A man who is actuated by pure purposes can never feel any bitter disappointment or irreparable injury. A man of candor and probity spreads around himself a perfume of a characteristic nature.

He sits 'mongst men, like a descended god:

He hath a kind of honor sets him off,

More than mortal seeming.

THE INMOST MENTAL GERM ASKS TO BE QUICKENED.

The commonest minds are full of thoughts; some worthy of the rarest. The appreciable power to command all knowledge of nature and art, and the inestimable assurance of illimitable growth is sufficiently stimulative to finite capabilities. What is most needed is the best method to instruct us and evolve for us the mystery of our life in all its departments.

Education should not merely be capable of communicating knowledge, but of communicating the sacred, unquenchable thirst for knowledge; and a desire to advantage the cumulative hours that are sometimes overshadowed with ennui. The love of knowledge lightens labor, brightens life, and develops power.

It strengthens hope and sweetens care.

Knowledge should be transmuted into faculty; knowledge should become organic. Humanity demands the unfolding, developing, and training of the mind into harmony and beautiful balance. As the object of all discipline is to form right habits of life, so the right religious training, with a knowledge and observance of the laws of life and health, would secure better-balanced brains and lessen the danger of becoming warped and diseased.

If any of God's creatures are too low in the scale of advancement to comprehend the right, and the laws of his

being, then you, being intelligent in these laws, should pity him, as you would an infant, until it is capable of helping itself. A single generous act, a single kind word spoken, may have an incalculable and enduring effect. Many a one has become hardened and dishonest by being abused, and by dwelling upon grievances. What they want is sympathy and encouragement, and some one to make them do what they can; this is the service of a friend.

ACTIONS AND WORDS ARE CARVED UPON CHARACTER.

Never a word is said

But it trembles in the air,
And the truant voice has sped,

To vibrate everywhere;

And perhaps far off in eternal years
The echo may ring upon our ears.

Never are kind acts done

To wipe the weeping eyes,
But like flashes of the sun,

They signal to the skies;

And up above, the angels read
How we have helped the sorer need.

Never a day is given,

But it tones the after years,
And it carries up to heaven

Its sunshine or its tears;

While the to-morrows stand and wait,
The silent mutes by the outer gate.

There is no end to the sky,

And the stars are everywhere;

And time is eternity,

And the here is over there;

For the common deeds of the common day

Are ringing bells in the far-away.

Flesh and blood encompass man, but his quickened genius molds them into types of beauty, grandeur and perfection. Extrinsic beauty and excellence grow out of intrinsic worth

We

and obedience, and so become an attractive power. sometimes meet with persons-rich and regal—who, in their whole habit of life, manifest such a signature and stamp of virtue as to make our judgment of them a matter of intuition rather than the result of continued scrutiny and examination. When the human face is illuminated by moral and intellectual worth, it surpasses all other forms of beauty. The lineaments of peaceful love and trust shine out amid the torture of pain; neither are they paled by the ravages of age or infirmity.

In order to create harmony and beauty of expression, one must cultivate harmony and beauty of character; entertain great thoughts, study philosophy, the knowledge of things in the totality of their relations and conditions. Each man comes into being with a code of immutable laws. These laws are righteous; adapted to the development of the whole man. Some day the penalty is heavy if he goes counter to their demands. Faithful obedience to these laws will develop each one's innate character differently but harmoniously. Man is well formed, well constructed, and well distributed on the bosom of nature, and he, as a dutiful child, should acknowledge the relation and submit to her wise commands.

IT IS THE SPIRIT THAT LEADS IN HUMAN AFFAIRS.

The reconstructing forces in society to-day are not material and political; they are moral and spiritual-the love that embraces all, and the charity that cares for all. The native power of man does not consist in intellectual, but in moral qualities. He who knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them.

Every heart will find its true desires

If it but seeks with zeal.

All things are indices of growth. The mind is advancing to new conditions of thought, and cannot be nourished upon the spiritual sustenance that sufficed for past ages. The standard of value with man is not what feeds one part, but the whole; whatever makes him richer in the perception of beauty, and increases his love of knowledge and truth; whatever stirs the dull, unfeeling heart with a longing and a love, and makes him feel the enkindling glow of future possibilities.

Earnestly seeking, loving and desiring the beautiful and good, is being new-born. The infallible sign of this spiritual superiority is the perpetual upward look, the longing for purity, refinement, beauty and symmetry that will not be appeased. To be spiritual is to possess a great soulmolding surroundings and harmonizing conditions.

Just in proportion as we become unfolded, and our faculties harmonized, just in proportion as our higher nature takes its proper place, and our soul becomes transformed into a new life, just in that proportion do we obey the Divine Spirit. That spirit which satisfies body, mind and soul, is the Spirit which created body, mind and soul. Man never knows how much he can enjoy his body and his mind, his conscience or his affections, until he has found out the way in which these serve; and in their turn are served again by the great joy of knowing God and loving Him, and trying to perform His will.

MAN WILL WALK ERECT WHEN HE COMPREHENDS HIS

CAPABILITIES.

There is not sufficient inducement held out for man to perfect himself, to overcome the selfishness of his nature. Give a man confidence in himself that he hath an inward character, and he will forthwith commence the work of reform

and self-purification. When man once fully realizes his innate powers and capabilities, there are not dungeons nor sins nor disease enough in the earth to prevent him from walking forth God-like and in the image of his Maker: He is but the counterfeit of a man

Who hath not the life of a man.

Morality and religion are identically and practically of the same import. The system of duties and obligations are not foreign to the constitution of man, but inherent and legitimate. To obey is a necessity of his nature. He must obey or suffer; he cannot swerve from implicit obedience without pain. Evil may then be regarded as the unrestrained appetites and propensities.

Man must be true to the principles of his constitution. He should be ruled by his higher faculties, and such rule can never bring permanent regret. He never yields to a lower motive without loss. This is a necessary result of his constitution. As long as man is imperfect he will not fully comply with the laws of his being, and will suffer, not punishment, but the result of his non-compliance, and need not expect pardon or forgiveness. True redemption is compliance with the laws of the physical and spiritual worlds. Moral principles must be fixed and determined as the theories of mathematics, else nothing but vague uncertainties can result.

Progress itself depends on fixedness and stability. Upon this principle depends human possibilities. Nothing exalts the mind more than a perception of its own possibilities, even though foreshadowed by the existence of some other mind. As soon as men feel an affection for truth, they get the intellectual impulse to carry it out and put it into prac-tice. All men are differently constituted, and their external experiences are exceedingly dissimilar; but all experience