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Silence

A conversation with an Englishman.-Heine.

BALL "What is silence?"

HALL "The college yell of the school of experience." The other day upon the links a distinguished clergyman was playing a closely contested game of golf. He carefully teed up his ball and addressed it with the most approved grace; he raised his driver and hit the ball a tremendous clip, but instead of soaring into the azure it perversely went about twelve feet to the right and then buzzed around in a circle. The clerical gentleman frowned, scowled, pursed up his mouth and bit his lips, but said nothing, and a friend who stood by him said: "Doctor, that is the most profane silence I ever witnessed."

SIN Man-like is it to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein, Christ-like is it for sin to grieve, God-like is it all sin to leave. -Friedrich von Logau. "Now," said the clergyman to the Sunday-school class, "can any of you tell me what are sins of omission?" "Yes, sir," said the small boy. "They are the sins we ought to have done and haven't."