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fiuous care , to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that 
hath pleased God: hut this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the 
mind.”* 
Thus spoke one of the wisest of men. But, my dear reader, what 
practical application should we make from all I have just been quoting? 
Please, permit me to- tell you, with the author of the “Following of 
Christ” : “Study,” says Thomas a Kempis, “to withdraw thy heart from 
the love of visible things, and to turn thyself to things invisible. For 
they that follow their sensuality, defile their conscience and lose the grace 
of Godr 
Sic Vita. 
(such is life.) 
Like to the falling of a star, 
Or as the flights of eagles are, 
Or like the fresh spring’s gaudy hue, 
Or silver drops of morning dew, 
Or like a wind that chafes the flood, 
Or bubbles which on water stood, 
Even such is man, whose borrowed light 
Is straight called in, and paid to-night. 
The wind blows out, the bubble dies; 
The spring entombed in autumn lies; 
The dew dries up, the star is shot; 
The flight is past —and man forgot! 
— H. King. 
•Ecclesiastes, ii :25 ar.d 26. 
