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Watch, so as not to be surprised by tlie onslaughts of any tempters; 
pray, so as to obtain strength from God to overcome them in valiant 
combat. 
“Be prudent, therefore, and watch in prayers/' —(1. Peter, 
iv., 7.) 
“Beware” too, says a poet. 
(f Beware what earth calls happiness; beware 
All jjoys but joys that never can expire; 
Who builds on less than an immortal base , 
Fond as he seems, condemns his joy to death” 
‘‘All that glistens is not gold.’ 7 
—Y oung. 
— Shakespeare. 
Sueld ©r 
A species of Viburnum ( V. opulus ), bearing large bunches of white 
flowers,—called also snowball-tree :—a native of Gelderland, a province of 
the Netherlands, whence its name. 
Old Age. 
“Nor love thy life; nor hate, but what thou liv’st, 
Live well, how long or short, permit to Heaven.” 
— Milton. 
S youth has its pleasures, so old age has its recollections. 
A French moralist has said that the paradise of youth is old age, 
and that the paradise of old age is youth. 
While we are young, the paradise of age comes slowly; but as years 
