Thou

man should not steal, dost thou steal? that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou rob temples? Thou who gloriest in the law, through thy transgression of the law, dishonorest thou God?-ROMANS, 2:21-23.

"A young hound started a hare, snapping at her as he ran in pursuit as though he intended to kill her, then he let her run and jumped around her as though he wished to play. At last the hare wearied with his behavior said, 'I wish that you would show your true self. If you are my friend why do you snap at me? If you are my enemy why do you seek to play with me.""— ÆSOP, DIED ABOUT B.C. 561.

"But whatsoever I have merited, either in my mind or in my means, need, I am sure, I have received none; unless experience be a jewell that I have purchased at an infinite rate."-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, A.D. 1564-1616, Merry Wives of Windsor.

"As the sails of a ship, when they are spread and swollen, and the way that the ship makes, shows me the wind, where it is, though the wind itself be an invisible thing, so thy actions tomorrow, and the life thou leadest all the year, will show me with what mind thou comest to the Sacrament today, though only God, and not I, can see thy mind."-JOHN DONNE, A.D. 1573

"Thou callest thyself Christian; but we question whether thou hast a right to the title; thy conduct is too contrary to that sacred name, which is too holy to be written on a rotten post.' -WILLIAM GURNALL, A.D. 1616-1679.

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today."-RALPH WALDO EMERSON, A.D. 1803-1882, Self Reliance.

"One of the broadest and best defined experiences that passed under my observation and was imprinted on my memory in early youth was that of a family whose father stood high above all his neighbors in religious profession and gifts, and yet returned from market drunk as often as he had the means."-WILLIAM ARNOT, A.D. 18061875, Illustrations of the Book of Proverbs.

"Gineral C is a areffle smart man;

He's ben on all sides that give places or pelf;
But consistency still waz a part of his plan,—
He's ben true to one party-an' that is himself;—
So John P

Robinson he

Sez he shall vote for Gineral C."

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, A.D. 1819-1891,

Biglow Papers.

"Alas! We cannot think that these orientals live as wisely as they talk. Their words are sententious, brilliant, few-their lives are lazy, aimless, monotonous. O consistency thou art a jewell."-The Home, April, 1859.

ALLIED PROVERBS

A clean cheese in a dirty cheese-vat. (Welsh). Consistency of action is the measure of greatness. (Tamil).

His words accord not with his acts. (Osmanli).

Like a chameleon, he changes from color to color. (Osmanli).

The government official while laughing at the same time bites. (Osmanli).

The healthy seeking a doctor.

(Welsh).

The mouth of a blackbird with the request of a wolf.

(Welsh.)

There are words that do not agree with words. (Osmanli).
The voice of a lamb with the heart of a wolf. (Welsh).
To keep a dog and bark yourself. (Welsh).

What! Is it for an evil doer to teach religious precepts? (Tamil).

What is this fast? What is this pickled cabbage? Why do you talk about fasting while eating? (Osmanli).

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DO NOT COUNT YOUR CHICKENS BEFORE THEY

ARE HATCHED

Day-dreams are not prophecies, neither are hopes and fancies harbingers of success.

The origin of this proverb though unknown may have arisen from Æsop's fable of The Milkmaid and Her Pail which is as follows:

"A farmer's daughter had been out to milk the cows and was returning to the dairy carrying her pail of milk upon her head. As she walked along, she fell a-musing after this fashion: 'The milk in this pail will provide me with cream which I will make into butter and take to market to sell. With the money I will buy a number of eggs and these when hatched will produce chickens and by and by I shall have quite a large poultry yard. Then I shall sell some of my fowls and with the money which they will bring in I will buy myself a new gown, which I shall wear when I go to the fair, and all the young fellows will admire it and come and make love to me, but I shall toss my head and have nothing to say to them.' Forgetting all about the pail and suiting the action to the word, she tossed her head. Down went the pail, all the milk was spilled and all her fine castles in the air

vanished in a moment."-V. S. Vernon Jones' Translation.

There are two stories closely resembling Æsop's fable. One is an Indian tale of The Poor Man and the Oil Jar, and the other an Arabian Nights' tale of Barber's Story of his Fifth Brother, or El-Feshshar's Day-dream which is believed to have been derived from an Indian fable of remotest antiquity found in the Haetopades of Veeshnu-Sarma.

The first tale is that of a man who was hired to carry a jar of oil which he placed on his head according to custom and started. As he went on his journey he speculated in his mind as to what he would do with the money that he would receive for his errand. "For carrying this oil," he said to himself, "I will get four annas with which I will buy a hen, then I will sell the chickens that come from the eggs that the hen lays and purchase a herd of goats. From the sale of the goats and their kids I will receive enough to buy a cow, which I can sell with their calves and so obtain a sum of money which will enable me to purchase a herd of buffaloes. Then I can marry and have children who will say 'Father dear, come and eat your meal,' but I will say, 'No, no!"" Shaking his head to emphasize his refusal he shook the jar of oil and it fell at his feet spilling its contents.

The other story is of a man who took his inheritance of a hundred pieces of silver and purchased a basket of glassware which he placed