Two ways of facing life

"He feels the immortal light of Spirit live Within his breast,—but knows not that in years To come that warm and flashing ray will give The brightest rainbow through the bittere...

TO Joseph's infinite satisfaction, Mr. Girling was at home, and he was at once ushered into a little back room, where the latter, seated before a table covered with volumes of a...

"We laugh heartily to see a whole flock of sheep jump because one did so; might not one imagine that superior beings do the same by us, and for exactly the same reason?"—GREVILLE.

"The grip of an old friend's hand ill suits the wearing of a brand new glove; and he whose tongue would learn the jargon of the court must forget he ever spoke in common ears."—...

"When two voices parley with a human citadel, that which speaks on the side of self-interest will be victorious; but woe to that city which opens its gates to an enemy of the re...

"We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the nob...

"Some will hate thee, some will love thee; Some will flatter, some will slight; Cease from man, and look above thee, 'Trust in God, and do the right!'" NORMAN MACLEOD.

MINA was terribly annoyed when she came to reflect over what had happened in the wood. In common with the others, she had been terribly frightened, but of all persons in the wor...

JOSEPH purposely refrained from speaking of his encounter with Horace Grandpont before Ruth, so tea-time passed over without any allusion to it, and afterwards he had plenty to...

"Life's little stage is a small eminence, Inch high the Grave above: that home of man, Where dwells the multitude: we gaze around; We read their monuments; we sigh; and while We...

WHEN the first days with their dull weight of blinding grief had passed, and the fresh earth lay over the beloved form of the husband and father, it became necessary for the wid...

ONE morning in the following October—just a twelvemonth from the commencement of our story—Joseph took a third-class ticket for London, and stood on the platform, waiting for th...

WE pass over the interval which elapsed before Joseph reached his final destination. To any one in the least degree familiar with the ways of the great city, the details are sim...

"Haste not! rest not! calmly wait; Meekly bear the storms of fate; Duty be thy polar guide— Do the right, whate'er betide! Haste not! rest not! conflict past, God shall crown th...

JOSEPH found his new quarters very comfortable, and was soon thoroughly at home with his mates in the workshop, at the same time giving ample fulfilment to the expectations whic...

MINA had great anticipations for Christmas week. There were to be unusually grand doings at the Grandponts', and having promised to help Alice with the decorations, she expected...

THE meeting of Joseph and his mother and sister at Christmas would have been a very happy one, but for the absence of him whose face and voice they missed. Little Ruth was ready...

Times had been rather dull there lately, for Horace had been much less at home of late, and Mina was usually obliged either to leave quite early, or to depend upon a servant to...

For the moment, he had lost all recollection of what had occurred, and could only utter a faint moan. But as his senses came back, he remembered the ladder, and glanced quickly...

It had been prolonged beyond what had been anticipated; for the bone, being badly broken, was somewhat slow in healing, and a considerable time elapsed before the parish doctor,...

A veil of cloud had dimmed the sky, and the twilight was creeping slowly on, as one by one the busy sounds of day hushed into silence; but where the sun had sunk, there lay a be...