“To some men God hath given laughter; but tears to some men He hath given:

He bade us sow in tears, hereafter to harvest holier smiles in Heaven;

And tears and smiles, they are His gift: both good, to smite or to uplift.

He knows His sheep: the wind and showers beat not too sharply the shorn lamb:

His wisdom is more wise than ours: He knew my nature—what I am:

He tempers smiles with tears: both good, to bear in time the Christian mood.”

DISALLOWED DESIGNS.

Proverbs xix. 21.