sons having large benevolence, display it in all their action st It makes the language soothing and musical to the sick of body or mind. This delicacy of feeling will ultimate a fitness of phraseology. Pleasant words and little acts of kindness, attention and sympathy, are very important balancing and harmonizing agents in human affairs.

Happy and good consequences flow primarily from fortunately organized individuals; and secondly from fortunately situated individuals. These, being higher and more perfect in the scale of human development, are receptacles of wisdom and knowledge which they are capable of communicating, and which it is their duty to impart to those of less fortunate development.

There are persons whose very presence immediately does one good. Some persons are born with a nature so rich, that when you sit near them you realize a great, full, affluent, life-imparting presence. They are those whom to look upon is to admire. They are beautiful and happy, and 'to be near them is enough. There is something of life and heaven in the very aroma of such natures; a rich fragrance of purity and civility which you cannot help absorbing and assimilating.

It is a great blessing to have such a body and soul that when you enter the crowd an atmosphere of desire and command enters with you, and every one is impressed with your personality. The magnetic ether of a powerful, wisdomladen spirit is impressive and exalting.

The ideas of the brain, uttered or unexpressed, descend into every department of the organism. From hence a sphere issues which tinges and affects favorably or unfavorably, as the ideas are, every thing, as well as every person within that sphere. This subtle essence of the thinking principle penetrates the entire individual and orbit in which he moves.

Thus it is that every person imparts his or her character to the garments on the body, to the furniture in the room and from these to their companions.

JESUS SOUGHT TO LEAD MEN TO ASPIRE.

Jesus came, as all things come, at the right time. He sought to make men spiritual, conscious of God, conscious of immortality, conscious of duty. His individualism must ever command universal homage and unbounded admiration.

The one want of most people is a generous enthusiasm for something noble and grand. Always must something stand above man and draw him upward to itself. He needs the charming and refining revealments of Jesus. In his essential impersonalism, his aerial presence, his impalpable energy, and divine afflatus, man finds his wants supplied. Men admire Jesus because He acted upon the Love-principle. This Christ-principle is universal in nature and inherent in the heart of man.

Ambition is earthly; aspiration is spiritual. There is a necessity in our nature to grow by the appropriation of that which is not of ourselves. In the spirit there are receptive capacities which, like the innumerable glands and vesicles of the body, hunger and thirst for their appropriate food. Man must be led by all lovable and exalting attributes; the highminded, benevolent, gentle, intelligent, persuasive, magnetic. Man must be developed and led onward and upward by perpetual inspiration and force of freedom, hope, and all blessedness, that invite a happy and prosperous state.

A great thought may awaken in our minds a world of new perceptions. The mind will yield to exposition and illustration of truth if the feelings and faculties are adequately appealed to and impressed by a progressive expounder of truth. Those who are the most advanced in individual

refinement, harmony and spiritual truth, will gladly receive and philosophically interpret every inspiration which may emanate from the founts above. To this end, that all may

become recipients of heavenly messages, let all begin to form true characters and adopt correct habits.

THERE MUST BE GREAT EXAMPLES IN THE MIND.

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the great

est men.

There must be great motives in the life, great principles of taste and judgment, great and elevated standards of excellence to be attained. Because the soul is near to God, it does not do away with the helpful agencies, the restraining and quickening forces and the saving influences which are constantly acting upon it in this world with more or less. effect. The mind cannot educate itself to virtue and lift itself to an intellectual and spiritual plane without these aids. Good influences help men to feel a conscious sense of power-a true autonomy of the mind.

If it be true that no man is greater than his age, it is so because great events truly reflect the spirit of the time and mark the stages of the people's struggles and advances. All great souls have realized the force of ideas in common with others, but some minds have alone been peculiarly adapted to express special ideas; it is from this class of minds, that thoughts have become institutionalized.

Strong convictions are contagious. Our great Syrian Teacher was so wondrously complete and spiritually affluent that he gave the strongest, freshest, best expression to imperishable truth. The idea of universal goodness, of unbounded charity, was the sublime burden of his golden inspiration. It dominated his every emotion, and was present, like a redemptive principle, at every juncture of his

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brief labor for humanity. This inconvertible principle fits instantly every human spirit.

Divine intelligence carries on administration by good men. There are a few names that shine in the firmament of many with a marked and extraordinary brilliancy, because they are associated with some most illustrious thought which has warmed the heart, quickened the mind and ennobled the race; they shine with such a steady and kindling glow that it seems to us they must have shone there from the beginning; this is because we robe the servant of truth with the eternal qualities of truth itself.

If the world is ever to be Christianized, it must be through a new vision of truth, a clearer perception of life's purpose, and, more than all, by a spiritual ideal of life, which shall command the reverence and win the love of men and draw their souls upward. To break up the low order of life and raise society from a selfish and material to a moral plane, we need to keep directly before all men a spiritual ideal of surpassing excellence, magnanimity and purity, to be the criterion of conduct, the object of ambition and a perpetual invitation and inspiration to noble efforts and noble deeds.

MAN MUST BELIEVE AND PERFORM.

In this world, man's most potential masters are physical and material; and no theory can exert any remarkable control upon life and character unless circumstances and personal interests are interblended:

Oft what seems

A trifle, a mere nothing by itself,

In some nice situations turns the scale

Of fate, and rules the most important actions.

Mankind should labor to enlarge the soul, and prepare it for its future possibilities.

The soul should always be greater than its daily pursuits. Men do not want so much done for them, as they want the do put into them. They want to comprehend the mathematical law of exactness and of truthfulness; they want the capabilities of their own souls developed; they want their faculties called into service; they want their sentiments awakened into fresh life; they want their ambition fired with a great purpose; they want inspiration which comes through great ideas; a quickened conscience, an aroused self-respect, a new perception of their work, and the possibilities of human life here and hereafter. They want a philosophy which shall recognize and explain the indisputable facts of human nature and the globe. Let him whose standard is the most august, whose ideal is highest, endeavor most strenuously to develop a genial and serene spirit of good will to all. Let him speak from the vantage-ground of to-day, out of the experience and wisdom of the enlightened present.

LOVE AND DESIRE ARE IMPELLING POWERS TO ACTION.

Man needs external realities which go beyond his own highest state; influences which mold and shape with plastic power his instinctive tendencies and aspirations. The germs of manhood and angelhood are in every human soul.

Man has a progressive and mysterious consciousness. The useful, pure, benevolent and intelligent are those who, receiving a perfect constitution by birth, and being naturally situated, have unfolded intellects. Such natures feel fraternally, and desire the good of all. Humanity is rich in personalities-levers to elevate those who feel their deficiencies. Every man who imparts to the world a saving principle, illustrates the true Christ. When we see the beloved Son, in whom we are well pleased, we shall see at