plumule. And there are many men that are not fit to be preachers until they have gone through the path of suffering and sorrow.

A man should introduce in his teaching something of everything that belongs to mankind; its sacred rage and passion, its abhorrence of things evil, its genius, all imagination, all the radiance and sparkle of its wit, all the tenderness of its love, all that belongs to the sub-bass, also all that belongs to the very highest stops, that seek to rival the very bird-notes. That is the greatest preacher.

A man who does not preach poor sermons will never be a good preacher. There would never be any mountains unless there were valleys between. You will never get sons of thunder in the pulpit until you get men that are willing to fail when fail they must.

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Fishers of men. I should like to see fish caught by the charge of cavalry! I should like to see fastidious, hidden, sensitive fish caught by thrashing the pool with your rod or fishing line. Ye are to be fishers of men; and as men study the nature of fish—the pout, the eel nestling in the mud, the fierce pickerel, the shining trout, the gamy black bass, the salmon or the

deep sea fish and adapt their mode of fishing to the nature of the fish desired to be caught; so men are to study the mode of influence of one soul upon another, in such a way as to make the truth which they would lay before men, and into the practice of which they would draw them, efficacious and successful.

A man's truth is like bait on a hook—it must be such a bait as fish will take, and it must be on such a hook as will hold the fish.

The humblest labor which a minister of God can do for a soul for Christ's sake is grander and nobler than all learning, than all influence and power, than all riches.

If you would teach within the church, you must seek ordination at the hands of man. But whose heart soever God has touched with a spirit of benevolence is ordained to go forth into society and preach the gospel to every creature, each man speaking in the language of his own business.

Sermons that bring forth nothing in better lives are poor sermons, no matter who preaches them.

When a man pays his debts he preaches in a language that is understood by more men than when he preaches in almost any other language that is spoken.

A man should be born to the pulpit. The men that ought to preach should be ordained in birth. The laying on of hands can't make an empty head full, nor a cold heart warm, nor a silent nature vocal. A minister is a genius in moral ideas, as a poet is in beautiful ideas, and an inventor in physical ideas.

Every minister ought to turn toward every gleam of light to see if there is not some instrument by which he can better touch the hearts of men.

There is no business so derogatory that culture is not compatible with it.

There are none who stand hardship so well as those who are cultivated.

Knowledge is that which a man knows. Intelligence is that which knows it. Knowledge bears the same relation to intelligence which invested wealth does to that spirit of enterprize which creates wealth. One is the active cause. The other is the product or effect of that cause. Where knowledge will not save men, Intelligence is a preservation force.

Folk's heads are pretty much like their garrets, where all the rubbish and broken things they've no use for down-stairs are stored away.

Much of knowledge is growth, not accumulation. The life one is living in is the book that men more need to know than any other.

The first step toward knowing is to be conscious of not knowing.

If all a man's necessaries of life go in at the porthole of the stomach it is a bad sign.

The folly of the few is that light which God casts to irradiate the wisdom of the many.

Poverty is not disreputable, but Ignorance is!

In the dairy it may be all very well to have the cream on the top but it is very poor in society to have the thing repeated; for society does not move by the force of its top-that influences some but it is the average

of the mass that either accelerates or retards the movements of society in advance. It is the hull and the freight, and not the sails alone, that determine the quickness of the voyage, and ignorance at the bottom. of society benumbs society; it is obliged to drag this vast bulk. It is like a gouty man trying to walk; he may be good at the top and all the way down, but his feet are not good, and he cannot walk. There can be no prosperity that is deserving of that name that leaves at the bottom a section of ignorance nearly equal to that in the middle or top of society.

All property is matter that has been shaped to uses by intelligent skill. Where intelligence is low, the