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

LIFE THOUGHTS. 215
again; I have fed at many a bounteous table, but
hunger returned; I have seen many bright and
lovely things, but, while I gazed, their lustre faded.
There is nothing here that can give me rest; but
when I behold thee, 0 God, I shall be satisfied!
IT is a joy to me to know that the Christians
within the communion of this church are not all
the Christians to be found in the congregation.
We are richer than we appear to be. Here are
growing pear trees, apple trees, cherry trees, and
shrubs, and blossoming vines, and flowers of every
hue and odor; but I am glad that some seeds have
been blown over the wall, and that fruit trees and
flowers most pleasant to the eye are springing
up there also. And though I wish they were within the enclosure, where the boar out of the wood
could not waste them, and the wild beast of the
field devour them, yet I love them, and am glad
to see them growing there. To all such I say,
God nourish and protect you, and bring you, with
us, to the garden above.
A MAN may look over an artist at his work, and
see that he makes bad strokes, but yet shall see