GOOD WORDS.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3176, 24 April 1879, Page 4

GOOD WORDS.

We may not like all the company we meet with, but, if we are brought in contact with it, we mast make the best of it. Everybody has some secrets to keep, some reserve to practise, and in most cases had better be content to do so openly. We ought to act on the truth that everything, sooner or later, comes to light, and to remember that, while lionest silence can never disgrace us, gratuitous deception probably will. ' Happiness is sot a large and precious stone, a single gem so j-are that all search after it is vain, all effort for it hopeless. Happiness is a mosaic, composed of many smaller stones.- Each taken apart and viewed singly may be of lktle value, but, when all are grouped together and judiciously combined and set, they form a pleasant and graceful whole—a costly jewel. In choosing a profession or trade it is of the utmost importance to Select one congenial to the taste, and, having bo chosen, to stick to it; for there is a wonderful element of success in the stamina that enables men to stick. "Is this a good trade?" "Is that a good profession ?" are questions that may be ulways answered by "Yes, for those with the ability necessary for its pursuit, and who possess the perseverance which success demands." Incessant parental care is unfavorable to vigorous health and exuberant spirits, and also weakens mental and moral vigour. The child must learn to balance itself in the uncertain moral footing of the world. Its perception and judgment of right Bnd wrong must be made clear and quick by actual exercise, not weakened by usiuj: others' instead of its own.' Good conditions of growth the child needs, wot the narrow limits of some fixed measure of size and proportion. Given warmth and light and nutriment, and the germs expand in healthy vigour. The atmosphere at home is more than direct instruction. The intimate connection between the physical man and his moral actions is often overlooked, and perhaps as often misunderstood where it is taken into consideration. On the one hand we have schemes of education of the cramming kind, where every effort is made to fill the mind with facts and theories, with little or no regard to the body's wants. Children are made myopic, their brains over-stimulated, their growth stunted, and their senses left untrained to perceive the glories and the teachings of the Natural world around them. Or, on the other hand, the cry is for muscular Christians, and cricket, running, gymnastics, and boxing take the place of desk work. Muscularity is indeed gained, but what of Christianity ? The answer is ambiguous, there is just as much risk of over-doing the physical as the mental. /