November 11

By works a man is justified, and not by faith only.— JAMES ii, 24.

Never you mind the crowd, lad, Or fancy your life won't tell; The work is the work for all that To him that doeth it well.

Fancy the world a hill, lad. Look where the millions stop; You'll find the crowd at the base, lad, There is always room at the top.

Wise people rest themselves in changing their work. BOISTE.

Work! You may depend upon it there is nothing like work; nothing like it, not only for the good that it does, but for the evil that it prevents. There is nothing that the devil hates so much as good hard work. He don't so much object to a little occasional church-going or psalm-singing; he isn't afraid of a moderate stock of good principles; he doesn't object to a thorough knowledge of the ten commandments, and as for just an outside "lick" or two of respect- ability and gentility, why, bless you! he loves it; but he has a mortal fear of honest work. He knows that he can always find some wicked things for idle hands to do. W. S. MAYO.

The great human duties are prayer and work— prayer for every needed blessing, and work to realize it—prayer, as though God must do the whole, and work as though we must do it all ourselves. These are the two poles of the great galvanic battery.

ROSWELL DWIGHT HITCHCOCK.