all spheres of action, we recognize the over-ruling providence of God
working without us, and his Spirit commissioned to work within us. Nor
is there any work of mortal life in which we need to allay unto
ourselves the wisdom and energy of Jehovah, as an essential element of
success than is this long process where truth, affection, decision,
judgment, and perseverance in the teacher, are to win into the paths of
self-labor minds of every degree of ability, and dispositions of every
variety. When God smiles upon us, then this grand work of moulding
hearts and intellects for their high destiny moves forward without
friction, and the young heart silently and joyously comes forth into the
light.

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GLEANINGS BY THE WAYSIDE. No. 3.


A river never rises higher than the source from whence it springs; so a
character is never more elevated and consistent, in mature life, than
the principles which were adopted in childhood were pure, reasonable,
and consistent with truth: so a tree is either good or bad, and brings
forth fruit after its own kind, though it be ever so stinted. If you
find a crab-apple on a tree, you may be sure that the tree is a
crab-tree. So one can predicate a pretty correct opinion of a person, as
to character, disposition, and modes of thinking and acting, from a
single isolated remark, incidentally made, or an act performed on the
spur of the moment.