* Men and Manners The following paragraph, cut from a newspaper, suggests a good deal: "A Hindoo cabby, before mounting the box and taking the reins, always first prays that his driving may be to the glory of his God.

And the Psalmist prays, "Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips."

One is pardoned; the other escapes; and then knights, empires, nature,the whole universe follows their desperate efforts to win one small maiden, who prays meanwhile to be delivered from both her bothersome suitors.

Having permission to enter, the good woman sets down her candle, puts on her glasses, and, coming to the bedside, says she can see very well by her poor looks, that her dear mistress has got a disorder of the biliaries on her, and prays Heaven it may not turn to something worse.

There was writing on the yellow leaf, this way: "Kentucky Hodge, from his Affecshunate mother who prays, For you evry day, Amen," The boy turned first red, then white, and straightened up quite sudden, but he never said a word, only sat down again and let us laugh it out.

"From his Affecshunate mother who prays, For you evry day, Amen," whispers Kentucky, presently, very soft.

Beneath them kneeling on his knee, A superstitious man you see: He fasts, prays, on his Idol fixt, Tormented hope and fear betwixt:

In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe.

The soul's a sort of sentimental wife That prays and whimpers of the higher life, Objects to latch-keys, and bewails the old, The dear old days, of passion and of dream, When life was a blank canvas, yet untouched Of the great painter Sin.

He prays for a gratuity, and winds up: "Vostro da figliuolo (yours like a son), Febo di Poggio."

"Sir Launfal, my demoiselle, as gracious as she is fair, prays that you will follow us, her messengers, as she has a certain word to speak with you.

He prays little of his friend, for he thinks none dare take her from his hand, and that her tenderness is his by prize of lordship.

"Your pastor prays earnestly that this season of work, offering, and pleasure may be used by the Lord to help humanity and add to the glory of His Kingdom on earth.

They are practical illustrations of how a working church prays, and a praying church works.

And each, day he prays the prayer his father prayed for him in boyhood days, "May no person be the worse because I have lived this day, but may some one be the better.

Falling then upon his knees, with his forehead upon the ground, he prays God for Marimonda.

"He cannot read or write," says the Captain in charge, "but he prays like a divine, and I am believing to see him become an Officer some day.

My wife is a good woman, she prays for twobut me!

If a man sitting in a lodge tells his companions some very improbable story, something that they find it very hard to believe, and they want to test him, to see if he is really telling the truth, the pipe is given to a medicine man, who paints the stem red and prays over it, asking that if the man's story is true he may have long life, but if it is false his life may end in a short time.

She longs and prays to be gone.

God prays, the Talmud says; and his prayer is this,'Be it my will that my mercy overpower my justice.'

It must fasten upon what it prays for; and every human object must disappear from our minds.

He who prays without confidence can not hope that his prayer will be granted.

I must not omit a Memorial setting forth, that the Memorialist had, with great dispatch, carried a Letter from a certain Lord to a certain Lord, wherein, as it afterwards appeared, Measures were concerted for the Restauration, and without which he verily believes that happy Revolution had never been effected; who thereupon humbly prays to be made Post-Master-General.

he prays, 'you know what a miserable time I've had in this line before.