A Living Dog better than a dead Lion.-Ecc. 9. 4.

Half a loaf is better than no bread."

"He with one eye sees the better for it."

"A standing thistle better than the falling cedar."
"A living sheep better than the dead camel."

"A living hodman better than the dead Emperor."

This text points out the value of life, using as an emblem the dog, the meanest of animals, Matt. 15. 26, and the lion, the noblest, Prov. 30. 30.

Man and Wife one Flesh.-MATT. 19. 5.

There is an union, but not like the one in Nebuchadnezzar's image, Dan. 2. 33. No bitterness is to be shown, Col. 3. 19. The Egyptians represent a man without a woman by a single mill-stone, which cannot grind alone. Talmud.-Even though the wife be little, bow down to her in speaking, i.e., do nothing without her advice. Jainwriter.-The husband and wife must, like two wheels, support the chariot of domestic life, otherwise it must stop.

Gen. 2. 23.

Arab.-Women are parts cut out of men.
China.-Husband and wife in perfect accord;
Are the music of the harp and lute.
China. A good man will not beat his wife;
A good dog will not worry a fowl.

Badaga.-If you yoke a buffalo and an ox together, the one will push for the swamp and the other for the

hill.

Arab.-A mule yoked with horses. 2 Cor. 6. 14. Persian.-Tied by the neck, i.e., married to a bad woman. Persian.-A bad wife is a tree growing on the wall, i.e., like the fig tree which undermines the wall by its roots.

Russian. A wife is not a guitar, i.e., which having done playing with you hang on the wall.

Telugu. The house is small and the wife like a monkey. China.-A widow is a rudderless boat.

Basque. He who marries a wolf often looks towards the

forest.

Talmud.-God did not make woman from man's head, that she should not rule over him; nor from his feet, that she should not be his slave; but from his side, that she should be near his heart.

Bhagavalgita.-Women like flowers are of tender fabric; and should be softly handled, Eph. 5. 25.

Badaga.-A passionate wife is as bad as a house that leaks. Bartrihari.-This is the fruit of love among married people, one mind among two persons; where there is discord, it is the marriage of two corpses.

Mrichhakati.

Look round the garden, mark these stately trees,
Which duly by the king's command attended;
Put forth abundantly their fruits and flowers,
And clasped by twining creepers; they resemble
The manly husband, and the tender wife.

The Miser.-LUKE 12. 19.

Sanskrit.-A miser's wealth goes by fire, robbers, and kings.
Telugu.-Practising the humility of a fox, he heaps up
wealth and does not use it; thus is rice sprinkled
at the mouth of a bandicoot trap, Prov.
13. II.
Badaga.-A miser is a tree with fruit you cannot get.

False Peace like Untempered Mortar.-EZEK. 13. 10.

In Persia, proper mortar is made of plaster, earth, and chopped straw well kneaded together; but often to save expense they put much water to a little plaster, which looks as well but is not plaster. There is no cement in a house so built; it is like the house on the sand, which the whirlwind or flood breaks down, Mat. 7. 27, like some of the bridges in India, cemented by rubbish, not by mortar, or like the virgins without oil, Mat. 25. 1-13. Such is all false peace without repentance and faith in the atonement of Christ, like that of the rich fool, Luke 12. 19. Bhagavadgita.-The soul floats like the lotus on the lake unmoved, unruffled by the tide, Acts 20. 24 16-25.

Modern Greek.-No one is disgusted with his own bad

smell.

Telugu. Like sprinkling rose-water on ashes.

Arab.-Temperance is a tree which has contentment for its root, and peace for its fruit.

Malayalim.-Time shows the value of a bridge built of wood, Prov. 5. 3, I Cor. 3. 13.

Modern Greek.-Neighbour! your house is on fire. Impossible, I have the keys.

Russian.-The bell calls to church, but goes not in itself. Oriental. The prosperity of an ignorant man is like a garden on a dunghill.

China. We never wander so far away as when we think we know the

way.

Cingalese. Like changing the pillow when suffering from

headache.

Modern Greek.-He who eats flax-seed eats his own shirt-i.e., the future sacrificed to the present.

Tamul.-As quiet as a snake in a box.

Bhagavatgita.-Without quiescence there can be no bliss. E'en as a storm-tossed ship upon the waves,

So is the man whose heart obeys his passions, Which like the winds will hurry him away. Buddhagosha.-Who subdues his passions is a lake without

mud.

Arab.-Patience is the key to joy.

Mountains.-DAN. 2. 45.

Their solid strength, untouched by visible decay, gave mountains the name of the pillars of heaven, Job 26. II. Their majesty defies the turbulence and confusion of the world at their feet, yet God weighs them in a balance, Is. 40. 12.

Raghuvause. The storm may uproot the trees, but not the mountains, Ps. 125. 2.

Arab.-When we cross one mountain, another appears.

The Spiritual Net.-MAT. 13. 47.

As the sea is a frequent type or emblem of the world, 'SO "the fishes of the sea," which take their course at will, and so often prey upon one another throughout that waste of waters, represent the vast numbers who know not God, and walk in the way of their own hearts, without any sure guide or rule of conduct, and too often only envying and provoking, hating and devouring, one another. Into this broad sea of the whole world a net was to be cast; and instead of their lowly labours on the little sea of Galilee, the Apostles were to be employed in gathering men out of every clime and country into the Church of God, and in drawing them under the blessed restraints and holy discipline of " the obedience of faith." A net will indeed gather of every kind, and when it is drawn to the shore, a separation is made of the fishes which are worth the pains of taking out of the sea, and of such as are nothing worth, and may be cast away. Thus among those who are gathered into the visible Church of Christ, there "are good and bad," many false professors as well as sincere servants of God; nor will the good be separated from the bad until the net is drawn completely to the shore, which will not be till the end of the world. The fish, whether big or little, are taken out of the sea of this world, a stormy place full of rocks, subject to tempests.

The Night of Life and Day of Eternity.—Rom. 13. 12.

The Shanti Shatak states, "The world is like a wild desert, the house of our body is full of holes, our fancies are a night which throws the veil of illusion over us: be watchful and defend yourself with the sword of knowledge, the shield of resignation, and the armour of caution."

Morning comes after night, so the morning of eternity,

Ps. 49. 14; morning longed for, Ps. 130. 6; morning makes things manifest, Isa. 58. 8, I Cor. 4. 5; morning brings joy, birds sing, flowers are fresh, Isa. 26. 19; morning foreshows the king of day.

Life like night in four points :

I. A state of darkness; whereas light symbolizes knowledge, Is. 8. 20; holiness, I John 1. 7; comfort, Ps. 97. 11; and glory, Col. 1. 12.

2. The time of sleep, I Thess. 5. 7, hence sleep is called the son of night. Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth, and the brother of death (sleep) extracts a third part of our lives.

3. Time of danger beasts and thieves prowl about,. Is. 21. 12; heaven is light, "the inheritance of the saints in light."

4. Inactivity, ignorance, Luke 1. 79, night an emblem of death, John 9. 4. The Arabs say he who has done. justice in the night has built himself a house for the next day.

Afghan.-When night comes fear is at the door; when day comes fear is on the hills.

Arab.-Night is blind, I Thess. 5. 7.
Russian.-At night all cats are black.

Oriental. The prosperity of the ignorant is like a garden on a dunghill.

Arab.-Nightly prayer makes the day to shine.
Bengal. Where there is fear of the tiger it is evening.
Arab.-The day blots out the dread of night.
Turk.-Night is the day of the wicked.

The Sensualist's Old Age.-ECCLES. 12. I-7.

This is a description of the dreary old age of the man who when young would go on in the way of his heart; not as the good old age of Abraham and David, Gen. 15. 15, 1 Chron. 29. 28, or the serene old age of Isaac, Jacob, Moses, and Joshua, Is. 40. 30-31. The pious