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

194 LIFE THOUGHTS.
God sees that you are naked and poor, and comes
to you with a royal wardrobe and all supplies.
Suppose you succeed in proving that there is no
food or raiment; you are still poor and naked.
What would you think, if there were to be an insurrection in a hospital, and sick man should
conspire with sick man, and on a certain day they
should rise up and reject the doctors and nurses!
There they would be- sickness and disease within, and all the help without! Yet what is a hospital compared to this fever-ridden world, which
goes swinging in pain and anguish through the
centuries, where men say, "We have got rid of
the atonement, and we are rid of the Bible"? Yes,
and you have rid yourselves of salvation.
As, though the sky is not steadfastly clear, but
often is covered with clouds, yet through the folds
there shine at intervals the everlasting stars, so
through the darkness of our hearts there steals at
times the celestial glory, and we rejoice that there
is a heaven above the world.
You know how the heart is subject to freshets;
you know how the mother, who, always loving her