Life thoughts, gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher. By one of his congregation.

104 LIFE TIIOUGHTS.
ing bosom. I think no truth can be discovered
which would be so powerful upon the moral sense
of men, as that which should disclose to them that
sinning is always a personal offence against a personal God. Law without, is only an echo of God's
heart-beat within.
PAUL and his companions meddled, to be sure,
only with the religion of Jesus Christ; but that, faithfully preached, meddles with every thing else on
earth.
A TRAITOR is good fruit to hang from the boughs
of the tree of liberty.
WHEN I used to fish in mountain streams, if I
had a short line and rod, I could direct it easily,
and throw it into this or that pool as I pleased; but
if I let out my line till it was twenty or thirty feet
long, I could not direct it, but I was the victim of
every floating stick, and jutting rock, and overhanging bough. So I have seen men wading down
the stream of life, jumping from stone to stone,
slipping on this rock, and falling into that pool, because their line was so long they could do nothing
with it - a line that reached down forty years,
sometimes. Now, if you would avoid these difli