April 20

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.—Col. iv, 6.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant

When life flows along like a song,

But the man worth while is the one who will smile

When everything goes dead wrong;

For the test of the heart is trouble,

And it always comes with the years,

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth,

Is the smile that shines through tears.

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

All usefulness and all comfort may be prevented by an unkind, a sour, crabbed temper of mind—a mind that can bear with no difference of opinion or temperament. A spirit of fault-finding; an unsatisfied temper; a constant irritability; little inequalities in the look, the temper, or the manner; a brow cloudy and dissatisfied—your home folks cannot tell why—will more than neutralize all the good you can do, and render life anything but a blessing.

ALBERT BARNES.