"A froward man soweth strife, and a whisperer separateth chief friends."-Solomon.

ENERALLY, where there is least light, there is most heat.-Poole.

When worthy men fall out, only one of them may be faulty at the first; but if strife continue long, commonly both become guilty.-Fuller.

I never loved those salamanders that are never well but when they are in the fire of contention. I have ever found that to strive with my superior is furious; with my equal, doubtful; with my inferior, sordid and base; with any, full of unquietness.-Bishop Hall.

Leave off contention, not only when you see the worst of it, for then it may be too late; but when you see the first of it.-Henry.

Whatever disunites man from God, disunites man from man.-Burke.

Divisions are Satan's powder-plots to blow up religion. -Watson.

In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint as well as a steel. Either of them may hammer on wood for ever, no fire will follow. -Anon.

A man may fight duels all his life, if he is disposed to quarrel.-Cecil.

If a man has a quarrelsome temper, let him alone, the world will soon find him employment.-Cecil.

It is the second blow that makes the quarrel.—Henry.

SUBMISSION TO GOD'S WILL.

"It is the Lord: let him do what seemeth him good."--Samuel.

HERE is no time lost while we are waiting God's

time. It is as acceptable a piece of submission to the will of God to sit still contentedly, when our lot requires it, as to work for Him when we are called to it. -Henry.

A good man would desire, if it were the will of God, not to outlive his usefulness. Why should we covet to live any longer in this world than while we may do God and our generation some service in it.-Henry.

All our sufferings are ordered by a Father. 'Tis the potion our Father gives us to drink; and whatever bitter ingredient there is in it, still it is of a Father's procuring, and why suspect it to be poison, and be afraid of it ?

That is the best watching and waiting which puts the keeping of our souls into the hands of God; for, "except

the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain."

The true Christian is neither afraid of dying nor living. He desires to go to heaven to see Christ, yet is willing to stay upon earth to serve Christ.

"There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will, with the temptation, also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it."-St. Paul.

NE sensible experimental proof of Christ's power and

presence in time of conflict, of danger, or temptation, will hardly ever be forgotten, and binds the soul to Him in trust and affiance more than a thousand arguments.-Adams.

Seeing the saints must have a devil to keep them waking, I wish for a troublesome devil, rather than for a secure and sleepy one.-Rutherford.

If you are under darkness of soul, first go to God with it, and then go to some experienced saint of your acquaintance. It is good sometimes to light your candle at a neighbour's fire.-Anon.

Satan, the great make - hate between God and His children, hath a mint constantly going in hell, where, as an

untired mint-master, he is still a coining and hammering out of accusations against the saints. First, he attempts and allures souls to sin, and then accuses them of those very sins he hath tempted to, that so he may disgrace them before God, and bring them, if it were possible, out of favour with God; and though he knows beforehand that God and His people are, by the bond of the covenant and by the blood of the Redeemer, so closely united that they can never be severed, yet such is his rage and wrath, envy and malice, that he will endeavour that which he knows he shall never effect. Could he have but made Job froward, or fretful under the rod, he would have quickly carried the tidings to heaven, and have been so bold as to have asked God whether this was a carriage becoming such a person, of whom Himself had given so glorious a character.-Brooks.

We must not flatter ourselves that God will enable us to go through life without being exposed to any sort of temptation, for this world is a place of trial and discipline. Now, without some kind of temptation, we should have no trials, and no opportunity of exercising several of the Christian graces.-Hare.

Thou shalt be sure to be assaulted by Satan when thou hast received the greatest enlargements from heaven, either at the sacrament, or in prayer, or in any other way. Then look for an onset. This arch-pirate lets the empty ships pass, but lays wait for them when they return richest laden.-Leighton.