The system of universal relationship rewards richly all who study and comprehend it. The co-relation of inherent ideas, the harmonious correspondence and fixed relationship of things, constitute the central charm of intellectual effort and research.

Truth is the universal relationship of things as they are. The unity of truth means that he who lives faithful to any law of matter is to that extent and department, faithful to the law of the Divine mind.

Nature works with the utmost justice and impartiality. Nature never excuses any particle of matter from obedience. If there be but one particle of matter to make a world, that particle must obey the law. A proper understanding of one particle composing the universe would lead to a correct knowledge of the universe itself. It becomes us to investigate all things, so far as to understand every order of law; and so understand all innate law, and the order of life physically, intellectually and spiritually.

A HIGH PURPOSE IS ONLY POSSIBLE TO SPIRIT.

The world has many needs, many imperative necessities, and the greatest of all is a philosophy which unfolds, in a systematic manner and orderly form, the stupendous truths of nature and life; which point the soul of man to the eternal mind; to order and law. The world is smooth and soft as fur to the hand that moves the right way, but hard and sharp as thorns and briers to the hand that moves the wrong way. The perversion of any good, however well-intentioned, develops evil consequences; even enthusiasm is often productive of evil when unaccompanied by a correct knowledge. A thing is good so far as it is necessary; all beyond is evil. Light is good so far as it is needed; too much overpowers the vision. Praise is good; too much will ruin us.

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we true to the teachings of life, and our innate consciousness, we would encounter fewer obstacles, and make fewer blunders, and have fewer sorrows.

Temperance in all things consists in a rigid subjection to every inward feeling and power over ourselves. The question for each one to ask is, how to keep one's self in the healthiest and happiest condition, so as to do most and best and live most and best. The temperate are the most luxurious; for, by abstaining from some things it is surprising how many things we can enjoy. Be strong and firm; there is much folly in compromise. It is the virtue of moderation that is wanted; the restraining force of great principles and high purposes to keep us in check and hold us to what is highest and best in our nature and destiny-the power to the rule of right reason:

So firm in steadfast hope, in thought secure,

And nerved to labors, high and low.

WE SHOULD MAKE EDUCATION BRAVE AND PREVENTIVE.

The head must work to save the hands, and both to save the heart. Do we want to be strong? We must work. To be hungry we must starve; to be happy we must be kind; to be wise we must think. To watch the corn grow and the blossoms set, to draw hard breaths over plowshare and spade; to wait, to think, to love, to pray, and be grateful, these are the things that make men strong and secure.

To be saved is to act wisely. We learn only when we work. The greatest men have been the greatest workers. The divine spark is denied the sluggard.

All vigor teaches. We are stronger for making headway against the current. Whenever work is done victory is gained. There is no man, however gifted, even however

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conceited, who has any confidence in himself until he has acted. Effort, if ever made, follows the belief that effort will avail something. It is the privilege of any human. work, when well done, to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. The mechanic at his bench carries a quiet heart and assured manners, and deals on even terms with any man.

True work is worship. Work is a medicine. No man is so miserable as he who is uncertain as to what he shall do. Good manners are good, and power of accommodation to circumstances; but the privilege, the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of man, is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness. Work in no department can rise above the faith that creates it. All that a man does is enstamped with his character. There is a wonderfully close connection between work and sound views, between doing and knowing. We must work and affirm, although we have no guess of the value of what we do.

TO MAN'S MIND EVERYTHING IS SUBSERVIENT.

The use of all life, of all industry and wealth, is to promote the growth of the spirit.

All are architects of fate,

Working in the walls of time;
Some with massive deeds and great,
Some with ornaments of rhyme.

Nothing useless is, and low,

Each thing in its place is best;
And what seems but idle show

Strengthens and supports the rest.

For the structure that we raise,

Time is with materials filled;

Our to-days and yesterdays

Are the blocks with which we build.

Physical birth simply puts us where we can be men if circumstances are favorable and we will it. He who wants the best things, and is willing to pay just what they are worth, by honest effort and hard self-denial, will have no difficulty in getting what he wants at last. If there is to be a man in a large sense, the soul must be quickened and show itself as a soul, conscious of itself and of its God. Man individually holds the balance of power between ignorance on the one hand, and despotism on the other. Let him not be egotistic, however, for it is only by the strictest integrity, sincerity, frankness, reverence and truthfulness that he can be master.

There are two things that excite the powers of men to activity: an idea and worldly gain. The mere man of business presents a very harsh and inflexible appearance to his fellows; because the wholly chaotic or unorganized nature of our public and private interests throws him exclusively upon the obedience of the intellect, and renders him a slave to prudence. Circumstances gain an ascendency over his feelings and sway his judgment. The human character is always a representative of the soil that gave it birth, and the atmosphere in which it was developed. Man cannot think what he would at will, for he is compelled to create influences, or court them, before he can arrange and concentrate his thoughts. In order to read, a man must have a book; in order to converse, he must have another to hear and respond. In like manner, he is governed in all his physical and mental tendencies.

Man has no desires that cannot be gratified; he has no peculiarities but some position would render agreeable and proper. Each man has peculiar wants, and the wants of each one differ according to development. Each man is but an organ of the great human body. In the present condi

tion of things, one organ is opposed to and absorbs the strength and happiness of another. This generates every species of evil, pain, wretchedness, disorganization. Being compelled to engage in that which they are not qualified to perform, creates discontent in the mind, and does injustice to all dependent on their labor. This enslavement to necessity is productive of discord, and retards our progress. We are not creatures of a day, living for the gratification of our physical being; we have an exalted nature, capable of infinite possibilities, which we ideally represent.

THE INDIVIDUALISM OF MAN IS TO BE RESURRECTED.

Every community grows in power and influence as its ideal of manhood and womanhood broadens and advances. Thoughts and opinions may be, and usually are, mere effects of psychological contact and educational egotism; but there are thoughts which spring from inherent principles; and there are honest deductions, from which the world derives silent hope and sweet satisfaction. Let us strive to think right, and to evolve in our daily practice all the principles of which we can form any conception, both physical and mental.

Let our armor be our honest thought,
And simple truth our utmost skill.

There is such a thing as doing right for its own sake, irrespective of good to ourselves. Man must be true-hearted, reverent, faithful; he must not only know that it is wrong to do certain things because of the consequence to himself, but he must feel too regardful of the interest and development of kindred, neighbor and the world to allow himself ever to act contrary to knowledge and justice. This true and grand nobility of soul is more than meat and drink; it is inspiring and inspiriting; it is the flower and flavor of life.