The earth in shadow, is bound to its central power as securely as when in light. Man is not less surely poised in the Eternal grasp.

I want my place, my true place in the world, my proper sphere, my thing to do which God intended me to perform. Alger,

Went ye not forth with prayer,

Then ye went not forth in vain ;
The Sower, the Son of man was there,
And His was that precious grain.

Ye may not see the bud,

The first sweet sign of spring,

The first slow drops of the shower,
On the dry, hard ground that rings;
But the harvest home ye'll keep,

The summer of life ye'll share,
When they that sow, and they that reap,
Rejoice together there.

As Agassiz carried the ideal element into science, Sumner carried it into statesmanship. These men were the representatives of the ideal element in facts as symbolic of the true use which will one day be made of the materials which the age is accumulating. At present it is overburdened. Faith is not credulity.

In the universe of God there are no accidents.

In the presence of the sublime works of God in na

ture, how truly do we feel the insignificance of wealth, which men so hotly pursue. What is office? What is wealth? They who live for wealth, and the things of the world, follow shadows.

Celebrity, of all coveted advantages, has the least relation to happiness. Alger.

The facts of heaven and hell are the most tangible facts of our existence. We need not wait for death to introduce us to either. Every step in moral improvement is a step towards God and heaven, and is for eternity. Every step in the opposite direction is a step towards the opposite pale of our being. We are the same in mind and heart when we arrive in the future world as when we leave this.

Rev. Todd.

Hope is the most rational thing in the universe. False hope, the one that ought not to be fulfilled. Faith is the essence of hope, the trying of things unseen.

MacDonald.

It is the partial thought which brings unrest to the soul. The deeper finds God's truth and rests. "Drink deep or taste not."

We must look through and beyond earthly events to their divine idea. We receive good not in, but by, events; by the disposition engendered in passing through the experience of life. God is the end of life, and all things must be interpreted by Him. God is the thought

we

in all things. If we find him in every trial and joy, find life a treasure. If not, we have defrauded our

selves.

The soaring of the soul towards moral excellence is the real journey of life, which life's travelled path measured off in years, only symbolizes. It is a journey which may be measured before life's close.

Rev. Todd.

Nothing which comes through your eyes into your head ever goes out. Persons are instructed more by what they see than by what they read or hear. Their sensations and perceptions are more acute than their conceptions.

Nothing higher than traditional faith comes without intelligent intuition and earnest thinking.

Every new faculty that is touched by the Holy Spirit and brought into play, is a new fountain of delight.

Ex. from a Sermon.

We are of such stuff as dreams are made of, and our little life is rounded with sleep, and to sleep is to dream. Ah! in that sleep of life, as well as death, what dreams may come. DeQuincey.

What is life? A travelling from grave to grave. Darkness for a beginning, a few sunny smiles and many tears, a little love, and infinite strife. DeQuincey.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

Baxter.

Why what's the world and time? A fleeting thought in the great meditating universe. A brief parenthesis in chaos.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Goethe.

The heart can wear itself out with its own bitterness.

Who can comprehend the nature of a woman's trial when her heart resists her duty. Bayard Taylor.

God has singular trials for us sometimes, and the use and the conquest of a trouble may both become clear in the telling of it.

There's many a roundabout road that comes out into the straight one at last

Bayard Taylor.

It is nature to communicate one's-self. It is culture to receive what is communicated as it is given.

Goethe.

It often is that things which at first glance seem to be mere facts, dead and barren, become seminal and fruitful to those who think.

The proper effect of true art is rather to suggest the

ideal to the mind's eye than to reproduce the actual to the eye of sense.

Education is the knowledge of how to use one's-self. The world is a great fact; we are in it, passing through it; let us try to understand it, grapple with its mysteries.

Dr. Reed.

Multitudes never learn to study a subject so as to unlock it and enter in.

Dr. Beecher.

Philosophy cannot stand, except by and in the divine light.

Some persons are free from deafness, yet are insensible to shrill notes, to the cricket's chirp and the swallow's twitter. Insects may listen to sounds which men never hear, while they are deaf to the graver tones of the human voice. The moral world seems a counterpart of the physical. There are shrill notes of fear which arouse the emotions of one class of minds to which others are insensible. There are trumpet notes of courage which thrill through some souls, while others remain deaf to their inspiring appeal.

Wollaston.

Excessive individuality is less dangerous than weak conformity. "One, with God, is a majority."

When we substitute a human object of faith in the place of the Divine the soul is dwarfed; there is an end of original thought and worthy life.