BREVITIES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3217, 13 May 1911, Page 7

BREVITIES.

I arose with great alacrity To ofFer her my seat: ’Twa® a question whether she or I Should stand upon my feet. Buster Brown Makes a Resolution.— Resolved ! That worry is work. People who worry have got, a life job with no pay envelope on Saturdays. Worry is crossing the bridge before you come to it and while you’re on it and after yciu’re over. Tige says he never thinks about it until he gets there, and if the bridge is down, he swims the creek. I guess we can’t worry if we' stop saying “if.’*' As they paddled along in a nook, She said faintly 7: “Why Algernon In that oak, I declare— I see mistletoe there!” And the crew fished them out with a hook. I will, this day try to'live a simple, sincere a.nd serene life, repelling promptly every thought of discontent, anxiety, discouragement, impurity and self-seeking; cultivating cheerfulness magnanimity charity, and the habit of holy silence, exercising economy in expenditure, carefulness in conversation, diligence in appointed service, fidelity to every trust, and a childlike trust in God.—John H. Vincent. Here is my -work to do', not to worry over. My work, I say; but if I can know that it i.s not my work, but God’s should I not cast away my restlessness, even while I worked on more faithfully ami untiringly than ever?—Philips Brooks. This world we’re a-livin’ in Is mighty hard to beat-; You get a. thorn with every rose, But ain't the roses sweet! Impatient people water their miseries and hoe up their comforts ; sorrows are visitors that come without invitation, but complaining minds send' a waggon to bring their troubles home in. Many people areborn crying, live complaining and die disappointed ; they chew the bitter pill which they would not even know to be bitter if they bad the sense to swallow it whole, in a cup of, patience and water. —Charles H. Spurgeon.