the promptings of their internal principle, and would obey its teachings were it possible. They cannot realize understandingly, and obey their higher nature, until their vitiating and wretched conditions are improved. A spiritual and conscientious man feels himself in some measure responsible for the evils he does not seek to prevent; for he recognizes germs of immortal excellence in the lowest and most depraved :

Thou know'st but little

If thou dost think true virtue is confined

To climes or systems. No, it flows spontaneous,

Like Life's warm stream throughout the whole creation,
And beats the pulse of every healthful heart.

GOD'S REVELATIONS ARE UNIVERSAL.

It is proper for every mind to venerate revelations of every kind in proportion to their congeniality with the uniform teachings of nature and the highest sanction of a well-constituted judgment. A revelation developing no practical principles, existing in the natural world, as adapted to social life, can be of no possible utility. A perfect morality cannot be developed unless the rudimental and social condition of the race is first made suitable for its spontaneous development. The many revelations that are now existing in the scientific and theological departments are of minor importance compared to the great essential principles concerning human life, which must be discovered before the race can be spiritually elevated.

All great men are in some degree inspired. It is of importance to understand that the influx of principles into the mind is a result of the peculiar constitution and development of such minds. They see that which would be of use and importance to the world, and reveal it, in order that it may be applied. No being ever existed before Jesus who

possessed the same degree of spiritual elevation and refinement. His mind was properly constituted for the inflowing of truths, both from the natural and spiritual world. Therefore His superior judgment taught Him to reveal only useful and natural truths relating to the social conditions and material constitutions of men. The beauty of His natural principles, the love and penetrating power of His teachings, have never as yet been duly recognized. The use of His principles has not been fully comprehended or enforced.

Light is breaking all around us,

Opening up the shining way,

Leading onward through life's portals,
To the bright on-coming day.

SCIENCE REVEALS DIVINITY.

The internal and external of all things are conjoined or married, and literally correspond to and represent each other. What is true in the external in anything, anywhere, is equally true of the internal in the same thing and place. Hence, there cannot be such a thing as a religious truth which is incompatible or inconsistent with a scientific or a philosophic discovery in a corresponding department. The changeless God, who built the palace of the sky, and talks to men through various mediators, could do no incohesive deed, could speak no inconsistent word; but, when understood, both the deed and the word universally harmonize, as do fellow notes when speaking in the highest music. When a man comes to study and observe the kingdom of nature, he finds himself in contact with vast and gigantic forces that he cannot for a moment resist. He feels himself absolutely in the power and at the disposal of an Almighty Being. Beneath the dome of the universe we cannot stand where the musings of the Eternal Mind do not murmur around us,

and the visions of His loving thoughts appear. Send our thoughts out on whatever line we choose, they will travel toward the Omnipotent Spirit. Let our affections rise from whatever beauty or good we discover, and they will inevitably reach the Eternal Love. Every visible thing is a door opening into invisible realities, a true transcript or outward manifestation of Divine will and design:

In contemplation of created things

By steps we may ascend to heaven.

All things on earth are in analogy with things in heaven. This knowledge of nature begets a reposing confidence in the minds of those who comprehend it, that all laws, principles, elements and compositions are emanations from some great, unchanging, inexhaustible fountain of truth. Therefore, in her laws, in her attributes and manifestations, are based the confidence and the firm and deliberate researches of all true investigators. Truly scientific men are constrained by nature to think progressively up from the mollusk to the full-blossomed humanity. Nature compels man to investigate with system, because all is perfect system and beautiful order.

Nature represents the material laws of the universe. The magnificent appearance presented by our earth and the heavens is the materialized embodiment of those laws. Not incorrectly or unjustly personifying it, we call it nature. It matters not in which direction we look, everywhere things are under the guidance of the same laws. The imperceptibly little and the immeasurably great, the near and the indescribably remote, are all controlled by uniform laws, infinite, eternal, unchangeable.

Beware of those who refuse to look into the presentation of new evidence. Man must make an intelligent use of investigation. Then will the consciousness of truth inter

penetrate the mind, quicken its powers, and make lofty its aspirations. Experiments are practical interrogations addressed to nature, and she can do no otherwise than speak the truth. Here begins an infinite series of questions and answers. Man stands before his brother man with questions; each discovers in himself a desire to know the truth. Science cares nothing about the dictum of anybody. She recognizes no such thing as heresy; but she does care about the answers of nature. Theories that she considers to be on the surest foundation, she is ready to give up at once if she is convinced they were inconsistent with these replies. True science directs the mind to perceive the Divine principle in nature; and true philosophy directs the mind to perceive the laws of association, progression and development; and true theology points the mind to behold the Infinite Mind, the loving and adorable Father.

GRATITUDE UNFOLDS AS WE LEARN TO SEE DIVINITY.

We need a clearer insight, a more spiritual mind, to enable us to see a power above, around and beneath us, working in us, and through all the activities of men, a holy purpose. We must infuse more of the spirit of gratitude into our religion; we must enrich our piety with the golden strands of thanksgiving; and make our worship the glad uplifting song of praise, to make duty a delight and life sweet. The lesson of love is born in the heart, it is deeper than the intellect. Love, gratitude, faith, hope and trust unfold within us as we learn to see Divine love in things and events. Great tides of love and blessed life are ready to pour into every soul through all the experiences and events of life, if we will but hold our minds in readiness to receive impressions. Noble books, noble men and women, and noble things everywhere are for our teaching, and we lose

these blessed privileges through our moral disabilities. Moral disobedience robs the soul of all its sweetness, peace and bloom. Man is regarded as a true man only when he trusts in God and lives within his laws. Man should become so harmonized with himself and the world, that all material and sensuous things will sympathize with him in his happiness; that the bending sky and clouds, the birds and animals, and fishes in the sea, all yield up to him their untold treasures of inherent blessings.

Moral beauty transcends whatever is most beautiful in nature or art. Without a sense of moral beauty, we have no consciousness of benignant power in the phenomena of nature; and the universe is a wilderness, desolate and Godless. Without moral beauty there is no other beauty, no home, no temple, no pictures, no statue; for there is no hero, no saint, no worship, no kindred-nothing to stimulate aspiration and nothing to sanctify invention.

REASON UNFOLDS FROM HARMONY.

In proportion as men reverence and trust reason, do they see Jesus to be its most illustrious example. The most reasonable person is the one we are most inclined to love. Reason is the ultimate form of the soul; it implies harmony of the faculties, for it receives happy contributions from al the affections and sentiments.

It requires harmony in the spirit to appreciate and explain harmony. We thirst for knowledge, because the harmony of the faculties and attributes of the soul constitute wis-, dom. Personal dignity and actual greatness must necessarily be proportionate to the degree of development which this high attribute of reason has attained.

Great souls are always speaking the right word and acting the right thought. In the common intercourse of life, per