Trust not the world, for it never payeth that it promiseth.  —­St. Augustine.

Worship.—­The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.—­Hosea Ballou.

It is for the sake of man, not of God, that worship and prayers are required; not that God may be rendered more glorious, but that man may be made better,—­that he may be confirmed in a proper sense of his dependent state, and acquire those pious and virtuous dispositions in which his highest improvement consists.—­Blair.

     Lord, let us to thy gates repair
       To hear the gladdening sound,
     That we may find salvation there,
       While yet it may be found.

There let us joy and comfort reap;
There teach us how to pray,
For grace to choose, and strength to keep
The strait, the narrow way.

And so increase our love for Thee,
That all our future days
May one continued Sabbath be
Of gratitude and praise. 
—­Oke.

Remember that God will not be mocked; that it is the heart of the worshiper which He regards.  We are never safe till we love Him with our whole heart whom we pretend to worship.—­Bishop HENSHAWE.

The best way of worshiping God is in allaying the distress of the times and improving the condition of mankind.—­ABULFAZZI.

Youth.—­The strength of opening manhood is never so well employed as in practicing subserviency to God’s revealed will; it lends a grace and a beauty to religion, and produces an abundant harvest.—­Bishop Mant.

He who cares only for himself in youth will be a very niggard in manhood, and a wretched miser in old age.—­J.  Hawes.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.—­Hare.

Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness are like the days of spring.  Instead of complaining, O my heart, of their brief duration, try to enjoy them.—­RUeCKERT.

Every period of life has its peculiar temptations and dangers.  But youth is the time when we are most likely to be ensnared.  This, pre-eminently, is the forming, fixing period, the spring season of disposition and habit; and it is during this season, more than any other, that the character assumes its permanent shape and color, and the young are wont to take their course for time and for eternity.  —­J.  Hawes.

The best rules to form a young man are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one’s own opinions, and value others’ that deserve it.—­Sir W. Temple.

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth.—­Ecclesiastes 12:1.

What we sow in youth we reap in age; the seed of the thistle always produces the thistle.—­J.T.  Fields.