andsome sum of money to undertake the difficult and dangerous task. The
boy looked down into the awful abyss that yawned below, and shrunk from
the undertaking; but the money was tempting. Could he confide in the
strangers? Could he venture his life in their hands? He felt that he
could not; but he thought of his father, and, looking once more at the
cliff, and then at the proffered reward, his eyes brightened, and he
exclaimed: "I'll go if my father holds the rope." Beautiful illustration
of the nature of faith.

557

Faith builds a bridge from this world to the next.

--_Dr. Young._

558

To be trusted is perhaps a greater compliment than to be loved.

559

He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.

--_Auerbach._

560

Trust not him that hath once broken faith.

--_Shakespeare._

561

It goes a great way toward making a man faithful, to let him understand
that you think him so.

--_Seneca._

562

All that a man gets by being untruthful is, that he is not believed when
he speaks the truth.

563

Telling an untruth is like leaving the highway and going into a tangled
forest. You know not how long it will take you to get back, or how much
you will suffer from the thorns and briers in the wild woods.

564

There is no greater mistake in social life than indulging in
over-familiarity. Intercourse, even between intimate friends, should
have some dignity about it.

565

A family is a little world within doors; the miniature resemblance of
the great world without.

--_J. A. James._

566

Where can one be happier than in the bosom of his family?

--_Young._

567

FAMILY REUNION.

We are all here--
Father, mother, sister, brother,
All who hold each other dear.
Each chair is filled, we're all at home;
To-night let no stranger come.
It is not often thus around
Our old, familiar hearth we're found
Blessed, then, the meeting and the spot:
For once be every care forgot;
Let gentle peace assert her power,
And kind affection rule the hour:
We're all, all here.