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

LIFE THOUGHTS. 149
We ought not to seek too high joys. We may be
bright without transfiguration. The even flow of
constant cheerfulness strengthens; while great excitements, driving us with fierce speed, both rack
the ship and end often in explosions. If we were
just ready to break out of the body with delight, I
know not but we should disdain many things important to be done. Low measures of feeling are better
than ecstasies, for ordinary life. God sends his rains
in gentle drops, else flowers would be beaten to
pieces.
SINK the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and
man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He
would have the same path to tread, only his lamp
and his guide would be gone; he would have the
same voyage to make, only his compass and chart
would be overboard.
LOVE is ownership. We own whom we love.
The universe is God's because he loves.
* CHRISTIAN brethren, in heaven you are known
by the name of Christ. On earth, for convenience'; Invitation to the communion service.
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