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RANDOM THOUGHTS. 
By D. F. Lamson 
LI. 
To be willing.to take the lowest 
place, and at the same time to walk 
among men as their equal, to com- 
bine humility with self-respect and 
a proper dignity, may not be easy; 
but it can be done, for we have ex- 
amples of it, of men who neither 
cringe nor domineer. 
The time was when champion was 
a dignified word and moved in ex- 
cellent society; it was of the same 
breed as hero, conqueror and the 
like; it suggested something heroic 
and noble; but now its next friend 
and boon companion is competitor 
or rival, or some other ignoble- 
born. Instead of champions of op- 
posing armies or kingdoms, like Da- 
vid and Robert the Bruce, like Rich- 
ard and Saladin, of tournaments 
and universities, of intellectual and 
literary contests, we now _ have 
champions of the pugilistic ring, of 
the polo-ground, of the  tennis- 
court. Indeed, an almost universal 
tendency in words is to debasement, 
which all teachers and all who ven- 
erate their mother tongue ought 
most strenuously to resist, leaving 
the demoralization of the language 
to the rich young graduates of sport- 
ing tastes. 
ae * * 
The newspaper press, by the way, 
has a large influence in the way of 
preserving the integrity and purity 
of the language; standing at the 
wicket-gate of our daily interchange 
of ideas, it can say what words are 
to go in and out and become cur- 
rent in the market-place and the 
home; even the village paper occu- 
pies a place of possibly greater in- 
fluence sometimes than that of the 
city daily, because it comes nearer 
to the hearts and thoughts of the 
eommon people. 
is a throne of power. 
* * * * 
It was once the fashion here in 
New England to show respect to age 
and station; the child had not learn- 
ed to behave itself proudly against 
the ancient, and the base against 
the honorable; but all would come 
in due time with the march of prog- 
ress. 
* e * * 
‘There is a great deal often in the 
balance of probabilities, and it must 
often be our guide in life where ab- 
solute certainty is not to be had, 
both in things mundane and super- 
mundane; no one has reasoned on 
this line more strongly than Bishop 
Butler. And what a pity is it that 
he is so much disparaged by many 
Pearls from Palestine 
By JosepH A. TORREY. 
MATT, vit: 7—11 
If a son ask bread will ye give him a stone? 
Serpent for fish when he shall beg? 
Say! Will ye give him a scorpion 
When he shall ask for an egg? 
If ye, being evil, know how to give 
Bread to your children, duly fed, 
Much more shall your Father in whom we live 
Whose earthly is freely spread, 
Give the Spirit to them that ask Him? 
MATT, VII: 22, 23. 
At that great day 
Many to me shall say 
Lord! Lord! 
Have we not preached they Word? 
In thy name exercised the Evil one? 
And many mighty works have done? 
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Then will I answer, You 
I never knew ;— 
Depart from me 
Ye workers of iniquity. 
Not every one that saith to me, Lord! Lord! 
Shall win the Kingdom and its glad reward. 
Only to them ’tis given, 
Who do the will of God in Heaven. 
modern teachers and thrust into the 
background; in the hands of a com- 
petent teacher, able to point out his 
weakness and the divergence of his 
reasoning from the trend of modern 
thought, and the differences intel- 
lectually between his time and our 
own, few studies could be made more 
profitable than that of the once fa- 
mous ‘‘Analogy.’”’ 
%* * * * 
Some wise things are sometimes 
said in the pulpit, in a simple, quiet, 
forcible way, that may go far to 
counterbalance some foolish things 
that are said occasionally in a self- 
conscious, stilted and grandiloquent 
manner. 
* * * * 
Kindness and kindliness look a 
good deal alike, but they are really 
as unlike as twins often are; kind- 
liness is kind-likeness, something 
like kindness but not the real thing. 
Kindness is of the heart, kindliness 
is more of the external manner. 
Kindness may produce kindliness, 
but kindliness does not produce 
kindness. Paul chose the right word 
as he usually did, and not the word 
next to the right one, when he said, 
speaking of the highest philan- 
thropy : ‘‘after that the kindness and 
love of God toward man appeared ;’’ 
substitute kindness, and how 
much is lost; so in Faber’s beautiful 
lines: 
‘‘The kindness of his justice 
Is more than liberty.’’ 
One swallow does not make a sum- 
mer, but a dozen or so in a black 
bottle are sufficient to produce a 
great change in temperature. 
