The North Carolina Presbyterian . o every organ of the body and toevery faculty of the soul a chance tostop the exertion which was wearingthe machinery out We have been,so to speak, in the dry dock for re-pairs, and the illness we fretted atwas a blessing in disguise. Could we but see it, there are otherand faimiliar experiences which bearthe same character. The stupid andclumsy maid, who taxes your pa-tience and ingenuity to makes up forher blunders and to remedy her ac-cidents, is developing you in sweetness, gentleness, and tact. Sunday-school scholar, whois willful and headst
The North Carolina Presbyterian . o every organ of the body and toevery faculty of the soul a chance tostop the exertion which was wearingthe machinery out We have been,so to speak, in the dry dock for re-pairs, and the illness we fretted atwas a blessing in disguise. Could we but see it, there are otherand faimiliar experiences which bearthe same character. The stupid andclumsy maid, who taxes your pa-tience and ingenuity to makes up forher blunders and to remedy her ac-cidents, is developing you in sweetness, gentleness, and tact. Sunday-school scholar, whois willful and headstrong and ap-parently incapable of attending tolessons with any heedful interest, isbringing out in you those qualitiesof energy, of magnetism,of versatility,which will enable you hereafter tocontrol classes of such boys and in-fluence them for their unending ad-vantage. A little thought will showto many of ns how full of good andrich in abiding helpfulness are ourblessings in disguise.—Margaret E,Sangster. .v. d When You Sneeze. Cough^ Choke, and Gaspfor Breath, BEWAREI It May be a Serious Symptom PERSONAL RELIOION. There is always great danger lestmere ecclesiasticism take the placeof personal godliness. For religionhas its secular side. It has its outWard and visible forms, in churchand church organizatiou, in ministryand sacrameutsi These may occupy,and necessarily do occupy, much oftbe care and thought of men, and iti8.«o wonder that such care andthought should be taken to be religi-ous care and thought, because en-gaged: about religious things. But manifestly a man may bemuch interested in his ussay, in its prosperitv, growth and in-crease, as a visible organism and yet Last Spring, 1 was taken down withLa Grippe. At times I was completely pros-trated, and so diflQcult was my breathingthat my breast seemed as If confined in anIron cage. I procured a bottle of Ayer*sCherry Pectoral, and no sooner had I begantaking It than relief followed. I could notbelieve th
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