Motion is back of every promotion. Purposeful activity is the surest driv ing force for advancement. He scatters enjoyment who can en joy much. ' The power of a man’s virtu© should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing. One of the greatest moral and social problems is the right use of our leisure. God’s clock keeps good time, though it may not be our time. Covetousness of the earthly is a vice; of the heavenly, a virtue. True religion like the rop© of the Royal Navy is distinguished by the scarlet thread which runs through every part. - What some men want who are clam oring for religious liberty, is “irreli gious liberty.” Happy is th© man who has a friend in need, but happier is he who has Him for a friend who makes friends need-' less. All that is bad in us is ours. All that is good in us is only a loan from above to become ours with interest by good use of the principal. All th© spiritual ills of men have only two causes, the confounding of things that differ and the sundering of things that belong together. Heaven is wherever there is rest from earth with God. Civilization polishes the savage into a barbarian; Christianity makes him into a man. Philosophy seeks for what is truth; Religion finds Him who is the Truth. The light given by science is like that of the lantern; it may still leave its bearer ip. the shad©. Only that is true science which in creases not my doubts but my faith. Unbelief is at bottom ' only ignor
ance ignorance of one’s own ignor ance. Some modern preachers are afflicted with cataract of the eyes and are ex pounding the eclipse of faith. A male Christian Scientist is gener ally a feminine man. A female Spirit ualist is generally a masculine woman. It used to be: Like priest, like peo ple. It is now: Like people, like priest. Life itself is little; it is its duties that make it great. , The great end of life is love; its great means, hope; its great method, faith. That is the great life which is equal not only to its great opportunities, but also to its small duties. Life without Christ is like the open street car-—not built for stormy wea ther. Common folks wish for more of life, the uncommon wish for more in life. A pure life is like the sky; the clouds pass over it, even hide it,vbut never stain it. Your words tell what you hold; your life tells what holds you. - The sermon is the man discoursing; the life is the man preaching. To be truly dead folk must die not only to their bad selves, but also to their good selves. “Society” is organized largely for the mutual maintenance of self-complac ency. We have fallen upon an evil time if we are found glorying in Christ’s cross for us while we shrink from taking up our cross for Him. None instruct others so well as those who have been experimentally taught of God themselves.
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