And in the season sober horses plowed up and down the fields with nodding heads, affirming their belief in the goodness of the soil and their willingness to help in its fruition.

Thank God for all His goodness to me'!

1. Give God thanks for His goodness in permitting us to join in the great work, for hearing our prayer, and for His helps and graces during its duration.

" "Some have spoken of 'looking upon goodness as upon something beyond their reach,' and of 'looking upon evil as like plunging one's hands into scalding liquid';I have seen the men, I have heard the sayings.

"I wish I could return your goodness with some diverting accounts from hence.

I here enclose the last letter I received from him; I answered it the following post in these words: "'I am very glad you resolve to continue obedient to your father, and are sensible of his goodness towards you.

" "Thank goodness for that," he said, "because I've caused the old gent a lot of trouble.

I have enemies as well as friends, whom I desire to escape: I would earn my bread unknown; Monsieur le Major keeps my foolish secret; may I hope for equal goodness from yourself?"

He infuses a subtle skepticism of the reality of goodness by the mere magnetism of his evil presence.

"Buddhism," says the author of its accepted catechism, "teaches goodness without a God, existence without a soul, immortality without life, happiness without a heaven, salvation without a saviour, redemption without a redeemer, and worship without rites."

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.

So will it be with the disputes between good men of the present day; and if you have no other reason to doubt your opponent's goodness than the point in dispute, think of Baxter and Hammond, of Milton and Taylor, and let it be no reason at all.

Kate had left the wagon, and was shaking with laughter over this extraordinary goodness on the turkeys' part, and before long our basket was full of struggling, kicking, squeaking things, "werry promiscuous," in Mr. Weller's phrase.

His last acts were a fresh proof of his goodness toward even his rebellious sons and of his solicitude for his last-born.

Goodness throughout the widest sphere abides, As fish round isle and through the ocean glides.

Now, as all virtues keep the middle line, Yet somewhat more to one extreme incline, Such was her soul; abhorring avarice, Bounteous, but almost bounteous to a vice: Had she given more, it had profusion been, And turn'd the excess of goodness into sin.

"Woe unto thee, Abu Sofian; believest thou not that I am the Prophet of God?" "Thou art well appraised by us, and I see thy great goodness among the companions.

The loss of little Elizabeth, the seventh child, was a sore trial, a child of much promise, and with wisdom and goodness beyond her years, early called to a heavenly home.

They cook very quickly, and care must be taken with them also not to waste any of their goodness up the chimney.

These heathen were worshipping the same source and standard of goodness before which they themselves had been doing homage.

If I learned it, I should forget it, unless, perchance, it should enhance your value in my eyes, by stamping you as a rare work of nature, an exception to the law of heredity, a triumph of pure beauty and goodness over the grosser limitations of matter.