y His permission. Then beware and make
thyself all reverence and fear.

--_Herbert._

325

Take the child to church, whether he likes it or not. What he likes has
nothing to do with it; what is best for him is the only question.

--_Bishop Vincent._

326

There are two classes of people in the church; the one is made up of
those who do the hard work of the church, and the other of those who sit
at home and--criticise.

--_Lutheran Weekly._

327

Men are dependent on circumstances, and not circumstances on men.

--_Herodotus._

328

A great merchant was asked by what means he contrived to realize so
large a fortune as he possessed. His reply was: "Friend, by one article
alone, in which thou may'st deal too if thou pleasest--civility."

329

Civility is a desire to receive civility, and to be accounted well-bred.

--_Rochefoucauld._

330

The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have
taste.

--_Emerson._

331

AN IDEAL.

Before me on the mantel-block,
There ticks a busy little clock--
The measurer of time.
It never stops or tries to shirk;
Unceasingly it plies its work
With zeal almost sublime.

Oh could I work as steadily,
Oh could I just as faithful be,
As this minute machine--
My life would be filled with success,
with industry,
with usefulness,
and happiness serene.

_M. in Hampden-Sidney Magazine._

332

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the
clergyman who makes it an easy life.

--_Dr. Johnson._

333

A clergyman should never come tired before his people, but rather like
an engine when it leaves the round-house, oiled, equipped with fuel and
water, and with all its strength waiting to be put forth.

334

In his last annual report, President Eliot states that the average age
of students entering Harvard is eighteen years of age and ten months. He
then intimates that if students could be induced to enter college
earlier, as