPH ADDISON.

1. Compare this ode with the prose article that has just preceded it.

2. How does its analysis differ from that of the other, and in what respects does it agree?

3. Write a paraphrase of the ode.

OMNIPRESENCE AND OMNISCIENCE OF GOD.

JOSEPH ADDISON.

1. What view does the author take of the omnipresence of God?

2. To what extent does the Creator permeate all his works?

3. What does he essentially inhabit ?

4. How immediately present is God in the substance of every being which he has made ?

5. What would be an imperfection in him?

6. In what language did the old philosopher try to express this thought?

7. From what does his omniscience naturally flow?

8. Why is it that he cannot but be conscious of every motion or activity in the material world, and of every thought in the intellectual world?

9. How have some moralists considered the creation ?

10. How have others regarded it ?

11. What name did Sir Isaac Newton give to the infinite space which God fills?

12. What may be said of the extent and efficiency of the sensoria that brutes and men possess?

13. Since God resides in everything, for what does infinite space give him room?