A star is a little thing, but it can hold this great world in its arms.

The tongue is a little thing, but it fills the universe with trouble.

To or From.

A little more, and how much it is!
A little less, and what worlds away!

BROWNING.

LOVE.

God's Rebukes Loving.

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God's rebukes are in love, and so should ours be; holy reproofs in the spirit of affection are snuffers of gold. Never use any other, and use even these with discretion, lest you put out the flame which it is prove. Never reprove in anger. Do small fault as if it were a great crime. on your boy's forebead don't try to kill it hammer, or you may kill the boy also. but very difficult work of reproof in the kindest and the wisest style, so that the good you aim at may be attained. -SPURGEON.

Rebuke with Love.

If you see a fly with a sledgeDo the needful

Let us be silent about things which are a discredit to Christian character. Keep an ill report secret. But do not be like the young lady who called in a dozen friends

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to help her keep a secret, and yet, strange to say, it got Remember, you may yourself deserve rebuke one of these days; and as you would like this to be done gently and privately, so keep your remarks upon others within the happy circle of tender love. To rebuke in gentle love is difficult, but we must aim at it till we grow proficient. Golden snuffers, remember; only golden snuffers. Put away those old, rusty things-those unkind, sarcastic remarks. They will do more harm thai. good, and they are not fit things to be handled by servants of the Lord Jesus.-Spurgeon.

Outraged Love.

Outraged love is the severest, the most terrific, of enemies. Offended honesty has no pity upon the thief. It is right that it should be so. It is right that it should be a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God; and it is right because God is love. We must in some quarter of the universe find a throne that can not be bought, a scepter that can not be bribed, an authority that can not be deterred. That which is but partially honest is not moved to jealousy by felonious action; by its very nature it connives at it. It does not judge them in the eternal light and at the eternal bar. God is magnified in His judgments upon evil, that He may lay a broader claim upon our veneration and trust.—JOSEPH PARKER.

The Gospel Full of Love.

God is ever putting lines of mercy amid all the biack print of the law. It would seem as if wherever God

could find a place at which He might utter some word of pity or compassion He filled up that place with an utterance of His solicitude for the welfare of man. Loving words always look beautiful; perhaps they look most beautiful when surrounded by contrastive words of stern righteousness. of unyielding law, of severe prohibition. So these Gospel words are full of charm, here in Deuteronomy. They are ever presenting hope to man. Blessed be God for the singing angel. When we quench his song we quench ourselves. So let us remember, wherever there is a sinner, there is an offered Savior; wherever there is abounding sin, there is superabounding grace JOSEPH PARKER.

Marriage and Love.

Gentlemen oifill your contracts. Christian marriage is an affectional bargain. In heathen lands a man wins his wife by achieven.ents. In some countries wives are bought by the payment of so many dollars, as so many cattle or sheep. In one country the man gets on a horse and rides down where a group of women are standing, and seizes one of them by the hair and lifts her, struggling and resisting, on his horse. Then if her brothers and friends do not overtake them and rescue her before they reach the jungle, she is his lawful wife. In another land, the masculine candidate for marriage is beaten by the club of the one whom he would make his bride. he cries out under the pounding he is rejected. If he receives the blows uncomplainingly, she is his by right. Endurance, bravery and skill decide the marriage in bar

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barous lands, but Christian marriage is a voluntary bar gain, in which you promise protection, support, com panionship and love. -TALMAGE.

A Song of Love.

I wrote her name on the soft, shining sand,
For Love had written it within my heart.
The incoming tide with its incessant flood
Dashed o'er the letters, leaving level sand;
But as the expended foam crept slowly back
Into the seething waves, it bore her name,
And mingled it for ever with the surge.
The billows murmur it along the shore;
The wild waves echo it in every beat;
The tempest shrieks it in the midnight sky;
While jealous mermaids wonder whence it came;
And seamews, as they sport upon the waves,
Hear it, and call their mates by that sweet name;
And I for ever hear within my heart

The murmur of her name borne from the sea.

Love One Another.

J. K. L.

It is hard, when we are the victims of feelings which eat at our heart day and night, to force ourselves into the life of giving, of doing little things for others, of stepping out of our reserve, of conquering our wish for solitude, of going to cheer and comfort those who are dependent upon us, of surrendering our pride, of doing a little good here and there when we had rather do big

"A LOVE LETTER."-From the Painting by Lowcock.