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Man may trouble and distress me, 
’Twill but drive me to His breast; 
Life with trials hard may press me. 
Heaven will bring me sweetest rest.” 
The good are better made by ill; 
And odors crushed are sweeter still! 
—j Rogers. 
\Ajccgl 
A genus of American liliaceous plants. The leaves are stiff and 
sharp-pointed, forming a mass some two or three feet broad, and even more 
in old plants. There are six or seven species or individual plants, differ¬ 
ing somewhat in their style of foliage, yet with a strong similarity notice¬ 
able in them all. They make a fine and imposing appearance in the gar¬ 
den or on the lawn. 
Authority. 
“A man in authority is but as 
A candle in the wind , sooner wasted 
Or blown out than under a bushel.” 
—Beaumont and Fletcher. 
“Live and love,— 
Doing both nobly, because lowlily! 
Live and work—strongly, because patiently!” 
— Mrs. Browning. 
R ULERS, or governors., are to the State what beams are to a wall; with¬ 
out beams the building would collapse ; so society would without 
rulers. 
That the head or governor of the State derives his power from God 
we learn from the words Our Lord addressed to Pilate: “Thou shouldst 
