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Effects of the Best Thing in the Wrong Place. 



The best thing if put into the wrong place may often have 

 most dangerous effects. We all know the deadly results of a 

 serpent's sting. But Oliver Goldsmith, in a very interesting 

 way, suggests that the injury resulting from the serpent's wound 

 is not merely owing to the poison, but also to the mode and 

 place. And he puts it that even milk, which is the most mild 

 and nourishing of all fluids, and the most friendly to the human 

 constitution, would, if injected into a vein, quickly become 

 fatal, and act with even more certain destruction than the 

 venom of the viper. If this be so, we cannot well contemplate 

 this pestilent action of the milk without being impressed with the 

 fact that we ought not to be satisfied merely with the possession 

 of a good thing. If we desire to derive good results, we must 

 also be careful that it is properly used ; and further, in order to 

 prevent positively pernicious effects, we must not even allow it 

 to be applied otherwise than in the right method. We do not 

 always attend to this. For instance, religion in any country is 

 its greatest blessing ; but when " the sincere milk of the word " 

 is not taken by the population in a proper and natural manner, 

 but is projected into the national system by state force, the 

 body politic resents such an intrusion, and the very thing which 

 would have been a boon under other circumstances, then 

 becomes a source of acute irritation to many of the members, 

 and of actual injury to all. A. 



Artlessness of Young Life. 



When the young of the ostrich are hatched, they are 

 familiar, and follow the first person they meet. At first they 

 are extremely harmless and simple ; but as they grow older they 

 become more cunning and distrustful, and run so swiftly that a 

 greyhound can scarcely overtake them. A. 



The Need for Young Life. 



The need the world has of young life is very obvious. The 

 nation of the future rests upon the cradles of to-day. The 



