Part 140 (1/2)

(This piece ritten for Miss Mary Ca Chronicle_

The tree, the subject of the lines still ornarounds at Ardwell, in Scotland, the seat of James Murray McCulloch, Esq)

1950

Like a tree, areater the difficulty the ain their reputation from storms and tempests

1952

TROUBLE

When I waken in the o out I et up and dress

1953

_Deuteronomy xxii, 4_--”Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or ass fall down by the way, and hide thyself froain”

Mr George Herbert, the poet, alking to Salisbury, saw a poor man, with a poorer horse, fallen under his load Mr Herbert perceiving this, put off his canonical coat, and helped the poor man to unload, and after to load his horse The poor ave him money to refresh both himself and his horse; and told him, ”If he loved himself, he should beto his an to wonder that Mr George Herbert, who used to be so clean, came in such a condition; but he told them the occasion; and when one of the coed himself by so dirty an eht of what he had done would prove ht; and the omission of it would have upbraided and made discord in his conscience, whensoever he should pass by the place”

1954

I wrote down my troubles every day; And after a few short years, When I turned to the heart-aches passed away, I read them with smiles,--not tears

1955

To tell our troubles, is often the way to lighten them

1956

PERFECT TRUST AND RESIGNATION

During the Rabbi's absence frorief, awaited the father's return, and then said to him ”My husband, some time since tels of inesti He who left them with me called for theht,” said the Rabbi approvingly ”We must always return cheerfully and faithfully all that is placed in our care” Shortly after this, the Rabbi asked for his sons, and the ently to the cha the truth, wept bitterly ”Weep not, beloved husband,” said his noble wife; ”didst thou not say to me we must return cheerfully, when called for, all that has been placed under our care? God gave us these jewels; He left theloried in their possession; but now that He calls for His oe should not repine”

1957

_In Boswell's Life of Johnson_, he says:--Next ave a very earnest recommendation of what he himself practised with the utmost conscientiousness: I mean a strict attention to truth, even in the most minute particulars ”Accustom your children,”

said he, ”constantly to this: If a thing happened at one , and they, when relating it, say that it happened at another, do not let it pass, but instantly check them; you do not knohere deviation fro can need a lie