"Nature," says a Dutch poet, "refused all her gifts to Holland. Men had to do everything in spite of Nature."
It is enough to look at the monuments of the great struggle with the sea to understand that the distinctive characteristics of this people must be firmness and patience, accompanied by a calm and never-failing courage.
You can outlive a slander in half the time you can out-argue it.
The soul that cannot entirely trust God, whether man be pleased or displeased, can never long be true to Him; for, while you are eyeing man, you are losing sight of God and stabbing religion at the very heart.—Manton.
SUNDAY SCHOOL INTELLIGENCE.
Clifton Sunday School Anniversary.
Special services in the above place, on behalf of the Sunday School, were held on Sunday, July 22nd.