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as they become older; knowing their own faults more, they are more mellow to others; like the sun setting, beautiful, mild, and large, looking like Elim in the desert, where the wearied Jews found twelve wells and seventy palm trees, Ex. 15. 27.

Perseverance as the Husbandman.-Jas. 5. 7.

Arab.-A poor man without patience is like a lamp without

oil.

Arab. When you are an anvil, be patient; when a hammer, strike.

Malabar.-You must not cast away the paddle when you approach the shore.

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Bengal.—The bundle was pressed hard, but the knot was left loose-i.e., business neglected at the close. Malabar. By practice you may lift up even elephants. Telugu. With a single blow he opens not nine nuts. Niti Shatak. The perseverance of a man of constant mind can never be overwhelmed by misfortune, as the flame of the torch turned upward never goes down, 2 Cor. 6. 10.

Urdu.-The crows keep cawing, but the corn grows notwithstanding.

Turk.-Little by little we become fat.

Telugu. He watched the field until the harvest, and then let it go to the jackals.

Polygamy.

Malay-Two wives under one roof: two tigers in one

cage.

Bengal.-Who has two wives has much sorrow, I Kings

II. 4.

Telugu.-Two swords cannot be contained in one scabbard. Afghan.-Who likes squabbles at home contracts two. marriages.

Tamul.-Why fire the house of a man who has two wives; i.e., the fire of anger and jealousy is enough.

Malay. The desire of the heart might be to grasp mountains, but what use when the arm will not reach

round ?-i.e., a man desiring to marry above his station.

Prevention better than Cure.

Bengal-When the thief has escaped men are very wise.
Gujerat.-Diseases and delays indulged augment.
Polish.-What I see not with the eye cannot pain the
heart.

Arab.-Shut the window from which a bad smell comes. Sanskrit.-Keeping away from the mire is better than washing it off.

Tamul.-Relying on the efficacy of the proposed remedy, will you put your hand in a snake's hole?

Pride.-PROV. 21. 4.

Exemplified in Haman, Esth. 3. 15, Nebuchadnezzar, Dan. 4. 30, Agrippa, Acts 12. 21-23, Herod, Acts 12. 21-23, Pharaoh, Ex. 5. 2.

Afghan. To every man his own understanding is king.
China. We fill tanks, but the heart of man who can fill?
Telugu.-Like the bat, which thinks it holds up the sky.
Canara.-He has to live on gruel, yet requires some one to
wipe his moustache.

Afghan.-The fox thought his own shadow very large.
Basque.-Pride sought flight in heaven, fell to hell.
Canara.-What is extended will tear: what is long will
break, Prov. 16. 18.

Telugu.-A tooth projecting beyond the lips; a wick too big for the dish.

Arab.—His head in the dirt, his tail to the sky.
Mahabharat.-

The sinner is ever like a great inflated skin ;
The imaginations of conceited fools are baseless.
Turk. He who falls from a horse or ass prepares a bed;
He who falls from a camel prepares a tomb.
Tamul.-When a sieve full of pride is sifted nothing re-
mains.

Sanskrit.-No greater enemy than pride.

China.

To pretend to satisfy his desires by possession,
Is extinguishing fire with straw.

Arab.-Content enjoys riches, covetousness produces cares; every ambitious man is a captive, and every covetous one a pauper.

Japan.-Be a serpent save in the poison-i.e., learning without pride, Mat. 10. 16.

Punctuality and Watching opportunity.-EPH. 5. 16.
Telugu.-When the dog comes a stone cannot be found.
When the stone is found the dog does not come.
Japan.-To cut a stick when the fight is over.
China.-Lighting a fire when the breeze is blowing.
Canara.-A word in season is good; out of it, like a silk
cloth torn.

Arab.- -To hammer cold iron.

Talmud.-While you have the shoes on your feet tread down the thorns.

Bengal. They fetch the salt after rice is eaten.
Russian.-Hurry is good only for catching flies.
Sanskrit. By delay (in using it) nectar becomes poison.

The Heavenly Race.-HEB. 12. I, 2.

World's race differs from the heavenly in six points :It was the practice in ancient Greece to celebrate once every four years with great solemnity certain games, as trials of bodily strength or skill in wrestling, leaping, running, the quoit; these were attended by a vast assemblage of people of all ranks. The prize that was contended for was a crown or chaplet of leaves, with which the victor was crowned, while his name was proclaimed by heralds in the presence of the whole assembly; judges were appointed to decide on the merits of the candidates, and to see that the several contests were conducted according to the laws that were laid down.

The foot-race was one of the principal of these games; and St. Paul has in many places alluded to it in illustration of the Christian life, I Cor. 9. 24-27, as a continual strife or contest for victory over our manifold, corrupt, and deceitful lusts; and he encourages us to maintain the conflict by the thought that we are contending for a glorious prize in the presence of a great crowd of witnesses. The crown for which we contend is not a chaplet of fading leaves, but a crown of righteousness and glory, I Cor. 9. 25. The witnesses of our manful efforts are the great company of those cited by the Apostle, who have before us gained this mastery over sin, the world, and the devil, and have now by faith and patience attained the promises; we contend for the prize of our high calling in the presence of God and of his holy angels.

A man, who was about to contend in a foot-race, would first lay aside every weight that might be about his person, and would disencumber himself of every needless garment. Yet Paul ran his race in Rome, when he was a prisoner in chains. Thus we are to prepare ourselves for our course by laying aside every weight; and "the sin that doth so easily beset us." He who does not take pains to divest himself of covetousness, sensuality, pride, and other too-easily besetting sins, is as one who should lade himself with thick clay when about to start upon a race, Habak. 2. 6.

When once the candidates started on their course, they did not suffer themselves to relax in their efforts until they had reached the end. They did not linger on the way, nor stop to look back with satisfaction on the progress which they had made; but they thought only of what yet remained to be done; and they kept the eye steadily fixed upon the mark or goal. If they found themselves disposed to give way, they remembered the prize which was such an object of desire, and pressed forward with renewed spirit, Rev. 2. 10. It will not do

for us to relax our efforts to obtain the mastery over our own lusts and passions as they will gain upon us if we give them the least advantage, Thess. 3. 13.

In the heavenly race all may be winners; there is no jealousy, the strong are to help the weak; there is joy in running, Ps. 19. 5; the value of the prize is an exceeding weight of glory; the spectators are angels, devils, and God; the Judge is impartial, and perfect in knowledge.

Tamul.—To advance a span and fall back a cubit.
Japan.-Fall seven times, stand up the eighth time.
Urdu.-Sweetmeats are not distributed during a battle.
Tamul.-A noisy dog is not fit for hunting.

Tamul.-He lacks sense who broods over the past.
Tamul.-When on the way to heaven do you carry a
spinning wheel under your arm?

Russian.—Who hunts the bear does not sleep over the sport.

Afghan. He who stands still in mud, sinks.

Japan. To give wings to a tiger.

God will not Break the bruised Reed.—MAT. 12. 20. See the parable of the Publican, Luke 18. 9-14,illustrating God's kindness to the humble and penitent.

The bruised reed, which has been crushed by some weight that has passed over it, and appears to be bowed hopelessly to the ground, is the emblem of one who has been crushed under the burthen of his sins, and of all that sorrow and remorse which are sure to follow in their train. Judas was so weighed down with remorse that he went and hanged himself, Mat. 27. 5.

"The smoking flax" is another emblem of the same case ;. and with this additional resemblance. If the flax which has been lighted will not burn, its smoke is so offensive, that all cry out impatiently to have it quenched as soon as possible. And this fact is elsewhere used to show how abominable are the wicked in the sight of their holy

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