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the imaginary woes and wonders concerning a host of fictitious dignitaries in high life.

As there is no aspect of nature which, viewed in the light of God's love to man, is not useful and beautiful, so there is no situation in life which may not be alike exalted by the same element.

It is the application of the simple truths of the Gospel to the daily cares and perplexities of life that test their worth and our perceptions of them.

Truth will outlive mere tradition. One is of God, the other of men. Whatever of truth there may be in a tradition will survive, e'en though its author perish, the rest deserves its fate. Let us seek the truth directly from the Infinite Source, ere it become stained with human alloy.

We need not remind God of His promises, or entreat Him to convert sinners, as if He were a hard master, He who gave His Son to die for their salvation. Let us entreat sinners to be made willing to be saved in His way. It is sinners that need awakening, not God.

"The typical modern preacher mingles with men. He goes into the world of business-into its cares, its trials, its great temptations, its over-reachings, its dangers and disasters and learns the character and needs of the men he meets there. He sits in humble dwelling of the laborer, and sees the wants of the humanity he finds

there. In workshops, in social assemblies, in schools, among men, women and children, wherever they live or ineet for labor or for pleasure, his presence is familiar. No matter how much he knows of the divine life, if he has not an equal knowledge of the human his message will be a barren one.”

Holland.

Desire is the motive to all action.

The character of an action is determined by the impelling motive power.

To bear defeat bravely requires more courage than is necessary to gain a victory, and is deserving of equal credit.

We are more responsible for the right improvement of our mental endowments than for the mere temporal gift of wealth. The latter will perish with the using, while upon the right improvement of the former is depending our own eternal welfare, and that of many others who may be influenced thereby.

The amount of evil demonstrated by an association of the best of the human family, affords a faint idea of the effects of the unrestrained and combined passions of the evil spirits in perdition.

Was not the physical suffering and the still deeper travail of soul, by which the Redeemer gave us our Christian birthright, the advent also of a new and pe

culiar love towards His erring offspring, which may be compared to that of the earthly parental relation?

"Can a mother cease to feel

For the tender child she bears?
Yes, she may forgetful be,

Yet will I remember thee."

Are all our sweet fancies lost, or does the gracious Father treasure them to perfume the garland immortal we may wear?

Our countless and variable fancies may be compared to the leaves of the forest, which burst forth in myriadforms in the spring time, glimmering in the sunlight, gracefully swaying to the breeze, until scorched by the summer's heat, and browned and withered by the autumnal frosts, they are driven by the fierce winds to lie in shapeless mounds upon the bosom of the earth, to fertilize for a future harvest. So in the spring time of life our fancies flutter into being, and delight us with visions of future bliss, which, alas! are dimmed by the fierce heat of noonday realities, and blighted by the withering blasts of the winter of life, they fall with us into the protecting bosom of our friendly mere to germinate for an immortal harvest.

Enthusiasm is but the expression of enkindled sincerity.

As the occasional upheavals of the earth have brought to the surface huge boulders of rock, so great mental revolutions bring to light huge boulder truths from the vast ocean of truth.

As storms are necessary for the growth and perfection of the natural kingdom, so storms of adversity are equally necessary for the development of the mental and spiritual nature.

The discipline, however bitter, that tends most effectually to cleanse from sin, is a remedial tonic, producing happiness; for sin is the subtle poison which destroys the life-current of healthful, joyous emotion.

As nature is the practical expression of the Infinite ideal, she is therefore the most appropriate study for the culture of the human. As love to man is the mainspring of the Divine, so let it be of the human ideal, that it may give practical utterance in manifold deeds of love to suffering humanity.

The promptings of the spirit are the secret purpose of existence.

It is an encouraging sign of the times, that in some directions there is a higher appreciation of the practical effects of spiritualized ideas upon men. There is a healthful probing after the root of things, the motive power, the spirit rather than the letter of the law. "Make the fountain pure, and the streams will be pure."

"A wounded spirit who can bear." We should regard with contempt the heathenish practice of earboxing among our friends and acquaintances; but are not the secret barbs of venomed words which SO frequently enter the ear, and wound the heart, an equally contemptible vice, although practised in a Christian community? A little girl when asked which she preferred, an injury to her finger or feelings, replied: "To my finger, for I can put a rag upon it, and I cannot upon my feelings." Ah! she was right; it is not easy to bandage a wounded spirit.

Be friendly to all, but confidential to few.

Mirth and cheerfulness are as unlike as the phosphorescent flush, and the clear, steady shining of the sun. The one, fitful and vapid; the other, constant and genial.

As the differing shades of a landscape or picture add to its beauty and value, so the differing shades of character in the members of the family group heighten the pleasure and value of the relation.

Truth to the individual is in accordance with his capacity of conception or appreciation, which also gauges his responsibility.

As the morning-glories are brought out and beautified by the rays of the sun, so the youthful mind that turns to the Divine will be developed and beautified.

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