Even the tops of the mountains are blessed with flowers,dwarf phlox, polemonium, ribes, hulsea, etc.

The man who waits, until he is "fully persuaded in his own mind" will be blessed in following desire, and he will grow in wisdom thereby.

"I am not mad, most beloved and beautiful Eve, but blessed to a degree that might indeed upset a stronger reason.

If you labour to make yourself good in this life, you shall enjoy the fruit of your labour in the next life by being good, and, therefore, blessed for ever.

"Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

"For that 'tis so my heart would have prompted had I been so blessed as thou art, dear my Beltane.

And the Head of this blessed race, the Maker of this blessed world, the King of this blessed kingdom, is the most blessed of all beings, Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son, both God and man.

Whom the Lord has blessed above all, from whom He much expects, because He has given her much.

If we forget that only through his humanity can we approach his divinity, we shall soon forget likewise that his mother is blessed among women.

There was a long pause, and the watcher held fast the little Pilgrim's hand, and betrayed to her the longing in her heart; for though she was already blessed beyond all blessedness known on earth, yet had she not forgotten the love that had begun on earth, but was forevermore.

The bad man is dear to me; not the bad act, whose fruits, if we could follow them far enough down the hurtling cataract of the ages, might yet be found more blessed than those of the rarest virtues.

O all ye works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord; praise Him and magnify Him for ever.

Blessed through love are the Gods above Through love like the Gods may man be; Heavenlier through love is the heaven above, Through love like a heaven earth can be!

The kingdom of Judah, blessed on the whole with virtuous rulers, and comparatively free from idolatry, continually increased in wealth and political power.

Of all the towns of sunny Italy, 'tis the fairest and the most blessed in natural gifts.

Except Napoleonor abused it more; You might have freed fallen Europe from the unity Of tyrants, and been blessed from shore to shore.

St. Peter leads the blessed to the door of Heaven, but half a dozen evil ones busy themselves in disposing of the wicked.

The great agricultural interest has in many parts of the country suffered comparatively little, and, as if Providence intended to display the munificence of its goodness at the moment of our greatest need, and in direct contrast to the evils occasioned by the waywardness of man, we have been blessed throughout our extended territory with a season of general health and of uncommon fruitfulness.

I create me a world wherein is neither hunger nor stripes, a world of joy and laughter, for, blessed within his dreams, even a fool may walk with gods and juggle with the stars!" "Aye," nodded Beltane, "but how when he awake?"

Once in a while a particular flowery Fourth of July oration, political harangue, or Thanksgiving sermon, catching him well filled with creature comforts, and a little inclined to soar starward, will take him off his feet, and for an hour or two he will wonder if ever human lot was so blessed as that of the free-born American laborer.

" The criminal reprievedthe child, hopeless and despairing at the suffering parent's bed, and blessed at length with a firm promise of amendment and recovery, can tell the feelings that sustained my fluttering heart, beating more anxiously the nearer it approached its home.

Having used their cotton with moderation, they have at the close of each six months seen their stocks of raw material and goods, by the rise of prices, undiminished in value, and blessed like the widow's cruse of oil.

How many times in the day did Ida pull up Rupert and gaze into the distance with vacant, unseeing eyes, pause in the middle of some common task, look up from the book she was trying to read, to ask herself whether she was indeed the same girl who had lived her lonely life at Herondale, or whether she had changed places with some other personality, with some girl singularly blessed amongst women.

Let all earth rot past saints' and seraphs' plea, Yet shall a Voice cry through its last lost war, 'This is the world, this red wreck of a star, That a man blessed beneath an alder-tree.' KING'S CROSS STATION

The precept of Jesus the son of Sirach is faithfully followed: Judge none blessed before his death.