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

118 LIFE TH OUGHTS.
OHRIST never seems to us so sweet and glorious,
as when he orbs himself over the sea of our sinfulness
and ingratitude.
NOT parties, but principles. Let us be of no
party but God's party, and use all other agencies
as we use railroad cars - travelling upon one train
as far as it will take us in the right direction, and
then leaving it for another.
WHEN we think of the labor required to rear the,
few that are in our households, —the weariness,
the anxiety, the burden of life, —how wonderful
seems God's work! for he carries heaven, and earth,
and all realms in his bosom.
Many think that God takes no thought for any
thing less than a star or a mountain, and is unmindful of the little things of life; but when I go abroad,
the first thing which I see is the grass beneath my
feet, and, nestling in that, flowers smaller yet, and,
lower still, the mosses with their inconspicuous
blooms, which beneath the microscope glow with
beauty. And if God so cares for "the grass of the
field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the
oven," shall he not much more care for the minutest
things of your life, " 0 ye of little faith "?