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

LIFE THOUGHTS. 193
thunder of the waves, and what chance would
there be for him to climb the steep?
MANY people regard the Bible as an old ruin.
They think there may be some chambers in it which
might be made habitable, if it were worth the
while; but they take it as a young heir takes his
estate, who says, "' I shall build me a modern house
to live in, but I'll keep the old castle as a ruin;"
and so they have some scientific or literary house to
live in, and look upon the Bible only as a romantic
relic of the past.
A MAN must not only desire to be right - he must
be right. You may say, " I wish to send this ball
so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready
to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and
I hope Providence will direct the ball." Providence won't. You must do it; and if you do
not, you are a dead man.
MEN are greatly relieved when they have at
length rid themselves of belief in some unwelcome
doctrine - as if facts could be destroyed as easily
as opinions.
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