When my bier is borne to the grave And its burden is laid in the ground Think not that Rumi is there, Nor cry, like the mourners around, He is gone,--all is over--farewell! But go on your ways again, And forgetting your own petty loss, Remember his infinite gain. For, know that this world is a tent, And life but a dream in the night, Till death plucks the curtain apart And awakens the sleeper with light. --_R. H. Stoddard, From the Persian._ 2104 The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in the closet. 2105 FROM "EVERY DAY CHRISTIAN LIFE." Shall I tell you what a princess wrote--the Princess Amelia, who was an aunt of our good Queen Victoria, and who after a long and painful sickness and trial died at an early age?-- "Unthinking, idle, wild, and young, I laughed and danced, I talked and sung, And proud of health, of freedom, vain, Dreamt not of sorrow, care, or pain. Oh! then, in those bright hours of glee, I thought the world was made for me. But when the hour of trial came, And sickness shook my feeble frame, And folly's gay pursuits were o'er, And I could sing and dance no more-- Oh! then, I thought how sad 'twould be, Were only this world made for me." --_F. W. Farrar, D. D._ 2106 A man's quarrel with the world, is only a quarrel with himself. 2107 All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass--Jesus Christ came into this world to save sinners. --_A. Alexander._ 2108 The world does not seem to care for honorable lives as much as it does for a good bank-account. 2109 He who would enjoy many friends, and live happy in the world, must often be deaf, dumb, and blind, to its vices and follies. 2110 IMPORTANCE OF ATTENDING PUBLIC WORSHIP. Said the Rev. W. J. Dawson: "I know in my own heart how soon the spirit of devoutness fades when from any cause I am deprived of public worship for any length of time. And when I see a youth to whom religious worship has been the atmosphere of his childhood, gradually withdrawing himself from the means of grace, I tremble for him, because I have seen what that means. I can think of men whom I loved, and who now lead wretched and degraded lives, and all their misery began when they forsook the tabernacles of their God." 2111 A soft answer turneth away wrath. --_Proverbs xv, 1v._ 2112 Call not that man wretched, who, whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love. --_Southey._ 2113 A good life keeps off wrinkles. --_German._ 2114 What is writ, is writ-- Would it were worthier. 2115 HANDWRITING--NATIONALITY OF.